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Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth
I've thought that stocks were a sucker's game for us plebians for years and that Robinhood was designed to hoover money from our pockets.

Just YOLO'd $50 into NAKD.

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Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

Cold on a Cob posted:

i like cats but a cat is more like a cooler than you roommate who likes hanging out but definitely isn't your friend and a dog is more like a weird protective mentally handicapped sibling

maybe don't compare mentally handicapped people to animals?

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth
imagine if number went down, loving lmao

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

Sokani posted:

I love big number

woah friend, no number posting in this thread

please censor yourself, such as "I love big n****r"

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

Marx Headroom posted:

Oh god please dont make me hoard oil. I still have rice and beans from covid panic

rice and beans are great, eat your beans

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

human garbage bag posted:

i legitimately believe that the american hitler is going to be madison cawthorn. he is tuned in to the populist appeal with his pizza delivery to the troops stunt, and his disability gives him motivation to care about stuff that is above his base desires since he can't enjoy normal things like golfing or having sex.

hitler was a failure who made his antisemetism and nationalism the driving force in his life.

you forgot to mention he's dumb as poo poo but i guess that never stopped hitler

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

Thoguh posted:

At this point I feel like a rube not opening up a robinhood account and putting some money down on the ground floor of Elon's transparent pump and dumps.

everything is inevitable after it's happened

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

at least he got out of one thing before it crashed

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

net work error posted:

It sucks that oatly is the best of the oat milks but also the most expensive.
I don't get why oat milks cost so much when they're probably the easiest to make? Isn't growing oats and just blending them cheaper than growing soy or almonds?

have you ever tried to milk an oat

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

Judakel posted:

is there a site where i can track the price of various video cards from the onset of bitcoin mania to today? charts would be helpful

maybe camelcamelcamel?

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

thatfatkid posted:

Lol you think Electric cars are good for the environment

just lmao if you don't think we can make personal consumption choices that save the world

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

super sweet best pal posted:

Back when I still had a car all my money would go into keeping it running. Gas, parts, oil, insurance, it loving sucked and I hated having to put effort into getting where I needed to go. Mass transit is a lot better, I can just tune out and not worry about being liable if the vehicle gets in a wreck.

yeah this is literally the textbook example of our cool economy keeping people in poverty

if you're low on cash you buy a cheap car and constantly have to do maintenance until you buy another junker in two years

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth
i feel as bad for the landlord not having money as the landlord would feel for me if i didn't have money

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

Rutibex posted:

the landlord would feel bad because he cant take money from you if you dont have any

he? we need 👏 more landladies 👏

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

Mola Yam posted:

cool

WHO WANTS TO BUY OH THE HUGE MANATEE

I GOT OH THE HUGE MANATEE HERE

NFT HOT HOT FRESH

is this how i do it? did i mint anything there

I'll give you 45K tether

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth
just thinking about how good number is

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth
lmao imagine finding qualities in Joe biden and kamala harris

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

Blinkz posted:

I mean I have to ask this. Like what exactly is the endgame for Doge coin? Do true believers think that one day I'm going to throw away my credit cards and USD and be digitally trading coins with a dog's face on it for groceries or am I thinking about this too hard?

This coin is now at 60 cents and from the outside looking in it looks like people are jumping on hoping it's the next gme to make them moderately rich.

the end game is number go up

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth
the fit deserved to die, civic supremacy

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

lmao UVA rejected three of his kids and he's contesting two of them

who's the third

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

Dr_0ctag0n posted:

Lmao inflation?!? Like how the hell does inflation of 'evil fiat money' come anywhere near the levels of volatility of Bitcoin? poo poo lost like $10k in value in like one afternoon because some egghead billionaire made a tweet.

individual bitcoins lost $10K, musk wiped out millions of "dollars" of value

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

lmao love to be "a part of Reddit history", much like violentacrez was

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

Raine posted:

death to america

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

Animal-Mother posted:

I hope the guy writing The Black Monday Murders recovers from whatever his health problem is and continues the book. It's perfect reading for these times.

It's fully written but the artist is having health issues.

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth
that's it, I'm going to COBOL college

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth
old code is a huge part of our country's infrastructure that is actively decaying and something I've never heard a politician talk about

doomed lmao

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

readingatwork posted:

This might actually be more secure than the spreadsheet now that I think about it. At least the post-its can’t be stolen my some rear end in a top hat on the other side of the planet when Janice in accounting downloads a virus that compromises the entire department.

