"Short positions can be rolled over."

If the stock goes up, you are welcome to maintain your short. However, you will have to put up money to cover your loss to this point. If you don't pony up, you *must* unwind your position. The broker will let you gamble your money all you want, but you don't get to gamble his.

"People are selfish, and will not sacrifice their lifestyle now for a vague better future later.

The answer is government, with good leadership."

Unfortunately, there's a fatal flaw in that solution. Government IS people. Expecting government to be less selfish than the people who make it up is futile.

I know I'm not--I've seen my control of Google search slipping away for some years now. I'm just happy not to be forced to take another giant step on that path.

I don't think they understand how this works.
It's going to be an eternal game of whack-a-mole.
Good luck, though.

LK

Good. That's the best thing I've heard about Google AI search this month.

"In other words: Tennessee has just outlawed clouds."

Clouds, hell. They just outlawed *breathing.*

"Lithium based batteries can combust like an incendiary bomb"

Unlike a tank full of gasoline, which will never, ever catch fire.

then of course. You can't put a stick shift on an EV.

"What if"s don't mean a damn thing. You can sit here and spin "what if"s for eternity. You need facts, not what ifs.

What if Trump publicly confessed to being a Satanist and eating babies?

to be addicted to outrage and fear.

This is a relatively new phenomenon

Your ignorance of history is astounding. Go back and look at the polemics of Protestants and Catholics during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation when both sides regularly accused the other side of eating babies. And that's far from the only example.

Not a real Nigerian?? Next you'll be telling me he's not a real prince!

"Even if there were good reasons to use DST...However, there are no good reasons"

Sez you. As I get older and my night vision gets worse, I appreciate more and more having another hour of daylight in the evening. But I don't appreciate having my mornings in the dark. Keeping sunrise more or less at the same time over the course of a year requires Daylight Saving Time.

Didn't that get abandoned six years ago?

Unless it dies first, it will eventually become impossible to mine Bitcoin at all. There's a built-in ceiling of 21 million, after which mining operations will not yield any Bitcoins at all (actually, because of the way the Bitcoin algorithms round, production of Bitcoin should come to a complete halt when there is just short of 21 million).

They have one use: They can make you look like you're located somewhere else. This is particularly useful when you want to access something that will block you if you use a local IP address. Granted, this is a rather overcomplicated way to get a proxy address, but it's the easiest way to do it for a lot of people.