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  1. 2 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

    um, kind of?

    yeah, i'm thinking that's pretty much the biggest part of it.

    but it's a fact. elon has billions of something that ony has value because we value it. elon has value as a person because people like you value him. it's not a difficult concept. you kind of come to represent the people with whom you surround yourself and for whom you stan.

    I think you just described our entire monetary and banking system, thought right? It's a confidence game, which is why bank runs (as recently as SVB) happen.

    Still not sure what your point is, other than just throwing out a platitude to dismiss, as a "oh well, not much we can do about it because we'd have to change the hearts and minds of men."

    My only point was that just saying, "why are there billionaires in the world when people are hungry!" with an implication that it's just a few turns of the knob or a pull of a lever here or there and we can fix that, is childish. You almost literally HAVE to have billionaires for the type of free-market economy we run in America (and arguably, globally) due to shareholders and how ownership in organizations is fundamentally understood, managed and governed.

    IMO, it would take a near-on revolution to change that. More likely it would take a full-on, bloody revolution to change that.

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  2. 40 minutes ago, Go Pokes said:


    Barely used him? Are you kidding? He was used more this season than ever before. And used very effectively.

    I would have loved to have heard via narration what was in the book. I thought his article and the narration thereof was a highlight and a good change of pace for storytelling in S1. Beard's editing was funny, though.

    Overall, a good last episode to put a bow on a good show and good series. I think it's ending exactly at the time it needed as well.

    S1- A+

    S2- C-

    S3- B+

    Overall: B+

     

  3. 1 minute ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    I’d rather start with “understanding big numbers” because most of the people who take the side of “we have to have billionaires” do not understand what one billion of anything really means. 

    Very true.

    But also, there are fundamental problems with how our system is designed (shareholder capitalism) in that, you cannot have a trillion dollar company (of which there are, what, six now with nvidia?) without creating billionaires. It's just not possible with how the system works and how management and ownership of companies in our flavor of free-markets work.

    You'd literally need to change the foundations of which organizations are started, built, owned and managed, and the easy/shortest path to that is not palatable to most people because it looks like government intervention and socialism.

    The longer term answer, whatever it is, will win a team of economists the Noble Prize and a household name for centuries to come.

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  4. 2 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    While we are talking about Musk’s wealth, I want to cross post a fun stat from a different thread. Elon could buy 14-15 Gerald R. Ford class aircraft carriers. (Please don’t start with “but he’s not liquid for that much,” this is illustrative).

    I remain completely befuddled as to why we allow this type of thing when a dear family friend just stated a Go Fund Me to pay for treatment after their 23 year old daughter got a shock breast cancer diagnosis. 

    That's a loaded weapon of a phrase. Good fodder and prompt for a whole 'nother discussion though on the American (Global?) Economy and Shareholder Capitalism.

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  5. 16 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    You claim to be indifferent, but you went to an AI to try and find data to show everyone just how amazing his net worth has been this year, all while selecting a very narrow sample size window that would prove your point in the first place. Gosh, why would anyone here question your feelings on Musk?

    I think you are a bit confused. Here is a breakdown for you, because you have the timeline and motives wrong:

    1. I posted the NYT quote about Tesla being up YTD $48bn because I read it in an email and thought it was interesting. I specifically thought it was interesting considering his boondoggle and mishandling of Twitter, and commented "wow must be nice to be a billionaire" insinuating you can fail and still succeed because you have such a resource privilege.
    2. However, another poster rightly said, "hey wait, YTD is a stupid metric. Here is why..."
    3. To which I said, "you know what, you are right! It would actually make more sense to look at how Tesla is doing since he bought Twitter (oct.) versus just YTD, like the headline did."
    4. So, because I don't care that much to waste actual real time, I went to AI to find a snapshot of data from a certain period of time (Oct-present).
    5. I did so to get an objective and value-neutral look at where he actually stood in response to Tesla and Twitter and how it impacted his net worth.
    6. I didn't fact-check it and just posted. Dumb. Bad. Haha. etc.
    7. You get confused, as you often do, and post a bunch of weird stuff because you are generally a weird person. Which is cool! I like it, it's your personality.

    Ultimately I take blame for quoting you instead of brisket in my response because it was the beginning of your confusion. Hope that clears it up.

    Love,

    Musk fanboi because I'm neutral to mildly disdainful, according to some

  6. Being kind of an old and out of touch guy, when I was playing baseball and watching it exclusively as my favorite sport, there were two pitching motions: The Wind-Up and the Stretch.

