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- Comment on Seeing a lot of copium but am I fucking crazy? The market would have to do more than just recover for people to recoup their losses? 2 days ago:
Lots of people paying for that mistake today.
- Comment on Seeing a lot of copium but am I fucking crazy? The market would have to do more than just recover for people to recoup their losses? 2 days ago:
It is even worse if you are at the withdraw stage of life (generally retirement) because liquidated shares cannot participate in any later market increase.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I’m a conservative but don’t have strong feelings about gun rights. Not every conservative is conservative for the same reason.
- Comment on The Signal and the noise: Why the messaging app is great for privacy but not for war plans. 3 days ago:
If you can influence others to do so, use the better app. My family, we use Briar.
- Comment on Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’ 4 days ago:
I don’t think their goal is stability. It is elimination. And the same would be true if the situation reversed. So either that’s what eventually happens or a bigger power steps in and rules them like children.
- Comment on Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’ 4 days ago:
One state, immediately in the state of civil war where one side has access to the most money and the best weapons? I gave up on this idea after seeing the effects of this current war. Either one side will eliminate the other or a bigger country will rule both of them as if they are children incapable of running their own lives. Is there a reasonable plan for peace other than these?
- Comment on Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’ 4 days ago:
I’m pretty sure most of those people are dead.
- Comment on Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’ 4 days ago:
What’s the solution to lasting peace? Restore rule to the Ottomans or British?
- Comment on Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy? 5 days ago:
I agree, this is bad logic. That said, that’s not what I hear from the current regime when I hear them talking about tariffs. What I hear is them thinking this will force countries to lower barriers to Americans doing business abroad. Once those barriers are lowered, tariffs are reduced or go away altogether. For the record, I do not think this is good policy, but the intent of the policy (at lease as I read it) isn’t to suddenly move all manufacturing back to the United States.
- Comment on Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
I have a little pull in my group of friends. I’ve got 11 kids and I make them use Briar (SMS is removed from the phones) and so their friends end-up getting Briar and then their friends’ parents have also gotten it. So we have a nice little circle of people using it.
- Comment on Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential term 1 week ago:
We held elections in the middle of the Civil War and made sure soldiers could vote. If Lincoln could do it then, we can do it now. I’ll fight to make sure we have elections, and I hope others do the same.
- Comment on Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential term 1 week ago:
I guess that makes sense. I have a very firm feeling he is going to intentionally provoke a war against China. That war might already be brewing but he is much more likely to take us into it than almost anyone else.
- Comment on Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential term 1 week ago:
That’s interesting. When I was reading the Constitution, I didn’t read it the same way. I thought that the basic rules (age, citizenship, etc.) were what applied since obtaining office and serving office were distinct in my mind. I like your reading better but I have a feeling SCOTUS wouldn’t read it the same way you do.
- Comment on Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential term 1 week ago:
I understand one tactic is for him to serve as VP under someone else who promises to resign to allow Trump to serve again but he keeps saying there’s also other options.
WHAT OTHER OPTIONS IS HE TALKING ABOUT?
- Comment on Should I withdraw/stop putting into my 401k? 1 week ago:
Is your employer matching some percentage of what you add to your 401k?
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 1 week ago:
Is it possible to skip account creation by installing while not connected to the internet?
- Comment on Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
I’d consider using them if I didn’t need to use a phone number to register. My friends and family stick with Briar as a result.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 1 week ago:
I also sort by top six hours but subs related to my profession or religious traditions both get too much outside noise from folks who view posts by ‘all’ and feel welcome to flood subs with comments contrary to the intent of the sub. Active moderation could help but there’s just not good moderation under most subs.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 1 week ago:
IMO, as much as I dislike Reddit, moderation is terrible here and there’s some niche subs that cannot exist here because of the lack of moderation.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 2 weeks ago:
I normally stick with Firefox but, when there’s the need, I use degoogled Chromium.
- Comment on Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek 2 weeks ago:
It might be different with Tesla but most dealerships are independent from the company manufacturing the vehicles. Dealerships typically also run the service shop and have to carry their own insurance.
- Comment on Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if those protesters vandalizing Teslas know this is their big opportunity? Insurance companies insuring auto shops are fewer in number and more selective than those serving the general population. If these trucks were damaged while waiting for repairs, we might witness insurance companies altogether dropping coverage for shops. Without insurance these places will find it difficult to continue existing.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 4 weeks ago:
The best center-right news sources are behind a paywall. The crazy ones, those are free.
- Comment on Current day America has proven beyond a doubt, humanity is the only animal that wouldn't jump out of a slowly boiling pot of water. 2 months ago:
The US will have a democratic election in two years and it is very likely the Democrats will retake the House of Representatives. After that time, everything President Trump tries to do will rapidly decelerate. Of course, that depends on what the Democrats do to win the vote. Right now they are doubling down on the things that made them into losers the last election. They need to get their act together.
- Comment on Current day America has proven beyond a doubt, humanity is the only animal that wouldn't jump out of a slowly boiling pot of water. 2 months ago:
I said very few places were better alternatives. Scandinavia is never going to be able to accommodate the volume of migrants as had the United States. Scandinavia also has a lot of problems regarding their immigrant communities … high unemployment, crime, and difficulty integrating. When comparing people in the US and places like Sweden, if you control for factors like race or immigration status, the average expected experience fairs very well in the United States. Where I live in the US is very clean, gun violence is low, my cost of healthcare is almost zero … really the only thing I’d like is the vacation time but I am self-employed and am a cruel boss to myself. Most of the problems Europeans try to claim about the US are problems that do exist but are largely confined to black communities. These problems do need to be addressed but are things that Europeans have no real comparison to outside places that have large romani populations.
- Comment on Current day America has proven beyond a doubt, humanity is the only animal that wouldn't jump out of a slowly boiling pot of water. 2 months ago:
People from all over the world are trying to get into this boiling pot. Despite America’s flaws, very few places are better alternatives when you look at economic opportunity and political rights. It is popular to trash on America now because who is president for the next four years but there’s also only so many things he can do with an executive order and Congress isn’t a fast moving engine.
- Comment on DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly 4 months ago:
The Reuters article suggests prohibiting payments to Apple so that Chrome users on their hardware default to Google search. What about default settings to Firefox? Similar agreements finance a large portion of Mozilla’s revenue.
- Comment on YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index 5 months ago:
Says I’m 10%. BMI says I’m 22.5. I think that’s a big difference? I’m very tall, thin, but have solid muscle and work out about two hours per day.
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 5 months ago:
This is not new and it has previously been used against anti-abortion activists, tracking locations and even being used to record religious confessions. People on both sides of the abortion issue can oppose this type of monitoring.