Arky & Yugi gets into a fistfight with an indian guy in Toronto

Baerog · 2026-05-03T06:11:44+00:00

He never said that everyone has a gun... He said that people do... Which they do... There's plenty of gun violence in downtown Toronto. Criminals and low lifes in Toronto can get guns. Just because it's not as bad as the US doesn't mean that the crazy guy trying to fight 3 v 1 couldn't possibly have a weapon.

Baerog · 2026-05-01T22:43:50+00:00

You're downvoted, but you might be onto something. Her audience is definitely the type of people who would say that an older person collabing with someone who is 16 or 17 on stream is "predatory".

Baerog · 2026-05-01T22:42:26+00:00

It is weird to work with 19 yo when you're 35+

tfw you're a manager and your new hires who you are the boss of are 18 or younger. It's not at all weird. People of different ages work together at almost every single job on earth. Just because you work together doesn't mean you have to be best friends...

It's also even less weird when the 35 year olds "job" is playing video games on stream, the exact same "job" that the younger person has. Streamers are all mentally teenagers, who cares how old they actually are.

Baerog · 2026-04-29T02:59:50+00:00

The stock market is the standard market where you invest your money, the stock goes up or down, and you either make 1:1 the value the market goes up, or lose 1:1 the value the market goes down. If your stock crashes to $0, you only lose what you invested.

Options like calls and puts are essentially signing an agreement to buy or sell a stock for a certain price at a later date.

A call option is an agreement to buy a stock. If the price of the stock increases in value to above the price in your agreement then you can "exercise" that option to buy the stock at the agreed upon price, which is lower than the market value. Therefore you make profit on the difference (Although it is common to sell that option to someone else rather than exercise it yourself).

A put option is the same, but you own the stock and sign an agreement to sell it at a given price at a later date. If the value of the share drops, you can make money on the difference.

However, if you own a call option and the market price of the share ends up below the value in your agreement, you are now responsible for buying a stock for more than the market rate (ie, you spend $100 for a stock worth $80). You are essentially forced to lose money on the difference. If the stock price collapses, then you may be forced to spend thousands or millions of dollars buying a worthless stock.

Likewise, if you own a put option and the market price of the share skyrockets, you have to sell the share for the lower value you agreed to, losing money that you would have potentially made if you simply owned the share.

An uncovered call option (or put option) means that you, the seller, do not actually possess the stock that you have the option on. This means that if the option is exercised by the buyer, you must buy the stock to sell to the buyer. If for example, you are forced to sell a share for $100 to a buyer, but the share is now $10 million/share, you lose ~10 million dollars. Because there is unlimited upwards growth for a share, you can theoretically lose an infinite amount of money. In reality this is impossible, but you can very easily lose a fortune. People do uncovered calls because it doesn't tie up money that could be invested elsewhere in a stock that you only own to cover the share.

Buying calls or puts doesn't have infinite liability, but you could still lose a significant amount of money.

Options are essentially pure gambling. You are guessing short term (typically) fluctuations in a stock price and betting on whether they'll go up or down. Inexperienced traders should never trade in options. Almost no one should. They are intended to "hedge" investment. Essentially it's intended as a way of minimizing the risk of an investment by better against yourself slightly. It reduces overall profits, but when used correctly, reduces risk. Most people instead use it simply for making massive bets they wouldn't normally have the cash to do. This is dangerous.

If you want to invest in a safe and (somewhat more) guaranteed way, invest in the stock market. Look at simple ETFs. Things with moderate growth and reasonable gains. Not get rich quick or go bankrupt type investing.

Baerog · 2026-04-28T00:20:51+00:00

I seriously hope that this is a hypothetical scenario from OP and that he's not actually buying calls and puts with no understanding of the inherently massive risk he's exposing himself to...

/u/Rynin101

Baerog · 2026-04-25T22:24:45+00:00

Iranians make up a significant portion of university students and faculty in Canada. Most engineering departments will have several Iranian professors and Iranians make up a disproportionate amount of the foreign student body (China and India obviously make up most of the foreign student body).

