pdxfed

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[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Look, if you can't support the absurd concentration of wealth at the organizational level how are you going to keep your head on straight that this is all normal and acceptable at the systemic level? Next you're going to say that wealth should not be based on whatever the next charlatan shits out at Davos or TedX but actually sustainably improving the world for humans?

Keep the faith, surely those gains will trickle down soon.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago

"...and also grants a number of perks like an exclusive Discord community..." 😬

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Same Op, someone gave me one of his books once and it was just sausage remade of the actual works and effort of other with nothing interesting added. A fool and his money was the one lesson he did seem to have internalized...

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'll end this easily won war in, 24 hours tops.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Economics and making them feel the pain will get them results sooner, though both approaches are warranted.

The EU and global stocks are already surging as the US is in full retreat from anything but christofascist grifterdom. Shooting themselves in the foot, destroying close ally relationships, handing economic and infrastructure future to China and others on a platter (sustainable energy, batteries and electrification, education, transportation...).

Just like despots in North korea, Thailand ore anywhere else, the dictators will cut themselves off, keep themselves rich while their actual power wanes. And eventually be overthrown, but of course it will be all too late for the US by then. Probably have to fight Qatari drone armies to try to take back our national parks that will have been privatized.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Fucking no! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America_sex_abuse_cases

"In 2010, a jury ordered that the Boy Scouts of America pay US$18.5 million (equivalent to $27.3 million in 2025) to a scout who was abused in the 1980s – the largest punitive damages award to a single plaintiff in a child abuse case in the US.[7]

On February 18, 2020, the Boy Scouts of America filed for a Chapter 11 financial restructuring to offer "equitable compensation" to survivors and their families. The BSA cited approximately 200 pending lawsuits in state and federal district courts across the United States and 1,700 potential claimants in total. In May of that same year, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware set November 16, 2020, at 5 pm EST as the bar date for all survivors of sexual abuse; 92,700 sexual abuse claims were filed with the bankruptcy court by the deadline.[8]"

Of all the potential sources for child abuse training for an important topic, you might as well share the PowerPoint from the Vatican on how to keep young boys safe.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Got room for any more on your ship?

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No, those people already did. They have transferred the grift into houses, retirements, and change the course of the future for themselves and their families.

Everyone else gets to pick up the pieces for their deceit, exaggeration and stupidity.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Lower the bar, raise the stakes, got it.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

What fuckwit made this graph? The highest, largest positive return should be on top, e.g. the pink. Contradictorily, the returns per annum is sorted like this with the top return of stocks being on top.

Cash is not accurate- unlike another asset that can then be redeemed or sold for an increasing amount of money/cash, the $1,500 actually represents the devaluation of cash/fiat over that time if $1,500 is what 2026 cash is worth compared to 1965. If "cash" was actually a bank savings account rate or something, fair enough I guess but it should be labeled as such.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

The website starts playing a video you go to the site for and after t seconds, pops up a "keep watching" button in the middle of the video that if you don't click, jumps to a different, completely unrelated video.

Jesus fucking dystopia

 

Surely this will be the team where Harden isn't a toxic, defense avoiding premadonnna?

What is CLE doing?

 

What are the grizz doing?

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App used to automatically load posts from what I recall but no longer seems to even under "all" categories so it's certainly not a "tiny communities/no new posts” thing. If I scroll back to the top of "all" and drag down to refresh, new content loads

Boost/Lemmy/android/pixel8a but seems like a server issues unless I've missed a setting somewhere?

 

Right wing media and think tanks consistently blitz the news and press when tax increases are discussed, threatened or, in the recnent instance of Mamdani, the new more progressive mayor of NY, that progressive taxation policy drives the rich to leave.

I wanted to share this article about the UK media outlets misleading, inaccurate and over representation of coverage here of the identical issue as the same schlock fear mongering without any data is done there as in the US. I assume the playbook is the same in Canada, Australia and elsewhere but would be interested to hear from those better informed.

Coordinated, well funded attacks on critical democratic infrastructure are not coincidence globally, they are the playbook.

cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/29858954

 

As someone >90th percentile in height and >75th percentile in weight for the US, I've found in the last 5 years I now no longer fit into most "Large" size clothing and need to buy more "Medium" sized clothing. I haven't lost/gained weight nor shrunk(that I'm aware of). Statistically, numerically and culturally this seems strange.

Anyone else find sizes that "should" or "used to" fit have morphed and you now shop different sizes where your body size hasn't changed?

A few random calculators: https://tall.life/height-percentile-calculator-age-country/ https://simulconsult.com/resources/measurement.html?type=weight

 
 

OregonLive is known for gating links after the fact, so here's the important bit for folks living under the Sinclair or Nexstar umbrellas:

"If you live in a broadcast region run by the Sinclair or Nexstar media companies, you can only watch the full Tuesday episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Hulu (free trial) streaming the day after it airs, or you can watch Jimmy Kimmel’s opening monologue and more clips from the show on YouTube shortly after it airs (this should be some time after 8:30 p.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday)."

 

OregonLive is known for gating links after the fact, so here's the important bit for folks living under the Sinclair or Nexstar umbrellas:

"If you live in a broadcast region run by the Sinclair or Nexstar media companies, you can only watch the full Tuesday episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Hulu (free trial) streaming the day after it airs, or you can watch Jimmy Kimmel’s opening monologue and more clips from the show on YouTube shortly after it airs (this should be some time after 8:30 p.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday)."

 

I assume the company, regardless of its home nation, would issues new shares for the new market and the income from equity issued would be added to the overall corporate balance sheet.

I ask; isn't this essentially, for current shareholders, a dilution? While opening new markets is generally positive for growth, existing shareholders get no stake in the new issued shares right? Existing shares they have don't gain in value at all from the price of another trade/exchange value right? Are there share classes where maybe new issuance would actually make them increase in value?

Own shares in a foreign market that I think will expand to the US soon and wanted to make sure I understood impact.

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