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bengy81 posted:Is it even possible for doge to hit a dollar? I thought the rate new coins generated basically made it impossible for it to be anything but a shitcoin? Nothing is impossible when you are buying magic beans! Shifting gears a bit: Iraq claims that 150 Billion worth of oil exports have been stolen since the US invasion https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/middleeast/iraq-oil-money-us-invastion-intl/index.html That's some mission accomplished level numbers imo
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bengy81 posted:Is it even possible for doge to hit a dollar? I thought the rate new coins generated basically made it impossible for it to be anything but a shitcoin? The longer a crypto currency exists the longer it takes to mine a coin. I remember hearing similar things about Bitcoin before the got so hard to mine
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Grip it and rip it posted:Nothing is impossible when you are buying magic beans! Especially when said magic beans are a laundering front and tax shelter for illicit activities.
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maffew buildings posted:Short term speculating for serious profit is 100% doable. It just requires a lot of mental/emotional attributes, work ethic, commitment to riding out an learning curve brutal almost beyond words and other challenges that kind of don't line up with the fatalistic gambling young people are doing. But that's cool, the Fed will get to point to everyone who got annihilated in the market to enact regulations stacking the deck further in favor of hedge funds (the real victims here) Statistically speaking it’s not though- even sophisticated investors underperform the stock market index funds and the outliers of crazy success are almost always what you would predict given a normal distribution of outcomes among investors. The only people who have wild success over the market not due to chance are if ever in insanely rare cases like borderline savant Michael Burry who isn’t always right anyway, or (almost always actually the case) often just Wall Street types with multibillion hedge funds who can insider trade or make markets. Michael Burry types (“underdogs” with only a few hundred million) are at most one in a million type people, if he even is. Anyone thinks they are a good day trader is wrong. There is almost zero empirical evidence that anyone can beat the market without the ability to make the market or insider trade. It’s just that insider trading is common.
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May 23, 2021 18:36
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:Statistically speaking it’s not though- even sophisticated investors underperform the stock market index funds and the outliers of crazy success are almost always what you would predict given a normal distribution of outcomes among investors. The only people who have wild success over the market not due to chance are if ever in insanely rare cases like borderline savant Michael Burry who isn’t always right anyway, or (almost always actually the case) often just Wall Street types with multibillion hedge funds who can insider trade or make markets. I 100% disagree and no point talking past each other. It's insanely difficult, not impossible
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May 23, 2021 18:44
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SMEGMA_MAIL posted:Anyone thinks they are a good day trader is wrong. Degenerate gamblers think they're the best gamblers in the world because they won "big" *once*. It's Dunning-Kruger all the way down.
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Arven posted:Our whole generation has realized the only way they'll be able to retire is to lottery and are acting accordingly. If we keep being willing to take on hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt for college degrees that pay less than they cost and keep dumping all of our earnings into meme financial schemes this prophecy certainly self-fulfills.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Yeah the MiG-29 'escort' was a bit bond villain Of all the timelines to wind up in, I figured it'd be the Octavia Butler one, not the lovely Harpoon scenario one.
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bengy81 posted:Is it even possible for doge to hit a dollar? I thought the rate new coins generated basically made it impossible for it to be anything but a shitcoin? He keeps showing up in the bitcoin thread and getting banned for it. So he's around.
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Cugel the Clever posted:The D&D Eastern Europe thread is always a good read. Looks like Belarus just hijacked a plane in order to nab an opponent of the regime. Is there more on this yet?
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Mass shooting in New Jersey and I'm like "please be the cast of an MTV show, please be the cast of an MTV show." https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/us/new-jersey-house-shooting/index.html It wasn't, but 2 dead, 12 more injured, in a house party with hundreds of people. No suspect identified, no arrests. Covid's over, y'all, time to get back to party shootings!
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We stuck a firehouse of money into the mouth of the market over a decade ago and walked away. Everyone's success in the market is due completely to that and not to any sort of work ethic or skill.
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Godholio posted:He keeps showing up in the bitcoin thread and getting banned for it. So he's around. He has a blog thread in post my favorites but is still ban on sight in several other sub forums.
