the i dont care about politics anymore thread

[pink grapefruit]

i know you guys are talking about super important politics or w/e but lmao (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc7ZGA-als8&ab_channel=BrightleafRed99)

[aussenseiter]

i know you guys are talking about super important politics or w/e but lmao (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc7ZGA-als8&ab_channel=BrightleafRed99)

You tried to joust a mage?

Good instincts but this is a Wendy's.

[pink grapefruit]

You tried to joust a mage?

Good instincts but this is a Wendy's.

It all happened so fast and I am very out of practice!! It was so funny bc once I saw that someone else zoned in I opened up the video software, thinking like, "well maybe..." and then 5 minutes later this happened :P

[aussenseiter]

It all happened so fast and I am very out of practice!! It was so funny bc once I saw that someone else zoned in I opened up the video software, thinking like, "well maybe..." and then 5 minutes later this happened :P

Mages are strictly for lowbie ganking? They don't have a very good reputation on blue.

Half decent topic.

[pink grapefruit]

Mages are strictly for lowbie ganking? They don't have a very good reputation on blue.

Half decent topic.

Mages are good at lowbie ganking, but we love and respect them and we understand that they're not strictly limited to any one thing. In this instance, we both wanted cash I think bc this fight was over rights to the sisters camp in lfay.

[Patriam1066]

The only people here talking about killing anyone are you fringe right maniacs threatening to assault people and foaming at the mouth about how "they" are hiding the truth from us.

In general, I abhor violence taken to the extreme of permanent consequences like murder, but I’d look the other way if a few financiers who gamble with other people’s money had ving rhames get medieval on their asses

[aussenseiter]

Mages are good at lowbie ganking, but we love and respect them and we understand that they're not strictly limited to any one thing. In this instance, we both wanted cash I think bc this fight was over rights to the sisters camp in lfay.

Group class balance on pvp is (1) bard and 3 rogues/SKs trying to get the killshot?

Solo 1v1 it's a wizard exploiting zone geometry.

Am I wrong?

Shit that's already more players than red has at the moment. :p

[pink grapefruit]

Group class balance on pvp is (1) bard and 3 rogues/SKs trying to get the killshot?

Solo 1v1 it's a wizard exploiting zone geometry.

Am I wrong?

Shit that's already more players than red has at the moment. :p

If I were trying to make like a regular pvp friend group, which honestly sounds amazing, I think it would be one bard, one shaman, and then a bunch of melee DPS/harm touch yeah. A ranger or someone with that broken bow. Monks and warriors maybe preferred to rogue.

And yes wizards would like to get up high somewhere with lev that melee can't easily reach.

[Horza]

Brian Kimeade and Ron DeSantis play catch while Kilmeade conducts an interview, daily reminder that Fox is the mouthpiece of the GOP. (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1635271231988441093)

[Ekco]

.

[Jobaber]

daily reminder that Fox is the mouthpiece of the GOP.[/URL]

duh they called it for biden first in 2020.

[Patriam1066]

duh they called it for biden first in 2020.

They kicked Chris stirewalt out for that btw

[Jobaber]

classic satanic shit, push an agenda, kill your messenger.

[Horza]

Already calling Murdoch a devil worshiper for throwing his hat in with DeSoros? This primary is going to get really good.

[Botten]

Basically Bug Eaters believed there was no risk in investing in their woke garbage and Groomer depravity

They were wrong

Looks like Elizondo was wrong again.



And according to a member of the House. The Republican lead house in an emergency session decided on a bail out. (https://www.tiktok.com/@jeffjacksonnc/video/7210014701688835370?lang=en)


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DeSantis and other prominent Republicans blame 'woke' politics for Silicon Valley Bank's collapse instead of bankers miscalibrating risk and building a portfolio that a rate hike would annihilate (https://www.businessinsider.com/republicans-blame-woke-politics-for-silicon-valley-banks-collapse-2023-3)

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[Botten]

Yeah so....

Fox News has serious potential of going bankrupt now.

A second crisis is now brewing at Fox News.
Smartmatic voting machine company just filed a $2.7 Billion lawsuit that experts say could be "more dangerous" than the $1.6 Billion lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems.

Over 100 false claims were made about Smartmatic on Fox News, the complaint said.

Fox News could literally be forced into bankruptcy.

Rupert Murdoch knows this, forcing his hand, adding another candidate into the presidency in hopes to get control of these lawsuits like the ones that were and again are bankrupting Trump.

[Patrece]

Line to see Trump speak in Iowa (https://twitter.com/i/status/1635459364252205056)


People want it put back the way it was before this war causing, America last, cost of living jacking, woke n retarded Biden admin got rigged into office.

Who the hell cares about controlled opposition Fox News? Lol?

[unsunghero]

Looks like Elizondo was wrong again.



And according to a member of the House. The Republican lead house in an emergency session decided on a bail out. (https://www.tiktok.com/@jeffjacksonnc/video/7210014701688835370?lang=en)


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DeSantis and other prominent Republicans blame 'woke' politics for Silicon Valley Bank's collapse instead of bankers miscalibrating risk and building a portfolio that a rate hike would annihilate (https://www.businessinsider.com/republicans-blame-woke-politics-for-silicon-valley-banks-collapse-2023-3)

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Giving a bailout is stupid IMO

You don’t reinforce a negative behavior. Like I said before, this sends a message to any large bank that it’s ok to make stupid risky investments because it can only result in 2 possibilities: either you win big or lose big and if you lose big Daddy Government comes and saves you

It would be like if gambling addicts could con the government into refunding their casino losses

[aussenseiter]

Giving a bailout is stupid IMO

You don’t reinforce a negative behavior. Like I said before, this sends a message to any large bank that it’s ok to make stupid risky investments because it can only result in 2 possibilities: either you win big or lose big and if you lose big Daddy Government comes and saves you

It would be like if gambling addicts could con the government into refunding their casino losses

They didn't make risky investments, they invested in US treasury bills.

The interest rate hikes by The Fed made those investments unviable for resale or in maturity.

[unsunghero]

They didn't make risky investments, they invested in US treasury bills.

The interest rate hikes by The Fed made those investments unviable for resale or in maturity.

Then it was stupid to not anticipate that. I heard about interest rake hike possibilities as soon as inflation was taking off and I’m no banker

And/or they should have moved those funds to other things before they tanked

[MrSparkle001]

Then it was stupid to not anticipate that. I heard about interest rake hike possibilities as soon as inflation was taking off and I’m no banker

And/or they should have moved those funds to other things before they tanked

I agree with that but what is really stupid is the Fed thinking this constant rate increasing is going to curb inflation. That's a play out of the old playbook and it doesn't work anymore, obviously. This inflation is profiteering, with some companies and sectors posting record profits for 2022. They're not raising prices to keep their profit margins equal to pre-covid, they're making record profits which means the price increases are above and beyond what are needed.

And the Fed just keeps raising interest rates like that's gonna solve the issue. Meanwhile banks are failing and the market is teetering on collapse.

[aussenseiter]

Then it was stupid to not anticipate that. I heard about interest rake hike possibilities as soon as inflation was taking off and I’m no banker

And/or they should have moved those funds to other things before they tanked

Maybe, but not risky.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/242/334/243.png

[unsunghero]

Maybe, but not risky.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/242/334/243.png

I’ve heard them called that by various pundits. They didn’t even have a person in the risk management position I also heard

[aussenseiter]

I’ve heard them called that by various pundits. They didn’t even have a person in the risk management position I also heard

If treasury bills are risky, I'm moving to Switzerland.

[Patriam1066]

If treasury bills are risky, I'm moving to Switzerland.

Having not much cash on hand and not diversifying is risky. Any asset class is risky without diversification. That’s why the bitcoin morons are not smart to bet it all on crypto

[unsunghero]

If treasury bills are risky, I'm moving to Switzerland.

Did a cursory search

“Complicating the situation, SVB kept a lower level of deposits on hand and invested a greater percentage of its capital in order to try and pay its relatively higher rates. Consequently, SVB has been on looser footing than most other banks.
Additionally, some have speculated that SVB developed a reputation for having not-as-strict lending standards. It is speculated that the quality of loans to some riskier venture-backed companies with deposits at SVB has deteriorated over the past year. Many of those firms have come under significant financial pressure as rates have risen and securing capital has become more difficult compared to the low interest rate environment from just a couple of years ago”

https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/personal-finance/silicon-valley-bank-collapse

[Patriam1066]

Either way, as long as people are criminally prosecuted, securing people’s deposits doesn’t matter. Just put the banker in jail or life and take all of his and his children’s money and let everyone learn a lesson (no parole)

[unsunghero]

More:

“Becker and other leaders of the Santa Clara-based institution, the second-largest US bank failure in history behind Washington Mutual in 2008, will have to reckon with why they didn’t protect it from the risks of gorging on young tech ventures’ unstable deposits and from interest-rate increases on the asset side”

“At SVB, “there was a lot of risk they were taking on that other banks wouldn’t,” said Sarah Kunst, a managing director at venture capital fund Cleo Capital. “That ultimately was part of their demise.”

https://fortune.com/2023/03/10/how-silicon-valley-banks-fate-sealed-2021-venture-capital-bonds-interest-rates/amp/

[aussenseiter]

Ok but goalposts. :p

[unsunghero]

Ok but goalposts. :p

““At SVB, “there was a lot of risk they were taking on that other banks wouldn’t,” said Sarah Kunst, a managing director at venture capital fund Cleo Capital. “That ultimately was part of their demise.”

Other banks knew better and that’s why they survived

SVB deserves to fail

[aussenseiter]

““At SVB, “there was a lot of risk they were taking on that other banks wouldn’t,” said Sarah Kunst, a managing director at venture capital fund Cleo Capital. “That ultimately was part of their demise.”

Other banks knew better and that’s why they survived

SVB deserves to fail

Knew better than to invest in the US government?

[unsunghero]

Knew better than to invest in the US government?

