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Hi Peter! You did my E3 visa a while back. When I was standing in line at the US consulate in Sydney, the person in front of me was really nervous, visibly shaking. I saw that their papers had your letterhead, so I was able to calm them down a bit by showing them my papers, which also had your letterhead.

Thanks for all your hard work!

In the past two weeks in San Francisco, I have seen:

- Cruise car stopped dead in the middle of Oak street at Divisadero, at night, with no emergency lights on.

- Waymo car driven onto the sidewalk to pick up a passenger on Scott street at Haight street

- Waymo car stopped, blocking the whole road on Carmelita street because it started a 3 point turn and then decided it didn't have enough room to continue

- Cruise car swerving out in front of traffic from the kerb on Divisadero at Ellis street without signaling

This past weekend in SF, I saw a driver slow and stop to reverse parallel park on Bush Street at Fillmore. An automated Cruise car stopped right behind him, blocking the driver from reversing into the parking spot. The guy got out to yell at the driver to back up, but then saw that it was driverless.

He drove off, and someone else got the spot.

Is she? No widespread price controls have been implemented in the U.S., yet inflation is slowing due to the effect of contractionary monetary policy. Price floors on grains have been implemented in some Easter European countries, but that's mainly a populist measure to protect against cheap Ukrainian imports.

Record breaking profits are caused by, not the cause of, inflation as goods and services get more expensive while the cost of labour takes time to catch up. This is well known economic theory.

Did corporations suddenly become greedy in 2021? No, they were always so.

What if we're thinking about inflation all right?

Huge stimulus programs over the past five years absolutely overcooked the economy and fueled high inflation. Fiscal policy, hands bound by the rise of populism, is doing nothing to help, while central banks, free from the constraints of worrying about electability, are using the only tool they have to try stop the bleeding.

The solution, of course, is to tighten fiscal policy in the way of reducing spending or increasing taxes. But that's political suicide.

With the rapid rise of fentanyl and closure of asylums, I would argue a bit of debt and having shelter is a significant improvement over homelessness.

Freud as Talmudist 3 years ago

Out of interest, are there any other groups where you believe that it would be dangerous for members of that group to be "aware of their ethnicity"? Or is it only Jews?

Freud as Talmudist 3 years ago

A Jew from Yemen has nothing else in common with a Jew from Poland

Except for the genetics we share, distinct from non-Jews, statistically significantly.

I recommend reading "Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People" by Harry Ostrer.

We really are the people of the book, aren't we?

Freud as Talmudist 3 years ago

It is definitely possible for Jews to say antisemitic things, in the same way it is possible for people of colour to say racist things.