Thank you!

I'm really not sure there are any shortcuts here, he is such a uniquely awful human being that any comparison will fall short. He's not the most evil person in the world, he's not the most racist, or the most homophobic, he isn't the thinnest skinned and he's not the most selfish or vindictive or vain, but he only loses out in any category by the smallest of margins. I fear that trying to find a yardstick to measure him by that encompasses all of the negatives is a vain errand, and in future he will be the yardstick we measure others of such a veanal and contemptible nature.

If you could, I'd appreciate HackADay. I've found a community for it on lemmy.ml, but it only seems to have one post from a year ago.

You are being deeply and unreasonably unfair to five-year-olds. The ones I've met tend to be curious, happy, utterly inclusive and considerably more coherent than the orange one.

So, you're repeatedly performing the same task at the command of a computer. Are you certain you are a cephalopod, airborne or otherwise, and not, in fact, a robot? ;)

From the article it's in the form of hydrated salts, so it's not drinkable as it stands, but I expect it could be extracted and purified to be so.

H.A.R.M - High-speed Anti Radiation Missile.

Basically, rather than having it's own radar to track a target, or using IR sensors, it locks on to a target emitting lots of radio noise such as an enemy radar or jammer.

It's been years since I had to admin Windows servers, but I was quite impressed with the number of MS products where the install and configuration tools would output the Powershell commands to carry out the changes you'd asked for. It made it quite a lot easier to automate. I'd love to see that paradigm catch on more widely, with the GUI and CLI having the same functionality and the GUI giving you the commands to run.

What?!?? I just tap my finger on the glowy thinking rock and demons/faye/angels take my messages to other people's thinking rocks and bring me their responses. I don't believe in all that 'electricity' witchcraft!

Seriously, yes burial uses a fair bit of space, which is part of the reason cremation is increasing in popularity in many places. Even with burials though, many graveyards reuse plots after some number of years, once the previous body has decomposed to save space. For those wanting a more ecologically friendly method than cremation, there's the option of resomation too.

It's a safe and reliable way to dispose of a corpse that might be diseased, will smell bad as it decomposes, and would certainly attract scavengers if left lying around. The same goes for cremation, it really just depends on local custom.

The conversation on here is fantastic for the most part, and my question was mostly rooted in amusement, but you surely have to admit that veering from sovcits doing their thing to conspiracy theories about celebrity toes is a pretty remarkable turn.

Apparently so.

One supporter said she had bandaged her own ear to help Mr Trump "set a new fashion statement" and to let him know "how much we love him".

I love lemmy, but how did we get from talking about sovcit craziness to debating whether Ms Robbie uses a foot double?

I think that the point is it's entirely pointless building something like this into the email system. It should be a separate system that you can choose to use if you want it. Building it in just opens questions about exactly what they're doing with your data, despite their assurances.

The movie "Brewster's Millions" is based on that premis.

Wait, you didn't find it? Wow, you really missed out. The ability on it is amazing! You should really go back and look for it again, it's back near the start.

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Dan Carlin did a series of podcasts on this called 'Supernova in the east', talking about the how and why of Japan's approach to the war. I'm no great historian, but it seemed interesting to me. He quotes his sources and gives a pretty comprehensive overview of the figures involved and the ideologies that drove them. It's a good listen, each episode is around 5 hours long, but they're well laid out and it's easy to pick up from where you stopped.

They may well be looking at how much the EU holds in Saudi assets, seeing those at potential risk of being seized and deciding tge write-down on dumping the bonds would be worth it. Long term, I don't think it would have an effect on prices, but short term it may well do, depending on how concentrated their holdings are.

From what I can see, normal trading volume in bonds is about 500% per year, or about 2% per day assuming 250 trading days per year. If the 130bn you mention is spread across all government bonds across the EU then it accounts for about 4% of the total, or about two days of normal trade. Dump all of that in one go and it'd definitely have a short term effect. If their holdings are more concentrated they could have an even bigger effect on the bonds they hold.

Bonds tend to be issued on a regular basis, so even a short term drop in price could be timed to affect an auction. That has the twin effect of reducing the amount the government in question raises, and also tying them into effectively higher interest rates, potentially for decades to come.

I'm no expert trader either, so I could be barking up the wrong tree, but I assume that they would have a clear expectation of the results before making that threat, and I can't really see any other effects it could be expected to have.

Absolutely. If they're killed during their crime they should be completely anonymous. No names, no 'manifestos', no reference to the sorts of communities they were part of online, no last words, just, 'they were a vile stain on humanity' and then forgotten. Obviously, if they live more will come out as they're prosecuted, but that should be minimized and once they're jailed they can be forgotten by all but those tasked with keeping them alive to serve their sentence.

The price moves with supply and demand on the secondary market. Normally, yes, that'll tend to vary to balance yield with the prevailing interest rates, however, the threat seems to be to dump bonds onto the secondary market, presumably without a minimum price. The glut would mean buyers could purchase them below that balance price, giving them a better yield. This would have (at least) two knock on effects, firstly it would make it harder for governments yo raise funds through bond issues as they'd effectively be competing with the cheaper 'dumped' bonds and so would need to offer an equivalently high yield, and secondly may allow 'undesirable' governments or groups to amass significant amounts of European debt, which potentially gives them more political leverage than European governments might like.