When I give out my email, I always get spam, regardless of how many boxes I uncheck.

When I give out my phone number, sometimes I don’t

Of course that no longer makes sense since I have one phone number I can’t easily change, but give out uniquely generated emails that I can individually turn off

And yet this is a place where centrism is the goal.

• We know that trying to tightly control economies does not work. At all. We shouldnt even try.
• We also know that corporate-anarchy serves only robber barons. That’s not acceptable.

So yes, the best answer is to give the market freedom but not complete freedom. To let it do its ups and downs … within limits. To combine the strengths of capitalism with the guardrails of a guided market. Where the capitalist driven market does not serve society, it’s a failure to guide the market so capitalism fulfills desirable goals

Great choice!

No, they need reproductive cells to decide whether they’re big or small - they need to watch you masturbate (for formerly male NBs) to completion

We’re all non-binary

None of them have come close to the severity of the Great Depression. We’ll never control all instabilities, the important part is limiting their severity

Yes, I’ve been affected by several of these. I’ve gotten laid off during downturns. I’ve been affected by high interest rates. I’ve been affected by unattainable housing. But at least it wasn’t worse

We haven’t had a real depression in 100 years, so something is working. Sure, we have recessions periodically and some are worse than others, but as long as it’s relatively limited.

I think that a lot of regulations were put in place for a reason. Whether they work for that reason or not, it would be better to understand the reason before blindly removing regulations

Maybe, but hopefully the existing controls will prevent that from happening again …. Unless overzealous attempts at “reducing regulations” break those. There were quite a few factors around the Great Depression but consider controls like:

• “circuit breakers”, automatically halt trading when a stock or the overall market drops too quickly
• “qualified investors” are criteria you must meet for the riskiest investments, basically that you can handle the loss
• bank requirements for capital, risk, so less likely to collapse
• bank rescues - Lemmy likes to complain about rescuing banks instead of people, but bank collapses during a crisis are what can push the crash off the deep end

Also the overall size and complexity of the modern investment industry should make it much less likely for any one type of investment to drive a general crash.

Why should they be stopped by the government? That assumes the stock market should be logical and predictable but why should that be true? It’s all speculation, just a step above gambling, and people should be allowed to.

Tesla is a great example. Its stock has never been at an expected level for their revenue or profit. It’s all speculation about their potential to disrupt the car market (which they have), and predictions like 50% growth per year. Even now, self-driving and artificial intelligence seem a bit far fetched to most of us, but if they happen will be very disruptive.

But yes , politicians should have required ethics standards, including banning insider training. The rest of us have to: how does it make sense for our leaders to have lower ethical standards than everyone else?

That makes it useless. I hope you figure it out

Even then - my alarms never stopped working, even while I had no way to change them

I am using the same network - that’s no problem

I have to ask the stupid question but are they in pause? What if you hit the button on top?

I’ll have to try Music Assistant - I use HA and the Spotify app

As someone who is not a musician - crushing all those instruments into one crazy thin form factor may allow me to play around with music but I’d never claim to be a musician

As a software engineer, I appreciate that crushing all sorts of dev tools into a graphical representation like Scratch, let’s many people get some taste of programming, but I’m not worried that they’re somehow implying it will take my job or my creativity

Even if we stipulate that, I’m not convinced it’s a big deal. The software field continues to grow like crazy and we can never find enough people to hire. If ai gets good enough to take the place of some of that hiring, fantastic!

Guilty.

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