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Ranvier @ Ranvier @sopuli.xyz Posts 9Comments 928Joined 2 yr. ago
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The Russian invasion of Afghanistan is just one chapter in an extensive history including genocide of Islamic peoples within its borders with many more recent events as well. Putin himself rose to power carpet bombing Chechnya. Even more recently, Russia literally going to Syria to attack Isis, where they still are stationed and fighting. Their efforts to keep Bashar Al Assad in power infuriated Isis. They also have their African forces recently assimilated from Wagner group attacking Islamic militants across Saharan Africa, some of which consider themselves branches of Isis. If "literally being attacked by them across the world as we speak right now" is not motive enough for them to attack back for you, I don't know what would convince you. This isn't even the first time Isis has claimed to attack Russia, there's been a string of attacks from Isis going back to 2015.
And Isis is opposed to the Taliban in Afghanistan and actively fighting them as well. I don't know what you're on about.
I will be pleasantly surprised if this ends up being decent considering the prolonged development hell it has been in.
Because whenever a movie or TV show or video game has anything except a cis hetero white man as the main character, people like this start screeching. They aren't satisfied with having people that look like themselves represented in the vast majority of main characters. They view any time a character not matching the above description shows up in some kind of media as discrimination against themselves. Any slight reduction in privilage they mistake for real discrimination. They mask this by claiming they're just concerned with the integrity of the art or some nonsense, especially the gamer gate type crowd.
Anytime a gay character or a female character or someone pops up they start yelling, "why does this character have to be gay? It must be lazy pandering at the expense of a good story." To which I would pose the same question back to them. Any piece of media featuring a straight cis white man, why does the character have to be a straight white man? Must be lazy pandering at the expense of story.
Or maybe, just maybe, it's more interesting to have a wide variety of characters and stories in media. Sometimes people are just gay, or are just straight, or just female, or just male. It might have a big impact in a story and it might not. It shouldn't be "unless this is a story specifically about the gay/female/black experience the character must be straight/male/white by default." If that is going to be part of that piece of media, great, but it doesn't necessarily have to be depending on the story being told. You'll never see this crowd upset with a straight white male character for these reasons though, very transparent.
Even in their public warning they specified concerts specifically. I imagine the private warning to the Russian government was even more specific.
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This was a state case though. In Harris County court.
There's Texas state laws about security fraud:
https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/docs/PE/htm/PE.32.htm
I doubt the federal government deals with all security fraud, it's a pretty broad category. Probably would have to involve interstate commerce or publicly traded companies to be a federal issue. I am not an expert though.
While opening a business is closer to the situation than personal debt the analogy still breaks down here. The state controls the size of the money supply itself as well. It creates money through issuance of debt/bonds, and can get rid of it it via taxes and interest payments on the debt. Through the federal reserve it controls that as well. And the job of government isn't to generate a profit. There's just no good perfect analogy. A country should be carrying a debt load to some degree, it's the ratio of debt to the size of the economy that's important and could indicate when it's getting to an unhealthy level. The national debt will never be paid off, and you'd never want it to be. Andrew Jackson found this out the hard way, very ironic he got put on money eventually given his hatred of central banks.
https://www.npr.org/2021/08/03/1024401554/the-time-the-us-paid-off-all-its-debt
US debt to gdp ratio is likely starting to get too high though and probably needs to be reined back some. Not a problem unique to the US after a lot of spending to prop things up during the pandemic. Best way to bring it under control is unwinding the Trump tax cuts for the wealthy and increasing taxes on corporations, capital gains, and billionaires.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/debt-to-gdp-ratio-by-country
While I share your outrage, he was not indicted by the federal government, so this had nothing to do with the justice department. This is a Texas state prosecutor letting him off easy for securities fraud.
Paxton though, being the repeat offender he is, does have a separate ongoing corruption investigation that is department of justice led. It's confusing when you're breaking the law so often like Paxton. We'll see if that probe can bring him into a federal case where lackey state prosecutors won't be there coddling him.
Oh they knew
But Republicans didn't want to stop it, and Obama was worried if he did anything without Republican support it would look like he was tilting the scales in favor of Clinton. Which makes zero sense to me but hey that's just what Obama thought.
You're right, a normal board wouldn't. He appears to be stuffing family members and lackey on the board though. So we'll have to see what happens.
No, in the article it states the US resolution called for an "immediate" cease fire as well.
It looks the disagreement is over the word "sustained cease fire" vs "permanent cease fire." The US resolution also calls for release of the hostages as a part of the ceasefire, whereas in the other version the hostages are not linked to the cease fire.
