It can’t happen in a single day thanks to circuit breakers put in place (in 1988 because of that crash) to stop trading briefly or for the rest of the day depending on the percentage drop. It can come close though (20% stops all trading), and I don’t doubt we’ll see the first two levels hit (7% and 13%). Plus there’s five days in a week, and this isn’t going away.

The bail out was bad, but I can’t imagine at that point letting them fail. The crime was how many people went to prison for what they did.

Can we have another mediocre President please? And boring news?

How would you even rescue at this point? Just undoing the tariffs doesn’t fix the damage done. Countries are going to retract from US business even if there’s a reset. Bailout? This is far bigger than saving the banking industry.

See, I can think of a few movies of his that I have problems with. Yet I wouldn’t call them bad, only missing a few cylinders to bring them to perfect. He has been in a few that are top, damn Con Air is about the perfect movie ever for what it was aiming to be.

Not out of the question at this point.

Gotcha, like bleach and tariffs. Maybe he saw a clip from the movie Greenland and thought, we need that!

The problem with this idea comes down to soil and environment. One can’t just pick up whole crop areas and transplant them into a new one solely based on the temperature. It’s the same fallacy that invites fantasy maps of settlements on Antarctica. And the bunkers of the wealthy? Death traps because they’re built on an assumption of a limited climate problem that goes away soon and allows them to emerge in some Hollywood rebirth of society (take the ending of the movie 2012 as an example of convenient, “it’s all okay now”).

Great news!

Yeah, I’ve seen over the years projects that were good, but for whatever reasons the creator stopped updating it, and followers would request to no avail for them to release the code so it could continue.

Same here. I hope Ernest is okay, regardless if he ever brings Kbin back. He started something that fortunately others could pick up and run with.

There is Project Lyra to catch up to it. Other than that there’s many hypotheses on what it was and most importantly, why it seemed to speed up some as it left.

Maybe that card doesn’t have it, but some cards have the ability to step down their activity, like an idle parameter. Also, It shouldn’t be producing a lot of heat if it’s not doing work. I had a laptop years ago that used to constantly heat up and run the fans a lot. Once I got time to open it up to clean it, I discovered the heatsink had come loose from the CPU. Fixing that made it very quiet.

Just send an envoy with a Jedi and his padawan. We knows how this plays out, we just have to make sure we rescue both the slave and his mother this time.

The “it’s too late” crowd isn’t and has never been the problem. They’ve been painted as the scapegoat by the same ones who want to keep the status quo going. We can acknowledge that for many things we’re way past fixing them and yet start doing something different to reduce even more damage. Whether it will matter in the end is irrelevant, doomers and optimists can still agree we need to change, and quickly.

None taken or meant either. I just see it a lot, and I guess this morning it triggered a response. :D

I don’t know what to call myself, I just know what ideas and values I believe in, and the ones I hate.

Those using Mbin are trying to do our part. We’re a small percentage, but we’re here.

The issue from the beginning was that people wanted to pick where there were already discussions. .world had already started growing a lot more, so new users gravitated to that. As drama happened, there was some splintering, but since you can’t take your history and account with you, there was also resistance to move. What you suggest was discussed during the first big migration to the Fediverse for Lemmy, but it takes time to put things in place and it was already too late to really fix the lopsidedness of who was where.

It’s still a good idea for new users, maybe instead of randomizing have a way to categorize the types of instances and their rules, so people go where they’ll be the happiest. The best way to fix the problem though is to come up with a secure and privacy protecting way to fully move a user from instance to instance. Good luck with that.

That actually helps, at least with your post. All the more why I hate labels, when they totally flip around depending on the perspective of the person using them. This isn’t just a US/Europe thing, it’s true of history too. Hence the “Party of Lincoln” trope that Republicans like to wave around, ignoring that the party names shifted and flipped over time.

Socialists and other US extreme left ideas merge in with the Democrats because when they first materialized as political movements and a third party, thanks to our political system they either had to die out or pick a side to stay alive.

I always thought I was liberal. Why am I here? Maybe the labels have shifted around and I’ve held on to the same ideas?

I just find it weird when people group liberal and conservative in the same bucket. Labels are about as dangerous as parties, they muddy the discussion.

More importantly, look how no one is getting into trouble for endangering children.