
Captainant
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The same irrationality and circular logic that drove up CDO's and other rubber dog shit during the 08 crash are the same forces driving up the BTC price. It just pure optimistic speculation.
"The number goes up because people are investing in Bitcoin!"
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"People are investing in Bitcoin because the number goes up!"
The funniest thing is gonna be when large banks and financial institutions end up being the majority holders of cryptos through these ETFs, and you no longer have a decentralized currency and are back to trusting and dealing with the banks
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4 hours ago, UT_OB1 said:
They sacrificed a bunch of dudes and hung them upside down to drain their blood and then used that blood as war paint in the first movie. They’re bad people. We’re not supposed to be surprised they do bad things. Why are we surprised they do bad things?
ACKSHUALLY that was the Saudakar with the mass human blood collection and crazy throat chant talking, the Harkonens all tend to be smooth and bald and morbid. The crazy black and white scenes on Geide Prime are the Harkonen home world, and Seluca Secundus is the homeworld of House Corrino (the Emperor) and their personal guard the Saudakar /nerd
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4 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:
Nice rebuttal. Were you on the debate team?
Debate pukes are the worst. They don't care about being correct, just being contrarian and "winning" the argument by "scoring" ownz
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1 hour ago, Captain Ron said:
Reading comprehension - how does it work? That's NOT what the paragraph says at all.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/haiti-migrants-cannibal-claims-barbeque-army-2024-rcna142878
And did Elon just reveal one of his fetishes?
It's a weird thing with right wing internet weirdos to just completely misstate and misrepresent the people they disagree with, always followed by knocking that straw man down and beating on their chest about it. I mean sure we see it here on Surly all the time, but it's just wild seeing one of the richest and most powerful men in the world doing it.
And then not even 24 hours after posting this outright misinformation and lies, he's doing test flights of the most powerful rocket ever built.
It's fucking crazy that elmo is so fucking crazy.
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10 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:
Fuck this piece of shit ….
Why does he look like the troll face meme?
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7 minutes ago, slorch said:
No. Excuses. and I knew you'd chime in with your bullshit.
Income has jack shit to do with character or ability. It's just the easy response for you.
Character and ability have jack shit to do with opportunities that children have. That is 100% tied to resources available to the child.
8 minutes ago, slorch said:You think a 32 hour work week is some extreme hardship on the individual. GTFO of here...
Yeah slorch. Lie again you goddamn raider rash scarred taint stain. You keep putting words in my mouth and insisting on things that I haven't posted, but are just the caricature that you have worked up in your head.
You are lying and misstating things that I have said just so you can knock them down and thump on your chest. It's fucking pathetic and is why you have been enshrined in shaggy/surly lore as a verb.
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13 minutes ago, slorch said:
Bullshit. That doesn't happen with involved parents.
Your enabling mentality is whipping your opinion.
We generally suck as a society in raising our kids. We reap the results. We also suck as an electorate. We reap the results.
So let's think for a moment why parents are less involved.... It couldn't be that they're taking on way more hours for less effective pay, and many parents simply don't have bandwidth to raise a child, that would be crazy talk! That would have to mean that wages have been stagnant relative to inflation and overall economic growth for decades!
Poor parents make for worse childhood opportunity. We have a significantly larger portion of poor with zero social or civil safety nets in place.
But 401k's are doing great so fuck you I got mine, poor ass bitches! Wreck em!
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4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
Just like to point out that he (the character in the GIF, PC Principal) is an aggy.
Holy shit I forgot about that lmfao. The most unexpected canonical aggy
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7 hours ago, RamjetFDO said:
Just saw Part 2 ... and don't think it's been mentioned here (and don't care if it has), but I got an "Empire Strikes Back" vibe from this in the same way, due to the (1) awesomeness of the movie, (2) very different feel/pacing from the first movie, and (3) kinda cliffhanger-y ending without a 100% resolution of the storyline making me yearn for Part 3.
Now, if Denis ends up having Spice Ewoks in Part 3, I'm walking out. YUB NUB!
It absolutely has "middle of the trilogy" vibes, the movie ends with starting and entire new war against all the great houses!
