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[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

I just searched for the article's quotation in duckduckgo, then selected "video" results at the top.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1lugbpMKDU

If you are trying to win an argument, watch out for the narrow loophole: your opponent may claim that adults can still get non-federally-funded trans healthcare, if they can still find a doctor after that private right of action chilling effect. The loophole is so narrow as to be useless, and the video demonstrates Trump clearly wishes to stop all trans healthcare.

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

He forgets a lot of the crazy things he says. That original (unconstitutional) plan has likely leaked out of his head, but he will probably do some other terrible thing. Trans people will need to watch out for his senile whims.

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 23 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

It's hard to take you seriously when you claim to be centrist, but use the term "wokeism". Do you want trans people to apologize for existing?

Trump is an objectively dangerous person, a serial rapist, a severe racist, and a senile compulsive liar. If the Republican candidate had been a normal person, like John McCain or Mitt Romney, then I could understand seeing it as an even match. But Trump has made credible threats to endanger tons of American citizens, has promised to be a dictator, has promised that people won't need to vote any more, and is going to use the presidency to persecute his enemies.

This is me being dispassionate and objective. Trump is the most dangerous threat the US has ever faced.

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 24 points 21 hours ago (15 children)

He can't [legally] deport US citizens either, but he has promised to do so. Who's going to stop him? Congress? The courts? Republicans will control both.

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (9 children)

While this may look like a good reason not to use the service, I learned of an even better reason just now from this article:

At the start of next year, GeForce Now will roll out a 100-hour monthly playtime allowance to continue providing exceptional quality and speed – as well as shorter queue times – for Performance and Ultimate members

Apparently you have to wait in line?!

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

The potato is just the electrolyte. The energy comes the oxidation of the metal electrodes.

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 58 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think it counts as satire, even if the headline is a completely true statement.

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 191 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Pretty fucked, but not as fucked as Ukraine, Palestine, Lebanon, or Taiwan.

NATO will be fucked for a while if the US withdraws, but other NATO countries may ramp up military spending over time.

This situation is a worldwide danger. The US is/was a world power, it has/had the largest national economy in the world, it has the largest military in the world.

Previously, we could be concerned that democratic countries (including the US) weren't putting enough pressure on authoritarian countries (like Russia, China, and North Korea) to improve. Now we have to worry that the US will actually become a fully authoritarian country, like Russia or China.

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Any regular hex nut works just fine as a jam nut. Basically, a jam nut is when you jam two nuts together. (It is gay, because the nuts do touch.)

And note that those nylon inserts kinda only work once. The bolt carves a thread into the insert when you insert it, so it will be weaker the second time you insert it.

Honorable mention: cage nuts. A square nut, permanently attached to a fastener that can snap into a special square hole in a 19 inch server rack. When you tighten the bolt against the nut, it tightens against the fastener, so that the nut, bolt, and fastener are secure against the square hole.

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 108 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Well, it's no longer an illegal lottery. So that's good.

It's just a rigged lottery. Slightly different thing. Also illegal, but for slightly different reasons. More unethical and fraudulent than before.

So it makes things better, and then makes things way worse.

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Plays the Menards "Save Big Money" Jingle

I'll just go get my flamethrower.

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It looks like he's pointing and causing the beard to grow instantaneously. If anyone had that ability, it would be Riker.

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2595239

Major Russian banks have called on the central bank to take action to counter a yuan liquidity deficit, which has led to the rouble tumbling to its lowest level since April against the Chinese currency and driven yuan swap rates into triple digits.

The rouble fell by almost 5% against the yuan on Sept. 4 on the Moscow Stock Exchange (MOEX) after the finance ministry's plans for forex interventions implied that the central bank's daily yuan sales would plunge in the coming month to the equivalent of $200 million.

The central bank had been selling $7.3 billion worth of yuan per day during the past month. The plunge coincided with oil giant Rosneft's 15 billion yuan bond placement, which also sapped liquidity from the market.

"We cannot lend in yuan because we have nothing to cover our foreign currency positions with," said Sberbank CEO German Gref, stressing that the central bank needed to participate more actively in the market. The yuan has become the most traded foreign currency on MOEX after Western sanctions halted exchange trade in dollars and euros, with many banks developing yuan-denominated products for their clients. Yuan liquidity is mainly provided by the central bank through daily sales and one-day yuan swaps, as well as through currency sales by exporting companies.

Chinese banks in Russia, meanwhile, are avoiding currency trading for fear of secondary Western sanctions.

 

All the communities on lemmy.lukeog.com are mirrors of Reddit boards. lemmy.lukeog.com does not accept posts from Lemmy users -- only its bot may post and comment, and its posts and comments are just mirrors of Reddit posts and comments.

This doesn't seem like a useful way to use Lemmy. It's more like just a mirror of Reddit, in which case archive.is or web.archive.org would be more useful, in my opinion.

Better not to waste bandwidth and resources on this, in my opinion.

 

2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He's running Windows 7 right now, so I'll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.

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