fuck reddit

China needs buyers. If the US stopped buying from China, it would be the same situation in China. Their economies are so intertwined that a war between them, even just financially, would ruin both

The US pays it’s bills. China defaulting devalues it’s currency, making payment necessary in dollars. The US has a hard limit on how much yuan it will exchange for dollars to prevent a run on the currency. China cannot get enough dollars to pay the bill, while the US is the one country in the world to which China can’t just say “lol no.” Assets will be forfeit or one sided deals favoring the US will come out of this. The devaluation of the primary currency of a major trade partner means their goods cost less and their interest increases

I guess you missed the news story about China defaulting on $1 trillion in US debt?

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4075341-china-is-in-default-on-a-trillion-dollars-in-debt-to-us-bondholders-will-the-us-force-repayment/

Why did they do that?

Everybody needs at least two. One for regular interaction, and another for porn. I mean for science.

I wish there was a simple “X” button to hide posts, like RIF had. I know you can do it via Lemmy, but it doesn’t seem to work in Liftoff until hours later. Maybe I’m doing it wrong because I’m new, but I’ve even gone to the browser side and I’m still seeing the same stuff 5 hours later.

Overall, a very smooth experience. If Jerboa and Liftoff combined into one app, I think we’d have it all.

It could also rhyme with Blamazon

Eh I’ll be fine.

If reincarnation is real, I want to be reincarnated as a beloved house cat in a warm climate

I downvoted that post that was an advertisement for crypto

Some variant of what’s it?

Wouldn’t the correction be sufficient? Other users could read it and decide to downvote

I like this idea. Make the karma irrelevant so we don’t get those awful bots or the tit-for-tat arguments

I switched to Liftoff. I was on Jerboa for the last few weeks as I figured things out, but liftoff is much smoother and has yet to give me an error code

You rang?

Let’s keep it going

Thank Vishnu

And my… Comment!

I went Lemmy.ml because it doesn’t require an email address. I had 10’s of Reddit accounts that I’d cycle through on different VPNs and only use certain ones on certain devices in the name of Internet anonymity. Giving up an email address (even one that’s purely for junk mail) defeats the anonymity.

Lemmy being open source and relatively transparent means any bad actor with access would have a ton of info on me, even if it’s just my habits, voting tendencies, and comments/posts. That’s not info I want to give out.

Fuck. I am le screwed.