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[pisskop]

Frfr you can do a good job with pots of cool water throughout your home.  Heat sinks.



P:  Also stock market is now officially bear.  We're tailspining.

[EuchreJack]

Out in the boonies where I live, transportation ain't a discretionary expense either.
In fact, I strongly argue that access to reliable transportation is the divider between Higher and Lower forms of Poverty.

My family recently paid for a new engine on the vehicle we purchased less than a year ago.  Because it was literally the only option in this economic climate.

But...the point still has some validity.  I'm certainly not trying to buy a home right now.  And I'm watching my food budget like nobody's business. I'm even trying to drive a bit slower on non-urgent trips.

Also stock market is now officially bear.  We're tailspining.

I've come to the sad conclusion that the stock market is rigged to profit billionaires at the expense of the rest of us.  Just put a little money in each month, and take it all out a decade before you plan to retire.  Unless you can read what the rich old farts are going to do to screw the rest of us before they move their money, it's a zero sum game._{there ARE hints, but I wouldn't suggest anyone risk their futures on it}

[McTraveller]

Yeah one of the worst things about modern society is someone people take what the stock market is doing to be how the economy itself is doing.  They are only very loosely coupled these days because of all the "financial innovation" that they've invented.

The sad thing is that due to propaganda, people believe the stock market reflects reality, and because of that belief, they "make it so."

Also for cars - I don't bemoan replacing a car when you need it. I bemoan these fools that are willing to pay 20% more for something, just because they need it "now" and aren't willing to shop.  I mean you can buy a car on the other side of the country and pay freight (or even airfare to go pick it up and drive it back yourself!) for substantially less than the markups at some of the dealers.

[dragdeler]

The question is just how inelastic is the demand.

They use to make the dichotomy between planned and supply based economies, we have yet to experience the horrors of demand based capitalism. Maybe soon we will get to stand in line like "we" used to for iphones, except that it won't be luxury goods.

[Mathel]

If you want to make money on the stock market, the best way would probably be to have an AI to do it for you. Buy some stock when it starts consistantly rising, sell it when it starts consistantly dropping. Consistance would be determined by the total worth of the company, as would be the amount to buy.

With a good internet connection, it should be possible to make money this way.

If you are just a regular person without access to a superb internet connection and such AI, it is probably not worth it.

[Lord Shonus]

The stock market tends to overcorrect from shocks. COVID hit the market hard, but not as hard as the drop suggested. As things reopened, it responded with a zoom upward that would probably have stabilized into more standard growth after a dip. Except that we got a no-shit shooting war in Europe followed by most of the wprld trying to sanction the aggressor into the Stone Age. That shocked the market again until the world economy realized that it can do Just fine without Russia and the markets started shooting up again. The current downturn is very likely to be an overexaggerated response tp that unsuppprted rise.

All that said, there's very positive movements in a lot of numbers that directly affect ordinary people.

[MCreeper]

A year or so ago i was googling, what is shamir worm, after seeing one in a mod for Dominions. Somehow, after getting proper response on wikipedia, i stumbled on a topic on a peculiar site, where people pondered, with apparent complete seriousness and calm, what is, indeed, a shamir worm? Maybe it did shot laser? Oh, it was stored in a leaden box? Perhaps, it was radioactive. They even cited sources and equally peculiar books on the matter. That is the point where bunch of jokers, who no longer bother mentioning that they are joking when amongst themselves, and a bunch of lunatics become undistinguishable. 

[Loud Whispers]

A year or so ago i was googling, what is shamir worm, after seeing one in a mod for Dominions. Somehow, after getting proper response on wikipedia, i stumbled on a topic on a peculiar site, where people pondered, with apparent complete seriousness and calm, what is, indeed, a shamir worm? Maybe it did shot laser? Oh, it was stored in a leaden box? Perhaps, it was radioactive. They even cited sources and equally peculiar books on the matter. That is the point where bunch of jokers, who no longer bother mentioning that they are joking when amongst themselves, and a bunch of lunatics become undistinguishable. 

When you get too in deep undercover

Reminds me of the guy who ironically defended flat earth theory then got mad when people started arguing with him against it

In too deep

[Akura]

My mom bought a landline phone for my stepdad(it's his birthday today). My internet service package also includes a landline. It's advertised as a cordless phone. Except it's not, the cord from the base to receiver is still required. It's "cordless" because instead of a normal power supply, it uses 4 AA batteries. In fact, it has no AC adapter port at all.

Next is actually trying it to connect it to the landline. As it turns out, it does plug right into my modem. Which is in my room. Right next to my knee, in fact. Sadly, there does not appear to be any way to connect it to the TV or cable box out in the living room, so instead they have to run a line into my room.

And while we wait until tomorrow to get the extended line, my mom just hands the phone to me as if I'm supposed to be able to do something with it or watch over it like someone's pet.

[dragdeler]

Man that gave me a chuckle while ripping open a thousand papercuts. When you have these items that are basically e-waste but you feel like you have to cherish them because a relative meant well. I still have screenless 128mb mp3 player somewhere I never used, it's not "but I wanted x" it's "fuuuck clearly you do not know what you are doing should have kept that money for yourself but thanks I guess it's the gesture that counts "

[pisskop]

I remember 128 megs used to be the cats ass dube

[dragdeler]

Can't tell what year exactly, but I had been using 256mb since a while, possibly the christmas before. Like, I can only use one... But it wasn't so late that the thing cost nothing, could have probably had a fast food for 2 at the price. Another one was a digital picture frame... You wouldn't believe where I carried that thing in it's original box on the off chance we might have a console with composit but no screen , in total I must have used it for 40-150min, I tried though, believe me.

[Grim Portent]

Less a WTF and more a 'huh, neat,' but I just learned that tsetse flies produce a substance analogous to mammalian milk, which they use to feed their larvae while it's still inside them.

I was not aware of any invertebrates that had a form of internal feeding mechanism for their young prior to finding this out, I had assumed that the ones that had live births all just had offspring rely entirely on their yolk the way reptiles, amphibians and fish do. Turns out that the tsetse fly has little tubes that run through their womb that fill with a fat and protein rich secretion, similar to milk, that the solitary larva sucks out with specialised mouthparts. When the larva is developed and ready the mother gives birth and the larva burrows into the dirt and gets ready to mature into an adult, and the mother moves on to conceive a new baby.

It's like a bug version of a womb and a marsupial pouch combined, and honestly rather intriguing.

[hector13]

Who gets a new landline in 2022.

[Frumple]

*waggles hand* Folks in disaster prone areas? We have a landline phone that specifically functions without electricity at my place, because sometimes those lines stay up when the power is dead and the cell towers got knocked over (not a hypothetical, that exact thing happened back in 2018, and the line stayed up until passing traffic hit the low-hanging phone line a few weeks into recovery... only way we had to call out for a while).