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Comment Re:For context (Score 1) 105

Swiss are not German are not French are not Dutch.

Correct. They are also not Italian and not Romani. But they do speak Swiss German, Swiss Italian, Swiss French, and Romansh. What they are not (apparently unlike you) are racist-nationalist ideologues. Their Confederation has a longstanding tradition of diversity, multilingualism, and multiculturalism. In that, they are very unlike you, who seem to want to tell them to run their country like a racist ethno-state.

How would I know about their country unless I actively went to study about it.

You also don't seem to want to fucking educate yourself before you tell others how to live their lives.

Comment Re:For context (Score 1) 105

Which means the Swiss run the risk of losing their national identity over the coming decades. With fewer and fewer native Swiss births, the increase will be from people that look different, speak different and have a different culture. I'm not Swiss, so my opinion on this doesn't really matter but if Swiss-ness matters to the natives, they should support this.

Pray tell, what do Swiss people look like? What does "Swiss culture" look like? What language do they speak? What are their traditions? Do enlighten us.

Comment Re:since a nonprofit doesnâ(TM)t have a valua (Score 1) 49

I feel like you might be confusing value and valuation. A valuation is what you believe a company would hypothetically sell for.

Ah, but you do need to "sell" a nonprofit ... to donors. When making decisions about where to spend their money, high-value donors want to know about the organization they're giving money to. For this reason, nonprofits have valuations, although they aren't calculated the same way as those of for-profit companies.

So I would say thinking of the valuation for a non-profit is weird as hell.

It can get pretty weird, yeah ... especially when you're trying to assess intangibles, such as "goodwill."

Comment Re:Do the economics work at all? (Score 1) 107

The reason we haven't seen their semis is because batteries still can't match the fuel density of diesel fuel so you have to massively cut into your hauling capacity

It's not just the capacity, it's also the weight of the battery, which is significant. U.S. roads have maximum weight limits, and those are cumulative for the whole vehicle, battery and all. Heavier battery means lighter cargo.

Comment Re:UAE leaves OPEC (Score 1) 121

Fair enough, since they are no longer in the business of exporting oil.

How do you figure that one? Oil and gas are about 30% of the UAE's GDP. They're something like the fourth-largest exporter worldwide. And leaving OPEC will allow them to increase production however they see fit, unrestrained by OPEC rules.

Comment Re:Trump Iran Crisis (Score 2) 121

That's not necessarily a political statement, it's journalistic standards. War hasn't been declared.

OK, so if the press dropped the word "war" altogether and instead used the phrase, "the United States and Israel's unprovoked attacks on Iran," would you be satisfied with that?

Comment Re:Disallow stock trading / betting for certain le (Score 1) 71

Trading on inside information should be illegal.

Correction: It is illegal.

Unfortunately, most members of Congress have large stock portfolios before they enter office. What's your plan? Make them turn it all over to a financial advisor?

Well, that seems advisable. Unless you think they're sitting up late at night, making online trades themselves.

A Congressman can still see something in the works that could in general drop the stock market or cause it to rise. For the former, they can just suddenly need some money for personal needs and ask the advisor to sell some stock to raise X. Pretty tough to track. Having a "windfall" and turning money back over to the financial advisor before a rise - also hard to track.

Unfortunately, this is all pretty plausible.

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