I’m not trying to start a fight with you on this but by what metric do you measure that? To my knowledge institutional trading outpaces retail in terms of total dollars invested, number of trades, and total valuation (as in the total market value of the retail traders is more than the net worth of retail investors)

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I’ve been using lemmy for 2 years, I know our demographic has been on the internet so long. You know better than this. Why do you guys take the obvious bait? He was doing the same shit in /c/politicalmemes

Still more lifelike than bangin yo mamma!

I’ve maintained that the stock market divorced itself from reality a long time ago. As of making this comment by market cap Toyota, BYD, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, GM, Volkswagen, Ford, and Porsche COMBINED are worth $100 billion less than HALF of Tesla. Is there anyone out there that would choose a minority stake in Tesla vs owning 9 of the biggest auto manufacturers on the planet outright?

Point being I don’t see stock valuation as a measure of how successful companies are. How high were stocks in the dot com boom? In 2008?

Of course not, the same people profiting from those prisoners are huge donors to their boss. You don’t bite the hand that feeds

There’s precedent for tall:

As someone with a math degree it frustrates me that people always say “but when will I use this in the real world?” Whether or not you need that math in the real world the real value in learning math is learning how to approach problems in an organized, specific, and detail oriented process. The process of learning formal logic and following through to the end is a very important skill for people to have. Instead, it’s all about “how do I get to the answer?” There’s a reason why 75% of your score in higher level math is your work and not your answer. The work is what matters

Well it’s a good thing America has a stellar track record on wars against ideas, e.g. drugs, terror, and Christmas. Let’s declare war on Opposition, there’s no way to lose that one

I still reference this Penny Arcade strip 15 years later:

I mostly agree with the sentiment, people say something is derivative when they dislike it and it’s an homage or a reference when they do

Look, people showing cleavage are aware it’s going to draw attention. In the same way women know if they put words on their tits you’re going to read them. There’s a difference between noticing something and staring right at it

The Macarena I’d about a woman cheating on her BF getting drafted into the military with 2 other guys

Which is pretty intense for a song they taught to kids in grade school

Your mom has been posting a lot more on Instagram recently

An important thing to remember is that your job represents about a third of your life and almost half of your waking life. People as a species are sociable and want to know more about the people they spend the most time around. A lot of those interactions are not inherently trying to get something from you but are rather people just being interested in the person who are around them

Imagine being the woman who drags herself in there, still mostly asleep, orders her coffee, gets it free?, drinks it, goes outside and sees this

That’d be pretty fucking gross

Software Engineers hate stand-up

Online dating

It was, I got laid plenty in college. I meant I would get a woman’s number, text her, then she would give 2/3 responses and disappear. It stopped almost entirely when I switched to asking for Snapchat instead

Oh, OKC used to rock a decade ago. Before they started the monitization efforts they had over a thousand questions that you could pre-sort matches based off of their importance to both of you. There wasn’t swiping, you just actually looked at profiles. It really rewarded writing good profiles which I happen to do well

You probably don’t interact with a lot of teens then. It’s pretty common in high schools and college campuses. I was told a decade ago that my green bubbles were probably why women stopped texting me after I got their number off okcupid

I remember it being a rat unless we’re discussing different parts but that’s just the reality of what you were able to get away with in 2000s media. The movie would have been NC-17 if all of the violence from the book made it in