Random Thoughts Thread

[Rafflesiac]

tfw wrecking my sleep schedule to cackle over S T O N K S

[Trubo]

I’ll miss having a place to get yelled at by trubo

For supporting someone who has been on the wrong side of every major issue in the last 40 years as if they'll suddenly change their ways and do the right thing?

How's that Biden update to ACA going that's literally copy+pasted from insurance lobbyists going that, as expected, ignored everything that was suggested by the Bernie task-forces? No public option and more handouts to the insurance industry is just the non-radical thing this country needs, yeah? It's not like there isn't a strong legal argument to be made that he could EO Medicare to everyone during the pandemic or anything.

Sure, Biden's done some decent EOs, but I'm not holding my breath that he continually renews them when it comes to those that have expiration dates, like the Keystone pipeline, drilling/fracking suspensions, student debt freezes, and eviction moratoriums. But it sure is telling how after a year of Biden and co criticizing Trump for his incredibly bad handling of the pandemic that, now that Biden and Democrats are in power, suddenly they can't fucking do anything. He's walked back his promise of 2k checks twice now (first the the "oh 2k, I meant 1400 on top of the 600 that passed" and "oh, immediately? I meant sometime in March or May when we try to get a bipartisan covid relief bill passed"). It's not as though there weren't ads during the Georgia Senate runoffs that literally had Biden say he'd do 2k checks immediately and pictured a single 2k check, not this bullshit 600+1400 thing. Also, acting like he can't force Moderna and Phizer to up production of their vaccines or anything.

Can't wait to see his administration bailout these fucking hedge funds that have been shorting stuff like GME for years now.

The only lasting good things that this administration will accomplish will be done thanks to Bernie forcing them through budget reconciliation.

[Tobias]

It’s not to say that want just stimulating and all, but this

Seeing as they have a unique way of bringing out the worst posting this forum has ever seen, dedicated politics threads will no longer be allowed on the forum. If one absolutely has to share their commentary on current affairs I would suggest doing it somewhere else than an anime forum. Political discussion itself is not outright banned, provided the topic comes up as a natural or tangential part of discussion (this is not an invitation to move the activities of this thread to another existing one like Random Thoughts). The above is a joint staff decision that you can verify with the unbiased and morally upright staff member of your choice.

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was not a joke

kthx

[Zurvan]

if this is the new fate of RT it was better off as a corpse

[Trubo]

Don't post bait then Tobias.

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tfw wrecking my sleep schedule to cackle over S T O N K S

If only I put my 1K into it last week when it was still 20 a share, I'd be pretty close to a million now.

[Deathhappens]

Stocks are like gambling; sure, some people can make bank off of them and some might even regularly make enough to live comfortably, but it's not gonna be you.

[Trubo]

I mean, I'll take an easy 10k earned in less than a week. Just thinking about what could have been.

[Zurvan]

same except btc

[Mattias]

So, you know how all the classic horror movies are allegories about the fear of people coming to steal honest white christian women? Like Dracula is classy Eurpoean aristocrats, werewolves are bad boy rebels, creature from the black lagoon is Black people, etc. What does Frankenstein represent in that group? Because the only thing I can think of is children, and that doesn't track with the 30's "go have a family! Ignore the depression!" message.

[Trubo]

Death and the unknown?

Back to STONKS memes

[mAc Chaos]

My only regret about the stock market is that I didn't start ten years ago.

[Mattias]

Back to STONKS memes

This convergence of the absurdity of 2020: Overtime Month is fucking gold. All we need is for this to become the anthem of storming the capital and we'd have the trifecta.

[Trubo]

And now all the "retail investor-friendly" trading options like RH are prohibiting people from buying GME, BB, AMC, and other "volatile" stocks, but the big boys still can. Fuck this noise.

[Nikiri]

This whole gme stock thing rn feels like a huge boss raid, and that's awesome

[weeblord]

[Trubo]

Monday is going to be interesting to say the least. Think I'm priced out of benefiting more from GME unless another super aggressive short ladder happens that can bring price back down to 150 or lower (I could wire 5k into my account but I'm already really leery just having 2k set aside for all this, 1k already in GME and the other 1k come Monday). Probably pick up some AMC, BB, or NOK.

[Laserman]

[Deathhappens]

So apparently Google Chrome on Android updated with a new "group tab" system and goddamnit I can't find anything anymore

[Walnut Sparks]

I miss the days when you could use old versions of software indefinitely and the software itself couldn't stop you.

[Laserman]

I miss the days when you could use old versions of software indefinitely and the software itself couldn't stop you.

That sounds pretty nice.