The US national debt is already grown by $1 trillion in a month
The vast majority of bonds aren’t owned by the average US citizen, though
What's your point? The bourgeois investor class isn't going to foreclose on the very government which facilitates the status quo, but let's ignore that for the sake of argument. Please enlighten me of a scenario wherein the wealthy elite somehow sabotage the U.S. Federal government by buying more bonds.
Not to mention what the US budget is primarily diverted towards.
You wanted a justification for taking on debt, that's what I gave. I don't know what you expect me to do about a statement that basically boils down to "budget not good". Government budget allocations & spending are inefficient in absolute terms -- big surprise -- but what's your thesis?
The majority of people who own American debt are Americans who hold bonds. National bonds are a mutually beneficial financial instrument and not at all the same kind of debt that a normal person deals with.
To be 100% clear: even if the U.S. Federal government had a massive surplus of money in their pockets, they would still probably issue bonds because of how good a deal they are. Why wouldn't they take money at a stupid-low interest rate from Americans? Is it really better for the country if that money's just sitting around gathering interest in some wealthy person's bank account?
What a terrible day to slay demons...
Roboragi's kind of a doozy. It hooks itself up to the firehose and just runs forever consuming every single comment it can. I have to imagine that the hosting costs for Roboragi would be kind of high, not to mention the inherent unfairness of hammering one instance's API to serve the whole Fediverse.
That's not to say that Roboragi's unsalvageable, per se... it's just going to be a lot more invasive compared to the process of porting a passive bot like Holo. At the very least, we'd have to rip out the firehose stuff in favor of something like the mention-based system that bots like /u/RemindMe use.
I regret to inform you that your edit is correct. Rudeus has been huffing Hanes
I think any true “bot” would be flaired correctly.
Just FYI: The bot checkbox an opt-in thing with no enforcement, so it's basically guaranteed that some developer will eventually either forget to tick the box or deliberately choose not to. These are still early days for Lemmy, so who knows how the situation will eventually evolve... but for now it's basically the wild west.
You know it's bad when Oracle starts taking potshots. Fuck em' both -- I'm not about to forget about that API nonsense -- but I'm just pleased to see blood in the water.
idk OP strikes me as more of a Gibiate person...
You can just ask for suggestions here. Alternatively, you could try this community and see if there's any activity: !animesuggest@ani.social
I’m not the guy, but I’d like to challange my English by talking about this topic.
I vibe with that. I've been trying to learn a new language as well, so let me try and provide you with the kind of direct feedback that I wish more people would give me. Overall your writing is good enough that I would believe you were a native speaker, albeit a sloppy one. To take your writing to the next level, here's what I'd change:
I brush my teeth on a “when I remember to” or “when it’s really dirty”. so like twice weekly probably.
This can be rephrased slightly into a more natural expression:
I brush my teeth on a "when I remember"/"when it's really dirty" basis, so like twice weekly probably
Why: Saying that you do something "on a X basis" is a very common pattern for this type of expression. I switched to using "/" instead of "or" here to because this particular pattern is so strongly fixed that we can't add extra words to it without sounding unnatural. I also combined the sentences together because one single compound sentence is generally more pleasing than two simple ones.
except of a bit of tartar (hopefully correct word, the hard stuff that acumilates and sticks to your teeth)
Yup, that's exactly the right word. It would have also been acceptable for you to say "gunk", since "tartar" is a specialized word that not everyone will know.
The scary part is thst the dentists I’ve been to did not say anything about it, which leaves me to think they didn’t even see it, that leaves me again to, what else didn’t they notice?
You've made excellent use of the trailing question mark! This is exactly the right tone for what I believe you were going for here, though your verb tenses are a little mixed up. Here's what I'd change to bring the tenses back into alignment:
The scary part is that the dentists I’ve seen haven't said anything about it, which leaves me to think they didn’t even see it. It makes me wonder what else they didn’t notice?
Why Part 1: You've combined "I've been to" (present perfect tense) with "did not say" (past tense) inside of the same clause. Mismatches like this sound quite bad because native speakers have a strong intuition for tense construction. Here the issue is fixed by simply changing the entire clause into the past tense, though we could have just as easily done the opposite and made the whole clause present perfect (i.e.: "the dentists I've been to won't say anything about it").
Why Part 2: It gets difficult to read sentences when they become this long, so I broke it into two. Note the much shortened second sentence. I did this because English speakers tend to favor a kind of long/short/long/short rythm in speech and writing. Less grammar on "down beats" feels better. It's a pretty cool trick to use once you get the hang of it, don't you agree?
The thing that I notice and hints that I should brush is the frequent canker sores (again, let’s hope the right word, little annoying ass white spots that, apears, hurts than dips)
This sentence is actually a really good learning opportunity because it reveals something about English-speaking culture: we hate attributing actions to passive objects. Yes... it's not technically wrong to say "the things that hint I should brush are canker sores", but it still feels wrong unless you're writing poetically. Here's how I'd write it instead:
When I get frequent canker sores it's a hint that I should brush.
Why: Canker sores no longer do the hinting. It's you who gets the canker sores and they merely exist as hints. Alternatively, you could even phrase it like this: "Increasingly frequent canker sores tell me that I should brush". If we anthropomorphize "canker sores" as actively intelligent beings, we're allowed to attribute actions to them without falling into the "passive object action" trap. Yes... this stupid language really works like that. We will go so far as to pretend that canker sores are sentient if it means we can blame stuff on them. I am sorry 🙏
I think a time will eventually come where we should introduce a chat group... but only once we've saturated the available bandwidth that this core community provides. Until then, we should focus on directing conversations into community text posts to drum up activity & interest rather than hiding them with a sidechannel.
FWIW: when the day does come, I'd rather we don't use Discord. Part of my aversion to Discord is personal -- I think it's a bloated and annoying application -- but I mainly just don't feel like it's apropos to Lemmy's culture. We're on a federated FOSS community, so let's keep to that and use a federated FOSS chat protocol (i.e.: matrix).
It's alive! The bot lives!
ahem... please excuse my off-topic outburst. I think I've gotten it out of my system now
So that's what those gadgets are called! Thank you for teaching me something new.
can recommend electronic tooth brush
Important caveat: just because electric toothbrushes are good does not mean "more power = better". For natural teeth, you should always brush gently. Don't go ham just because you've got a powertool in your hand!
If your brush has multiple intensity modes, always use the lowest. Same thing goes for your grip! The whole point of an electric is that it can get you clean with almost zero pressure. Seriously: apply no more pressure than necessary to get full bristle contact. It will extend the natural life of your teeth and gums by years.
The brushing just before bed is the most important one, so you picked a good bare minimum to uphold. No shade, just curious: how old are your teeth?
What's an interdental brush/brushing?
I fear no loli, but that thing... it scares me.
I’m happy to have Shinobu hosted at ani.social! I’ll do my best to maintain that uptime for the sake of the bot!
In retrospect I realize that maybe should have gone and cleared this with you first! Thank you so much for being accomodating and giving your blessing nonetheless!
I too am a 🤮 Bakemonogatari 🤮 fan
... This may or may not have factored into the decision
The trending communities UI only shows communities local to your own instance and right now seems to strongly prioritize new communities specifically. That leads to weird results on lemmy.ml, since new community registration is closed.
Depends on how you define debt, I suppose?
Under a strict definition like "money that you've explicitly agreed to repay to a lender in the future", the answer is simple: "take money without agreeing to repay it" (e.g.: taxes, liquidations, nationalization).