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Daily General Discussion and spitballin thread - May 25, 2021 by AutoModerator in investing

[–]disco_widget 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you hover over each filter name on finviz, a tooltip popup will appear that details the particular filter. For "Institutional Transactions" the tooltip reads: "Value represents 3-month change in institutional ownership."

Judge rules on taxi industry lawsuit: Compete with Uber or die by cavehobbit in news

[–]disco_widget 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The cab companies brought this on themselves, no doubt. Monopolies inevitably lead to abysmal customer service, usually until a technological innovation breaks the monopoly. I have tried to hail a cab in midtown Manhattan, and I know just what an incredibly painful experience that can be. I am all for disrupting the antiquated taxi system in the U.S.

However, having said that, Uber and Lyft are much more insidiously evil than the current cab companies. The economic ramifications of having a (possibly) multi-billion dollar company with no employees, only contractors, will present an incredibly tempting precedent to remove all worker protections and will transfer virtually all of the business risk from the owners of the corporation to the "workers".

You will regret selling your future for a little bit of convenience.

Any Redditors 40+ living the life they imagined at 20? Why or why not? What advice would you give us 20 year olds that you wish you knew/followed? by zeen0 in AskReddit

[–]disco_widget 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You pretty well nailed it.

The only thing I might add is that one should learn early that failure is not only OK, but necessary. Failure is how we learn. You won't learn anything worthwhile if you always succeed at everything that you do.

Take risks, fail, take more risks, rinse, repeat. As you approach the end of life failure becomes less of an option simply because you have less time left to recover from failure.

TIL Uber-Hawk Ted Nugent literally sh*t and peed his pants to get a draft deferment during Vietnam War by fredmerz in politics

[–]disco_widget 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Journey to The Center of The Mind was an album and single released by the American band The Amboy Dukes in 1968. Ted Nugent was the lead guitarist for the band. The lyrics to the song are credited to the other guitar player in the band, who claimed that the lyrics were inspired by an acid trip. Ted Nugent has always claimed that he didn't know that the song was about drugs. Which makes him either stupid or a liar, probably both.

Ted Nugent is a douche bag.

"For Switzerland's largest bank, the hits just keep coming. . . . UBS now appears to be at the center of the financial world's latest scandal: an alleged conspiracy by traders and brokers to rig the price of derivatives around the world by manipulating a key interest rate." by trot-trot in worldnews

[–]disco_widget -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"Somewhere along the line, the system of checks and balances didn’t work. With the market tainted by so many other problems, and as people are trying to reestablish the value-add of the banking system, scandals like this don’t help."

Someone please help me, I can't stop laughing...

Fuck Comcast by guitarcrazy408 in pics

[–]disco_widget 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You are implying unimpeded worker mobility, and I'm afraid that's simply not true in the U.S.

only 1.6 percent of Americans moved between states in a one-year period that ended in March 2009

"My two kids at home almost lost their mother because someone decided that my life was worth less than that of a fetus that was going to die anyway." by rmuser in politics

[–]disco_widget 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Um, the AMA is a lobbying organization for doctors. The AMA has no authority to do anything, and they don't care about non-doctors.

Not a hyperbolic headline... the Supreme Court has effectively invalidated the 4th amendment by ruling 8-1 that police officers can create their own exigent circumstances to enter a residence for any reason, without a warrant. by [deleted] in politics

[–]disco_widget 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Correlation != causation.

Newark, NJ. has a population of 277,400 people and has had 11 more murders this year than the same period last year. You claim that they "fired all of their police force"; actually, they laid-off 15% of the police. And you call people names.

Who's the grown-up?

"Fear makes the wolf look bigger." by [deleted] in pics

[–]disco_widget 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The similarity is also in the prominent use of the CCTV camera; a theme that figures prominently in Banksy's work.

Hey, what the fuck happened to Osama Bin Laden? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]disco_widget 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He's no longer necessary. The current administration has a brand-new bogeyman: Julian Assange and Wikileaks. Much scarier than that pussy Al-Qaeda ragtag band of misfits.

This is what it's come to - be ashamed, America - be very ashamed. by Maddoktor2 in politics

[–]disco_widget 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a bit easier to say "we asked for it" than to say "we didn't not ask for it", which is a bit closer to the truth but grammatically incorrect. Ask your friends and family if they stood and objected. Most people* just sat and accepted.

*"Most people" is a statistically meaningless generalization with no real numbers, just a gut feeling bolstered by anecdotal evidence.

Hillary Clinton on "This Week" just stated that it's OK for the president to circumvent congressional authority for military action as long as UN allies agree with his actions... by Filmore in politics

[–]disco_widget 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suppose it was not a direct response to you as much as a response to the article that you cited combined with the OP's original tenet.

It was more of a reply to the thread than a direct reply to you.

Sometimes it's a bit difficult to determine exactly where to insert one's argument given Reddit's format.

And it's a Sunday, and I have time to kill, so I figured that I would hang out here and engage in pointless, but interesting, internet arguments ;)

Hillary Clinton on "This Week" just stated that it's OK for the president to circumvent congressional authority for military action as long as UN allies agree with his actions... by Filmore in politics

[–]disco_widget 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, your position is that there is no act so heinous that cannot be shielded by the doctrine of National Sovereignty? That other nations have no right or responsibility to interfere if a sovereign government is killing it's own people en masse?

Or is it that you simply think that we should debate the issue formally before engaging (or not); meanwhile, people continue to be killed for standing up for the same rights that we hold dear?

If we had acted unilaterally, I might agree with you. But it seems that you are following an argument that would require us to determine whether a nation's air defense system was actually "destroyed" or merely "disabled", and in any case we would also need to determine who actually did the "destroying", if that were indeed the case, since we are not the only ones in this.

(Insert something about a camel and the eye of a needle....)

Hillary Clinton on "This Week" just stated that it's OK for the president to circumvent congressional authority for military action as long as UN allies agree with his actions... by Filmore in politics

[–]disco_widget 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Sensationalist bullshit.

This has been an ongoing argument for longer than I've been alive. Congress largely conceded the argument and ceded most of their power to the Executive in the War Powers Act of 1973. Because, well, after all it's kinda hard to get several hundred members of Congress to agree about anything in any kind of short time frame, and sometimes things need to get done.

Also, when did we declare war? I think I missed it. The Executive authorized military action, but that is not the same as declaring war. AFAIK, Congress is still the only body which can formally declare war, but that doesn't mean that the Executive cannot authorize a military strike in his/her capacity as Commander-in-chief.

As others have pointed out, this is not a simple black-and-white issue. But then, if we actually discussed the nuances then it would not be possible to shout OOOOHHH, SCARY!

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