themeatbridge

joined 1 year ago
[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It hurt with fake money, because I thought I had discovered some big secret key. Like that movie Pi. And then it was gone. All the sucess, all the dreams of a 9-screen batcave-style computer station with financial tickers and shit. I realized that I had nothing, and I was foolish for thinking otherwise. Stung like a bitch.

But you're right, safe investments are the smarter long-term play. I did make an extra paycheck on dogecoin once on a moonshot. But otherwise, my boring retirement funds are all steadily beating inflation by a few percentage points. Why fight the tide?

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 43 points 18 hours ago (6 children)

Reminds me of the time I started learning about forex. I used a practice account to test an algorithm for recognizing short-term trends and trading on the activity. I ran a simulation for a few days to make sure it was working, and my fake $10,000 bankroll turned into $50,000 in less than a week. I was excited about the results, and went to explain it to someone with deeper pockets who might actually have $10k to invest, and in the time it took me to walk from my desk to his and back, it went to less than $600. Five minutes, $50k wiped out.

Needless to say, he didn't invest and I stopped daydreaming about owning a yacht. Forex is gambling.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 380 points 1 day ago (43 children)

This argument reveals that she thinks both sides are playing the same game. Progressives don't support corrupt leaders. MTG does.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 112 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Narayama Murthy sounds like an enormous piece of shit.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Agreed, those people are the best. But also, that's a bit of a nightmare scenario, because now you have to decide if you're going to risk saying something from five minutes ago, or decline the kindness and feel bad for rejecting the gesture.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Awkwardly attempt to join the conversation, only to be talked over mid-sentence by someone else, and so you wait for another lull. Attempt to start again, only to be interrupted again by someone else. Watch helplessly as the subject of the conversation drifts far from the point you were going to make. Minutes pass, and everyone is glad to be talking about something else. You let go of the moment, and resign yourself to remain quiet. Then someone says to you, "Oh, what were you going to say?"

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

It also forced users onto their app, which creates a captive market for force-serving ads disguised as content.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

What they're saying is that trying to reverse climate change won't be enough. It doesn't mean it isn't the right path, just that it won't go far enough.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 224 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

Two types of people reading this:

"Oh no! We should do everything we can to mitigate the damage."

and

"Fuck it, might as well keep doing what I'm doing."

And it's the latter that got us here in the first place.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 36 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Is there any way I can do this without finding out any more about this fetish?

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 66 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

Holy shit. I have feet. Does anyone want pictures of a guy's feet? They're big and weirdly shaped.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

"SEC X hack" sounds like some villainous elite squad from a dystopian sci-fi anime.

 

I heard someone say this in a video recipe, followed by way more cheese than you should eat at once. It occurred to me that the phrase means ample, not nutritious.

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