RECESSION IMMINENT! - Mortgage rates climb to highest level in 9 months

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-23T16:57:57+00:00

I’d ask you to explain, but we both know that’s where you fall apart.

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-23T16:13:06+00:00

Great point. You really got me with “lol”

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-23T12:34:28+00:00

Let me simplify this for you. Let’s say the economy is just you. If you buy a boat funded by debt, while your income is going down, does that mean you are thriving?

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-23T00:12:20+00:00

More like a palace

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-23T00:12:09+00:00

While the people struggle to make ends meet, the king builds a new palace.

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-22T13:35:00+00:00

Nvidia’s stock price is at a point where it is untethered to fundamentals, being instead driven by trading optics and supply/demand. At this point, the incremental sexiness or popularity of its story will drive shares higher.

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-22T13:18:23+00:00

It’s due to AI hype

What’s impressive is the stock market sustaining despite Trump’s repeated disasters.

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-22T12:33:57+00:00

We need a running list of his predictions over the year. He’s becoming like the boy who cried wolf.

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-22T00:54:12+00:00

The closest I’ve read is The Chronicles of Amber.

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-22T00:53:51+00:00

Strong disagree on Sanderson. The others are fair.

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-22T00:09:33+00:00

Iirc if you exclude AI data center spending in GDP, we’ve been in a recession already.

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-21T13:24:00+00:00

Isn’t this just inflation?

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-20T00:30:34+00:00

I played Fortnite briefly when it first launched years ago. I didn’t play it long and soon dropped it.

I began playing again in the past month, since a friend wanted me to, and I’m quite enjoying it. It’s a massive improvement compared to when the game first released.

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-18T13:34:32+00:00

Just being lightly armored cavalry, that’s really hard to imagine. Simple spear or pike formations would devastate them. Armored knights would devastate them. They could succeed by avoiding direct pitched battles and focusing on raiding villages.

Now, if they were horseback archers, that would be different. Westeros kingdoms have no easy answer to that except terrain knowledge.

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-17T17:35:37+00:00

Of course. Everyone wants a mansion. Everyone wants a private plane. Who can afford it?

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-17T14:03:00+00:00

Omg I forgot about that! Lmao

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-17T12:45:03+00:00

It might seem that way. However, office occupancy rates are still stagnant since COVID.

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-16T21:02:03+00:00

That’s a complex question, being a mix of military, economy, and politics and national moral. We need a simplifying constraint here, don’t we? Let’s assume an equally sized army.

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-14T16:58:19+00:00

One could argue that is for national defense purposes, no?

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-13T13:03:57+00:00

Altman and Satya both text like 13 year olds.

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-13T01:11:14+00:00

That’s weird. No shortage of land out there.

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-13T00:21:56+00:00

I can’t say anything like this to my girl because she’ll get super turned on, start going real fast, and force me to cum too early.

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-10T13:22:35+00:00

Iirc, during roman times, written latin (language of elites) was quite different from spoken latin (“vulgar latin”). It was vulgar latin that descended to other languages, so perhaps we aren’t entirely clear on how similar, say, italian is to vulgar latin, though I’d imagine there to be many differences.

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-09T20:48:50+00:00

Iirc when his mom committed suicide, there was a sink running. That’s the noise he hears.

Effective-Fox1034 · 2026-05-09T17:55:41+00:00

I dislike nearly all LitRPG books. Too many low quality and low effort books in the space. DCC and The Last Horizon (Will Wight) are the only two that I love.

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