“I got 12 femtoseconds of sleep last night”

Okay, but like turn off your phone and go to bed, that’s super bad for you and you are intolerable because you’re grumpy from not sleeping

Ну-ка, я все таки хочу знать: чё?

I plead terrible memory and accept this may be more accurate

It’s a reasonable take, I swear! Most fedi platforms seem to have an English-speaking population that is ~50% Germans speaking English, ~25% the UK and the rest is a smattering of other English speakers. Lemmy, in my experience, is the odd one out with regards to US defaultism.

Fedi: look it’s not that complicated, you just need to understand how decentralization can improve stability and openness by allowing users to…

As I remember it (and I have a terrible memory), the fedi beans memes started pretty early on, like 2018, and came from a place of “we don’t get trending memes from other platforms so let’s start our own.” I think it came to lemmy from other fedi platforms pretty early on, and gets deployed periodically as a kind of palate cleanser. I blame the Brits, but I don’t have evidence to support that.

I’m sure you’re right, but the text of the constitution is very clear

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States shall be appointed an Elector.

The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.

It doesn’t mean the Supreme Court as constituted would uphold it, but it’s pretty clearly constitutional.

Sounds like a job for funkwhale

I think probably the most disorienting thing for new users is that you have joined a lemmy instance, lemmy.world, that is federated with a bunch of other social networks. Some of them, like mine (feddit.online) are very similar to yours, and some of them (like pixelfed.social or bookwyrm.social) are very different from what you are used to. Each instance has its own software and distinct culture, which can lead to unexpected interactions, but you should be fine as long as you’re actively kind and remember there is (probably) another human on the other end. The best explainer I know of is https://fedi.tips/ though it is tailored to mastodon users (which is federated with us and you’ll see them around, but have much more Twitter-like software that they’re using).

It took me a while to get a sense for what you meant, but I think the answer is yes? If insurance companies saw there was a new risk associated with driving, a new .1% chance you might get in an accident requiring the insurance company to pay out $10 trillion, I think you would see insurance companies raise premiums to offset the new $100 billion liability, and I think it would not only be paid by the owners of the new wildly expensive car, since you have to offset the chance that I am at fault for its destruction as well. I do however wonder how you could construct a $1 trillion car and have it be completely totaled by a $5000 car in an accident – wouldn’t at least a few billion go to reinforcing the chassis?

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of ignorance 🤷‍♂️

They’re good words, and I think helpful for readers. I’m glad you wrote them.

That and the rules to velocity

This is generally good analysis, but I think you overestimate how different legally a claim on the ongoing usage of a piece of real estate is to an ongoing share of corporate ownership and by extension profits, and underestimating how much speculation distorts real estate markets relative to the stock market.

You’re not wrong, except the part where the money becomes more real once you sell the stock. All assets are like this – if you lasso an asteroid that contains $45 umptillion of gold, you won’t be able to sell it for $45 umptillion because you’ll crash the gold market. Money has the same problem – when the money supply grows, everyone has less money per money, which we call inflation.

I think one of the most common misconceptions about the money supply is that there are a fixed amount of dollars at any time, so if there were $6 trillion yesterday, you can expect there to be $6 trillion today. But this isn’t true; the US money supply is specifically designed so that money comes into existence and vanishes out of existence all the time during the day. When you take out a mortgage, the money you get loaned didn’t exist before it was loaned to you, in the same way the $1.8 trillion that was lost in the stock market yesterday simply no longer exists.

Look, I’m all for whimsy but let’s be honest with ourselves, this is clearly a vending machine and not an ATM. It doesn’t even take cash, let alone allow salmon deposits.

Fake outrage aside, this whips and I dunno who’s out here buying 200 gram portions of frozen salmon after midnight, but they seem fun.