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@thornewolf @paulscu1 @liron No part of the instructions say that a consonant couldn’t also have an even number on the other side.

no because that would be testing a vacuous truth. "if vowel then even" is "vowel -> even" or "vowel implies even". the contrapositive of this is "odd implies consonant" This means that we should only check instances where we see a vowel or an odd number. Checking consonants or even numbers is useless. K (visible) (non-visible) still holds the trick here is understanding this is conditional logic rather than the colloquial understanding of the text

Demis outsmarted Zuck with the ol’ Wason 7

@DarthDromos @bmariner @OrwellNGoode To anyone thinking "well good thing we read the full date", that is missing the point. We have to use one way or the other. Why willingly choose the one that is less efficient in delivering information when there's a better option?

@DarthDromos @bmariner @OrwellNGoode "The wedding is on 14/9" in this format the first number gives you no information other than "it's the 14th of some month" which is useless.

@briarhoes @durgaddiction I've never read it. How should I know what happens in pages that aren't pictured

@get_header @durgaddiction let’s put on our critical thinking caps and consider maybe I was referencing an arc and chose to include a passage in which Gregor himself thinks “if I don’t go to work my boss will show up at my house” and that if you have read the story, not long after, he does in fact do so

this has been bugging me for years this literally happens in the fucking story already

@JaredKubin The whole premise of everyone gambling to escape their current financial situation is flawed. Most people do it because it’s fun and they think they can make a couple bucks. They’re not trying to do anything more.

