Hey… This isn’t a recipe for grilled zucchini. It’s pretty good though.
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I’ve lived in NYC for 30 years and never heard “Grill like Peter Lugar”. Thank you!
Yup, the bar is so, so, so low that the youngest congresswoman, a first termer who is just learning the ropes and building up a staff, can stand out as the best fit person to be running congress. She’s not even a lawyer and yet her questions tend to be the most legally significant of any of her peers. I like AOC a lot and I’m down with DSA for the most part but she’s really surprised me by being able to handle the shit storm that landed on her and do some real governing.
Katie Porter, another first termer, did an okay job asking Zuckerberg questions but, whew, nearly all of the rest of the Dems were lame. The bulk of the Dem’s questions were legally insignificant, ill-informed, dumb, misleading, counterproductive, and/or grandstanding nonsense and arguably worse in context than the (universally ridiculous) GOP questions. How hard is it to ask Zuckerberg meaningful questions? Maybe it takes 15 minutes of research? And if you can’t figure it out, do what AOC did and crowdsource some questions. I’m fine with AOC taking over the Democratic party, um, tomorrow.
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Hmmm … Facebank. What could go wrong?
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Iraq, Iran, Libya, all challenged the dollar’s role as the currency in which oil must be traded. That was a direct attack against the dollar as the global reserve currency, in other words, the reason to hold dollars rather than any other currency in the world as it is(was) the only way to pay for the single most important commodity for economic development, oil.
Any challenge to dollar hegemony means a challenge to the U.S.A. Without the reserve currency status of the dollar, there would not be near infinite demand for dollars and dollar based vehicles, and this would mean that the insane deficits that allow the M.I.C. to exist and also prevents massive dollar devaluation (that means hyper-rich Americans and financial assholes can’t buy up the rest of the world on cheap) from threatening the economic system we suffer from would end.
Facebook and Zuck must’ve been both insane and completely full of themselves to think they could get away with this without major (fatal?) repercussions.
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Their greed is matched only by their arrogance. I would not be surprised to see the end result of this process being a truly serious anti-trust effort against Facebook itself.
I do think Mark Carney makes some good points about the benefits of and reasons for moving from the USD to a bancor-like digital and/or crypto reserve currency for common use, but (for the reasons you mention) that’s not happening without the direct involvement of the US Fed and other major Western central banks. I don’t know if Zuckerberg saw Libra as stealing a march on them from the private sector or not, but the US government was bound to react as if it was.
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If only each of our districts had people so willing and motivated to progressively lead, we likely wouldn’t even be stuck in the stupidest possible timeline right now.
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If you ask me, it’s Zuckerberg and other FB people hearing about cryptocurrencies and how they’re the new hotness, and deciding they want some of that. Like most other cryptocurrencies, it’s a bad solution to a problem nobody has.
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New Yorker, born and bred. I was trying to come up with a name of a famous steakhouse and it was the first one I thought of.
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You could try to save face and fail. Ask the Zuck about that if you want to know how bad you can fail.
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Let Facebook publish any political ad it wants, but don’t provide ANY filtering or targeting. If you buy a political ad, it goes to EVERY ELIGIBLE VOTER. If you’re going to lie, it goes to your supporters who will believe you AND to those who will KNOW you’re lying, AND to every voter who wouldn’t believe you if said water is wet. And you still have to pay for ALL the eyeballs. Make Facebook an EXPENSIVE media that causes more controversy than it’s worth.
Responding to my own questions,
Short answer is, it’s all about Facebook.
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Generate more power/money for Facebook.
Make Facebook an even larger, ideally indispensable, part of people’s lives.
Prevent Facebook from fading away like MySpace.
Sure, you can switch to another “social” network to, say swap cat pictures. But what if your employer uses a feature like Libra to pay you?
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