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Brigadiering is indeed loony and lame ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sorry I misremembered. The Pharma pricing thing just made him an easy target for the media you are correct.

Sounds great. I wasn't aware he has a reputation as a stock picker. All I know about him is that he had some shenanigans with Pharma price gauging and that's both how he made his money and ended up in jail.

The trolling is uninteresting except maybe the Wu Tang thing.

I'm only after pure Excel-fu here. It is actually weird for me that people use it to analyze stocks instead of Python but I probably don't know what I'm missing.

Edit: The first few minutes seem neat, I'm biting the bullet

So there's this weird playlist about Excel by Martin Shkreli of all people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI_riscmviI&list=PLJsVF3gZDc...

It keeps popping up as he is apparently quick and knows the ins and outs. But I've never bothered to go through it as it is seven years old at this point and focused on finance.

Can anybody recommend something similar but up to date with the new goodies so a fella could be competitive at this? I'm talking more keyboard shortcuts and advanced features (many of them overlap). The latest versions of Excel sort of open it up anew.

puts on headband and cracks knuckles

Yes, it very much did hit a nerve.

Gumbo does not disclose anything about what group with special privileges you're supposed to be a part of and that's the entire point - I don't want to know. I don't care if you're black, white, or purple. Don't care about your gender, sexuality or personal life either. Never did, never will.

Which is precisely why bringing up minorities when you are just an anonymous jumble of letters and the attempted guilt trip is a bunch of insufferable manipulative hooey. It is not a "fair question" by any stretch of the imagination, you know nothing about me other than I don't subscribe to your garbage worldview.

You already exposed yourself as an insufferable bully with this: "The only people I’ve talked to who oppose DEI efforts were either blatantly sexist/racist"

Nice try. You go place burdens and play these games with people who have patience to put up with your nonsense. Strain as hard as you will to be offended and oppressed, no such luck bud, and absolutely nobody called you any names either.

I don't need you to be upset, your emotional state does not concern me one iota.

Talk about a lack of self control. You are extremely out of line.

You obviously will disrupt every workplace and gathering with tantrums and false accusations whenever you don't get your way. Tough cookies, you ain't getting your way with me no matter what.

"If you don't agree with me you are a bad person" is the most childish kindergarten bullshit imaginable. Take a look in the mirror, enough woke sharia. Enough.

There are a multitude of conflicting bad ideas burning through the zeitgeist.

They try to grab a toehold by appearing more popular than they actually are.

By all means do the poll as best you see fit. I’m none binary when it comes to polling.

It is almost like they only came out with this to appease wall street.

I'll just remind you about one of the features: You heard of Memojis, now you have Genmoji!

Generating a squirrel on a jetski emoji on the fly will save you loads of time and make your life better. There aren't enough stickers in your chat app.

Pick from three googley eyed cartoon styles to show off your unique personalities and creativity.

They all look like Pixar and smarmy Dreamworks face nightmare fuel memes from over a decade ago (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DreamWorksFace).

This was an actual part of the demo. I'm not being factitious.

What is dead may never die! RSS is only resting. One of these days it will muscle up to those bars and voom.

I support you 100%. Could you, erm, point me towards this indy web?

I'd just like to point out to the vim curios Emacs users lurking in here (hi guys, you will succumb eventually) that he doesn't mean the R programming language.

Definitely nobody uses that, true. And we aren't going to make you when you decide to switch over, it isn't like a prerequisite to use the editor.

Nor is some weird shitty lisp from the 80s. There was an abomination called Vimscript until Neovim decided to murder it. Praise be.

It is now scriptable with Lua, Python, Ruby, JS if you're a satanist (who am I kidding, you probably are), whatever you want.

So honestly you're running out of excuses at this point. ;)

P.S. - Since a vim-mode will always only support the subset of Vim the authors care about it is rather pointless. Also, Neovim has a robust ecosystem of plugins this Zed thing is leaving behind. There is no escape no matter how hard novelty editors will try to fix what isn't broken.

There can be only one! /Sean Connery accent

I approve. I've had this conversation over and over on what.cd back in the day.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

We can even get a little more meta and observe how this type of essay itself goes through the very same process and you end up with:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9IucBIoCzc0

It always happens, without fail, for every genre and subculture. We can only embrace the ephemeral.