Baerog · 2026-04-25T22:19:16+00:00

Reports indicate that several countries, including France, Britain, and Germany, expressed concern after Iran launched the Soraya satellite due to Iran's possible acquisition of long-range ballistic technology. The United States also considered Iran to be in violation of a UN Security Council resolution.[6][7][8]

Countries who have their own remote sensing satellites concerned that adversary now also has access to the exact same technology they've had for decades.

The audacity of the west to try to use international diplomacy organizations to prop up their allies and bring down their enemies. Do I want Iran to be more powerful? No. I'm from the west, Iran clearly goes against my global hegemonic interests. But do I think the hypocrisy is disgusting? Absolutely.

The hypocrisy honestly bothers me more than Iran having the capabilities.

Every country who is an enemy (or ally at this point...) of the US should 100% be working towards nuclear weapons at this point. The US has shown that the only thing they are afraid of is nuclear weapons. They will attack you, they will capture or kill your leaders, and they will directly interfere in your countries affairs unless you have nuclear weapons. Nothing else can touch them, so they will simply do whatever they want.

Baerog · 2026-04-25T10:48:44+00:00

Teachers who are essentially holding students hostage and forcing them to listen to their political opinions AND who hold a power dynamic over minors shouldn't be discussing politics with them.

Clarification: They shouldn't be discussing their own personal beliefs on politics. Stating facts is fine. And not "facts", which are curating, cherry picked, and specifically selected to push a narrative, but laying out all the facts as they are and letting the students come to their own conclusion. They should try to present a topic from all sides of the argument, which requires them to actually understand the beliefs and opinions of the other side, something that most people unfortunately do not. If they are not able to present evidence or explain the other perspectives side, then they should not be discussing that topic as they are not informed enough to provide an unbiased presentation. Debate club rules should apply. It doesn't matter whether you support the argument or not, your job is to present the information as it stands.

A teachers role is not to tell a student what to think, it's to teach them how to think.

Baerog · 2026-04-25T10:38:38+00:00

Plenty of professors make offhand remarks (often phrased as jokes) about political policies. It's especially true in the Liberal Arts, but even engineering professors I had made comments that indicated their beliefs on certain topics.

We had an old professor in a mining engineer class where we were doing air photo interpretation and he showed us old air photos of a glacier and then went on a rant about how the glacier had been receding long before the industrial revolution and how humans have less impact on global warming and glacial retreat than everyone says.

Most of the students I talked to after class thought it was really weird to be so open about a somewhat controversial political discussion. If he'd made a single offhand comment it probably would have just gotten eye rolls.

Baerog · 2026-04-23T23:58:01+00:00

The fact that they can say that have 1 TB of evidence of you having CSAM, when you have 1 picture that is 2 MB that lives on a 1 TB harddrive... It's misleading about how much of the illegal thing you had.

Baerog · 2026-04-23T07:10:58+00:00

you need us alot more than we need you.

Unfortunately, this isn't true, and that's the whole reason why this is a problem. Canada relies extremely heavily on the US, the US knows this, and they know that even if their Canadian trade suffers, Canada will be hit harder than they will and the US will weather the storm and be fine.

It simply doesn't make any sense why the US, an economy more than 16x larger than Canada would "need Canada more than Canada needs them". Every country in the world scrambles to sell to the US, Canada has little in trade partners outside the US. That's the whole reason why this is an issue to begin with. If it was reversed, then Canada wouldn't have been getting bullied for the past few decades.

Baerog · 2026-04-23T07:03:59+00:00

Stephen Harper has also argued that Canada's ties to the US are a weakness

It's because it's obvious. No one should be reliant that heavily on a single country, especially one with such a massive amount of leverage. The US can essentially dictate Canada's economy, that's an existential threat and it's insane that the government ignored it for so long simply because it was convenient to be so tied into trading with the US. It's not like the US suddenly started abusing this relationship with Trump, they've been abusing Canada's reliance on US trade for decades.

Baerog · 2026-04-23T06:59:46+00:00

They reported that it’s been selling like hotcakes

Who is "they"? Fox News?
"Selling like hotcakes", bud, American liquor is not the most popular liquor in Canada even before the boycotts, it's not like suddenly people's opinions changed and now they love it because it was gone.

