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Should be a wild four years.

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LurkingLemur said:
Looks like you have nothing to say when presented with facts and have resorted to name calling. How predictable! Sad!
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I'll put it under my "I consider everything possible" folder and be cautiously optimistic that they won't have the chance. Although to a degree we're already moving that way anyway.
 
A Cardboard Box said:
Yeah Trump announced the immediate resumption of aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine and announced he's going to apply maximum pressure to Russia if they don't agree to the ceasefire.
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Its pretty obvious what Trump is doing here and its kinda baffling that it seems to be being missed here.


In order to make a deal you need leverage. Trump wants to have a deal made to end the war so it stops being a distraction. Ideally, the deal gets money back to the U.S. for all this cost.


Now, the leverage to force Ukraine into the deal is obvious. The gibs. Without them, Ukraine gets fucking destroyed. The party then that needs more is Russia, and the leverage for them.... is also the gibs to Ukraine. All the sanctions means thats out the window, Trump is absolutely not going to go to war with Russia so that's out the window. There really is only one way to pressure Russia. That is to keep supplying Ukraine and ensuring that Russia has to bleed for every single inch of land.

The deal is already on the table for Ukraine and the minerals, Trump does see this as paying back with interest. And if it keeps dragging on he can just bump up the amount of monetary worth he wants from the deal. So, keep the gibs going there, keep raising the price on what Ukraine has to pay us, and encourage other non-European powers that Russia is friendly with to provide diplomatic pressure. In the end, encourage both to come to the table, make a deal that fucks Ukraine but leaves it sovereign (and likely missing land), provide some slowly escalating security deals (I could go on at length about this one for awhile) to ensure Ukraine does not renege on the deal, and then leave that fucking hellhole slightly richer and with the region nominally stable.
 
HTTP Error 404 said:
IBM was, if you remember, the company that pushed for moving from Pensions to 401ks in the first place, which fucked over the middle class (but made the line go up for the boomers, so it was an unambiguous moral good in the boomercractic worldview).
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Stop believing Boomer myths about what pensions were like. Pensions got utterly ravaged by 1970s inflation, and your retirement being tied to the fortunes of your previous employer turned out to be a bad idea, since it turns out a top 10 firm today can be nonexistent in 30 years. You're crazy if you want to go back to that. Unlike my grandpa, whose pension was completely dissolved by inflation, my dad's 401k continues to outpace inflation, so I don't have to worry about him.
 
autistic dog said:
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Sixty Million that's like the holocaust times TEN!




JD Vance should offer to start debating democrats already so they can drop out like Biden. After he beats off a couple dozen men and women on live television maybe some good democrats will emerge. I don't even mean good as in aligned with me politically I mean not straight up evil or retarded.
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yawn. So last month.
 
nelly98 said:
Why are people so retarded when it comes to food? We really do need home economics classes
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Alright faggots, listen up, food is easy. All you need to do is heat some margarine in a pan, then chop off your dick and fry it up like a sausage. Then cook 73 100lb sacks of rice in a 4qt rice cooker, and portion it out into tupperwares and store it in your hermetically sealed tornado bunker; make sure there's no oxygen or the botulinum won't be able to produce spores. Now whenever you need a meal you can just drive to mcdonalds, and if you're lucky they'll be running the monopoly promotion and you can get your 401k started at the same time. </USpolitics>
 
UnidentifiedFlyingOrchid said:
6months ≈ 180 days
180 days × 2,222 calories per day = 400,000 calories.
A 1lb potato has 620 calories.
400,000/620=645 pounds of potatoes.
13×50=650
13 of these 50lb bags of potatoes will feed 1 man for 6 months.
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6 bags are stacked up to this man's shirt pocket.

50lb potato bags are 36"×18"×8" which is exactly 3 cubic feet. 13 bags is 39 cubic feet.

A single "twin" sized bed is 75"×38". A platform bedframe with 22" of room underneath results in 39 cubic feet of storage space. The perfect amount of room for 650lbs of potatoes!

TL;DR:
Move into a Five Guys and sleep on top of their potatoes.
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Storing water wastes a lot of space. Filter your water source.
6 sqm is 64½ sq.ft.; you could store 1000 pounds of potatoes in there (450kg).
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Potatoes emit poison gas as they decompose. Use them as bedding and you will die peacefully in your sleep, to the envy of the living.
 
Betonhaus said:
You can't have anything that can be affected by warmth and moisture, which rules out your oh so precious rice and basically everything except for canned goods, which have varying levels of healthyness and quality
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Beef tallow obliviously. 1 LB has about 4000 calories. You only need about 100lbs for your mythical 400,000 calories.
Much less than the 5 guys restaurant worth of potatoes.
 
The Noise said:
Cola is my one vice. I really hate that whenever I bring this up I get a bunch of people telling me to just stop drinking soda; I understand the arguments against it but I like it and drink it anyways. "Stop enjoying simple pleasures" should not be your reflexive reaction when simple pleasures become unaffordably expensive.
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Why not buy a soda maker and make your own? I have one that I use for carbonating water (which tastes fine enough on its own without adding any soda syrup) or for making tonic water if I want a G&T.

HTTP Error 404 said:
See, again, limited understanding here, but it's my understanding the big firms had shorted the stock. GameStop was supposed to die, right? That means they had borrowed someone's stock under the promise they'd give it back later, and were gambling on the fact that the stock would be cheaper when they had to buy it back from the market to return it. What happens when you short a stock and suddenly you can't buy it back at any price? But wait, how did they do this, stocks are a limited thing and they could short something if there wasn't any stock to buy/sell, so there's no way someone could buy up all the stock and leave someone unable to resolve a short unless they were gaming the numbers and that stock didn't exist (stock counterfeiting)....
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It was even more depraved than that. While there's a limit to how much stock can be bought, there's no limit on how much can be shorted. I recall that someone who looked into it discovered that the people who had been shorting it had done so much of it that they just wouldn't have had to purchase all of the stock to cover those shorts, but would have to purchase much of it against a second time in order to cover all of the shorts.

Generally if people want to buy a stock and no one wants to sell theirs the company can sell some of their own shares or just issue additional shares. As I recall GameStop did do this (and made some good money in doing so) but the companies had made such a ridiculous number of shorts that not even issuing additional shares could unfuck things.

Short squeezes aren't uncommon in the market and are used to keep people honest. The problem here was that a few people got exceptionally greedy and put themselves into a position where anyone smart enough to realize it could fuck them hard. I'm sure there were some handshake deals done so that none of the major firms who had the capital to buy up all of the shares would do this to them, but some random nobody still noticed it and crowdsourced the response by getting bored Redditors involved.

It's not surprising that it got shut down. The situation that they had brought about effectively created infinite liability for them and their firm. Anyone so inclined could just keep driving up the price, particularly if GameSpot wouldn't or couldn't issue additional stock. At a certain point it doesn't matter since the firm can't pay, but there's nothing theoretically stopping coordinated buyers from driving the price up to several billion dollars per share and creating a debt that would exceed the GDP of the planet for the next century. In reality it wouldn't quite work out that way (individual holders are going to be bailing out much earlier to make a huge profit) but no one wants anything approaching this kind of outcome to happen. People might realize how silly the stock market is and pull money out.
 
Get rid of social security and replace it with a welfare program only for old people that need it.
What % of people receiving SS, need it?
I am not factoring it into my retirement plan at all.
If you don't need it, don't collect it.
"But waaahh I paid into it." So what, you also paid for USAID and Ukraine. You didn't have a choice, write it off as a loss. All it is is a tax, a tax that would be lower if we weren't giving it to people that don't need it.
 
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