Thanks anal_reactor

That is very rare and admirable. Can you share more details? Perhaps without linking to them as to not ruin it.

Only one I can think of is The Well. I don't see how you could ever recreate it.

Your problem is that my punching over the internet device is still just a prototype.

It isn't as bad as the literal dumpster fire 70s era either, sure, but good grief what a delusional take. Come visit.

wat?

Starliner wasn't selected based on merit in the first place so only after people will die will it become impossible to pretend otherwise. What incentive do the current decision makers have to own up to their mistake? They'll double down first, watch.

Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.

This left me wondering if there is enough demand for smaller social networks with very limited visibility that can foster rich and insightful discussions (although this sounds like forums from the nineties). And if it's possible to keep the sales people away, or at least invite-only.

You can't keep sales people a.k.a phonies away it will always happen. Every underground subculture gets appropriated as soon as even one of these people shows up.

For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_punk_subculture

Imagine you run into Patti Smith and her friends in the 70s, if you're lame you won't be staying long. In fact you might get punched in the face. There is proper gatekeeping.

Once the scene grows even a little there's money to be made. A different sort shows up who understands the culture and likes the music OK but don't truly give a fuck it is about selling t-shirts and bootlegs for them. And/Or getting laid.

They'll start promoting it to grow it bigger and make more money. That's when the real sharks show up and the original members start leaving. Later still normies shop your style at the mall with no idea what any of it means or where it came from.

Sadly, can't punch people in the face over the internet. Even worse everything is all about forced inclusivity now.

This ain't a technological problem.

Thanks, I'm not a male prostitute.

I'll do you one better, I'd pay good money to avoid these people. They aren't any more physically attractive then any other cohort of women (not to be mean but some of them look like Lena Dunham) and are a nightmare to be around.

A chance at what? Hahahaha. Ew.

Awesome as always.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lHqEwk7YHs

Did the patent expire yet? Would you consider releasing the code? It sounds of historical significance and an interesting doom-like read.

Alright, well that was disappointing. No whimsical fruit to be found anywhere on that page. My imagination went wild for a moment.

I don't know what exactly I was expecting but I'm pretty broken up about it. :/

I’m not talking about the the pandemic. Then why even mention it?

Listen bud, you can treat antivaxers and bogans like lepers if you want. It is not my problem, they are your cross to bear as fellow citizens. I also think they are retarded, but you seem incapable of understanding this or where we differ.

Read the thread again and observe how you jump to conclusions about strangers (I must be an American who fell down the rabbit hole with those people online and am also like them) and the way you treat people you don't like. That's all.

I don't think you are quite your old selves and don't want to get caught up in your culture wars.

Why? Whether I refuse to give him my PIN; or I give it to him and he finds nothing of interest; or he does find something of interest: none of that relates to the attitudes of people regarding the pandemic, because none of the things they're searching for are even remotely related to the pandemic.

Hard to believe they are sifting through phones at the border "just looking for kiddie fuckers". There is a reason why you think their approach is completely wrong. You know that makes no kind of sense, it is security theatre.

There is a fellow Australian in this thread describing being searched three times.

In reality you are at the mercy and at the discretion of the border guy. And if he acts like you've acted here and comes across an antivaxer I have a reasonable expectation he would give them a hard time out of spite. Or indeed whomever rubs them the wrong way.

I get how it is supposed to work, I am not claiming anything remotely like they are actively targeting this or that group as defined in the law. I'm talking about how it is enforced.

It isn't something I read online either. Because of this atmosphere people have bad experiences. Normal people.

No point in talking in circles, I'm guessing you'll stay with your cognitive disonnance and keep yelping at me like I'm an antivaxer and this isn't registering at all so I'll wish you the best and stop here.

What mentality?

Well you're a foreigner who yet again made pretty ridiculous claims about Australians and their thoughts regarding how the government handled the pandemic.

I keep telling you I’m not an anti vaxer. I keep telling you I’m not talking about the the pandemic.

Those people who disturb you so is the outgroup I’m talking about.

