I can’t imagine Hamas has much to disarm at this point. THIS IS NOT A DEFENSE OF ISRAEL. just a statement of the situation. They were already basically an abused dog in a cage when they lashed out on Ocober 7th. The IDF was keeping them just sharp enough to be boogie men. A group to point at to justify their human rights violations.

I think John Brown is still a hero.

Not entirely a scam in theory. Though we are currently in a period of unprecedented corruption that is so complicated and complete that it might as well be. Even 5 years ago, I would have attributed certain actions to protect the market as an attempt to protect everyone. The systems in place are such that if a stock company fails, it creates far-reaching market upsets across industries worldwide. Essentially, if something fails, it takes everyone down with them.

The fix would be the state taking control of those industries to allow them to stabilize. Unfortunately, most state actors are also tied economically to those systems. That is, they’re corrupt as fuck and don’t care about people, but their own money and status.

So retirement funds and entitlements weren’t entirely a scam, but they are mostly so now. I doubt I will see a dime of mine if I don’t use it soon for school, expating, or buying a house. I certainly won’t see it when I retire.

I have some basic understanding of finance (and I mean basic), so take this as an observation rather than investment advice. If your retirement plan allows you to change your asset allocation, and you have a high-conviction thesis that a significant market event is about to occur, it may be worth temporarily rotating from a growth-oriented allocation into a more conservative allocation to reduce downside exposure.

Under normal circumstances, attempting to time the market is a bad idea, and financial advisors or plan managers will usually push you away from doing so. However, there are rare situations where it’s clear as crystal what’s happening. In those cases, reducing equity exposure and increasing allocations to lower-volatility assets for a short period may be a reasonable risk-management decision.

Using the recent SpaceX-related market activity as an example, I find it difficult to believe that any fund with a genuinely conservative mandate would have maintained meaningful exposure to assets directly affected by that event. A conservative portfolio, by definition, should prioritize capital preservation over aggressive growth and generally avoid concentrated exposure to higher-risk investments.

You generally can’t tell them, “I don’t want this stock,” when dealing with index funds, but you can get yourself out of the fund entirely while it’s poisoned. Unfortunately, my company was changing providers right when the SpaceX shit was happening, and I couldn’t make the change myself.

I haven’t been keeping up with the bond market but last I heard it was it’s own shit show so I’m not really sure anything is ‘safe’ these days.

you leave me and my dark humor out of this

yeah, he was def playing a bit more like Jack than Patrick

You know, I’m just realising that maybe AdmiralPatrick might have a bit more in common with his name sake than I originally considered. It doesn’t make what he did okay. -Like the augments trying to give classified war plans to the enemy- but it does reframe it a little bit. pure speculation on my part but curious. Tenforward was my fav too but I’m settling into this account before I start making another alt.

Thank you!

I have my own opinions worth posting. Discussions and defenses of modern trek as well as an opinion on the writing that is more than just ‘they went woke’

I saw that one, but the posts are from 6 months ago.

What is the suggested star trek community to use?

Punishing the victims? really?

oh no! If I’m shadow banned from the trek communities I might actually be upset. I need my trek memes!

If he wanted to be a mod, then he should have done mod shit. You can’t make a neutral product as a developer and then code it like a mod. The fact that he doesn’t see the problem is the problem.

I don’t care that he made a ban list. I don’t care that I’m on it. I care that he sold a window into the community for others without telling the people using that window that he erased huge chunks of the community at large. Regardless of his opinions, that is what he did.

To do what? Gentrify Lemmy? You can’t come into Tortuga and try to sell it as a resort by putting a tarp over the pirates mate.

No thank you. Futurama ended with Comedy Central for me. As far as I’m concerned it was a perfect ending for a rocky but charming show. I don’t engage with it outside of fan communities anymore.

I remember in school always wondering why people didn’t take up arms against things like genocide. Then I lived it.

…then later I discovered that school didn’t teach me anything about the violence that happened to actually make the world I enjoy. They want you to forget that violence is an option

A friend of mine is in a prominent tech position and when I railed off about my privacy concerns about ID laws his response was ‘good, some people online need to be known.’ I was so shook I put the phone down for the rest of the day.

It’s likely only going to get worse.

Throughout my life, much of the media that I’ve consumed has taught me one thing: people always underestimate what their oppressors are capable of.

It’s true, but at a certain point we have to acknowledge how stupid all of this is. He didn’t just undo Obama’s efforts to keep weapons out of the Middle East. He started a war with the same stated goal, lost, and then said it was okay if they get nukes? And that’s not even all the nuance of the stupid in this situation.

Every day there’s a news story that makes me let out the biggest, most defeated, most tired sigh. I can’t believe we’re here. That this is reality. Epstein stuff included.

This is a good point. engagement itself will increase visibility. The best way to win is not to play…