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by syntaxless 1y ago
It’s not entirely about defaults.
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by syntaxless 1y ago
Fractional reserve banking means the bank only has a small percentage of the money its customers deposit on hand (currently 0% since 2020). What do they do with the rest of that money? They invest it. They take on risky investments because
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by syntaxless 1y ago
Ultimately it falls on the taxpayer. The existence of the FDIC not only incentivizes but almost forces banks to be risky with their investments. It doesn’t matter if their lending fails because the government has to come in and clean it all
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by syntaxless 1y ago
Red Bull isn’t dominant. Max is.
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by syntaxless 1y ago
The Red Bull car isn’t dominant. Max’s skill covers up how bad the car really is. Especially without Newey. Very similar to Marquez in MotoGP.
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by syntaxless 1y ago
McLaren did win. Norris did not. F1 is a team sport. The drivers championship is secondary as it doesn’t award money or affect wind tunnel time.
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by syntaxless 2y ago
Playing poker with your friends is legal. If the owner of the house took a rake on every hand, that’s illegal.
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by syntaxless 2y ago
Never split the party!
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by syntaxless 2y ago
> Eating "no" sugar is preposterous. This is relatively easy for anyone on a carnivore diet.
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by syntaxless 2y ago
People on zero carb and carnivore diets.
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by syntaxless 2y ago
> In the past people with diabetes tried to live on a completely carb free diet - but you cannot do that for long. What is “long?” There are people living years on no carbs at all.
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by syntaxless 2y ago
It’s the name of the distribution company a bunch of brands are housed under. > By the end of 1999 an idea that has been talked about for years begins to take seed. The Habitat is formed under the Sovereign Sect in December…The Alien Wor
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by syntaxless 3y ago
True. I rejected a glass of champagne at my wedding, hahaha.
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by syntaxless 3y ago
Does teasing and judgement happen often? I live in Vegas where being inebriated is fairly accepted but I can’t think of a time where I’ve been teased or pressured. They may be silently judging but I don’t notice or care. I think a lot of it
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by syntaxless 3y ago
I’ve never drank in my life and never had any issues abstaining. “No thanks,” is almost always enough and rarely do I have anyone question why or try to pressure beyond that. Even when I was in high school or college. It seems to me people
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by syntaxless 3y ago
If I create a new login on mobile it never syncs to the vault/desktop correctly. I have so many empty vault items that then sync back to mobile. Nothing seems to fix it.
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by syntaxless 7y ago
I stopped using social media fairly early on but it wasn’t until recently that I started to replace that time with books. The first year I thought I’d set an easy goal of 6 books. I read 32. Once I started reading I wanted to continue readi