• UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Not sure if cryptobro being a manchild, or a :dril: tier bit.

    • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I was upset about things a week or so ago and sometimes there's no outlet to vent that frustration and so I slammed my hand onto the coffee table not really expecting it to be damaged but woops now it has a noticeable indentation in it because it was cheaper/I was stronger than I thought but hey the good news is now I have a free reminder of the need to Chill Out

      despite this behavior I would never smash something Actually Valuable like a tv that's just wack yo

        • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          I don't think that'll help because it's a very cheap coffee table so it's not like, actually solid wood, it's like some laminate/plywood type thing idk I'm not a wood expert. But it's not like a "dent" it's more like it's a dent and partially cracked with a separation of layers of material

          not trying to argue with your advice, I'll keep that in mind if I ever stupidly damage real wood, I just don't imagine it helping here :(

          the real lesson is I need to stop hitting things because I'm a lot stronger than I was 10 years ago and I can cause real damage and I really wish I could have a punching bag in my apartment (not only to serve as an outlet for frustration but because I'd get So Damn Fit)

          • jkfjfhkdfgdfb [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            particleboard probably

            or some other fiberboard

            anyway the shit's fucked, some wood filler stuff might still work though

  • Juiceyb [any]
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    2 years ago

    I know this is funny but god damn. A whole family is fucking destroyed because someone literally betted on a meme. This is some Post-structualism shit. Just :ummm:

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      honestly it's good his wife left. Breaking things when you get angry is a major red flag for domestic abuse.

      This is how he behaved with guests round probably including a few kids with dads who could kick his ass

      • Juiceyb [any]
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        2 years ago

        It’s the rejection of structure, logic and reality in a literary work. It emphasizes the reader to instead focus on “determination” as the world is changing all the time. The closest thing I can think of in film is probably Requiem for a Dream or Pi. Everyone in those films are so determined in creating their own reality to come true that they reject reality. At least that’s my simple interpretation as it’s still highly debated.

        • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          so it's the literary equivalent of a conversation with a marketting guy and/or a Ukrainian general

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      no this is worse this is middle aged man who never achieved what he wanted in life and now takes his anger out on his family.

      Known a couple of them and they are way worse than teenagers who at least have the mitigating factors of not being in charge and being likely to grow out of it

      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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        2 years ago

        Teenagers are trapped by circumstance and have genetic and scholastic insanity going on. Middle aged men built themselves a cage, trapped their wife and kids in it, and are so pissed that they are in it. Hands down the later is worse.

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    11 months ago

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  • HoChiMaxh [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Hasn't Ethereum basically been stable for months now? I don't think his problem is his fictocurrency

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      They were all expecting it to skyrocket after it moved to Proof of Stake from Proof of Work but it went down because they're all goldbugs who accidentally stumbled upon the dumbest possible version of the labour theory of value.

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        11 months ago

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        • Mardoniush [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          They are always expecting a "to the moon" moment. Gamespot permanently broke their brains.

            • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              which is very funny when you consider that the stock market started out as a way for merchants to diversify their cargo across ships. A pun 500 years in the making

          • ssjmarx [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            I had a family member try to explain to me why GameStop was still going to go up even though it had been trending down for several months (i sold and made a couple thousand dollars profit as soon as it started correcting lmao). Since then it has only continued to drop, and they haven't talked about stocks since.

      • Flyberius [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        it moved to Proof of Stake from Proof of Work

        My girlfriends older brother is a crypto bro and he was telling me all about how environmentally friendly these new proof of stake cryptos were. And then they just go and do proof of work because, as we all know, they are greedy animals.

        God, he's such a boring bastard. He made her wear some absurdly expensive rolex for her much delayed graduation the other week, and then at the meal after spent the whole time telling us how expensive it was and how he bought it to support the family in the event that he died... The rest of the time he had his airpods id and was doing this weird gyrating dance as he was sitting in his seat.

        • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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          2 years ago

          he bought it to support the family in the event that he died

          Ah yes, a good whose value drops by half the moment it leaves the store is the best type of life insurance.

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I'll buy a gallon of his tears for $1 if he pays shipping costs.

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      oh probably some fucking day trading type shit

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        you can tell you're a functioning adult and parent when you take out your anger about gambling losses on your family during your son's birthday party

        bonus points for continually regambling risking everything again and again thereby guaranteeing an eventual loss

  • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Can someone tell me why this wouldn't work?

    1. Find some random company with a major product approval coming up
    2. make bots to scan their website/twitter constantly
    3. have the bots notify you whenever the website updates. Maybe even look for the code word "approval" or "FDA" or w/e
    4. immediately dump money into that stock when their product gets approved, and ride the +25% wave

    This literally happened to some no-name company back in 2020 when I was actually looking at stocks. Obviously now it'd be harder to do since everything is collapsing, but is there a reason this wouldn't have worked before 2022?

    • blue_lives_murder [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Imagine that, but for all news, every company, and most importantly all retail trading data, automatically making trades every millisecond to ride the +0.00000025% waves 24/7/365. Great now you know what high frequency trading is and why Blackrock is like the largest company on the planet.

      • DaringDarek [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        To go even further, for those who don't know: it's 100% legal to act on information that is TECHNICALLY public. Even if that information was released immediately before you bought / sold.

        How this works for the in-group:

        1. Do insider trading
        2. Know that an earnings report goes live at noon or whatever
        3. Wait for one femtosecond after noon
        4. Do the trading you already decided on days / weeks ago

        A scanning bot could totally work for some things, but you're still way behind the curve, because they made fraud legal.

        The real trades are already made while your bot is downloading the PDF.

        • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          Having a functioning bot to let you know when to legally commit insider trading is like parallel construction for fintechbros :big-cool:

    • betelgeuse [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Biotech is extremely volatile. The FDA approval process is long and arduous. Plus approval doesn't automatically mean line go up. If your exit is poorly timed, you'll end up losing all your gains.

      Palantir is a good example of a company that gets nothing but good news yet the price gets lower and lower. It's not biotech, but it's the same idea. They get government contracts, price goes down. They expand their private contracts, price goes down. They have good earnings, price goes down. The entire market goes down, they go up a little bit.

      Stonks aren't as simple as good news = line goes up and bad news = line goes down. It's forward-looking but how much forward and what specific future moment is up for grabs. The news you get today has already been digested and priced-in. The current prices is based on news that hasn't come out yet.