collegeburner

thats to reduce dangerously high blood pressure and levels of red blood cells that increase clotting risk

i mean yeah i knew a bunch of weak sickly kids growing up who wouldnt've survived natural selection. instead they will go on to breed more scrawny allergy ridden asthmatics

i wonder how this carries over to mental stuff. like autists or psychopaths might have gotten forced out of society a few hundred years ago so they couldn't reproduce as much, might explain why the former is so much more common? idk

i recall tales of sandy hitting NYC a few years ago

my guess is most people in this comment section aren't from NYC

this is why all yall need to start grilling :D

tho i admit it kinda sucks ass when it's 100 degrees

im from a part of the country where we get hurricanes

the power will go out and usually we also have a boil water notice

for those days it is extremely helpful to have a gas stove, we can still cook and get clean water rather than just eating cold cans and hoping we have enough bottles

of course we can. big tobacco can't get away with lying about risks any more so new smokers know what they're getting into

the plain packaging stuff is moving past people taking informed risks (even if i think they're stupid ones) and towards overt control of behavior for technocratic reasons. which explains why there's way more uptake for it in europe and australia than here

cause we turned into a nation of lardasses lol. like half the country is obese and normal people seem to think that being just kinda fat is normal now

also, opioid epidemic is not helping things. this is really reaching and not sourced but i wonder if less smoking means more people reach for pills?

i just looked on home depot dot com

gas ranges: $949, $848, $676. boujee model is $1199

induction ranges: $1198 starting, $4138, $1848, $1598, $2498

plus i can't use my nice copper diffuser with them :(

nah, imma stick to gas :)

no, its not about vanity

taller people are taken more seriously, make more money, are rated more attractive, have more success

fact is, making your kid taller is one of the better things you could do for it to improve odds of success

also every time i hear something like this i have to wonder how well it is controlled... maybe if you correct for body fat percent it becomes lesser. or maybe being tall means u eat more so take in more total bad stuff, but eating a good diet makes this unimportant?

thats silly

1. some traits are objectively better. i dont like forced eugenics but choosing better ones can help

2. u cant force someone to sire children. thats immoral

i hope this is a joke lol

why would anyone want to have a short kid given the choice? its objectively worse for the kid

its low probability but not impossible i think

depends if the party line the media plays goes from "xyz bank might be unstable" to "small banks might be unstable". if that jumps from fintwit to cnn, houston, we have a problem

no, u cant rly fix this market easy without causing huge price level problems, again, worse

only solution is to smooth over until assets start rolling off/inflation cools enough for rate cuts towards 2%

core pce just printed at 4.6 and ur worried about deflation?

services inflation printed at 7.3% and ur worried about deflation?

that's not a valid opinion atp. we're so far from overcorrecting its scary. spending is still up over pre corona levels. ppl still drawing down excess savings. bank crisis is a real concern and prob reads through to equivalent of a few rate hikes (slok @ apollo says 150bps, most say lower)

it would suck ass for a few weeks but would actually be pretty simple:

ppl withdraw deposits

80% of them go to JPMC

JPMC buys BofA

thats like summing the value of all written insurance policies, meaningless number

the figure is way lower netted out

glassdoor does something like this

it was ordered to expose identities of users in a lawsuit. so it put a big ass banner on the company's page saying "This employer has taken legal action against reviewers, please exercise your best judgement when evaluating"

which is way more damning than any 1star review

perverse how the places where you probably need a gun most, it's hardest to get.

i pray i never need it but i'm glad to live in a place that's not without its problems, but where i can at least defend myself and my property.

also @JumpCriscross since his comment is dead: that's silly, you shouldn't make a threat you aren't willing to follow up on. more importantly "warning shots" are a really good way to cause collateral damage. might be you shoot through a wall. plus your eye is on the threat so it's irresponsible to shoot elsewhere bc you aren't actually evaluating what's there and what's behind it.

we were supposed to be set up for this

the point of having a bunch of different states and municipalities is you can test something in one place and see if it works. like weed legalization, some states did it and the world didn't end so others try. or constitutional carry, some states did it and the world didn't end so others try.

there's some poli sci theory that politics is actually about the majority's schadenfreude at fucking over the minority. which seems increasingly credible. but that means we've been pushing more and more stuff to the feds for years so this is now harder to do.

let states and counties do more stuff again. like this should be a party neutral issue, let the dems to more dem stuff and the reps to more rep stuff.

it's pretty common in aave/ebonics, that's probably how it's become more common. lots of slang has mainstreamed from the black community in the past few yrs

it aint called chiraq for no reason you know

calling a political figure a "cultural tradition" sounds like a flimsy excuse to try to short-circuit any political debate about a monarch. makes me wanna start whistling yankee doodle...

i mean no there's obviously a 3rd option. run the service anyway and don't geoblock. like the banning country might block your service but that's on them.

if i'm running something not illegal and some other country bans it i see no moral case for me doing work to enforce some foreign government's laws for them. i'm not magically "operating" in every country around the world just because someone from there pings my server.

meh. we rightly realized there is more danger from leaving the ability to prosecute political leaders then from letting them get away with it. we're also entirely comfortable with letting 9 in 10 get away to preserve a high standard of doubt (blackstone's ratio). because the alternative is weaponizing the justice system, which undermines trust in it even more surely than letting a politician get away with a parking ticket or paperwork discrepancy.

we've already killed impeachment as having high legitimacy, clinton case was pretty politically motivated as were trump's. let's not have the whole ass criminal justice system follow pls and ty.

btw i am not saying he's innocent, this is just a dumb case.

this whole shitshow has a very third world look to it.

no we just value some things over more than others. like freedom above safety. that is a conscious and reasonable tradeoff we are happy to make. like i am happier living in a place that has higher rates of violent crime if that is the price for increased liberty.

assuming that what you value is the only right option - who's the chauvinist here?

well some stuff might but that's why you cook pork more than beef. it's not that gamey (depends on what it eats) but if you don't care for it, makes a good sausage with rabbit or squirrel.

that's custodial. it's different. cash/assets don't sit on the bank's balance sheet. they're in individual accounts, not usually lent out, and you pay a fee to keep there.

you're literally blaming the prisoner in a prisoner's dilemma. it makes no sense to bet with 0.7:1 odds that only a few times above normal withdrawal volumes will actually occur. that is a shitty be to make, especially since every time people do, it usually works out against them.

we can opine about how to resolve confidence and coordination issues but you can not go victim-blame people who just don't wanna get fucked over.

one of the core values banks provide is confidence and peace of mind. if my bank can no longer provide that, i am full sending my cash somewhere else.

no, a credible rumor that a bank with an odd deposit structure and a hole in its balance sheet causes a bank run. the horror! also, given that the cost to me is negligible, why wouldn't i just pull my money as soon as there were rumors? i get literally 0 benefit but could lose a third of my money if i don't.

as for timing... i guess that's the benefit of being terminally online, you get a chance to get out :D

nope. nuh uh. wrong. the right thing for any individual to do in a potential bank run is always to withdraw. this is basic game theory. you expect someone to take a junk bond level of risk for 0.5% interest? miss me with that

there is one possible way to solve the coordination problem: just stop allowing withdrawals. the chinese figured this out. but you have to limit withdrawals on ALL banks because you bet your ass if one bank gets frozen, everyone will think another one is next and run that one too.

the only time we've rushed a serious contagion before was by instituting a bank holiday and basically putting in 100% deposit insurance. and that was when we had someone in charge whom most people trusted (FDR). biden, yellen, powell aren't so loved.