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An important detail is that it took a miracle of coordination for the Reddit posters to drive the stock to $400, and it was deflated when Robin Hood turned off the ability to buy Gamestop shares. This protected their parent company, I don't know if the SEC punished them or not, but it was a good reminder that the little guy doesn't get to win.
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Mar 24, 2023 03:24
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A Bakers Cousin posted:yeah i thought it had come out that the hedge funds played reddit hard The first wave of Redditors actually did manage to swindle a bunch of money from hedge funds. Pump and dumps are so effective that it's illegal for an individual to lead one, but there's no law against a ton of people doing a pump and dump as a meme. However, everyone who bought in after the peak got left holding the bag, and now they're desperate to convince themselves that they didn't actually waste $10,000 being idiots.
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Mar 24, 2023 04:27
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uber_stoat posted:going out of business when you run a bank for drug cartels and bajillionaire business sociopaths, that's like losing money when you're running a casino. takes a devoted effort. The MGM Grand used to have an all-you-can-drink special, and they stopped offering it after a conference of physics grad students drank them into the red.
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Mar 24, 2023 19:16
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The point of the child labour laws is to force desperate undocumented immigrants to take their kids to work with them. A bunch of states are making it illegal to let those kids attend public schools, and big companies love to hire workers without green cards because they have no recourse against being treated like dirt.
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Apr 5, 2023 05:58
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:pretty sure they're just a way to do a racism / sexism / etc without getting in trouble There was an orchestra that did auditions with the candidates behind a screen, to prevent sexism from affecting the hiring decisions. The maestro didn't hire anyone that could be heard walking in high heels.
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Jun 29, 2023 19:27
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err posted:wouldn't most people wear masks on planes? its recycled air and youre on top of eachother. i havent flown since covid started fwiw Most people believe that nothing should ever be allowed to personally inconvenience them, and masks fall under that.
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Jun 30, 2023 01:15
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StratGoatCom posted:Considering the CDC is starting to mention that long covid is damaging the economy, we know it's worse then they're openly saying. Marx wrote about contagious disease harming workers. He said that factory workers should be at least eight feet apart to prevent tuberculosis, and when capitalists say they can't do this and be profitable, what they're really saying is that healthy lungs for workers are incompatible with capitalism.
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Jun 30, 2023 01:20
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IPAs are like reality TV shows - they're cheap to make, and thus there are way too many of them.
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Jun 30, 2023 18:23
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This really sucks. It's worse than season 20 of The Simpsons. If the studios win, there'll be more AI-produced shows like this because it's dirt cheap to produce. Shows the importance of the SAG strike.
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Jul 19, 2023 04:58
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Domino's Russia offered 10,000 free pizzas to anyone who'd get the logo tattooed on them. 381 people took them up on it. It wasn't Domino's superfans, it was people desperate for free food.
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Jul 27, 2023 05:16
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Frosted Flake posted:I think Amazon has gotten worse. It's become impossible to know what edition of a book you're getting. I wanted a hardcover of Brideshead Revisited and the picture was of the Penguin edition, the hardcover was actually the softcover Back Bay Books edition, and they shipped the Little, Brown and Company edition. I tried to buy a new phone recently. New, not refurbished, not restored, not "new in box" condition. The used Samsung phone I bought earlier this year failed completely for no apparent reason, so I wanted something brand new with a warranty. Amazon made it impossible - no matter what search filters I used, it kept trying to point me to a used phone reseller. Eventually I went to Motorola's website, sorted by the largest discount, and bought the first one on the list. It's great.
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Jul 30, 2023 03:52
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palindrome posted:I'm waiting for the "no cash, no insurance? no emergency room!" idea to start officially gaining traction. it's got to be tempting to the hospital administrators to just turn people away, dump them in the snow, send them on a bus to the nearest democrat city, etc. Barbara Dawson. Anna Brown. Lisa Edwards. Same story for all three: Told the hospital they needed emergency care and the staff told them they were fine, forcibly removed by police, and then died.
