bradorsomething
@bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows 10 hours ago:
The nsfw content, mostly.
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 1 day ago:
Long slow slide is the best we can offer you.
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 1 week ago:
Same reason the people on 9/11 stayed in their seats - they thought they’d be fine if they waited it out.
- Comment on Nearly All Cybertrucks Have Been Recalled Because Tesla Used the Wrong Glue 1 week ago:
Oh, did an airline stewardess walk by?
- Comment on Nearly All Cybertrucks Have Been Recalled Because Tesla Used the Wrong Glue 1 week ago:
Got caught using the wrong glue is more accurate.
- Comment on What happened to FlyingSquid? 1 week ago:
Do you mean academy award nominated actress MargotRobbie?
- Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 1 week ago:
You jest, but futures can actually go negative. At one point during covid a tanker shortage meant you could be paid a few $100 to accept delivery of a barrel of crude. Some people were joking about filling their swimming pools.
- Comment on Tesla's latest decline could be one for the history books - $795 billion since Dec 17 or 53.7 percent 2 weeks ago:
In trading we refer to tesla as a meme stock, or better, as shit beta. I have a theory a number of big interday players moved into memes when they started getting bigger, because the poor liquidity of the plays cause the market…. Because the people who sell the stock had to keep buying more stock to make the options they sold safer.
Tesla is up and down because it makes people money.
- Comment on Tesla's latest decline could be one for the history books - $795 billion since Dec 17 or 53.7 percent 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like you’ve achieved goatse post-nut clarity.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you were a billionaire that suddently had a change of heart and wanted to go against trump, how dangerous would it be to resist? 2 weeks ago:
What do you mean by “go against?”
Assassination is right out. Too much to risk.
Cast shade on his politics? Easy. You can rent a large enough number of billboards around the country to start an influence campaign on the cheap, getting republicans to start asking if they’ve been betrayed. We’re talking a few million a year. Much as the republicans chipped at the dem base in the election, you just need to get enough of them angry to start the fighting and finger pointing in their own house.
Rent a few republican legislators and get them to start throwing a wrench in things? Doable, but you have to steer them a bit. Probably 2 to 3 times the cost of the billboards. You also need to make them feel they come out on top for the noise they make. Probably call them “the loyal trump faction” and have them go overboard demanding things faster than the american people will take.
Start a competitor to twitter? Probably lose 100mm a year to start, but it can be done.
There are lots of things you can do.
- Comment on Apple Maps May Soon Feature Ads, But Not Everyone's Onboard - gHacks Tech News 5 weeks ago:
I mean Tim, if you wanted me to stop using maps you could have just asked, you didn’t need to insert ads.
- Comment on What's the endgame when the rich have all the money? 2 months ago:
Automation.
- Comment on I need a flicker free LED lightbulb running in the 3000 K range. 2 months ago:
He might live in Phoenix.
- Comment on ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down 2 months ago:
“More presidential.”
- Comment on Communism 2 months ago:
Pure Socialism is a society where resources are shared as equally as possible across all participants. Resources are distributed as appropriately as possible to create what is needed, excess is distributed with as little waste as possible. Communism has a centralized body to distribute these resources.
- Comment on If a hostile country has installed a puppet leader to dismantle your government from the inside and the only thing that would expidite its destruction is a violent revolution how do you combat this? 3 months ago:
Assuming we’re thinking of the same place, you have to deal with a large group of people who have been fooled, and are about to get very angry and need a target they can reach for their anger. Highlighting mid to high level members of their party leadership as the people to blame allows them to hold their great leader blameless, protecting their egos, while at the same time ripping down the pillars that prop up that same leader. Calling for new blood to support… whatever leader you’re talking about, and voting out “those idiots that aren’t giving him what he needs and so we all are suffering” allows the malleable followers to self destruct the party apparatus like ants eating away the bones of an elephant.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect, is a tech worker 3 months ago:
I personally like the theory that they caught him using five eyes data, and skip the step where they write “US citizen” the transcripts
- Comment on Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect, is a tech worker 3 months ago:
“ let’s get you a scrum-rifle and see what you can do to improve your stats.”
- Comment on "Florida is a conservative Christian state" 4 months ago:
These are hard times, and more are coming. And I don’t exactly remember the quote, but it’s along the lines of:
“When a run-away team of horses is headed off a cliff, the driver can sometime be seen encouraging them on, presumably, since he knows he cannot stop them, he at least feels some sense of control over the situation.”
- Comment on Adam Something: Tesla Cybercab: The Self-Driving Disaster Show 4 months ago:
Adam something is such a strange name, too.
- Comment on Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers 5 months ago:
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- Comment on [Homestar Runner] Limozeen - Zeenin' Into The Night 5 months ago:
Not enough “sha na nas” or “na na nas” to save the children in that song.
- Comment on How do you set up wake up alarm and not miss it ? 6 months ago:
In college, this came down to me finally crossing the bridge to being an adult, and agreeing with myself that the alarm would go off, and I would wake up. When I went to sleep, how distracted I was at night, and why and when I was getting up were all on me, but I had to get up to the alarm. It changed my thinking knowing no magical parent was going to force me to get up. I either went to the morning class, or failed the class.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 6 months ago:
How hexbear of you.
- Comment on How come drug dealers seem to have a messed up house or at least a messed up car with a bunch of trash in it? 6 months ago:
DEA: “Oh nice, what address?”
- Comment on The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman 6 months ago:
I would suspect it’s a humility issue. It’s a constant challenge, for me at least, to be vulnerable about my weaknesses and not be bull-rushed by other men seeing an opportunity to push me down. Fortunately I’m the boss now, so I can set an example that I can be wrong and trust others to say I’m right, or step back and admit a weakness that another can cover.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 6 months ago:
At least you got them all working together for a common cause. I mean, it’s a start.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 6 months ago:
Also, someone said hexbear without a trigger warning.
- Comment on Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA? 6 months ago:
The medical industry and the insurance industry are locked in a battle for money, and you don’t have a lot of say in it. I used to run an ambulance service. Let’s discuss.
If I took you to the hospital, and you were on medicare, there was a fixed rate to pick you up and a per mile rate. I got paid part by the government and part by the patient, who I was legally required to bill. If I failed to adequately bill the patient (10% or so), if I lied on the parts and mileage, silver bracelets and court time. We loved billing care/caid, because it was a fixed price, and we knew the payer of 90% paid regularly.
If you have private ambulance transport, you have no idea what you’ll get. The patient can have a $13,000 deductible, a 50% copay, and. $20,000 per-event cap. There’s no rule what a reasonable bill can be. The insurance company is trying to rig the game so the patient pays most of the bill while paying that sweet monthly premium at the same time. The ambulance is trying to be reimbursed for the time and materials. The red states opened the door for the patients to again be uninsured and pay you $0 for everything. So bills have to be high, to ensure some money comes in from insurance, to insure things can keep running. I would have loved to have a country of all care/caid and it be illegal to live there otherwise. They’d be the best cared for poor and old people in the world, getting quality care backed by the “only if you’re poor or old” US single-payer system.
But we have what we have, and it’s been well sold to enough clueless people that it’s here to stay.
- Comment on Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that? 6 months ago:
Let me guess, red state?