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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

For you to short something a institutional investor or market maker takes a long position on the same thing.

For some reason legit institutional investors never really show up in the crypto sphere and the smart market makers don't like to get high on their own supply (or are selling tokens they got at insider prices on the open market).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We should just set fire to cars parked illegally instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

It's to explain why she did it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The sinking of your habitat can do that to you, otherwise it has a good evolutionary niche.
Also, the flying ancestors are still around, so if anything happens they can come back in another 20 000 years.

edit: spelling

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

You should save some part to mail them later ,so they can never be sure when their are done with you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Come and take a seat

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Generally, forcing developers to code something has been considered "compelled speech"

I'm European so I don't quite understand.
Say person A paid person B to say X and had a valid contract. If B didn't say X can person A sue person B to compel performance of contract or just money back/damages?

At least for new games wouldn't it just be an implied part of the purchasing contract, meaning money back at least.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (10 children)

As a climber I have to disagree, figure 8 knots are the best, especially when double back.
It's the one knot I trust my life to on a weekly basis and I have rarely encountered a situation where they weren't part of the solution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

How?

Good question. I said should, not could... it would take a constitutional change, [...]

I mean: if you had the power, how would you ban parties? At what point do political organizations become parties? How about individual representatives working together?

Bring back the old literacy tests while you're at it

Pfft. The two are not the same. You could be perfectly illiterate and still find out what the supposed values of the politicians were by simply listening to them, or just talking to others about policy and politicians ties to them, like we used to.

Yes literacy is not the deciding factor, but it was always a pretense to keep certain people from voting.

Imagine how much more attention you would have yo pay if you had to understand who to vote for.

How much time should a person spend following politics to get enough of an understanding? What about poor people working long hours with little free time?
Guess I should have gone with the landowning requirement instead.

The Hatch Act applies to all career federal civil servants and prevents anyone under that designation from running from office in any partisan race. Meaning if your local government doesn't allow political affiliations to be listed, then you

Sound like a problem with the Hatch Act, not with political parties. Over here civil servant can run in political races as long they separate their work and political live, they are not allowed to wear uniforms at political events for example.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Desalination is ~~expensive~~ energy intensive and vertical farming is to ~~expensive~~ labor intensive. We could do them but they are massive inefficiencies when other options are available.

For better resource utilisation we could go vegan, except for animals exclusively eating grass/hay and waste products. But doing that would increase the price of meat and milk products, while making other foods cheaper and more available.

Sadly we can't have people only eating meat on some days, like in the "good old days", better use up all of earth before handling it of to the next generations.

PS: Sorry, I'm feeling argumentative today.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Political parties should be abolished.

How?

Imagine how much more attention you would have yo pay if you had to understand who to vote for.

Bring back the old literacy tests while you're at it.

Plus then it would allow people like your local mail carrier to run for things like school committee.

They aren't? If yes how would that change?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

We can barely afford to send our troops to the Russian border where they serve a purpose, showing cohesion and solidarity and commitment in NATO. I doubt N. Korea will consider Germany, a nation across the globe with low power projection capability, a threat.

That money is better spent on modern equipment, ammunition and aid.

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