Random Thought Thread

SpyderPhreak said:
Change my mind. I can't think of ONE product of theirs that is better than it used to be. Their "milk chocolate" is a joke, barely legal to be called chocolate. Even my wife and youngest daughter, that love milk chocolate, think it's not very good anymore. :confused: :thumbsdown:
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Once a company shifts from making a good product to making a good profit for investors, quality will decline.
 
SharpBits said:
I guess this partially explains why many Americans only have ~$900 saved for retirement. Or so I read recently. 😣
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Also; constantly making poor choices.

I recall seeing the news about a new casino opening, years back. They were interviewing people waiting in line for the doors to open. Some woman they interviewed said, “Hell yeah! Need to make the rent!”.

Maybe it was a joke, but there are a LOT of people who think that way; gambling with money they can’t afford to lose. Getting that $500 tattoo this week, because they’ve been waiting for an opening with that tattoo artists for months… they’ll worry about the rent money they don’t have, at a later time, because the end of the month isnt until next week 🙄
 
yoko said:
I have for sale a mint EDC 1.2 with double black handles and blue screws in D3V

Never used and only handled a few times

Hopefully someone awesome can pick this up and enjoy it!

480 shipped PayPal f/f

Continental US only please

I'll only sell to gold members or higher , and I definitely will refuse the right to sell to anyone who's rude to the elderly and puts toliet paper on the holder backwards (that's a dick move lol) or anyone I think should get the hell to the nah

Please know your local laws before purchase (and double check the orientation of your toilet paper...... I'll find out......)

I will not email you (unless you are willing to pay a lot extra for pictures you wish you could unsee)

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Feel free to ask any questions

Thanks!
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Toilet paper…. The only time bangs are cooler than a mullet
 
Moorik said:
Right now, Polymarket is being used as a way to make money by people who arbitrage positions. I’m too lazy to explain exactly how it works, but basically people earn small, “guaranteed” percentages by doing something like betting arbitrage — placing a lot of bets, moving them across different platforms, and so on.

In the end, for those who genuinely think Polymarket is something good — honestly, if you go and buy something like Fartcoin, the outcome will be more or less the same:

  • 90% of your family capital gone
  • 90% of borrowed money gone
  • And so on
The point is that the people who actually know how to work with all of this properly are an extremely tiny percentage. Meanwhile, there’s a huge amount of what I’d call “funding meat” — yes, that’s what I call the majority of the market.

Essentially, people are pulling liquidity into these assets, only helping a massive number of useless and dumb tokens continue to deceive and scam others. At the same time that regular people are buying, funds and the companies/projects/startups themselves are simply dumping on the market — selling into the very people who are buying.

Considering that the market is generally in an uptrend, I’m honestly surprised how so many people still manage to lose money.


The thing is, before, people at least tried to approach this using some kind of analysis — something an ordinary person, far removed from the industry, could realistically use.


Now the mindset is constant: “any minute now… any minute now… it crashed, which means I heard somewhere you’re supposed to buy the dip.” And it turns into an endless cycle of “now, now… it’s about to go up… honey, just wait.”


The result is genuinely tragic stories — and there are A LOT of them. A huge number. People just don’t usually talk about it.


Only a small part of my job (maybe 5% at most) is related to this — not so much to save them, because at some point that’s no longer possible — but at least to minimize the damage. I literally try to convince people to exit and take whatever they can salvage.


But you know what they say?


“Any minute now, it’s going to go up. I’m sure.”


And this “any minute now” has been going on for… let’s say, almost four years.


I’ve never seen such a gambler-style approach.


And the thing is, it’s probably your friend, acquaintance, or relative — and you might not even realize what they’ve gotten themselves into.


The scariest case I’ve seen was this guy, around 30 years old, who inherited a VERY substantial amount of money — a lot.


He invested it into crypto that was “about to go up any minute now.” That was three years ago.


In the end, he lost something like more than 60% of his inheritance. I’m serious. It’s brutal.


His family worked for generations, and he burned through it in three years.


I tried to convince him to just earn steady interest on the money and leave it at that.


But he wanted to multiply it. Because:


“Any minute now, it’s going to go up.”


That’s the current narrative — literally the motto:


“Any minute now.”
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"The Gambler" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, one of my favorites.
 
I'm sure this will shock everyone.

Empirical evidence suggests that dd3v fk3 cuts garlic festival honey habañero rub strip steak with at least 3x less effort than cheap sh&#** hecho en China bs Walmart serrated "steak knife". Plus the cpk is more pleasing in the hand, which improves the dining experience and makes everything taste better.

That's investing in value.
 
clinton1 said:
This made me laugh out loud!!!! 🤣🤣🤣


And! My BRAND NEW Light Chopper agrees, based off of my cheap hotel room in the middle of nowhere!!!! 😂😆😍

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FYI: this was a VERY risky maneuver, that took me way longer than it should have!! 😆
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Proud wink for properly placed toilet paper

Quality hotel

Grab a beer and report the parking lot scene
 
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