albatross13

Imagine if we had just given that money to Ukraine instead, sheeeesh I can't believe the pro-russian banks wouldn't do that

Fidelity does it. I've had to explicitly decline 'voice authorization' multiple times.

Several people have been arrested based on 4chan posts recently, after 'threatening' a law enforcement official in florida.

So...yes. Yes I do.

1. post link to jenkins job in a 4chan thread relating to something nefarious

2. see who clicks it

3. now you have IP addresses of possibly nefarious people without needing to subpoena 4chan

Something like that.

Anyone setting up a honey pot. Half of 4chan posts are 3 letter agencies trying to bait people into violence.

I will say, after not going to a movie theater for awhile and then subsequently seeing D&D in theaters twice...going to a movie theater is actually really nice.

There's something to be said about going to a movie theater and being able to watch a movie distraction-free. No phones, no tablets, etc.

It was nice.

There's nothing irrational about not trusting banks, especially when they're directed by the federal reserve to have 0% of their deposits on hand.

You can flatten a tire with an anti material rifle.

US solution - equip all emergency services with anti-materiel rifles

Yes.

:shrug:

Get lost in the technicalities if you want- either way it's all a scam of loaning money they don't have. I hope you don't bank with first republic :)))

I don't think banking loses its purpose, but I do think it loses its insane profitability.

A bank is supposed to be a safe location to store my money, because storing it under my mattress is a far less guarantee of safety. It should be a slow burn towards profitability.

To your point, that goes out the window with fractional reserve banking and it's exacerbated when the Federal Reserve pulls shenanigans like remove reserve requirements...which still seems to be the case.

Either way the points are moot, the banking system ain't gonna change until we have some ungodly catalyst. Hopefully no one blames some dumb social media website for that either.

Your parrot sounds like a riot. Give him a pat for me.

Ah yes, let's blame everyone else for the woes of fractional reserve banking.

Here's a novel idea- don't loan money you don't have ^_^

Just drive a stick shift.

Are you up to date on your boosters?

You should start your own farm and scale it to feed tens of millions of people, simply by driving a truck in a field :)

The fact that you're surprised by this is the most alarming thing in all of this.

Wrong. Saudi Arabia forces countries to buy oil in USD.

The stock market is fake and manipulated, and propped up by an empty fiat currency that has one leg left: the military might of the USA.

How fast is your precious stock market gonna plummet once the world starts abandoning the USD as its reserve currency?

This unfortunately gives people the wrong idea about wildlife photography.

He's clearly on either a reserve or a game farm, shooting with what I'm assuming is a 70-200mm lens- i.e. he's way too close to this animal.

Not making light at all, knives are incredibly dangerous.

In fact, knives are used to kill more people each year than rifles: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

We need knife control legislation now!!!!

I bet it's that darn hacker named ebaumsworld

I follow, that makes sense.

I truly appreciate the negative climate impacts of Work from Office, the faster we can accelerate global climate change the better!

You'd think then, entering a bear market, you'd want to keep your best people happy by letting them WFH.

But maybe they're going the HPE route and trying to cut staff via attrition. When I was at HP in 2014, Meg closed all satellite offices and got rid of most WFH- this lead to overly cramped offices as an abundance of employees were dragged back in.

A lot of employees quit or simply took early retirement as a result.

Oh, good. Here I thought we had given hundreds of billions to Ukraine for a war against russia, must have been for their upstanding daycare programs.

unsafe and unprofessional

I mean we're essentially at war with Russia, how safe and professional should they really be with our tech?

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

Lol.

Investors pulling out are the reason the stock is down 40%, silly goose.