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by jellicle 2y ago
The initial $4.6 million was US cash, and therefore was real, or as real as money can be.
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by jellicle 2y ago
> If they'd done it within 5 minutes it wouldn't have stopped her from losing her money. There's no reason to believe, and much reason to believe that it's not the case, that this woman was the very first to complain
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by jellicle 2y ago
When you're an empire being supported on the labor of a couple billion people in other parts of the world, yes, life for you and yours can be pretty okay. Not as okay for the imperial periphery, the sacrifice zones, but they don't
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by jellicle 2y ago
"Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group and Evolve Bank & Trust ®; Members FDIC. Deposit insurance covers the failure of an insured bank." - from their websi
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by jellicle 2y ago
In a properly regulated world, all of these clowns would be shut down today and some of them would go to jail. Instead we do no regulation, these "not-banks lying and claiming your money is safe" get to harm a lot of people, and t
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by jellicle 2y ago
Roe was pregnant.
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by jellicle 2y ago
As an FYI: Parliamentary governments routinely delegate regulation-making power to the particular Ministries, in exactly the same way as the USA Congress delegates it to executive agencies. https://www.parliament.uk/about&#x
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by jellicle 2y ago
Except that instead of deciding a specific patent, now all you need is one judge to throw out "patents". Or "environmental law".
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by jellicle 2y ago
Besides and beyond that, every tree has been duplicate counted about 20 times for global warming mitigation, AND they're all going to burn in fires, AND they're all going to die from beetles, AND they're all going to die from
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by jellicle 2y ago
I think you'll find that even as land values have increased, your local city or county has been slashing tax rates, such that taxes paid have not gone up for these people at all, or only slightly. Heck, if you're in California the
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by jellicle 2y ago
> other nuclear reactors in britain(and in fact across the world) operate with the same fractures in their vessels and it's not considered a reason to shut them down This should be viewed as "corrupted regulators" rather t
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by jellicle 2y ago
> that they're willing to sign a contract allowing someone to charge them any amount to be decided at a later date? Hilarious to try to blame the US's broken medical system on the victim. If you've ever had any medical p
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by jellicle 2y ago
The journalists don't talk to each other, the PR agency that created the story sends it to multiple journalists.
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by jellicle 2y ago
Can't even enact free free lunch programs: https://apnews.com/article/states-rejecting-federal-funds-su...
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by jellicle 2y ago
The old business model of being able to withdraw funds has been disrupted.
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by jellicle 2y ago
All of these venture-capital-backed companies trying to pretend that they are insuring vast amounts of customer money by making random deposits in other banks are just committing fraud. FDIC insurance specifically isn't for this use ca
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by jellicle 2y ago
If I make a machine that makes random sounds in approximately the human vocal range, and occasionally humans who listen to it hear "words" (in their language, naturally), then is that machine telling the truth when words are heard
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by jellicle 2y ago
The BBC is, for one.
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by jellicle 2y ago
If China surveils people, it's because they are evil and authoritarian. If we surveil people, it's because we're just keeping the public safe.
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by jellicle 2y ago
People are going to lose a LOT of money using this when the LLM says "buy" and old-school humans who read the same statement say "sell". But up until that day, it will probably be cheaper.
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by jellicle 2y ago
How can he owe too many of a thing he creates himself in unlimited quantities?
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by jellicle 2y ago
Saying that the USA is in trouble because of US-dollar-denominated debt is like saying that Dwight Schrute is in trouble because he owes too many Schrute-Bucks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPeRElll3Hw
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by jellicle 2y ago
"This plant is zone 6" "Old numbering or new numbering?" "I don't know, just says zone 6" If you reuse your numbering system, you have to specify which version you're using. Using an all-new numbering
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by jellicle 2y ago
But that's not how shareholder value is created. Shareholder value is created by press releases and hype, encouraging new people to buy the stock and drive up the price, not by building anything useful to society or long-term profitabl
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by jellicle 2y ago
That's not correct. The allegation in the article is that Google was under a legal obligation to preserve the chats, and that Google repeatedly told the government it was saving internal chats while repeatedly destroying them.
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by jellicle 2y ago
"Quiet pay cutting: you always had employers who did 0% annual raises but it's a creeping malaise"
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by jellicle 2y ago
Medicare still isn't. There's a two-year (!!) negotiation process for ten (10) drugs (!!) that takes effect in 2026. A disgusting way to run a health system.
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by jellicle 3y ago
The USA - the most powerful and richest country in the world - could ... just ... build it.
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by jellicle 3y ago
Just... stop self-inflicting? Double school bus spending, ban parental pickup or drop off, organize walking school buses for closer kids, give out free child transit passes... poof! The morning and afternoon traffic jams go away.
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by jellicle 3y ago
It's continually generated from radioactive decay. As long as the generation rate is higher than the escape rate, you'll end up with helium reservoirs. Once we've opened up all the world's reservoirs though, that'll

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