    Do major league pitchers not pitch from the wind-up anymore? All these posts seem to be from the stretch. I always thought to get the full and optimal benefit of whatever pitch (movement on slider, speed on fastball, etc.) you needed to wind-up and from the stretch you lose a little bit, but these guys are all hitting 100+ from the stretch.

  7. 5 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    You read my post and somehow linked it to your opinion of Musk, as opposed to the fact that you literally admitted to using Google Bard to feed you data that was wildly incorrect...literally like 200% incorrect, and posted it here as fact to the rest of us without any fact checking. But you think I'm trying to mock you for being a musk fanboi (which you claim you aren't). Dude, I'm mocking you because you fucking used Google Bard to try to dunk on people here, didn't do any double-checking, and were off by I don't know, 350 dollars or so per share. That's why I'm fucking mocking you. You might as well have gotten it off your facebook feed from a fucking Bitcoin bro group you follow. 

    I was talking to Brisket. 

    Re: Google Bard, sure keep "dunking" on me for that. I'll poke fun at myself for that one too. I was too trusting of the LLM's to dig up some research and didn't stress test it or even smell test it before posting. Bad on me and we can laugh and make fun of it, because it is legitimate.

    What I can't abide is being mischaracterized as a musk fanboi when I don't think he's special or cool and don't particularly like him. That's illegitimate. But again, not directed to you but Brisket, so sorry for quoting my response to you.

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  8. 6 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Naah.  The real issue is how you think a naked fascist narcissist is actually some sort of champion of "free speech" and is any sort of net benefit to public discourse.  That's the cognitive dissonance we've come to know and love.  ChatGPT told me that 374% of Twitter users are as dumb as you, so it doesn't surprise me.

    I actually don't think that and am curious where you are even inferring that from. Like, what have I said for you to draw that inference because I absolutely have not ever directly said he was a champion of free speech. If you are inferring this because I've stated, if anything, I'm neutral to the guy or mildly disdainful, then I think there is more problems than cognitive dissonance, that you are suffering from.

    If anything I am a champion of capitalism. I think it's funny he's blown up a portion of his net worth and also it's funny he's blown up Twitter, because I think social media is an evil.

    This whole escapade-- maybe even Musk's whole storyline starting around Covid-19-- has been a huge farce and joke and very entertaining, in many ways, up to and including the self-inflicted wounds he's incurred with his wealth, relationships, reputation, businesses, etc.

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  9. And to think, this is the country that is the fastest growing in population and GDP and global power (playing both sides, the West and cozying up with Russia/China as opportunists). 

  10. 4 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Did Google Bard tell you how to feel this time too?

    Maybe you've missed my many posts about how I think Tesla's are lame and wannabe luxe these days.

    Also I think the brain implant stuff is beyond stupid and hope that fails miserably.

    Maybe I'm not using the name "Elmo" enough for you very mature and smart scions of business news, so I get confused for being a fanboi.

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  11. 47 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Dude are you fucking kidding me? Do you just blindly trust any sufficiently impressive tool? LLMs like chatGPT and Bard are not designed to achieve factual accuracy. They are designed to create believable natural language compositions. 

    You should check out the most recent episode of Planet Money - they go into the reality of actually using a LLM for large scale creative work

    You got me-- I actually didn't realize it until this situation, but I have slipped into the "blind trust" camp of these LLMs...

    It's actually pretty surprising how easy that happened. I guess that's the big risk-- a majority of the population trusting and relying on these things without any critical thought.

    30 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    He's a Musk fanboi.....how much do you think "sound, reasoned decision making" figures into his worldview?  Yeah....

    You got the wrong guy-- I'm not a Musk fanboi or even a mild fan. Neutral at best.

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  12. 5 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

     

    YTD is a dumb metric, because it completely ignores prior, and in this case important, data.

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    Oh look, he made money this year! Elon is so smart!

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    But when you go further back, you see that Tesla is down overall. From those highs in Aug/Sept he's down well over 30%. If you go further back, you find the high from which Tesla is down over 50%.

    So to being up this year?

     James Van Der Beek Applause GIF

    Good point. I guess looking at it from when he bought Twitter ($44bn) (which I think was October of 2022?) and what Tesla has gained or lost since then, is a truer look.

    As of May 31, 2023, Tesla stock has lost about 30% of its value since October 28, 2022. The stock closed at $799.20 on October 28, 2022, and it closed at $557.55 on May 31, 2023.

