Posts by Anony Mous

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Trump Tariffs started today, Some Countries Caved in early morning.

by liam in

usa politicians in charge of the economy for the past 50 years were too stupid to understand how the economy works.

this just proves my theory, that an education on the top tier universities just sucks and means nothing in the real world, unless its in the stem education.

for 50 years usa had zero tariffs on other countries.

Anony Mous

@hoser: Canada and the EU both set price controls on medicine that is invented and often manufactured in the US. So let’s say a medicine costs $100/dose to create during its 10-15 year patent validity (invention, manufacturing, FDA approval etc), but the production cost is $10/dose the EU/Canada tell the companies, if you want to sell here you can only ask $15/dose. The manufacturers stil do it because of the $5 profit, but effectively that $85 remainder is now paid for by making that even more expensive medicine in the US. Same for hospital supplies like MRI machines etc, the ‘invention’ cost is not paid by Canada because Canada is broke when it comes to that.

On the other hand, the invention itself is often largely funded by US taxpayers. The US spends more than the next 4 economies combined (that is China, UK, Russia and EU in order) on health research. Canada spends a fraction of a fraction compared to the US on healthcare research. And when it comes to private investment in medicine, the US drives 70% of the world in investments while only being ~30% of the market in purchasing power parity. A simple example is that of COVID vaccines - the US spent $40B on the R&D, China and EU each provided $100M in loans with the rest of their ‘investment’ going into not R&D but just a $2B pre-order (which ended up having the distribution footed by the US companies).

Now you have a few options, you basically tell Canada and EU no more, which is what the Trump admin is doing - we cannot keep subsidizing your healthcare by making ours more expensive, which now causes even more shortages and price hikes in those socialist markets. The other thing to do would be to stop Medicaid/Medicare waste which is where most of those cost ends up hiding, as the taxpayer has endless pockets.

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Trump Tariffs started today, Some Countries Caved in early morning.

by liam in

usa politicians in charge of the economy for the past 50 years were too stupid to understand how the economy works.

this just proves my theory, that an education on the top tier universities just sucks and means nothing in the real world, unless its in the stem education.

for 50 years usa had zero tariffs on other countries.

Anony Mous

@hoser: automation can solve some problems, but with all the automation we’ve seen the growth of jobs in other avenues from highly skilled service technicians to cybersecurity.

The problem in your case seems to be Canada - the problem is that now that the US is going to stop paying for your medicine and imports, the government can’t keep going like it is. You now have a Trudeau-clone in power, and people think it is change, that is a problem with the electorate, you are quickly running out of other people’s money and people that don’t work for a living are indeed feeling entitled, because the electorate keeps the feel-good entitlement candidates in power.

The US however can’t keep funding EU and Canadian welfare either, we collectively wasted all our money in the last 75 years doing welfare for ourselves and the world to the point China, which is for the majority still the definition a third world country, is passing all of us by.

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Trump Tariffs started today, Some Countries Caved in early morning.

by liam in

usa politicians in charge of the economy for the past 50 years were too stupid to understand how the economy works.

this just proves my theory, that an education on the top tier universities just sucks and means nothing in the real world, unless its in the stem education.

for 50 years usa had zero tariffs on other countries.

Anony Mous

@joey: both of those instances went from concept to functional in 2 years - as in, hey we want to build a factory - should it be Texas or Georgia because California is screwing us over to rolling off the band. And those are megafactories. VW, GM etc all have capacities already that they reduced over time, I live not too far from a building GM still owns and operates but abandoned mostly for China, they use it now for small production runs, but nothing says they couldn’t just re-hire the 2000 employees they laid off under Biden and the 10,000 under Obama.

There are many people who need assistance

Not 40% of the population. Statistically (Pareto distribution) it should be <10%.

The cops showing up at work, them fighting with their ex girlfriend, fighting with other employees bringing guns and threatening employees, stealing tools from the shop.

