Its getting genuienly sad that younger Gen Z and Alphas just literally have no idea how to be people.
Its wild growing up an undiagnosed autist, and now … I had better social skills than the average normie adolescent does these days.
Personalities are just, whatever is trending on TikTok.
Of course there are exceptions to this, but dear god its sad to watch.
Yes.
That… that is what creativity is.
Its not always… sensible, or … broadly liked… but yeah, people things up… is creativity.
If you’re quoting some old famous saying?
Somebody, at some point, said that for the first time in history.
I was gonna say, entirely seriously, the family that cooks together, stays together.
… Also the beans tend to be even thicker than queso, so… make sure to get that right too, lol
China is making so many moves right now, to set themselves up as a viable alternative to the the USD… they’re doing some pretty serious amounts of gold hording (yes literally), and also seem to be setting up a rather extensive and robust system that would facilitate actual physical gold clearing…
The US on the other hand is also … there are at least rumors of basically gold backed 50 year bonds.
… and Europe is at the very least basically pulling all their gold that is physically held in the US, back to their countries, repatriating it.
The fundamental structure and paradigm of the PetroDollar/Euro/Yen is now… basically breaking up, and at least right now, in the uncertain interim… it looks like everybody is taking inventory of their gold, and trying to figure out how to reposition their currency/bond/trade systems around being more directly backed by gold.
How this will actually shake out… what the new equilibrium will be… multipolar world, or new global hegemon… or something in between and more complicated… basically impossible to say, but things are changing dramatically.
If I thoroughly, and reliably knew the answer to that, I would be… lets say ‘very well financially positioned’.
Yogthos is certainly at least partially correct, but… where is all this money going?
Its… Private Equity. Private Credit.
The entire point is that via a mechanistic application of loopholes and usage of specific legal carve outs… you don’t actually have to tell anyone nearly anything. The entire point is to obfuscate what is going on.
… At least some of the money is getting pulled out basically just to pay off debts that investors have that are now problematic.
This is how a recession or depression actually mechanically happens -> because the entire system is built on loans which are built on loans which are built on loans…well, when some part of that fractal chain/web breaks, when some part of it cant reliable make payments anymore… the breakage spreads, as more and more people now need to cover obligations with actual cash, not promises of future cash.
People call this ‘the credit supercycle’ or ‘the business cycle’, depending on the scope and time scale… these patterns play out fairly regularly, but predicting their timimg and extent with high precision is nearly impossible, because the total system is fundamentally chaotic, in the mathematical sense.
However, not everybody is just purely panicking and pulling out to settle their obligations… many are repositioning. Its kinda like water in a box, a box where you can push up or pull down or certain points of its floor… the water, the capital, will tend flow away from risk of massive losses / or poor real* returns, and pool in areas of perceived, actually steady and reliable real* returns.
This entire process is largely opaque and horrendously complex.
But you can look at it from the outside and describe rules that it does at least tend to follow.
As far as I’m aware, at least some proportion of … theoretically ‘smarter’ people are throwing their money into things like mining companies for rare earths, uranium, things whose stocks will almost be guaranteed to go up because the raw materials they extract will be a part of basically any technological civilization going forward from here.
What else is almost guaranteed to get more expensive?
Power, Food, Water.
So, the theory would be roughly that ‘smarter’ money would get as close to the first step.of any process involved in providing or producing those things, as possible.
… such is the logic of capitalism at least as I see it, which also kind of means we are defacto accelerating the ‘cyberpunk dystopia-fication’ / ‘techno-neofeudalism’ thing, where any person or entity that more or less owns these kinds of companies… they become sort of like hegemonic guilds that states have to basically negotiate with as either equals or lessers.
Corporate Wars, here we come.
No no no.
You don’t get how bad this is.
Fucking over people for a smidgen more margin would be bad,… but this… this is a power play, a naked power play.
It isn’t even about money, because when you do what they just did… the definition of money, property, what a ‘sale’ is… that all changes.
They’re changing the rules that the whole game is played by, not just acting cynically within those rules.
Its a brutal and naked demonstration that a corporation can just decide what property rights are, how they work for, what, like, around a billion people?
This is a what the prologue or prequel to your favorite cyberpunk story looks like.
This is how you set a precedent for digital property rights… in a primarily digitized economic system.
They’re just straight up telling you they own you, and every appliance or car or whatever mfg’er will point at Sony as the precedent.
This is double funny right now as uh… Private Equity more or less just… pulled most of their ‘investments’ out of about half of US AI datacenter build outs.
Just literally directly because they ran out of other people’s money.
They’ve all been seeing like double the desired outflows, capital flight, that they can handle, and they’ve just literally been rewriting their own rules on the fly, all while acting like everything is fine.
