JohnJamesRambo

The late stage capitalist has entered the building.

I wonder if anyone remembers an old experiment they did with houseplants and removing VOCs. They did the experiment right and had one plant have all leaves removed and it removed as much or more as the plant. The source of VOC removal? The potting soil and the life within. That's my memory of it.

The complaint alleges that the Meta directors failed to consider that shareholders with diversified portfolios may be subject to net losses from Meta’s pursuit of a business model that maximizes advertising revenue without regard to the harms it inflicts on the rest of their portfolios.

This is one of the craziest stances/lawsuits I’ve ever read. Boglehead thought has taken over so much that the shareholders are referring to a nebulous diversified portfolio as something that somehow must be protected by law. That’s too far out there.

I cancelled my Tesla due to the Paul Pelosi tweet. It was the last straw. Was supposed to be picking the car up tomorrow after waiting seven months. It makes me sad because I love the car, we sold our 2021 to buy a 2023, but I just can’t stand to be associated with Elon or support him/send him money. I don’t think I’m alone in feeling like this. He represents to me some of the absolute worst things about the world I see and the exact opposite of how I want the world to be headed.

60 hours of golf is a lot.

A modern-era Energy Star-rated fridge, by comparison, might only use 350 kWh annually. At the same $.10 per kWh price, that's around $.10 a day, $2.9 per month and $35 per year

I admire efficiency a lot but I don’t think digging around in a chest freezer is worth saving $31.50 a year. Others may feel differently.

If you are anticipating human greed evaporating, then yes, crypto will go to zero. My experiences so far in life have shown that to not be likely.

People holding stocks may never see ATH either, it’s the risk we take for the mental construct we believe in.

History says they probably will, as long as they hold a diverse portfolio.

Unfortunately crypto has become just a leveraged bet on the stock market and has lost much of its uncorrelated asset status. If the stock market recovers, crypto recovers even harder. Ethereum price is like a higher leverage TQQQ if you check the charts. I liked it better when it was uncorrelated.

What a novel and original argument.

Actually Bitcoin and Ethereum have a known supply and limited inflation (Ethereum is actually deflationary now) so best suited to not go to zero. The USD on the other hand…

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

https://ultrasound.money/

Did they punch themselves in the face or was it Cambridge Analytica type meddling from groups with a vested interest in Brexit happening stomping them in the face with a boot?

From my brief reading about the matter it seems that the same villains showed up over there for that manipulation campaign.

Oh I see. I thought you meant they wouldn’t sell when moved to natural lighting because the plants were less healthy or looked weird.

Money was cheap to borrow and get from investors and now it isn’t.

https://www.bridgewater.com/its-mostly-a-demand-shock-not-a-...

I've always found this insightful.

How did you know it was canola?

Haha why don’t they sell?

If you showed this to an advanced alien civilization I think they might consider his life one of enforced torture, if they themselves aren’t already living it.

The Clockwork Orange eyes held open forced to watch screens device comes to mind.

Which movies? The only one I didn’t like was the one about the internet, Lo and Behold. I feel like maybe he was just from too many eras ago to understand how full of shit all the people he was interviewing were. All the rest of his movies always make me understand the world and humans on a deeper level than I did before. Happy People, Into the Inferno, Grizzly Man, the one about the cave paintings, the one about the South Pole.

I love my Mint. There have been no downsides for me. $15 a month. Got my whole extended family and friends on it. Everyone loves it.

Are you sure you are speaking as clearly in the evening? I don’t understand how voice command recognition could fluctuate based on AI and time of day.

Yes I thought it was going to be about the true hell that is calling any company now. Phone menus for at least a minute and then connected to someone with long Covid and/or new hire that has no idea what they are doing or forgot how. Then transferred to another and another and another. Covid annihilated customer service.

I’m curious, what cars are you buying for $200k? Do you mean USD?

How does it compare to the Quest 2?

What would happen if you disabled 1% of your cpu? People might say what’s a loss of 1% but I’m reminded of data from sports science where 1% more performance is an absolutely astounding amount that separates world class from the pack. I don’t want to be in the mind pack!

I don’t know anything about VR, can someone tell me how this compares to the Meta Advertisement Torture Device (MATD) that costs $1500?

Makes sense, rise of CGI in the 90s killed movies I like.

The old mantra of people only use X% of their brain has been found to be hogwash. We use all of our brain, so I’d be very worried about a poison that even takes 1%.

The notion that a person uses only 10 percent of their brain is a myth. fMRI scans show that even simple activities require almost all of the brain to be active.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321060#takeaway

Lol, well I’ve got the old dumb one that you just push a button on to clean. His boundaries are set by my little fence pod things that run on D batteries which I have to push the button on too.

For a SpaceX Falcon 9, the rocket used to access the ISS, the cost is just $2,720 per kilogram.

https://theconversation.com/how-spacex-lowered-costs-and-red...

Unfortunately it’s about $2,720 per 2.2 lbs in even the best case scenario.

My Roomba is one of the few pieces of technology I own with no downsides to my life. I often think of it as an example of technology done right.

Excuse me when I make an apple pie from scratch.

You’ll have to invent the universe first.