So why are they not in jail and why are they collecting unemployment. Seems more like a management issue at both company and government level to keep enabling people like that. They don’t want to work, then go home and get nothing.

All these problems have easy solutions, just stop giving handouts.

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Trump Tariffs started today, Some Countries Caved in early morning.

by liam in

usa politicians in charge of the economy for the past 50 years were too stupid to understand how the economy works.

this just proves my theory, that an education on the top tier universities just sucks and means nothing in the real world, unless its in the stem education.

for 50 years usa had zero tariffs on other countries.

Anony Mous

@joey jojo: in the mean time car parts manufacturers have set up factories in a matter of months and are now up and running, some people saw what was coming and invested, those people are going to be rich in short order. Hyundai and Tesla both did their mega-factories in just 2 years. There is plenty of empty manufacturing space ‘today’ that can simply be reopened, there are plenty of manufacturers that simply can hire more people and manufacture more ‘today’, where that employment historically has gone abroad.

The problem is not space or machines, it is people. We currently have 40% of working-age people ‘not working’ at all, that’s a massive amount that is unemployed and collecting welfare (the unemployment rate has been a lie since Obama changed the definition to <6 months). One of the things we absolutely have to do is reduce the total welfare package from the current equivalent of $25/h wages (between unemployment, food stamps, rent assistance, transportation assistance, cell phones, Medicaid etc) to at least minimum wage and eliminate people from the system that can but don’t want to work, guess what, suddenly you’ll see millions of people willing to work, reduce crime and increase the economy.

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Trump Tariffs started today, Some Countries Caved in early morning.

by liam in

usa politicians in charge of the economy for the past 50 years were too stupid to understand how the economy works.

this just proves my theory, that an education on the top tier universities just sucks and means nothing in the real world, unless its in the stem education.

for 50 years usa had zero tariffs on other countries.

Anony Mous

@Balaamsass before the election got underway I made a prediction here that the media would take the current (at that point) depression that the Biden gang for some reason never had labeled as a depression and blame it on Trump.

A little while ago, people were complaining (under Biden) that the P/E ratios of most stocks was incredibly high, NVIDIA at one point had a triple digits P/E ratio (meaning the stock was trading at more than twice the actual value of the company) which is an indication other options (debt, bonds, trade) was inherently untrustworthy. Biden and the Fed prevented a full correction temporarily by DURING the election (which had never been done before) lowering the rates on the Fed despite having massive inflation for months.

The market rushing to treasury is a good thing, at least for the US, it means people are buying USD investments rather than Chinese or European. The yields lower, because it is a market, demand is high, so the US doesn’t have to promise to pay back more than is being invested in the future which is good (that yield is currently mostly funded by even more debt).

As far as the tariffs themselves, there is a reason other countries have them. Whether it is protecting your own food supply or steel supply, a lot of those things are necessary in full blown war, as Ukraine and Europe recently found out. Yes, to those importing cheap supplies, they will no longer be able to undercut their competition with sub-par steel beams (https://fortune.com/asia/2025/04/02/bangkok-skyscraper-collapse-earthquake-substandard-steel/) and radioactive drywall (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_drywall) or lumber (https://nchh.org/2015/03/formaldehyde-and-wood-products/) or cars (https://youtu.be/CWwuHKrw8Cc?si=9hYtYrLX7U5zkz62) all of which many other countries, including the EU and US have historically permitted or even made exceptions for (eg. BYD in EU market are death traps that don’t have functional airbags).

As far as the “story” about the penguins - I’m sure we’re not trading with the penguins, so either this is a non-story, as we don’t trade ANYWAY with the penguins, so we’re just stunting with numbers (1M% tariffs on 0 is still 0). Or the MSM is ignoring the real problem - that penguins are trading millions of dollars annually - which would be convenient for someone to hide streams of money. So what is really going on, my bet is on the last things through the WEF and World Bank, all sorts of shenanigans have been going on that are ‘legalized’ by previous administrations. Same with the Falklands, they are supposedly trading 90% of their fish with the EU, yet millions of dollars in trade ends up being paid for by the US (and by that we mean the US taxpayer) through a mysterious fishmonger that nobody seems to know about… something ‘fishy’ is going on.

