chapotraphouse

Funniest shit ever

Well the main crux of the dream was that I was in a family member's car as we were driving up some snow-covered mountain path. There was sad music playing because I guess the mountain had major "plot significance"

But the mood completely shifted when we drove by a cliff by the sea, and there was Hillary and Bill Clinton, who were so full of fucking hubris that they decided to go hang gliding in the middle of a snowstorm, out at at sea. Unsurprisingly, it goes horribly wrong for them, and Hillary ended up falling into the water and started drowning. Idk wtf Bill was doing at that time.

I keep seeing Harris ads with this line about Americans "not just getting by, but getting ahead."

Ahead of who?

Ahead of who!

USians don't even bat an eye at this. Their ideology has created a mass delusion that causes them to believe "everyone can get ahead" in the competition of all against all. But "getting ahead" necessarily neans someone is behind!

Libs will deny this if confronted. They can live with this dissonance because they fundementally do not see the people behind as human beings. People behind have moral failings and therefore could never be ahead - no matter what you try to do for them. The people ahead obviously deserve it and are the only real people anyway so they can't even see how obviously anti-social the entire concept of "getting ahead" is. Deeply psychopathic culture.

So many people back home who've been smeared thoroughly as being poor because of their own weakness or vices who absolutely could be like this awesome guy if only they had the opportunity. So many people robbed of the opportunity to excel and contribute to humanity's advance held back because less than 0.1% of the population have to have all the wealth and to keep people down.

Every poverty stricken addict, every homeless person, every hopeless poverty stricken drunk, every angry starving person, every victim of natural disasters; these people are all victims of injustice by a self destructive system that cons the people mere steps above these victims into waiting just a little longer, just another presidential term, just another four more years, just a little wee bit longer, telling them it'll all be okay soon, and if it just gives the appearance of leveling off, then this is the new reality and people are crazy for thinking it could be better; a system that gaslights people into accepting life as a disposable battery for the ultra wealthy.

We smear third world countries and yet there are so many third world countries that offer infinitely more for their people than ours does; we watch as so many more of our people, considered expendable, get expended.

How many people back home could've been phd holders? How many people back home could've become our greatest scientists? The addict who can barely stand up, addicted because life is miserable and he has no hope for a future, could've been one of our country's brightest. Where is our Mao?

https://fxtwitter.com/PJaccetturo/status/1841884941724065984

https://xcancel.com/GlobeEyeNews/status/1841804552712159703

turn sound on

Vid - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbKF8U06pOs\

article - https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/brawl-breaks-out-before-trumps-speech-outside-saginaw-valley-state-rally

~50s vid - https://subium.com/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3l5n753e6hi2i

It’s still wearing on me psychologically but I will give them a taste of their own fucking medicine so help me God.

Taking a break right now. Only got minimal sleep last night. Fun.

I don't know how the fuck this shit started, but I've started to see more and more comparisons between Biden and Lincoln amongst libs for the purposes of vote shaming.

Like these mfs apparently don't realise that Lincoln sided with the abolitionists (in the end) while Biden would be a slave owner in their own analogy!

A lot of us are trans/queer and/or brown and I feel like a lot of selfhelp and modern psychology books don’t really delve much into how to deal with verbal harassment or even self-hatred that’s a result of hatred from others.

Any good advice on this? Any good books on there on how to deal with this?

Even Amerika sounds better

I can't say this shit in work, so I'm gonna say it here.

https://www.ft.com/content/78a699f2-1f72-4796-9211-6aad2c75e747

Nvidia’s earnings “have become as important for US markets as key economic data,” writes MainFT. For some, they’d become another excuse to get drunk on a Wednesday afternoon. 

On a swelteringly hot New York summer’s day, four dozen or so sweaty Nvidia enthusiasts gather at a StoreHouse sports bar on Sixth Avenue. Together, they count down to the chipmaker’s second-quarter results, eyes fixed on the seven large screens blasting CNBC’s Fast Money rather than round two of the US Open.

The mastermind behind this gathering is Lauren Balik, an equities analyst who earlier in the day had invited “longs, shorts, and anyone else” to come grab a beer in honour of Wall Street’s hottest stock. So — sandwiched between an off-duty exotic derivatives trader and a young man in tech who swears he’ll sell his Nvidia holdings “in a heartbeat” if it hit $140 — FTAV had happily obliged.

Balik tells FTAV she’s “mostly very bearish on things”. The three light-up bubble-blowing pistols she distributed to the predominantly male crowd attested to this playful scepticism. “I love a good bubble more than anything,” she continues. “Figuring out when it’s going to burst is such a fun little game”.

“I thought why not, let’s host this event,” she shouts over the hubbub.

We’re at a sports bar. All sports lead to gambling, and Wall Street has always been about gambling, too. So I thought, why not combine the two? If you’re watching football or baseball and you’ve got money riding on it, it’s the same thing with stocks. People get attached to these things for better or worse. It’s the way our times work.

Balik has “bubbles embedded in me,” she adds. “I remember growing up in Virginia, I had loads of friends whose parents worked at the big internet companies [ahead of the dotcom crash]. Mark Lynch, Microstrategy’s chief financial officer, taught me business studies at high school. I was his star student! It’s very funny.” 

The exotic derivatives trader weighs in gloomily: “The fact there’s a dedicated countdown on CNBC to these results, watched at a bar by a bunch of lemmings like me . . . it’s over, man. It’s over.”

The countdown itself begins before we find out what, exactly, “it” might be. Juiced up on expensive craft beer, the crowd booms FIVE, FOUR, THREE, TWO, ONE and lets out a collective “HELL YEAH” as the share price initially ticks higher. A man in a baseball cap thrusts his arms into the air in delight. Another promptly downs a pint of Bud Light. A disgruntled sports fan at the far end of the bar looks on, confused. 

But the good times don’t last. Though no one in the room seems to care much by now, revenue in the three months through July comes in at $30bn, — up 122 per cent from a year ago but barely ahead of the $28.7bn analysts had expected. Plus, Nvidia is expecting $32.5bn in revenue for the current quarter, plus or minus 2 per cent, which is only narrowly ahead of expectations. In Nvidia earnings world, this qualifies as a blip, and the share price swings lower to a chorus of boos. 

Still smiling from ear to ear, Balik tells us the owner of the bar had a baby earlier in the day. “Maybe Nvidia would make for quite a nice middle name. . . See you here next quarter?”