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  1. Technodystopian Cyber Punk is the way I am starting to envision the future.
  2. AP journalists have revealed the US once tried to turn Nicolás Maduro’s personal pilot against him, in hopes he’d divert a flight and deliver the despot into US custody. (AP) The plot (initiated under Biden) mirrors last year’s capture of Sinaloa Cartel boss ‘El Mayo’. The decision to leak the details now likely stems from the fact the pilot ultimately refused, and publicising the plot would still fuel Maduro’s paranoia. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-attempted-to-lure-maduros-pilot-into-betraying-the-venezuelan-leader
  3. I was told the US Beef industry was in an absolute crisis. I guess it's learning about the tottempole nazis and reading the tattooist of auschiwitz again.
  4. What's interesting is the AI Bubble and how it's going to impact not just us, but the entire world, when it pops. And further, the China cold war: US stocks now make up ~56% of the world’s public market cap; America’s Mag7 AI stocks in turn make up a third of the US market cap alone; and their AI infrastructure build-out alone is driving a ~third of all US economic growth. So any ‘pop’ might rattle not just the US economy, but the world’s economy. It’d also hit a key pillar (US tech dominance) now balancing the world’s concerns about US political risk. Second, an AI pop would have downstream impacts on other sectors like energy, where there are already countless billions in AI-related energy projects in the US alone. And third, a pop would also shape US-China competition, which is already in turn shaping this century: Nvidia’s chips are now arguably America’s biggest source of leverage. But the result of that leverage is the two rivals are now bifurcating into two parallel, algorithmic blocs built on parallel stacks and supply chains. So any AI pop — inevitably slowing US investments and therefore advances — could end up less like the global 2008 meltdown, and more specifically shifting our world’s centre of gravity even further east.
  5. Yea, this. I wonder if Hamas went into the agreement knowing "we ain't got some of these that they think we got, what are we gonna do?" and someone said "just shut up and sign it, we'll figure something out".
  6. Took a long time but now there are a handful. It's wild. nVidia @ $5T is an "obvious yea duh" moment in either direction; a hyperinflated bust waiting to happen or a steadfast, best company in the world and positioned well for the next 10-15 years. I personally don't think we can determine which in hindsight, but I made a big, scary financial bet this morning on the former and put in a big short this AM eeeeeeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkk. happy halloween, this is scary because I could lose it all or make a million or two!
  7. This makes me think. There has to be a huge (TMZ-esque, million dollars for photos paparazzi snaps of like Michael Jackson's baby so People magazine can publish it first, type huge) market for some real uncut footage of Dotard. Imagine getting a drone and sneakily filming him actually paying golf and getting 3 hours and 18 holes of footage. You could retire on that tape.
  8. The problem as far as I can see it is that somehow I'm not making multiple millions in the biggest bull run in a generation and maybe of our lifetime. ugh. ,, but i will say this. I'm coming around to @Captainant and @Brisketexan way of thinking and am determined to put a very sizable bet on shorting the big high flyers of the past couple of years. Just need to figure out the profile, the timeframe, the big bet and how much of a coward I am or am not and what stomach I have to expose real money to a short play betting on a crash.
  9. The ardent capitalist doesn't change his stripes, it appears: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/bill-gates-climate-change-memo_n_6900ef03e4b0a211575dde6c
  10. looking at this....how did Vandy win?
  11. The thing about this is, while you are right, it also highlights the nature of the dynamic at play. Israel is the aggressor and the one with the power (and cue spiderman, with great power comes great responsibility we like to think). But Hamas has near zero leverage. They engage in a truce or deal, they need to be air tight and buttoned up if they want it to stand. At least that's how I think abou it. Anything less than 100% compliance can and will open up the threat to throw out the tenous peace. If that makes the ceasefire a fake one or a disingenous one, I guess we all agree. But if it is true that Hamas is playing some stupid game with the hostages, they are the ones who are poking the bear and putting the truce at risk in that instance. But I guess if the thinking is already one of a foregone conclusion of "israel is just going to blow it up anyways because they don't want the peace" then it's easy to dismiss Hamas culpability in breaking the ceasefire. But I mean, it's a tenous, thin ice cease fire to begin with, you'd think you'd be engaging with the T's & C's with kid gloves and care. I mean, I gave you my opinion. Israel obviously believed and believes differently.
  12. The crash will be spectacular. The question is how to price the put and for what time/month/year? And how ballsy and exposed I have the stomach for.
  13. I thought it was funny. I can see why you called me Helobious earlier this morning. You are validated, sir.
  14. Bill Gates, who wrote a book titled How To Avoid a Climate Disaster, released a memo asking people to tone down the doomsday rhetoric around climate change yesterday, hours before a Category 5 hurricane—supercharged by climate change—unleashed its fury on Jamaica. One of the loudest voices on the topic shifted his ideology ahead of next month’s United Nations climate summit: Gates wants the world to focus less on (but not ignore) near-term problems like rising temperatures and the increasing number of extreme weather events, and more on humanitarian efforts in developing parts of the world. The billionaire is asking those attending the summit to consider investing in climate adaptation, meaning “the areas where finance can do the most to fight poverty and boost health.”
  15. Fair enough. Thanks for answering. I don't necessarily disagree, but maybe I'm a hopeless romantic, and am wanting to see more before throwing it out as a farce.
  16. I don't actually have a fully formed point of view here which is why I'm "asking questions" and seeking input/clarity. I understand the act of engaging with questions and a seeking to understand mentality is considered "trolling in bad faith" in the internet era, but how else are we to engage? I don't think slaughtering civilians by the hundreds is ever okay.
  17. I mean the AP is reporting it now as real. And also putting some of the burden of the cease fire becoming tenous on Hamas for https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-war-dead-hostages-ceasefire-deal-80b85ee3f650fc67f28bdf83b957f9f4
  18. Do you believe the cease fire isn't real, too? Am I the only one under the guise that the cease fire was real?
  19. Even better-- I waited until there was a semi-reputable link and not the times of israel and isreael post and the jeresuleum news, etc.
  20. Bill Gates is such a turd:
  21. The 2000 era frat tuck is BACK baby!
  22. Here is what I want to say. Brian, do you, Brian Fantana believe the chicancary being reported (not very widely) about the fake hostage heist is true? Decisoning tree based off that response: if it is true, do you think that's a legitimate breach of ceasefire by the terms?
  23. Finally a single, non-partisan source (but I'm still skeptical because no AP or mainstream sources are reporting): https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/red-cross-condemns-staged-recovery-113635726.html Let's say this is accurate, then what? Sounds like Hamas was the first to breach the ceasefire terms and invite reprecussion, right?
  24. No I am literally asking because the only reporting I've seen are obviously Zionist/Pro-Israel publications and don't want to unwittingly be propagandonized here, I'm talking about "The Times of Israel" and "Israel National News" type outlets.
  25. But what if she starts owning the MAGA. Goes from heel to kayfabe. Weaponize her for our interests and to help us win. It's like signing Deoin Sanders away from SF for the the Cowboys superbowl run.
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