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What the new JW light position really is 👍

by ElderBerry in

i’m still an elder and i consider myself jw light.

as my fellow elders are.

we don’t throw our weight around like elders used to in the past, it’s all very easy going these days.

Anony Mous

Of course if you say things apostate then you will be treated just the same as any other religious belief system and they will say so why are you still coming here then? Best if you stop coming to the church, mosque or KH ect.

Again, proof that you are totally oblivious as to what life "outside" truly is. You've been told that lie repeatedly. Guess what, I am an open atheist, I go to a Presbyterian church. Guess what, they don't kick me out, they ask me for help, they shake my hand, they say hi, they invite me for sharing meals, we do fundraising events, they pray for my family when someone is sick.

You really have to go to extremist non-Christian churches (like JW and Millerite-adjacent) or potentially some extremist mosques to experience that kind of treatment.

On the same vein, when was the last time your KH had a soup kitchen, or took in an Afghan family that worked with US troops, or collected donations for food banks, or provided shelter to abused women and children - oh forgot, they're the ones that abuse the women and children.

things have changed so much. There is no more disfellowshiping. It’s actually very hard to be announced that someone is no longer a JW.

You are full of shit, tell the JW then to remove the first two references when I google "do jw disfellowship". They do and will continue to disfellowship. I'm aware they no longer call it disfellowshipping, as you say, they announce that someone is no longer a JW or they have a talk about it without naming people. Guess what, I'm not "disfellowshipped" legally speaking I'm still an in-tact member and didn't even lose my position, but they still treat me as if I was.

https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/w20150415/disfellowshipping-a-loving-provision/

https://www.jw.org/en/library/books/gods-love/disfellowshipped-person/

Is strict avoidance really necessary? Yes, for several reasons.
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Although there might be a need for limited contact on some rare occasion to care for a necessary family matter, any such contact should be kept to a minimum.

2022:

Christ’s disciples who live in a religiously divided household sometimes face situations that test their affection for Jehovah and Jesus. For example, unbelieving relatives may urge them to celebrate a religious holiday. When put to the test, whom will they please? Jesus said: “Whoever has greater affection for father or mother than for me is not worthy of me.” (Matt. 10:37)

If a family member insists that someone cannot participate in any holiday because of its religious origins, even if the holiday is now secular, it creates tension and strain within the family. The individual who abstains might feel isolated, and their relatives may feel rejected or hurt that they won’t join in family traditions.Disagreements over what is "acceptable" participation in holidays could lead to arguments and resentment. If maintaining family unity is important, open communication, mutual respect, and compromise (where possible) would be essential in navigating these differences. This is done intentionally, because IT'S A CULT.

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Watchtower SlangJamaican Patois: Gods son came fe mash up the world😂

by Diogenesister in

🤦‍♀️this 25 million different languages thing is getting ridiculous.

this link is hilarious!

they've only gone and translated into jamaican patois and boy this isn't just translation, they're literally using slang....what next?

Anony Mous

I know there are UN, NGO and governments programs that are trying to ‘civilize’ their spoken languages into written language under an attempt at ‘preservation’. In most cases these efforts have failed or had the opposite effect. I wonder if they are making use of any grants and satisfying the requirements by ‘publishing’ something. Posting some gibberish on your website to ‘satisfy’ the requirements - wouldn’t surprise me.

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Analysis of the Property Ownership Model of Jehovah’s Witnesses

by Paul Bonanno in

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analysis of the property ownership model of jehovah’s witnesses.

jehovah’s witnesses have developed a structured and financially efficient model for acquiring, building, and managing properties worldwide.

their approach maximizes resources contributed by members while ensuring that ownership and financial control remain centralized within the organization.

Anony Mous

I have never seen a KH in a place that will ‘appreciate’ in value. It’s usually the ‘lowest cost’ area, crime is high or noise pollution from an airport (or both).

