twoday posted:

should be a fun day on the trading floor tomorrow, as brokers show up in hazmat suits to sell everything they have

a.lo posted:

do you live in a mansion

a.lo posted:

do you live in a mansion

Agronox posted:

stock futures are up uP UP since that news broke oddly enough

Drinkfist posted:

So here is my current stockpile



I think I need more beans now that you all mention it. Post your true stocks boys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JITC1fo2HA

twoday posted:

Berlin is one of the largest cities in Europe, it's spread there is a significant development

https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1234267945318125568?s=19

this seems bad

twoday posted:

should be a fun day on the trading floor tomorrow, as brokers show up in hazmat suits to sell everything they have

Agronox posted:

stock futures are up uP UP since that news broke oddly enough

Chris James 2 posted:

https://twitter.com/SRuhle/status/1234203064913088513

Chris James 2 posted:

https://twitter.com/SRuhle/status/1234203064913088513

Crusader posted:

Starks posted:

yeah the tourism industry is gonna collapse.

Chinatown posted:

i was planning on a summer overseas trip but its real hard for me to throw money down on reservations right now.

summer tourism season is gonna be devastated probably.

Notorious R.I.M. posted:

https://twitter.com/NBCNewYork/status/1234283013455872001

Ehhh just a single travel case



https://twitter.com/Adam4NY/status/1234286143581102080

o

Crusader posted:

https://twitter.com/bymikebaker/status/1234294709146701824

Ronald McReagan posted:

I took an undergrad class in economic geography back in 2006 with a professor whose area of expertise was development in sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, her research was on the impacts on various indicators of social and economic health in rural communities following the implementation of whatever neoliberal/NGO/World Bank scheme was being inflicted at the time.

She told us this story once about a rural community she worked with in Mozambique where every year, they planted two sets of crops -- one up in some highlands, the other down in a floodplain. In comes a bunch of NGO people to "develop" the area. They do a "study," and determine that the reason the community is "underdeveloped" is because of all the wasted effort planting crops in the highlands in an area that frequently suffers from drought conditions. They decide to bring in some microloan company (microloans were just the hottest new thing at the time) to throw a bunch of money at people in the community to "incentivize" them to stop planting crops in the highlands and instead start buying US-dumped clothes, beauty products, etc., and selling them to tourists and poo poo. So of course a bunch of people take this up, and no more crops get planted in the highlands.

Turns out, the reason crops were being planted in the highlands was because of the ~10% chance that it's not a drought year, in which case the floodplain crops get drowned when the river swells. So after a couple of years of restructuring the local economy around passing kitchy garbage from one set of white people to another, there's a season of torrential rains, and oops we have a famine. The solution? More microloans to purchase cash crops to sell and hopefully have enough leftover after interest to buy the actual food that they would have already had if these NGO vultures had never shown up in the first place. The eventual results of this cycle of poo poo were completely predictable -- the community was effectively destroyed, and its people, having nowhere else to turn, were assimilated into the perpetual destruction machine of global capitalism.

More than anything else I ever received in any classroom, this story pushed me down the road to leftism (the professor -- at the time at least -- was not herself a leftist, but was, obviously, highly skeptical of Western-led development efforts). I've thought about it probably weekly for the last 14 years. In the last month or so, I've been thinking about it almost daily. Capitalism has spent the last 50 years furiously wringing all redundancy out of the global economy wherever it can be found, whether it's crops being planted in the highlands in Mozambique or money and space being "wasted" maintaining inventory. All it takes is one thing going wrong, and everything and everyone touched by the supply chain in question can be catastrophically hosed. So incredibly stupid.

Starks posted:

I’m planned to go to Berlin at the end of March and everything I booked is nonrefundable and I don’t have travel insurance. I’m a loving Idiot!

edit I guess if it spreads fast enough and it’s in every country then people will stop caring about not travelling maybe?

Bullfrog posted:

my cat likes the fact that ive been going shopping frequently lately, to stock up for survival

Starks posted:

I’m planned to go to Berlin at the end of March and everything I booked is nonrefundable and I don’t have travel insurance. I’m a loving Idiot!

edit I guess if it spreads fast enough and it’s in every country then people will stop caring about not travelling maybe?

Starks posted:

I’m planned to go to Berlin at the end of March and everything I booked is nonrefundable and I don’t have travel insurance. I’m a loving Idiot!

edit I guess if it spreads fast enough and it’s in every country then people will stop caring about not travelling maybe?

GrimGypsy posted:

Disagreeing with hysteria is a gimmick!

Homeless Friend posted:

definitely an idiot, imagine how much cheaper you could get it now

Don Pigeon posted:

Yeah in december I planned my first trip to Italy for May and figured, I have the time off, nothing could really happen that could get in the way of my trip, and I got everything non-refundable. Looks like a few grand down the drain.

silentsnack posted:

Your repeated concern trolling is a gimmick, and it is not a good one. Haven't you noticed that barely anyone engages the content when you post this garbage, except to call you out on your style? It's too obvious you're arguing in bad faith when you directly insinuate cspammers are monstrous sociopaths who derive enjoyment from the suffering/distress/deaths of others.


Telling people what to do isn't really my thing, this is simply meant as sincere advice: if you want people to continue dismissing you as yet another boring idiot troll, just keep doing what you're doing.

Thoguh posted:

Yeah, that to. Tickets are gonna be super cheap this summer.

MarcusSA posted:

my S/O is supposed to come to LA from London at the end of March. We haven’t bought the ticket yet because wtf are we supposed to do?

It’s not impossible we see flights stop all together in the next 4-6 weeks if the US gets this bad enough and other countries tell us to gently caress off / the flight attendants strike.

Thoguh posted:

Yeah, that to. Tickets are gonna be super cheap this summer.

MarcusSA posted:

my S/O is supposed to come to LA from London at the end of March. We haven’t bought the ticket yet because wtf are we supposed to do?

It’s not impossible we see flights stop all together in the next 4-6 weeks if the US gets this bad enough and other countries tell us to gently caress off / the flight attendants strike.