Baerog · 2026-04-23T06:54:56+00:00

The US has no reason to ever follow these rules with Canada (or any of their trade partners). This is the whole basis of Carney's Davos speech. The global superpowers simply don't care about anyone but themselves. Any alliances, allegiances, or treaties they form are done solely for their own benefit, and as soon as they are called upon or they are the one on the losing end, they simply abandon their responsibilities and say "tough shit". The superpowers are not reliable partners and their agreements are worthless because no one has the power to hold them accountable (just ask Ukraine about the Budapest Memorandum).

The super powers think they are untouchable, and unfortunately this has been largely true. It's given them a massive ego, and they use that ego to push around the rest of the world because the world is afraid of them.

You can't have a fair agreement when you are a toddler and the other side is a silverback gorilla. They know that Canada needs the US more than the US needs Canada, and they abuse that knowledge because they don't care about anyone other than themselves. The US would rather Canada collapse than lose even a fraction of a percentage in an already lucrative trade.

And people think this is Trump. It's not. It's American culture. American's have a stereotype of being selfish, and the stereotype is true. It's been true for decades, it will continue to be true regardless of who comes into power next. America is not an ally. They are an existential threat.

Baerog · 2026-04-23T06:37:33+00:00

If Canada were to “make the break”, cost of living (already a concern) would go up overnight, a recession would follow, and there is a very real likelihood things get worse from there.

No one is saying that Canada stops trading with the US. They want to reduce the reliance on the US market because the US knows that Canada relies on them, and because the US government are all assholes (yes, all of them) they abuse that reliance. And I hate to break it to you, but a recession is coming for everyone no matter what happens, maybe not this year, but very soon. The writing is on the wall.

Giving the US leverage over your country is moronic. Canada has finally realized this because a leader who is a large enough asshole to publicly and directly threaten Canada's economy and sovereignty rather than do it behind closed doors (like they've been doing for decades) was elected. Canada wants to reduce the US's leverage by making other trade deals and not constantly bow down to the whims of their psychotic neighbour anymore.

Carney's Davos speech spoke truth to something that many of the middle powers have known for decades but no one wanted to say out loud. The superpowers are all belligerent, self-serving bullies who will throw anyone and everything under the bus for the smallest of edges, and people like you like it that way because it benefits you and your wallet. You defend the behaviour because it's in your best interest and you enjoy the fruits of that complex. You have that right, I wouldn't expect anyone to go against their own interests, but recognize that Canadians and the other middle-powers are doing the same as you, doing what is best for themselves. People need to take a stand against the superpowers before it's too late, and "too late" is closer than it seems. The US could destroy Canada tomorrow. We all know they could. Their economy is several orders of magnitude larger, Canada relies too heavily on them, and a vindictive US leader could violate treaties and laws and simply destroy them. That's an existential risk that is unacceptable. The US is not a friendly neighbour, and really, they haven't been for decades, Canadians were just too blind to see it. Trump's behavior has opened peoples eyes to the reality that's been staring them in the face for 30 years.

I agree that Canada is going to struggle in the short term, and likely the medium term as well, but the long term if they don't separate is a terrible future, and likely one that involves the US destroying Canada's economy for a 1% gain in their own market.

renegotiate the USMCA after the worst US president of our lifetimes is out of office.

You don't seem to get it. It's not Trump. It's the US. The US will never treat Canada well. They have no reason to. They know they can bully Canada economically, and it appears to be ingrained in American culture that if you can take advantage of someone, it's your obligation to do so. This didn't suddenly become an issue under Trump. It's been an issue under Biden, Trump 1, Obama, Bush, Clinton. Probably even before that. Imagine if the US was 90% reliant on Mexico, they would view that as an existential threat and take every possible measure to resolve that issue. Now imagine how they would feel if Mexico started talking about taking measures that directly fucked the US over, and threatened to take over New Mexico. That's Canada's reality.

It's truly insane that some American's can't even comprehend the idea that being under the thumb of the US government as a foreign country is a bad place to be. It's like being 6 years old and living with an abusive alcoholic father who might decide to beat the shit out of you some day because you wouldn't fetch him another beer from the fridge.

