I recall that a common January 6 defense was “the window was already broken”

When a company is talking about TAM, you know they’ve got nothing better to do with their air

I believe the grand jury system is working as intended

I did #2 except I didn’t exercise, I just sold it to someone else when the pice was up a bit on my small bet. I like to think that circuitously, Elon bought me a few lunches because screw that guy

Some folks like to gamble! More and more people are desperation gambling these days out of doomer mindsets that see 0dtes and kalshi bets as their way out of crushing poverty.

And here and there, it’s possible to look at pricing and conclude it’s pants-on-head bananas. Trading and therefore price action is dominated by algorithms which amplifies hype cycles. Who couldn’t see SpaceX as being overvalued? Other than the assholes at NASDAQ

Short sellers are an important part of the equity ecosystem as it provides downward pressure in price discovery. Lucky gamblers have made, and are making, far more than that with long positions in equity and options.

It’s difficult to say that we don’t need markets at all (e.g. would you plant cotton with no idea what it will sell for at harvest?). It then becomes a slippery slope of abuse and wealth concentration.

If anything this all feels like a failure of regulation and the SEC not going far enough

I don’t think we’re good enough at shitposting… We’re probably mostly theta-gang They said, I got a monthly put position in on spcx’s fall, made my 40% and got out

My uncle had it on his computer. I redid that quiz a bunch of times because the older you seemed, the more of the first lady’s pixels were visible! I remember there being at least 50 pixels …

My favorite question was " what happened at the bay of pigs" the correct answer was “a big mistake”

I agree, I remember when the pomplemoose guy made patreon, it was a great idea and I think he’s shepherded it pretty well

You can do other things in addition to voting, but everyone should vote

They recently said they’re going to start selling compute to other LLM companies. This after claiming all the build out was for internal LLM use. Looks to me like you’re right and they’ve given up on devoting their compute to a product

Yeah, it’s invasive and predatory and sucks and I hate it. But I also don’t understand it. Someone out there is paying for my data (demographics, purchase and browsing history, psychological profile maybe?) how are they making back their money on that purchase?

Seems like either

• a) the marginal difference in wealth extraction for the whole population is worth more than the data costs,
• b) it isn’t and these purchasers are net losing money, or
• c) there’s some nefarious propaganda goal where the motive is more control than profit

I wish they’d leave me alone*

*Except for steam

I genuinely don’t know why they think my data is that valuable, but it seems everyone wants a piece

She isn’t wearing headphones. She lives in a world where enough people don’t care about the things she cares about to keep the system going

A person of culture! Kookiburi!

When the metric becomes the target, systems fall apart. Frequent retractions are the natural consequence of this much pressure to publish. On the other hand, that the articles are being retracted at least shows the system is still working

It’s shocking how cheap some of these reps are

The bans are about control though, not birth rate. Scientists should check Smug Satisfaction levels in those states

Let’s just hope it isn’t a new, mutated strain - they would’ve noticed already if it was, right?

I always thought frog and toad were pretty idle-rich-coded. I approve of their glow up to anarchosocialists