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The summertime sports are going to be loving nuts when the fans get fully let in. https://twitter.com/GOLF_com/status/1396603012962000902 https://twitter.com/PGATOUR/status/1396603503385014273 https://twitter.com/BFQuinn/status/1396610238695022593 And this kind of outdoor stuff should be encouraged! gently caress it, bro out, just do it outside. facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 00:35 on May 24, 2021 |
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I don't understand the excitement golf brings to people but also i watched like 10 straight hours of "The Last Dance" so I think i can understand the concept. Always relevant: 
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It's way more fun to play than it is to watch. There's something exciting in your lizard brain about thwacking a ball a couple hundred yards over and over, and the planning and math of it keeps your mind engaged. Should definitely be discouraged or outright prohibited to build golf courses in places that don't naturally support that kind of grass growth and care, though. Fuckers are an enormous water cost that you don't have to spend in higher latitudes because it actually rains more than twice a year.
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I just cant figure out why everyone is hyped up in those clips. It didnt seem any more amazing than most hits in golf.
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May 24, 2021 02:07
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Kazinsal posted:It's way more fun to play than it is to watch. There's something exciting in your lizard brain about thwacking a ball a couple hundred yards over and over, and the planning and math of it keeps your mind engaged. Should definitely be discouraged or outright prohibited to build golf courses in places that don't naturally support that kind of grass growth and care, though. Fuckers are an enormous water cost that you don't have to spend in higher latitudes because it actually rains more than twice a year. I just go to the driving range for the first part. Helps that my brother works at a Top Golf.
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Sunday is pretty much always the last day, and you've got people who will show up for the whole 4 day event, just staying daydrunk and getting slightly rowdier every day. Granted, that's about as rowdy as golf gets outside Happy Gilmore.
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Handsome Ralph posted:I just go to the driving range for the first part. Helps that my brother works at a Top Golf. I used to hit the driving range reasonably often. Never really good at it but when you had nothing else going on it was a cheap time. Unless that little fuckin' ball collecting buggy came. Holy fuckin' christmas there is nothing I've ever lusted after harder in all my life, and my transformation from the typical clientele of middle aged divorcee trying to seem classy to John Daly esque golf sniper was immediate, ferocious, and fiery. Good god I wanted to smash that thing and I don't know why.
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That's arguably why Top Golf exists in the first place - casual golf is better when there are targets to hit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFPV16f182w&t=117s The Mickelson thing was a perfect storm - famous, well-liked player probably in contention for his last major title, first golf major since pandemic restrictions were fully lifted, and "hey - I remember this old guy from before the pandemic!" as a bookend to the thing. DurosKlav posted:I just cant figure out why everyone is hyped up in those clips. It didnt seem any more amazing than most hits in golf. The context was that Mickelson entered the tournament on an exemption from his past wins - he wouldn't have qualified for this tournament otherwise. It was *extremely* unexpected that he'd be in contention on the 4th day, much less win the thing in a near-runaway. That shot was the approach to the 18th and as long as he didn't find a spectator's forehead, he'd have four putts to win it and did.
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not caring here posted:I used to hit the driving range reasonably often. Never really good at it but when you had nothing else going on it was a cheap time. Cyber Tiger (awful golf game on the PS1) had a driving range where you could indeed hit that fucker with a ball, and if you did it three times it'd just explode. It's not as satisfying as it sounds.
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That was almost a bit like the 16th hole at the WM Phoenix Open. https://youtu.be/K76gTBsfiyU
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I'm not sure if it's really "burying the lede", but it's not like four million Palestinians had "regular" access to water to begin with. ...or power.
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Kazinsal posted:It's way more fun to play than it is to watch. There's something exciting in your lizard brain about thwacking a ball a couple hundred yards over and over, and the planning and math of it keeps your mind engaged. Should definitely be discouraged or outright prohibited to build golf courses in places that don't naturally support that kind of grass growth and care, though. Fuckers are an enormous water cost that you don't have to spend in higher latitudes because it actually rains more than twice a year. Are there any golf course designs that are adapted to local conditions? Do you really always need so much grass and greenery to make a golf course?
