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  1. vvillovv

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    Is it nice how inflation allows us to gather and spend a 20 billion drop in the bucket at our governments whim.
    How much is fema going to need next year? Anyone care?

    probably nada biskuit.
     
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    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    Caring is sharing.....or 'paying your fair share' - depending on your economic situation..... ;)
     
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    sometimes sharing capsizes the Lifeboat.
     
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    the biskuit cares
     
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    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    You have to be IN a lifeboat for that to be an issue.
     
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    developers line pol pockets to allow denser and denser housing in unsafe areas.
    pols borrow or print money to help idiots who want to live in paradise.
    taxpayers money is probably spent by april these days.
    but they are on the hook for the debt
     
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    that's ok, i don't ask them to pay me back any faster than it says on the bonds
     
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    Trollbait It's a D&D thing

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    I suspect the big 4 are the only entities that have an handle on administration double entry accounting. Lookup the big 4 for more info on their services and consulting revenues. Than lookup their customer base and who's on the list.
     
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    a lot of lessons learned, but politiks is politiks
     
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    Even though I have a siblings sig other and an old housemates sister in law whom worked for one of the big 4, I had know clue about how deep the rabbit hole might be until on a whim a year ago I got a hankerin to learn about wirecard. From there a lot of pieces started falling into place about how the big 4 acquire only around 25% of revenue from traditional services ie: tax prep and returns, while 75% is gained from consulting services and the IRS is on there customer list. It's up to each to imagine for yourselves what kind of consulting services the big 4 offer out gov. I probably got lucky on which links interested me as I was learning about the wirecard thing, I suspect it might be a bit harder for others with perhaps a few different interests than I had during my search.
     
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    Any mention of guano floats my boat:

    The U.S. empire was built on bird dung

    Although a couple of things here seem not quite right. No doubt it was among factors stimulating Panama Canal, but other trans oceanic shipping was much larger. Mostly we miss that nitrogen in guano is very water soluble, while phosphorus is much more 'sticky'. Thus it also is in agricultural soils, where N is depleted much sooner than P. But even the latter runs out. Ran out.

    Agric N supply was solved by Haber Bosch, but P shortages persist and are of increasing significance.

    N:p ratios in fish, fish-eating birds, and guano 'ought to be' about 10:1. As they are not so in guano, much of N has washed back into the sea.
     
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    I picked that up in a few historic novels,
    I can’t imagine what fun the harvesting must have been
     
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    Guano would smell of ammonia which isn't nice, and is also another way for N to escape. It wouldn't smell of any phosphorus-containing gas which is a good thing, as those would kill one promptly. But such can not form in guano's situation.
     
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    in one book, it was bird droppings on rocky ocean outcrops. was that a thing?
     
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    Bird guano is that indeed. Bat guano is mostly accumulated in caves. The latter is not always stinky in my past experience. But I have pretty much decided to not visit more caves. Bad lung things are in them :eek:
     
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