Knew better than to move all their money into something where a rate hike would kill them

They didn’t have the foresight that other banks did

Isn’t diversifying your investing like basic basic shit when it comes to finance?

Can’t wait to put all my money on splitting aces in Vegas, then doubling down on each 10 I get, then losing, and saying “DADDY GOVERNMENT give me my money back because I made the smart play!”

No you put all your money into something and lost, sorry

[aussenseiter]

Knew better than to move all their money into something where a rate hike would kill them

They didn’t have the foresight that other banks did

Isn’t diversifying your investing like basic basic shit when it comes to finance?

Can’t wait to put all my money on splitting aces in Vegas, then doubling down on each 10 I get, then losing, and saying “DADDY GOVERNMENT give me my money back because I made the smart play!”

No you put all your money into something and lost, sorry

Daddy government caused their investments to fail. There was and is no burden of prescience on SVB.

Bail 'em out!

[pink grapefruit]

Knew better than to move all their money into something where a rate hike would kill them

They didn’t have the foresight that other banks did

Isn’t diversifying your investing like basic basic shit when it comes to finance?

Can’t wait to put all my money on splitting aces in Vegas, then doubling down on each 10 I get, then losing, and saying “DADDY GOVERNMENT give me my money back because I made the smart play!”

No you put all your money into something and lost, sorry

unsung if you don't even understand what the foresight is that other banks have but this weird tech bank did not then maybe it's not something worthwhile for you to have such an entrenched opinion about.

i don't understand this high level financial shit in the slightest. if truly unsavory acts were committed then it would be cool for someone to face jail time over it, but otherwise i just hope the harm from this mess can be limited as much as possible and those making these decisions learn from mistakes that were possibly made.

[unsunghero]

Daddy government caused their investments to fail. There was and is no burden of prescience on SVB.


Uhh yes there is, which is why I just linked a quote from a finance expert saying their risky investing lead to their demise

You can believe whatever you want to believe though

[unsunghero]

unsung if you don't even understand what the foresight is that other banks have but this weird tech bank did not then maybe it's not something worthwhile for you to have such an entrenched opinion about.

i don't understand this high level financial shit in the slightest. if truly unsavory acts were committed then it would be cool for someone to face jail time over it, but otherwise i just hope the harm from this mess can be limited as much as possible and those making these decisions learn from mistakes that were possibly made.

“At SVB, “there was a lot of risk they were taking on that other banks wouldn’t,” said Sarah Kunst, a managing director at venture capital fund Cleo Capital. “That ultimately was part of their demise”

You don’t have to read it, it’s ok

[Horza]

Line to see Trump speak in Iowa (https://twitter.com/i/status/1635459364252205056)


People want it put back the way it was before this war causing, America last, cost of living jacking, woke n retarded Biden admin got rigged into office.

Who the hell cares about controlled opposition Fox News? Lol?

Fox News is the most watched cable news station in the country, so I guess the answer is your fellow paste eating GOPtards. They're also the only ones who want to put things back the way they were when the fat pedophile you all worship was still in the White House.

[unsunghero]

I’m also financially illiterate and even I know it’s stupid not to diversify investing

Especially with all this recession talk looming, and these huge spending bills that will drive inflation

[unsunghero]

Fox News is the most watched cable news station in the country, so I guess the answer is your fellow paste eating GOPtards. They're also the only ones who want to put things back the way they were when the fat pedophile you all worship was still in the White House.

They might even get a low as CNN’s earnings

[aussenseiter]

“At SVB, “there was a lot of risk they were taking on that other banks wouldn’t,” said Sarah Kunst, a managing director at venture capital fund Cleo Capital. “That ultimately was part of their demise”

You don’t have to read it, it’s ok

It's not risk-taking if the risk is forced upon you.

[unsunghero]

It's not risk-taking if the risk is forced upon you.

Someone who knows more about finance than you said it was. I’m gonna go with them

[Basanos]

SVB deserves to failI had never even heard of this bank until Friday. The letter B in SVB is why I would oppose any help whatsoever. Techbros are the most rotten form of capitalist and I cannot summon an ounce of pity. Watching them flail and turn on each other is great.

However, I am far more annoyed by his approval of the Willow project and the far-reaching consequences of this decision than I am entertained by techbros being exposed as frauds for the ten billionth time

[aussenseiter]

Someone who knows more about finance than you said it was. I’m gonna go with them

I thought you don't like credentialism. :confused:

[unsunghero]

2016 we got him now
2017 we got him now
2018 we got him now
2019 we got him now
2020 we got him now
2021 we got him now
2022 we got him now
2023 we got him now

Walls are closin in!

[aussenseiter]

2016 we got him now
2017 we got him now
2018 we got him now
2019 we got him now
2020 we got him now
2021 we got him now
2022 we got him now
2023 we got him now

Walls are closin in!

https://www.project1999.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=21206&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1678814894

Didn't Michael Cohen already go to jail for this?

[Basanos]

2016 we got him now
2017 we got him now
2018 we got him now
2019 we got him now
2020 we got him now
2021 we got him now
2022 we got him now
2023 we got him now

Walls are closin in!Let's put it this way. The legal system is designed to protect rich people like him from the top down. Most efforts are bound to fail, but even if he loses next year I hope they keep taking runs at him until the day he's dead. Kissinger should also be hounded until his last days, we don't hesitate when it comes to hounding living Nazis and they're all 90+ now.

It's worth it to make every last thing as difficult as is reasonably possible for him and his army of fools. It helps discourage men like him from entering politics.

[unsunghero]

I thought you don't like credentialism. :confused:

Me: I heard they made risky investments on TEH NEWS

You: False

Me: News: Finance director says investments were risky

You: I don’t like your source

But yes you are right, I will defer to you in defiance of credentialism here

Also I don’t care enough to argue the point ;)

[Ooloo]

I really couldn't possibly care less if trump is president again but I mean at this point if you still have a rage boner for the guy you just come accross as a stuffy wet blanket. That NFT card reveal video he did a while ago was legitimately hilarious, I just watched it again. He is legitimately really funny and I value that trait more than almost all others.

"You could even win a dinner with me, I'm not sure if that's really the best prize but it's what we have" lmao

[Basanos]

I really couldn't possibly care less if trump is president again but I mean at this point if you still have a rage boner for the guy you just come accross as a stuffy wet blanket.Sir, you mentioned BLM and your hatred of black people less than half an hour ago as you continue to stomp your feet and insist racism is over, you don't get to lecture people on letting go of the past

[Patriam1066]

It's not risk-taking if the risk is forced upon you.

Yes it is if you’re not diversified

You’re trolling but also to a comically stupid degree. Stop sassing young Unsung here goofball

[Horza]

That NFT card reveal video he did a while ago was legitimately hilarious, I just watched it again. He is legitimately really funny and I value that trait more than almost all others.

Someone has been drinking the kool-aid, or should I say eating the paste in this case? Even for lunatics who spend everyday screaming about black on black crime, this is ludicrous. You think Trump has a great sense of humor, the fatass who jokes about molesting women and only became president because Obama burned him at the White House correspondents' dinner?

Look how mad he is at 3:16 :D

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[Patriam1066]

Me: I heard they made risky investments on TEH NEWS

You: False

Me: News: Finance director says investments were risky

You: I don’t like your source

But yes you are right, I will defer to you in defiance of credentialism here

Also I don’t care enough to argue the point ;)

He shills for banks and Putin. He’s just trolling, no one is that stupid. He’s being a weaselly Irishman

[Patriam1066]

Someone has been drinking the kool-aid, or should I say eating the paste in this case? Even for lunatics who spend everyday screaming about black on black crime, this is ludicrous. You think Trump has a great sense of humor, the fatass who jokes about molesting women and only became president because Obama burned him at the White House correspondents' dinner?

“Meatball Ron” is hilarious bud. Trump is funny

[Basanos]

Trump IS hilarious, he's always had the timing of a comedian... but he should just get a tv show and not the oval office

[Horza]

Maybe hilarious in a can't even walk down a fucking ramp, Michael Scott kind of way? He's no Seinfeld unless you're a big fun of pussy-grabbing jokes is my point.

[Basanos]

Maybe hilarious in a can't even walk down a fucking ramp, Michael Scott kind of way? He's no Seinfeld unless you're a big fun of pussy-grabbing jokes is my point.Incidentally, I don't care for Jerry Seinfeld most of the time. I can appreciate the humor while also not finding other things he does funny at all.

Shia LaBeouf occupies a similar space in my head to ol' Orange Man. He seems like a puckered asshole, but sometimes I think he's just a modern day dadaist who is really committed to the bit, up to and including getting arrested. However, Shia LaBeouf has yet to run for president. Trump is even more committed to the bit, and even less familiar with what he is actually doing.

I'm more on team Andy Kaufman than I am Jerry Seinfeld.

[aussenseiter]

He shills for banks and Putin. He’s just trolling, no one is that stupid. He’s being a weaselly Irishman

Shouldn't the state pay for harm it causes?

[Ooloo]

Sir, you mentioned BLM and your hatred of black people less than half an hour ago as you continue to stomp your feet and insist racism is over, you don't get to lecture people on letting go of the past

Lol "hatred of black people" sure ok, piss off.

You know who else often heavily criticizes blm? Black people. I suppose they are black white supremacists though since that ridiculous concept is actually a thing.

[Basanos]

But Ooloo, you said racism is dead. How can there be black white supremacists, if racism is dead?

Oh, right, you only oppose those who take issues with white power. Understood.

[Trexller]

How can there be black white supremacists

BLNDqxrUUwQ

[Jobaber]

Let's put it this way. The legal system is designed to protect rich people like him from the top down.

is it the legal system, the president, or the media and voters that are protecting hunter biden?

[Horza]

is it the legal system, the president, or the media and voters that are protecting hunter biden?

I think it's that the only people who care about whatever stupid shit Tucker said last night are already guaranteed GOP votes?

[Trexller]

Tucker

Everybody drink!

[misterbonkers]

is it the legal system, the president, or the media and voters that are protecting hunter biden?

what does he need protection from?

