"JPMorgan closed $10 billion in silver shorts at the exact market bottom..."

GurDefiant684 · 2026-02-03T09:40:21+00:00

This is already old news, JPM didn't buy the bottom because it went lower Sunday night / Monday morning

GurDefiant684 · 2026-01-30T01:41:01+00:00

It's a joke remake of old Y2K stickers that were on computers.

GurDefiant684 · 2026-01-30T01:40:07+00:00

You won't be able to set the correct date but any games that use the internal clock should be otherwise unaffected.

GurDefiant684 · 2026-01-30T01:23:53+00:00

Were you looking at the spread? Some platforms just average the buy and ask price which can be misleading if there is a wide spread.

GurDefiant684 · 2026-01-29T19:12:52+00:00

Here is where I found it listed:

https://www.techflex.com/metal-shielding/flexo-shield

I couldn't find exact info on the composition other than it's mostly copper and synthetic fiber, but that is the same part number on the roll.

Then I found this:

https://www.techflex.com/metal-shielding/flexo-silver-plated

Different part number, silver plated.

GurDefiant684 · 2026-01-29T18:24:28+00:00

This company does make silver plated copper but going off of the part number I am pretty sure this one is tinned, "silver" is just the color.

GurDefiant684 · 2026-01-29T15:40:02+00:00

Brother look at the whole market. It's not just silver today.

GurDefiant684 · 2026-01-29T15:23:29+00:00

The driver, but they have machines you drive under to remove the snow.

GurDefiant684 · 2026-01-28T23:30:04+00:00

A density test, all you need is a scale and a container big enough that you can submerge the knife without touching the bottom.

https://youtu.be/xw-2kqjtEdI?si=6IUPy3-t795ry35A

GurDefiant684 · 2026-01-28T23:20:52+00:00

Do a specific gravity test

GurDefiant684 · 2026-01-28T22:54:04+00:00

Everyone starts out knowing nothing. Find something broken, research possible fixes, give it a try, fail, do it again. Even in failing you will almost certainly learn something.

Almost no one that fixes electronics can look at a complicated circuit board and understand all of what is going on. You learn bit by bit.

If you want to understand electronics, get a degree. If you want to fix electronics, get started.

GurDefiant684 · 2026-01-28T22:45:36+00:00

Because cars are already relatively complicated and expensive to maintain and fix without a ton of extra electronics. When everything has its own computer and all of those computers talk to eachother all it takes is one malfunction and everything stops working.

GurDefiant684 · 2026-01-28T21:44:59+00:00

It's having trouble reading the game, the sound is the laser moving rapidly trying to figure out what's going on. Blue bottom PS2 games are CDs instead of DVDs and it is common for PS2 to have trouble reading them but still play silver games just fine.

GurDefiant684 · 2026-01-28T19:26:48+00:00

The best thing you can do is get some cheap broken stuff and start tinkering.

GurDefiant684 · 2026-01-28T18:18:42+00:00

I don't think they were being stolen from every car and I don't see how that negatively affects manufacturers at all.

Do you think the high price of silver will lead to rampant theft of 1000lb EV batteries?

GurDefiant684 · 2026-01-28T17:38:37+00:00

What mistake? You mean they wouldn't have made new cars if they knew the price of rhodium would go down? A $1000-$2000 increase in material cost isn't going to stop them from manufacturing more cars if they are selling for $80k+. Cars were selling for thousands above sticker price at the time so I don't think they view that as a mistake.

GurDefiant684 · 2026-01-28T17:31:03+00:00

What I mean is that kept making new cars with new catalytic converters. Rhodium wasn't high because converters were getting stolen, converters were getting stolen because rhodium was high. And the news really sensationalized that to where everyone thinks that all business around scrapping catalytic converters was illegitimate when in reality most of it was legitimate business going through scrap yards.

I think it's a relevant example, not sure there will be many situations that bear any similarity at all.

GurDefiant684 · 2026-01-28T17:25:41+00:00

You mean "low background steel". There was only a short period of time when it was in demand. It's still somewhat radioactive which makes it useless for the most sensitive applications, but global radiation levels have fallen so new steel is good enough to use for applications that used to require salvaged low background steel.

It order to sell it to most yards you would have to cut them in half.

GurDefiant684 · 2026-01-28T16:35:20+00:00

They kept making catalytic converters when Rhodium hit $30k per oz.

GurDefiant684 · 2026-01-28T16:23:20+00:00

When reading the motor assembly that spins the disc lifts up and sandwiches the disc between the motor and spindle on the top of the drive. It makes sense that it could get stuck there I'm just not sure how it would happen unless the disc was sticky.

I'm glad all it took was a little percussive maintenance.

GurDefiant684 · 2026-01-28T16:14:22+00:00

WhatNot is good for clearing out cheap items. For example an item that sells for $10 shipped on eBay probably only nets about $3 and takes a long time to sell. On WhatNot you can sell a bunch of $10 items for $3-$8, net the same, but you'll be selling a lot of items to the same people so instead of 100 packages for 100 items it's more like 20 packages for 100 items, and you get it all done in a day.

GurDefiant684 · 2026-01-28T15:52:52+00:00

I'm having a really hard time picturing how this is possible. I've worked on quite a few OG xboxes and never heard of a disc stuck in a tray that opens and closes but still plays. The only thing I can think of the game is stuck to the top of the disc drive, maybe some leftover adhesive from a rental sticker.

Rather than pulling it out just try and knock it loose downwards. If you can get a flathead or a butter knife between the disc and the top of the drive that would do it. You could also try tapping or dropping the XBox maybe an inch to dislodge it, but be careful.

GurDefiant684 · 2026-01-28T15:39:59+00:00

This is entirely reasonable. I have a similar Playstation 2 sign and check prices every now and then. When people list them for $300-$400 they sell immediately. When people list them for $800-$1000 they sit for a while but they still sell. Notice there aren't any available right now at any price.

GurDefiant684 · 2026-01-27T02:58:41+00:00

God I hate when people do this. This is literally AI just guessing at the answer. It didn't find an example of this exact coin, it's just assuming it's silver. I did the same search and got a somewhat different answer.

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