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Fragrag posted:Are there any golf course designs that are adapted to local conditions? Do you really always need so much grass and greenery to make a golf course? Of course, there are the original golf courses in Scotland. You know, the ones that everyone else’s golf course has to copy…
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Fragrag posted:Are there any golf course designs that are adapted to local conditions? Do you really always need so much grass and greenery to make a golf course? No. You could theoretically have one hole and a bunch of approaches surrounding it like they do at Camp David, I think, but that would effectively kill any competition. I enjoy getting stoned and playing golf but top golf is so much better.
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Fragrag posted:Are there any golf course designs that are adapted to local conditions? Do you really always need so much grass and greenery to make a golf course? That would violate golf's tradition of being a sport for wealthy white men to use as much space and as many natural resources as possible for as little reason as possible.
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Fragrag posted:Are there any golf course designs that are adapted to local conditions? Do you really always need so much grass and greenery to make a golf course? There is one here in Finland that is build on top of a former garbage dump. You can't build any houses there, but the city made a deal with the Golf course company so that they cover the thing with grass and installed a system that recovers harmful gasses from the dump.
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facialimpediment posted:That's arguably why Top Golf exists in the first place - casual golf is better when there are targets to hit. He got an exemption to the US Open. He was qualified for the PGA Championship by virtue of being a former champion. He is now automatically qualified for the US Open for the next five years by virtue of winning one of the other majors, which arguably is a bigger deal for him then winning the PGA. Rickie Fowler got into the PGA on a special exemption. e: I misread your post. Sorry. Kazinsal posted:It's way more fun to play than it is to watch. There's something exciting in your lizard brain about thwacking a ball a couple hundred yards over and over, and the planning and math of it keeps your mind engaged. Should definitely be discouraged or outright prohibited to build golf courses in places that don't naturally support that kind of grass growth and care, though. Fuckers are an enormous water cost that you don't have to spend in higher latitudes because it actually rains more than twice a year. Agreed. It took over the area of my head where pool used to reside. Its practical application of 3D projectile dynamics. SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 13:29 on May 24, 2021 |
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not caring here posted:I used to hit the driving range reasonably often. Never really good at it but when you had nothing else going on it was a cheap time. It's the fly on the urinal phenomenon I bet
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SquirrelyPSU posted:
 Btw the Jesus movie is... weird, but good.
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Oh, well yes of course. Same rationale.
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boop the snoot posted:No. You could theoretically have one hole and a bunch of approaches surrounding it like they do at Camp David, I think, but that would effectively kill any competition. That seems kind of brilliant? This was the plan since the beginning lol
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Milo and POTUS posted:That seems kind of brilliant? Yeah, they only have running water at certain hours of the day, and electricity for maybe 4 hours a day PRIOR to this latest bombing run.
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A number of major cities have multiple golf courses within their limits (sometimes municipally-owned and operating at a loss!) which were erected with an explicit agenda of "let's eliminate swathes of land that might go to homes for 'the wrong sort' and instead be carved out as effectively private parkland for rich white men." Outside of areas with housing crises, sure go hog wild so long as it doesn't require utterly devastating the local groundwater reserves to maintain the esthetic.
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Ive said before they should create a dept of homeless or whatever they want to call it, seize every golf course but one in every county to make it more inconvenient and exclusionary to get rich people on board, plant fruit trees or crops on the golf courses and homeless shelters on them, and then pay the people minimum wage or better to have them pick it. You may be able to pay for the program, your food costs are decreased, you can sell any excess to farmers markets or whatever. It gives the homless a place where its out of the way so people wont gently caress with them and its safe, and its better for the environment and helps the ones who want to get back on their feet a way to do so that isn't just a hand out that some may not want to take they would be earning their way for people who thats important. The ones who have severe mental issues from when we emptied asylums or like it for one reason or another could do their thing, cities could stop wasting money on anti homeless measures like spikes on benches and it seems like w good idea all around It will never happen.
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The East Potomac Golf Course is probably the least offensive of golf courses (public, on land that couldn't really be residential for a number of reasons, public transport accessible), but it would still be way better off as just woods or something.
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