justsomeguy

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According to Goldman Sachs, more than 1.2 million leveraged retail trading accounts in South Korea triggered margin calls as of July 13, with an estimated 320,000–360,000 accounts fully liquidated. Goldman's strategists reckon this means around one in 30 adults in the country, or 3.4% of the adult ⁠population, have received margin calls.

I think they might've had a couple of those.

Saw a thread where a father got a 100k bill for a life flight his son needed. Insurance didn't want to pay because they didn't preapprove but it was an emergency so there was no time anyway.

I'm just wondering why every thing in the medical field immediately costs 10x as much as it needs to. Yes, helicopters are expensive to maintain and so is the personnel but 100k per flight is ridiculous. Show me the calculation.

It's also hilarious because it's overrun with bots and AI generated content.

Boggles my mind how people engage with posts that are very obviously AI and tailored to bait a reaction. When someone points this out they get replies along the lines of "so what?" because people don't really care anymore if anything is real.

In this context it is a wild slogan to choose.

It's a mixture of exactly what you described and the inequality that forms through the socioeconomic background. Your law abiding first gen immigrant parents probably don't have a lot of money and don't know the language well. That makes it a lot less likely for you to succeed academically. Not impossible but a lot less likely. Yet the expectation is a lot higher than it was for your parents.

So you're in between cultures, tribeless and feel like a failure because you didn't become a doctor or engineer. Prime candidate for radicalization.

He isn't and neither is Bannon but their strategy has always been to desensitize the population.

They both mentioned the third term multiple times but amongst a thousand other flood the zone bullshit it just went through. When they officially announce it nobody will be surprised and 24h later there'll be some other scandal like trump shitting his pants again.

It's like a never ending stream of shit that keeps people in a state of outrage but never quite enough to not go to work and protest.

None of it is particularly smart and it's all extremely obvious but it works.

on Evil Inc · c/fuck_ai · 8 pts · 19d

In general people don't really hate AI itself but the absolute shitcocks in charge of it and their methods of using it.