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Soul Dentist
Mar 17, 2009
What happened to UPS? Not enough Secret Satan participants this year?

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Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Elon Musk set fire to roughly $38 billion in stockholder money today, just in case you're feeling bad about your own accomplishments.

Big deal I could waste a lot more money than that. Put me in coach, I'm ready to play

Leave
Feb 7, 2012

Taking the term "Koopaling" to a whole new level since 2016.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

TSLA stock opened at $149ish this morning, closed at $137.80.

Basically it's the USS Greeneville in reverse and instead of a Japanese trawler it's gonna collide with the loving floor.

Can you explain that? I'm interested in Musk completely loving things up, but I don't know about the USS Greenville.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
Popped up under it, 9 killed. Still probably safer than tesla

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.
Musk gets margin called if it hits 130 for some of his lines of credit.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Leave posted:

Can you explain that? I'm interested in Musk completely loving things up, but I don't know about the USS Greenville.

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

That boat was cursed, it crashed into three things in less than two years.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
This Twitter thread describes (the very good) changes to the Electoral Count Act in the Omnibus that will pass this week. Bottom line: any fuzzy language is no longer fuzzy, but if they're gonna outright steal it outside of the legal system, it's not like a legal fix would do anything.

https://twitter.com/awprokop/status/1605336838558056450?t=-4DGU6jpvHKe36tkNDlG_Q&s=19

Meanwhile: Donnie's tax returns go to the public (via someone in the House of Representatives that will leak them) after a day or two of address/special security number redactions.

https://twitter.com/kristin__wilson/status/1605361549031641088?t=84Q-eRK9kU46dZDMOC30ig&s=19

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

STOMP'N ON INTO THE POWERLINES

Exciting Lemon
The curse.... Of three bad O-5s in a row and a bad chiefs mess and a crew who's morale was poo poo because of those first two.

Turns out blood and reforms can make you the what boat in the Pacific years later. Shame lessons don't last longer than the collective 6 months ADHD of the navy.

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

HEAVYARMS

Midjack posted:

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

That boat was cursed, it crashed into three things in less than two years.

But what if they were just doing the Earth a solid and taking out the next generation of Japanese whaling "researchers"

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned

Mr. Nice! posted:

Musk gets margin called if it hits 130 for some of his lines of credit.

Don't worry, the TSLA bulls online have been very adamant that too much stock has been sold and institutions will load up/it HAS to bounce/Q4 numbers are going to be amazing/this is just liberals punishing him for bringing back free speech, so he'll be fine because there's definitely no way it could keep selling during the week in which he insulted a couple of his biggest stakeholders :)

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Mr. Nice! posted:

Musk gets margin called if it hits 130 for some of his lines of credit.

Could be the best Christmas in years.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Eej posted:

But what if they were just doing the Earth a solid and taking out the next generation of Japanese whaling "researchers"

They'd probably be a bit farther south for that, but thanks for posting on the something awful dot com forums Mr. Paul Watson.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Mr. Nice! posted:

Musk gets margin called if it hits 130 for some of his lines of credit.

For a friend (me), can you provide a link to the margin call thing? I've been googling to try and figure out if Musk gets margin called at $150 or $130 and I'm really not getting any decent sources that seem even close to trustworthy.

It kinda seems like online wishcasting that I just can't bring myself to cackle hysterically at until I get solid confirmation. Considering the dude's net worth was $20B a few years ago, and it's now $220B, and he doesn't have poo poo for cash, I WANT TO BELIEVE

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



The point at which he gets called is kept between him and the lender because if it was public it would be simple to manipulate the stock price to trigger a call on somebody. Any numbers you see are pure speculation.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

afaict none of the numbers people are associating with margin calls are actually based on anything in particular

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?
Fresh update on the state of the German military:
We sent 18 brand-spanking new Puma IFVs to a VJTF joint task force exercise.

Number of Pumas that were not operational: 18

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/puma-tank-failure-is-heavy-setback-germany-defence-ministry-2022-12-19/

IPCRESS
May 27, 2012

Duzzy Funlop posted:

Fresh update on the state of the German military:
We sent 18 brand-spanking new Puma IFVs to a VJTF joint task force exercise.

Number of Pumas that were not operational: 18

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/puma-tank-failure-is-heavy-setback-germany-defence-ministry-2022-12-19/

Didn't they fail their acceptance trials last year too?

A.o.D.
Jan 15, 2006

Duzzy Funlop posted:

Fresh update on the state of the German military:
We sent 18 brand-spanking new Puma IFVs to a VJTF joint task force exercise.

Number of Pumas that were not operational: 18

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/puma-tank-failure-is-heavy-setback-germany-defence-ministry-2022-12-19/

There's no such animal as a puma. It looks like a warthog to me.

Blind Rasputin
Nov 25, 2002

Farewell, good Hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.

Sorry to ask, but what is being margin called all about and what does int mean for Elon and/or Tesla and Twitter? It basically him defaulting on his loans?

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

Blind Rasputin posted:

Sorry to ask, but what is being margin called all about and what does int mean for Elon and/or Tesla and Twitter? It basically him defaulting on his loans?

he used the stock he owns as collateral for loans and when the value of the collateral drops below a threshold, usually some fixed percentage of the outstanding balance, the bank picks up the phone and says "send us a check to make up the difference right now, or we're selling all of the stock for you right now and taking what we can get for it"

shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 14:13 on Dec 21, 2022

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
New Daft Punk album looking pretty good:

https://twitter.com/fguzmanon7/status/1605412312860573700?t=QBu51axMlcbuIoc4fNFayw&s=19

To confirm this was what I thought it was, I randomly skipped to a time on the video and got the quote "to support doms and subs in Broward County". Then something about an armory and I don't think they mean the national guard.

