PTB I guess, the nottheonion mods seem to be terrible. In fairness though, I saw the headline and also assumed it was porn spam.
I think this is more on Vice than on you, the article was fine, but they can’t give titles like that if the thing is ever going to be posted anywhere other than on Vice’s site in among with a bunch of other articles to give it social proof. It’s like anti-clickbait.
Rumor from the mods is that behavior is pretty recognizable. You have to be sort of identifiable in some way or other to attract mod attention, so in most cases it’s pretty obvious when one account is doing one type of behavior, gets banned for it, and then a new account emerges that’s doing the exact same behavior.
Situations are different of course, but I think especially for the more justified bans it’s not as hard as it would seem like (even when IP address matching is not involved.)
It is rare for me to read something on the internet that literally knocks me back in my chair a little
It is hard to get account-banned from Reddit. Like mad hard. I mean, I’m not up on current events over there, maybe things have changed and they brand you as “antisemitic” and ban your account sometimes, but I feel like much more likely is that this is a you issue.
No, everyone doesn’t deserve a second chance. Certainly not everyone deserves a fourth chance, on the same platform.
Oh. Makes sense then, carry on
Yeah but surely you can be the change you wish to see
I am insulted that I’m not in this image, rectify pls
I don’t get the
Oooooohhh
That’s a good joke.
I also didn’t get the reason for the ban, but I get that now too. That’s a good joke.
I’m not super familiar with it, but just knowing the little bit that I know about it, this is my guess:
… and so on. I would bet it’s decently more complicated than that, but bottom line, there’s a reason these guys are paying all this money for order flows. It’s not because they’re not making money on them, and usually the procedure is to extract the money from the most-poorly-informed person involved (which in this case is the end user by a big margin).
Could be. They’ve definitely been building a bunch of what looks like invasion landing-craft, yes.
What could possibly be the point of preparing for a non-nuclear war that includes close up fighting against US aircraft carriers?
It’s good to keep your military prepared for all kinds of shit that might potentially go down, I can understand doing drills and being familiar with the enemy’s kit. It seems fine. But the smart play in terms of Taiwan is that Trump will not do anything because he is Trump and he doesn’t care all that much about Taiwan anyway. The play where they decide to start World War 3 and then win it, because they drilled against the aircraft carriers, and thus they were able to secure this one particular smallish island as “officially part of China” instead of “only unofficially part of China, and only to a 30% extent”, seems… farfetched. That’s kind of what I’m saying about the difference between saber rattling for domestic consumption vs. what they actually plan to do.
Putin must know something that our propaganda ain’t telling us
This is a pretty bizarre take lol
If China really wanted to invade Taiwan, they’d have done a Ukraine to it a while ago. Nobody did shit about Crimea, and outside of the US, nobody would do shit about Taiwan. The US is pretty much the only wildcard in terms of how the world would react, and with Trump in charge, they have an actual opportunity, and they don’t seem to have any kind of inclination to act on it that I have seen.
They want to inch their way out, a little at a time, gradually expanding the sphere of influence in ways that aren’t going to risk upsetting the absolute Niagara Falls of money that’s coming in from all their mutually beneficial trade with all the rest of the world. They also want to make big noises for domestic consumption about how they’re a big scary regional power and everyone better stay the fuck out of their way, and they’re probably going to take Taiwan next month if they decide so watch out… but really bombing Taiwan for real is not in the style of the current Chinese government. Why would they need that? Things are working. Why risk fucking it up?
(Predicting the future is foolish of course but that is my prediction / understanding of it.)
All orders cost money. If they’re not charging you $5 per trade or whatever, then they’re taking a lot more than that by selling your “order flow” to someone who’s shaving little bits off it by creatively timing when the trades actually are going through and at what exact price.
Vanguard and Fidelity are both good. You can just use the web site, probably you can even just call them up and make requests over the phone. Vanguard is a little bit more for normal person investing (mostly index funds and no weird shit), Fidelity offers crypto and all the nonsense too if you want that, but they’re both pretty respectable.
I’m not an analyst, but they’re badly short of people in Ukraine, and a pretty big chunk of their economy is already focused on the war at this point. Why would any of this be other than just trying to secure what they need for fighting in Ukraine? Why would it mean a new war?
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Everyone knows throwing a fit when people ask the wrong questions and storming off the stage is a demonstration of unassailable right-being 🙂
I think this is the issue. Lemmy isn’t Reddit yet (although, give it time.) Most people who are copping bans at this stage are either (a) being insufferable in some fashion or other and refusing to stop (b) running afoul of lemmy.ml. I think in almost all cases of (a), what they are doing is returning exactly to form with the new account and then being all surprised that no one’s throwing roses and cheering them on this time around.