technology adultswim_antifa • Now • 100%

Is there a fediverse extension to the GPL?

I'm not a lawyer, but I know tech companies run social media platforms to create data models about users for ad platforms. It seems to me that they could attempt to integrate themselves into a fediverse network and still harvest data, and not even provide services. So perhaps a software license could require that content posted to the platform by users is by default licensed under CC-BY-SA-NC or something that would prevent this.

chapotraphouse adultswim_antifa • Now • 100%

redacted

I think I've actually been using it for pain management in denial about it  I'm literally doing physical therapy right now. As in, I'm doing my assigned exercises literally right now. Every night I take this stuff, I'm thinking about how good my body will feel, and yeah, sure, I feel relaxed and good and I like to think about weird stuff, but seriously also thinking about how good my body will feel. I'm looking forward to how good my feel when I fall asleep in a bit. I'm literally expecting to sleep better because of it. I did this stuff years ago but I don't remember being this aware of "good feeling body". And yeah, my body feels bad and I'm doing physical therapy. Am I gonna have to start taking ibuprofen all the time 

politics adultswim_antifa • Now • 97%

This supposedly great nation desperately needs land reform

Golf courses? Monoculture farming? Suburbs? Highways? Wall Street landlords? People not living in commie blocks? Good luck with that $25,000 for first time buyers though. 

Comics adultswim_antifa • Now • 100%

The Three Little Pigs

> The fourth little piggy built his out of leftist infighting, and the wolf was finally defeated.  https://existentialcomics.com/comic/553

Comics adultswim_antifa • Now • 98%

Freedom From Struggle

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/550

chat adultswim_antifa • Now • 100%

I just deleted all my reddit history

Feels good. Gonna miss the good corners (trueanon and thedeprogram) of , but the site is pretty much unusable now anyway.

news adultswim_antifa • Now • 100%

Bolsonaro is in the hospital again

 https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-bolsonaro-be-hospitalized-monday-two-operations-2023-09-11/

politics adultswim_antifa • Now • 98%

I like how the numbers compare

4 hour gap? Looks like he almost forgot to never forget 9/11. 

labour adultswim_antifa • Now • 100%

all labor is skilled if you're good at it

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/512448 > cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/512446 > > > [credit to the creator](https://twitter.com/dwight_tokem/status/1434934662850301958?s=20)

chapotraphouse adultswim_antifa • Now • 100%

all labor is skilled if you're good at it

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/512446 > [credit to the creator](https://twitter.com/dwight_tokem/status/1434934662850301958?s=20)

Risa adultswim_antifa • Now • 95%

all labor is skilled if you're good at it

[credit to the creator](https://twitter.com/dwight_tokem/status/1434934662850301958?s=20)

main adultswim_antifa • Now • 0%

Why stock prices go up

You might think there is some sort of reason why stocks go up. We're told that it has to do with profits or expectations of future earnings. That's bullshit. As is usually the case, the truth is actually much stupider. At any given time, there's a certain amount of cash, bond, and stock. Each of those needs to find an owner. In the case of cash and bonds, the value is pretty easy to calculate. However, the value of stock is almost entirely speculative. When one comes into someone's possession, the person may find their portfolio no longer has the composition of cash/bond/stock that they prefer, so they will rebalance their portfolio by selling bonds and buying stocks. Usually a computer does this. Does the computer go to the stock factory and order the manufacture of new stock? No, the computer buys stock off a seller, and this results in bidding the price of the stock up slightly. In the long run, the prices of all stocks are bid up or down until everyone has the amount of stock, *denominated in dollars*, that they want. Due to the persistent myths of 401ks, efficient market hypothesis and its inbred cousin, modern portfolio theory (this one isn't even a hypothesis?), people allocate into stock and bonds based on their age rather than any rational idea of expected returns. People also have an unusually high allocation into stocks compared to bonds in this era of low interest rates. Therefore stock prices expands to meet the required number of dollars in order for everyone to have the amount of stocks they want to own, *denominated in dollars*. But there is nothing written into the fabric of the universe that says those stocks need to have a valuation that makes any sense at all. * If everyone were to desire 90% of their portfolio in stocks, the stock prices would increase until it was true. * If everyone wanted safer assets and wanted 10% of their portfolio in stocks, the stock prices would decrease until it was true. * If everyone wanted 100% of their portfolio in stocks, they would be infinitely valuable, and obviously the money to cash out would not exist. There is an aggregate portfolio for all investors and the stock prices fulfill whatever the aggregate portfolio requires. Stock prices are like a gas that expands to fill the space available. Cash and bonds together are created (both as forms of debt) at a rate of about 8% per year, therefore stocks generally increase in value by a rate of about 8% per year. The space available is expanded by various forms of debt. It also expands when people want to own more stock, and shrinks when people want to own less stock. There is definitely some point where stock valuations are objectively fake, like some sort of collective delusion of wealth, because they cannot be converted back to cash that doesn't exist. When our society celebrates record S&P500 highs, we are either celebrating the creation of more debt, or simply declaring ourselves to be even richer today than yesterday because **we love the stocks**. The amount of stock and its true value doesn't change as much as the amount of debt and how much people love the stocks. Summary: The S&P 500 is a big ouija board and we just friggin love when line go up

main adultswim_antifa • Now • 100%

Think homelessness is a problem? Better check your facts 😎

bet you feel pretty dumb now with your numbers all askew