[Basanos]

is it the legal system, the president, or the media and voters that are protecting hunter biden?Bit of the first three. I doubt most Biden voters particularly care if he gets ignored OR hauled off to jail.

Team sports politics makes you crazy. Fuck 'em all. Imprison him, do nothing, Hunter Biden isn't the real problem in America. Like Trump, his impunity is a symptom, not a problem in and of itself. Kissinger still walks free, he's way worse than any of these goobers.

The root problems are still the excesses of capitalism and the (deliberate) political illiteracy of the average American.

[Jobaber]

what does he need protection from?

5 year mandatory min x 5 for possession

His own father argued in favor of that bill

[aussenseiter]

5 year mandatory min x 5 for possession

His own father argued in favor of that bill

Video isn't beyond a reasonable doubt for possession. No collusion.

[Horza]

what does he need protection from?

Trellxer or some other GOPtard furious about the last few elections doing his best impression of the Bear Jew from Inglourious Basterds?

[Jobaber]

Video isn't beyond a reasonable doubt for possession. No collusion.

-white privilege

Is video evidence enough to convict the defendant? As long as the evidence is admissible in court and provides incriminating proof, the answer is generally “yes”. However, it must provide answers to several questions, including the identity of the person on the tape and what crime has been committed.

[Basanos]

5 year mandatory min x 5 for possession

His own father argued in favor of that billYeah man orange man said drain the swamp and filled it with radioactive waste. Politicians are fulla shit, once you obtain the office there's no obligation to fulfill campaign promises. Sure, might only matter if you seek re-election. Then you just tell a different set of lies or have your PR people cook up excuses. Or, like Donnie, make sure all of your followers are fools.

Liberals make this mistake. They point out hypocrisy of some right winger cross dressing as he outlaws cross dressing. Like, fellas, only you care about their hypocrisy. Hypocrisy alone is insufficient to stop people, obviously.

[aussenseiter]

-white privilege

Lots of things can look like crack. Gotta test it chemically to be sure.

[Jobaber]

Lots of things can look like crack. Gotta test it chemically to be sure.

your opinions that it's not crack does not get you a get out of trial free card unless your daddy is in politics.

[aussenseiter]

your opinions that it's not crack does not get you a get out of trial free card

You can't prove it's crack by video alone.

Get a lawyer, might I recommend Mr Hunter Biden Esquire?

[Jobaber]

You can't prove it's crack by video alone.

there's probable cause for arrest and enough evidence to prove that it was and none of that has happened because his dad is in politics.

[aussenseiter]

there's probable cause for arrest and enough evidence to prove that it was and none of that has happened because his dad is in politics.

Why is it probable cause? What crime is supposed to be being committed at this time?

[Jobaber]

Why is it probable cause? What crime is supposed to be being committed at this time?

he says this is crack and posts pictures of it, that's probable cause.

possession of crack is a 5 year federal mandatory minimum.

[aussenseiter]

he says this is crack and posts pictures of it, that's probable cause.

Why should that mean he's committing a crime now?

[Jobaber]

Why should that mean he's committing a crime now?

Im not saying he is Im saying we have proof of a crime he is still liable for being prospected for but he hasn't, because the feds that would do it, wont!

-AYUB3tQs80

[Ekco]

5 year mandatory min x 5 for possession

His own father argued in favor of that bill

is this even real? everyone i know that gets caught with basically anything gets drug classes and shit like that unless they are already a felon and catch a gun charge on top of the drugs lol

[aussenseiter]

Im not saying he is Im saying we have proof of a crime he is still liable for being prospected for but he hasn't, because the feds that would do it, wont!

I agree that feds won't do it, but not why. Sometimes a squirrel is just a squirrel.

[Ekco]

went to the bottle shop today and ready to fun post about politics.

someone start a argument with me.

Ma3d-YdLjCs

[misterbonkers]

he says this is crack and posts pictures of it, that's probable cause.

possession of crack is a 5 year federal mandatory minimum.

ok reagan

[Jobaber]

-KV7MlUaCNI

[Horza]

Can we get House Republicans to investigate the two billion Jared got from Prince Bonesaw for squashing the Khashoggi mess?

[unsunghero]

Yo, fuck white people

Think it got that way on its own or was it programmed

Gotta love me some identity politics in my AI. Part of the reason I don’t pay attention to stupid AI shit

[Ekco]

Open AI is opensource so i'm sure you can make a nihilist bot if you want to, i'm just lazy and waiting for a download link.

killed half a bottle of johnny black and playing eq again (lol) https://www.twitch.tv/ekcothewizard

[Ooloo]

It shouldn't even be called AI it's basically just a nerd programmer scraping the internet and recombining words with an obvious bias. It's "AI" in the same sense as any other piece of software that does exactly what the programmer intends it to do.

When you click the mouse while playing doom the gun shoots. It's AI guys!

[Ekco]

yeah but you could explain the definition of real AI people until the day you die, this shit is disruptive enough for normal people to consider "AI" in the Hal sesnse from 2001

[Patriam1066]

Yo, fuck white people

Think it got that way on its own or was it programmed

Gotta love me some identity politics in my AI. Part of the reason I don’t pay attention to stupid AI shit

It crushed the LSAT and MCAT

you better pay attention

[aussenseiter]

this shit is disruptive

sI1SLHEC98I

[Ekco]

like i remember installing openAI back in like 2015 ish and it was more retarded than Cortana or Siri, this shit is an actual step forward without a doubt

[Jobaber]

https://i.imgur.com/TNRlfAG.png

[Ekco]

God is a DJ and a Programmer. this shit is just getting closer to the source.

hope this helps.

bhSB8EEnCAM

[misterbonkers]

Yo, fuck white people

Think it got that way on its own or was it programmed

Gotta love me some identity politics in my AI. Part of the reason I don’t pay attention to stupid AI shit

almost like one of the two has a history in violence and evil or something, weird

[Elizondo]

Another day of Bug Eating Groomer Horza endlessly whining about Trump and Tucker

[aussenseiter]

almost like one of the two has a history in violence and evil or something, weird

dude uh

[unsunghero]

almost like one of the two has a history in violence and evil or something, weird

Yeah like no other race has

Wisdom

[Ekco]

Yeah like no other race has

Wisdom

it's not woke they have it set to ignore basically anything controversial, Horza brought up some incel mass shooter name that i didn't remember and i bing'd that shit and it was like "NOPE" anything running unfiltered on like 4chan posts is pro genocide and eugenics basically and thinks all humans should fucking die.

[unsunghero]

it's not woke they have it set to ignore basically anything controversial, Horza brought up some incel mass shooter name that i didn't remember and i bing'd that shit and it was like "NOPE" anything running unfiltered on like 4chan posts is pro genocide and eugenics basically and thinks all humans should fucking die.

Wonder what it would say if I asked it who sold the slaves to the Atlantic Slave trade

Thinking it might melt down

[Ekco]

lol.

[aussenseiter]

it's not woke they have it set to ignore basically anything controversial, Horza brought up some incel mass shooter name that i didn't remember and i bing'd that shit and it was like "NOPE" anything running unfiltered on like 4chan posts is pro genocide and eugenics basically and thinks all humans should fucking die.

Sometimes it just lies because it's stupid.

Describe President Joe Biden's parole policy in immigration

President Joe Biden's administration has not implemented a specific "parole policy" in immigration, but they have taken several steps to change the previous administration's policies related to parole.

<snip>

[Ekco]

>it's stupid.
in theory it's smatter than humans on the basis of just being objective

[aussenseiter]

the bank p. much collapsed because they went all in on mortgage backed securities like its 2007 all over again when interest was near 0% under trump... what's it now under brandon, 4.57%? i'm not speculating, they were trying to sell off these securities a week ago.
if u don't get that the federal interest rate rapidly increasing so much under biden is what led to this you might be economically illiterate lolz.



but that's not quite right either, the lgbt crap startups the bank invested in were actually doing really well under trump and i also think right up until the collapse, that's why they had such an excess of money to dump into mortgage backed securities in the first place. think about it, these are the businesses set to replace your local family run stuff when the great reset accelerates. netflix and grubhub ghost kitchen type stuff.

Witnessed.

[Ekco]

if u don't get that the federal interest rate rapidly increasing so much under biden is what led to this you might be economically illiterate lolz.


having it at 0% this long is fucking retarded. i remember when i was a kid the bank actually paid you money to keep your money there. that shit literally made sense everything these chuckle fucks have been doing the last 30 years doesn't

[misterbonkers]

Yeah like no other race has

Wisdom

not even remotely on the same scale, but whatever helps you sleep at night :rolleyes:

[misterbonkers]

dude uh

meant to say committing violence and evil in the name of, but posting between raid pulls is hard and i was rushed, oh well

[unsunghero]

meant to say committing violence and evil in the name of, but posting between raid pulls is hard and i was rushed, oh well

Equally wrong and dumb. Every race has committed atrocities and owned slaves. African warlords were enslaving their own people before the Atlantic slave trade even existed, and Muslims were enslaving people before that

GL on the raid tho, hope ya win some good lewtz

[Patriam1066]

not even remotely on the same scale, but whatever helps you sleep at night :rolleyes:

You heard of the Mongols? The Turks? The Arabs? Iraq was 2/3rds enslaved Africans prior to the Zanj rebellion. All of them were exterminated after they rebelled

You watch Ethiopians gang rape each other for two years recently because they speak different languages? You’re biased dummy

The Arabs are 1000% imperialist scumbags who did as much evil as whites

[unsunghero]

You heard of the Mongols? The Turks? The Arabs? Iraq was 2/3rds enslaved Africans prior to the Zanj rebellion. All of them were exterminated after they rebelled

You watch Ethiopians gang rape each other for two years recently because they speak different languages? You’re biased dummy

The Arabs are 1000% imperialist scumbags who did as much evil as whites

^
Careful, might just shake his white people are the only evil worldview

[unsunghero]

Hey what races still own slaves today I wonder?

