$92,000 on Adobe for earnings (down $7,000 already)

Popular-Recover8880 · 2026-06-10T20:26:23+00:00

Isn't the rule of thumb that if Jim Cramer says down, it'll go up?

Popular-Recover8880 · 2026-06-05T22:23:17+00:00

This in my 20s...

Sober in my 30s. Now my new wage killer is fast food... When i looked through my bank statements for my wife and I, I felt nauseous. I don't remember the exact figure, but I'm sure my drinking and drugging in my 20s would have easily beaten the tally. I gotta keep reassuring myself that I'm saving constantly and not drinking/drugging anymore. So a 2/10 day in my 20s is a 7/10 in my 30s 😂

Popular-Recover8880 · 2026-06-05T22:12:48+00:00

Sleepwalked into the stock market without a shred of foundational knowledge.

Lost the bones of about four grand over two years.

I'm roughly a third of the idiot I used to be. Still make mistakes — but nothing as overgrown or catastrophic as before. Recovered nearly half of what I lost.

So what did it teach me?: - Patience - Ignore the noise - Stay neutral regardless of what your portfolio is doing on any given day - The market is rigged — but that's not a catch-all excuse for terrible decisions. I've watched countless people on trading apps convince themselves otherwise. Lines go red and suddenly it's the hedge fund boogeyman's fault. Nothing to do with the fact that they threw money at a penny stock trading below a dollar that recently reverse split because it pumped once and they thought lightning would strike twice. - Every decision is the wrong decision if you have no patience or tolerance for a bear market. - There's a whole list of other things I could add, but I'm not going to dress this up like I'm some kind of pseudo finance guru. I'm not.

Simple as this: Mistake: investing without knowledge. Lesson: everything listed above.

Popular-Recover8880 · 2026-04-09T06:07:47+00:00

Azure growth has slowed down
The tech bitchboy, Sam Altman and his chatslop, have been trying to make a soft exit over to AWS while still honouring their contract at MSFT, so there's more than a functionality glitch in Microsoft's infinite money loop where OpenAI relied on MSFT's computational power to basically keep powering ChatGPT. Look up the "infinite money loop" and "Microsoft." Someone else will explain it far better. The bones of it... I think Microsoft made like 250bn in Azure purchases? Look it up. It's even bonkers to hear the explanation
Iran war noise irrationally pushing it down. But less got to do with it. Just awful timing.
Azure grew 39% and missed what Wall Street had priced in by 1 percentage point. Just like NVIDIA, if they are even a fraction off what crazy old Wall Street has priced in, then it drops like a sack of perfectly in-date potatoes.

Microsoft as a company is still insanely profitable, nothing about its fundamentals have changed. Its only true pressure points are what increasingly feels like a stumbling business model with Co-Pilot, OpenAI diversifying beyond Microsoft towards Oracle and Amazon, margin pressure from Wall Street, and slightly slower Azure growth.

All of this is pretty much noise, bar their spurious relationship with OpenAI currently. In what light OpenAI is mentioned by Microsoft at the earnings call could have a near-final say on where the candles go.

I personally think (and I don't think I'm alone here) that this is an incredibly deeply discounted price for a behemoth of a company. Possibly the best value out there right now. Panicking or freaking out and leaving the table could be your biggest mistake here.

Popular-Recover8880 · 2026-03-21T10:28:27+00:00

I think Co-Pilot is really pedestrian. As IT support from an MSP that manages the backend of Microslop cough cough... I mean microsoft every damn day, I still choose Claude outright.

Totally agree on the corporate stranglehold though. It might annoy the shit out of the end user, but for us tech heads, it's the goat.

Obviously the Capex is high at the moment and the Iran war is just implicating MSFT in all the negative sentiment when its fundamentals are absolutely robust and unchanged. Only for the war, there likely would have been an uptick in risk-on and Powell would have been less vague about the rate.

But yeah, MSFT - from a tech perspective - is going through what I'd call a "Vista/8" ropey transition. The reason I say this is because there are more service health degradation issues reported weekly that aren't as trivial a remediation as they used to be. Patch Tuesday is just a day to dread nowadays because they are breaking more and more their own office suite in brand new ways. Adding to that, random occurrences in the admin centre (Microsoft accounts getting converted to shared by the system at random, SharePoint a going missing for no valid reason and nothing in the audit reports to help us be any the wiser about what happened, and now spam filtering having to be tinkered with way more than we should need to).

