Day: July 23, 2025, 10:03 PM

Risk

Chill Regular-ass Post

Agreed. Most people should not be permitted to do any form of short-term trading. It takes nerves of steel, very high intelligence, tolerance for risk and stress, and the ability to lose money without flinching. You’re playing against the worst sharks in the world who will eat you alive without a second thought. Most people will be bankrupted.

And yes, I do know. I day-traded for years actively and made 64x my initial investment before I mostly hung up my spurs. Yes, that is 64 times, not 64%. Unfortunately, I did not have all that much capital to start so I didn’t get as rich as I could’ve if I’d started out wealthy.

What Is Binary?

Chill Clowns

Does anyone else have like ZERO patience for developers that don’t know how to computer?

What’s odd about these threads is how many people vehemently insist that even developers should not have any idea how to use a computer and should not be expected to comprehend anything about one.

I expect the (also-wrong) defense of end users not knowing the name of an application they’ve been using for 15+ years and the like. But to see people claiming that even devs should not know the first thing about their own tools and the targets of their programming is fucking infuriating.

We systems types really are expected just to do everyone else’s jobs these days, aren’t we?

(And the title of this post is in reference to a developer at an early job of mine who didn’t know what binary was and asked me, “So, what is binary?” I was utterly flabbergasted.)

Pow Imp

Chill Clowns

AITA for pointing out the truth to my brother?

I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen “power imbalance” applied to a man being an alleged victim of one.

In feminist discourse only women can be completely powerless fragile effectless flowers in their own lives, never men. Not exactly refreshing to see it changed up, exactly, but that it did happen at all is remarkable.

But Jesus fuck, let people lead their own lives. Neither one of them are hurting a fly, and I’d say the same thing if the relationship was the other way around.

All we really have is a clown imbalance.

Chill Links

Ukraine Scrambling To Fight Against Growing Russian Shahed-136 Threat.

The three-way battle for the Democratic Party.

Why doctors are finally taking IUD pain seriously.

How Social Housing Won in Seattle, Despite a Flood of Big Tech Money.

It’s time to rethink how we measure labor in the US.

The story of the Coldplay couple unfolded like a soap opera. But was the pile-on that followed a proportionate response? No. It was far more shameful than whatever they were doing.

GOP megabill’s final score: $3.4T in red ink and 10 million kicked off health insurance, CBO says.

On Ukraine’s Front Line, a Sky Full of Killer Robots.

Opération Satanique would, in some respects, succeed: The Rainbow Warrior would never lead a flotilla to protest French nuclear testing. Instead, it would become the center of one of the most sensational crimes and investigations in the history of New Zealand.

YouTube wipes out thousands of propaganda channels linked to China, Russia, others.

The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable. Idiot MAGATs can try to pray the solar gay away, but it ain’t gonna work.

The Poker Game Between the US, China, and Europe.

Microdosing Willpower.