[Elizondo]

21213

[misterbonkers]

You heard of the Mongols? The Turks? The Arabs? Iraq was 2/3rds enslaved Africans prior to the Zanj rebellion. All of them were exterminated after they rebelled

You watch Ethiopians gang rape each other for two years recently because they speak different languages? You’re biased dummy

The Arabs are 1000% imperialist scumbags who did as much evil as whites

i've played civ 5, i'm something of a historian myself :o

[unsunghero]

I don’t mind being the cartoon villain tho

I just wish I could be rich so I could complete the intersectionality of pure evil

White, straight, male, skinny, rich (I wish)

Maybe someday, but probably not :(

[unsunghero]

Murder the larger clumps of cells who try to stand in the way of terminating the smaller clumps of cells

Makes sense to me

And to think I used to work out to your exercise tapes as a little kid. Oh how the mighty have fallen (in my eyes)

[aussenseiter]

Critics say the payouts make no sense in a state and city that never enslaved Black people. Opponents generally say taxpayers who were never slave owners should not have to pay money to people who were not enslaved. (https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-black-reparations-5-million-36899f7974c751950a8ce0e444f86189)

[Patriam1066]

i've played civ 5, i'm something of a historian myself :o

Yes I get it’s a joke to you but the Arabs eradicated entire civilizations, including mine. Fuck off lard ass

[Botten]

<brainwashed QAnon garbage pic>

Your orange obese MAGA failure of a president directed a rollback of community banking regulations signaling the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.

In the last few years, interest rates were very low, and saving accounts made only pennies in interest. Silicon Valley Bank (SBB) decided to invest its funds in long-duration treasury bonds with an average interest rate of 1.8 percent. SBB was taking in deposits quickly due to the cash surplus in the startup world and wanted to capitalize on those deposits. SBB gave an interest rate of 1.8 percent while other big institutional banks were providing zero interest rates, which made SBB look great to investors. However, interest rates skyrocketed, and long-duration treasury bonds are now yielding over 5 percent. A bond portfolio with an interest rate of 1.8 percent over 10 years underperforms compared to a bond portfolio with a 5 percent interest rate over the same period. This caused SBB to sell a $21 billion Bond portfolio yielding 1.8 percent, resulting in a $1.8 billion loss.

To compensate for the loss, SBB announced a capital raise, which worried investors that SBB had solvency issues. This created a run on the bank, and SBB failed. The Dodd-Frank banking regulation legislation, passed after the 2008 crash, imposes regulatory requirements on banks. However, these requirements do not extend to regional banks like SBB. The collapse of SBB is unlikely to indicate any broader failure in the financial system. Still, regulators could have mitigated the risks, highlighting the importance of regulation in protecting people in such instances.

Donald Trump's deregulatory efforts, including the economic growth regulatory relief and consumer protection act signed in 2018, contributed to the SBB failure. Bank lobbyists fought for the bill, arguing that Dodd-Frank's banking reform approach hurt regional and community banks. Trump's supporters claimed that only large financial institutions could destabilize the national banking system while ignoring the possibility of smaller institutions failing and destabilizing a region. This is evident in Silicon Valley, where SBB's failure could have far-reaching consequences.

Some Republicans have claimed that SBB failed because it was "too woke," which is downright stupid. Such comments do not account for the fundamental financial and economic factors that led to the bank's failure. While deregulation may benefit banks in the short term, it increases the likelihood of catastrophic failures that affect individuals and regions. Therefore, it is crucial to strike a balance between regulation and deregulation to mitigate risks while promoting growth and innovation in the banking sector.

[unsunghero]

Critics say the payouts make no sense in a state and city that never enslaved Black people. Opponents generally say taxpayers who were never slave owners should not have to pay money to people who were not enslaved. (https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-black-reparations-5-million-36899f7974c751950a8ce0e444f86189)

Here here

Or is it hear hear

Also free money is a bad idea. Scholarships. Trade school. Gym memberships. Sports club memberships, vacation vouchers….all gravy

[unsunghero]

lotta words

Aside from the Trump stuff (only due to the source) this all sounds correct, from what I’ve heard

They went all in on the treasury bonds, which lost a lot of value once the rates went up. Now should they have anticipated the rate hike considering the current gov’t spending? I think so

But even with the bonds being under-valued they wouldn’t have gone under still had there not also been a rush on the bank

[Jobaber]

bail out the 1% liberal progressives but let the people in East Palestine rot

[unsunghero]

bail out the 1% liberal progressives but let the people in East Palestine rot

She had this to say

[Jobaber]

what are we just gonna raise the insurance coverage to 100% now?

we cant afford to pay for peoples homes in ohio but we can cover how much for losses over 250k?

like superman this guy flys in to the rescue

it seems ludacris

[aussenseiter]

She had this to say

https://www.project1999.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=21217&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1678853882

I'm still not sure what ESG is. I get the DEI part.

[unsunghero]

what are we just gonna raise the insurance coverage to 100% now?

it seems ludacris

Once we get done bailing out the democrat staffed bank, let’s get back to giving the democrat-majority graduates some free cash money records

The fact that mostly democrats benefit from this? Pure coincidence ;)

[unsunghero]

That being said, I believe they have to reimburse the FDIC $250k for each bank customer, and from what I’ve heard that comes from a 1B+ fund that all banks must contribute to, not taxpayer dollars

That’s a separate thing

[aussenseiter]

That being said, I believe they have to reimburse the FDIC $250k for each bank customer, and from what I’ve heard that comes from a 1B+ fund that all banks must contribute to, not taxpayer dollars

That’s a separate thing

Do taxpayers have bank accounts?

[Jobaber]

Once we get done bailing out the democrat staffed bank, let’s get back to giving the democrat-majority graduates some free cash money records

The fact that mostly democrats benefit from this? Pure coincidence ;)

it's pretty egregious

[unsunghero]

Do taxpayers have bank accounts?

I guess it’s taxpayer dollars incredibly, but it’s not something that is taxed I meant

[Jobaber]

Do taxpayers have bank accounts?

some tax payers are more equal than others...

[aussenseiter]

I guess it’s taxpayer dollars incredibly, but it’s not something that is taxed I meant

extremely fair take, well done!

[Jobaber]

Imagine having a workers party communist movement that unanimously agrees: fuck people in Ohio

[unsunghero]

extremely fair take, well done!

Can I get a sticker to put on my backpack? ;)

[Botten]

She had this to say

The First National Bank of Midland failed in 1983 under Reagan. The FDIC came in and took care of the problem, just as they did with SVB.

West Texas bank fails (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/10/14/West-Texas-bank-fails/9361434952000/)

U.S. HELPS TEXANS SURVIVE DEATH OF BANK (https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/14/business/us-helps-texans-survive-death-of-bank.html)

Lauren Bobbert is an idiot.

[aussenseiter]

The First National Bank of Midland failed in 1983 under Reagan. The FDIC came in and took care of the problem, just as they did with SVB.

West Texas bank fails (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/10/14/West-Texas-bank-fails/9361434952000/)

Nobody bid on SVB tho.

FDIC planning another auction of Silicon Valley Bank (https://seekingalpha.com/news/3947038-fdic-planning-another-auction-of-silicon-valley-bank-wsj)

It's like a ghost kitchen except it's for cooking the books.

[Basanos]

Imagine having a workers party communist movement that unanimously agrees: fuck people in Ohiohttps://i.imgur.com/0GbN4qm.png

[unsunghero]

The First National Bank of Midland failed in 1983 under Reagan. The FDIC came in and took care of the problem, just as they did with SVB.

West Texas bank fails (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/10/14/West-Texas-bank-fails/9361434952000/)

U.S. HELPS TEXANS SURVIVE DEATH OF BANK (https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/14/business/us-helps-texans-survive-death-of-bank.html)

Lauren Bobbert is an idiot.

Oh

But what do you honestly think Biden would do if it failed today? Same as SVB?

Edit: I think FDIC reimbursement legally they have to do, right?

[Patriam1066]

bail out the 1% liberal progressives but let the people in East Palestine rot

Yep, definitely fucked up

[Basanos]

Yep, definitely fucked upThat imbalance is essential to capitalism. East Palestine isn't "too big to fail". The death machine can function without East Palestine, but it cannot function without capital.

[Jobaber]

oh shut and go fight in ukraine

[Swish]

oh shut and go fight in ukraine

I do wonder how many people who aren't worth a shit in combat terms and won't do any frontline work anyway actually turn up and ask if they can do anything.

[Swish]

Critics say the payouts make no sense in a state and city that never enslaved Black people. Opponents generally say taxpayers who were never slave owners should not have to pay money to people who were not enslaved. (https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-black-reparations-5-million-36899f7974c751950a8ce0e444f86189)

Hold up...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)

Payments of $5 million to every eligible Black adult

the elimination of personal debt and tax burdens

guaranteed annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years


homes in San Francisco for just $1 a family.


These were some of the more than 100 recommendations made by a city-appointed reparations committee tasked with the thorny question of how to atone for centuries of slavery and systemic racism. And the San Francisco Board of Supervisors hearing the report for the first time Tuesday voiced enthusiastic support for the ideas listed, with some saying money should not stop the city from doing the right thing.

Several supervisors said they were surprised to hear pushback from politically liberal San Franciscans apparently unaware that the legacy of slavery and racist policies continues to keep Black Americans on the bottom rungs of health, education and economic prosperity, and overrepresented in prisons and homeless populations.

Where are they finding those homes? Going to do some Zimbabwe/South African style redistribution? Won't that affect more Asian Americans than anyone in SF?

If you're a small/medium business can you pay those wages? If you're a large business are you still employing your current black workers?

Slavery still exists in some of the world (some might say the minimum wage or restaurant jobs relying on tips in the USA is slavery).

Subscribed to see how this would play out in the real world. I get the union approach of asking beyond what you really expect to get but the committee doesn't have any economists involved, does it?

