Man, Lemmy sure is good at not answering (just) "later" like Reddit would repeatedly. It's a weird level of restraint for the internet.

.ml is kind of Hexbear or Lemmygrad-lite. On occasion when they notice, they'll ban you for criticising places like North Korea. I got it once for saying Dengism isn't socialist.

I still use it, because it's mostly normal, and "we're secretly the bad guys" isn't a very dangerous conspiracy theory.

More of a detail than a correction. That's usually what people mean when they say the interest rate, but yeah, what you actually get on your mortgage will be different.

Actually, the rate you end up paying is lower in a lot of cases in Russia right now, because there's lots of subsidised programs in place to keep the plebes happy. Which, of course, they're paying for with more inflationary pressure...

It's businesses, elites and the really poor who don't participate in organised finance that get left holding the bag right now.

There's zero chance they'd care enough about this to refuse trade goods. Russia is trying to rebuild a dead empire, so they're apparently so inclined, but China only cares about China and that's not their problem.

They can probably find substitutes further away. It all has a cost though, and shows up as further inflationary pressure. Their interest rate is 19% and counting.

Damn, now I have mixed feelings about this news. That would be great.

Time to ship stuff east, I guess? China's always hungry.

A bigger market share (or just market size if it's something new-fangled) at the expense of current profit, because that can turn into future profits. See most modern tech companies, which make a loss but still have value. For example, Uber just made a profit for the first time, and since they're everywhere that's a great position for a shareholder, and people bought in in the past in hopes that this would eventually happen.

OP is a little off, BTW. US law - and it's probably the same elsewhere - says that the C-suite has to work in the interests of shareholders, who they represent as fiduciaries. It's just that there's only a few things a million APPL shareholders have in common, so in practice that interest is value and dividends. In a privately-owned company other things might factor in, for better or for worse.

IANAL

Heart attacks are also not no more beating, if you didn't know that. It's when the heart muscles don't get enough blood and the essentially start to suffocate.

If it stops beating for any of a large number of reasons, that's cardiac arrest, which used to be the definition of death.

Yeah, but I've yet to see a detailed alternate proposal. When people talk about anarchism it gets really handwavy really fast, and the other kind of socialism has history of being vapourware.

TBF small businesses do this too on average. There's some that don't, but then there's also some that straight up do crime, usually against employees.

To solve this, you either want a well-regulated market, or no market (however that would work).

Presumably OP had some kind of condition, given that they were already on (non-working) meds.

TIL. One of my favourite things about Russian is the completely different way they use prepositions and pick important parts of sentences. Honestly it might make more sense than English - why does something happen "on" instead of "in" Monday, if Monday is all around? And articles are dumb, sentence is better without them.

I couldn't actually tell you how much worse the sunburn problem would be, exactly. On top of the new blackbody spectrum you'd have to account for the influence of the atmosphere, which is actually a very complicated problem even on Earth, and then find detailed data on the sensitivity of human skin of various kinds to various frequencies and patterns of exposure.

(For an unspecified alien it's obviously impossible, although we can guess that, like all biology, it's affected negatively by energetic light without special adaptations to fight the damage)

On the rare sunny Scottish days, they better stay indoors mostly or wear a mask to protect their eyes. What we're talking about is a welding arc in the sky.

They'd get really sunburnt and maybe end up with visual damage from accidentally glancing at something brighter than they evolved with. Ditto for how you or I would do under Sirius or Vega ("blue" stars).

I don't know, somebody would have to start shooting back. The only real candidate is the existing military, and I'm not sure they or the Democrats are up for it.

Canadian here. Mostly concern. Anybody here that thinks it's a fun show hasn't thought very far ahead.

They mean in the "chaos" sense, not the Lemmy-friendly sense.

Very plausible. If you need any recipes for when the California vegetables stops coming HMU, I've made a project out of it.

You could keep adding to that.

People are big mad and think electing a brain-damaged version of Mussolini makes some kind of point.