Of course, not pictured here is the main driver of its price boom in 2021: investors like Melvin capital who were shorting more GME stock than there actually was in circulation, intending to bankrupt the company and not eat their shorts.

This was huge. A few investment firms went tits up over the stock loan late fees.

I forget how the story ended... Did we have a financial collapse 100x's worse than the Great Depression? Or did they change rules and engage in slimy fuckery to let Wall St. off the hook?

if they take risk of loss, they have to be compensated

The whole point of insurance is risk being spread out.
If it's wrong for health insurance to drop someone who gets cancer, it's wrong for an insurance provider to pull out of a state which just had some massive wildfire.

When it's time to pay your insurance bill, it's "fuck you, pay me". When it's time for the insurance to pay out, it's all "act of God" and "force majeure". Cunts.

I'm concerned about the repeating pattern of climate activists committing arson and posing for social media pictures.

Yes, yes, I'm very sure you have no idea what I'm talking about. That's even more concerning.

John Galt would be so proud.

So proud that he'd give a 50 page soliloquy about it? Fuck Rand, and her infantilizing way of beating you over the head with the point of the book, which you are currently reading, and already fully understood.

rent free.

How the fuck did shitty Reddit - with their painful and ugly interfaces, grossly too-powerful mods and painful search and sorting - take over discussion groups?!

Because Youtube is too fucking retarded to realize that they can win all the internets if they just make threaded discussions for each video, instead of whatever-the-fuck they're doing now.

Given that we have no way of DIRECTLY observing the higgs particle, is there any way to be sure that a higgs particle was actually present (i.e. the Z boson and photon weren't products of the collision).

"I'm sorry Dave... The intellectual property lawyers won't let us do that."

This might be soft disclosure. People will get sick and die, the 'experts' will say "oh my god, we didn't know", and the TRUST THE SCIENCE crowd will proclaim this a triumph for the scientific method (which technically it will be... science works best when you actually do it).

IF AI can take your job, it should.

But not your job. Your job is safe, clever slashdotter.


(No one tell this stupid asshole the bad news. He deserves to be surprised)

Are you missing my point on purpose? Or are you unable to process the idea of someone storing a few hundred/thousand gallons of fuel in his basement?

"but how would that help society?"

What society?

are you suggesting in a world with government collapse you would still have access to refined gasoline/diesel and utility grade natural gas but not electricity?

are you suggesting that in a world with government collapse that the only way you could have access to refined fossil fuels is purchasing them after the collapse?

I have the Shopify app on my phone. I only have it for one reason... there's a website I purchase things from... things of dubious legality (synthetic THC derivatives)... and this site only offers package tracking via Shopify. This is probably to help obscure their locations, as the packages come from 3rd party shipping services, which is shady as fuck. I don't have any trouble imagining other shady uses of Shopify.

The weird thing is that this company I'm buying from is in the same state as me, and PA seems to be extremely lax on law enforcement on this stuff. There are head shops in my city (Philadelphia) openly selling Delta-9 products. I mean, the other derivatives such as delta-8, delta-10, THCO, HHC, etc... Apparently there was a federal court ruling that delta-8 is legal under the 2018 farm bill, which is a bullshit ruling if you read the law (but OK i'll take it)... but delta-9 (the regular THC in weed) is not by any stretch of the imagination not a 'controlled substance'.

The original aim with the four-digit tags was to allow you to choose any username you wanted, but it has now become "technical debt," according to Discord. The company said that the usernames are "too complicated or obscure" for people to remember.

Translation:

We got hacked. We're not going to tell you we got hacked, despite it being illegal to not tell you. We're just going to invalidate all existing credentials. Enjoy!

This is what companies do now.

The libtards took a few weeks off, and I somehow managed to get back to positive karma... no more of that. Back to snowflake rule. Look at this comment thread and tell me mods aren't TDS sufferers.