MizuTama

I hate the constant guilt tripping of certain sectors where they try to weaponize the harm (or sometimes mere inconvenience) of you not slaving away for them on their terms. Maybe, if it is so urgent, pony up the cash, and things can get back to normal faster!

That was an interesting read, thanks for posting it.

They're richer than me. They're better at Marxist analysis than me. I need a vodka shot...

This is really common, most people simply will not get around to recommendations in my experience.

Just use a divination orb nerd

Mine is made of water

I feel like half the time I see fedposting it's you; watch out for the

It's astrology but instead of being based on the mystique of the stars it's a video game infinite money glitch that's based on a rug pulling mini game

A short is based on borrowed stock, basically you borrow a bunch of shares from someone for and sell them for money, with a promise to return them later. If it goes down, that means when you rebuy it to return it's much cheaper and you can pocket the difference.

A put is a contract that you make with someone that says someone will buy a stock from you at a certain price if you decide to sell. The contract comes with an expiration date and a fee for you based off of calculated likelihood. The idea is, if the stock drops below that amount and then drops enough to cover the fee (the breakeven point), you invoke the contract and make a profit.

There is a lot more to it including reselling the contract etc. but frankly it's a glorified gambling hall for the most part unless you're in the know or have enough influence to move it yourself for specific tipping points.

Puts on the US. Massive bull trap ahead 🫡

It isn't an issue for me, I just wanted to float some reasons that liberal idealism tends to meet strong resistance here. There are more pragmatic reasons for the stances taken as well, which with my current understanding, I agree with. But frankly, I'm currently too drunk and too behind on theory to be a good source to articulate it. Assuming you aren't banned on my instance and I remember through my ADHD deluge, I might circle back on this in the future and explain further.

Yeah, at that point we're playing semantics, then I think since we're reaching a point of agreeing on the premise of the idea with different terms.

I disagree that they are the modern public square, in the loosest sense, especially in cases such as Lemmy that are instanced. You aren't blocked from the whole of Lemmy, you're blocked from a particular instance but still able to access a lot of it. If anything, it's closer to a publicly accessible private space: if I have a garage sale and I'm letting people look around, it's publicly accessible but still not in the public domain. I have different opinions for nationalized sectors, i.e., if Twitter were bought by the U.S. government, but that's more so due to a distrust of government power than a sense of free speech absolutionism. A lot of Hexbear are folks who are disproportionately harassed by people who typically abuse the more idealist leanings of free speech idealism and have suffered continuous distress from that, so I'm not particularly surprised you're met with hostility from folks here .