I guess Jesus really, really wanted this particular motherfucker.

Dems made sure they can’t do anything else.

One can only hope, friend.

Don’t worry.

The Dems are just about to write a sternly-worded letter.

It’s true.

No one can time the market. If I opt to move into a money market at the end of the year, I’m likely giving up some short-term gain, but the flip side is that if this bubble does burst then I can buy back those shares at a massive discount, and profit over the long-term on the market recovering.

It’s all a risk. Everyone has to evaluate the info we have and make the best choice according to their risk tolerance.

What really gives me the heebie jeebies are two things:

-The tremendous greed and valuation of so many of these companies, many of which haven’t delivered anything except bold promises. LLM’s can do simple things well, but its output can’t be trusted without human validation, and that’s after training on all of the accumulated knowledge of humankind, which is why I tend to think that this bubble is eventually going to pop in dramatic fashion. I also don’t think we the public have yet seen the extent of the negative effects of using LLM’s, such as the emerging observations of their effect on people’s cognitive abilities and how they’re able to manipulate.

-The absolutely massive gains in the market over the past two years. My own retirement has had legitimate gains over the past two years that are above and beyond what ponzi schemes promise to deliver, and that’s simply unsustainable over the long term, so the question for me becomes when to take the profit and hold for a major event.

Anyway, that’s my reasoning around the choices I plan to make. I am not a financial adviser, so don’t take any of this as suggestions for what to do with your investments. This is just what makes sense to me.

I’m actually planning to move my retirement into a money market because of the bubble and stock prices ballooning at a speed that just makes me anxious.

I’m waiting until the new year, though, so as not to miss dividends and because Christmas is coming, and with it, likely elevated spending in the US economy.

But I fully expect it to burst and think it’ll be uglier than 2000.

I don’t think screening is the answer, but with Roblox and Discord, the follow-up on reports of predators is lacking and should be punished severely by the courts. I don’t care if your profits go down a percentage point or two, you need to improve your product.

Nice! Fore it’s been about 70% of my library that’s worked, so it’s an unfortunate necessity.

Same. I run a dual-boot with Linux Mint, but have a windows installation for gaming. I do 99% of my computing on Linux now.

Yup. There’s just something that makes social media better when you are forced to be more intentional about it.

I actually like that Mastodon is more manual. Keeps things less combative overall.

Yeah, people have been arguing about it for at least the last three years, since the first big twitter migration.

Everyone just kind of ignored that you could screenshot a post and reply to it already.

They’re certainly trying.

And the weird-ass bugs are popping up all over the place because they apparently laid off their QA people.

A few weeks ago my Pixel wished me a Happy Birthday when I woke up, and it definitely was not my birthday. Google is definitely letting a shitty LLM write code for it now, but the important thing is they’re bypassing human validation.

Stupid. Just stupid.

Too bad we got stuck in a world where most people work 2-3 jobs and don’t have those precious few seconds to look up.

Not enough people are willing to vote with their wallets

That and most governments are wrapped up in Windows, and therefore kinda just captive to the insane pricing. I get everything I need out of LibreOffice, personally.

This seems like maybe the last thing we should be concerned about right now.

So we’re making fun of the victims of con artists now?

That doesn’t feel particularly cool.

Jeanne D’Arc and Silent Hill Origins were pretty good.

Yup, at least in major cities they were.