Fun fact: A super easy way to get a virus onto someone’s computer is to load it onto a USB stick and just drop it into a parking lot (bonus points for writing “financial documents” or some bullshit on it). A shocking number of people who find them will just stick them right into their machines instantly infecting themselves.

So... might want to scan those sticks when you get a chance.

:thejoke:

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth
i DO need to be nicer to people wealthier than me, good catch

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth
https://twitter.com/tylerthecreator/status/285670822264307712?s=20

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth
as someone with autism, Mirthless trying to tell people how they should post is very recognizable behavior

thankfully, choosing to spend an entire day yelling at strangers isn't recognizable behavior

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

mawarannahr posted:

I have more respect for Bezos than other tech billionaires like Gates because Amazon works better than anything Microsoft has made and Bill Gates has tried to fool the world into thinking he’s a nice guy though he hangs out with Epstein. Meanwhile Jeff has owned the archetype of the mean capitalist boss and he has become this Lex Luthor type figure who is somehow a little less contemptible than the wormlike Gates or Zuckerberg, and not as intensely annoying as Elon Musk.

the dude has created a need for untrained delivery drivers, leading to multiple deaths

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/us/amazon-delivery-drivers-accidents.html

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

euphronius posted:

it used to be impossible to cancel a New York Times subscription

change your address to a California address and the ability to cancel online magically appears
:science:

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth
won't somebody think of the ip

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth
unfortunately, just like when anyone deletes Facebook, they'll be back in a few days and won't say anything about it

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

nikosoft posted:

I like Zelda! He's got a cool sword and hat

Zelda won't be able to afford his Hylian Shield if people keep pirating his games

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

Casey Finnigan posted:

that guy is fame douglas and he only exists to make people look at his avatar of biden sucking a finger

please don't insult my good friend fame douglas who compulsively posts in every cspam thread about how they're smarter than everyone else

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

Beached Whale posted:

The Silicon Valley brain geniuses are running into some issues with the whole "flipping houses" thing



hopefully they'll give Blackrock a good price

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

Koirhor posted:

next year I’ll have nearly enough PTO to take every wed off, seriously considering a 32 hour week experiment

I did that for six weeks once to burn PTO, it ruled.

Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

Injuryprone posted:

Join the IBEW

my buddy did this and he's super happy with it, very proud of his work and he's got healthcare through his job finally

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Cloks
Feb 1, 2013

by Azathoth

Rime posted:

As a former tech industry wizkid and someone who recently couped a subreddit, let me elucidate on why this will not happen and why Reddit will remain a shithole until the end of time. For the many goons who don't understand how this poo poo works and why the modern internet is a broken pile of poo poo and lies.

Reddits revenue value is tied to its advertising, and they are preparing for an IPO. While it does offer Pay per click advertising, it also does a lot of display advertising, which is charged to the advertiser in views registered. Bots are counted as views the same as humans in this advertising system, because the advertising industry as a whole decided it is too hard to filter them out.

If it ended up that, say, half of Reddits accounts were "fake", that would make a large portion of their revenue fraudulent, and bring the entire online advertising industry into question - the revenue stream which allows most of the modern internet to remain financially solvent. This same paradigm applies to Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Reddit, as a result, has zero motivation to empower its army of volunteer moderators to remove disinformation campaigns or objectionable content. In fact, it is wholly perversely incentivized to do nothing at all: That poo poo drives their advertising metrics far harder than cat photos and memes, it isn't even a contest. Barring regulatory action or a very big news story blowup, they will sit there and do nothing. Same with every other platform out there, nobody is going to kill the golden traffic goose keeping them afloat.

Nothing to do with scaring off boomer traffic, everything to do with risking pulling the rug on the industry by revealing a major platform is largely trafficked by algorithms rather than people.

We bitch and moan about Crypto being a Ponzi/Pyramid scheme, but it really is a whisper compared to the hurricane which is digital advertising - an industry which employs millions, nets obscene profits for advertising networks like Google, is entirely built on lies and wholly falsified metrics, and has directly facilitated the ongoing collapse of modern society by poisoning everyone's loving minds.

Thx for coming to my TED talk.

Is this why Reddit refused to remove child pornography for literally years?

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