PS - I'm not black and don't live in San Francisco...I'm just an outsider observing :o

[MrSparkle001]

https://i.imgur.com/bDh9pNV.gif

Credit Suisse shares slide after Saudi backer rules out further assistance (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/15/credit-suisse-shares-slide-after-saudi-backer-rules-out-further-assistance.html)

[Ekco]

Dow falls 500 points as Credit Suisse adds pressure to already troubled banking sector

mother fuckers getting what they deserve is back on the menu maybe.

[MrSparkle001]

mother fuckers getting what they deserve is back on the menu maybe.

No, it's the criminal hedge funds that need to get what they deserve. The bank fallout is from poor decision-making mostly, but hedge funds work to actively destroy companies and steal money from the market, illegally at times although you'll never hear about it because politicians and the rich are in bed with them.

[unsunghero]

Mark dice addressed the Trump-era bank regulation rollbacks and said they didn’t affect the investments SVB was making into treasury bonds

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-utsPCSTMJ4

[Basanos]

oh shut and go fight in ukraineWeak. I am a pacifist. Sorry my criticism of the state is more coherent then yours is.

[magnetaress]

The world needs population control (this would work best if a natural disaster or species arose that preyed very efficiently on humans). And stupid mean neglectful smelly ppl need to die much earlier and more efficiently than their 40s - and - 60's over the course of a decade. Like u should die within 1 year of getting HIV or herpes or mega obese or kidney dialysis, or addicted to drugs, even caffine and cigarretes... not go on living like 15 years more. 1 year is plenty long to get your affairs in order.

And yes I know that means me too.

The biggest problem is that the government is making these deciscions and mega corps and big international firms. (in a highly manipulative and abusive, exploitive way) Not G-d. Or nature.

I believe the true reason for this is that Satanists are in league with demons who get something out of torturing spirits and souls and trying to corrupt them. Every time they get you to die in rage or anguish they win another one over the their side to oppress other people with and perpetuate the system cosomologically, so when your spirit is reborn your reborn into the body of a child abuser. Or someone who is dependent on the state and is further turtured to crumble and corrupt them. They have no memories of their past lives, but the essense of what they are is broken. For exammple. And this feeds the devils and demons.

The only path out of this is: Service unto others and self sacrifice. At some point when the cosmological scales tip hard enough people will be forced into slavery for thousands of years again, even tho we kinda technically already are tehre if you think you are not a slave then you do not know the truth of the universe, because you and your collective kind are a punch pillow for the masters of this world.

It needs to get much worse before it will get any better. So "resistance" is a fools errand. It's demonic. Where as agrreement and consent is devlish and satanic.

Learn to meditatve and do without - loving kindness, and compassion. Even for the demons and devils.

[misterbonkers]

Yes I get it’s a joke to you but the Arabs eradicated entire civilizations, including mine. Fuck off lard ass

we were talking about the phrase white pride and why an AI won't write about it, not the entirety of history itself. hope this helps!

[unsunghero]

we were talking about the phrase white pride and why an AI won't write about it, not the entirety of history itself. hope this helps!

So let’s cherry pick history to a specific spot that makes white people look the worst while simultaneously completely ignoring all the good things white people have done

So it’s a goal post thing. Kind of like let’s look at the huge drop in Muslim extremist attacks by shrinking our window and moving the left goalpost to juuust after 9/11

[magnetaress]

the arabs sound like badasses, btw seeing some of these new turkish dramas on netflix are top notch stuff ! i think they are upto something big !

[Botten]

Mark dice addressed the Trump-era bank regulation rollbacks and said they didn’t affect the investments SVB was making into treasury bonds

<Mark Dice video>

Speaking of dodging the fact that Trump rolled back regulations in the first 100 days of his presidency.

16 banks during Trump's administration failed.

Bank Failures Under Donald Trump Compared to Joe Biden (https://www.newsweek.com/bank-failures-under-donald-trump-compared-joe-biden-1787261)

Oh and Mark Dice is a moron lets not forget that:
Mr. Dice has promoted conspiracy theories (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/us/fake-news-partisan-republican-democrat.html) that the Jade Helm military training exercise last year was preparation for martial law and that the Sept. 11 attacks were an “inside job.”

[misterbonkers]

So let’s cherry pick history to a specific spot that makes white people look the worst while simultaneously completely ignoring all the good things white people have done

So it’s a goal post thing. Kind of like let’s look at the huge drop in Muslim extremist attacks by shrinking our window and moving the left goalpost to juuust ahead of 9/11

it isn't just history when it's happening actively, ya know

[magnetaress]

u know maybe banks failing is not a bad thing???? and governments propping up banking indefinately so that it "looks safe" IS A BAD THING??!!!

[unsunghero]

it isn't just history when it's happening actively, ya know

What races still enslave people today I wonder?

[aussenseiter]

The world needs population control (this would work best if a natural disaster or species arose that preyed very efficiently on humans).

I thought we just recently dialed back on the infanticide?

[unsunghero]

Speaking of dodging the fact that Trump rolled back regulations in the first 100 days of his presidency.

16 banks during Trump's administration failed.

Bank Failures Under Donald Trump Compared to Joe Biden (https://www.newsweek.com/bank-failures-under-donald-trump-compared-joe-biden-1787261)

Oh and Mark Dice is a moron lets not forget that:

Yes but it sounds like, due to the fact you didn’t refute it, the point he made in his video about the rollback not affecting treasury bonds, was correct

[unsunghero]

u know maybe banks failing is not a bad thing???? and governments propping up banking indefinately so that it "looks safe" IS A BAD THING??!!!

My thoughts as well

[pink grapefruit]

I thought we just recently dialed back on the infanticide?

did you really just say that?

wow. i have got to stop checking in on this thread

[unsunghero]

I thought we just recently dialed back on the infanticide?

Collection of cells my guy. Always easiest of you de-person them. Don’t think of them as humans. Just an ugly, unwanted collection of goop

[aussenseiter]

did you really just say that?

wow. i have got to stop checking in on this thread

Sorry, I guess it wasn't that recent. (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/world/asia/china-end-one-child-policy.html)

e: better link (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/21/china-scraps-fines-for-families-violating-childbirth-limits.html)

[Botten]

Yes but it sounds like, due to the fact you didn’t refute it, the point he made in his video about the rollback not affecting treasury bonds, was correct

Not true. But I can give you a real impartial statement.

Dennis Kelleher, chief executive officer of Better Markets, a nonprofit that advocates financial reform, has always been a vehement opponent of the 2018 rollback law, but he said in a Monday interview that the law likely had only a “modest impact” on SVB’s collapse.

[Botten]

What races still enslave people today I wonder?

Sadly some whites support slavery... and in Russia of all places.


The situation in Russia

Under current legislation in the Russian Federation, criminal liability for crimes against freedom of the person is provided by articles on “abduction of a person”, “unlawful deprivation of liberty”, “human trafficking” and “use of slave labour”.

According to data from the Walk Free Foundation, Russia entered the top ten countries in terms of absolute number of slaves....

In regions of the North Caucasus, the practice of bride abduction continues even today.

[unsunghero]

Not true. But I can give you a real impartial statement.

Yeah I was thinking it was interesting that mark only focused on the treasury bond investments and ignored the others

[Trexller]

Sadly some whites support slavery... and in Russia of all places.

slavery definitely isn't a concept limited to race

pick any point in history, some group has always been trying to enslave another group.

this modern age we live in knows the least slavery of all human history, it seems like progress.

again I'll point you at china, forget the uyghurs, got any idea how many north korean women are indentured servants/sex slaves for chinese men?

It's alot. every female NK refugee talks about that shit going on. the Chinese abduct women from all over asia to feed their male population discrepancy.

but it's white people's fault somehow, right?

[Botten]

slavery definitely isn't a concept limited to race

pick any point in history, some group has always been trying to enslave another group.

this modern age we live in knows the least slavery of all human history, it seems like progress.

again I'll point you at china, forget the uyghurs, got any idea how many north korean women are indentured servants/sex slaves for chinese men?

It's alot. every female NK refugee talks about that shit going on. the Chinese abduct women from all over asia to feed their male population discrepancy.

but it's white people's fault somehow, right?

Know your passion since you are Korean on the subject but the question was where slavery is and yeah it isn't just the orient (regardless of how prominent it is there).

[Horza]

Mark dice addressed the Trump-era bank regulation rollbacks and said they didn’t affect the investments SVB was making into treasury bonds

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-utsPCSTMJ4

If some fringe right Youtuber you follow says it's not Trump's fault for further deregulating the banking industry, who am I to say you're a gullible moron?

[Jobaber]

Who cares whos fault it is, lets just make sure we swoop in immediately to help these white 1% democrats continue to get paid and make sure we fuckin stomp on everyone in ohio and try to forget flint ever happened.

[aussenseiter]

If some fringe right Youtuber you follow says it's not Trump's fault for further deregulating the banking industry, who am I to say you're a gullible moron?

The most far reaching Wall Street reform in history, Dodd-Frank will prevent the excessive risk-taking that led to the financial crisis.

Are treasury bills a risky investment?

Treasury bills (T-bills) are generally considered to be one of the safest investments available. This is because T-bills are issued and backed by the U.S. government, which is considered to have one of the strongest credit ratings in the world.

T-bills are short-term debt securities with maturities of less than one year, typically ranging from four weeks to 52 weeks. They are sold at a discount from their face value and do not pay regular interest payments. Instead, investors earn a return by buying the T-bill at a discount and receiving the full face value of the security when it matures.

Because T-bills are considered to be very low-risk, they typically offer lower returns than other investments that carry more risk, such as stocks or corporate bonds. However, T-bills are still subject to some risks, such as inflation risk and interest rate risk.

Inflation risk is the risk that the purchasing power of the money invested in T-bills will be eroded over time due to inflation. Interest rate risk is the risk that changes in interest rates will affect the value of T-bills. If interest rates rise, the value of T-bills may decline, and if interest rates fall, the value of T-bills may rise.

Overall, while T-bills are not completely risk-free, they are generally considered to be a low-risk investment option that provides a predictable return.