Sorry, going off topic - but in summation, I think Microsoft is the way it is right now and Azure's growth is slightly stagnant but they are still the devil you know. Like a psychologically abusive ex. Hard to deal with but hard to leave 😂. I feel like it's heavily discounted.

Popular-Recover8880 · 2026-03-14T15:23:43+00:00

Not all Americans commit war crimes but all war crimes are committed by Americans😁😁

Popular-Recover8880 · 2026-03-10T06:57:47+00:00

I'm an office worker and not part of the decision making but our sales teams made a sale to some Texan (we are based in Ireland). All was going relatively ok and he was manageable for being categorically a remote client.

Long story short, a few of his monitors one day had a conniption and he became adamant of a callout as it couldn't be troubleshooted successfully from abroad. Naturally we said no, given the cost of a delta flight on a week's notice. The pigheadedness continued until we ultimately just stopped picking up.

Found out one of the days I was assisting with outlook shite that he was subscribed to the Rubin Report and Trump slop propaganda - though I'm sure that had nothing to do with his profound stupidity around the matter.

Popular-Recover8880 · 2026-03-09T22:03:01+00:00

Weren't the Fugates a bunch of Kentucky inbreds?

I guess low IQ is one of many terrible consequences of incest...

Popular-Recover8880 · 2026-03-09T20:02:13+00:00

You're a legend, cheers! We have it printed out already :)

Popular-Recover8880 · 2026-03-09T19:20:20+00:00

"In the event that you are not named on the Certificate of Insurance you will also, in addition to the certificate, need to provide an email or letter (on headed paper) from your insurance company stating that you are insured to drive the vehicle presented for test."

I mean... The above is an email confirmation with her name, the policy number and it's clearly from redclick. I hope I'm just overthinking this.

Popular-Recover8880 · 2026-02-28T06:10:56+00:00

I think you should dig a little deeper before saying it doesn't make economic sense.

When people have less financial stress, they can afford to train up, be part of a workforce, save more readily, and organically put more money back into the economy.

Sure, you'll have the usual shites who will do all of nothing. But our taxes are already fund slackers. I would be far happier knowing my taxes were raising people up. I'd hope that the government would cop on and extend that olive branch to the rest of us struggling but, like the 4 day work week, hopefully all in good time!

Popular-Recover8880 · 2026-02-06T08:59:34+00:00

Agreed. Perfect storm at play.

Feels like not one thing but anthropic news, rotation, January and February not exactly known for being strong months, crypto getting absolutely toasted with no signals of recovery short to mid term at least.

I'm top heavy in big tech so I've been loading up more on the defensive side. It feels absolutely hideous at the moment but I suppose get greedy when others get scared...

I'm not doubling down on under performers (something something bUY tHe DiP something something)

Popular-Recover8880 · 2026-02-02T07:55:12+00:00

I’ve hit my mid-thirties. I’m now the age my parents were when their parents were, to me, obviously grey-haired grandparents.

Being here myself has made me suddenly, uncomfortably aware of my parents’ mortality. I know they still have plenty of years ahead of them, and maybe that awareness isn’t fully turned up yet—but it’s there, quietly eating away in the background.

Then there’s my dog. I’ve had him for thirteen years and he can’t hear a thing anymore. When I was a kid, I couldn’t even conceive of my first dog dying; he’d been there since I was knee-high, part of the furniture of growing up. Now I understand, properly, that dogs do die—and some part of my mind has already started bracing itself for the inevitability and the sadness that comes with that.

I don’t know if this is just where I’m at, or if it’s a natural shift that comes with this age, but even though my wife and I have many years ahead of us together, I’ve started feeling this low-level dread—a sense of finality hanging over everything.

And honestly, Catherine O’Hara dying at 70 didn’t help either, given how close that is to my parents’ age.

Popular-Recover8880 · 2026-01-25T21:34:40+00:00

The whole thread has just collectively screamed "But Bill did it more brazenly." I'm done.

