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Honestly, tulips were a better investment than Tesla or OpenAI. In fact, the continued success of the latter two tells you by itself there is something deeply, seriously wrong with the stock markets and the economy as a whole.

No, but if you do, the (American) social media companies will tattle on you, guaranteed.

“this isn’t going to last, enjoy it while you can”

that was of course the original assignment by OP!

I am with you, although I don’t understand the logic of movie theaters. The ticket is stupid expensive, the food is even worse, and then the quality of both the movie watching (if you get a bad seat) and food is absolutely terrible.

I haven’t visited since Everything, Everywhere, All at Once (2022), where before COVID I’d go about once a month. Some of it may be due to movies being duller these days, but the vast majority of my reticence is the terrible experience and cost/value ratio.

Good to know!

MoviePass. Although it looks like they relaunched in 2022 in limited markets.

I believe it’s a reference to the very real fact Chuck Schumer gave us a month of government shutdown to save ACA subsidies and then gave up with nothing to show for but a vague promise of a floor vote on the subsidies in January.

Imagine how that must feel for Germany. First, they decide they want to tie Russia down to eternal peace by dangling infinite oil and gas riches in the face of Putin, and he decides to hell with riches, he wants WAR!

Then they have this relationship that lasted for 80 years with a former occupying nation that they submitted to and obeyed. They braved nationwide dissent over that nation stationing nuclear missiles on its peace-loving soil. They criminalized everything that nation disliked. As recently as (checks notes) now they supported a genocidal regime because they were told that’s the thing to do.

And now all this sensible foreign policy blows up in their face, and they did nothing wrong, except bet on the crazy horses.

I mean, it beats BEING the genocidal regime, or - worse - being the target of the genocidal regime. But it does give one the impression that being sensible is not all that it’s cracked up to be.

I wonder how much a commutation costs these days. I mean, can’t be hard to figure out, all you have to do is look at $TRUMP purchases in the days before it was announced. Since the dude reported to prison and days later was busted out, he probably went in, decided “Hello no!” and paid whatever amount of $TRUMP was required to get back out.

Yes, sadly it is, and it has resulted in death.

I think the worst part of Brexit is not that it reduced UK GDP by a fixed amount, but that the damage is getting worse with time. Brits could probably have lived with a temporary setback followed by faster growth, but it’s becoming pretty evident that the UK has been permanently damaged and growth will lag peer economies’ for the foreseeable future.

And yet, Reform UK is looking pretty good in the polls. Make that make sense, they were the most ardent proponents of Brexit.

Notice to media outlets: unless you are in that hall of shame, you will not be taken seriously any longer

Amen to that Switzerland is the playground of the super rich, and it’s going to take a lot of taxing before they give it up.

That page is so YouTube comment section that I start understanding why there is a war on archive.org. The idea that this kind of stuff is going to be visible long after it’s deleted must be troubling even to those that post it.

I mean, the hypocrisy of everyone involved is just staggering. Ticketmaster got their monopoly only because artists (through their management and booked venues) let them - nobody is forcing Olivia Dean to use Ticketmaster, and their policies have been known for ages.

Ticketmaster, on the other hand, sells you the resale ticket just as if it were new. I don’t think you can even exclude resale tickets from a search, let alone make it the default, which would be the bare minimum of making tickets more affordable.

And then, sadly, there is also our own hypocrisy. We all want to go to the same three concerts when there is a universe of music to explore. I wanted to see Imagine Dragons, but the tickets were 700 a pop. I went to see Caravan Palace instead - totally different music, but the concert was awesome and cost 50.

That would certainly explain why the administration leaned so heavily on Zelenskyy to allow for elections. It wasn’t (only?) because Putin told them to, but also because the obvious refusal would serve as later explanation for the potential indefinite delay in voting in America.

That’s an incredibly dangerous move. Even bad numbers would just be an embarrassment for the President. But not releasing the numbers forces everyone to assume they are the worst case scenario possible, which could make for absolute market panic.

I’d say, lots of shit in this plan.

The fawning was one-sided.

Trump behaved like Mamdani was his grandson about to take over the family business.

I think the geography is that of bot farms. The money comes from somewhere else. My guess it’s probably the same people you’d suspect, and they are not foreign. It’s the kind of people that would sell out their own country for a .5% reduction in their tax rate.

Having snowboarded Schweitzer, which is the ski resort just outside Sandpoint, my impression of the town was that it was the bougiest, whitest place I have ever seen. Their repeal of the anti-discrimination ordinance is as meaningful as its institution: going with the zeitgeist in hopes of attracting more visitors?