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Not easily anymore no.

He either sued or threatened to sue the people/person that were running that.

So, its now around a day or two later.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/09/dramatic-sell-off-of-us-government-bonds-as-tariff-war-panic-deepens

I was right, Varoufakis is wrong.

Again, Varoufakis idea is:

Central to this new global order would be a cheaper dollar that remains the world’s reserve currency — this would lower US long-term borrowing rates even more. Can Trump have his cake (a hegemonic dollar and low-yielding US Treasuries) and eat it (a depreciated dollar)?

and

Consequently, the euro, the yen and the renminbi will soften relative to the dollar. This will cancel out the price hikes of goods imported into the US, and leave the prices American consumers pay unaffected. The tariffed countries will be in effect paying for Trump’s tariffs.

Summarized, he thinks that:

US Bond prices will go up

and/or

US Bond yields will go down

and

The USD will appreciate compared to the Yen, Euro, Renminbi, that is to say, a dollar will be worth more yen, euro, ren.

What is actually happening is:

US Bond prices are going down.

US Bond yields are going up.

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/USD-JPY?window=1M

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/USD-EUR?window=1M

USD is depreciating, not appreciating, compared to yen and euro.

The USD/CNY is exchange rate is set at a fixed rate by China, and they haven't moved it yet.

So uh, no Mr. Varoufakis, Trump cannot have his cake and eat it too, infact he shit in the cake and then threw the mixture all around the room, now he gets nothing that he wanted.

Trump has destroyed the Bretton Woods USD hegemony, but in a way that is utterly catastrophic for the US, not some extremely clever 12D chess move.

I too have significantly more sensitive hearing than seemingly just most people, and can hear and often get annoyed by high pitched but low decibel sounds, very often caused by electronics, off balance high speed fans, etc.

Got gaslit about it by my family as well.

You may wanna look into an autism diagnosis, autists often have this kind of thing going on.

You'd think it would be called super hearing, but instead its often everyone without heigtened senses calling you delusional.

Same thing happened to me when I described seeing the entoptic blue field phenomenon to my family, but not knowing the fancy name for it because I was 11. Family got very concerned I was hallucinating, the reality is I am just more attentive to reality than they are.

OP, are you seriously whining about reading a moderate length satire 'article'...

... when the thrust of that satire is ... illiteracy?

... Anyway, Roseanne Barr is basically a hyper mega MAGA Karen, like the ur form, the closest to a physical embodiment of the platonic ideal.

She's led or headlined or featured in a good number of Trump rallies / Republican functions... she's a rascist bigot and anti lgbtq... she is a delusional christian nationalist who believes there is a vast global conspiracy to create a global muslim caliphate and implement sharia law literally everywhere.... she has literally declared her unwavering faith in Trump as dear leader.

She is a fucking maniac.

... Also there is a rather funny video where RFK Jr is recounting the insane story of him dumping a bear carcass in NYC's central park, where rosie is very obviously disgusted and dismayed by this, and barely manages to only slightly grimace and stare in horror.

Oh right, she also used to play a mom in some shitty sitcom that ran in the 90s, serving as an inspiration to white christian moms whose children have gone no contact with them in the 2020s, but hey, at least they've got a lot of 'live laugh love' posters framed on their walls.

Ok so... FOSS Dev submits a software (music creation tool) to Steam, to be 'sold' for $0, ie, available freely.

On the splash welcome screen to the software, there is a link to his patreon for donations.

Steam's automated vetting/verification process identifies the keyword 'patreon', but misreads a u as a v, or that reversed, in the url, and sends out an automated response saying 'direct links to request donations are not allowed, please remove'.

FOSS Dev somehow thinks this is a real person talking to him, writes up a response (with valid objections, that Godot and Krita and others feature donation links)...

... He does not recieve a response, but changes the link in his software to point to another webpage with a different url, where that webpage then points to his patreon, and uploads this new build to the automated first pass vetting system...

... and is surprised when this immediately passes vetting and is accepted.

Ok. Mhm. Yep.

...

Does FOSS Dev... did it occur to him that a platform like Steam that recieves, what, thousands of these kinds of applications a month, tens of thousands?, and is extremely well known for having a shockingly small employee headcount... might be using automated systems?

Might have a detailed flow chart for producing what are basically detailed error messages?

Has this person never heard of how call centers for large firms just give their phone support staff a script generated by such systems?

Has this person never used an automated support chat bot that only actually kicks you over to a real person if you specifically request it and/or exhaust its pre built in help options?

I am sorry but this dude is having an emotional breakdown from an automated bot response he doesn't realize is an automated bot response.

