fractal_flowers 3 days ago • 100%
The only time I really heard this talked about was in elementary school, and finger guns were never a threat at the school I went to. Not even once, but the teachers and administration would harp on about it like kids were demonic for making them.
fractal_flowers 4 days ago • 100%
fractal_flowers 4 days ago • 100%
Yes, it's short for "cooperative". All of "coop", "co-op", and "coöp" are all technically correct (historically cooperative was spelled coöperative and co-operative), but co-op is probably the best to use because "coop" usually refers to chicken coops.
fractal_flowers 5 days ago • 100%
Unless every browser decides to allow scripting in a less shotgun-your-foot language, javascript will remain widely used.
It's called web assembly, and all the major browsers (Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Edge) now support it. That's not to say that Javascript is going to disappear, but other languages might take over much of its marketshare.
fractal_flowers 5 days ago • 100%
But they should be covered under the 1st amendment. The problem is that children don't have many rights in the US.
fractal_flowers 5 days ago • 100%
No. It's hysterical admins using lousy logic to conclude that finger guns = violence. The logic is something along the lines of finger guns = real guns = killing people.
fractal_flowers 1 week ago • 100%
Ah, I see. So being "devalued" is like mixing base metals in your gold coins, while "cheap money" is like loaning out the treasury. Both contribute to inflation, but in different ways.
An acquaintance who works in finance said that the USD was devalued during COVID but hasn't yet experienced much inflation except in household goods because money is still expensive. What does that even mean? How can money be expensive? And how does that differ from being valued/devalued? I would think "money is expensive" means something along the lines of "there isn't much liquid cash", but I thought the money injected into the economy *was* liquid cash. Would someone more into finance/trading than me explain how this is possible? Thanks!