FBXL Social

Socialism is just like neighborliness.

I took my gun to my neighbors house, put it to his head, and said "Give me all your money or else" then gave it to whoever I wanted to including a bunch of rich foreigners, and that's just being neighborly!

Unfortunately it's common from both parties. In the past 8 years there's been periods where the Dems had all 3 spots and periods when the Republicans had all 3 spots but that's when nothing gets done.

I guess the upside is it would be rough if the laws were changing every 2 years as power dynamics shifted with new elections.

Important part of american politics: if Trump wins and there's a huge majority elected in both houses, they won't even talk about such a bill. They only vote on bills like this when they can't possibly win

I often like seeing the requests for advice on some websites "my wife is a nurse, I'm a doctor, combined income 1900k/yr, we have 17 cents in debt and a paid off 7 billion dollar house, we have a fleet of cars signed by Henry Ford himself, but we're never going to be able to retire!"

If it's a Boeing, bounce...

Seems like an eminently thinkable event. Like, of all the acts I'd expect a mailman might do with a dumpster, throwing something out and specifically mail seems right at the top of the list of things I'd think of.

Typically big crashes don't stick around to their initial extent. That's why the advice is always to just stick to your strategy rather than making any rash moves and make potential losses into real losses.

The thing you want to do if you can when stuff like this happens is keep some of your powder dry so you can hop into trades that become opportunities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiO4b37RsIk

Pretty interesting video about failure modes of different forms of LED TVs.

"I'm sorry, literally this time last year we still called everyone we didn't like anti-Semitic, we weren't calling for death to the Jews and Israel back then!"

How dare those hateful hindus get in the way of the machetes of peace!

Listen to npr. They had no idea it was coming, they can't explain why it happened, they don't believe it'll continue, but definitely they'll set you right.

Let's do doughnuts at the allahu snackbar.

It's a clever marketing alliteration, but this crash is at least 4 years in the making and has both parties fingerprints all over it. In fact, many parties globally participated in destroying the world economy and this is just a tiny part of those hens coming home to roost.

Aw shit, guess gold's done...

You can have "unlimited growth" easily by just lying about inflation. Then they just make it so everything costs more except your wages and so record profits for everyone (and record tax revenue since look at all these profits we can tax!)

To be fair though, "generative AI produces factually incorrect bullshit" isn't really news unless someone's looking for a reason to attack a specific one. It's an inherently unreliable technology for seeking truth. That's why Google ended up just stopping a bunch of queries altogether because for sensitive topics they know they'll get in trouble, but not every platform does the same (but has the same problems)

"we're sending in Kamala Harris."

"A nuclear bomb is like a really big bomb that makes a really big explosion and that's bad[...]"

"May whatever God they believe in have mercy upon their souls"

The key to investing is to properly predict the future and to already be in the position you need to be in.

I rebalanced 2 months ago because I saw something bad coming. Glad I did, locked in my gains into stuff that's presently going up.

The curse of Cassandra: to speak true prophecy but everyone thinks you're insane.

Hmm! Yeah, all that is pretty important, especially if it's particularly bad information that contributed to setting off a powder keg.