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  • While the article is accurate, in that long bond rates are set by the market and would likely rise if Powell were fired, that isn’t the whole story. The Fed could move to push the long bond rates down with quantitative easing - printing money to buy the bonds to keep the rates low, expanding it’s balance sheet. It’s what was done in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and again following covid. Of course, that would boost inflation, which is already elevated, and fuel asset bubbles, and would be an imprudent course of action, but lets be real, it’s likely what is going to happen.









  • I live in San Diego, and bike a lot. These bike lanes are all over San Diego. They have small street sweepers that fit in there to clean them.

    The City of Vista is a community that is part of the urban San Diego landscape, and a couple of decades back it was somewhat rural, which was changed by the suburban sprawl. However, there are still a lot of rednecks that live there, and bike lanes are often viewed by these folks as “liberal bullshit”, and blame them for displacing car lanes and parking.

    While the video notes that some unspecified bike users don’t like the lanes, I’m highly skeptical of that. I ride in similar lanes all over San Diego, and they are a godsend, as they do a good job of keeping cars separated from bikes. A more likely explanation is that the “bikers” complaining are typical conservative rednecks that hate bike lanes in general, and not the people that actually use bike lanes.


  • Now, in a bid to reignite sales, Tesla has reversed course. The Model Y Long Range All-Wheel Drive now has a starting price of, according to the company’s website, $64,990—a full $20,000 less than its peak. The likely explanation for this dramatic reversal is a major strategic pivot: the new, cheaper Model Ys are reportedly being imported from Tesla’s Gigafactory in Berlin, Germany, allowing the company to bypass the steep tariffs on U.S.-made vehicles.

    Funny how tariffs work. Trump thought he’d incentivize U.S. production, but in this case he’s displacing U.S. production with German production.






  • N0t_5ure@lemmy.worldtoHistory@lemmy.worldBanned Music in the Third Reich
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    However by 1939 it ended up on the list of songs which were banned in the third reich. It suddenly was branded degenerate music along with music from Jewish composers and Jazz music. The reason why it fell out of favor was because it was seen as kitsch and it was also perceived as a satire on Hitler. It took them 6 years to figure that out.

    Reminds me of right-wingers loving Rage Against the Machine and then turning on them as “woke” when they discover that they’re part of the machine being raged against.