Everyone's sharing that "Long Degeneracy" article and nominating it for article of the year with 20m views. I just got around to reading it…overall, I get it. It's well written, emotionally resonant, and captures something real about generational anxiety. I like the author, I subscribe to their stuff… talented Quant. But nobody's pushing back, so let me while I watch my kids at the pool. My main pushback is this: the article is a suicide note dressed up as investment advice. I REFUSE to hand my agency to "the house." The moment you accept "the game is rigged so I might as well gamble," you've surrendered. You've quit on the process that actually works because someone convinced you it doesn't. There are no easy buttons. No shortcuts. No magic money options. There is only learning, sacrifice, and continual grit. It tells a generation they're prisoners. Then it sells them a lottery ticket and calls it freedom. Then it tells YOU to invest in the prison. That's not analysis. That's despair with a ticker symbol. The author spends 2000 words empathizing with young people as "prisoners" trapped by a broken economy… then tells you to invest in the platforms extracting fees from their desperation. "Long Coinbase, long DraftKings, long the casinos." Read that again. The thesis is: a generation is so economically desperate they're turning to gambling, most will lose, and YOU should profit by owning the house. You can't weep for the prisoners and then sell shares in the prison. Pick one. 4 points I want to make.... Pushback 1: "Closed" is doing a lot of work The claim that traditional wealth building is "closed, not difficult" is asserted, not proven. The boomer vs millennial wealth stat is misleading… it compares 65 year olds to 35 year olds. Of course boomers hold more wealth. They've been alive longer. Housing is brutal in coastal cities. But median home prices in most US metros are still accessible to dual income households. "Wages up 8% while housing doubled" has no timeframe and cherry picks the comparison. Real wages post 2020 have actually grown. Is it harder than it was? Yes. Is the game "fundamentally broken"? That's a much bigger claim requiring a much longer discussion. Pushback 2: Negative EV doesn't become rational just because you feel stuck The core logical move is: "if you're trapped anyway, a 5% chance of escape beats 100% certainty of stagnation." But gambling doesn't leave you "still stuck." It makes most participants actively worse off. That 5% moonshot comes paired with a 95% chance of losing your savings, your rent money, your runway. The author admits "most people lose" then hand waves it because gamblers "understand the odds." But understanding bad odds while taking them isn't rationality. It's emotional capitulation wearing economic language as a costume. This isn't a generation finding a path out. It's a wealth transfer mechanism moving money FROM desperate young people TO platform operators. Pushback 3: The article accidentally reveals the real problem The author admits social media has "repositioned the zeroth line" so people earning $150k feel poor. Admits the algorithm ensures "you never feel like you've arrived." Admits basic needs are met and there's "cognitive bandwidth" for existential questions. But wait. If the problem is FEELING trapped due to infinite upward comparison rather than BEING trapped… gambling doesn't fix that. You could 10x your net worth and the algorithm will still show you someone richer. The "Maslow trap" section accidentally confesses: this generation isn't imprisoned. They're dissatisfied. These are different problems. Pushback 4: I don’t have enough FAITH to live in a world without God This is the part nobody wants to hear. The entire thesis rests on a materialist assumption: your life's meaning is determined by your net worth, your house, your access to experiences. If you can't get those things, you're "imprisoned." If you can, you're "free." That's spiritual poverty masquerading as economic analysis. Jesus said it plain: "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?" The author's answer is apparently "at least you beat the algorithm." My BIGGEST problem with the article isn't economic. It's theological. It assumes the highest human need is "self actualization" through financial success. That Maslow's hierarchy is the truth about human nature. That if you can't afford the vacation and the house, you're missing what makes life worth living. That's not wisdom. That's the prosperity gospel without the gospel. No thanks. The reason this generation feels trapped isn't because housing costs went up. It's because they've been handed a worldview where meaning comes from consumption, identity comes from status, and hope is a betting slip. When you build your life on that foundation, of course you feel imprisoned. The cell is interior. Real freedom isn't financial. It never was. The peace that passes understanding doesn't require a Polymarket account. Eternity is a LONG time. So what's the alternative? First: Exit the comparison machine. The author correctly identifies social media as manufacturing infinite dissatisfaction. The answer isn't to gamble your way to a moving target. It's to stop letting an algorithm define your "zeroth line." Your reference class should be your actual life, not curated highlights from 8 billion people. Delete the apps. Touch grass. Go to church. Give yourself to something BIGGER than your net worth. Second: Skill acquisition still compounds. The article mocks "getting better at your job" as boomer advice. But the same young people pouring hours into memecoin research could pour those hours into skills that compound. The difference is skills don't have a house edge. Coding, sales, writing, trades… these translate into income whether the market is up or down. AI is changing which skills matter but it's not eliminating the returns to expertise. It's concentrating them. Third: Asymmetric bets exist outside casinos. If you want convexity, build something. Start a business. Create content. Ship a product. The difference between entrepreneurship and gambling is you're building equity in something that can compound, not burning capital on negative EV. Fourth: Anchor your identity somewhere the market can't touch. If your sense of self rises and falls with your portfolio, you're a slave. If your hope depends on a moonshot, you have no hope. The man who knows who he is in Christ doesn't need a 100x to feel like his life matters. He's already free. That's not copium. That's the only foundation that doesn't move. The real trap The article's framing is seductive because it offers absolution. You're not making bad decisions. You're rationally responding to a broken system. The house always wins but at least you're playing. The framing IS the trap. The economy is harder than it was. Housing costs are real. AI anxiety is real. But "harder" isn't "impossible," and the author's solution… becoming a customer of fee extracting platforms or an investor in them… doesn't help the people he claims to sympathize with. It helps the house. Here's what actually works. -Wake up early. Get after it. Be Relentless. -Spend less than you earn. No excuses. -Acquire skills that compound. Every single day. Stack them. -Build things you own. Equity, not lottery tickets. -Get your body right. Discipline starts physical. -Get your soul right with the Lord. My closeness with the Lord has grown MORE in trials and tribulations than any fancy car. -Exit the comparison machine. The algorithm is not your friend. It's your enemy. -Find your people. Real ones. In person. Build a family. Build a group you trust. -Serve something bigger than yourself. -Pray. Not as a last resort. As a first principle. Daily. -The path is painful. The path is boring. The path requires years of work that nobody will clap for. But it's the path that works. The casinos will keep taking their vig. The gurus will keep selling hope. The algorithms will keep showing you what you don't have. Let them. You are not a prisoner. You are not a degenerate. You are not a customer. You are a free human being with a soul that matters and a life to build. So build it through active faith, aggressive patience, and a mindset geared towards eternity and not your bank account.

