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> offload an empty bag onto retail investors This was a popular meme on Twitter and Reddit and YouTube, granted. The math doesn’t make sense with an index like

> offload an empty bag onto retail investors This was a popular meme on Twitter and Reddit and YouTube, granted. The math doesn’t make sense with an index like the Nasdaq 100. But I’ll admit it’s a good story. > SpaceX is propped up entirely by government subsidy This is also true of every defence contractor.

yobutdude 4mo ago
Colonies on Mars is a good story Super intelligence is a good story These companies are built on little more than "a good story" for politicians to sell to voters ..."i voted in Congress for that!" You're arguing semantics Economic math is being leveraged against innumerates as euphemism and obfuscation of same old avarice and political corruption. Biology is self selecting. There's no using rhetoric to wave off the ground truth is just a minority of the total population ensuring their own lived experience is put above everyone else's
- JumpCrisscross 4mo ago
  > a minority of the total population ensuring their own lived experience is put above everyone else's That’s a new use of that term!
  - yobutdude 4mo ago
    No it is not. Appeals to equality of condition have existed for centuries. Among them are that term used verbatim. Ignored the other points and redirected to the least salient. Will take it as acceptance you realized how silly your carrying water for people who don't know or care you exist is. Age of account makes it clear you need the social system to remain solvent as you're likely rich on paper. Nothing more.
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    - JumpCrisscross 4mo ago
      > Ignored the other points In this comment [1]? Seriously, what salient points were you trying to make? Nobody is arguing anything is fairly valued. That's your straw man. There's a bit ironically complaining about innumeracy in a series of comments with zero numbers. Then a general appeal to Twitter tropes around sheeple and whatnot. If anything, the quality of this comment thread sort of points to the quality of the argument for SpaceX being included in the Nasdaq 100 being corrupt. It's based on vibes and feels. Which is a good story–it's clearly convinced a bunch of people to watch another video, click on another ad. > Age of account makes it clear you need the social system to remain solvent as you're likely rich on paper. Nothing more ...genuine question, how are you connecting that observation to that conclusion? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925695 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925695
      - yobutdude 4mo ago
        Back n forth with someone who used "a bit silly" as a justification. You set a low bar out the gate. I merely met you down there. Numbers don't make a difference. They can be shaped to any argument like English or German because they're picked by the biases of the author. You seem to live in a rhetoric derived neural hallucination and are completely detached from physical reality, meaningful thresholds for verification. Will stick to the skills I picked up studying applied physics and electrical engineering for checking hypothesis and formal verification. No interest continuing a conversation with a functional illiterate who cannot reason outside their native cultural bubble. To paraphrase Feynman, doesn't make much sense to get hung up on the syntax and their semantics.
        defrost 4mo ago
        FWiW you were reading a lot better before this self aggrandising me and my STEM background twaddle. Read the room, you can't chuck a rock around here w/out hitting two.
        yobutdude 4mo ago
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yobutdude 4mo ago

Colonies on Mars is a good story Super intelligence is a good story These companies are built on little more than "a good story" for politicians to sell to voters ..."i voted in Congress for that!" You're arguing semantics Economic math is being leveraged against innumerates as euphemism and obfuscation of same old avarice and political corruption. Biology is self selecting. There's no using rhetoric to wave off the ground truth is just a minority of the total population ensuring their own lived experience is put above everyone else's

JumpCrisscross 4mo ago
> a minority of the total population ensuring their own lived experience is put above everyone else's That’s a new use of that term!
- yobutdude 4mo ago
  No it is not. Appeals to equality of condition have existed for centuries. Among them are that term used verbatim. Ignored the other points and redirected to the least salient. Will take it as acceptance you realized how silly your carrying water for people who don't know or care you exist is. Age of account makes it clear you need the social system to remain solvent as you're likely rich on paper. Nothing more.
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  - JumpCrisscross 4mo ago
    > Ignored the other points In this comment [1]? Seriously, what salient points were you trying to make? Nobody is arguing anything is fairly valued. That's your straw man. There's a bit ironically complaining about innumeracy in a series of comments with zero numbers. Then a general appeal to Twitter tropes around sheeple and whatnot. If anything, the quality of this comment thread sort of points to the quality of the argument for SpaceX being included in the Nasdaq 100 being corrupt. It's based on vibes and feels. Which is a good story–it's clearly convinced a bunch of people to watch another video, click on another ad. > Age of account makes it clear you need the social system to remain solvent as you're likely rich on paper. Nothing more ...genuine question, how are you connecting that observation to that conclusion? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925695 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925695
    - yobutdude 4mo ago
      Back n forth with someone who used "a bit silly" as a justification. You set a low bar out the gate. I merely met you down there. Numbers don't make a difference. They can be shaped to any argument like English or German because they're picked by the biases of the author. You seem to live in a rhetoric derived neural hallucination and are completely detached from physical reality, meaningful thresholds for verification. Will stick to the skills I picked up studying applied physics and electrical engineering for checking hypothesis and formal verification. No interest continuing a conversation with a functional illiterate who cannot reason outside their native cultural bubble. To paraphrase Feynman, doesn't make much sense to get hung up on the syntax and their semantics.
      - defrost 4mo ago
        FWiW you were reading a lot better before this self aggrandising me and my STEM background twaddle. Read the room, you can't chuck a rock around here w/out hitting two.
        yobutdude 4mo ago
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