the bitcoin of weed posted:

frosted flake is more of a court jester than a mascot. you could never find the character of a deranged tradcath artillery warnerd anywhere else in the world

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Posting about posters, always exciting

Mr Hootington posted:

Time to pay boomer. *chuckles in tech support*
https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1649083134468603905?t=Fmn6BLOzWyzZWUBC6CPfQw&s=19

Cuttlefush posted:

Rectal Death Adept posted:

stupid ✔️

wrong ✖️

posts in the Ukraine War thread

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Posting about posters, always exciting

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

I'm exciting, the losers aren't.

RadiRoot posted:

ok ill bite what was exciting today for you?

i rode my bike and waved at a raven. it was cool.

StratGoatCom posted:

He's earned his following because

Willa Rogers posted:

I can only find a rightwing source on this; is it legit or hyperbole?

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/apr/18/joe-biden-hike-payments-good-credit-homebuyers-sub/

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

she looks like she's extremely uncomfortable. like there's someone just off-screen with an AK forcing her to make these.

BrotherJayne posted:

Hurr hurr, thread title

i am harry posted:

lmao his what?!

Mr Hootington posted:

Thread title

anime was right posted:

buzzfeed has a pretty good news org like 10 years ago for no loving reason, but no one cared about it because buzzfeed peddled useless top 10 lists as their primary brand so it fell to poo poo

kazmeyer posted:

It's great. They're idolizing the CEO like Musk, or more accurately, like the Q crowd did with JFK Jr.

Like, the current big theory is all circling around what a podunk company Computershare is. If you want to buy stock from them, you can't say "give me X shares," you have to say "give me X worth of GameStop" and at some point in the next two weeks they bundle up all those orders and buy a bunch of shares and so you'll get like 2.192934576 shares. Since you can't own fractionals, they have a "group plan" where shares are held that are virtually divided between the holders.

The big crusade right now is direct registering shares-- instead of letting your shares in GME be held by a broker, you have to book them-- "take them off the table" per se, get them registered in your name and held out of the float, otherwise "hedgies" can borrow them to do shorts and other nefarious stuff. What people have been doing is booking most of their shares, and leaving like 1.02356 in the plan and just moving over whole shares when they accumulate more. But someone came up with the idea that if you have any fractionals at all, that means every share you own can be lent out and is being lent out to keep GME from reaching its true stock price of one quadrillion dollars per share. The mods of /r/superstonk actually called Computershare to get confirmation that no, they don't lend out shares that are being held in your name, but then somebody-- and I'm not making this up-- posted a tweet from the GME CEO that said "are dingleberries fruit?" and that became IRONCLAD confirmation that the Computershare fractional plan was actually a tool of the hedgies and you had to get your shares out of that immediately. So now Computershare is dealing with thousands of howler monkeys demanding bespoke management of their stock purchases when this company can barely manage to manage accounts via postal mail. (They've also now dismissed the /r/superstonk mods as agents of the hedgies and now there's apparently three or four different subreddits where the diaspora of mental illness is happening.)

spacemang_spliff posted:

My brainworms are strong enough that I can see how they interpreted that tweet

I need help lol

spacemang_spliff posted:

COLUSSY

kazmeyer posted:

It's great. They're idolizing the CEO like Musk, or more accurately, like the Q crowd did with JFK Jr.

Like, the current big theory is all circling around what a podunk company Computershare is. If you want to buy stock from them, you can't say "give me X shares," you have to say "give me X worth of GameStop" and at some point in the next two weeks they bundle up all those orders and buy a bunch of shares and so you'll get like 2.192934576 shares. Since you can't own fractionals, they have a "group plan" where shares are held that are virtually divided between the holders.

The big crusade right now is direct registering shares-- instead of letting your shares in GME be held by a broker, you have to book them-- "take them off the table" per se, get them registered in your name and held out of the float, otherwise "hedgies" can borrow them to do shorts and other nefarious stuff. What people have been doing is booking most of their shares, and leaving like 1.02356 in the plan and just moving over whole shares when they accumulate more. But someone came up with the idea that if you have any fractionals at all, that means every share you own can be lent out and is being lent out to keep GME from reaching its true stock price of one quadrillion dollars per share. The mods of /r/superstonk actually called Computershare to get confirmation that no, they don't lend out shares that are being held in your name, but then somebody-- and I'm not making this up-- posted a tweet from the GME CEO that said "are dingleberries fruit?" and that became IRONCLAD confirmation that the Computershare fractional plan was actually a tool of the hedgies and you had to get your shares out of that immediately. So now Computershare is dealing with thousands of howler monkeys demanding bespoke management of their stock purchases when this company can barely manage to manage accounts via postal mail. (They've also now dismissed the /r/superstonk mods as agents of the hedgies and now there's apparently three or four different subreddits where the diaspora of mental illness is happening.)

quote:

In Germany, the law does not permit the issue of shares of less than one thousand marks denomination, and the magnates of German finance look with an envious eye at Britain, where the issue of one-pound shares (= 20 marks, about 10 rubles) is permitted. Siemens, one of the biggest industrialists and “financial kings” in Germany, told the Reichstag on June 7, 1900, that “the one-pound share is the basis of British imperialism.”

gradenko_2000 posted:

something I've thought about a lot, but haven't quite formed a cohesive concept around, is that the particular formatting of reddit (and to some extent, facebook comments), is purpose-built to resist the formation of established ground-truth

because every thread is fated to fade away over time
because comments cannot (normally) be read in a straight chronological fashion
because you can't even search the loving website properly

there is never any hope for any kind of new consensus. Someone pipes up with a bit of news, or a novel idea, or a strong argument, and you might even get people at that moment, within a span of, say, 24 hours, to agree with it, or to absorb some new information

and then it's gone

and then a week later the same thread pops up again, if it does at all, except nobody has learned anything

and it just goes on like that forever

Mr Hootington posted:

I think I posted this last week.

kazmeyer posted:

Oh just for context the tweet in question was from July of last year. So the CEO anticipated this discussion about fractional shares eight months before it happened.

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

1. website is created which has some functionality that people like
2. the website can "sustain" itself off the small userbase it has, because the relatively small size of them makes the costs manageable
3. word of the website's functionality spreads, more people begin to use it, send it to other people, and so on
4. eventually, the size of the userbase gets big enough that the original owners have to do something to start breaking even on costs. more ads, subscriptions, sell the thing to a bigger fish planning on implementing one of the former options.
5. the userbase shrinks because the original functionality has been made crappier or a better option has appeared.

seems like some websites should just be owned by the government and run as public utilities.

Zodium posted:

cato wife is also one of the great cspam sagas

FlapYoJacks posted:

Imagine how terrible being married to a CATO wife must be lmfao.

Zodium posted:

cato wife is also one of the great cspam sagas

skooma512 posted:

Why doesn't China want RMB to circulate?

Taima posted:

I even think SA might become as popular as it once was; no one else does what we do. It's incredible and I'm tired of people talking poo poo on dead forum

is pepsi ok posted:

Went to lunch at this local sub place today and had my order taken by a 10 year old.

Guess I need to start getting used to that.