Great movie!

“Wolbachia is a bacterium introduced into Aedes mosquitoes in Malaysia to reduce dengue transmission.”

Are you talking about the ICE agent?

“It’s a lava lamp, Mom! I swear!”

I like when it’s an animated wheel, I feel like I’m on the price is right

He’s taken control of the revenue from Venezuelan oil which goes into his slush fund that has no congressional oversight

I want to dress as Segal for next Halloween but I can’t find a wig. Also:

Oh I see what you’re saying. I did some reading earlier that said that in a lot of places 20% - 40% of all marriages are to first cousins.

If you have one person with recessive genes and one person with dominant genes, then the baby will have the dominant gene. So if the grandparents were cousins both with recessive genes it wouldn’t matter, as far as I know.

But it’s not a 15% risk. Unrelated couples have a 3% chance of having a child with a birth defect while cousins have a 5% chance of having a child with a birth defect.

Are there a lot of reputable sources that the U.S. was involved in La Violencia?

I’ve studied Colombian history as well as US involvement in South America and have not read about any connections.

Google search shows this but I’m not sure it’s a trustable source https://colombiareports.com/50-years-us-intervention-colombia/

Or maybe a hot dog bowl, it’s like a burrito bowl but it’s chopped up hot dogs in a big old bread bowl

Dick and Jane went up the hill each with buckshot and a sawed-off

Maybe eat more hot dogs?

Really interesting. I just read the Bank of England’s companion article: Money in the modern economy, an introduction https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/money-in-the-modern-economy-an-introduction

I didn’t consider that you could still classify banking as fractional reserve banking even though there are no fractional reserve banking requirements. In my mind the concept was one of regulatory oversight.

Do you think that when a bank loans money to another bank they are creating money out of thin air? If they can do that then why do they need to borrow money?

I think you’re doing a good job interpreting and explaining modern monetary theory, I just don’t agree with all of it, although I agree with the concept.

Do you believe that the US government must collect taxes before it can spend money? Or do you agree that government spending is self financed and money creation (in spending by the US government) is only limited by concerns of inflation?

Do you believe that Banks hold digital money in their reserves? I do. Who do you think created that money?

You’re right that that article does talk about banks creating money and it’s true that banks can create money when they lend more than they have in reserves and assets. But my larger point was that IMO bank loans are credit but the bank loans are repaid with actual money. Maybe it’s semantics.

Also, you mentioned fractional reserve banking but that no longer exists. It ended around 2020 when the government changed regulations and no longer requires banks to hold any ratio of reserves to debt.