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@hopland but here's the thing... financial bubbles are:
1. natural and
2. good!
They enable you to buy assets cheap! So instead of complaing you should be thanking the CEOs who create bubbles.
As for making money back, that's non of your concern, and none of mine. It is the concern for the ceo and the owners of his company.
If you are a shareholder, sell if you are not happy.
If you are not a shareholder, buy when the bubble burst.
@hopland AGI? Please, this is childrens story, and fusion is only 10 years away! 😂
As for your complaints, this is just socialist propaganda. Note that we, as a whole, have never had it better on the planet. Infant mortality, povery, life span, all markers are basically at the highest point they have ever been on the planet and throughout history, counting the planetary average.
Yes, there is surveillance, and there are ways to protect oneself, yes, there are financial bubbles,
@hopland There is no reason for why a CEO of a company needs to know every single thing the company does. He leads the company, he does not produce its products. That means that it is completely irrelevant if Sam knows how to code or not.
In fact, an argument can be made that the coding CEO actually does a worse job as a CEO, than focusing on coding.
As a consultant I have seen many instances of "techy" CEOs who are horrible leaders and who are losing their companies a lot of money.
@kabo Excellent! I made some attempts from time to time on mastodon. Good to know about this one!
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@lain This is not strange. It is an established truth that the media, and people in general, can only keep on war in their heads at any one time. So if a new war starts, the old one has to go.
But now that there's a cease fire for 2 weeks in iran, we might get 2 weeks of ukraine war again.
@cleavagecrumbs It would be very interesting if the political left would ever realize this.
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@skdh My guess is a satellite camera together with some rough estimates given the last seen location of the plane, coupled with natural hiding places based on the local geography.
@carolen Shall we say 3-6 month maybe? If we are lucky.
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Oh goodie, I expect now that oil prices have plunged, we will see an immediate, instant and dramatic fall in petrol prices at the pumps
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I have a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago and my main work task these days is removing em-dashes from Claude output so it's not overly obvious.
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This new study in Nature is kind of a bombshell.
The takeaway seems to be that you should trust Psych research more than Economics!
@icare4america Looks to me like Trump will not agree, and that there will be some more bombs in 2 weeks time or so.
Currently watching Yes Prime Minister, and _nothing_ has changed.
Watch this clip about russia...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg-UqIIvang
We are experiencing the salami tactic as we speak.
Ahh... the joys of mastodon! People try to block me by reporting my messages as spam, and I bounce right back to keep annoying them! 😎
Will be interesting to see if there has been an increase in illegal immigrants in the form of abandoned boats on the beach.
This is field sociology! Or rather... beach sociology!
The humiliation of modern airline travel is now over, and I'm ready for a 6 week workaction in spain.
The humiliation was strangely enough less this time. No ID check (was flying norwegian).
As a bonus, I've hired my rental car on the black market, paying in cash, and not only is the price slightly better than regular ID-checking rental companies, it included a driver to take me to my house which is about 1 hour 45 minutes away from the airport.
The free black market wins yet again! 😎
Joined Apr 2026
