That’s my second favorite ‘CNBCism’. ‘Bitcoin is weathering its ugliest week in months as narrative fades’. Excuse me CNBC, but a decade ago this stuff was trading at like 500 bucks per. Can’t an overbought thing take a breather without it being a cause to panic? Of course, the very next article is some Warren Buffett truism about holding lol

‘NASDAQ rebounds off intraday lows as investors shrug collapse of US dollar hegemony’

So lemme get this straight: the guy who won the last election is claiming that the elections are rigged? I’m just trying to understand here

iirc methanol and acetone both have a boiling point much lower than ethanol, so I think one would learn really quickly to discard the first little bit of distilled product, because it’d be nasty as hell. I never tried distilling but the issue seems like it’d fix itself, right?

Supposedly putting a cheapo luggage lock on a door latch requires a coordinated effort involving a locksmith or a tow truck

If you’re really paranoid you should buy all your stuff in a brick and mortar store. You’d have to be high up on a list for it to even be worth someone’s time, but intercepting a package and swapping the contents is pretty easy to do, typical Tuesday multi-agency gun ring bust for some postal inspectors

I bought a 3 pack of Corsair LL120 RGB case fans directly from Amazon-dot-com (as the seller) before and got a 3 pack of someone’s old case fans instead (the old swapperoo). So Amazon told me to just keep them after I sent them many photos of the box and the LPN sticker on it, and they sent me another. Take a guess what was in that box? Yup, more swapperoos. But this was back in 2016-2017 so they may have changed up how they handle returns since then, or how they isolate their own products from 3rd party ‘FBA’ sellers

The valuation of these companies are based on absurd compounding growth but growth goes from darling to pariah the moment cash dries up, every time. Taper tantrums and Brexit era, it’s sometimes the knee-jerk reaction, even. 2021, people were trading based on yields and unemployment data and bad numbers were making tech stocks rise in hopes of rate cuts. Securities is an entirely different beast than bitcoin because stocks have intrinsic value (and if you have faith in the forward earnings of a company that’s intrinsic enough)

This is all propped up by growth though. The moment Microsoft mentions skipping a product cycle is when investors panic and rotate into staples or whatever, Nvidia cuts production targets, Micron suddenly has ICs for other things

Eventually the precedent would just become ‘poor people’ fucking over everyone, including other ‘poor people’ just trying to start their own business. I get what you’re saying but allowing squatters to create entire catalogues of domains for the sake of sticking it to corporations is probably a shitty answer