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The UK, Australia, and Brazil have significantly less firearms (which makes gun control a million times easier), and are not constitutionally granted the right to bear them (which …

This is where I think you're wrong. The vast, vast majority of people killed by police are warranted. People routinely threaten officers' lives with guns, and get killed for it. It…

You are wrong in your expectation, I really just dream of being able to actually police crime. Which we do horribly.

More police are shot and killed every year than people who were accidentally shot by police. Imagine if they didn't approach every high-risk situation with guns drawn. There would …

That is obviously true... but also a fairy tale hypothetical, and we are in the real world. So the question is, what's the solution, right now? Not 200 years ago.

Maybe there should be less de jure law then...

Yes, this sounds amazing. Enforce all the laws and rescind the bad ones! There are tons!

This is not an issue with bad policing, but bad policy.

I would prefer less people die, actually.

I completely agree. My point was that they should always be prepared for the worst.

Yes, firearms themselves present a clear and present danger by themselves. I'm sure once you make laws to control them, the firearms learn to stop being dangerous.

For successful policing*. Which everyone should be for. edit: Every single thing you guys have replied with are policy/law debates, not enforcement debates. I disagree with many la…

Police in the US should respond to the hilt because the likelihood of the suspect being armed is significantly higher than any other country...

I think the police should especially have guns drawn if they are pulling over a car owned by a murder suspect. It is reasonable enough to assume the driver is the suspect. If they …

I would bet a large number of the shorts are people holding restricted stock, synthetically selling their position before their lockup period ends.

Yes, but they don’t want to drink milk the at the same price. Price drives demand equally as much as demand drives price. That’s the point you’re missing.

> No, you're working very hard to miss the point. It seems the opposite is true here. > [Shorts] literally can't be made, unless there was someone in the market who thinks that at …

Yes, that is how short-selling works, but you're claiming that the only reason the headline isn't "SPCX is the most purchased new stock" is for narrative reasons, which is patently…

I would argue the current price action isn't even driven by any company decisions. The stock needs to settle for a while after IPO.

You're conflating two things though. Shares are being borrowed to sell in this instance, referred to as short-selling. These shares can theoretically be borrowed multiple times ove…

IMO, it's an argument against diversification. The Nikkei's decade-long stagnation is proof that the indices that are widely considered "diverse" are not immune to stagnation. This…

Yeah and our government is continuing to take pages from China's playbook for the last fucking decade... and not the plays that work.

I mean these stocks have been performers for decades. If you posted this 10 years ago you'd look really wrong.

Okay, I do agree with this. IQ probably correlates with effort a little, but my anecdotal experience is that the most successful people in my school were primarily smart as opposed…

There's no IQ correlation with zip code? Think again