Many/most reputable places that do this kind of trading have fixed whole market exposure, either long only or long/short (and a lot are long/short). The idea being that since it's mathematically impossible for the average hedge fund to beat the market in the long term by much (tbf, less so since the rise of index funds), they should at least be able to provide returns that aren't correlated to the stock market, as any idiot can get correlated returns.

Besides, everyone knows that just because things are getting worse doesn't mean number won't go up - you'd typically trade on the belief that number go up in some more sophisticated way, perhaps by predicting what the fed will do to make sure number go up, or how the books will be cooked to make sure number go up.

It's weird how many lefties there are in finance. I once had a discussion with a quant on how economic planning would probably work and should be tried, and I once added someone on discord and found they were in the Hasanabi discord. I guess it makes sense when your job is to see past the bs.

Saturation attacks (fire more cruise missiles than it has interceptors to defend itself) are a pretty sure fire way. You can buy 8000 cruise missiles for the cost of a single carrier.

Alternatively, antiship ballistic missiles, super long range torpedoes/unmanned submarines.

Chinese shipbuilding is very overwhelmingly civilian.

There is another Nazi symbol there, the Sonnenrad.

Despite thinking he's a commie he's still the most popular major politician, which does give some hope.

Exactly. And beyond that, telling someone whether neurotypical or neurodiverse in a different way than you that entertaining their worldview and having empathy is immoral is then fundamentally not distinguishable from engaging in bad faith. It's necessary to be able to do that in order to be able to engage with someone in good faith.

There are fundamental pragmatic issues with engaging in good faith with someone when your most basic axioms are fundamentally incompatible - and that goes both ways. If you are someone who deeply holds beliefs in, say, solipsism, rejection of the assumption that there is such a thing as reality, then having a good faith conversation with someone else about anything will likely eventually just be a conversation about your basic ways to understand, because those elements are so fundamental that you cannot suspend them for the sake of understanding as you don't have anything left to understand with. So all you're left with are discussions about the fundamentals, and if you can't have those in good faith ( I don't believe that the ways that the user engaged with people who, say, rely on the assumption that there are things that are real was productive, and at some point it was simply calling other people ignorant for not accepting that framework, which stretches the very limit of good faith), then it's over.

I don't believe that refusing to accept such a strongly alien framework means that you are NDphobic. There are just limits to the extent at which someone can accept a different conceptual framework, and that's okay. Calling people NDphobic or neuronormative because of that is deeply problematic, even if it's deeply held, and I think it may be problematic enough to be called reactionary. Plenty of neurotypical people are solipsists or have basic conceptual frameworks that are far outside the norm, and if there is some kind of neurodivergence which imposes a framework that is completely alien to even the slightest realism (I don't believe there is, fwiw), then it being rejected isn't moreso a consequence of how thinking works in the abstract than of neuronormative thinking.

Those are already legally considered motorcycles and since they look exactly like motorcycles the law often ends up getting enforced (cops don't like unplated motorcycles). In fact I just saw one of them get impounded yesterday.

They're not comparable. Average ebikes can't really go any faster than a fit rider on a good road bike.

I can easily go 50km/h on flat ground for a short amount of time in a mountain bike if I want to and I'm almost obese - an ebike that can go appreciably faster than that for more than 10 minutes is very expensive and very much looks like a motorcycle.

That's already exactly how it works. The guy is just mad that people can have light electric motor vehicles for little money.

Well we haven't learned after have a dozen unprovoked wars in the Middle East and North Africa so why would one more help?