What about one mosquito with six guns?
gedaliyah
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- is this Low Quality Facts? 
  0·2 days ago 0·2 days ago- No, they already have Metapedia for that. 
  81·2 days ago 81·2 days ago- Great! Love this app! - Right now I’m using Jellyfin for my music server. If I ever switch back to subsonic / navidrome, then you’re my number one pick by a mile. Thank you for making this! 
  0·3 days ago 0·3 days ago- Someone call Dustin Hoffman!  
  22·3 days ago 22·3 days ago- This. But… - The smart thermostat will come with a c wire. It’s an adapter that can plug into a normal outlet and then run to your thermostat. Depending on your level of DIY, you can hide the wire (or the entire adapter) inside the wall to make it prettier. 
  0·3 days ago 0·3 days ago- Holy shit. We know that ChatGPT has a propensity to facilitate suicidal ideation, and has led to suicides. It not only fails to direct suicidal individuals to the proper help, but actually advances people toward taking action. - How many people has this killed? 
 - I am a depression survivor. Depression is a disease and it can be deadly, but there is help. - If you are having suicidal thoughts, you can get help by texting or calling 988 in North America, or text ‘SHOUT’ to 85258 in the UK. 
  0·4 days ago 0·4 days ago- I just want my money back that I spent on a show that’s been “delayed” for a year and a half. 
  0·4 days ago 0·4 days ago- Yep, if China is selling of its US bonds, they we have to ask who is going to buy them. Overall weakens the USD. 
  0·4 days ago 0·4 days ago- I think you just made my point, but harder. Debt is actually great for “the lenders,” i.e. whoever buys treasury bonds. If the government wants to spend money on something, they have to issue a bond. The bondholders are paying for it. If you run out of bondholders, you have to increase the interest offered to make it more appealing than other investments. - It’s not just “moving numbers on a ledger.” - That would be essentially the same as printing more money,* which is what leads to hyperinflation and the collapse of economies. The higher the total debt, the more taxes go into paying interest on debt, rather than services (the nurses and water engineers mentioned above). There is a whole other discussion on where that spending on services spending should be prioritized. - Where does that Tax money go? Obviously it’s a payment to bondholders, which are generally wealthy individuals, corporations, or nations, but can also be held by the US Government (maybe that’s what you mean by “moving numbers on a ledger?”). ![Who owns US Debt? [pie chart]](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/37c7db49-fbee-4e2c-98cf-f7c6e9fdb79d.webp) - Edit: source - *The Fed does change the money supply through interest rates, which can generate inflation. 
  0·4 days ago 0·4 days ago- Debt is fine in a strong global economy, but it creates big problems when there is no market for the debt. - Someone is still paying for it - by buying Treasury bonds. The more debt, the more interest has to be paid to make it appealing. That means tax money going to pay (mostly wealthy) bondholders.  
  0·4 days ago 0·4 days ago- Trump gets paid so why should he care? 
  0·5 days ago 0·5 days ago- Pretty interesting. I guess it depends in the end on what will be acceptable to the Congressional Budget Office. They hold the purse strings and a lot of the power in terms of actually providing services. Recognition by the house speaker would also be required for any votes. 
  0·5 days ago 0·5 days ago- Hi ho Faraday! 
  0·6 days ago 0·6 days ago- The voice recognition is honestly the best I’ve ever used. It’ll be a shame to give it up. - If I decide to switch keyboards, I’m certain I would go back to HeliBoard. - There’s been a real explosion of open source voice recognition over the past few months, and I haven’t tested a lot. Whisper+ looks like a promising one. Before using Futo, I used Sayboard, which I was pretty happy with. 
  0·6 days ago 0·6 days ago- Immich it licensed under AGPL 3 and the code is open - isn’t that FOSS? - I know some of their apps are licensed under a semi-open license of their own creation and that’s been touchy to say the least. But is it true to say that none of their apps are FOSS? 
  0·6 days ago 0·6 days ago- Isn’t this the exact thing that Trump has been criticizing China for doing? 















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