this is extremely disappointing. is google going to start banning email clients now? https://t.co/v4z1awJiV0
— bob poekert (@bobpoekert) January 30, 2021
Oh, I expect any medium where anyone can talk to anyone else directly or semi-directly will become very heavily regulated, filtered and monitored soon, where only a bland neoliberal centrism is allowed to persist and anything else is exiled into the outer darkness.
All of this in the guise of oh-so-woke capital and with the proper pronouns.
Pump and dumps are illegal, but Jim Cramer’s whole business model was just that, and he evaded all punishment by simply agreeing to shutter his fund, moving to TV where he could pump and dump more by just saying buy Bear Stearns IN MINECRAFT.
The rules are written to fuck you.
— Monsieur le Baron (@Mssr_le_Baron) January 27, 2021
Much can become legal if you have enough cash to pay off the so-called regulators and buy the government. Supposedly, Robinhood was getting calls from the White House about GameStop et al. “Counterparty risk” and “capital requirements” are just excuses no different than if you say you don’t want to go to lunch with someone because you need to run errands.
The only opinions that matter are those of billionaires. We’re just gladiators in their arena.
No, WallStreetBets isn’t robbing Wall Street to help the little guy.
I’m always amazed at how smart people can be so stupid.
The doofus who wrote this article misunderstands why these events happened, why it was perpetuated for so long, and what the effect and meaning was intended to be. Yes, there were opportunists and probably a lot of the money will go to the rich in this (it always does).
However, that was not the point, nor the meaning, and there were real consequences: at least one hedge fund (Melvin Capital) went bankrupt and had to be bailed out, and another very nearly met the same fate.
This was a protest, for many — a cri de coeur that wasn’t intended to make money, but to point out the hollowness and the feculent corruption of a system stacked against them. That was the animus of the raid, and a sense of Merry Pranksterism, that was the drive behind the whole thing.
How can you write about this and not understand that? Bet some Condé Nast MBA was hand-editing this article to make it have the right plute-friendly spin.
The degree to which we fucked up here is staggering.
😳 yikes. Six months after first becoming sick, almost half were unable to work full time and 22% weren't working at all. 88% had cognitive dysfunctions or memory loss, and most had multiple symptoms. https://t.co/HdWtL25elW
— Nathan Benaich (@nathanbenaich) January 30, 2021
Covid-19 is not the fucking flu.
People who think that are simply wrong. Often catastrophically so, it turns out. I know it must be comforting to believe, like a lot of stupid-ass shit. But still wrong.
Republicans are no longer a political party. They’re a mob.
And this is only going to get worse. I’d expect a fascistic coup (one that succeeds) in 2024 or 2028. It won’t be more than a decade.
Next time, their plans will be better, they’ll have trained up, and it’ll succeed.
Achieving 11M IOPS & 66 GB/s IO on a Single ThreadRipper Workstation.
So it’s faster than an approximately 100,000 member Kubernetes cluster. One workstation.
I’m glad I gave up proving anything to anyone when I was about 13.
I took the spite-driven option. I just let them:
This is why we preferred Bernie over Warren. Plain and simple. pic.twitter.com/Uej9R4Nui7
— Raadiant™ (@raadiating) January 29, 2021
Samesies.
Many of the people yapping about how $GME shares are not tied to "fundamental value" paid $1,000 to see Hamilton the Musical
— Daniel Tenreiro (@TenreiroDaniel) January 29, 2021
Yes, I noticed that as well.
“Fundamental value” is not really a thing. It’s a convenient lie to keep the rubes in line. Once I realized this — when I was about 21 — is when I started making real money in the market.
It's the first year anniversary of this thread—responding to the first papers coming out of Wuhan. Talks about need for millions of tests (due to mild clinical symptoms), the threat to the elderly & high-risk, the danger of mutations and importance global equity. We were warned. https://t.co/yWlAvJsGLo
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) January 29, 2021
Yes we were warned. Anyone without fucking blinders knew by the end of January we were in for bad times.
And still I see, “Who could have KNOWNNNNNNN?”
We knew. We had time to prepare. We just didn’t. Well, Vietnam and a few other places did. But those were the exceptions.
We are a bunch of fucking clowns.
Chickens come home to roost in a society which believes you can be "healthy at any weight".
Reduce your risk by being robust, strong, healthy and lean. https://t.co/tPby2UtxAO
— GuruAnaerobic (@GuruAnaerobic) January 28, 2021
Yeah. In general makes you harder to harm, by anything. Nothing is certain, and death awaits us all. But how about not being a loser lump of fucking lard while you are here?
Trust me, it’s worth it.