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Aug 12, 2023 09:44
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Paradoxish posted:There'd be a better argument for summer break if we actually valued independence, curiosity, or exploration as a society. Having several months every year to just be a kid and learn and do things on your own would probably be incredibly valuable, but the reality is that we're not really preparing kids for anything except a life of 9-5 drudgery so eh. Might as well just take whatever approach gets those test scores as high as possible. Youth suicide rates plummet every summer, but we've already learned that a couple thousand dead kids is a worthy sacrifice of it helps Number.
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Aug 13, 2023 11:17
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:That's why you have to get that good pseudoephedrine not that phenylephrine crap that's in everything. I feel so bad for Americans that you can't buy ephedrine. It's like drinking a coffee that clears your sinuses.
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Sep 12, 2023 21:19
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Jon Pod Van Damm posted:These are just a few of the reasons why pro-Capitalist and phony leftist pseudo-scholars falsify, distort, and just plain lie about Soviet history of the Stalin period.  This looks like it's copy-pasted from somewhere; where's it originally from?
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Sep 25, 2023 06:26
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Oranges grow year-round. The good juice comes from summer oranges. They store it year-round and water it down with the lovely off-white juice from winter oranges to have a consistently mediocre flavour.
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Oct 3, 2023 02:28
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Gearhead posted:I always figured if anything was going to harm the Chinese economy it would probably be fallout from One Child, but I don't think anyone can guess the whole fallout from a large number of people on the books ceasing to exist when clerical fuckery is discovered and corrected. Isn't it the opposite situation? There are about 10 million women in China whose births were not registered because they were the first child of a family that wanted a son. Or there were, maybe the government has done a census and already fixed the discrepancy.
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Oct 20, 2023 16:20
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SKULL.GIF posted:We've reached technology maturation on a lot of stuff that was driving the 90s through 10s and there's not really anything on the horizon. VR is a gimmick on par with 3D TV. AR might work but I don't think anyone will bother. AI is the only shot for a comparable technological leap to what we grew up with -- and it's currently being squandered on nonstop barrages of slop. Since 1970, computer speed doubled every two years, but that's no longer the case. A home computer in 1985 had its speed measured in thousands of operations per second, and now it's billions of operations per second. Some graphics cards do a trillion. But the trend is slowing down, so we no longer have exponential growth in computer chips to drive constant growth in the tech sector.
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Oct 22, 2023 20:25
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Gearhead posted:Last I had heard, the issue was severe OVER reporting of births, this turned up in the most recent census efforts. China's population was supposed to peak this decade, it actually peaked last decade. "Renowned geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan recently made a startling prediction during an interview with commentator Joe Rogan." I found this article, and no one else seems to be claiming this, so I think it's a bunch of bullshit. China hasn't officially revised their population numbers downward or anything like that.
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Oct 22, 2023 20:30
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Xaris posted:yeah poo poo poo poo sucks. we ended up losing various operating budget pools for things like textbooks, software, and trainings just because they weren't spent for a few years during the previous supe's retirement and now welp we have $0 on our line-item budget to buy a book lol The use-it-or-lost-it budget rule is one of the greatest moneywasters in the United States. The amount of stupid spending it has caused must be in the hundreds of billions at this point.
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Nov 7, 2023 07:58
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A Marxist might argue that the minor-league baseball players and stadium employees exploited by Major League Baseball are necessary to generate the profits that pay Ohtani's salary. A just world would ensure that minor league athletes all need to make a living wage before superstars can make bank. But the terms of the current system aren't dictated by Ohtani.
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Dec 10, 2023 08:16
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FistEnergy posted:I am a power grid operator and I have a 160MW Bitcoin farm in my territory. 160MW is a very large amount of power, like a medium size power plant. I assume you have a way to see where it is on the grid. You know the location of a place that contains millions of dollars' worth of specialized computer parts. Do with that information what you may.
