• Egon [they/them]
    hexbear
    99
    1 month ago

    Imagine being in an abusive relationship with a fucking stock lmao

  • Adkml [he/him]
    hexbear
    72
    1 month ago

    Replace tesla with "the sun" and instead of Twitter it's a priest explaining to a pharoh they're doing everything they can to appease Ra.

    • silent_water [she/her]
      hexbear
      20
      1 month ago

      I kind of hate this term. it originates from the US/UK withdrawal from Polynesian islands after the local economies had been warped to depend on food shipments via plane. when people started starving, they tried to replicate what they observed as rituals associated with the arrival of planes - bright yellow vests, reflective rods to signal where planes should land, etc.. desperate people did something desperate and I hate that we denigrate them for it.

      the military bases on relatively small islands decimated the local flora and fauna. we commandeered their boats during the war and deforested the islands so they couldn't build more boats to go fish. calling it a cult of any kind is utterly bizarre and it shifts blame for the tragedy onto the victims and allows the west to mock them for it. we inflicted famines because we didn't view them as fully human. we didn't even do it intentionally - we gave literally no thought to them or their continued existence. and we memorialize those dead as "cargo cultists" - because it's their "barbarism" to be blamed and not the withdrawal of an empire.

      • Palacegalleryratio [he/him]
        hexbear
        9
        edit-2
        1 month ago

        Not op but:

        Never heard it explained like that before. Very good comment. Will find a better term in the future.

    • @AppleTea@lemmy.zip
      hexbear
      14
      1 month ago

      It's more like gamers complaining that their favorite game doesn't get a new update precisely every three months.

      Except, these are armchair investors complaining that the market evaluation doesn't correspond to their "faithfulness".

      • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
        hexbear
        16
        1 month ago

        It’s more like gamers complaining that their favorite game doesn’t get a new update precisely every three months.

        Playing Skyrim would cure them from that.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    47
    1 month ago

    this is like reading one of those accounts of "how Amway ruined my life", but right before the author realizes it was a scam all along and all that effort they put into it only served to destroy more lives.

    anyway, strengthPlan more like weakPlan. boom, gottem.

  • bumpusoot [none/use name]
    hexbear
    46
    1 month ago

    Why number not go up? My very normal and based in reality life depends on number go up deeper-sadness stonks-down

    • Doubledee [comrade/them]
      hexbear
      26
      1 month ago

      I've been dutifully putting money and time into brand loyalty regardless of how the product or the CEO perform, why am I not making money?!

  • emizeko [they/them]
    hexbear
    37
    1 month ago

    material conditions? pah. history is shaped by which side focuses their spirit energies better

  • Palacegalleryratio [he/him]
    hexbear
    36
    1 month ago

    Im terribly grateful to you m’lord for selling me this golden goose, and I believe very much in it, but Sire the thing is, the golden goose you sold me, well it isn’t laying golden eggs m’lord.

    Still love the goose though.

  • Dolores [love/loves]
    hexbear
    33
    1 month ago

    this is even worse than the normal religious belief of the unknowable rectitude of the market, this is a child praying for divine intervention without any adults or religious figures to temper their expectations

    • buckykat [none/use name]
      hexbear
      34
      1 month ago

      In gambling terminology, "bear" and "bull" refer respectively to thinking that a bet is bad or good, so a "tesla bear" would be someone who thinks that "tesla will be more valuable in the future" is a bad bet

          • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
            hexbear
            13
            1 month ago

            I think they were referring to the Bear/Bull comparisons made to the NCR and the Legion since those are their respective symbols. Plus in lonesome road Ulysses is constantly going on about the Bear and the Bull when talking about them

        • uSSRI [he/him]
          hexbear
          10
          1 month ago

          Someone said New Vegas! I'm going to the Prospector Saloon!

        • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
          hexbear
          2
          edit-2
          1 month ago

          There was surprisingly low amount of gambling there for something with "Vegas" in name.

          Poland fact: in Polish, the word for gambling is literally "hazard" which would tell you everything you need to know (but it means nothing more than gambling in Polish).

      • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
        hexbear
        5
        1 month ago

        i assume it gets into gambling from stonks bear and bull markets but stock markets and gambling are kinda the same so it's possible it's older in explicit games of chance