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Nope, I'm with the kids on this one.
The prices of used cars right now is absolutely outrageous.
Yeah, no one is entitled to a new car, 100%, but anything over 100k miles is going to be an absolute money pit.
Not even 10 years ago I got a Mazda 3 with 7K (yes, 7000) miles on it for 15k. I still have it. Same car now would be well over 20k.
This affects ALL of us. They want you to lease cars. Eventually, they want you to share cars. You will own nothing and be happy.
LibertyJ@LibertyJen
This was legit a 5 second search on Auto Trader. All these cars have less than 200k miles. All under $7k
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$136,191 for the month of May💥
Today is my last day trading for the month. Headed to the motherland for 2 weeks. Will be the longest break I've ever had away from the stock market.
Will be a real test of my degeneracy lol.
Hope you all crushed it this month, see you in June 👍
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The US will accumulate Bitcoin as a reserve asset. Along with every other individual, entity, and nation.
"You want to have assets outside the system, that are un-debasable, because everything else is going to be debased" - @_Checkmatey_
The mere fact the money printer exists, means it will be used. Balancing the budget will no longer work, deficits globally are too far gone.
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MY HOUSE JUST BURNT DOWN 2 hours ago. 5 years ago I bought some property in my hometown in Alaska with a plan to put a cabin on it. Today when I got home my travel trailer which I was staying in with my 2 dogs until I was able to build my place was engulfed in flames and my immediate thought was my dog Bentley, (she stays home, hates riding anywhere) as where my other dog "DOG" is with me 2/47. My heart sunk thinking of my poor girl. I threw the door open screaming her name inside and was blown out the door by the flames. I got right back up to go get my girl and when I started up the stairs the second time I heard the most beautiful sound ever. Her gps telling me she was in the woods (connected to my Bluetooth hearing aids) and just like that she come wagging up to me and at that moment I knew everything was going to be fine. The two things that mattered to me were with me. I'm a little burnt, I won't have to trim my mustache for, well probably ever and I got some of that annoying neck hair removed so I got that going for me. I now own 68 dollars worth of Walmart clothes but the joy I'm feeling right now is overwhelming. I love my dogs. Bentley is on the left Dog on the right. Hug your pups.
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@JavierBlas Nothing has created more generational bagholders than nat gas and miners........
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When commodities are free - American gas edition:
Natural gas at the Waha hub (West Texas) has traded at negative prices for >75 consecutive business days.
Has any other commodity traded in any significant pricing hub **consistently** at sub-zero levels for such a long period?
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Sorry to post slop on your timeline just taking this moment to say that all we have to do is kill these people. Just execute them. History has always been plagued by unthinking savages whose only role in the annals is to rape, murder, and generally cause misery. You don’t have to afford these animals the generosity of your society and its rules. You don’t have to waste time prosecuting them. You just have to kill them. Civilisation is an endless fight against entropy. Entropy takes no hostages and neither should you. Just kill them, wherever they appear. Have zero tolerance. Protect your way of life
Remix News & Views@RMXnews
🇩🇪🚨 4 Syrians and one Iraqi refugee are on trial for gang raping a 17-year-old victim while applying electric shocks to her body. Her lawyer says that she "no longer takes part in life" and has locked herself away in her apartment. German crime statistics show Syrians commit violent crimes at a rate 11 times higher than Germans. Government data shows there have been 135,000 crimes by Syrian suspects against German victims since 2015 — one every 39 minutes.
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Trump on Iran-Oman Hormuz tolls: We have total control of the Hormuz Strait, believe me
#MacroEdge
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In Austin, you can walk your dogs on a quiet Sunday morning and get randomly shot.
"I don't know why they would shoot me." Sean Fuentes keeps repeating it from his hospital bed.
A car ran a stop sign in southeast Austin and three men opened fire. The first shot dropped him, and he felt the rest hitting the dirt next to his face as the shooters stayed and emptied the clip trying to execute him. Bear crawling home, he heard his late father's voice -- a Marine who served two tours in Vietnam: "It's go time." He crawled and walked a block and a half home bleeding. His wife saw the dogs running back alone, leashes dragging.
