jaaake

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[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

They didn’t make “back” money, they’re just making money. His friends are the ones telling him to say insane shit that drives the market (or specific targeted stocks like Apple) down, then they buy while it’s low. After a few days/weeks, he changes his mind/can’t enforce his nonsense and the stock goes back up, his friends sell and have nothing but profit. The majority of the shit he does is market manipulation to benefit himself and anyone riding his coattails.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

But there IS a new Rayman game coming. I think this is an old meme from before Crash 5 got cancelled?

https://www.polygon.com/news/600404/ubisoft-new-rayman-game-leak

https://gamerant.com/crash-bandicoot-5-canceled-why-report/

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 140 points 1 month ago (46 children)

Cornell, who has led the Minneapolis-based retail chain since 2014, received $9.9 million in total compensation for 2024, an 87% drop from his 2020 peak of $77.5 million.

What the actual fuck? Why are humans being paid $10m A YEAR, let alone over $75m?!

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Which one? There have been a few duds, but this is my favorite:

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/millennium-falcon-75375

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Saying it, or howling it?

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

If you see two Batmen kissing, I’ve got good news for you.

Btw, these were both originally by the same artist, Olly Moss.

https://ollymoss.com/optical-illusion-1/ https://ollymoss.com/optical-illusion-2/

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

This makes more sense than my interpretation. I thought it was saying we survived the end times and Jesus was returning as his second coming.

Current evidence suggests we’re only at the beginning of Armageddon.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 89 points 2 months ago (17 children)

The tax system is so complicated, most people can’t handle navigating it on their own. Most people have jobs where taxes are automatically removed from pay checks and sent to both state and federal tax agencies. However, that amount is just an estimate and once a year (or quarter) you need to file paperwork to confirm whether you over or underpaid and then you either get a rebate (without interest), or you’ll need to send in a payment to make up the difference. That paperwork has been lobbied to remain as complicated as possible so that companies like Intuit can provide services that tax payers find useful and continue to pay for. This is more complicated for business owners, both big and small.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We could probably do with some slow to the exponential population growth. The problem (as foretold by Mike Judge) is that doubling population of non-kid havers are the ones that are thoughtfully considering their futures. Meaning the pool of intelligent, responsible people that are having kids is getting smaller.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tell me more about these folding stop signs? Are they automatically deployed when the power is out? Never seen such a thing, spent my life in Southern California.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Agreed that everybody SHOULD be educated. It’s definitely POSSIBLE to become informed, but holy fuck man, it shouldn’t take this much effort.

Blaming the citizens is insane. If you think that a large enough percentage of the voting population is capable of even FINDING digestible unbiased information… I don’t know what to tell you. I’m more informed than the general public and I didn’t even have a reliable source. I want something that doesn’t just explain the contents of every piece of legislation, but also the impact, knock-on effects, and true underlying motivation. Getting a full picture that I trust involves cobbling together multiple sources and attempting to filter out biases and conspiracy theories.

Who has that kind of time? Most of us out here are trying to keep our head above water and not spiral into unrecoverable debt. There are centuries of people in power molding their constituents into complacency through systemic oppression to ensure this is the case. The average person has a government sponsored education and is religious. They’ve been indoctrinated with a pledge of allegiance and a set of values that everyone around them seems to follow. Few folks have the disposable income or the desire to travel outside their bubble of comfort and develop empathy for someone unlike them. People who are informed know that the root cause is capitalism, which has been peaking in the last few decades with lobbyists and citizens united. The average person wants to ignore politics, if they do vote, they vote like the people in their community. For them, a vote isn’t something that’s done to better the country, it’s something that prevents them from being ostracized.

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