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

quote:

I propose that you use a quarter of that mil to support doms and subs in Broward County, to build a dungeon, created for us/by us, the taxpayers and voting citizens.

quote:

I look forward to spanking each and every single one of you at the new esteemed dungeon.

:lol::lol:

They took it more seriously than I expected, frankly.

PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

shame on an IGA posted:

he used the stock he owns as collateral for loans and when the value of the collateral drops below a threshold, usually some fixed percentage of the outstanding balance, the bank picks up the phone and says "send us a check to make up the difference right now, or we're selling all of the stock for you right now and taking what we can get for it"

And if enough of a stock gets margin called then it causes a positive feedback loop because the act of selling it off tanks the price, forcing you to sell off more etc

edit: Musk getting margin called might by the first time ever that this results in the price going up though lol

PookBear fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Dec 21, 2022

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

BTW hope everyone is ready for some frosty weather

https://twitter.com/NWSWPC/status/1605614914873311232?cxt=HHwWgIC-8cKQpcgsAAAA

https://twitter.com/NWSGreatFalls/status/1605534949922050048?cxt=HHwWgMCgyfnhgMgsAAAA

https://twitter.com/BianchiWeather/status/1605714811345567745?cxt=HHwWgoCwzaHH0sgsAAAA

Arrath
Apr 14, 2011


Welp good time to be in Cali

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011
i need california to hurry up and become the eleventh canadian province it's too loving cold outside what the god drat unholy gently caress vancouver is supposed to be the habitable part of this country

LtCol J. Krusinski
May 7, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Kazinsal posted:

i need california to hurry up and become the eleventh canadian province it's too loving cold outside what the god drat unholy gently caress vancouver is supposed to be the habitable part of this country

I feel like you fundamentally misunderstand who’s going to annex who, eh?

Nystral
Feb 6, 2002

Every man likes a pretty girl with him at a skeleton dance.

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

I feel like you fundamentally misunderstand who’s going to annex who, eh?

I too long for a Shadowrun-esque United Canadian American States.

LtCol J. Krusinski
May 7, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Nystral posted:

I too long for a Shadowrun-esque United Canadian American States.

I’m more of a Fallout 1 intro guy, but yeah.

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
This storm is missing me. Lol. Enjoy, everyone east of the rockies.

It's been mornings in the negatives for weeks here already, time for everyone else to have a taste.

E: actually looks like we're going to have a warm spell. Tonight's low is 14°F, before wind.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
I'm not really worried about the cold, as we've been overdue. Or the snow, as we've been overdue.

The trouble is that we're getting all of the above, plus 45 mph winds and that's highly likely to knock out some power and stop people from driving places that do have power.

edit: holy loving gently caress SBF is hosed

https://twitter.com/AaronKatersky/status/1605743085236920323

Cugel the Clever
Apr 5, 2009
I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA
I haven't turned on the heat yet this winter and I'll be damned if I start now :colbert:

Hope folks stay safe, though.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

facialimpediment posted:

I'm not really worried about the cold, as we've been overdue. Or the snow, as we've been overdue.

The trouble is that we're getting all of the above, plus 45 mph winds and that's highly likely to knock out some power and stop people from driving places that do have power.

edit: holy loving gently caress SBF is hosed

https://twitter.com/AaronKatersky/status/1605743085236920323

Is that worm girl? Hope it was worth it dude lol

Blind Rasputin
Nov 25, 2002

Farewell, good Hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.

facialimpediment posted:

I'm not really worried about the cold, as we've been overdue. Or the snow, as we've been overdue.

The trouble is that we're getting all of the above, plus 45 mph winds and that's highly likely to knock out some power and stop people from driving places that do have power.

edit: holy loving gently caress SBF is hosed

https://twitter.com/AaronKatersky/status/1605743085236920323

Lol absolutely confessing to get a better deal. SBF is hosed.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Milo and POTUS posted:

Is that worm girl? Hope it was worth it dude lol

Yup. In a shocking development, the polycule has devolved into explosive backstabbing with a side of drama!

SBF is guilty as gently caress of course, but there was probably enough weird cryptobabble and foreign-based poo poo where he had a longshot to talk himself off the hook. Had :v:

Bored As Fuck
Jan 1, 2006
Fun Shoe

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

I’m more of a Fallout 1 intro guy, but yeah.

Lmao, deep cut. Very nice.

My Spirit Otter
Jun 15, 2006


CANADA DOESN'T GET PENS LIKE THIS

SKILCRAFT KREW Reppin' Quality Blind Made American Products. Bitch.

Kazinsal posted:

i need california to hurry up and become the eleventh canadian province it's too loving cold outside what the god drat unholy gently caress vancouver is supposed to be the habitable part of this country

lols in winnipegian

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose
I can't believe the fascist Harry Potter fan tumblr freak was the smarter one.

LtCol J. Krusinski
May 7, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

Bored As gently caress posted:

Lmao, deep cut. Very nice.

https://youtu.be/geLiEiAiQJA

This game was such a gem. I’m hoping Christopher Nolan’s Fallout TV Show takes more from FO1/2/NV than FO3/4/76

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TheWeedNumber
Apr 20, 2020

by sebmojo

LtCol J. Krusinski posted:

I’m more of a Fallout 1 intro guy, but yeah.

I could go either way tbqh.

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