And hey man, spice can do some crazy things to people. Neve rule out space crack ewoks
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54 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
Is a bitcoin worth $0.01 or $100K? It's worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. And today people are willing to pay $70K for one, mainly on the hope that someone will want to pay $80K for it tomorrow. Or whatever amount or timeframe. The person selling it thinks the other. There are plenty of financial products that also rely on the greater fool theory.
You're squinting REALLY hard to overlook the core matter of Bitcoin representing literally nothing except for the hope of selling it for more in the future. Other assets and commodities that are speculated on actually represent real goods. Bitcoin is just a number in a ledger that represents a number in a ledger.
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32 minutes ago, Cum Rocket said:
You're doing that thing again where you're mistaking your opinion for a fact, and then spiking the football and saying "pwned". Just because you insist on repeating your alternative reality does not make it so.
I would be less dismissive if you would ever directly reply to what I've written, rather than linking me to someone else's thoughts that you heard on a podcast. I know I'm never gonna change your mind until the ponzi ends, but enjoy the ride I guess
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16 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:
Paywalld
my JS blocker lets me read it, here's the first chunk of the article
QuoteBack in 2017, John Griffin, a professor of finance at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business, noticed something strange. Griffin follows a totally different beat from typical business school finance profs who explore, say, how business cycles influence commodity prices or Fed policy sways the term structure of interest rates. The 6-foot-2 former high school football star views himself as a crusader for good, a moral sleuth who, as he tells Fortune, “looks to expose financial evil, to shed light on the world and expose dark things in the markets.” After the Great Financial Crisis, Griffin became a devout Christian. He has since dedicated his distinguished career to righteous forensic digging that’s unearthed abuses ranging from insider trading to mortgage fraud to the doctoring of bond ratings during the financial crisis.
As Griffin and Amin Shams, then a doctoral candidate at McCombs who’s joined Griffin in several gumshoe investigations, screened for misdeeds in 2017, they were fascinated to see that a little-known token that’s supposed to be backed one-for-one to the dollar was getting printed in large quantities. That clue led the pair to another: When new batches appeared, the price of Bitcoin seemed to jump. It looked like someone, or a group, was using that freshly printed “free money” to inflate Bitcoin’s price for their own profit. He and his coauthor Shams sifted through an incredible 200 gigabytes of trading data, equal to the troves that the Smithsonian Institution collects in two years, and followed sales and purchases from 2.5 million separate wallets.
In 2018, they coauthored a groundbreaking study showing that a single, still unidentified, Bitcoin “whale” almost singlehandedly drove the token’s giant run-up in late 2017 and early 2018 by distorting the trading in the token.
Toward the end of 2022, another mystifying trend caught Griffin’s eye. Despite the crypto crash and myriad other negative forces, every time Bitcoin briefly breached the $16,000 floor, it bounced above that level and kept stubbornly trading between $16,000 and $17,000. Almost unbelievably, as the crypto market has continued to unravel into 2023, Bitcoin has gone in the opposite direction, trading up 35% since Jan. 7 to $23,000.
“It’s very suspicious,” Griffin told Fortune. “The same mechanism we saw in 2017 could be at play now in the still unreal Bitcoin market.”
For Griffin, the way normally super-volatile Bitcoin went calm and stable in the stormiest of times for crypto fits a scenario where boosters are uniting to support and juice its price. “If you’re a crypto manipulator, you want to set a floor under the price of your coin,” added Griffin. “In a period of highly negative sentiment, we’ve seen suspiciously solid floors under Bitcoin.”
11 minutes ago, bernorange said:FWIW:
lulz linking me to a bitcoin maxi who's mad at because someone called his baby ugly isn't terribly convincing. He's trying to claim anything by these guys is false because "tether had the money when they needed to!!!!" Nevermind the constant liquidity crisis that Bitfinex was under, and the intermingling of multiple buckets of money to paper over an $850M shortfall (page 4 of the signed court order).
It's the same shit as a few pages back where GRUhorn was telling me that as long as people get their margins and their money back, it's not fraud to lie in your financial filings.
