I also suspect they rolled holdings from smaller speculative bubbles into this one. Auto driving, metaverse, etc. Those were big enough bubbles, they should've hurt some of these companies for a couple of years... And they didn't because they just keep rolling these holdings into the next bubble.
What speech? Was confused when I checked stocks and saw they were up given this weeks AI discourse.
Oh geez, yeah no, not for me. I checked out somewhere around mantis lords. That's the last boss I remember. Tbh, if they add checkpoints outside boss rooms I can probably see credits. That's the only reason I beat Elden Ring. Run backs require patience on top of patience.
I'd be shocked if they added them, based on the originals DLC.
It's really good just... Too much without accessibility settings. I got tired of the "git gud" boss fights about halfway through. And I'm so tired of no checkpoints outside boss rooms. Fuck boss runs.
Just blatant islamophobia. The number of don't vote for Harris signs I saw in Dearborn after that visit exploded.
Oh I'm not saying there wasn't some in the party that wanted to lose, certainly those consultants did. I think a lot of what we saw on display was top/ down contempt. They view themselves as stewards and we're just a bunch of idiot poors who don't understand.
I'm not sure it's that. I think the dynamic is just more - they're rich out of touch idiots. They got into politics to serve themselves, not the public. Which has been fine for an empire in slow decline. But we're at the end with cutthroat politics and they don't know what to do.
Broadly, I agree. It wasn't a coin flip in my state last election tho. If the Dems hadn't told the Arab community here to go fuck themselves over Palestine, Harris would've won.
As someone from a consequential swing state, I'm pretty tired of watching election night and knowing what way it'll go based on what color my state turns.
They could've just imprisoned half the GOP over Jan 6. Just obliterated that entire political party for a couple decades. But we're talking about a party that is basically a bunch of dipshit middle managers, so we got "the divine apparatus of the judiciary will sort it out"
He could but that would only fool the idiots that will believe anything he says anyways. They don't need some elaborate geopolitical lie. He could just say ET beamed down and stole all the money and they'd rant endlessly about Democrat anal probes.
And this is why I've never taken my 401k seriously. I've always assumed it would disappear as a retirement mechanism by the time I'm 65.
Why is there this bizarre stratified requirement for you? If Mamdani actually qualified to run for president and did, he shouldn't because he didn't put his time in serving other public offices?
They sure as hell are when a good percentage of the electorate votes on vibes. Besides we've been caught in the actor turned elected official for decades. Ronald Reagan was a shit actor too. Also this "we need experienced people" is literally the same lines they're using against Mamdani.
Would like to point out that elections ARE popularity contests. They've never been about who has the most experience or is the most qualified. They aren't even about policy. If that were the case Dems wouldn't have lost to an orange buffoon twice.
Lol, 35 started lifting a couple of years ago to lose weight. Still have more to lose but I don't think I've ever been this fit tbh. Although I do long for my teenager knees.
I saw that they rolled out 5 but didn't bother to look and see what was supposedly improved. Why are the diehards pissed?
A kid literally presented all his prompts he used to get his degree at his graduation ceremony a couple of months ago. Yes it's cheating, and no they aren't learning shit.
I'm so excited! Played 6 hours of the demo but have been holding off for the full release. Can already tell it's gonna be another vampire survivors/ balatro black hole game for me!
Rich people really are a feckless bunch
Makes me think of the last time we had that level of consolidation in the stock market 🤔
That and I think the only thing that's been keeping this thin social contract together has been all the treats. No more treats, no more contract.
They actually should be far more expensive. These companies aren't profitable and the cost of inference hasn't come down. Not that any of these chatbots are worth what they're charging now let alone what they need to charge to break even.
Yeah that's how I read this too. First he's described in the article as a venture capitalist. Second this reads just like those articles a few months ago where AI wouldn't allow itself to be deleted. More "it's becoming GenAI" gaslighting journalism.
I'm assuming this will only accelerate the time table for Japan's economic implosion.
From a business standpoint, yeah they're pretty on par with most tech monopolies. From an end user perspective, they're miles better. Facebook, Google search, Amazon marketplace - often unusable now. Steam, mostly unchanged. Menus still in the same place. Not littered with ads, search still works
You should be, they're not just a company but a monopoly. The worst of enshittification will come when Gabe is out. Not that he's some bastion of truth, but he does seem to care somewhat about consumer happiness.
I'm not saying you're wrong. What I'm saying is that Valve and Gabe aren't beloved because of games that most steam users haven't played. They're beloved because they aren't overtly hostile towards consumers. Still hostile but not like Meta, Google - etc.
