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Business, Economics, and Taxes: Capitalism. Yay? >=(

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You keep pimping threads like it's some sort of massive success. Engagement has utterly cratered. It's down like 80% from that first week.

bluesky had a moment and it passed. Maybe it won't be Twitter 2.0. But at least it isn't living in Branding and Influencer Hell.
 
RaceBoarder said:
"Chicagoland" covers quite a large land area. Basically it's the reach of the broadcast TV channels. Within that area you have contiguous urban sprawl with farmland encroaching on the outer 1/3.

For reference I currently live in Manhattan, IL. As the crow flies, I'm. 40-42 miles SW of Downtown Chicago. I'm basically at the crossroads of "rural" and "Suburb". If you go either South or West of me, you are fully into farm country (300-1,500 person towns with 3,000-5,000 person "big towns"). To the North and/or East you have pure suburbs.

AP is a similar distance from the Loop, but straight West. Again, basically where continuous urban sprawl finally fades into farmland. If you head North or Northwest, the sprawl creeps out a bit and flirts with the 60 mile mark.

So basically think of half a circle centered on Downtown Chicago with a 40-60 mile radius extending straight South, West, and North.

Edit: The city itself extends 15 miles South of Downtown, 13 miles North, and 9 miles West.
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Got it, thanks. That is a perfect description.

It is, in other words, exactly like the tri-state metro area of NYC. I grew up well within it, yet have been in the 5 boroughs fewer than 72 total hours over my entire life.

The largest red blob in this picture is the contiguous urban sprawl of the metro region, a 270-degree conic segment centered on the Empire State Building and then radiating out about 50 miles in all directions except southeast.

If it was a sovereign nation it would have the 8th largest economy in the world.

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You keep pimping threads like it's some sort of massive success. Engagement has utterly cratered. It's down like 80% from that first week.

bluesky had a moment and it passed. Maybe it won't be Twitter 2.0. But at least it isn't living in Branding and Influencer Hell.
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I'm not pimping anything. I don't care who wins this battle of the dbags. I'm just saying Tik Tok and Insta have the bases to survive so they will. Bluesky had a chance and blew it.

Numbers don't lie... Insta and TT have 1.6 billion users each. They laugh at Twitter. My saying Threads will "win" is because of that not because I really want it to. I dig the positivity there but hate Zuck and know he will screw it up. That won't change the factors at play though.
 
This is excellent.

We should simply reply to all the RW liars and dupes with Robert Reich's well-made videos. All the time. The Nazis will divert, deflect, delude themselves, but other people viewing the exchange can be educated.
 
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Kepler said:
This is excellent.

We should simply reply to all the RW liars and dupes with Robert Reich's well-made videos. All the time. The Nazis will divert, deflect, delude themselves, but other people viewing the exchange can be educated.
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I saw him speak about five years ago and he was excellent. I like and trust him more than just about anyone else in politics.
 
Outside looks like any smalltown apartment building. inside looks like Elon Musk's corporate headquarters.
 
LynahFan said:
Debts are only a problem if you don’t ?~!~{?| pay them. Then it’s kneecap time. Every mobster knows this.
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This. And if you got 20% return on every dollar you spent forever, you'd be stupid not to take out as much as you could every year forever.
 
LynahFan said:
Debts are only a problem if you don’t ?~!~{?| pay them. Then it’s kneecap time. Every mobster knows this.
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Paying back a debt isn’t the issue, servicing the interest is. We’re paying a trillion dollars a year right now in interest and if we followed through with Biden’s plan of increasing the national debt $18 trillion dollars over the next 10 years you’re talking over $1.5 trillion dollars a year of interest expense. To quote Dunkirk ‘There’s no hiding from this, son.’
 
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