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  13. 2 hours ago, Macanudo said:

    Time to ramp back up.  My last day at the current job is Friday, September 15.   I had slowed down on applying as I get closer because there was no use in losing the severance package unless it was for a really great opportunity (read:  a lot more money/good landing spot.)   Just 6 apps in the last 60 days.   I've still been looking to remain in the Learning & Development/Change Management/Organizational Effectiveness space with most of my apps being insurance/retirement/consulting related but there has been a sprinkling of other industries.    

    I've had several people look over my resume including a recruiter friend and there were some tweaks suggested but nothing major.  I have results oriented data highlighted (% increases in quality, decreases in costs, decreases in attrition, Employee Engagement work and Leadership Development, etc.)   One thing I have done is paired my resume down to the last 12 years (all with AIG/Corebridge).   If I need to go back to the my previous role type (retirement plan administration) I'll add those years back in but they only add to what I did from 2012-2018.  Other than lengthening the resume and highlighting that I'm older, I'm not sure how that helps.  

    But damn if I'm not a little pissed off right now.  Overwhelmingly, I have gotten the "thanks but not thanks" emails or no reply at all other than the initial "thanks for applying."   Almost a 1/3 of the jobs I've applied for are closed/no longer posted but I never got a "no thanks" email.   The funniest part of that is the consulting firms are some of the worst.   Deloitte, McKinsey, Stout, etc. suck at notifying.   I mark them off when the position stops showing as available not because they told me. 

    Another place that sucks at this is Insperity.  They are right here in my backyard. I did have a job prospect with them that I interviewed for back in December but 3 other jobs over the last 8 months closed without ever getting notified.   

    So, yeah, I'm pissed but not panicking yet.   I have my job for another 3.5 months.   If I need to take the severance as paychecks instead of a lump, I can extend that out until February.   There are some ancillary add-ons that I'll get (pro-rated bonus, etc.) that make up a nice little piece of extra cash.  If I don't have something lined up for late September/early October, I have something I can do part time keep me busy and bring in a little extra.   We'll have 2 kids in college next year but thankfully that is all taken care of from a financial perspective.  Good planning years ago pays off.

    In conclusion, this sucks.

    Good news, maybe, is that job openings have surged to a 3-month high, indicating that maybe the market might be softening for you as you start looking again here soon.

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    Job vacancies jumped to 10.1 million in April, the highest in three months, confounding economists' expectations of a modest decline. The Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey also showed there were 1.8 available positions for each unemployed individual, also a three-month high. The report, which showed layoffs falling from March, raises expectations that the Federal Reserve could keep lifting interest rates to combat inflation, which it says has been fed by a demand for workers and consequent wage growth.

     

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  14. 11 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:


    Immortal was banned awhile back. I think he came back as 4doorsmorewhores or whatever. Maybe one other name.

    Hamster does the same shit over and over. He creates a username (animal + tobacco/smoking), pretends to be civil and not a troll until he isn’t. Then gets banned, creates new name.

    Hamsterhookah
    Donkeycigars
    Meerkatbong
    Crispy
    And like 3 others I can’t recall. I’m sure someone else will.

    mmmm. I disagree with you.

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  15. 19 minutes ago, Reynolds Woodcock said:

    Tom is a stand in for the middle class striver’s role in the pitfalls of capitalist excess. Willing to sell a piece of his soul to gain the ever-illusive leap in wealth and class rank, and willing to sell an even bigger piece (or in this case all) of his soul to ensure he never falls back down from whence he came. Sure, it’s exaggerated, but he is the most relatable character to the masses (myself included). 

    But in the end, Tom gained nothing of permanence, other than a guaranteed miserable job with no security, trapped in a loveless marriage to a spouse who will never view him as her equal, and on the precipice of raising a child who is no doubt completely fucked.

    I disagree. Tom got the big job. He got the CEO of a $105bn organization. 

    It's like getting an NFL head coaching job. Yea, you might be horrible and suck, but you are pretty much assured another shot (if not 2 or 3 more) just by virtue of having been an NFL coach in the vaunted club. Same with being the CEO of a Fortune 200.

    By playing and winning the Game of Succession Thrones, he has assured his future as a Business Executive, whether at GoJoStar or elsewhere, until retiring on a board somewhere. And his kid will grow up the son/daughter of a CEO and billionaire heiress, going to the best schools and when they grow up they will all drink their martini's dry, and have $60mm penthouse boxes full of ticky tack that all look the same. And a pink one, and a green one, and a blue one and yellow one...

    10 out of 10 come-up for a guy raised middle class from a St. Paul suburb, if you ask me.

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  16. 11 minutes ago, Updawg said:

    Well it must have been at least a decent finale to get this much discussion

    It’s one or two guys who are on another whole other planet when watching this show who are annoying everyone.

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