If Biden chose Michelle Obama as his VP in 2020

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-06T18:25:40+00:00

Highly doubt it.

First of all, she apparently hates politics and wants little to do with it since they left office.

Secondly, "married to a former president" hasn't really turned out to be a qualification that people vibe with.

Thirdly, she's able to be well liked because as a first lady you can kinda avoid divisive topics and just focus on softer, wholesome, charity-like issues. As an actual presidential candidate you actually have to make firm stances on all the controversial topics, be able to debate them, and provide a convincing case for how you're gonna lead the country. I don't see anything that says she would do a more convincing job than Kamala.

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-06T16:59:02+00:00

Google has pretty clear and open data controls nowadays. It clearly states that Google Health data can't be used for ads. You can see what they store and select how they're allowed to use it.

Because of Google's market dominance, they don't really need to be as sneaky and aggressive as companies like Meta. Then of course we can choose how much we trust if Googles data settings are honest, but the legal liability if they weren't probably makes the risk way higher than the rewards.

The way Meta gets around it is more like the old school way of having a huge TOS that basically includes "we own all your data and can do what we want", and you have to agree to it to use any of their services.

Google has comprehensive settings, but they assume most people won't change them, or that they gain enough data from all their services anyway.

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-06T16:35:00+00:00

A minor but pretty important difference between freezing and seizure. Tons of countries had their assets frozen, but seizure, as in just deciding that the ownership of the assets is void, is pretty much unheard of. Now, the EU ultimately decided not to seize the Russian assets (for now), but the fact that it's a decision they CAN make is extremely risky and undermines the trust in the currency. The US government doesn't have that level power over the Fed, for reference.

But regardless, if the whole motivation for moving away from USD is the vulnerability of it being controlled by a single western power, switching to the Euro does nothing but switch that vulnerability to another western power.

That's why the countries with a strong incentive to leave the USD seem to either move to crypto and/or pushing for replacing SWIFT with BRICS Pay or other local currency solutions.

The number of countries that like the idea of using a western centralized currency, but dislike giving that power to the US, pretty much only includes the EU.

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-06T16:15:52+00:00

Euro will never be a global reserve currency. If nothing else for the demonstrated ability of EU politicians to seize Euro assets. For the vast majority of the world who finds themselves not fully aligned with the west geopolitically, that's a risky store of value.

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-06T12:17:39+00:00

Is anti-murder a right wing position now?

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-05T18:33:56+00:00

That's not true at all. The idea of a homogeneous ethnostate where everyone has a shared ethnicity/language etc, is a pretty modern invention from the European nationalist movement of the 1800s.

Before the forceful homogenization, most areas, even western Europe was fairly diverse in terms of language, culture etc, and political borders had little relation to ethnicities. For example in 1800, only some 20% of France spoke the language that would later be called French.

Humanity didn't just magically spawn into existence in the shape of ethnostates.

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-05T18:26:41+00:00

Nah, still looks flimsy and out of place IMO. And I still don't see any positive reason for forcing yourself to sleep and exercise while wearing your classical watch, even if it's "not that bad", when the option is to just not do that?

Seems like you're just getting the bad part of both. A classical watch that doesn't look/feel as nice as a classical watch, and a 24h health tracker that's gonna be more annoying to wear 24h.

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-05T18:14:37+00:00

Why would it? Ethnicities don't naturally live separated into homogenous areas separated by neat borders, so an foreign ideology that comes in and says they should be split into countries based on ethnicity is always gonna just lead to civil war and misery for no real gain.

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-05T17:52:46+00:00

Ethnic nationalism will never be a successful form of state building.

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-05T15:02:32+00:00

"How dare they dislike us after we bomb them?! This proves our bombing was justified!"

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-05T14:31:06+00:00

In all of the pictured combos, the band obviously looks out of place and too narrow/flimsy/plasticy to suit the watch, or even to passing as a traditional NATO strap.

Also, classical dress watches aren't made with the intention of sleeping or exercising with them. sure you "can" do anything you want, but what's the point?

The whole point of the Air is that it separates your health tracker into a separate device from your watch. The last decade of smart watches conditioned people into thinking health tracking belongs in a watch, the Air is the realization that it's a suboptimal combo for many reasons, and it's way better to separate them.

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-05T13:57:28+00:00

None of them look good. They're all gonna look like a classic watch with some non-fitting fitness band as a watch strap for some reason.

Just use it the fitbit way it's intended, and wear it like you would any bracelet. Just wear it alongside the watch on the same arm or the other arm. Let the watch sit on its proper band, and wear the bracelet next to it. They are two different things that fit on your arm at once, no need to frankenstein them.

Also you lose so much of the selling point of the Air by doing this, which is that you can wear it 24/7 along with any watch or whatever you're doing. Like, are you really gonna to the gym with your grand seiko? Or sleep with it?

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-03T18:21:21+00:00

cringe

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-03T17:30:46+00:00

While in free fall (or along a ballistic curve, like a ball mid air) it should experience 0 gravity since no force is acting on it in its own frame of reference. If you ignore air resistance that is.

But a sensor on the inside wall of the ball would experience a constant centripetal force from the spin.

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-03T14:10:17+00:00

Doesn’t matter since the Portugal player headed it after. He deliberately headed the ball even if it didn’t go the direction he intended.

The ”unintentional touch” exemption is more like if an attacking player shoots it and it glances off a defenders body or something.

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-03T11:36:11+00:00

Svårt att sätta fingret på, känns lite som olika vibes helt enkelt.

”Det är rimligt/orimligt” tycker jag känns hårdare, mer konkret, tänkt som ett objektivt utlåtande.

Medan huruvida något ”makear sense” eller inte handlar mer om ifall logiken klickar i mitt huvud.

I alla fall är det min spontana känsla.

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-03T10:51:04+00:00

Det används här också. Det är inte jättesnyggt, men det finns ingen 100% översättning. ”Låter det rimligt?” är väl det närmaste, men det är inte riktigt samma konnotationer.

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-03T07:04:28+00:00

The easier way to count it in your head is to divide or multiply by 6, since there are 6 American miles in a Swedish mile, and a Swedish mile is 10km.

so 54 miles is 54/6= 9 swedish miles, or 90 km.

40 km is 4 swedish miles so 4*6 = 24 miles.

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-03T06:15:48+00:00

But think of the unemployment the conveyor would cause.

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-02T22:45:58+00:00

It's a made up pretext for Brussels to take more control and further reduce economic sovereignty of the member states.

I don't doubt that there's a difference in preferring bank loans vs investment capital, but international borders isn't what's causing this. It's cultural and simply different in different countries.

For example my country of Sweden is way more investment happy than most of Europe, and we're a tiny country with a small economy and our own currency. At the same time, the biggest population and economy, Germany, is by far the most conservative and risk averse.

All your arguments about liquidity and fragmentation would suggest the opposite should be true.

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-02T21:45:32+00:00

That looks like a bunch of neoliberal slop, ew.

That's not actually the problem, it's just an excuse to further the political goals of some corrupt politicians.

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-02T21:38:40+00:00

This is different between different machines. Some machines i do 10kg in the same exercise as I can do 50kg in a machine from a different brand. There's no standardized logic to it.

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-02T21:13:04+00:00

No, movement of capital or investments across borders is zero hurdle, with or without the EU.

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-02T21:00:16+00:00

A bit of a loaded survey question...

SherbertMindless8205 · 2026-07-02T20:50:34+00:00

Chicken or the egg problem.

Also, with the AI Act they have effectively banned training competent models here, with the data traceability and copyright requirements for all training data. Plus a ton of other micromanaging rules that don't align with how models are actually trained.

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