M3L0NM4N

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by M3L0NM4N 2mo ago
The UK, Australia, and Brazil have significantly less firearms (which makes gun control a million times easier), and are not constitutionally granted the right to bear them (which makes gun control unconstitutional). If you go ahead start
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by M3L0NM4N 2mo ago
This is where I think you're wrong. The vast, vast majority of people killed by police are warranted. People routinely threaten officers' lives with guns, and get killed for it. It's unfortunate, but it happens. People aren&#
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by M3L0NM4N 2mo ago
You are wrong in your expectation, I really just dream of being able to actually police crime. Which we do horribly.
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by M3L0NM4N 2mo ago
More police are shot and killed every year than people who were accidentally shot by police. Imagine if they didn't approach every high-risk situation with guns drawn. There would be orders of magnitude more officers killed.
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by M3L0NM4N 2mo ago
That is obviously true... but also a fairy tale hypothetical, and we are in the real world. So the question is, what's the solution, right now? Not 200 years ago.
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by M3L0NM4N 2mo ago
Maybe there should be less de jure law then...
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by M3L0NM4N 2mo ago
Yes, this sounds amazing. Enforce all the laws and rescind the bad ones! There are tons!
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by M3L0NM4N 2mo ago
This is not an issue with bad policing, but bad policy.
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by M3L0NM4N 2mo ago
I would prefer less people die, actually.
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by M3L0NM4N 2mo ago
I completely agree. My point was that they should always be prepared for the worst.
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by M3L0NM4N 2mo ago
Yes, firearms themselves present a clear and present danger by themselves. I'm sure once you make laws to control them, the firearms learn to stop being dangerous.
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by M3L0NM4N 2mo ago
For successful policing*. Which everyone should be for. edit: Every single thing you guys have replied with are policy/law debates, not enforcement debates. I disagree with many laws on the books today. I want the laws changed, not sel
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by M3L0NM4N 2mo ago
Police in the US should respond to the hilt because the likelihood of the suspect being armed is significantly higher than any other country...
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by M3L0NM4N 2mo ago
I think the police should especially have guns drawn if they are pulling over a car owned by a murder suspect. It is reasonable enough to assume the driver is the suspect. If they PID the driver as not the suspect, holster up, no problem. P
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by M3L0NM4N 3mo ago
I would bet a large number of the shorts are people holding restricted stock, synthetically selling their position before their lockup period ends.
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by M3L0NM4N 3mo ago
Yes, but they don’t want to drink milk the at the same price. Price drives demand equally as much as demand drives price. That’s the point you’re missing.
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by M3L0NM4N 3mo ago
> No, you're working very hard to miss the point. It seems the opposite is true here. > [Shorts] literally can't be made, unless there was someone in the market who thinks that at the short price, the stock is a good investm
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by M3L0NM4N 3mo ago
Yes, that is how short-selling works, but you're claiming that the only reason the headline isn't "SPCX is the most purchased new stock" is for narrative reasons, which is patently false. Shorting necessitates that someo
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by M3L0NM4N 3mo ago
I would argue the current price action isn't even driven by any company decisions. The stock needs to settle for a while after IPO.
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by M3L0NM4N 3mo ago
You're conflating two things though. Shares are being borrowed to sell in this instance, referred to as short-selling. These shares can theoretically be borrowed multiple times over to sell (ex. Gamestop fiasco). This is not current ow
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by M3L0NM4N 3mo ago
IMO, it's an argument against diversification. The Nikkei's decade-long stagnation is proof that the indices that are widely considered "diverse" are not immune to stagnation. This is from a trader/investor's s
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by M3L0NM4N 3mo ago
Yeah and our government is continuing to take pages from China's playbook for the last fucking decade... and not the plays that work.
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by M3L0NM4N 3mo ago
I mean these stocks have been performers for decades. If you posted this 10 years ago you'd look really wrong.
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by M3L0NM4N 4mo ago
Okay, I do agree with this. IQ probably correlates with effort a little, but my anecdotal experience is that the most successful people in my school were primarily smart as opposed to being hard workers. Of course, there is a lot of overlap
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by M3L0NM4N 4mo ago
There's no IQ correlation with zip code? Think again
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by M3L0NM4N 4mo ago
This is laughable. Most children (sampled randomly from the United States) could absolutely not score 145 on a WAIS assessment. Your perception of the average children's intelligence is likely skewed by being surrounded by above averag
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by M3L0NM4N 4mo ago
This is far from proven fact. There are studies that show this effect, and there are studies that disagree. I can certainly see the argument for it being true in extremely Low-SES evnironments, but I don't believe this is true for the
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by M3L0NM4N 4mo ago
The number 1 predictor of educational outcome is IQ by a long shot, which is hardly affected by any of the factors you listed. Yes, high IQ kids usually have high IQ parents who are likely to prevent those things, partly because they are li
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by M3L0NM4N 5mo ago
Oh yes, Trump famously lets people tell him what to do. It's always the "Zionists"
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by M3L0NM4N 5mo ago
Experience is probably (at least should be) the differentiating factor.

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