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Jan 11, 2024 01:04
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This is the worst bridge disaster in the US since, at least, the I-40 bridge collapse in 2002. That bridge was just some concrete pillars across a river, the Key Bridge is a huge notable work of engineering.Sancho Banana posted:Jesus christ I want to be optimistic, but in freezing temperatures at night their odds are not good.
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Mar 26, 2024 08:53
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:I don’t know how they play this off like East Palestine. It’s pretty important infrastructure from what I can gather. It remains to be seen if this was something U.S. regulations could have prevented. If the ship had mechanical difficulties caused by poor maintenance, that's the responsibility of Singapore's government and Grace Ocean Limited. If there were some navigation aids on the bridge that weren't working, that's Baltimore's responsibility.
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Mar 26, 2024 09:11
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https://x.com/emilyopilo/status/1772628236758831285?s=20 The crew of the ship managed to warn people approaching the bridge and saved lives.
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Mar 26, 2024 16:36
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When the Trans-Canada Highway was blocked by flooding between Vancouver and Calgary, certain products stopped being available, but the supply of food and major consumer goods was never interrupted. Shipping is cheap; this is going to increase the flow of traffic to other ports, but I don't think it'll cause a shipping crisis. Other than the victims and their families, the people most impacted are the ones who live and work on opposite sides of that river.
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Mar 26, 2024 16:55
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Anyone who spends their own money on UberEats should have their taxes increased by that much, because they can clearly afford it.
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Apr 6, 2024 05:46
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The Oldest Man posted:The power of the nobility is always based on the premise of a right to violence, not their wealth. They're often embodied in the same people for obvious reasons (like a right to violence is most usually deployed to gain wealth) but a destitute samurai was still entitled to behead a commoner who offended his honor. I wonder what percentage of homicides in feudal Japan were samurai killing commoners, and how that compares to the number of cops killing civilians in America theae days.
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Apr 7, 2024 01:51
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Harik posted:a couple days back people were talking about potholes and "asphalt is expensive"... no it's not? it's infinitely recyclable. the machine tears up the asphalt, heats it up and puts it back down. you only have to replace the tiny fraction that wore away. Substitution is about people buying alternative goods, like replacing chicken with beans. Football tickets are now too expensive for the average family, but TVs are cheaper than ever, so according to CPI the price of entertainment is actually going down. Colin Mockery posted:I downloaded and looked at that specific app maybe a year ago. I didn't end up buying anything because I didn't want to give it my credit card and I realized I didn't actually want to buy veggies I didn't know how to cook that were about to expire from the local grocery store, even at a discount. And I've cut down my takeout consumption a lot, discounted takeout from an expensive restaurant (especially if you don't eat all of it) is still more expensive than making something at home. I have TooGoodToGo, and the only businesses in my neighbourhood that use it are 7/11 and Tim Hortons selling you day-old donuts for 75% off, and a local pizza place that uses it to sell incorrectly made pizzas rather than throwing them out.
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Apr 14, 2024 23:30
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piss guzzler 420 posted:i’ve been trying to transfer money to a credit union account from my existing citizens account. in the space of a week i’ve visited the citizens branch twice and my account has been frozen three times Shohei Ohtani's former best friend embezzled $16 million after he called the bank speaking fluent English and claiming to be Ohtani, and answered some biographical questions that could be found on Wikipedia.
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Apr 16, 2024 22:15
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Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:In the dumbest possible way. If you’re actually not just hoping Bitcoin or whatever tech stock is constantly going to the moon, you kinda have to think about it. Day trading is one of the hardest “easy” incomes I’ve heard of. I don’t think teaching kids this is a money maker to get into is any better than “become millionaire doing what you love on YouTube” is a viable career option. Day trading is literally worse than playing roulette at a casino, because at least the casino publishes the odds. I remember a study from India that said the average full-time day trader loses money equal to the average annual income.
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Apr 21, 2024 03:51
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$15 is the maximum price you personally can afford to pay - any more than that, you're better off going hungry or getting food elsewhere. Don't get fooled by the weird phrasing, the question is just "Is it possible for a meal to be too pricey to be worth buying?"
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May 7, 2024 02:14
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