anarchy79

anarchy79, 2 months ago

WELCOME TO FINANCE! There are no rules, and if we break them, we remake them!

This is a case where I literally both hate the player and the game.

anarchy79, 2 months ago

You know… In my life I’ve had to talk a few people out of scams.

I know they were scammed, it’s blatantly a scam, the evidence is overwhelming, my experience is solid, everyone I know of’s experience says the same.

Yet they will argue with you back and forth and never really be satisfied because they want to believe it so much, and I imagine it stings a good bit being told you’re being ripped the fuck off and you’re too stupid or inexperienced to understand that.

I’m never confrontational about it, I just make it very perfectly clear that proceeding would be extremely ill advised, and that even their own worries brought them to me asking for my opinion because they trust my judgment.

It scares me how long it takes to convince them, and how often in the end they come to me a month later and I ask them how it went, and they went and bought it anyway, for whatever far fetched rationalization they managed to construct for themselves.

Psychology is real, psychology is simple, all it takes to control humans is to have no care for anything but yourself.

anarchy79, 2 months ago

But which governments, though? Which one, there are so many… I can’t think of a single one that would be motivated to influence US politics and do something so blatantly anti-democratic.

anarchy79, 2 months ago

It’s Texas Hold’em with extra steps.

They are degenerate gamblers.

Gambling, in my personal opinion, is one of the absolutely most tragic and devastating dependencies there are, and I would include meth abuse among them. At least meth heads tend to live past 40 or so. You get gambling debts and you will be fitted with lead boots in the harbor. I lost my best friend to it, and I’ve seen others on the same path. Drugs are nothing compared to what gambling does to the brain. It’s basically the same, only imagine a drug that you must take a new dose of every 0.82 seconds. Forever.

anarchy79, 2 months ago

I remember something about a war in Europe, but then out of the blue came a super weak Hamas attack on Israel, and now I don’t know who’s warring whom anymore. Taylor Swift though, she’s got above average looks and talent, so something is good in my world at least.

anarchy79, 2 months ago

Philosophy Gone Wild

anarchy79, 2 months ago

The sheer level of cynicism is unhinged.

anarchy79, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

This is so damn true it hurts.

Bearish on FEELS.

anarchy79, 2 months ago

I have some bad news for your peace of mind…

anarchy79, 2 months ago

I am shocked hearing people say that out loud even. Isn’t that extremely, painfully, provably obvious to everyone? No. It is not. It is a matter of “both sides” debate, apparently.

“Hi, I sell snake oil. It cures cancer!”
“Oooh, I LOVE not having cancer! I’ll buy 1. No, wait, 1000!”

anarchy79, 2 months ago

The Saudis, the Israelis, and the Chinesis all have old “trade” agreements with the US.

One other country has joined the club, only they snuck in the back door to burn the whole thing down.

None of the others’ intent is to overthrow US democracy, because they depend on it for not living like Tuskan Raiders in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

anarchy79, 2 months ago

Very weird take.

anarchy79, 2 months ago

It’s crazy how far any community goes to get “its” fix.

Neurologically speaking, our brains’ reward-punishment module is too damn directly exploitable.

anarchy79, 2 months ago

They are the same thing.

anarchy79, 2 months ago

Oh great so now i have to unlearn systemd again?

anarchy79, 2 months ago

What dist to you use btw?

anarchy79, 2 months ago

It’s a bit tounge in cheek, nobody actually got mad at the arch namedropping. More like “I’m a platinum level player in LoL”. Lol.

anarchy79, 2 months ago

“Broke Don” is a masterpiece.

anarchy79, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Why do it before the countrywide protests? Good thing those are over now under the curfew.

anarchy79, 2 months ago

Or directly funded through back channels.

anarchy79, 2 months ago

Oh come on, Russia wouldn’t lie about anything.

anarchy79, 2 months ago

Poor Russians, always the target of unprovoked attacks. How did the US know beforehand anyway? Super sus!

anarchy79, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Yeah not an extemely useful propaganda plot device at all then. You’re not with the terrorists, are you? You better stand up and clap your hands and stomp your feet in sympathy.

anarchy79, 2 months ago

It’s been invalid in over a century, and it didn’t exactly recover when Tsar Putin took the throne.