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Antifa Turkeesian posted:The left longs to use the US war machine for its own purposes. You nailed it, buddy! Space Cadet Omoly posted:Sinfest Sunday
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By popular demand posted:So any Sino-American is not only loyal to the PRC but also a direct avatar for Xi Jinping himself? Depends if they’ve accepted the Cap or not.
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rydiafan posted:I wish people could get it through their head that coal only employs like 50,000 people in America. I think with a few more figures for things like quality adjusted life years we can work this into an exchange rate between coal industries and pandemics.
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Randalor posted:I get the IDEA behind stocks and the stock market, that you're buying a portion of the company, so if the company does good, your portion is worth more and vice versa, and that the stock market is a place or institution that makes buying and selling stocks easy. What I don't understand is why things like "shorting so much that more shares are sold than actually exist" was ever allowed to come about. I mean, if the stock markets can limit or stop trading of stocks... why not limit them before a stock hits "140% sold of available stocks" or whatever the ridiculous percentage was.
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Antigravitas posted:Having a fractal of borrowers borrowing from other borrowers is hilarious to me. What would happen if everyone in that circlejerk is forced to pull out at the same time? Do they form a queue to unravel all those agreements sequentially? The same is true in the financial markets. The system depends on everyone having faith that others will follow through on their trades and contracts, which is ostensibly guaranteed by the firms that facilitate the transactions. To extend your metaphor: when it works everyone can focus on giving manual relief to whoever they've promised it to, and know that whoever has promised them manual relief will make good, and that if they don't then a clearing firm will bring them to orgasm instead. While I absolutely think the hedge fund in this case should be allowed to go bust, I think it's legitimate for those who are concerned with the proper functioning of the market to worry about a situation where a firm might fail to honour its contracts to the tune of billions of dollars, not to mention the possibility that thousands of small "investors" following the hype are likely to lose money that matters to them when the whole situation unwinds. It's easy and fun to paint this as David(s) vs. Goliath, but it looks to me more like we are all demanding that one set of sensible controls (halting trading in a huge bubble) not be enacted because a previous and more important set also weren't enacted. In theory the hedge fund's losses are unlimited, but in practice the worst they can do is go bankrupt and fail to complete their contracts, which means at some point in this process we might reach a point where the losses incurred by ordinary people YOLOing on GME shares that collapse are greater than the losses incurred by the rich. And overall the rich may get richer, if they're betting successfully on GME returning to equilibrium, while those with just enough money to buy a few overpriced shares end up carrying the can.
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The_Other posted:I always keep in mind an old post on The Hooded Utilitarian about Rall from 2007:
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Sagebrush posted:evergreen I’ve never seen this before and it’s amazing.
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Ben Garrison posted:Reminder the Democrats hate you, your skin color, your children and your ancestors. Who are you addressing here, Ben? You mean like they hate all races, and that's how you're so confidence that they hate MY race, whatever it may be? Is that what you mean, Ben?
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I dont know posted:I know a couple months back discord logs from Archwarhammer leaked showing he is a nazi. GW sent him a cease and desist and he had to change his channels name to just arch also a CA staffer publicly called him a dickhead. They really could do more in the games themselves, but policing this poo poo in the community is absolutely overdue and a important first step. It's pretty funny the dickhead's hobby publicly broke up with him. This sounds a bit like "they've done everything they can short of making their games not be about the total deterministic power of race over all individual behaviour, intelligence and morality".
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wizzardstaff posted:What about treating stay-at-home parenting as labor deserving of a wage? Environmentally speaking that’s probably worse than coal subsidies.
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Trapezium Dave posted:Leak, Son of Leak:
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Raised By Birds posted:Mike Lester "My goodness but this Kamala Harris is out of touch. She has no idea how wealthy and patrician we rural folk are!"
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MechaCrash posted:All the right wing freaking out about "omg the social media companies can control what you say" thing is especially fun given that there were some "hey maybe we should put a check on the internet turning into like three websites" concerns back when this could've been stopped, but no, free market at work.
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Trapezium Dave posted:
I personally am terrified that we'll all remain complacent about [vandalism] until it's too late, and then [vandalism] will lead to resource wars and genocide as hundreds of millions flee from regions rendered uninhabitable by [vandalism]. Thank the cosmos that Warren Brown is willing to take a stand against [vandalism].
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Post poste posted:Because they're seen as going "up" the social order, while use trans femmes go "down" it.