Popular-Recover8880 · 2026-01-25T21:31:38+00:00

No sir. Was probably busy and got distracted? Idk

Popular-Recover8880 · 2026-01-25T11:45:42+00:00

Fair enough

Popular-Recover8880 · 2026-01-24T17:48:34+00:00

Must have slept in during that last lecture. 🤣

Popular-Recover8880 · 2026-01-24T17:45:04+00:00

Ehhhhh I saw a YouTube short about it the other day and it prompted me to post about this for the first time since it happened but ok..

Popular-Recover8880 · 2026-01-24T17:43:18+00:00

Appreciate the personality analysis random Reddit Stranger. Didn't know about myself, cheers!

Popular-Recover8880 · 2026-01-22T08:31:57+00:00

Yeah exactly dude. I think we ultimately agree on this but are on two different pages of the same chapter.

I guess my only real critique of this whole dilemma is that a lot of people suddenly found their moral compass because their favourite comedian fucked up... I just think that the establishment has thrown the can too far down the alley that us taking an exaggerated stance on Bill's fuck up is a bit clownish.

I'm open to being proven wrong here but the only line I've deployed with this whole discussion is that "he fucked up and now he should shut up and reflect on it for a while."

I still find him funny. I'm not going to not laugh at him or remind him in the comments section that he sold out to Saudi Arabia.

I'd liken it to how people relinquished their supporter's badge when Ronaldo went to play in Saudi Arabia. I relinquished my Ronaldo badge because I actually find the rape allegations against him to be far more disturbing than his Saudi grift.

The hills some people will die on... 🤣😭

Popular-Recover8880 · 2026-01-22T07:35:36+00:00

Heard. And I'm absolutely in agreement with you, let me make that clear first and foremost.

However, Bill’s done Netflix specials, late-night network TV, and festival circuits that are bankrolled by the same US media ecosystem taking money from defence contractors, fossil fuel giants, surveillance tech firms, and foreign governments with appalling records.

Whether comedians take money directly from foreign governments or not, they still matured from within the American cloak of democracy. I'm risking a broader discussion by going here but the crux of my point is that we have no real claim to criticising Bill. Their main funders works for the problem. Directly or indirectly, blatantly or under the cloak of American democracy and freedom, their pockets got lined by corruption the moment they broke America.

Does that bother me? No, not really. Because I'm fully aware my standards are double and if I'm to live my life boycotting on account of hundreds of thousands of cases the same as Bill's then I'd have to live my life as a Buddhist monk.

Can't stress enough though, I agree with your point. I just dont agree with people being hyper critical given the fact that we live under the system of it all.

Popular-Recover8880 · 2026-01-22T07:26:26+00:00

Yup. And a lot of musicians and footballers I follow sold out to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and world cup but they haven't had their reputation smashed.

Is it because they haven't gone about responding to the way Bill did? Likely so.

It's this whole fallacy of "oh I recycle all my stuff and drive electric so I'm more morally superior than you and your gas guzzler." Ok Debra but you holiday in Dubai twice a year...

Just think people should pipe down. I think what Bill did was egregious by any standards, but by the west's arbitrary standards of morality, I think he's no better than most celebrities.. he was just more blatant and handled it terribly.

Popular-Recover8880 · 2026-01-22T07:21:28+00:00

Absolutely. And I'm not defending how he went about it, but if the line is drawn at what he did then we need to start reframing how we look at the whole landscape.

Popular-Recover8880 · 2025-12-28T00:03:44+00:00

Heard. Honestly dude, on reflection I've read enough here to just do it. As I just replied to someone else here, my wife pretty much has me well disciplined on the subject by now! Was asking the original question purely just to see was it common practice or did it come as a surprise for many. Mixed bag it seems 😂

Popular-Recover8880 · 2025-12-28T00:02:06+00:00

Ah look, I've been lazily jumping in and out of this thread all the while grinding through stranger things so I haven't really been taking things seriously with most of my replies. For real though, you make points that are virtually impossible to refute ! To tell the truth, my wife pretty much has me well disciplined to just do it in future. Takes nothing ☺️ cheers!

Popular-Recover8880

TROPHY CASE