The S&P doubled in the last five years and more than tripled in the last ten. Pocket $20M of that $26M, at $1.6M/mo, while earning around 15% yoy ROI and you’re looking at $400M inside a decade.

Compound interest is propelling already-rich people into the stratosphere.

The master of misinformation, sensationalism, and ragebait.

It’s not even really that good. It’s just everywhere. Flip on your TV, turn on the radio, pop open a browser, and you’re hit with a legion of professional reactionaries screaming “Whitetopia Has Fallen! Brown Menace End Times Are Upon Us!”

There is no longer anything resembling “normal” news. It’s just wall-to-wall cop worship, racism, and crime hysteria.

Europe Has Fallen! Gangs Run Rampant!

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Brink of Recession

Impossible. Big Stock Line Goes Up.

Her kid didn’t die and I wouldn’t wish that on her

The entire context of the post is her bemoaning the deaths from the flooding.

it’s another straw man

It’s people on the internet laughing up their sleeves at a bunch of dead children.

Please remember to change your religion daily and wash it regularly.

Also, if you’re not religious, you’re not allowed to sit on my couch.

Kind of a nitpick, but the CEO wasn’t a billionaire.

When you’re earning $26M/year, it’s just a matter of time.

A slumlord worth less than a million is arguably as morally wrong as a Blackstone CEO

From a very black-and-white “Bad thing is bad” perspective, sure. But there’s a hierarchy of incentives and profits you’re overlooking. The slumlord very likely carries their properties on some amount of credit, which means they’re collecting rents on behalf of their lender. This lender, in turn, borrows money to increase their leverage and pays rents to a wealthier and more central lending authority. Eventually, the debts for all these loans get traced back to the major banks and other credit brokers, insurers, and private equity firms.

In a feudal sense, the slumlord is merely a plantation overseer and enforcer. The Blackstone CEO is the High Lord, standing on the backs of dozens of lesser aristocrats, who are themselves extracting wealth from their own plantation holdings, which all run thanks to legions of these slumlords going door to door every month to pound the rent out of their tenants.

Oh, I’m sure he won’t become a martyr.

I mean, its not even clear if he was the guy who pulled the trigger. Less a martyr than a scapegoat, as far as we can tell.

they can’t imagine the consequences.

The bitter truth is that we’ve got one dead CEO in 2025 and tens of thousands of dead UHC customers. This is math that the shareholders can live with, so long as it guarantees them continued economic growth into the next decade. CEOs are, after all, a dime a dozen. Hell, we’re nearing a point at which they can be replaced with AI.

if Harris has won, FEMA wouldn’t have been gutted

FEMA forced to restrict disaster spending because of low funds

~ 08/30/2023

The Biden administration has stopped helping states rebuild from past disasters with money from the federal government’s main emergency fund, which is nearing depletion from dozens of storms and wildfires this year.

This has been an ongoing budgetary fight between deficit hawks (of which Biden proudly counted himself a member going back 40 fucking years) and social welfare advocates. Trump took the next big leap in a parade march of staffing reductions and funding cuts. But this has been an ongoing mismanagement since the privatization and downsizing wave that Reagan imposed in the 1980s.

If Harris had won an election that she lost in a landslide, she’d still have to contend with a Congress stuffed with deficit reactionaries on both sides of the aisle. She’d have whined about liberals not handing her Senate Supermajority and then signed whatever John Thune and Mike Johnson put on her desk, just like Biden did.

Singling out scapegoats for a systemic nationwide ideological failure - particularly when they are the weakest and most vulnerable members of society - is the exact same brainworms bullshit that gets people like Trump elected President to begin with.

Might as well blame the flooding on illegal immigration next.

Also, your logic of “one vote wouldn’t change the outcome” doesn’t excuse her

“Your kid deserves to die because you voted wrong” is biblically delusional. At this point, you’re no better than the freaks doing selfies in front of Alligator Alcatraz.

Fuck it, you could be a bot programmed to complain about people taking shitposts seriously.

A story that practically glows in the dark with “That Happened” particles.

Definitely a real event that really happened and not some sort of weird incel power fantasy. Only thing missing was a bit at the end where everyone clapped.

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So no, Harris wouldn’t have stopped the flood, but she wouldn’t have stopped the flood warning either.

This woman changing her vote would have had no effect on the outcome. Hell, the entire state flipping blue would not have changed the results.

Also extreme weather events are significantly more frequent due to climate change

Climate Change doesn’t stop and start with the changing of the US white house. Neither have individual administrations - even the “best” ones - curbed emissions sufficient to keep us under the 1.5C mark.

You’d be more reasonable blaming the flooding on Bush or Obama than Trump or Biden. Hell, you’d be more reasonable blaming Saudi Arabia or China. Even then, you’re getting into “Gays Caused Katrina” territory when you try to blame individual natural disasters on long term environmental trends.

Do you genuinely believe that nobody in those summer camps had Dem voting parents, in a state that went 42% for Harris?

A girl on my block, in bright blue Houston Texas, was killed in the flash flood.

The kids died because they (their Republican parents) voted wrong.

The idea that voting Harris in 2024 somehow insulated you from a natural disaster is the worst kind of magical thinking.

I recently thought that was the problem with my phone before I tried to scrape out any lint that might be in it with a pin. Now the cable seats better and it works fine.

Hadn’t considered that. I’ll give it a shot.

Thanks for the advice

Ah, probably my favorite RTS.

I would say the biggest problem TA had was simply lag. Once you really get going with the volume of units - especially over a network - the loads on the system can get heavy. Basically, you get carried away having too much fun building some absurd army.

There’s a new iteration of the franchise - Planetary Annihilation - that I’ve been meaning to check out as soon as I have some free time. Good reviews on Steam. Stick it on your list and wait for a sale, if the $30 price point bothers you. But I think it’ll probably look a little nicer and run a little smoother.

I’ve never had any issues with cables or charging ports not caused by user dumbassery

Build something fragile

Call user ‘stupid’ when it breaks

I’ll never understand the zeal with which people defend the USB-C. It’s a weird hill to die on

MAGA Revolt

We’ve been here before. The Wingnut Wurlitzer just needs a bit more time to spin up and explain why this is all Killary Killington’s fault.

By 2026, they’ll all be back in line again.