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[scriver]

Do note: A more socialist response to the '08 crisis would have been to buy out the failing banks. There's nothing inherently socialist about giving people (whether individual citizens or corporations) financial aid. When socialists seek to institute financial aid to people what makes it socialist us that they do it with the aim of lessening inequality, poverty, and meanlessness. Giving super rich people huge sums of money without reimbursement preconditions is not socialism just because it involves giving money.

[Maximum Spin]

You guys know the "2008 financial crisis" was caused by the Bush administration's pushing the banks to expand subprime mortgages to "get more people in houses", right? It was caused by (attenuated, half-assed) socialism, which is to say, the expansion of government-backed credit to pay for things that the economy couldn't sustain, just out of a vague feeling that people "deserve" those things.

[Frumple]

That... is not what happened, and I'm not sure where you got the idea from.

[martinuzz]

Uhm, the whole concept of house ownership and mortgages is capitalism pur sang.
'Having more people in houses' in your example is a wrong description. 'Having more people own private property and having more banks own people' would be a better description. Pure capitalism, zero socialism.

[Scoops Novel]

What's the middle ground between clever and dumb?

[hector13]

Dover.

[EuchreJack]

What's the middle ground between clever and dumb?

Sadly, they're not mutually exclusive.
"Too clever by half" comes to mind.

[Naturegirl1999]

What's the middle ground between clever and dumb?

Sadly, they're not mutually exclusive.
"Too clever by half" comes to mind.

I’ve never heard that phrase before, what do you mean?

[Frumple]

It generally means someone that did something considered clever that backfired somehow or another -- the old lie about the space pen comes to mind*. Intelligent in an annoying or malfunctioning way, etc. Figuring out how to get through a locked door that had a long fall on the other side would be another example. Exactly what that entails is a moving target that varies based on occasion and audience, though.

*There's this thing that's circulated for decades about NASA (wasn't them) spending millions (one guy spent somewhat over a single million) to develop a pen that worked in space (not mentioned, a bunch of other extreme conditions) instead of just using a pencil (which had their own problems for space use, like catching fire), which was inaccurate on basically every level but draws from the same sort of concept as too clever by half.

[EuchreJack]

Also, Sneaky but got Caught anyways.  Or trying to commit the perfect crime when a perfectly legal alternative was available.

Wile E. Coyote comes to mind.

[MrRoboto75]

*There's this thing that's circulated for decades about NASA (wasn't them) spending millions (one guy spent somewhat over a single million) to develop a pen that worked in space (not mentioned, a bunch of other extreme conditions) instead of just using a pencil (which had their own problems for space use, like catching fire), which was inaccurate on basically every level but draws from the same sort of concept as too clever by half.

Y'know, it probably doesn't help when my air n space museum gift shop still carries "Space Pens"

[heydude6]

The pens are real, and apparently they're high quality. The R&D was just done by the private sector rather than the public. Don't know if you're gift shop pens are authentic though, price range should be around 25-75 dollars.

[King Zultan]

I always though those things were cool because you could use the under water as well, not that I have a need to write under water.

[Kagus]

I always though those things were cool because you could use the under water as well, not that I have a need to write under water.

I've got a pen that can write underwater!

...it can write other words too, though.

[dragdeler]

Cant we make our own internet with blackjack and hookers?


Somebody should make an overlay or a plugin or a site, that has old designs of sites that used to not suck you pick your favourite, it crawls the site and copypastes the data into the old format. Pretty sure the broken mess that would be v0.1 of such software, would still be faster, more functional and prettier than modern webdesign, my old pentium 3 can farm a whole bitcoin in the time it takes these stupid menus to fade in.