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  • Dow Heads for Worst April Since 1932

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  • I think the fun hasn't even begun. The "market" or whatever. The collective mind hasn't yet realized or the scale hasn't quite tipped yet on how bad this all is. I think maybe too many people are silently making their financial move so as to not be the one to that sets it all off. Or they're trying to tread carefully before the house of cards falls.

    Like when Lehman went under in 2008. All those shit derivatives were plugging along. Some people knew it was rotten. The system kept going until suddenly didn't anymore. Then all the red lights and alarm bells went off.

    Even with current market downturn. I think it's yet to go off the cliff. They keep bending the system and it's bowing but it hasn't really broken yet. When it does I think a greater than 50% drop in the SP500 is possible.

    That's not to say it's going to all come crashing down in like a day or a week or even a month. I think the paradigm of the past 15 years is over. The one where' there's a relatively brief drop and then everyone buys "cheap stock" and then everything goes 20% higher.

    I think we're in for a long period of decline. Where people cannot simply dump money into investments and see gains every year. We could be in for a long haul where people put money into an SP500 fund and it loses every year. Maybe a 0%-1% gain on a good year due to sideways movement.

  • 'Andrew Tate phenomena' surges in schools - with boys refusing to talk to female teacher

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  • It's kind of weird people are taking that literally.

    Also just a weird is how the internet predominantly lays the blame solely on parents. And people love to absolve everyone else especially teachers of any childhood development responsibilities. LIke the saying goes, 'it takes a village'. Teachers are as much parents as anyone else in the village. The aunts/uncles, neighbors, corner store clerk, mailman, police officer. When kids act up, the adults have to correct it.

    Yet the internet generally just glares at the parents. Then again it stands to reason parents or broadly speaking people who actively engage in parenting roles aren't chronically online. They're actually raising children.

    People wonder why things are the way they are. Maybe it's because the village has absconded.

    If I had kids I should damn well hope they get a beating at school when they step out of line. Figuratively of course. Because. The internet seems to have lost all reading comprehension. Maybe they weren't beat enough at school either... Figuratively I mean.

  • Cops are deploying AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters”

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  • its executive director of public safety, Chris Clem, who is a former US Customs and Border Protection agent who testified before Congress about border security last year and regularly appears on Fox News

    So a bunch of chuds managed to take their weekend pedo hunting and turn it into a shitty startup.

  • Anonymous Releases 10TB of Leaked Data: Exposing Kremlin Assets & Russian Businesses

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  • The screenshot of files looks like an troll. I can't believe nobody is pointing this out.

    I mean really. Who even names folders like that.

  • [PSA] If things start feeling too toxic around here, remember that the 'block' button is your friend and always there for you.

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  • Block is useless on lemmy. They can still cause a nuisance. Just becuase you can't see it doesn't mean it's not there..

  • The CVE program for tracking security flaws is about to lose federal funding

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  • Privatization probably.

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  • People know what 4chan is. There's no illusions about it. reddit and its derivatives are were the real trolling goes down.

  • ‘The Homegrowns Are Next’: Trump Promises to Send American Citizens to El Salvador in Harrowing Comments to Bukele

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  • I think it's not new. "homegrown terrorist" -> "homegrowns".

    I'm speculating they're going to use that angle. Using precedents set by The War on Terrorism (TM) to justify the next steps. The 50501 movement needs to be preparing organized legal supports for anyone who gets disappeared. I bet this is who they are going after next. Summer is coming. The protests are ramping up. What if it's as soon as the April 19th event.

  • There’s No Coming Back From Trump’s Tariff Disaster | America was the world’s economic anchor. Thanks to the president, it may never have that role again.

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  • They aren't even beginning a comeback until their Overton Window shifts closer to reality. Otherwise nobody isn't going to recognize them as anything but descending uncontrollably into backwater hermit state as every nation scrambles to cut ties.

    At most 30% of the voting age population understood the assignment trying to prevent all this. That's certainly an indictment. The majority of the population has departed from reality. Perhaps many were never with it on account of being born too deep into the mythology of America.

    The internet was supposed to expand peoples minds offering an antidote to such things as this. Instead it dug them deeper. It's crazy. Sometimes I wonder what if all this is in no small part due simply to a consequence of reactionaries getting online and seeing too much of the world. Seeing 7 billion kinds of diversity of humanity around the world beaming through their smartphone caused their brains to short circuit. Deciding that being a paranoid hermit state is better than being a nation of the world.

  • Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”

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  • Notice the "free market" vanishes when it's a thing they don't like. Suddenly we need strong authority to ensure it's "fair".

  • The American Age Is Over - by Jonathan V. Last

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  • Those were dictators too.

  • What's the best way of dealing with Maga hatred, white power, genocide denial and other things you see a Lemmy user espousing?

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  • Fight fire with fire. Assume their gender. 🙂

  • "When does get update ?" moment.

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  • They have old/orphaned dependencies on their machine. It's hanging on a by thread. They have no idea the packages have disappeared years ago. The house of cards is a bit flip away from collapsing.

  • Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy?

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  • It's the tech oligarchs. They're doing their own gilded age. Their empires exist in the tech domain. Mostly IT services. They're going after the whole pie. They want the entirety of American industry.

    What they have in mind exactly is anyone's guess. We're not going back to the times of railroad or oil barons. We're not necessarily going back steel and auto manufacturing. The future is in things like robotics, renewable energy, semiconductors, or whatever the future holds.

    I think crashing the economy just to buy stock is old news too. The saying has become rather mindlessly echoed. They have relatively little to gain from this. The rich hold 90% of stocks. There's little to extract from the remaining 10%. Plus I think people have believed too much in the idea that stocks are a shell game. It's not as much as people think. The markets are still based on tangibles meaning actual industry. That is what the oligarchs are after. What's better than owning stock in the industry is owning the industry itself. Complete total monopolies just like the gilded age and just like they've monopolized IT services sector.

  • If you're still on Reddit...

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  • The chronically online incels look for things to mass report. It's part of their ongoing campaign to shove the Overton Window far right.

    Reddits content moderation are cubicle farm employees that barely look at content; nevermind actual context or intent. They're clearing tickets to make quota. Right wingers exploit this to control discourse.

    You can try doing it yourself. Look for frivolous things to report as offensive. You can get quite a bit of things removed.

  • (Suggest me a Book similar to) Station Eleven

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  • The Book of the Unnamed Midwife

  • Trump’s Secret Police Are Now Disappearing Students For Their Op-Eds

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  • They fell in love with their own reflection. All they can hear is their own words 'Freedom!' echoing in their ears. It's a modern day tale of Narcissus.

  • DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months

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  • I'm posting this from Mars colony. Amazing isn't it.

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  • It feels like a warped in to another dimension. Did everyone start using only 5 years ago?

  • Why the world is looking to ditch US AI models

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  • The music can come screeching to a halt for the US tech industry. They haven't been innovating for a long time. Just relying on monopolization, rehashing old shit, or straight up VC baiting with useless garbage. The rest of the world needs to continue to realize they can do tech too. They can produce novel and actually useful things. Whereas the US industry has been strangling itself to death with anti-competition.

    Especially with regards to AI. Once more others realize the milestone innovations in this field comes from academic research which is then taken by the private sector for profit. Others can realize and follow this path. They can spin up quicker than they think. With the education system being systematically dismantled in a pivot to identity politics protectionism over innovation, the future looks rather grim for the US. Bright for others though.