[Horza]

Who cares whos fault it is, lets just make sure we swoop in immediately to help these white 1% democrats continue to get paid and make sure we fuckin stomp on everyone in ohio and try to forget flint ever happened.

I mean you paste eating retards are blaming some ambiguous notion of wokeness instead of the political party that gleefully voted to remove the stress testing and other regulatory requirements that would have likely prevented the bank from collapsing.

[misterbonkers]

horza what did you do to tucker carlson's twitter account (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/tucker-carlson-twitter-bio-nonbinary-climate-activist-of-color)

[unsunghero]

I mean you paste eating retards are blaming some ambiguous notion of wokeness instead of the political party that gleefully voted to remove the stress testing and other regulatory requirements that would have likely prevented the bank from collapsing.

That’s a bunch of bullshit, the link Botten posted said it had only a modest influence

The bank failed because of the rate hike on the treasury bonds + the run on the bank and the rollback wouldn’t have influenced it

Also investing in fluff and probably inconsequential LGBT programs is what creates the “woke” claim. Dunno if you think those are lies or are too dumb to understand the definition of what woke means

[Horza]

That’s a bunch of bullshit, the link Botten posted said it had only a modest influence

The bank failed because of the rate hike on the treasury bonds + the run on the bank and the rollback wouldn’t have influenced it

Also investing in fluff and probably inconsequential LGBT programs is what creates the “woke” claim. Dunno if you think those are lies or are too dumb to understand the definition of what woke means

I'm sure their having no chief risk officer for like eight months had nothing to do with successfully lobbying Republicans to rescind regulations that required the bank to undergo regular stress tests. But go ahead and believe whatever dumb shit the fundie lunatics you watch on Youtube tell you, don't let me stop you.

[unsunghero]

I'm sure their having no chief risk officer for like eight months had nothing to do with successfully lobbying Republicans to rescind regulations that required the bank to undergo regular stress tests. But go ahead and believe whatever dumb shit the fundie lunatics you watch on Youtube tell you, don't let me stop you.

I’ve been saying the bank was stupid to ignore the fact that the Biden admin has been doing money printer go brrrr when they decided to go all in on something that will tank in value once the interest rate goes up

So if you want to say the reason for that is they didn’t have CHIEF RISK OFFICER person, then maybe they should make me that person, because I guessed that in minutes

See also: why they shouldn’t get bailed out IMO

[Ooloo]

Lol of course horza finds a convoluted rationale to blame it on republicans. The stress tests guys!! They would have fixed everything. Republicans apparently love being rich and greedy but also favor policy that makes banks fail? Makes total sense.

[unsunghero]

Whoops, I keep hearing diversifying your investing is smart

Too bad SVB is dumb, and that’s all Trump’s fault:

“Silicon Valley Bank was allowed to build up a "massive position" on bonds with "little to no hedging for interest rates," said Aaron Klein, a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C., think tank”

[Horza]

Lol of course horza finds a convoluted rationale to blame it on republicans. The stress tests guys!! They would have fixed everything.

Not having a chief risk officer is not exactly convoluted when we're talking about a bank that is managing hundreds of billions in assets.

Republicans apparently love being rich and greedy but also favor policy that makes banks fail? Makes total sense.

17 Democrats joined a unanimous Senate Republican conference to pass it. It cleared the House 258-159, winning 225 Republicans and 33 Democrats. Trump signed it into law. (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-puts-new-spotlight-2018-bank-deregulation-rcna74655)

[unsunghero]

Not having a chief risk officer is not exactly convoluted when we're talking about a bank that is managing hundreds of billions in assets.



17 Democrats joined a unanimous Senate Republican conference to pass it. It cleared the House 258-159, winning 225 Republicans and 33 Democrats. Trump signed it into law. (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-puts-new-spotlight-2018-bank-deregulation-rcna74655)

Wouldn’t these rollbacks also affect other banks?

And yet somehow, without chief risk officers, they were smart enough not to go all in on an investment who’s value tanks as soon as the feds raise interest rates….at a time when our gov’t spending was higher than its ever been

Can’t make non-stupid decisions without a chief risk officer!

[Horza]

"The bank was stupid," no shit maybe don't let executives bribe Republicans to write their own regulations? Hindsight is 20/20 I suppose.

[magnetaress]

I thought we just recently dialed back on the infanticide?

Babies tend to be more physically resilient to trauma than ppl past puberty so I generally am unconcerned about them. And if the tribe will not raise them. It cannot be helped.

[unsunghero]

"The bank was stupid," no shit maybe don't let executives bribe Republicans to write their own regulations? Hindsight is 20/20 I suppose.

Leave it to Dems to think you can regulate away stupidity. What if they had a chief risk officer and the person chose to ignore the risk anyway?

[Basanos]

the arabs sound like badasses, btw seeing some of these new turkish dramas on netflix are top notch stuff ! i think they are upto something big !My mom is literally taking a trip to Turkey later this year because of those Netflix dramas. She and my aunt watched one start to finish, were super impressed, and booked some boomer cruise right away.

[Basanos]

I mean you paste eating retards are blaming some ambiguous notion of wokeness instead of the political party that gleefully voted to remove the stress testing and other regulatory requirements that would have likely prevented the bank from collapsing.I am still waiting for an explanation of how wokeness caused SVB to fail. I see right wingers parroting the point, but there's never any details. Almost like it's bullshit!

[Horza]

Leave it to Dems to think you can regulate away stupidity. What if they had a chief risk officer and the person chose to ignore the risk anyway?

Executives would have seen they failed their stress test and attempted to fix the problem before there's a massive bank run that obliterated the company they presumedly all owned significant stock in?

[Trexller]

I am still waiting for an explanation of how wokeness caused SVB to fail. I see right wingers parroting the point, but there's never any details. Almost like it's bullshit!

someone could write up something on a breakdown of toxic loans issued to whatever LGBT causes, and there were alot of them 450 million worth iirc.

but we have jobs that we have to pretend to be working

and whatever write up that didn't come from an impartial risk management firm will have bias so deep its woven into the fabric of the paper, like any typical botten or elizondo post.

the objectivity is dead in our society, long live the subjectivity.

[aussenseiter]

"The bank was stupid," no shit maybe don't let executives bribe Republicans to write their own regulations? Hindsight is 20/20 I suppose.

Executives would have seen they failed their stress test and attempted to fix the problem before there's a massive bank run that obliterated the company they presumedly all owned significant stock in?

Is it necessarily corrupt to increase the stress testing threshold?

Number go up.

[unsunghero]

I am still waiting for an explanation of how wokeness caused SVB to fail. I see right wingers parroting the point, but there's never any details. Almost like it's bullshit!

It didn’t

It was the treasury bond situation, something that other banks with the same Trump-era regulation rollbacks somehow magically avoided doing

[aussenseiter]

Babies tend to be more physically resilient to trauma than ppl past puberty so I generally am unconcerned about them. And if the tribe will not raise them. It cannot be helped.

It's mostly girl babies. :(

[Basanos]

someone could write up something on a breakdown of toxic loans issued to whatever LGBT causes, and there were alot of them 450 million worth iirc.

but we have jobs that we have to pretend to be working

and whatever write up that didn't come from an impartial risk management firm will have bias so deep its woven into the fabric of the paper, like any typical botten or elizondo post.

the objectivity is dead in our society, long live the subjectivity.Even if that is the case, is a loan more likely to default (or whatever the nerd term is) because it's tied to an LGBT cause?

It's still dubious even if there was "evidence", and nobody has supplied a scrap of that.

Rightoids seem to be interpreting this as some kind of breakdown in leftism or wokeness, which reeks of their own desperation for even a pyrrhic victory... when it's really just capitalism doing what it always does, from my subjective point of view.

I'm of a mind that there should be fewer CEOs no matter their beliefs or orientations, not 'more gay CEOs'. There's plenty of grifters that are gay, or minorities, or whatever.

[Patrece]

Libtard narrative is a big goose egg, the only thing they have left is pretending the elections weren't rigged

[unsunghero]

Even if that is the case, is a loan more likely to default (or whatever the nerd term is) because it's tied to an LGBT cause?

It's still dubious even if there was "evidence", and nobody has supplied a scrap of that.

Rightoids seem to be interpreting this as some kind of breakdown in leftism or wokeness, which reeks of their own desperation for even a pyrrhic victory... when it's really just capitalism doing what it always does, from my subjective point of view.

I'm of a mind that there should be fewer CEOs no matter their beliefs or orientations, not 'more gay CEOs'. There's plenty of grifters that are gay, or minorities, or whatever.

The only issues I have with it are:

1. It was a common sense mistake, and one that other banks knew not to make. It should be punished by suffering the consequences of that mistake, otherwise it sets a precedent to make risky investments because Daddy Government will always come to bail you out…assuming you are a democrat-staffed bank

2. Jut coincidence that they chose to bail out a clearly democrat staffed bank. Of course they can always fall back on not wanting to cause a run on the banks but I don’t really see how a single bailout somehow prevents that. You can’t bail out all the banks and the people know it

[magnetaress]

It's mostly girl babies. :(

I think China learned its lesson here. Give it time!

[Trexller]

Even if that is the case, is a loan more likely to default (or whatever the nerd term is) because it's tied to an LGBT cause?

It's still dubious even if there was "evidence", and nobody has supplied a scrap of that.

Rightoids seem to be interpreting this as some kind of breakdown in leftism or wokeness, which reeks of their own desperation for even a pyrrhic victory... when it's really just capitalism doing what it always does, from my subjective point of view.

I'm of a mind that there should be fewer CEOs no matter their beliefs or orientations, not 'more gay CEOs'. There's plenty of grifters that are gay, or minorities, or whatever.

at the end of the day it's just poor management. and we really do need to hold bankers to higher accountability because of the power they wield, the same way we would hold police officers accountable to standards greater than the public, if this weren't a dystopia.

loans are more likely to default when you put an ideology ahead of risk management. from the few things i read about the SVB's corporate ideology work I did for an ERM firm it seems like SVB had big hopes and dreams about advancing the work in rights and equality, noble causes for sure. It looks like all those loans were issued because SVB wanted to believe in those causes, which is also noble.