Three teenagers stole a 9mm Glock from a shop on Ben White, took a stolen car, and spent the weekend firing into homes, vehicles, and strangers across Austin. 105 rounds across 21 incidents with four people shot.
Sean’s twin sister is in the ICU waiting room with him, and wants justice: "They stayed there and shot him multiple times and then watched him. Like, you're watching somebody die.... I want to see them prosecuted to the full extent. They should be tried as adults."
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😱 Zuckerberg fired 8,000 employees and tightened surveillance at Meta
On the day of the layoffs, workers were told not to come to the office, while dismissal emails started arriving at 4 a.m.
The remaining employees were put under a monitoring system that tracks mouse movements, keystrokes, and screenshots for AI training.
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This should be getting a lot more attention here.
Stephen Semler@stephensemler
US credit card debt has increased 14% faster than inflation since 2019, reaching $1.25 trillion. The personal savings rate dropped by 51% over the same period.
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Not a single one.
I increasingly find myself in a shrinking minority...
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Which politician is talking about reducing the Federal budget as inflation surges?
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@AmiriKing Officer could've suplexed him into oblivion. Opportunity lost. Shame.
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A scholar selling bootleg merchandise outside of a concert in Atlanta resists arrest and fights with a cop.
Then everybody swoops in and steals his shit.
Blackest video you’ll see all week.
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@yieldsearcher @grok Or a highly disruptive and serious ground war.......
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@grok Assuming the Strait of Hormuz is closed indefinitely, what is your best estimate on how much time is left before the developed markets have to engage in a highly disruptive and serious demand curtailment?
*Walter Bloomberg@DeItaone
TEHRAN HAS DEMANDED U.S. TO RELEASE ALL FUNDS
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**TRUMP: HAVE BEEN ASKED BY QATAR, SAUDI ARABIA, AND UNITED ARAB EMIRATES TO HOLD OFF ON OUR PLANNED MILITARY ATTACK OF ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
Nice playing the market Mr. President. Well done! 👏 How many trades today? Over 41?
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@jlippincott Instead of lower prices I am going to go with more profits. Yeah definitely not getting altruistic vines from corporate America.
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The tech bros don't understand economics. That's why they keep talking about mass unemployment as a result of AI. It is a mixture of marketing, ignorance, and ego at work.
In reality, if AI is a success it will lower the price of goods and services by solving problems for business, inventors, researchers, etc.
Those lower prices mean more savings for consumers. Those savings will get turned into either more investment or more consumption.
Technology only gets adopted by human beings if it improves their lives. If AI isn't productive or useful, people won't use it and it won't matter. AI is not a "replacement" for human beings. AI does not have a will. LLMs do not long for happiness. They do not have desires.
AI is a tool. Human beings use tools because we find them useful. They help us create little pieces of happiness for ourselves.
Take the example of cancer. If AI manages to help researchers find cures for cancer then America's oncologists (~14,000) will be unemployed.
That is a good thing. We would get to live in a cancer-free world AND redirect the current expenditures on cancer treatment (~$200 billion per annum) into new lines of production, solving new problems.
That is a much better world, even if it means America's oncologists need to find new lines of work. And there will be more work to be done because we are finite, mortal beings who long to have the good and have it forever.
FischerKing@FischerKing64
In the Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels promise a future paradise following a rough period of proletarian dictatorship. They never explain how you go from the rough period to the paradise. Reminds me a little of tech optimism. There will be a rough patch where everyone loses his job, along with it his sense of purpose and meaning. But down the line we're all going to be kicking back, being served by robots, living it up. No one explains how we go from the rough spot to the paradise because no one knows - and that makes me a little nervous.
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The anti-AI movement is ultimately going nowhere, because no CEO is going to risk their company getting wrecked by sitting out AI, which means the employees will all have to use it, and that's that
Maybe the incentives offered to locales to have data centers will go up, but they will get built on Native American reservations if things get stupid enough
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We need to have a serious discussion about how to fix these teen takeovers.
Nearly EVERY time, the crowd is OVERWHELMINGLY Black, but we are not allowed to notice that because that's racist...
...so how do we fix this?
Seriously, what is the ACTUAL solution here???
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