He at no point ever shows the response from Steam to his pointing out that other FOSS software has donation links. There apparently... wasn't one? ... Because actual lengthy responses get assigned to a ticket cue for an actual human to read and reply to at some point, later?

I am absolutely baffled as to how anyone with any familiarity with 'Steam Support' could possibly think they are talking to an actual human being in this scenario.

This is like feeling personally betrayed by a nonexistant YouTube video reviewer support person when you upload a video with copyrighted music and are told it won't be elligible publishing.

...

Now as to the actual Steam policies, the actual issues here... yes, in general, Steam is not geared toward FOSS releases with optional donations, yes it is bullshit that there are older software/games that got grandfathered in, no argument with any of that.

But he already solved the problem, on his end.

He already changed the url to not include a direct donation link by bouncing it to patreon via some other link.

The entire tech support adventure he had with trying to get donation DLCs was completely unneccessary... he already had an accepted build with a donation method accepted.

The entire tax adventure he had is also... he just says he has a very weird and uncommon legal setup with his sole proprietorship, and is frustrated that that makes the process complicated as well.

I get that this is frustrating, but again... if Steam said no to a donation only DLC... and he already has a build, accepted, with a working donation link that entirely circumvents the process, meaning he would not even be getting any payouts from Steam at all, and Steam will not be generating any revenue, whatsoever, because that software is listed as available in Steam for free, so there is no Steam cut...

Then this person is complaining about having to deal will some bs paperwork to be able to have his free software published on Steam, for no cost to him, at a cost to Valve, and he benefits massively by increasing the number of potential eyeballs on his software.

This is analagous to complaining that you have to fill out paperwork to recieve like free food benefits or reduced cost housing or a low cost bus fare.

...

In conclusion, yes, Steam is not the best option for FOSS releases.

Yep. Its a commercial storefront, primarily.

Alternatives exist, that are specifically supportive of FOSS projects with flexible donation/payment models.

I don't know why you'd go to the hardware store and be angry that they don't sell fresh fruit.

Should there maybe be some kind of push to try to convince Valve to offer some kind of option like that?

Well... maybe?

If Steam actually did basically what itch.io does, then uh, itch.io stops existing in ... what, 2 years?

I've very recently also seen this.

Basically uh, yeah, that tracks, that seems completely inline with the rest of how completely ridiculous this all is.

So... why haven't the books been withdrawn?

Because academia, academics, ... they regulate and peer review Journals. Published papers. Textbooks used in classes.

Not books designed for popular consumption, pop-econ, pop-psych, pop-whatever.

Why hasn't he been rejected by the Econ community?

Ironically, because of the nature of the incentive structure of the field of Econ.

Way, waaay too much overlap with politics and business, so its basically split into psuedo religious ideological camps, who often realize they can make way more money or have may more power by working for a hedge fund or being some kind of propogandist.

So... in that sense... the academic Econ community rarely is even capable of coming out as a unified body of academics and rejecting someone. There are too many different ideological camps, they're all arguing with each other all the time.

There is no broad consenus view as there is with say all climate scientists saying climate change is real, all biologists and archaeologists and geologists saying evolution is real and the earth is 4.5b years old.

But with Navvaro... he apparently hasn't done much or any really groundbreaking research, spent about two or three decades teaching, and during that time he realized he could make way more money selling pop-econ books to people who want to be able to argue about Econ to support their ideology without actually learning Econ.

You know, pretentious blowhards.

Anyway he also went to jail for Contempt of Congress for lying to the Jan 6th committee.

He is an absolute hack fraud at this point.

So there, me with a BSc. in Econ, I'm calling him out rofl.

Yeah, asterisk to indicate multiplication is much, much more common amongst coders.

... And script kiddie DOGE interns.

I am from Seattle.

Anecdotally:

This is correct.

People are absurdly transactional, performative and superficial about relationships and also very anti social compared to basically anywhere else I've ever been in the US.

Just for the historical record, here's Mussolini's last public appearance:

This article has been posted by me several times. You are only the second person who notices.

Probably because I am one of the few people on lemmy that actually has a degree in Economics.

EDIT

This is impossible to 100% confirm or deny with solid evidence at this point but uh...

Good chance it wasn't just hentai.

It was loli. Drawn CSAM.

Varoufakis is wrong.

Central to this new global order (Trump's plan) would be a cheaper dollar that remains the world’s reserve currency — this would lower US long-term borrowing rates even more.

What Trump is doing will result in a cheaper dollar.

It was also destroy the USD as the world's reserve currency.