I fully expect that when the dems get more investigative powers in January that we’ll find out how many more of these kinds of things we’re living through right now. There won’t be many situations simpler than this one, though (assuming that mistakes were made here).

Source I guess:

• https://youtu.be/B31ZJcPl_3Y?t=8818

As an aside, I like that news team:

• Wired phone cords under chonky headsets FTW.
• Novel way of stalling for 30 seconds while on live tv.
• “The trump agenda for a deep red district is a very appealing agenda to run on. In a swing district like CO-8 the trump agenda was a bit of an excrement sandwich for Gabe Evans. It was just tough for him to chew on or serve to other people.” (https://youtu.be/B31ZJcPl_3Y?t=10842)
• “Kyle Clark, this one’s on you, OK buddy.” (https://youtu.be/B31ZJcPl_3Y?t=13289)

“What bigger break could there be?” she asked.

Yep.

And the market only corrected back to April 2026. All the election results sound bites are going to play great on Fox, though.

The way I tend to think about it these days is that this guy is part of a community where that kind of thing is normal; otherwise, why would he share it?

If anything sexual is so big of a deal to him (and I infer it is from the statements he made), then how does that align with shielding his boss from the allegations made against him?

That guy?

The guy who pays money to a third party company to log all of his internet browsing habits and share them with his son as proof he isn’t looking at porn?

I’m sure that a company that caters to highly conservative people who feel the need to be “kept honest” with their browsing history does a bangup job keeping their servers up to date, and no foreign intelligence teams focus on it at all after the Speaker of the House bragged about using it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Murphy#Health

There are three seconds between those pictures.

Margin is a short term loan from your broker that requires interest payments. As noted in the boglehead article, usually this requires borrowing against your portfolio (or if you’re using Robinhood, you flip the switch that allows margin and borrow against a software bug). The brokerages have high speed computers programmed with people who like money to make sure anything risky you do on margin doesn’t come back on them, and they can/will sell shares out of your portfolio to balance their risk.

If you want more exposure than you have cash, there are funds like $NTSX that use witchcraft to effectively capture 90% of the 500 largest stocks in the US (saying S&P 500 is trademarked or something) and 60% of the bond market, for a total of 150%. I don’t know much more about it except to say that if the fund goes to zero, which everything could, your exposure is limited to the money you put into it.

Note that none of this is investment advice, and any cash you stick in a mattress loses purchasing power to inflation.

Sources:

• https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Margin
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d80ahvRSV8E (a man loses a bunch of money on stock options that he didn’t have and livestreamed it for some reason)

I keep writing and deleting this same post a lot, because there’re so many facets to it, but I swear it’s not really that complicated once you understand how much of it is about tax efficiency. It turns out that answering the question you asked is the best place to start: “tips on starting.”

Tips:

• Pick a brokerage that isn’t Robinhood. Fidelity, Charles Schwab, and Vanguard are big names with zero trading fees; Schwab probably has the best user interface since they got ThinkOrSwim when they bought TD Ameritrade.
• Get comfortable with the idea that you’ll want to do direct bank ACH transfers to your accounts with the brokerage. You should at least have a normal brokerage account that doesn’t have tax advantages or rules, and a Roth IRA.
• Learn about Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). You can buy shares of $VOO (if I use a dollar sign it means it’s a stock “ticker symbol”) and get a slice of the entire S&P 500. A share of $VT buys a slice of (one of Vanguard’s interpretations of) the entire world market. You can be diversified with just one fund.
• Find good websites to research. Bogleheads is a good one that I like. $RDDT had several subreddits that looked at the topic from all different aspects, but now that’s just another thing they’ve stolen from the world.¹
• Ask questions if you have them and find good websites to research. Most of the buy-it-and-hold crowd’s advice won’t have changed at all across decades (that strategy is where you buy the stock, and then hold it), but search engines tend to push newer websites, and it’s kind of pointless to set up a new website that just always says to buy and hold.

Some links:

• https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Roth_IRA
• https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/ETFs_for_Bogleheads
• https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=443260
• https://www.etfrc.com/funds/overlap.php
• https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Emergency_fund
• https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/investing/dead-investors/

[1] Since we know they do marketing campaigns that will push certain topics/movies/whatever if they’re paid to, AND we know they have carte blanche with shadow bans/hiding posts/etc, has anyone done any analysis to see if they’re being paid to push certain stocks in whatever tattered remains are left over from their investing forums? I guess you’d have to pay them for access to scan their comments now with any kind of speed, and I’ll also guess you wouldn’t be able to buy a product from them that would prove they’re doing it.

People like that rarely think deeper than that, in my experience.

That’s my experience as well. Usually followed by them getting very offended someone called out their gesture and explained all the side effects that they won’t have to deal with, especially in this day and age of people trying to minimize their online footprint.

Despite this being the perfect spot for one, I’m not a fan of ternary operators but syntax isn’t supposed to matter…

Since we’re going for unpopular opinions or hills to die on: if syntax didn’t matter we’d all be using Ada.

x = "I disagree."
y = false
puts x unless y

I miss it when writing python.

No idea.

My first thought would be that sending an email to every possible random string would be a quick way to get flagged by whatever big city backend blacklisting goes on. If I were trying to set up my own email server for my own domain, unless there’s some rule that says I have to, I’m not sending a no-such-address message back. Making a success and a failure look different to the attacker (which I’m going to treat spam senders as for the purposes of histrionics) is giving them a signal for free.

You’ll regret it the first time you have to read it over the phone to someone. Every letter and number repeated and re-repeated only for the email you expected to wind up in jfavOOhjau4gvncga19@domain (which you should probably be able to see). The computer database you didn’t want to have it got it right on the first, and all subsequent tries.

Goodbye M-Disc Blu-Ray. I’ll miss you for your non-repudiation qualities. Hopefully the people 500 years from now can read the same books we have today.

I wonder how they power it. Has anyone put a clock on his long form talks to see if there’s a max time, or if they end kind of suddenly even if he’s on a roll with the crowd?

picking up pool filters and other supplies

They may have one of those magic regulations nobody talks about where they have to report that kind of thing. Some pool chemicals are pretty reactive and are purchased in large quantities.

That’s part of the system, though. Corporate doesn’t telegraph that they’ll do that as you walk into the store because that gives you a chance to take your business elsewhere, and they’re banking on basic human decency during the checkout phase to get that sweet, sweet fraction of a penny a fake name and phone number will gain them. I’ve read the stories about people being fired for not signing enough shoppers up for credit cards, so I don’t put anything past the corporations.

If you try FreeBSD you get ZFS as the file system and PF (OpenBSD’s creation) as the firewall. Sound and video will be a little different to set up, but most applications are going to work the same these days.