More like, they haven't completely enshittified steam, keep adding features people want and came out with a fully repairable handheld. Not defending Gabe here. He's a shit asshole libertarian billionaire who's made his money fleecing devs. But there's more to why people love him.
But more stupid.
I'm just enjoying watching a conspiracy possibly unravel the conspiracy peddling party 🍿
Looks like some Dems are telling Pelosi to fuck herself. Good.
True. I think this guy's timing is probably fine though. There are enough economic indicators showing that the bubble could pop any moment. Can't market yourself as Nostradamus if the music already stopped.
I think he's just making a hedge for his own career. When the bottom falls out, everyone is going to be looking for anyone who called it early. And thus he'll become an authority and be able to go anywhere.
@wittywebhandle.bsky.social oh look, one economist has a brain! fortune.com/2025/07/17/a...
Yeah the "voters don't like this horrible policy" headline, while nice to read is incredibly irrelevant. Both political parties are captured by capital and their varied interests. They don't care what we think.
I want it to burst just so I don't have to read anymore "I went on a date with my AI dream guy. Then I cried over shrimp" headlines
I cannot wait until this grift fucking dies. Unfortunately it'll take our entire economy with it.... But at least we won't get bombarded by these breathless trash articles anymore.
How was stagflation manufactured in the 70s? Was it the start of them shipping all manufacturing jobs out of the country in combination with the oil embargo?
Lol
I can't get over that woman's name lol
So many people out there huffing paint
Well yes, we're still alive
Most of rural America will burn just with the hospital closures. They're often the largest employers in these areas.
No. Democrats have been content to let Republicans take shit every cycle and not claw it the fuck back. For nearly 50 YEARS! We didn't just arrive at fascism out of nowhere. They've been chill about it because they're rich cunts too.
I think you just answered your own question. They aren't intended to represent the people who voted for them.
@wittywebhandle.bsky.social the complete evisceration of the labor market without any consideration for long-term planning (beyond this exact quarter) ties in nicely with your failson takes.
Not to be annoyingly pedantic, but AOC was first elected at 28. We're the same age so easy for me to remember lol.
This is a functional party, against all of us poors
I have no clue who this person is, and I feel as though I've been spared something awful
I think when they finally announce US troop involvement we're really gonna see fractures on the gop side. War is wildly unpopular, and they have been doing lazy consent manufacturing.
That would require Congress getting upset and doing something.... Lol
Voting doesn't matter much if the people we elect still refuse to use the power they have.
Really wondering how long this "everything is fine" bubble is gonna last.
My boss today praised CNBC squawk box where they have a Dem, gop and independent on and how good it was to have varying opinions. It's his primary source of news btw. I laughed in Marxist.
Because doing something would mean that they would have to compile customers complaints, create plans to solve/mitigate and like advocate for change within the company. Which is effort, and would cost the company money. It would also result in "conflict". Which they avoid like the plague.
Perhaps in some cases. I personally think (and from my experience with business idiots) is that it's just another "initiative". The goal being to impress someone else in the company by looking like you're doing something. But still doing nothing.
Eventually reality will break through. Maybe when the tariff pricing and low stock on shelves finally registers we'll see a significant downturn. In the meantime it's an opportunity for more sqqq.
I think they missed their window before liberation day. And the longer it takes to get anything through the house, the less likely it is anything will get through the Senate. We're still waiting for the effects of gutting the federal government, tariffs, and unfreezing student loans.
I had assumed that was the plan when Schumer voted for cloture.
This really is just 1929 vibes. Retail investors were going ham then too.
@wittywebhandle.bsky.social Even more ways for our money to evaporate. How exciting.
Thing is you'll be able to see it on desktop anyways if you're using the Keepa extension
I keep reminding myself that it's gonna be a very different number once shelves start going bare all across the country. And that's not even the real crash.
I will take FDR 2.0 if that's what's on offer. Is it the communist utopia we actually need? Nope, but better than what we're looking at.
Evil genius territory there. I applaud.
Oh that's definitely part of it, absolutely. Another experiment to see what they can get away with. But the collapse of public opinion does spell some kind of violent crackdown in the future.
I think this escalation is because he's sliding in the polls on every issue.
When my very lib Dad suddenly loves Bernie Sanders after disliking him for the last decade and occasionally breaks programming and jumps on the "eat the rich" train. Yeah that propaganda has limits.
"Middle class" is a bullshit term made up by capital to divide the working class. My sister is a teacher w/ a master's. I'm a tech w/o an applicable degree in my field. She doesn't make much more than I do. We're both working class. You obviously aren't tho.