I’m not that, has diddly to do with me, but you can’t snap out of that fixation.

How many times do people have to tell you that these measures are unrelated to COVID and pre-date it? COVID is thus not the "original reason" for the law in question, and never has been.

I never said that Covid is the reason for the law in question , look carefully, you got on that all on your own!

How many times can I clarify that? That’s the mentality I’m talking about.

Snap out of it.

A border guard searching your phone pre and post Covid is no longer the same. God help you if he starts assuming wrong things about you now, like you are about me, understand?

That’s the entire point. Covid is over, the animosities remain and run deep.

For posterity, in case a teenager finds this thread in a googlestorm: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Essay:Second-option_bias

Some dudes given "secret suppressed knowledge" that is contrarian to a mainstream they feel alienated from will immediately buy in hook line and sinker and become fanatics.

Don't be a smooth brain.

It's nothing to do with finding you "disagreeable". It's pretty basic etiquette when having a conversation.

Please tell me more about this etiquette while calling me a foodstuff.

Indeed Covid is the unrelated topic, my opening words: Regardless of where you stand on Covid ...the original reasons for draconian law enforcement meant to be temporary are long gone..

The mentality however remains. I can only hope not permanently.

Not litigating the past, talking about the present. I say this with all sincerity, come back tomorrow perhaps and reread the exchange with fresh eyes.

I'm not really sure why you think I would be your border guard, or how you assume I would treat a person in that scenario even if I was?

You would with some probability jump to conclusions that I'm part of the outgroup and treat me with a heavyhand as demonstrated by this whole exchange. These are not good vibes, hence, unpleasant and disappointing enough for me to steer clear. And I'm quite sure you are more reasonable than the typical border agent.

in my experience the assumption by foreigners (typically Americans but probably not exclusively) that Australians are all "hopping mad" about the government reaction to COVID is vastly overblown

Wonderful, what does that have to do with this foreigner? Are you starting to understand the issue?

You opened with.. That makes you a pork chop. At least to the person that used that term. You are holding some strong opinions that raise eyebrows.

He specifically called me a pork chop for the "lived experience" as he himself says in his own post. What are my strong opinions that raise eyebrows please?

I mentioned I'm vaxed and said "regardless how you feel about Covid".

I can, you don't have a monopoly on stories heard and COVID was at the root of many a sad tale.

Never claimed any monopoly. One last time, I'm specifically talking about listening to your fellow citizens offline not antivaxer types online.

Which punishment for purely what thoughts are you referring to here ?

Should have just started there friend.

there are far worse countries to visit and even those can be navigated safely enough if not comfortably.

I'm at about 100, no argument there either, that's very true.

But again - as has been pointed out to you already, the policy in discussion is 100% unrelated to COVID, or lockdowns for that matter.

Thanks for calling me a pork chop and telling me what is wrongthink. Fire first, ask questions later..

It seems entirely outside your comprehension how such a thing might be abused. Furthermore you aggressively refuse to hear anyone out.

Your country, your rules bud. I sincerely hope they never find you disagreeable - as you do me - for any reason. Hope it all works out.

But personally I would not be comfortable with someone like you as my border guard. Great country otherwise but won’t chance it.

Yes, you can go online and find some very vocal Australians

Specifically why I wrote lived experience. Which apparently makes me a pork chop.

You can imagine the heartbreaks shared with me. They were not antivaxers by any stretch either.

As for the phone searches and punishment for wrong think I can again only say: hear your fellow citizens out.

If you’re happy, I’m happy. If everyone not happy MUST be a this or a that… I don’t want to visit personally, please understand.

I’m not claiming where the line on authoritarianism should be just that I’m not comfortable.

There's no thesis, we're just talking. I don't understand why I got called names and hostile responses. Meh.

The second part of your reply is great, I figured this would be the place to ask somebody who knows about it. I wish you'd have started and ended with that. I'm one of those very nerds who never cared about who wants to sleep with whom.

I must note that on occasion trans techies are aggressively hostile to none trans techies and I don't appreciate it anymore than you do when it flows the other way.

"What's the problem if you ain't got something to hide? And who would possibly want to even live without a smartphone?"