torknorggren

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[–] torknorggren@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's usually about health insurance. Keeps their premiums down if they offer health as a benefit. Doesn't make it right, but it is not a morality thing on the firm's part.

[–] torknorggren@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago
[–] torknorggren@lemm.ee 46 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Did you ever drink Baileys from a shoe?

[–] torknorggren@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

Neither does protectionism. I'm not saying you're wrong, but isi policies that make imports expensive also hurt the working class. Overall free trade might be fine if it's combined with a more robust welfare state.

[–] torknorggren@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I've heard soccer's pretty bad with it too. Maybe badminton is the answer.

[–] torknorggren@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago

7754 is the PIT count of people homeless at one given point in time. Many, many more cycle through homelessness in any year.

[–] torknorggren@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The media is avoiding it...like all the media cited in this post? Or the NY Times article today discussing many of the points in those articles? Or the OP article? I'm so tired of news outlets reporting on news outlets. The news isn't news, I want actual news about events.

[–] torknorggren@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (6 children)

How many hours did you get in?

[–] torknorggren@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

WTF is life coaching? Have a facebook acquaintance who did some class and calls herself one, after being a yoga instructor. Like--why would you take advice from a person of middling success? Is it just another MLM where people calling themselves life coaches teach other people to be life coaches so they can teach more life coaches?

[–] torknorggren@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

Site exists, but it's part of the schtick. It's Alan Wagner, @truewagner on insta.

[–] torknorggren@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oof. I wonder how that will work in the case of infrastructure like roads and bridges--long term tolls? At some point it has to eat away at whatever good will the Chinese were trying to buy.

[–] torknorggren@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

What happens if countries just default? Do non-Chinese lenders care? Does it trash bond ratings across the board?

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