UnderpantsWeevil @ UnderpantsWeevil @lemmy.world

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Mormons Were Right

Holy shit, are we still on Grey's Anatomy?

The difference between "believable" and "logical" is as wide as a cardboard box with a cat in it.

Mamdani's Jihadist plan to open municipally run grocery stores will destroy NYC with Shari Onions.

NASDAQ is up 6.8% ytd and 12.7% yoy. This "drop" didn't even bring it below the 5D low.

Very possible some HFT was in the know and did a bunch of day-trader shenanigans in the ten minutes before the announcement. Possible this was just speculation on the eve of the announcement because "Trump opens his mouth" is typically bad for the markets for a day or two. But this is a 0.59% drop that you've got zoomed in. It's nothing, in the context of the 3 year Bull Run that's doubled the NASDAQ's valuation since the '22 low.

I mean, unironically, this is what polygraphs exist to accomplish. They aren't reliable instruments and a lot of the "results" boil down to a technician trying to figure out if your heart rate increase or sweaty palms are a result of you lying or the AC in the room not running properly.

By the time someone's decided to strap you into a ploygraph machine, you're already "guilty" in their eyes. They're just looking for an excuse to slam the book on you.

I've yet to see evidence to this effect

being against authoritarians

Big Government Authoritarianism is when you administer a message board incorrectly.

A lot of these subsidies (both in the US and China) are implicit. Chinese state rail networks operate at cost, allowing cheap transportation of materials and labor. American borrowing is heavily subsidized through the Fed Credit Window, which keeps rates in the low single digits while corporate bonds and consumer loans can be 2x-30x as high. Both countries cut corners on environmental enforcement and subsidize waste management. Both countries subsidize education and incentive R&D through their university systems.

The real benefit BYD enjoys - even above its Chinese peers - is vertical integration. They own everything from mining interests to technology patents to dealerships. This is a deliberate consequence of Chinese trade policy, which requires foreign investors to partner with Chinese nationals in order to own and operate capital. Consequently, Berkshire Hathaway - a large early investor in BYD - cannot dictate Chinese vehicle manufacturing policy from a private office in Omaha. Chinese locals benefit from the innovation, the domestic capital, the experienced labor force (which can migrate to local competitors), and the increased economic activity it produces.

China is insourcing it's wealth aggregation, which has a cyclical compound benefit over time.

Yes, but all of these are bound by fundamental physical laws. Cause and effect. You are a deterministic machine.

You are a meat mech that operates on congruent biological principles. Therefore, everything you do is de facto "logical".

obstinate immaturity

My guy you have chained yourself to the front door of a community that won't let you in.

You are the Laura Loomer of Lemmy communities.

they are being boycotted

They're not. You're having a temper tantrum, but it's having no impact on traffic.

people forget Hamas was backed by Israel. Doesn’t mean Hamas is an Israel asset

It's the age old "backing moderate rebels" strategy. Divide and conquer. Netanyahu armed Hamas to undermine The Palestinian Authority, then turned them into a Boogeyman the moment they had an electoral win.

Hamas was an "asset" in the sense that it gave Israelis an excuse to continue ethically cleansing Gaza.

Just like they did with the Taliban originally to fight the Soviets.

So easy for westerners to ignore how the fundamental local appeal of the Taliban was to break the hold of the opium cartels (which the CIA/MI6 loved).

As soon as the US toppled Mullah Omar's government, their allies in the drug trade rushed back in to rebuild the old opium trade. When they were finally pushed out 20 years later, the opium traffickers were pushed out with them.

this whole community is to highlight the bs of tankie

You're doing a bang up job. Very convincing.

My guy, this whole post is about boycotting .ml after this sore loser got a 30 day suspension.

How are you going to boycott a place you are upset you can't post in? You're like a bunch of abusive exes

If they play a system, they probably like that system

I don't think you've ever actually gamed before.

Don’t forget the Lt governor has more power than the governor

That stopped being true decades ago, when Perry was granted a bunch of appointment power under the Republican legislature.

The Lt. Gov set the agenda in the State Senate, which made the position a bottleneck in the legislative process. But Senate Republicans are in total lockstep. The real legislative power rested with the House calendars committee for a few sessions, as the legislature was only in session for a few months every few years and the House could kill a bill by timing it out.

But of late, Abbott has excercised his ability to call "emergency" sessions liberally. And since he can get the agenda in these sessions, he can bully the House Reps into compliance by dragging them back over and over again until they concede.

Comedians in Cars Getting Kickbacks

Are tensions between the countries rising or is the middle class just running out of money for travel?