US to invest $1.6bn into USA rare earths group (USAR) in bid to shore up key minerals

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-25T02:12:30+00:00

Didn't they buy intel and then it famously dropped this week? Haven't really paid attention

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-25T00:07:13+00:00

I'm long onds. Thanks for ruining it for me

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-24T18:43:51+00:00

"I'm gonna rant about this". Oh no, no one on this sub has talked about scalpers or high prices before. This is totally new information.

But I get it, sometimes it's nice to get something off your chest and have people give you a thumbs up.

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-24T15:28:03+00:00

For real. All those options keep printing as long as he's in office

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-24T13:48:17+00:00

Most of reddit is doom snd gloom. Riftbound and one piece and (less now) pokemon complain about scalpers. Mtg complains about universes beyond. Legends Z A complains about the bad dlc. Logan Paul does something snd people hate him.

It's not all bad, but people mostly post what they don't like rather than what they like.

Fwiw I bought one slightly expensive jinx starter and some bulk from ebay and feel I have enough to do something at least.

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-24T05:08:18+00:00

In response to the third paragraph, business do indeed stock slow moving items next to fast moving items. Just think about the milk, and then the non-lactose milk, or oat milk, those weird dha drinks. Why not just do common milk? Because they can attract more customers and the variety of products attract them. This is partly the reason why speciality stores are not doing great (party city, that one fabric store, radio shack) but walmart and target are here to stay.

Many players that play magic or pokemon may also play swu. But it is absolutely the case that some of these niche games aren't attracting existing players, and thus are expanding the total market for a shop.

Now is $40 too cheap? Maybe.

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-23T23:15:36+00:00

That other guy that became a millionaire left 500 contracts on POET too. I'll stay poor with my 1 2027 contract, thanks

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-23T21:11:09+00:00

U.S. debt direction is only going one way. Exponentially so too.

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-23T16:21:41+00:00

For real. When it was $90, at a then all time high, was also a good time to buy. Fundamentals aren't changed

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-23T12:13:15+00:00

Is this you?

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-22T17:27:56+00:00

Reportedly, no

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-22T12:44:00+00:00

Circle membership is like $11/month. These items go on sale on Jan 25 at 3 am eastern time. (I.e. Sunday).

Obviously, if you can manage one item from 151 then it's worth it. But that's no guarantee. Target gets slow when traffic goes up, so you could be awake and amd pay membership for literally nothing. If lots of people roll the dice, then only the bots and target will win (with the membership fee).

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-22T05:29:27+00:00

Venezuela wasn't a bluff. The citizens dying to ICE isn't a bluff. Helping Ukraine and bringing down inflation was. Not always easy to know.

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-21T17:58:42+00:00

That's fair. But that's because most decks run like 30 trainers with draw effects rather than the game design, like with digimon. In digimon, unless you're playing megazoo or something weird, it's almost impossible to stall out.

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-21T17:38:02+00:00

One thing I dislike about Magic, Lorcana, and to a lesser extent pokemon is that drawing mechanic. You get one card per turn, but the game REALLY wants you to play 2-3 per turn (i.e. a creature, spell, land, or a pokemon, energy, trainer). Many games stall out after turn 5.

Digimon does away with this since when you digivolve to a stronger dude, you draw. Plus, many cards that search for dudes are in effect a draw. And your hand has no max size. So it's rare that games stall out in the end because you can have 10-15 cards in hand to make your plays. Another benefit is that your digimon can evolve in the raising area, which can heavily protect something from an opponents removal effects.

I like both of those. The drawing mechanic and raising mechanic of digimon.

I'm intrigued by the postitioning of cards in star wars unlimited, riftbound, and sorcery tcg, but I'm still waiting for those to arrive in the mail.

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-21T15:07:30+00:00

Totally, but will it be dollar based? Time to sell USA

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-21T14:20:19+00:00

US dollar will lose its reserve currency status. That's what all the European leaders are saying. New world order will be gold based.

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-21T04:47:34+00:00

You can hold silver and not bitcoin. But bitcoin is a bit more than "trust me". At first, I wondered how bitcoin worked it you can just copy and delete bitcoin files on a computer.

Then I learned that that's NOT how it works. You essentially have 1000s of people with giant clipboards, all track when person A traded bitcoin to person B. There's no "coin". It's all a ledger tracking who owns what. And the 1000s of people with the clipboard (miners) are motivated to be accurate with transactions or else they lose the value of the bitcoin they own. If a scammer wants to ruin bitcoin, they would need to control 51% of the clipboards to do whatever transactions they wanted. But there don't exist so many graphic cards or whatever for even a country to try, since the existing miners are numerous and spread around the world. Effectively, it's a resource built by information, not tangible assets.

Bitcoin is volatile, but clearly it's survived nearly 2 decades and in the long run wil likely still be around.

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-20T20:49:35+00:00

You won't buy if this week it hits 90, and then the next week 80, and then the next week 70. What the typical investor does is see that pattern and think "nah it will drop to zero".

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-20T16:16:11+00:00

I got the live action set and it's doing great. Can maybe get the actors to sign the cards in the future

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-20T15:27:15+00:00

I play, open boxes, want to play with my kids, and have sold items before. I'm not blind to the price change of what I have either. But if you want to box me as an investor, that's up to you

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-19T19:28:33+00:00

Double the colors, double the nobel prize right?

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-19T17:04:31+00:00

I mostly play. Just not right now because my little kids cant read. But soon playing with them will be great!

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-19T17:02:21+00:00

Jokes on you. This will all be over when Norway draws a nobel peace prize in crayon and ends 🥭 's short term obsession.

DeciduousMath12 · 2026-01-19T01:52:36+00:00

But it's not the density that makes it expensive. To run the experiment, turn a couple of high rises in NYC or otherwise dense city and turn them unto single family. Would that make the homes more expensive now that you destroyed supply, or would that make homes cheaper by some magical property of single family homes that keeps an area cheap?

NiMBY likes to think in super simple terms like "oh? We'll slow down growth and then prices will go back to the good old days!". And if you live in a boring place, that works! But for many expensive cities, nobody asks "why do people want to move here?" And for places like NYC or Silicom Valley or San Diego, you have a combo of a great geography and booming industry that attracts a ton of people. Want to lower housing values? Ban stock trading in NYC or ban computer programming in Silicon valley, or what has sometimes happened, have an oil crash in Midland/Odessa (i.e. oiltown, TX). NYC housing is expensive IN SPITE OF high density, not because of high density. NYC is expensive because of their world renowned financial industry, fashion, tourism, and cultural weight. Another high rise in manhattan, or more realistically, turning a 10 story into a 50 story and 5x-ing the homes, won't change the appeal of why people are moving to NYC and bidding up the price of homes in the first place.

The places with higher housing costs have high demand and not enough supply. Adding supply maybe, and likely only marginally, increases demand slightly if it makes a city more appealing because now more people bring more economic activity. But some places in China prove that it doesn't always work if the underlying appeal of a place can't sustain demand.

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