Meme Thread for Both Posting and Discussing Memes

[Whitestrake Pelinal]

That's an overly simplistic view of government spending. Foreign Aid is a form of charity. Charity is often done for selfish reasons.

Fr'ex: the HS I went to had doing volunteer service work as a graduation requirement and most of my classmates wouldn't have done it unless they were told to.

There's nothing simplistic about it -- such a simple ban acknowledges the many perverse incentives involved in international 'charity', good-willed or self-serving. How such an act can easily become self-perpetuating, sometimes by drawing out a short-term crisis into something long term, or by screwing up parts of foreign countries we don't understand, or by cultivating a bureaucracy to carry out the 'charity' that itself becomes self-perpetuating. And that the relationship between a people and its government is one of government servitude of that people, and only that people.

The reasons for small government are many and involve complex relationships, while the reasons for big government are simple and have great appeal to the shortsighted and ignorant. "But we/they deserve it", "someone has to do something", etc.

 

[Whitestrake Pelinal]

 

[Abhishekm]

White people ruined Chai. Change my mind.

 

[Cherico]

White people ruined Chai. Change my mind.

I dont think thats possible, not because your stupid but because you have a point.....

 

[Bassoe]

 

[LordsFire]

What are these people smoking?

I'm sure you can find a few outliers, but the general perspective on China since the 80's to the 2000's was that it was ripe for massive growth, if they'd just cut back on the communist nonsense, which for a time they did. It's really only been in the last ten years that you've seen a rising tide of predictions that China's growth was fragile, and its entire economy was too.

 

[Zachowon]

What are these people smoking?

I'm sure you can find a few outliers, but the general perspective on China since the 80's to the 2000's was that it was ripe for massive growth, if they'd just cut back on the communist nonsense, which for a time they did. It's really only been in the last ten years that you've seen a rising tide of predictions that China's growth was fragile, and its entire economy was too.

It just seems like those of us who ar claiming it will collapse are insane because "LOOK! THEY ARE GROWING! SURPASSING US!"

 

[LordsFire]

It just seems like those of us who ar claiming it will collapse are insane because "LOOK! THEY ARE GROWING! SURPASSING US!"

Given the rolling power outages and that the Chinese real estate giants have started going bankrupt, those people's statements are starting to look pretty thin.

A year or two ago I predicted they'd start the collapse ~2021-2022. Not with huge confidence, because while I am (increasingly) well-read, I know that there are limits on my knowledge and I have much more yet to learn. Still, that's my best guess for when it'll really hit.

 

[Zachowon]

Given the rolling power outages and that the Chinese real estate giants have started going bankrupt, those people's statements are starting to look pretty thin.

A year or two ago I predicted they'd start the collapse ~2021-2022. Not with huge confidence, because while I am (increasingly) well-read, I know that there are limits on my knowledge and I have much more yet to learn. Still, that's my best guess for when it'll really hit.

Ah you see though, they own the US, therefore they wont go bankrupt because we will bail them out.
And you are wrong, you are buying Western Propoganda!

But yeah, fully agree with you

 

[Bacle]

 

[Bassoe]

 

[bintananth]

(TS won't let me quote the image in @Bassoe's post)

Stuff like that is silly because while dad may not know the ins and outs of operating a 4K TV he might be able to tell you who wrote the OS the one it uses is derived from because he found a long-forgotten reel of magentic tape which had the source code for an early version of UNIX under the raised floor of a data centre.

When I was a teen I was looking at an old set of drawings with my then boss when I noticed that he drew them but didn't remember drawing them. I've been on both sides of that when looking at an old project file when the sudden "that's my handwriting" made both my boss and I do a double take when I was still in my 20s.

 

[Whitestrake Pelinal]

 

[Husky_Khan]

What the Hell Heaven? Where did Kyle get those arms? And pecs?

 

[Whitestrake Pelinal]

What the Hell Heaven? Where did Kyle get those arms? And pecs?

There may have been some artistic license photoshop involved.

That, or it was meant to show that while he had a pudgy bod, his spirit was shredded.

 

[Bassoe]

 

[Yinko]

Cubicals were originally designed as a move towards privacy and personalization, because prior to that everyone used open office plans. In other words, we have regressed.

 

[bintananth]

Cubicals were originally designed as a move towards privacy and personalization, because prior to that everyone used open office plans. In other words, we have regressed.

A place I once worked for was bought by an Architect who thought an open plan office instead of cubicles was a great idea.

Within days of moving into the new office he thought was a great idea practically every architect, engineer, and draftsman who didn't get an office with a door who hadn't already found a new job up and quit.

That was 20 years ago.

 

[Whitestrake Pelinal]

 

[Yinko]

That's amazing.

I looked him up, he was 41. So, relatively unlikely for him to have a heart condition.