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If there's a better way to present an editorial cartoon than as a cyclically zooming snippet of video with a noisy background hum, I've never encountered it.Raised By Birds posted:Gary Varvel The Artificial Kid fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Aug 31, 2021 |
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VitalSigns posted:Like he can't even decide if cops are good or bad. The violent woke mob is calling cops slurs which are just as bad as the n-word and chasing and beating cops for no reason, but also the cops are rounding up patriots on false charges and torturing 2021's dad and 2021 is really righteous and awesomely beating up cops but also the cops were abolished and they all went to work for evil corporations and now they really are bad (??????)
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HootTheOwl posted:How did you get the diodes in the womb? A fetal heart rate monitor (usually part of a Cardiotocograph or "CTG") uses a doppler ultrasound transducer on the outside of the abdomen to pick up the fetal heart beat. The CTG measures the interbeat interval to determine the fetal heart rate, and plots it against uterine contractions (using a stretch transducer also strapped to the patient's abdomen) and also sometimes the maternal heart rate (from an ecg electrode). It's used to assess the baby's wellbeing minute by minute, especially in labour but also where there is any question about the baby's wellbeing in the later stages of pregnancy. Where there is difficulty picking up the heart rate during labour the fetal heart rate pickup may somtimes be switched from external doppler to an electrode that is connected directly to the baby's scalp via the cervix. This is generally referred to as a "clip on baby's scalp" but is actually a small wire screw that is inserted into the scalp. The word "Thank You" should be obscured by one or two other waveforms that are only partially correlated with the fetal heart rate, all of which should be functions (in the sense of having only one y value for each x). Gary Varvel is a twat.
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HootTheOwl posted:Nothing. That's what you don't seem to understand.
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wizzardstaff posted:"I want zero covid", rallying cry of the sick and deranged
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Raised By Birds posted:Steve Kelley
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Hihohe posted:Because as we all know, big pigs are something you dont want. When it comes to livestock you want the smallest pigs
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Pants Donkey posted:Geez is this a theme this year? I kind of find this one MORE objectionable than the Ramirez in its willful ignorance and spitefulness. This one is saying "Columbus was good and I'm sad because he'd have been sad to know that in the future THE LIBS will take away his righteous achievements!!!", whereas an undeservedly charitable reading of the Ramirez one (by someone who feels no need to examine a single other cartoon of his) might be "The Spanish invasion of the Americas looks one-sided in hindsight, but there were legitimate imperial cultures already in the Americas that exercised power over others in both good and bad ways". In our rush to reveal Columbus et al. as murderers and thieves we throw the curtain over the majesty and power of the civilisations they destroyed (perhaps because there's a connection from there to the idea that the invaders' crimes were also often very impressive achievements in the field of human evil). The societies that were swept away weren't weak or innocent. The people who ran them (whether administrators, generals, priest castes, whoever) were exercising power over enormous numbers of people, often millions, or even tens or hundreds of millions. India was a strong contender for the richest and most powerful society in the world when the cascade of failures and accidents began that ended with it enslaved by European powers. Europeans didn't go there initially as dominant powers projecting their force, they went there to buy the amazing goods that were unparalleled in Europe. I don't think the Ramirez deserves a particularly charitable reading, he was probably thinking "this will finally make THE LIBS realise that the Spanish righteously liberated the Americas from ignorance and darkness", but his cartoon at least has more to it than "I can't believe they're not going to recognise you, Columbus  "Edit - also from the other cartoons people posted Ramirez clearly loves him some elaborate priestwear. The Artificial Kid fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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Vib Rib posted:The problem is probably that these people use "the cultures we genocided weren't innocent" the same way they use "this unarmed black man the cops shot 40 times was no angel".
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Svaha posted:That William f Buckley quote is the OG self own. A timeless classic. Oh and also they're not actually trying to stop the train, they're just trying to redirect it onto the local cattle baron's siding so he can loot it. Raised By Birds posted:Going to go see a FOOTBALL GAME at FOOTBALL STADIUM. The Artificial Kid fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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Trapezium Dave posted:Wilcox: It's ridiculous to compare branch stacking with government influence peddling. Political parties have no fundamental place in the political system, they're just a very enduring and resilient part of the meta. If a political party declines to be internally democratic that's its business. Anyone can nominate as a candidate, with or without a party. The probity of MPs and ministers in the execution of their duties, however, is absolutely fundamental to good government, and needs to be enforced as strictly as possible.
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Pants Donkey posted:Not sure if this is a genuine heel-turn for Ishida or if this will be a giant nothing when he loses interest in a week or two
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Raised By Birds posted:Tony Branco
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Wipfmetz posted:Fuel prices _are_ high. I just refueled yesterday at 1.53€ per litre of diesel, and it has been that expensive for a few weeks now.
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kartikeya posted:"Many" Many such cases!
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