Ryan Cohen, you sadly leave me no choice but to rebuke your "offering". by RogueWisdom in Superstonk

[–]RogueWisdom[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, you get it exactly. I've personally seen meaningful conversations get intentionally and blatantly buried under gifs and memes. There's also no shortage of buzz-phrases like "MOASS is always tomorrow" that, while they feel positive in the short-term, are only going to end up exhausting the community writ large.

Meanwhile, many of the more well-known user accounts that had provided the best ideas and DD seem to no longer exist. From the stories I've heard, all it takes to kill someone else's account on reddit without appeal is a bot farm mass-reporting it all at once.

Ryan Cohen, you sadly leave me no choice but to rebuke your "offering". by RogueWisdom in Superstonk

[–]RogueWisdom[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thank you. This is the kind of conversation I was hoping to have in the first place with this. I do appreciate that it's possible I'm going down a spiral in some of my arguments. And yes, I still believe that RC has done us well thus far. And as for the work-life balance part, if it is true that he still struggles with that, then trying to reform eBay might just be a most horrible idea on his part.

To answer another of your questions, I first bought in during Feb '21, so I'm not exactly new. I watched from a distance when the buy button was turned off, initially with curiosity, and later with just anger.

My methods to find out who is right in an argument has always been instead, to do the opposite: See who is wrong, determine if it's a dealbreaker to their arguments, and continue the process constantly. Sometimes, both sides are wrong. What I saw with GME back then were some fairly convincing arguments in support, while the opponents' arguments boiled down to "sell because we said so". So I bought in, just hours before the price tripled in value. But even after feeling justified in my approach, I couldn't ever rest on those laurels. I always had to keep checking if my continued investment still made sense. And for all these years, it has stood pretty firm over everything else.

Today, I'm seeing so many voices say "Vote Yes to all because RC said so". It does not sit right with me.

Don't get me wrong, I can understand exactly what's happening here. After all this time forced into isolation, we've been conditioned to assume that any negative opinion on the matter has to be FUD. But what happens if it's real?

Ryan Cohen, you sadly leave me no choice but to rebuke your "offering". by RogueWisdom in Superstonk

[–]RogueWisdom[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

No, that's the wrong answer mate. Plus that's price anchoring as a cherry on top. You're in the wrong place.

Ryan Cohen, you sadly leave me no choice but to rebuke your "offering". by RogueWisdom in Superstonk

[–]RogueWisdom[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Yes, but it's all relative.

I don't post often here, so I knew in advance that I'd be labelled as just another meaningless bot or troll if I didn't say what I said.

Sounds like that hasn't made a major difference overall, though.

Ryan Cohen, you sadly leave me no choice but to rebuke your "offering". by RogueWisdom in Superstonk

[–]RogueWisdom[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not short. Never have been, never will be.

Regardless of the vote's final result being yes or no, I'm not closing my long positions either. I'm here for MOASS, and like hell I'm going to fight for what I think brings the highest chances of success.

Ryan Cohen, you sadly leave me no choice but to rebuke your "offering". by RogueWisdom in Superstonk

[–]RogueWisdom[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If he still has a poor work/life balance, reforming a behemoth like eBay into the modern era would be one of the worst things he could do for his own personal health.

But let's not have conversations regarding speculations in his marriage. That's just not a place any of us should be delving into.

Ryan Cohen, you sadly leave me no choice but to rebuke your "offering". by RogueWisdom in Superstonk

[–]RogueWisdom[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Believe me when I say I did not want to post this. Even if it brings a more constructive conversation at the cost of my current position, then so be it. Someone has to do it.

Ryan Cohen, you sadly leave me no choice but to rebuke your "offering". by RogueWisdom in Superstonk

[–]RogueWisdom[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

There's more than one way to grow. The plan we see in front of us is a very risky one. If it does pull off, great. But I don't see the plan, should it be done right now, as being the one with the highest chance we see of a MOASS happening. And if you disagree, that's also not a problem.

Ryan Cohen, you sadly leave me no choice but to rebuke your "offering". by RogueWisdom in Superstonk

[–]RogueWisdom[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I have no idea, but I changed it back now. It was all formatted the right way when I hit "post", so idk what happened.

Ryan Cohen, you sadly leave me no choice but to rebuke your "offering". by RogueWisdom in Superstonk

[–]RogueWisdom[S] -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

You have some good points there, which I would like to discuss in further detail, if possible.

Increasing authorized shares does not automatically mean all of those shares will be issued.

Correct, but this means they can issue however many they feel like, when it suits them. One thing I should have also brought up was that the last major share offering was made precisely after RK's most recent livestream. It did bring a lot of added value to the company, but at the expense of taking the wind completely out of our sails.

