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  • SirDerpy@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldIt's a choice
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    3 months ago

    A mod deleted my comment and suggested I approach in a better way. I apologize for my presentation.

    You were righteously angry. And, it’s definitely not ethical for the other to respond to words with physical violence.

    I’m a multiple-minority with a strong sense of justice. I speak from experience when I say: We must pick our battles and means wisely, particularly since the orange baffoon emboldened a wide scope and magnitude of hatred.

    I wasn’t there. But, it seems almost certain this was not a wise battle for you to fight alone, perhaps at all. There’s almost certainly something you should learn from this. And, whatever it is to be learned, it’s definitely not to silence yourself and advocate others follow.

    If you tell us more and solicit others’ input then maybe there’s insight we could offer. And, if this isn’t a safe enough space to do that, PM me. I’ll share a place where such a post would be very well-received.



  • SirDerpy@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlDiscogs users be like
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    3 months ago

    Why is the “high end” brand Sony?

    About 1998: I tried to ask a Sony receiver to deliver about 80% published RMS. After about two minutes it went into a protection mode, never to recover, bricked.

    About 2005: A used Sony 5.1 HT setup’s receiver failed. The speakers said 4 Ohm on them. An HK 4 ohm stable receiver begs to differ. Speakers went to Craigslist.

    I’ve been avoiding Sony for nearly 20 years. Are they doing something right for playback devices such as a CD player?






  • I mean the stock market is literally gambling

    I’ve a better record of success than the most successful poker players. Is it ten years of good luck or the consequences of effort and skill?

    The proposal is whether or not we should allow people to use unrealized gains to secure loans without having to pay taxes on said gains at the point of taking the loan.

    Thus locking out all non-corporate investors from margin, prerequisite to options, prerequisite to risk mitigation and gains enhancement. The average investor looses the freedom to do much more than DCA a fund.

    This would only occur if you’re worth more than 100 million.

    1. It’ll never be passed in such a way. Legislation always favors the corporate and wealthy as they’re the ones that write it. It’s most perverse in finance and investment. There’s been nothing favoring human investors since the breakup of Ma Bell.

    2. It’s totally inadequate to save the republic from the nearly-unmitigated, algorithmically-optimized capitalism that exists today. The biggest fish, corporations, would simply get bigger by eating their biggest threat: humans with a lot of resources, but not the most affluent.

    The stock market is a tool. It’s not the cause.

    TL;DR:

    The neolib’s proposal is crap.

    This isn’t:

    1. legislate away most of corporate personhood

    2. restore the Glass-Steagall Act

    3. repeal the Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act