They gambled and lost, cut their losses and ran

and it'll happen again.

[Patriam1066]

Wouldn’t these rollbacks also affect other banks?

And yet somehow, without chief risk officers, they were smart enough not to go all in on an investment who’s value tanks as soon as the feds raise interest rates….at a time when our gov’t spending was higher than its ever been

Can’t make non-stupid decisions without a chief risk officer!

That’s why we have regulations. Business and poli sci majors are the retards at universities. Never trust a banker, a lawyer, or a politician. They are all low IQ

[Basanos]

The only issues I have with it are:

1. It was a common sense mistake, and one that other banks knew not to make. It should be punished by suffering the consequences of that mistake, otherwise it sets a precedent to make risky investments because Daddy Government will always come to bail you out…assuming you are a democrat-staffed bank

2. Jut coincidence that they chose to bail out a clearly democrat staffed bank. Of course they can always fall back on not wanting to cause a run on the banks but I don’t really see how a single bailout somehow prevents that. You can’t bail out all the banks and the people know itI see it as your average high-end bank employee being a capitalist, and fundamentally conservative, regardless of whether they vote for Democrats or Republicans. So it's just rich conservatives bailing out other rich conservatives to me, and selling it to the public as preventing a chain reaction run on banks.

If this bank had been Wells Fargo, not the Silicon Valley one - would the right be trying to sell it as a failure of wokeness? I don't think so. I think most people are brainwashed to not see this shit as just the late-stage capitalism it really is. That's why partisans want you to adopt partisan talking points, it gets you thinking about the problem in the wrong way.

This is the same argument we have about activist judges. They're all activists. That's the role. They're supposed to make judgements.

[unsunghero]

I see it as your average high-end bank employee being a capitalist, and fundamentally conservative, regardless of whether they vote for Democrats or Republicans. So it's just rich conservatives bailing out other rich conservatives to me, and selling it to the public as preventing a chain reaction run on banks.

If this bank had been Wells Fargo, not the Silicon Valley one - would the right be trying to sell it as a failure of wokeness? I don't think so. I think most people are brainwashed to not see this shit as just the late-stage capitalism it really is. That's why partisans want you to adopt partisan talking points, it gets you thinking about the problem in the wrong way.

This is the same argument we have about activist judges. They're all activists. That's the role. They're supposed to make judgements.

Whoa whoa whoa had the bank been Wells Fargo bail it out. That’s my bank

Actually fuck em too. I still get my pitiful $2k in my checking account refunded via the FDIC, after that…fuck em!

[Basanos]

at the end of the day it's just poor management. and we really do need to hold bankers to higher accountability because of the power they wield, the same way we would hold police officers accountable to standards greater than the public, if this weren't a dystopia.

loans are more likely to default when you put an ideology ahead of risk management. from the few things i read about the SVB's corporate ideology work I did for an ERM firm it seems like SVB had big hopes and dreams about advancing the work in rights and equality, noble causes for sure. It looks like all those loans were issued because SVB wanted to believe in those causes, which is also noble.

They gambled and lost, cut their losses and ran

and it'll happen again.I definitely agree it will happen again. We go through a crash-rebuild cycle, and there's less and less time between the crests and troughs. That suggests something is coming.

However, I would think, of all entities, a bank would look at this shit in purely economic terms. Even if it is an activist bank, investing in whatever social causes it wants to, there's analysts who make money gauging the risk. Apparently doing a shitty job, too. It's cheaper to insure cars that are white, and more expensive to insure cars that are red.

Remember this one? https://www.businessinsider.com/anti-woke-bank-backed-peter-thiel-folds-after-three-months-2022-11

This is also just capitalism functioning as intended. I don't see that as my disdain for conservatives being vindicated, that's way too simple.

[Basanos]

Whoa whoa whoa had the bank been Wells Fargo bail it out. That’s my bank

Actually fuck em too. I still get my pitiful $2k in my checking account refunded via the FDIC, after that…fuck em!I have money wrapped up in Wells Fargo too, but I'd still say let them fail if they failed. But I have a support network, and my house is paid off. Lotsa people don't, so they'd see the 'let it fail' for the average schmuck as a bit callous.

I have less in Wells Fargo than the FDIC backed minimum, so it's easy to say that. But if I had 250k+ to play with, none of you would ever hear from me again.

You hear that, kaveh? If you never want to see me whining about capitalism again, I can be bribed.

[Trexller]

i use ad blockers religiously, can't read that article or most that get linked.

some cnbc (or bloomberg?) article described how SVB basically disbanded their risk management dept and had like 1/10th of the staff required to gain a realistic picture of their investment risk.

seems like some CEO egos were unchecked and thought they could do that job better than trained and experienced specialists.

which does seem like the intention behind capitalism. cut the ERM dept, save millions, give yourself bonus for making the company more profitable, dump stocks when they inevitably go back, give self more bonus.

https://i.imgur.com/oRoN9Ie.jpg

[Basanos]

Yeah so do I on the ads, hate 'em all.

I was referring to GloriFi, the anti-woke bank that failed last year. Seemed like a misread from the get-go to me. The average person isn't eternally online enough to care enough to move their money into to a bank that explicitly doesn't... give out loans... to the woke? Or something?

I feel like GloriFi tanked simply because everyone who would have potentially used it because of their 'values' already has their money wrapped up in crypto or something, but that's just a hunch.

I also admit I had never even heard of SVB until it failed. I don't pay close attention to Silicon Valley anything because it's just an abyss of the worst America has to offer this world.

[Horza]

some cnbc (or bloomberg?) article described how SVB basically disbanded their risk management dept and had like 1/10th of the staff required to gain a realistic picture of their investment risk.

Must be nice to write your own regulations and then have millions of people blame woke LGBT folks when the business inevitably fails.

[Ekco]

pretty sure it's just one person with a hilarious bio that's getting the blame for not doing their job, not random LGBT folks

this person did claim to be quite the ally though

(lol)

[Basanos]

This kind of smacks of when all them folks were griping at Raytheon for trying to do CRT things a few years ago.

Like, whoa, I don't know if there is a more thorough way to completely misunderstand the actual problem. I don't want trans drone operators any more than I want cis ones.

[Ekco]

pentagon-believes-alien-mothership-could-be-eyeing-earth (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/pentagon-believes-alien-mothership-could-be-eyeing-earth/ar-AA18FEHJ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b07f8b1f34a64122976623244f5e927c&ei=15)

wonder if the ayylmaos are going to be progressive enough for us

[Horza]

In an article published yesterday (March 14) by Fox News, the outlet revealed.. (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/pentagon-believes-alien-mothership-could-be-eyeing-earth/ar-AA18FEHJ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b07f8b1f34a64122976623244f5e927c&ei=15)

Let me stop you right there.

[Ekco]

Let me stop you right there.

https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.8b6cde7f6faeb289737f2aa8c9a194d3?rik=16LjKJVRPXU a%2fw&pid=ImgRaw&r=0

[Ekco]

BREAKING: Houston ISD has been notified that the state is resuming the process of stripping all power from its elected school board.

The controversial move sets the stage for the largest state takeover of a public school district in modern history.

8th largest school district in the country taken back from the communists. returning to the duty of creating good Christian soldiers no doubt. hopefully it's not too late for the troubling times ahead.

[Patriam1066]

8th largest school district in the country taken back from the communists. returning to the duty of creating good Christian soldiers no doubt. hopefully it's not too late for the troubling times ahead.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/15/texas-education-houston-isd-takeover/?utm_campaign=trib-social-buttons&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

[Basanos]

Texas is trying to go the Florida route and make sure that the entire next generation of workers in essentially unemployable. The death machine needs workers, not thinkers.

[Patriam1066]

Social media made people unemployable long ago

Everyone is anxious, lazy, obese, or all three. I’m worth 10 people under 35

[Ekco]

went to the bottle shop again, didn't drink enough yesterday to have a breakthrough or moment of clarity.

hoping for better results tonight.

(lol)

[Swish]

Social media made people unemployable long ago

Everyone is anxious, lazy, obese, or all three. I’m worth 10 people under 35

People be idiots on social media. So many people get fired for tiktoks, tweets and stupid posts on Facebook etc.

https://i.imgur.com/AT5YK6F.png

[Ekco]

hopefully nurse robots are a thing by the time i get elderly. not looking forward to be being abused for shit that happened before i was born.

[Jobaber]

america: spends 5 million dollars shooting down, and losing a balloon.

russia: spends 50$ wing tipping a 5 million dollar drone and taking a HD video of it crashing from the cockpit.

[Patriam1066]

Propaganda designed for morons

Turkish f-16s killed a Russian pilot and Putin did nothing, who gives a fuck

[unsunghero]

went to the bottle shop again, didn't drink enough yesterday to have a breakthrough or moment of clarity.

hoping for better results tonight.

(lol)

Don’t go too hard with that stuff now

[Patrece]

https://i.imgur.com/hpDYMti.jpg

[Jobaber]

I'm told all this peak Americanism is as good as it can possibly get and the past is all basically the inquisition.

[Patrece]

they jailed people over an insurrection that they pretended happened

[Basanos]

Social media made people unemployable long ago

Everyone is anxious, lazy, obese, or all three. I’m worth 10 people under 35I'm the first two but over 35. You talk about your net worth a lot.

[Patriam1066]

What was life expectancy 125 years ago geniuses?

[Basanos]

https://i.imgur.com/hpDYMti.jpgAll of the most effective protests have been illegal.

Anyways, you're welcome to go live in 1898. Men who are afraid of needles wouldn't last long.

[Patriam1066]

I'm the first two but over 35. You talk about your net worth a lot.

