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  • Assumptions Can Only Get You Into Trouble

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    Imagine trying to apply a specific situation to your situation, but finding out later that that situation is covered in the law and goes adversely against your position in the entirety. Imagine the having laws that already cover the specific situation, one created out of your own a**. Now imagine assuming you can get out of the situation, but also finding that by doing so you can be held civilly and criminally liable for what you thought was correct. All because you thought, especially knowing that your tho...

  • Risk Management and The Lack Of

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    Risk is something often thought of as chance of bad thing happening and people associate high risk, high reward and the inverse as well as the contrapositive. People also don't manage risk well, they tend to have beliefs that wildly destroys their own sense of risk calculation. If you ask me the NPCs, the "go with the flow" types tend to be the low risk low reward or high risk low rewards types, I might even add negative reward. If you are dumb enough to put your full trust in other people who haven't been ...

  • Information Asymmetry

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    The one thing people don't tend to like is the case where someone knows more information about you than you know they know. It puts you in a potential vulnerable place where they can use information against you in the future should it become necessary.

    The problem with feeling vulnerable about this case is that the government is always going to have higher level of asymmetry with you. Companies constantly collect and store data, a government just needs to compel a company to hand over that information. You d...

  • Imagine Believing gRump is Against the "Deep State"

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    So you're a voter, a conspiracy theorist really and you complain about "surveillance" infrastructure or whatever triggers your mind to think you are being watched. Because you watch gRump rallies and see people don't like him along with all the other crap thrown around you convince yourself to think he will destroy this surveillance state. He never specifically talks about dismantling surveillance, but instead vaguely complains about deep state, FBI, CIA, whatever, but somehow to you, you believe he is talk...

  • Americans are a Disappointing Bunch

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    Source: https://www.threads.net/@judsonhallphotography/post/DCKP4o6R-tB?xmt=AQGzKrMzy4UmbK-2ZDajf_uWZfOzdHQ9gUkIl6jMJJH3uw

    Searches for "Change my vote" on Google spiked after the Election.

    Searches for "What is a tariff" also spiked after the Election.

    Same with "Project 2025".

    I don't like dealing with people who are like this. This pea brain flea brain type who vote but have no clue of the issues they are voting for or against. I just really don't like these kind of people, they don't have any consideration....

  • America is Dead 1776 - 2024

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    What just occurred in a nutshell:

    the first convicted felon to become president, the first adjudicated rapist, the first insurrectionist, the first president in our country's history to refuse to admit he lost and transfer power without attempting to overturn an election. He is many things ... and in him, our country is reflected. It's kind of refreshing to know that this is who we are. We can throw out the platitudes and the high-minded nonsense.

    It doesn't matter anymore for decades what happens after...

  • Psychos

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    The word that makes me think of SOAD song Psycho. It also reminds me of why I stay away from drugs even the prescribed ones unless absolutely necessary.

    You never know when you are dealing with one. You sometimes write off red flags because you just want to accept people for who they are. The problem is when you become the target of their ire, they will never no matter what you do just stop and think for a second. They don't care. They spin the truth even when presented with facts. They manipulate whoever th...

  • The Time Has Come For INTC. It's being replaced by NVDA on the DOW 20

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    I said it before on here, Intel will be replaced on the DOW and it has come. I have a knack for future sight!

    Article:
    https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/01/nvidia-to-join-dow-jones-industrial-average-replacing-intel.html

    💥 I personally don't know how NVDA will keep it's current valuation as it is sky high for the future, but being part of the DOW inflates a stock so NVDA is about to be more inflated while INTC deflates when reweighing occurs.

  • Turns out the Total Length of Capillaries in a Human is 9,000-19,000km. Not 60,000mi or 100,000km.

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    The usual parroting of "60,000 miles of Blood Vessels" and "100,000km of Blood Vessels" is incorrect. Medical "knowledge" or "fun facts" is flawed like any other.

    These guys went through the trouble to verify the source and found it was only a fun calculation by an expert at the time in 1929. Yes, a fun calculation just like the BMI number.

    You have to appreciate people who dig down to find out how people don't cite sources for what they quote = plagiarism + bad information. You'd think if someone quotes even...

  • Education Loans are NOT Dischargeable

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    It's a hard lesson in not reading the contract for many young adults. You can take out loans for other things here and there and have them discharged, but education loans? No way, you are trapped forever. That's what happens when you have "conservatives" in government "protecting" the loaner, oh wait yeah, the government is the loaner.

    President wants to forgive loans and a shitty corrupt paid for "conservative" Supreme Court decides no, but they were happy to grant the president a helluva king power recentl...