The conversation on here is fantastic for the most part, and my question was mostly rooted in amusement, but you surely have to admit that veering from sovcits doing their thing to conspiracy theories about celebrity toes is a pretty remarkable turn.

Apparently so.

One supporter said she had bandaged her own ear to help Mr Trump “set a new fashion statement” and to let him know “how much we love him”.

The part your talking about is called the ‘tang’, and would have had a, probably wooden, handle around it. That handle would probably be wrapped in leather or similar to give a better grip. The larger bit at the end is the ‘pommel’ which can help stop the sword slipping out of your hand, protects the end of the handle and can also act as a counterweight to help balance the blade.

I love lemmy, but how did we get from talking about sovcit craziness to debating whether Ms Robbie uses a foot double?

I think that the point is it’s entirely pointless building something like this into the email system. It should be a separate system that you can choose to use if you want it. Building it in just opens questions about exactly what they’re doing with your data, despite their assurances.

The movie “Brewster’s Millions” is based on that premis.

Wait, you didn’t find it? Wow, you really missed out. The ability on it is amazing! You should really go back and look for it again, it’s back near the start.

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Dan Carlin did a series of podcasts on this called ‘Supernova in the east’, talking about the how and why of Japan’s approach to the war. I’m no great historian, but it seemed interesting to me. He quotes his sources and gives a pretty comprehensive overview of the figures involved and the ideologies that drove them. It’s a good listen, each episode is around 5 hours long, but they’re well laid out and it’s easy to pick up from where you stopped.

They may well be looking at how much the EU holds in Saudi assets, seeing those at potential risk of being seized and deciding tge write-down on dumping the bonds would be worth it. Long term, I don’t think it would have an effect on prices, but short term it may well do, depending on how concentrated their holdings are.

From what I can see, normal trading volume in bonds is about 500% per year, or about 2% per day assuming 250 trading days per year. If the 130bn you mention is spread across all government bonds across the EU then it accounts for about 4% of the total, or about two days of normal trade. Dump all of that in one go and it’d definitely have a short term effect. If their holdings are more concentrated they could have an even bigger effect on the bonds they hold.

Bonds tend to be issued on a regular basis, so even a short term drop in price could be timed to affect an auction. That has the twin effect of reducing the amount the government in question raises, and also tying them into effectively higher interest rates, potentially for decades to come.

I’m no expert trader either, so I could be barking up the wrong tree, but I assume that they would have a clear expectation of the results before making that threat, and I can’t really see any other effects it could be expected to have.

Absolutely. If they’re killed during their crime they should be completely anonymous. No names, no ‘manifestos’, no reference to the sorts of communities they were part of online, no last words, just, ‘they were a vile stain on humanity’ and then forgotten. Obviously, if they live more will come out as they’re prosecuted, but that should be minimized and once they’re jailed they can be forgotten by all but those tasked with keeping them alive to serve their sentence.