> The bonds are actually held by investors, and when investors see them as a losing bet, they will stop buying them

largest investor will be or already a Fed, and it will continue buying if there is political will.

Again... when the only purchaser becomes the central bank, then you're effectively printing money. Since no one is bearing the cost of actually buying the bonds, and there is no profit motive, then you're ultimately just printing the deficit every year. This is already quite high, and is compounded by the knowledge that outstanding liabilities of the nation basically dwarf the current debt.

If that is the plan, then hyper-inflation is not only on the table, it starts to become probable. I shouldn't have to explain why that's a problem. There isn't a free lunch here. Yes, inflating the debt away is an option... to a point, but there are still hard limits on what the market will bear.

> Since no one is bearing the cost of actually buying the bonds, and there is no profit motive, then you're ultimately just printing the deficit every year.

sure, there are plenty of countries in the world who just print money without all these debt ritual.

> to a point, but there are still hard limits on what the market will bear.

this niche (government prints money to fund its expenses) is not part of any market, but just policy supported by monopoly on violence.

My point is the vast majority of citizens don’t actually want to become poorer over time with zero incentive to save or invest.

Your point is very superficial. People in power know that majority of citizens don't want to become poorer, so they created sophisticated infrastructure of political parties, financial transactions, methods of policing, which extracts wealth from citizens, but citizens don't know how exactly and what to do about this. Debt and all fed thing is one of components.

If you’re suggesting that the electorate is not generally in control of fiscal policy then it’s safe to say this conversation is over. We can agree to disagree on the structure of the American government.

The majority of citizens may not be following all this closely, but they're not stupid. They can feel when they're becoming poorer, and they don't like it. They blame the president when it happens, even if they can't explain exactly why.

But what the Republicans might be able to do is spend like drunken sailors, and have the crisis happen when the Democrats are in power after 2028. People blame the current president, whether or not he had much of a chance to do anything about it.

both parties abuse debt in favor of protecting interests of rich: Biden and Obama added 8T each.

> USA and Israel started it.

started current operation: yes. But its Iran who denies Israel right for existence, and funds/supports multiple forces with the same views.

Such confrontation would happen anyway, the question would it happen now, or in 5 years when Iran potentially obtain nuclear weapons.

There are two foundational events that set this conflict in motion:

1). The violent establishment of a settler ethnostate in a Muslim region in 1947 2). The deposition of the Shah in 1953

If you're going to talk about causes you might as well start there.

Muslims grabbed land by force thousand years ago, while killed every one who disagreed.

History is full of violence, I am talking about current time. It is current Iran's choice to not accept Israel existence, in contrast to many other Arabic countries who normalized relationships.

Some feedback, your description on frontpage: "Everything you need. Nothing you don't. Zero dependencies. 100% TypeScript." tells nothing about what is your project exactly..

maybe you could bring 3 bullet points what were the most useful insights from that book?

would you share tools you used to create it? Is voice your own?

sociopaths win most power battles in inefficient society.

The only exit is if AI enslaves us and starts rewarding humans based on useful merits.

The hell makes you think the AI wouldn't be guided by the optimization function set by sociopaths?

sociopaths in power are interested in holding status quo, so that function will punish other sociopaths, and reward loyal and hardworking individuals.

> I don’t think I understand the benefit of using Postgres’ wire format here since it’s not Postgres behind the scenes. I guess that lets you use psql as the client?

clients can continue using PG drivers, so author doesn't need to build and distribute his own drivers for N programming languages and M OSes.

that bathroom was clean already, not clear what robot did really

even with human judgement, it will become way more efficient because LLM will prepare input and you press y/n. As results way less human judges will be required, so job market will shrink by factor N.