#Lulz

not the most pressing issue facing our society but the wobbly line between "reading horoscopes is just for fun" and "I very seriously NEED to know your sign so I
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I get that people think its funny when bad things happen to Wall Street types, but this GameStop thing is not a joke.These are stock traders conspiring to manipulate the
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The decision between "send kids to school in-person and potentially risk the entire family's health & lives" and "send kids to school online despite knowing it's a suboptimal learning &
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My usual opinions:- the Efficient Markets Hypothesis is bunk- r/WallStreetBets and Robinhood day traders are risk-insane, irrational, etcHOWEVER, I think:- GME stock is priced efficiently.- the crowd-sourced short squeeze of
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The GameStop stock valuation brouhaha with r/wallstreetbets is really illuminating about the power and reach of trolling and its IRL effectstrolling is an initial expression of nihilistic irony poisoning that
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This Kyoko Vs Stardom thing reveals that there's too much of the bad parts of Twitter in Joshi-Twitter. Sometimes, it's an echo chamber of reactionary judgement calls where people encourage
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1/ I actually bought 1 more share of $GME in AH for $206. At first I was just in it for the lulz and memes, but the more I think
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Ok this is Harry Potter metaphor level cheeseball but this was something to be proud of. I have debates in my head: "But probably at least some of the people
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The foundation of democracy is not the rule of law, it is that governments and those in power accept the rule of law and the conventions that bound many of
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I love the different ways people approach TTRPGS. The GM of Kelpie's game has, accidentally and as a side effect of a fairly cool plot twist, broken her. She's having
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The more I see about the GameStop stock madness, the angrier I get. Like, I’m legit thinking “good for them” for the initial people who bet against the shorts in
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I hate to be the elderly trans lady shouting at kids to get off my lawn, but I do often feel like the history gets lost. People forget how it
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I'm seeing a lot of ambivalence about $GME from internet researchers and advocates. It's fun to watch a bunch of Redditors take on predatory hedge funds by manipulating stock prices.
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What's happening now with the market and $GME is, the first moves were Reddit bros, then came the noobs, then came smart investors who could see the tide rolling in
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Here are the completely not definitive Australian news media moments of 2020 (the serious and devastating mass job losses and gross contraction of media outlet numbers aside)In no particular order.
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A major, major @Xbox leak was handled masterfully on social in the middle of the night.Let's look at how Xbox made several viral moments out of a bad day thanks
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