Those don't go out till May 8th I believe
We would all still call him Pope Pizzaballa
That... Is even less nuanced than I was thinking. Silly me for trying to ascribe broad market conditions to a bunch of gamblers.
I'm seriously confused by the markets today. Is this all hopium from the India announcement?
The Dems inability to capitalize on that obvious fracture over the last 3 decades has really been one of their biggest blunders nobody talks about.
Todd Akin and his "legitimate rape" comments back in 2012 come to mind. Also remember them rabidly blaming gays sex for hurricane Katrina for a solid 6 months back in 2005.
The Mars and hyperloop media propaganda was how I figured out Elon Musk was a bullshit grifter a decade ago. I just remember seeing headlines in 2015 - Musk wants to Terraform Mars via Nukes. Mars nonsense then because my litmus test.
I think I realized back in 2013 that the debt crisis was gonna reach a point where no one would be able to pay back all this money. How exciting to witness an economic reset... Except the whole living through it part.
I think he started getting recommended to me on YouTube not long after I found you on here lol
Gary's Economics put out a good video explaining why modern economists are so incorrect on their assessments.
That's assuming he gets overwhelming police support. Don't forget, those people are getting their 401ks and pensions Thanos snapped too
Trump could make infinite money for the rest of his life, more successfully without causing Great Depression 2. But he's an idiot who fundamentally misunderstands economics on any scale, and we have to live with his garbage ideas that he's been convinced of for 30 years.
My point is that doing the conspiracy thing is pointless. Are many in his cabinet shorting the markets? Fuck yeah they are, if shits going down, might as well be on top of the ruins. But if JD Vance were president, would he be setting markets on fire? Doubtful.
I think to a certain extent I've become inoculated to believing that the capital class is united in a particular goal - or that they're smarter than us. Work for a small m millionaire nepobaby. I've never experienced this kind of incompetence. It's really it's own thing.
This is the single best analysis of what's happening that I've come across so far. Really tired of seeing lefties talk about how "they're planning on tanking the markets" or a multitude of other conspiracies that implies that the capital class is one united front.
I think the obvious answer is typically the truth. These people idiots - they celebrated this asshole getting in months ago and didn't believe he'd institute tariffs. Then he did. Now they're huffing hopium. It'll collapse once EU tariffs & others are announced, and Trump adds onto US tariffs.
It reminds me of QTEs tbh. That shit popped off with God of War and we had to suffer through it being shoved into every possible cutscene/basic interaction for a decade.
I completely agree with your take - but omg am I tired of memorizing parry windows! They don't need to be in every action game!
This is why I went today even though I was exhausted. My parents are disabled, and they both said how they wished they could go. So I went for them.
Yeah it's definitely regional. Around me, I haven't seen them priced over $5. And never completely out of stock. Tho retailers did preemptively limit sales to 1 dozen at a time.
I was expecting a more severe drop at open. It'll happen at some point once they realize these aren't getting reversed and they aren't all getting exemptions.
I burst out laughing. An ugly deranged kind of laugh.
Yup. So many people keep throwing around the techno feudalist stuff - or they wanna turn the US into Russia, etc... No that's too much of a plan. I honestly think this is all stupid people doing stupid things. And trump is one of the dumbest people alive. So massive tariffs for everyone lol
I hadn't checked stocks today & everything is green?! Reciprocal tariffs go live tomorrow. There's no way they won't. Trump has been obsessed with tariffs for 40 years and he's already fucked all our trade agreements. I cannot have sympathy for all these idiots about to lose their life savings.
Again, protesting starlink isn't feasible for mass movement. And with all these tariffs - global dominance via starlink isn't likely. Govs all over are cancelling contracts. The easiest way for us to hurt Musk is through his bs meme stock - Tesla.
Tesla has physical locations everywhere. Easy for people to protest. Easy message to communicate and rally around. Also the vast percentage of his wealth is tied up with Tesla stock. Will he still be wealthy w/o Tesla, yes. But not enough to be shadow president anymore.
I've always found that they tell the truth about an awful thing they want to do. After that they may lie like crazy because people didn't like the awful thing they want to do. Then liberals laugh and go "see they didn't actually mean the awful thing they just said", then help them do awful thing
That and Tesla as a company has been on a death trajectory for years, long before Musk getting into politics and the boycotts. They were always gonna go under once legacy manufacturers got into EVs, and the Chinese finally hit global markets. Rivian will go under too for similar reasons.
This has been a main objective for Republicans since 1935, when the act was passed. They've been openly talking about it for 90 years.