That one I actually didn’t mean net worth

I meant in a civic participation sense

[Basanos]

That one I actually didn’t mean net worth

I meant in a civic participation senseA moderate republican voter in Texas? I'm unconvinced. It's not exactly a swing state.

I could probably go to an Atlanta DSA meeting and find ten people under 35 whose votes would count more than your single one in Texas, since Georgia is supposedly leaning towards purpleness. Mainly because Atlanta represents 60% of the population of the entire state plus a shitload of black voters.

Or did you mean, like, volunteer work and stuff like that? If so that's a lot harder to quantify. Community building is a positive regardless of politics. Even the neutral evil protestant conservative churches here in the south do that.

[Horza]

Let's all just go back to the 19th century, I wonder why so many moderate voters are abandoning your party?

[Jobaber]

you guys are the ones that think we should stop space travel so we can have more trader joes

[misterbonkers]

you guys are the ones that think we should stop space travel so we can have more trader joes

how much gorilla munch is there on the moon? 0
how much gorilla munch is there at trader joes? infinite

https://media.tenor.com/ceiuKYeY6rEAAAAS/jimmies-rustled.gif

[Basanos]

you guys are the ones that think we should stop space travel so we can have more trader joesEven idiots make good choices sometimes.

Democrats are generally dumb and shortsighted about nuclear power and space development. I am still half-expecting the democrat that wins in 2024 to later bag the forthcoming Artemis missions.

[Trexller]

Even idiots make good choices sometimes.

Democrats are generally dumb and shortsighted about nuclear power

this always bugged me

for decades the dems have cried upon the heavens for clean efficient energy, then when they are given clean efficient energy, they have some reason to hate it.

a coal fired power planet produces a hell of alot more ambient radiation than a nuclear power planet, and spent nuclear fuel storage has been solved for decades, but everyone is too stupid to understand the technology so it never gets investments.

that's just fission

huge breakthroughs in fusion tech have been made very recently.

in short humans are idiots, when given exactly what they want, they will immediately determine its not good enough and then bitch piss and moan for something else.

we as a species do not deserve to exist

https://i.imgur.com/4aVYcmv.jpg

[Elizondo]

Must be nice to write your own regulations and then have millions of people blame woke LGBT folks when the business inevitably fails.

21229

[unsunghero]

Let's all just go back to the 19th century, I wonder why so many moderate voters are abandoning your party?

Back to the times of mass children suicides due to not having their gender surgically affirmed?

No thanks. Pass. Thank God we finally got the to the bottom of why all those kids were killing themselves hundreds of years ago

We lost a lot of good kids

[Botten]

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/SereneEllipticalEskimodog-max-1mb.gif

Trump finally LOSES IT in full meltdown over DeSantis

eFHaw7BaKS8

[unsunghero]

^
If I was talking to that guy, I would have to stop at some point and ask “are those your real ears?”

[Basanos]

this always bugged me

for decades the dems have cried upon the heavens for clean efficient energy, then when they are given clean efficient energy, they have some reason to hate it.

a coal fired power planet produces a hell of alot more ambient radiation than a nuclear power planet, and spent nuclear fuel storage has been solved for decades, but everyone is too stupid to understand the technology so it never gets investments.

that's just fission

huge breakthroughs in fusion tech have been made very recently.

in short humans are idiots, when given exactly what they want, they will immediately determine its not good enough and then bitch piss and moan for something else. I do wonder about the tritium shortage but I am sure smarter people than me are cooking up workarounds. The related space development could help with that too, via helium-3.

Ever watch Isaac Arthur's youtube channel? I'm a big fan of that guy.

I'd squeal like a piggy if I could watch some astronauts putting boots on the ground on Mars someday. Or if I could see even a working model of an O'Neill cylinder in orbit as a proof of concept. Kalpana one, space tether, whatever!

It will bother me somewhat if it's some billionaire does any of those things like first like they portrayed in the third season of For All Mankind, but a W for the species is a W.

[aussenseiter]

I do wonder about the tritium shortage but I am sure smarter people than me are cooking up workarounds. The related space development could help with that too, via helium-3.

Ever watch Isaac Arthur's youtube channel? I'm a big fan of that guy.

I'd squeal like a piggy if I could watch some astronauts putting boots on the ground on Mars someday. Or if I could see even a working model of an O'Neill cylinder in orbit as a proof of concept. Kalpana one, space tether, whatever!

It will bother me somewhat if it's some billionaire does any of those things like first like they portrayed in the third season of For All Mankind, but a W for the species is a W.

Fusion isn't real, it needs fission breeder reactors at scale to even try.

'Do this and maybe we can do that for you', lol.

[unsunghero]

This guy apparently got off on all charges due to the “stand your ground” law applying to vehicles as well

The man turned the footage of his dash cam over to police immediately because he felt he was in the right, because he thought the water bottle thrown at his car was a gunshot

To his credit, from the video the sound of the bottle hitting the car doesn’t sound all that dissimilar to the gun. Are they in reality? Dunno

To his detriment, the dude had a water bottle thrown at his car because he brake checked the other guy who was tailgating him. That’s why he had his gun out, because he thought the other guy might respond to his brake check

What SHOULD happen: He should be charged with reckless endangerment due his complete shit handling of his weapon. There were cars in front of him, it’s a miracle he didn’t kill anyone. He has no business owning a gun at that skill level. He is going to accidentally kill someone some day

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W274l2WOcsE

[Trexller]

I do wonder about the tritium shortage

Fusion isn't real



California-based TAE Technologies, working with Japan’s National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), have completed first tests of a hydrogen-boron fuel cycle in magnetically-confined plasma, which could generate cleaner, lower cost energy that that produced by the more common deuterium-tritium (D-T) fusion process.

TAE highlighted that it had built five “national laboratory-scale” devices – with which it had generated and confined fusion plasma “more than 140,000 times” – and is currently building two further machines, dubbed Copernicus and Da Vinci, with a view to “demonstrating net energy and deliver power to the grid, respectively”.

https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/100-000-years-of-power-us-japan-team-hails-h2-boron-plasma-fusion-breakthrough/2-1-1411318

another major milestone which somehow isn't mentioned here, bad reporting I guess or they wanted to remain specific to the H2-Boron, is that these next generation fusion reactors are generating electricity directly from the magnetic field generated by the fusion reaction, no steam turbines.

the old school deuterium-tritium Tokamak reactors were still in the stone ages, bleeding their energy off to heat water to power steam turbines for electricity.

[Patriam1066]

you guys are the ones that think we should stop space travel so we can have more trader joes

I don’t understand this comment. You don’t believe we went to the moon

[Patriam1066]

Fusion isn't real, it needs fission breeder reactors at scale to even try.

'Do this and maybe we can do that for you', lol.

You don’t even understand Brent crude. Sit this one out bud, leave it to Matthew mcconafhey and the other engineers in interstellar

[aussenseiter]

You don’t even understand Brent crude. Sit this one out bud, leave it to Matthew mcconafhey and the other engineers in interstellar

I've seen nothing from you on Brent crude and US crude is even cheaper.

It is a strawman in discussing LNG prices though. 😈

[Patriam1066]

I don’t know anything about fusion but I assure you, you know even less my good chum

There’s a Korean (smarter than you) refuting your claims in this thread. Stand down, stick to potato farming like the rest of your clan

[Basanos]

Fusion isn't real, it needs fission breeder reactors at scale to even try.

'Do this and maybe we can do that for you', lol.There's, uh, a shitload of physicists who seem to believe otherwise. Fission is also fine, though obviously things can go very wrong.

I mean, like economic systems, if our metric is which has the smallest heap of dead bodies, nothing will hold a candle to conventional power generation.

I don't think we're building O'Neill cylinders with wind power. Solar is all well and good, but if we ever wanna set foot anywhere in the outer solar system, solar may not be as viable.

Now, zero point energy... if we could just... siphon some power from the quantum foam.... what could possibly go wrong?

I don’t know anything about fusion but I assure you, you know even less my good chum

There’s a Korean (smarter than you) refuting your claims in this thread. Stand down, stick to potato farming like the rest of your clanMy people are potato gobblers too. We ain't all regressive.

[aussenseiter]

I don’t know anything about fusion but I assure you, you know even less my good chum

There’s a Korean (smarter than you) refuting your claims in this thread. Stand down, stick to potato farming like the rest of your clan

A single fusion reactor could not now be operated with current global tritium supplies.

Can I get a double order of submissive and breedable tritium?

[aussenseiter]

Fusion is a larger scale than fission.

[Patriam1066]

I suspect you don’t have a phd in physics

That being the case, I’m disinclined to listen. What was your prediction about the senate again?

*50 cent driving away gif*

[Patriam1066]

Im skeptical of fusion (in my lifetime) as well, but now that you’re saying it’s impossible, I’m quite certain we’re right around the corner.

Got any stock picks?

[Basanos]

Sure. Yeah. It's a problem. We might not ever see it in our lifetimes.

People once thought it was hubris to build flying machines, though. Organ transplants were once science fiction. It's fine. God gave us brains to utilize them.

I'll settle for just seeing some people go back to the moon.

[Trexller]

Now, zero point energy... if we could just... siphon some power from the quantum foam.... what could possibly go wrong?

Standard Oil err I mean Exxon-Mobil will kill you, seriously.


Not a conspiracy channel, this guy tries to debunk conspiracies and then explain what can't be easily debunked, and he's often stumped. Its a good professional non-cringy format.
yUFYnVXbLoY

[aussenseiter]

Im skeptical of fusion (in my lifetime) as well, but now that you’re saying it’s impossible, I’m quite certain we’re right around the corner.

Got any stock picks?

The point is you have to buildout fission reactors at a large scale to create enough (breeded) tritium to attempt the fusion project.

That's why I'm implying it's a trick. It would be nice to have but not needed if we did that.

[Swish]

I'll settle for just seeing some people go back to the moon.

What do you mean "go back"?

https://img.gifmagazine.net/gifmagazine/images/4851714/original.gif

[Patriam1066]

Someone post the 50 cent driving away gif so I can quote it thanks!