It already is everywhere except yeehawistan.
It already is everywhere except yeehawistan.
This would actually kill a significant number of people, especially if they didn’t know it was about to happen.
I think the biggest outcome of that would be phone batteries getting much bigger.
That’s why we have a “fractional reserve” system in place pretty much everywhere.
And besides, they haven’t created that money, as the first person has a balance of -80.
What the fuck have you been smoking?
The hell are you on about, reserve banks can create money, but a retail bank borrows it from someone else and loans it to you.
And if that “somewhere else” can get a better deal elsewhere, they won’t loan it to the bank in the first place.
Killing a third of the population is a pretty good way to speed up the process, I guess.
That’s not really natural selection though, is it?
Why would any institution give you a mortgage on those terms?
Meta says users do not come to its platform for news and forcing the company to pay for content shared on its platforms is unsustainable for its business.
I agree with them here, news articles definitely aren’t what I come to Facebook for.
It is a bit, yes.
Weird, I’m using Connect and it works for me.
That user has their head so far up their own ass it’s not funny.
I have the ability to block a community through the app I use, is this not built into Lemmy itself?
People with itchy balls, who do you think?
So, they’re making a shitload of money, but not as much money as they hoped?
There’s a lot of idiots in the world.
After all the self righteous whingeing when they did this, and talk of “sailing the high seas”, it’s refreshing to know it actually did work out for Netflix.
Why is it awful?
Nuclear is a much more reliable power source, barring a breakdown, you know exactly how much a nuclear reactor will produce at any given time.
Renewables are much more finnicky, and you really need something like hydro, that has a large amount of energy storage, to back it up.