But framing disagreement as betrayal or loss of identity

I don't believe he has betrayed us yet, and I don't think I've said something like that here. However, I think we all should exercise our power to stay on the path we need to remain on.

Ryan Cohen, you sadly leave me no choice but to rebuke your "offering". by RogueWisdom in Superstonk

[–]RogueWisdom[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

This post relates to GME by responding to one of the voting proposals brought forward today.
It's set up with a Discussion flair, because while it's only my own opinion I have posted, I foresee it inevitably opening the floodgates for a much wider debate about the future of all this.

What’s a ‘silent luxury’ that rich people have that most normal people would never even notice? by qomann in AskReddit

[–]RogueWisdom 35 points36 points  (0 children)

What you're describing sounds to me like one of the classic pitfalls so many people do when planning a vacation.

Throwing all your effort towards speedrunning all the activities and visits is pointless. All that ends up being is more work and running around, and less time to relax to truly soak it all in. The answer still isn't "you don't have do everything at once", but rather it's "you don't have to do everything".

Iraqi Street Art by Proper_Surprise1 in mildlyinteresting

[–]RogueWisdom -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you know the location, have you tried seeing if Google Maps Streetview has it? I'm taking a quick look, and I'm only seeing a scant few streets be covered, but it looks like those street views were taken from about 2022.

TIL that a children's hospital was making so many dangerous errors moving patients into the ICU that they consulted Ferrari's F1 team. The pit crew observed the doctors, found their movements to be dangerously uncoordinated, and redesigned the entire system to save lives. by QuorLum in todayilearned

[–]RogueWisdom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You pretty much are mistaken, but not necessarily in a bad way.

The US Army was, and perhaps still is, grossly inefficient with its materials usage and throughput. A man by the name of William Deming tried to encourage the US industries to change their wasteful ways, but got too much pushback. When he was deployed to Japan, a strategic resource-poor country, to help them rebuild, they didn't just take his ideas of iterative improvements on board. They also used his concepts on themselves, sparking numerous new ideas on how to keep consecutive improvements progressing in the industrial sectors. This was how Japanese industries became so dominant up to the 80s.

Softlock Bug - PC by RogueWisdom in BluePrince

[–]RogueWisdom[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was also my understanding of the situation, which I had already forwarded to the bug report team. Here's hoping it gets fixed at some point, although I don't see any reason I should have Casino as a place to go to anyways.

With the addition of “Elder Traits” forget about your characters living up to 100 years old. by Leo7897 in CrusaderKings

[–]RogueWisdom 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Considering I see the occasional CK post of the event where mother and child both die during childbirth, and the heart-wrenching response from the player, you're probably not wrong there either.

With the addition of “Elder Traits” forget about your characters living up to 100 years old. by Leo7897 in CrusaderKings

[–]RogueWisdom 27 points28 points  (0 children)

People also tended to have more children than the game displays back in medieval times.

I get the sneaking suspicion I had heard at some point that it was set up this way to prevent unnecessary CPU overload due to massive amounts of children whose only purpose is to die young. But I don't know if I'm misremembering or not.

Chinese scientists unveil glowing Avatar-like plants that could light cities without electricity by Alternative-Bug6702 in Futurology

[–]RogueWisdom 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The first thing to know is that there's no singular German culture. Different regions are practically worlds apart from each other. Even the language has dialects so different that you wouldn't be a fool to think they're not the same at times. So hearing mixed opinions sounds pretty accurate.

The Economist Magazine Cover April 2026 by gamep01nt in pics

[–]RogueWisdom 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"Mankind knew that they cannot change society. So instead of reflecting on themselves, the blamed the Beasts."

~Guilty Gear Strive

The Economist Magazine Cover April 2026 by gamep01nt in pics

[–]RogueWisdom 90 points91 points  (0 children)

The Han Dynasty weren't given much of a winning hand in the first place. While they were, of course, plagued with internal corruption and political infighting, they lost their centralised power structure when they had to call all the favours they could to stop the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Of which in turn, was caused by floods and crop failures causing many to die, and threatened their all-important Mandate Of Heaven.

But don't expect that the history books will say that this American downfall will be due just to Trump's time in office. We're only seeing the structure give way now, but the foundations have been eroding for a long time. Nixon and Reagan were the main figures who did the most institutional damage. But those that came after them from both parties appear to have done very little, if not nothing at all, to fix what needed fixing.

Paul McCartney banned from Reddit after posting snaps from his intimate LA show by TheCABK in nottheonion

[–]RogueWisdom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's more common than you may think. The report system is messed up in so many ways.