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On 3/12/2024 at 10:55 AM, FirstTimeCaller said:
If you were an unscrupulous whale, could you not buy calls on MicroStrategy, and then buy a slug of bitcoin to get the price moving and then cash in on the bigger swing in MSTR overall and the call options in particular?
Gee, it's almost like much of the cryptocurrency market is extremely prone, and actively under the influence of, extreme price manipulation.
https://fortune.com/2023/02/02/bitcoin-manipulation-price-outlook/
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/13/boeing-737-door-ntsb-investigation
US safety agency says Boeing video of door-plug removal was overwritten
The head of National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Wednesday that investigators still do not know who worked on a Boeing 737 Max 9 door plug involved in the 5 January Alaska Airlines midair emergency and that video footage was overwritten.
The NTSB’s chair, Jennifer Homendy, said in a letter to senators that investigators sought security camera footage when the door plug was opened and closed in September but were informed the material was overwritten. “The absence of those records will complicate the NTSB’s investigation moving forward,” she said.
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47 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:
Yeah and they shot those scenes in infrared instead of using a black and white camera.
It really made it SO otherworldly. The black eyes and teeth were so eerie
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7 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:
They spend most of their money on stock buybacks instead of R&D. Federal oversight of the company has been dramatically reduced in recent years. Hell, their most outspoken whistleblower just ended up dead.
So just a bunch of great stuff coming out there.
The moral of the story is: Fly in an Airbus.
Yeah this is what we call, as incredulity helpfully pointed out, "late stage capitalism". Boeing has spent more than $90,000,000,000 on stock buybacks in the last decade. NINETY BILLION BUCKS!
That's why all of these engineering failures and preventable deaths are so galling. Boeing isn't hurting for resources to make good products, they're just doing a fucking scrooge McDuck because they know they'll be bailed out since they're a monopoly.
But in the meantime, they're paying aircraft assembly mechanics and inspectors less than what a teacher can make in Austin. And that's a LOW goddamn number for people assembling critical hardware. Fuck ups like leaving out bolts is gonna happen more and more and more as employee wages and project funds are skimmed off for stock buybacks
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1 hour ago, Incredulity said:
Jet fuel is used as a working hydraulic and cooling fluid for pretty much everything on a plane that needs hydraulic power. Why bring along a whole shitload of heavy hydraulic fluid when your fuel meets the material specifications and you've already got a bunch of it with you?
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55 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:
Just sharing some Pepe memes and fantasizing about doing a civil war.
he's literally just turning twitter into 4chan lmfao. He's even stealing their memes
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7 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:Truly remarkable that in 50 years, the only real explanation for the United States' inaction in this conflict will be "uh, the guy who used to be President likes how mean Putin is."
Trump was fucking impeached over trying to trade congressionally approved aid for political favors, and was pressuring the incredibly brave and honorable Zelensky to betray his people and his principles to do so.
Trump is STILL preventing aid from getting to Ukraine. He's still a free man despite his coup attempt and insurrection, rape conviction, tax fraud, and a litany of other shit I don't have the time to look up and type out for accuracy.
It's a complete failure of the American democratic and justice system that we cannot expel this cancer and he keeps creeping onto ballots, and maintains his CONSIDERABLE influence over the legislative process
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18 hours ago, Shut up Lou Holtz said:
Absolutely had the same feelings on her. Just scowling at Paul. That’s it. That’s what she does. Frowny face
6 hours ago, Hank_Hill said:She was fine for how DV wanted to use Chani in this adaptation. But yea she wasn’t memorable, think that says more about the performances around her though.
I mean, Chani's character in the 1984 adaption wasn't some earth shatteringly good or memorable performance either lol. Zendaya definitely had more to her performance than just "scowling at Paul", but her role in the story IS to be pissed at Paul for lying to her and doing the exact thing he said he would never do
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It's crazy how much trump is still impairing our body politik and preventing aid from going to Ukraine. It's a real and tangible major strategic limitation on Ukraine, but since it's """political""" we can't talk about it in the main thread.
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The destruction of America's public education system
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Damn those dirty Democrats for forcing those godly Republicans into fascism!! [/Slorch]