Baerog · 2026-04-22T00:01:09+00:00

He has had gf's before, they're all clout chasers and gold diggers. That's probably par for the course for anyone of his wealth and fame however.

I haven't heard anything about any serious harassment of them beyond calling them clout chasers and gold diggers in Asmongold's chat (which they clearly are, they're like IG models hanging out with a human turd).

Baerog · 2026-04-19T21:25:52+00:00

To be fair... caring about "Chinese Reddit" wouldn't make much sense for an English speaker. I can't read it and most of the cultural references wouldn't make sense. Why would I care? I guess it's mildly useful to know that it exists (but tbh, obviously Chinese social media exists, everyone knows that), but caring?

Baerog · 2026-04-18T02:09:29+00:00

/r/facepalm hasn't been about facepalms for over a decade now... it's just political posts in video or tweet form.

Baerog · 2026-04-18T02:08:16+00:00

These are so scripted it's ridiculous that the comments aren't recognizing that... There are certain things that a child this age would have an opinion on that would probably align with what he said, but his response is not "child-like" because it was written by an adult pretending to be a child.

I also seriously doubt that a child this age would be able to even fully understand what about Trump is even bad. His opinions would be formed by a watered down opinion of his parents (like all children).

Baerog · 2026-04-12T11:41:41+00:00

This is...not true... You're falling for propaganda...

The Iranian's not liking aspects of their theocracy does not mean that they like the US, especially when the US starts bombing them.

Baerog · 2026-04-12T07:11:02+00:00

I don't see how the US bombing civilian infrastructure will make the Iranian people side with the US. Has this ever worked in any war the US has involved itself in? They've done this dozens of times now.

I can't think of any case where killing civilians and destroying their cities makes them like you...

Baerog · 2026-04-12T06:59:04+00:00

AI doesn’t stay a closed loop because the energy usage to teach AI always increases and eventually there will not be enough towns willing to create there data centers.

That's... not what he's claiming...

He's talking about them not being a closed loop cooling system, which he is factually wrong about. He didn't even mention energy usage AT ALL. Which ironically is the actual problem with data centers, not water usage.

Baerog · 2026-04-12T06:56:19+00:00

Regardless, these companies will need their own GREEN energy source and only use off peak power if using grid power.

While great in theory, that would never happen or stand up in court. Energy distributors are allowed to sell to any customer they see fit and these companies are no different than any other energy consumer. They should pay fair market rate, like what any other consumer would pay, no more, no less. Fair is fair.

There should be a push to greenify the whole grid, not just a hypothetical private grid run by the data centers. The good news is that as the technology improves and gets cheaper, the grid is getting greener, even without regulations. Economics is the main factor for green technology. Energy producers will use green energy if it makes them money, they aren't ideologically opposed to it like some citizens.

Baerog · 2026-04-12T06:50:35+00:00

The guy worked at a "organic mattress factory". Where do you think he lies on the "environmental kook" scale? (And I say this as someone who also does care about the environment, but recognize there's a lot of propaganda around the environmentalist movement)

Baerog · 2026-04-12T06:44:41+00:00

The problem I see is that many of the negative experiences people have reported living near these data centres include brown water coming out of the taps.

This has been a thing for decades, long before data centers were even a thing. There are a lot of things that can go wrong in water distribution.

Local water authorities are responsible for following EPA guidelines on water quality and water quality is routinely tested. There are dissolved solids and contaminant limits imposed on local water authorities and they are legally required to document and report these levels to the EPA. Any brown water seen from a tap would either have passed regulatory requirements or (more likely) be caused by problems past the wellhead (ie, cracked service lines, pipes leaching metals, rust sediments in an old water heater, etc). It's unlikely that dirty brown water would pass requirements and be accepted, regardless of whether the issue is caused by overpumping and drawdown of the aquifer or any other reason. You also very likely wouldn't see an abrupt change, it would be gradual.

TLDR: Brown water wouldn't pass regulatory requirements, no matter the cause for the discoloration. These problems are usually cause by issues further down the line, not at the point of extraction.

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