Yeah, that seems like the boom before the bust. I know even personally I’ve been buying some things before they become hard to get.

That makes it a lot less impressive.

Personally I sold a lot of my “total” market etfs/stocks and bought into staples/utilities/dividends just cause I’ve always seen those as safeish.

I’m keeping a lot, probably more than I should, in cash expecting things to get worse. I fear I may need the cash or can buy when things get worse, but that puts me at larger risk for inflation (which seems more and more likely). However, I’m not sure what would be protected from inflation at this point (maybe gold?).

This isn’t some bubble popping or realized losses, this is an entire political movement (Trump and Republicans) literally destroying the world economy. This isn’t just going to impact the US, but potentially hurt people in every country.

Its also in no way connected to 2008. What is going on here is independent of that and won’t be seen as a lesson to mistakes made in 2008.

Where’d you get the 70%? Last I saw it was like 52% - https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2025/03/31/donald-trump-approval-ratings-what-the-latest-polls-show/82703049007/

If I recall it’s a bit more twisted than that. Musk can’t legally just give money to make someone vote, so they’re actually giving the money to a sponsor, but playing it up like it’s some raffle.

Its just another game to undercut democracy and use his wealth to break the system.

When I started reading this I thought they were going to say how it highlights the challenges of high-profile individuals in the SEC. How can they go after Elon without a conflict of interest given he basically owns the federal government.

Yeah, according to this it’s around 2/3rds of the US falls in this range - https://www.aclu.org/documents/constitution-100-mile-border-zone

Thanks for write up!

The issue is that technology advances with the whole, the internet/smartphones/gaming etc. All benefit from large populations being able to buy/engage with them.

Yeah not good when I have to read the comments to understand the headline (since article is pay walled).

I never understood the criticism of Bidens handling of Afghanistan. He was given an impossible deadline (due to Trump) and followed through with what I imagine is minimal casualties. And at the end of the day, he did what three other president’s coudlnt do, which was get us out of there.

Exactly this, Biden wasn’t better health wise but surrounded himself with competent people.

Right now we have a fox news host leading defense, an anti-Vax moron handling a measles outbreak, a wrestling tycoon killing our education system, and more.

So the military was justified in their actions at tiananmen square?

My point is that the US has not been willing to escalate by using live rounds or military intervention in over half a century (at least to my recollection) against its citizens.

I think the counterpoint is that when something like Kent state happened, the government backed down. The question will be if they’re willing to use live rounds in the future and not back down (not that less lethal munitions are much better, but it is different).

No I think they’re doing both of those. Definitely backwards compatible, and this says yes to hall effect https://www.thegamer.com/nintendo-switch-2-joy-con-drift-fixed-leak/

It’s not even about being publicly traded. I suspect they’re taking the console approach where you count on the attach rate (people buying steam games) to make you money.

I mean in a lot of ways they literally can’t compete on these things. Price/quality are difficult cause valve can sell their product at a loss (cause theyll make it back on steam sales), software is weird cause who is investing a whole OS to just sell hardware (valve can cause it’s directly tied to their marketplace).

Id give you TouchPad, but I don’t know what the patents are on those, cause I’ve only seen that design on valve products.

I don’t understand the appeal of most of their products, but I do love their blade laptop lineup. There are few viable laptop competitors with the quality build and integrated gpu (AI/ML stuff rather than gaming for me).

Second this, the mechanics are crazy fun, but the story mode gets hard fast (and requires quick reflexes and actual planning).