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Cold enough for a warm mulled one with brekky yet?

Throw in some citrus, ginger, cinammon stick etc...

You're gonna tell me wine can only be drunk ice cold, in the middle of winter, aren't ya! 🤣
i dont do warm wine

room temp goonie best
 
This is so applicable to our own economy too, we're not even vaguely competitive.

Within the definition of 'honest' and 'dishonest' corruption, the majority of ours is dishonest - no worthwhile product or well delivered service gets spat out the other end.


Welsh starts by comparing the creation of EV charging stations in the US and China. The US government spent $7.5 billion in subsidies; the Chinese government spent $10 billion roughly. Total stations produced by the $7.5 billion program: seven stations.

• Total EV charging stations in the US: 186,200. 


• Total in China: seven million, of which 2.2 million are public.


Then he makes his larger point, that the neoliberal system in the US is designed not to produce.


[Y]ou can’t run industrial policy or a war economy under neoliberalism. It’s impossible. …


Washington spends 7.5 billion for 7 charging stations. This isn’t just incompetence, this is corruption. Yes, China and Russia have corruption. Lots of it. It is nothing compared to American and European corruption, not even on the same scale. In China, especially, most corruption is “honest corruption” — you can take a slice, but you have to actually deliver. If X number of homes or charging stations are to be produced, you’ve got to produce them.



The underlying problem is not competition from China but neoliberal financialization. Finance capitalism is not industrial capitalism. It is a lapse back into debt peonage and rentier neo-feudalism. Bankers play the role today that landlords played up through the nineteenth century, making fortunes without corresponding value from capital gains for real estate, stocks, and bonds on credit and from debt leveraging—whose carrying charges increase the economy’s cost of living and doing business.






At the dawn of the twentieth century, Americans generally saw advertising as an embarrassing field, for both those who worked within it and companies that made use of its services. Just two decades later, that had changed completely—so much so that in 1926, President Coolidge described advertising as part of the “increasing progress of civilization.”

As sociologist Daniel Navon writes, the shift was less about any proven ability of advertisers to spur economic flourishing and more about the way the industry redefined itself—with the support of federal and state governments.









 
i dont do warm wine

room temp goonie best


Ah, of course, room temp achieved by mixing warm and ice cold together.


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