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  • 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.

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

  • Expires in 30 days

    It's so bizarre to see people get a time out on a community they hate and fume because they're temporarily prohibited from yelling at people they say they don't want to talk to.

  • you just really want me to be racist

    I don't think you're racist. I think you're clinging to this idea of the Transatlantic slave trade as some kind of necessary evil.

    It wouldn’t have gotten as popular in the USA and Europe if all the early blues and jazz musicians were in Africa.

    Cultural traditions have cross-pollunated without mass migrations on plenty of prior occasions. The Silk Road didn't need to move legions of displaced people in order to bring food, clothing, and music into the Mediterranean. Neither did Dutch traders need to flood into Japan in order to convey their art and technology.

    The idea that you need a mass resettlement in order to mix musical traditions doesn't bare out in practice.

  • politics @lemmy.world

    Why the Biden Administration Is Shifting on Immigration

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    A school district in Pennsylvania approved nearly $9,000 ‘to cut windows into the ‘gender-identity’ student bathrooms so passerby can look inside’

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    Donald Trump escalates tariff threat as he doubles down on protectionism: Ex-president’s latest broadside warns countries to stick with the dollar or face 100% levy

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    Ukraine faces its darkest hour: Zelenskyy must deal with Russian advances, an exhausted society and the prospect of winter energy shortages

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    The Conspiracy Unmasked

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    A series of quiet moves, first by Trump, and now by Biden, have produced a humanitarian crisis throughout Cuba.

    politics @lemmy.world

    US officials quietly backed Israel’s military push against Hezbollah

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    Man who claimed he had explosives at Trump rally in Michigan is charged

    World News @lemmy.world

    Spain's NGOs, unions observe nationwide strike in solidarity with Palestine

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    Harris to propose toughening Biden’s asylum clampdown during border visit

    Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world

    Voting Third Party this year. Don't try to stop me.

    World News @lemmy.world

    Prigozhin used JPMorgan and HSBC for Wagner payments: Banks handled transactions for companies in Africa controlled by Russian warlord

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    Meanwhile, in Springfield Ohio

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    Western nations join forces to break China’s grip on critical minerals

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    University of Pennsylvania will sanction Amy Wax, the law prof who invited a white nationalist to speak to her class

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    Trump rallies plummeting! Sell! Sell! Sell!

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    Blood and Honey

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    US moves soldiers to Alaska island amid Russian military activity increase in the area

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    Russians made video falsely accusing Harris of hit-and-run, Microsoft says

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    NYPD shot four people - including two bystanders one who is in critical condition - and another cop over a $2.90 fare.