@briarhoes @durgaddiction Nowhere on this page does anyone show up at his house

@durgaddiction not only is it in the story, it’s like, a major part of the first ten pages 😭 his boss SHOWS UP AT HIS HOUSE

@hanno__w @durgaddiction Everyone is missing context here. The image when originally posted was a drawing of a tweet (text only) making the joke

@GregorySchier Can you store tokens from a response to reference in authorization for other requests? Being able to do this vs copy/pasting into every new request is a must-have for me and why i haven’t left insomnia

Yep! Already done. - Self-referencing parent items are filtered out on drop - Can drag items from multiple parents into another - Cmd+shift interactions work as expected - Arrow-keys selection works too

@anarchlio @bmariner @DarthDromos @OrwellNGoode You’re making the assumption that a date will only ever refer to the current date. Having the month first gives you more information off the bat when reading a date for something in the past or future.

@get_header @bmariner @DarthDromos @OrwellNGoode Again, who doesn't know what month they're currently in? That's completely irrational

@peduarte Not a new extension, but settings for SVGO extension mirroring what they offer on the site. I want to be able to turn off “remove viewbox” and “clean up IDs”

whats a raycast extension that you wish existed?

@venturahis @bmariner @DarthDromos @OrwellNGoode There are other 11ths in other future months

@bmariner @DarthDromos @OrwellNGoode Who the fuck doesn't know which month it is? How many times have you seen the following dialogue? "What day is it?" "11" "Which month?"

@itsjeremygrey @CridgeJason @MarkMcGrathCFP Why own a stock if it will never pay a dividend? Because you may be able to sell it to someone for a higher price later. Why does that person want it? Follow this to its logical end. That's the point he's making.

@CridgeJason @MarkMcGrathCFP Nobody is buying Berkshire hoping they one day pay a dividend. You would have to be a complete moron to think you can allocate capital better than Buffett and his team. And an even bigger moron to want them to pay you a dividend, only to be taxed on it and give it back to them.

"This now means that regardless of how much capital I contribute to my portfolio on a monthly basis, I’ll still have $500 on average every month being reinvested right back into my portfolio." Who wants to tell him

@trentlapinski @Lost_Signal @CyrusShepard @TikTokInvestors Please look up what an ETF is before embarassing yourself further

They have $10.6 trillion under management. investingintheweb.com/brokers/blackr… investopedia.com/blackrock-q1-f… Do us both a favor and go to ChatGPT and ask ChatGPT who BlackRock, how much they have under management - tell it to cite sources, and while you’re at it ask ChatGPT to provide you with a summary of the controversies they’ve been involved in. An example prompt: “Pull up some of the controversy and political things BlackRock has been involved in including buying homes and cite sources”

So explain it to me like I'm five... Did Matt make WordPress open source while creating a pseudo non-profit simply to grow adoption and get 1000s of developers to donate a million hours of free labor all to benefit his for-profit enterprise? Cuz it kinda seems like that

@tonybaloney1234 @APompliano @LynAldenContact @MalasMeghan "owner-occupied housing units"

@APompliano @LynAldenContact @MalasMeghan I wonder what percentage is normal citizens vs investors?

Wow. 39.8% of all US homeowners are now mortgage free. This is a new all-time high. (h/t @MalasMeghan)

@punk4762 @APompliano @MalasMeghan "owner-occupied housing units"

@APompliano @MalasMeghan Cause most homes are owned by blackrock?

@FergiesRightRef @APompliano @MalasMeghan "owner-occupied housing units"

@APompliano @MalasMeghan Blackrock

@RidgeburyCap @APompliano @MalasMeghan "owner-occupied housing units"

@APompliano @MalasMeghan Because Vanguard State Street and Blackrock own all of them

@Doc_shocktopus @APompliano @MalasMeghan "owner-occupied housing units" - did you even read the chart?

@APompliano @MalasMeghan Aka All US single family homes are now owned by businesses for lease or rent on AirBnB

@runaway_vol @JoshSchoen I don’t think you understand what arbitrage means

@JoshSchoen big opportunities in the reply guy to husband arbitrage

do you realize how many travel vlog girls there are with sub-thousand views?