An Israeli intervention in Iran will end well. No way that can turn badly. None at all.

Bring back the other guy Pope Francis.

I’m pretty sure the Church has rules about that since the Middle Ages.

Didn’t you know that Nobel prizes were bearer tokens?

By definition doing nothing is instantaneous, isn’t it?

So… If Trump is the one calling the cards in Venezuela right now, will he answer for their new policy of arresting journalists? Also, is he the leader of the Maduro’s political party now? Because they are still the ones sitting in government…

Yes, and if they find some way to win he will probably take his life out in a bunker or something like that in a few more years.

China have done so a couple of times already, responding to the US putting sanctions on them. That’s what the “rare earth” stuff on the news is about.

Large countries tend to not respond to sanctions the same way than smaller ones. With enough people interested, there are many ways to evade sanctions, and a dynamic economy can always adapt and use different products or services.

Ouch this was yours?

The shitposting community is having an identity crisis right now and don’t know what their rules are. My guess is it was interpreted as being about politics, but I doubt anybody could even explain it further.

Some (many? most? IDK) gold sellers are scammers. They will sell you overvalued stuff and insist it’s extra-valuable because of some feature they made up. They are the ones being loud on the web and making you hear about it all the time. So, if you hear an ad, and buy gold, you’ve probably fallen for a scam.

But investing in gold by itself is just like any other commodity. And just to say, the rule on that last phrase is valid for almost everything (it’s absolutely valid for stocks and investment funds).

The amount changes all the time, and depends on what you define “money” as.

Almost every country (every one on the WTO) publishes monthly volumes. Here’s the one for the US if you consider that money is cash and the contents of all the bank accounts:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

That “M1” is a standard definition, that is easy to search for any country.

If you start to add things like credit card balances and government papers that can be used in most large transaction, you arrive at the other definitions. There’s a wiki page for them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply

The M1 to M3 set is an international standard, but many countries add other definitions to their publications.

EDIT:

And of course, I didn’t tell how the amount changes.

Each kind of money changes by its own particular process, that is actually quite obvious once you think of money that way.

Cash is printed by the government, and destroyed mostly by it too (but some times by accident). It’s a form of government debit.

Bank deposits are created when banks make loans (that is, they get somebody’s money and give to another person, but still keeping the first person’s money on their account), and destroyed when the loan id paid back.

Credit card debit is created when people buy stuff on credit, and destroyed when they pay it back.

And so on.

As kolanaki already said, but as a general rule: if it’s simple, probably everybody already knows it.

But if you are sure you discovered something nobody else knows, you can always bet against some companies and tell it to everybody. If you didn’t need internal access to discover it, it’s legal almost everywhere.

If the Global Economy can be destroyed by something a random person can discover in a garage, it’s up to the Global Economy to deal with it.

One of those laser weapons that are supposed to take drones down or a laser pointer?

The last plane that was lost due to collision with Venus was wild!

In a high-level, you don’t design them anymore. You write them, in code. The compiler turns your code into the chip masks, and has an optimizer that will mangle the hell out of the relatively simple stuff you wrote.

In a lower level, that compilation is not really done automatically, and people will intervene in lots of places, and AFAIK, how people divide it and interact with it are well guarded secrets from the chip makers.

I don’t think on this specific case anybody has given him anything.

Again, I don’t really understand anything about what he’s thinking. But on the case of Argentina the money seems to be flowing the other way around, and on the case of Brazil the president would reap lots of benefits if Trump antagonized him further.

Hum… Trump has been throwing lavish praise on Brazil too recently.

He may have discovered that the US can’t stay rich by isolating themselves. But he has been praising countries that are mostly economic competitors, instead of customers or suppliers. I don’t understand how he thinks.

It’s probably closer to legality than the Executive branch ordering presidency propaganda there.

Ouch, I never even considered the idea of private prosecution in criminal courts. Looks like a remedy that is worse than the disease.

It doesn’t matter if there are entire battalions of lawyers looking for it. Persecutors have the monopoly on getting people charged with crimes.

The other question you can ask is: why isn’t the entire press on fire complaining about government workers committing crimes all day over all over the country?

Well, we got the plug that is correct both ways…