I’ve worked in the RBC. The way it works is this:

You donate towards “your congregation’s” new KH - a goal is set and monthly contributions are directed
Once you make the goal, the WTBTS through the RBC assesses whether your congregation has saved enough money
The WTBTS enters into an “agreement” with your elders to loan your congregation the money it has saved to build or renovate your new KH
You build the KH
Your congregation now has a loan to pay off for the value of the new KH building (and also its upkeep)
The WTBTS sells the old KH at current market prices and since they are the owners, receive the proceeds
Once the congregation has paid off its loan, go back to step 1

So really, you pay 3 times for 1 building - once to begin construction, once after construction and once when it is sold. This cycle takes about 10-20 years, in most cases a similar scheme is started every 5 years for “major renovations” which involves things that should’ve been done like proper insulation, proper roofing, proper parking etc. The costs are assessed at market prices for the labor value + materials “for insurance reasons”, also, any discounts and cash back incentives from vendors are returned to the WTBTS, not the project. So really, you can end up paying 4-5x the value of the building in donations over the lifetime of the building. Do the same at the circuit level for circuit assembly halls etc.

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Insight Book LIES - then tells the TRUTH!

by BoogerMan in

it-1 p. 493 communication - "when the circumcision issue was resolved by the governing body in jerusalem......".

it-1 p. 881 galatians, letter to the - "by reason of a revelation, paul, with barnabas and titus, went to jerusalem regarding the circumcision issue; he learned nothing new from james, peter, and john, but they recognized that he had been empowered for an apostleship to the nations.

" (galatians 2:1-10).

Anony Mous

There are third party references to the repeated destructions of Jerusalem and who truly ruled the area. Problem is people taking the Bible literally and then trying to see what fits and rejecting the rest of the evidence, the Bible was not written as a historical book, it was not intended as a chronicle or a textbook. The Bible as we know it is a rather small selection of available books about Jewish religious/moral teachings from its beginning as a polytheistic religion to the start of Christianity and its trinity. It’s been refined and edited over the ~500-1000 years that it took to be composed.

If you want to take the Bible literary and prophetic you have a lot of explaining to do from the first to the last verse. One date in one supposed prophecy is the least of your problems. You’ll have to explain all the mythical characters from Adam to David, you’ll have to explain the roughly 50 year time shift of Jesus’ character to the time he was according to modern tradition born & active vs the recorded dates on the mentioned rulers as recorded by the Romans, both the missing and added names from the various Biblical geneology records etc.

Even before the Romans, Jerusalem had been destroyed or captured and recaptured dozens of times. The Romans themselves did it at least three times before Christianity starts, yet the Bible somehow ‘forgets’ all those events and pretends there is a singular line of inheritance to the regional throne. Very convenient if you’re at the end of that genealogy at the time said genealogy is written.

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Watchtower SlangJamaican Patois: Gods son came fe mash up the world😂

by Diogenesister in

🤦‍♀️this 25 million different languages thing is getting ridiculous.

this link is hilarious!

they've only gone and translated into jamaican patois and boy this isn't just translation, they're literally using slang....what next?

Anony Mous

@andr: I was in a place where they have a regional ‘fishers’ language - it’s actually a mix of dialect words in 3 languages and a lot of “vulgar” words in each of those.

The branch office tried to make inroads by ‘harbor work’ (this was a well publicized thing they tried in the late 90s, early 2000s), made a special congregation, CO came and talked to us. Basically these people lived on or near the boats, would be out on sea for a few weeks, home a few days during the fishing seasons.

They got exactly 1 fisherman to ‘study’ but became a problem when it came to earrings and facial hair - it was hilarious for us trying to ‘civilize’ this person into a suit, shaven, without his earrings and going in service, and then the elders got all uptight when he came back from his voyages with his earrings, beard and smelling like oil and fish (it’s not solved by taking a shower). And then the fact he kept using words that were practically curse words in the ‘proper’ language.