… this is gonna make 07/08 look like the fucking prologue, the goddamned tutorial level.
Gotta teach em to lock their rig when they’re not using it somehow.
Though I’m still a fan of the ‘take a screen shot of the desktop and then remove the actual dekstop’ approach.
… hrm… it probably wouldn’t be that hard to make a version of ‘hollywood’ thats augmented by something like a cron job that just checks to see if its open or not, and reopens it if it isnt.
… the matrix has you …
You must have missed that the Windows version/implementation of SecureBoot … and/or BitLocker… have had various NSA backdoors for years.
Thats why shit seems to keep breaking in new crazy ways: Whoops, that backdoor got found out, time to rollout a new one, via a Windows update, that can overwrite your bootsector, on its own, whenever it wants to.
They keep fucking with the bootloader and breaking most dual boot configs because they don’t like the idea that they will not always be able to tap your computer via a secret warrant issued by a secret court.
You can’t build in a backdoor as a reliable method of spying on people, because people who aren’t supposed to know its there will figure it out in… not actually very much time.
There are very good reasons why huge chunks of the EU has their government agencies throwing out Windows.
Google locking down Android is the same thing.
I mean literally yes, but, it could not exist in any meaningful way without Proton.
Thats why I say its really built around Proton, they started with Proton and then said ‘how do we make an OS that will work with/around this’ and landed on Arch.
The whole point of it is: Be a functional, efficient, fast, Linux OS that primarily plays video games.
Thats impossible without Proton.
Got it, understood, you can’t read.
Sorry about that for you, good luck with life.
No. We are not.
And no, they are not.
You don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.
That they are in the position where they even need to ask is an admission that they are sell out traitors to the inherent responsibilities and duties vested in them by the voting public.
They are frauds and failures, the only correct thing they could all do is rescind all permits for any data center contracts, and then resign immediately.
Anything less than that?
Run them out of town, outta the entire fucking state.
Hey I mean…
I think Itch.io at least deserves to be another goofy little goober in the corner.
Well the original GTA stock market did not let you take real money out.
That would have been completely insane.
Basically only EVE online, I think, has anything close to that, kind of, its complicated.
But the point I’m getting at is… they had a game mechanic that, if you were clever, could make you in game rich.
They destroyed this mechanic, and replaced it with ‘if you want to be in game rich, give us actual moneh.’
Lately I’ve been running into this wild thing where… they just cannot fucking understand nested arrays.
Here, we have an array called points, its made of vec2s, vec2 elements can also be accessed as an array or via vec2.x or vec2.y
Alright, now, figure out how to compute the distance from the last point in the points array to the first point.
… and it will give me something like:
points - points
… and then I headdesk and explain to it what i just said.
and it will go oh!
points - points is incorrect!
points - points is the corrected version!
… and then i will tell it those are literally the same thing and cannot possibly be both correct and incorrect simultaneously.
… and then it will either actually crash, or basicslly say ‘yep, sorry, im stupid’… and then crash.
… fucking what? This is what Ford has been using to make all their software with the last year?
God fucking damnit.
They really must have actually scaled them back in some way, to just stupider models… 6 months ago… they could handle that no problem, and get tripped up on legitimately more complex things.
… oh well, im never gonna directly pay for any of this shit anyway.
Tippmann really are the GOATs of just like… the ‘I like to go paintballing everyonce in a while’ demographic.
Yeah, yeah, other people make fancier pantsier shit… T98 is the goddamn AK47 of markers.
Maybe one of the actual last examples of American manufacturing one could actually be proud of.
I mean yes, true, but:
More dangerous
More expensive
Easier to track who purchased/likely owns one
More complex to use.
… if you get caught marking up a camera with paintballs… or frying it with a laser…
Which person do you think is looking at more potential fines and jail time?
Whats less expensive and easier to dismantle and throw away or otherwise dispose of?
A fairly decently powered laser?
Or a Tippmann 98?
Ahahah!
No, no… you can’t read that well, can you?
Try again buddy, go … slower this time, understand how qualified statements work, and keep in mind the entire context of what I said.
You’ve concluded that I said a whole bunch of things that I did not say.
Apparently I’ve triggered you quite seriously… I wasn’t intending to, but uh… yeah, try again, try to read the words that I actually said.
… spread the word?
Ok.
Well…
… don’t you know, about the bird?
Well, EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT THE BIRD IS THE WORD!
Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa OOM MAH MOW MOW
Pa Pa OOM MAH MOW MOW
Pa Pa OOM MAH MOW MOW
WELL DONT YOU KNOW, ABOUT THE BIRD
WELL EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT THE BIRD IS THE WORD
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-dies-