Creditors aren't dumb, no way they're going to accept this as a collateral. Even if they did have the ability to sell if needed (they don't, it's illiquid at the moment), unwinding $450 million in shares is going to take some time, and the sale itself is large enough it would affect the stock price itself. There'd be no good way of knowing how much stock you'd have to hold in the account to ensure that $450 million in cash could be extracted from it if needed.
This isn't just some small personal account with a line of credit that the creditor can make a maintenance/margin call on to ensure a certain collateral balance is maintained. This is a substantial percentage of the market cap of one single company with an extremely volatile stock based on near zero fundamentals, in a position that likely can't be unwound without tanking its own value.
Most likely thing Trump does in reality is work with a bank (who will accept real estate as collateral, unlike the bond companies) to get a letter of credit from a bank, and then bring the letter of credit to the bond company. This whole dog and pony show of "I can't pay" is probably fake to try and see if he can convince the courts to delay his payment. Unless he truly does have no real equity in his properties like some people say. Or banks really are done with him. Will be interesting to hear what the independent court appointed monitor thinks about all of this. I wouldn't be surprised though if Monday just before seizures could start Trump's lawyers are like, jk we put these properties up as collateral like we could have done at any time in actuality, for a letter of credit, and used that to secure a bond. Rather than let NY state take control of them. I hope they do get seized by New York though.
What's actually being traded right now is a small portion of the actual shares that will make up the new merged company. This dollar amount assumes that trump would be able to sell 60% of all stock in the company (which is much more than is available to trading right now), without sending the stock price right into the ground. That's just not going to happen.
This lockup period prevents him from selling for 6 months to prevent the share price from tanking just after the merger from insider selling, but the board could decide to remove that restriction so he could start offloading shares. Even if they don't, when we get closer to lockup expiration I'm guessing the shares will likely begin tanking in anticipation of Trump doing this. He'd be dumb not to try and offload shares, the company is insanely overvalued.
It was originally private property which might have been the confusion, though even back in the 1920's in the Jim crow era when it was first started there was government involvement with helping to fund it. It languished for decades unfinished though, until Brown V Board of Education and the birth of the civil rights movement renewed interest again in erecting more confederate statues. The segregationist governor Marvin Griffin began pushing for the state to buy the property and finish the carving.
The main pillar of his platform was a promise to fight integration, a concept he called “an order to us from Washington [to] mongrelize the South.” Griffin also vowed, often in the same breath, to buy Stone Mountain for the state and finally complete the carving. He won the election.
The more you dig into confederate monuments the more you realize most of them have very little to do with being actual war memorials and a lot to do with the politics of white supremacy.
Stone mountain is Georgia state property:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Mountain
They just hired a management company to help run it.
The state government of Georgia had everything to do with its creation. It was purchased by the state of Georgia in 1958, and the state explicitly authorized finishing the carving through the stone mountain memorial association act, passed in the same year, using public funds to help finance it. The carving wasn't complete until 1970.
Georgia had to honor the birthplace of the kkk during the height of the Civil rights movement of course. It's not a subtle message.
The German government building monuments to nazis analogy is apt.
Ask your parents, it was the mmr vaccine. Generally required for school so most would have had it. If you're really not sure, you can talk to your doctor. They can check a blood test to see if you have measles antibodies or not.
He has a few more days technically, then she can start seizing. There's one month after the ruling to come up with the money.
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Not useless, this correlation was totally unexpected, they were expecting to see a benefit. It's not definitive though, but retrospective reviews like this are important first steps even though they carry many caveats. Now this data could be used as justification for funding and grants for further prospective studies into this to better quantify risks and benefits of intermittent fasting.
You're right to point out this is an observational, retrospective study showing only a correlation. So there are a lot of caveats there. I think this raises some potential concerns though that should be looked into further. Ideally in a prospective and more controlled way to better isolate the effects of intermittent fasting.
There's been many times in medical history where something that seems to make sense doesn't pan out in the end or even causes harm. Studies like this are just step one, even the authors state they were expecting to show benefits and that this result was a complete surprise to them. We definitely need to be looking into this further to better quantify potential risks and benefits of intermittent fasting, especially with its popularity. It would be a shame if intermittent fasting did turn out to carry this risk though, there's many people like you who have had success with it. It may be in the end that there are some populations it's appropriate for and others it's not. Needs more study for sure.
Prescriptivist jerks. Let's all dress up in $50,000 robes, call ourselves immortals, and pretend that we can control language.