Yes but the baker doesn't just give the cobbler money to buy bread and take a share in the shoe shop in return.

But there's nothing wrong with that. It's not a circle; it's an exchange. Like any transaction.

I like this abstraction. If the baker says “I could sell 10x more if only I had shoes that allowed me to bake faster” then the cobbler says, “split the growth with me and I’ll craft you all the shoes you want.”

The claim was circularity is evidence the business activity is fake.

Bad.

Smart people are very prone to using their intellectual abilities for self deception and rationalisation.

> do you think the CCP leaders are better?

Based on their public statements and policy actions, absolutely. America these days sounds and behaves like a country being run by absolute cretins.

I dunno it seems pretty irrational to me.

He could literally throw him under a bus and not suffer any legal consequences. It's probably 50/50 whether or not senate Republican would vote to impeach him after that.

What direction do you reckon support has been trending in the last month?

I have no information about that, and of course no one currently in Iran would dare say anything bad about the regime right now.

However, I find it hard to imagine anyone thinking:

"I didn't like the Islamic Republic, and I was pissed and afraid when they killed thousands of protestors, but now that some of the leaders have been killed by the US, I've changed my mind about the Islamic Republic."

I salute your can-do spirit and your will to customise your tools to your preferences.

I also think you're an animal and need to be stopped before you do more damage to perfectly well designed machines.

I had never even heard the idea of seasons starting on the solstices or equinoxes before. What a bizarre way to look at the year.

It was the early 2000s though, $17 got you like a weeks worth of snacks back then.