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Captainant

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  1. Wait, it wasn't already a store of value?? Somebody should tell all that crypto investors!
  2. Well they're certainly not $4/doz anymore
  3. Except they can take out loans against that net worth and convert it into REAL wealth and capital that exerts inflationary pressure on the economy, all tax-free of course. It's literally how elon financed his twitter buyout at $54.20
  4. Nintendo is selling a Japan region-locked Switch 2 for $340(ish) though
  5. They're selling a Japan region-locked device for $343
  6. I sold all of my long term holdings a little over a month ago and have been quite happy with holding that plus its proft in a money market earning interest and not losing 15-20% of its value. Decided to stay on Mr. Bones' Wild Ride with the other chunk of our holdings though.
  7. It really is funny how bang-on that was too lol. My apologies to Wally for being the Cassandra
  8. No no you're right, I'm sure the 3 man outfit that runs self storage units in Colorado is a perfect steward of the SPR and it's massive set of underground storage tanks and pipelines in Texas and LA. I'm sure they'll maintain that critical strategic infrastructure well, definitely better than those grifters at Fluor Federal Petroleum Operations. Since anything before the current administration MUST be a grift right?
  9. What a strange way to live. Anything before MUST have been a grift, so any new grifts happening now are okeydoke.
  10. Probably because China announced 34% retaliatory tariffs on American goods Are we feeling like we've made America wealthy again yet???
  11. Yes now we can finally just pick winners and losers, as the Almighty Free Market intended. It's so great to be beholden to infinite growth goals
  12. Except the person now steering our country's economic direction is doing everything literally the opposite of what we did to recover from COVID.
  13. What's his surly handle?
  14. RIP Berkshire holders
  15. A 10-20% correciton would be a blessing. We're staring down the barrel of stagflation. Inflation is rising, unemployment is rising, and these tariffs are going to be a considerable headwind for economic growth. And it's all self-inflicted for really no reason whatsoever and no benefit. So yeah, lots to be blase about, I guess.
  16. What are you using windows for? IMO you'd be better off buying a cheap NUC or laptop for whatever windows stuff and just let your macbook do mac stuff. Emulating x86 Windows inside an ARM-based virtual environment is gonna be worse performance than most cheapo windows laptops, even on an M4 pro. In terms of extensability and driving external displays, I'd go for M4 pro all day. Thunderbolt 5 has way better bandwidth and can daisy chain more devices per port than Thunderbolt 4 edit: or are you using ARM Windows? You might try that instead of x86 and see if you get a performance uplift
  17. It's easier to snatch more power when there's chaos and fear. Trump's entire modus operandi is chaos and fear.
  18. Isn't this where DCBC or twice or another surlylawyer comes in from the top rope to scold us for doubting the justice system?
  19. Ya know, I think I'm finally coming to understand why you tolerate so many trolls on surly. You think it's mutually exclusive to be either an idiot, or to be a cruel and awful person. There tends to be a lot of overlap in that venn diagram, home skillet
  20. Heh. Rudy Guliani was with Newsmax at the opening bell. I think the simulation is fucking with us
  21. Ok I take it back, THIS is a really funny opening bell for today
  22. Nevermind that the tariffs rates are based off of trade deficits, not tariffs levied. They're just making shit up, and it's not funny anymore to laugh at all the useful idiots dancing to try and justify it. Now it's just cruel and tragic
  23. Just circling back - it's almost certain that the administration conflated trade deficits and tariffs. I found a good breakdown, reposting the receipts here: These "tariff" numbers provided by the administration are just ludicrous. They don't reflect any version of reality where real tariffs are concerned. I was convinced they weren't just completely made up, though, and their talk about trade balances made me curious enough to dig in and try to find where they got these numbers. This guess paid off immediately. As far as I can tell with just a tiny bit of digging, almost all of these numbers are literally just the inverse of our trade balance as a ratio. Every value I have tried this calculation on, it has held true. I'll just use the 3 highest as examples: ***Cambodia: 97%*** US exports to Cambodia: $321.6 M Cambodia exports to US: 12.7 B Ratio: 321.6M / 12.7 B = ~3% https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/southeast-asia-pacific/Cambodia- ***Vietnam: 90%*** US exports to Vietnam: $13.1 B Vietnam exports to US: $136.6 B Ratio: 13.1B / 136.6B = ~10% https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/southeast-asia-pacific/vietnam ***Sri Lanka: 88%*** US exports to Sri Lanka: $368.2 M Sri Lanka exports to US: $3.0 B Ratio: ~12% https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/south-central-asia/sri-lanka What the Administration appears to be calling a "97% tariff" by Cambodia is in reality the fact that we export 97% less stuff to Cambodia than they export to us.
  24. They're beautiful tariffs. Many people are saying they're the best ever. They've never seen anything like it. Other people, they have small tariffs, but we have big beautiful tariffs. We are going to win big with beautiful tariffs like this
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