Watched that #TheGrayMan movie last night. Meh...harmless fun. But what irritated me beyond measure & made the whole "suspension of disbelief" almost impossible, thus ruining the experience, was the utter ignorance & impossibility of the Geography concerned.
You fly from Chang Mai to Baku?
How THE FUCK do you overfly Turkey, you ignorant American filmmakers?
You go from Berlin station to Vienna in minutes in a CAR? I'd like to see you try!
Prague seems to be just round the corner from Vienna, a 20 minute drive. You pillocks!
And then my favorite: Mjlet, my ancestral home and one of the most beautiful islands in the world, has a French Chateau on it????
Since the independence of the Republic of Ragusa was taken away by the French, I felt personally insulted.
Why Americans feel the need to constantly fuck with history and geography is beyond me.
The truth is always more interesting than what some asshole Hollywood screenwriter can come up with.
End of boomer rant.
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@AndreasSteno@Mayhem4Markets The problem with that chart is that it measures gold in nominal dollars. Now go back and discount the price by inflation from the beginning of x axis.
@AndreasSteno@Mayhem4Markets I mean, comparing real something with nominal something else is what I would expect from a snake oil salesman…
@AndreasSteno@Mayhem4Markets And if you do it properly, the casual correlation breaks down. And then you can’t tweet it and get uninformed people to shit themselves for no reason…
History does not repeat itself but it rhymes. And it accelerates. Rome had seven kings, then it became a Republic. The USA had kings, then it became a Republic. Rome became the only Superpower in its time during the Republic. So did the USA.
Veterans were favoured in Rome. Identical in USA. While a superpower Rome morphed into a family led succession Empire. Bush, Clinton, Trump are the equivalent of the Julii and Claudii.
Then Rome got tired of sending its own citizens to die in wars and started recruiting whole peoples, like the Goths to fight for it with Roman weapons and tactics.
Well, in a political sense, this is actually true.
Italy, throughout the post-war period, relied on Lira devaluation as primary tool of economic policy, to avoid a root-and-branch reform of their economy and above all of the public sector, which has been a disaster since 1870.
When Italy joined the Euro, it was obvious to just about anyone with 2 braincells (and, contrary to what some might say, Italians are some of the smartest traders and bankers out there, since...forever) that at some point, Italy, in the absence of devaluation possibility...
would either need complete reform of just about everything, including its political system of patronage of public companies, or complete privatisation of the same, or massive transfers from the Northern Euro countries.