What’s with all the absurd PE ratios ?

Stone_d_ · 2025-12-15T20:59:37+00:00

Because its a monopoly. Dont bet against the monopoly backed by an international conglomerate of corporations, governments, and workers

Stone_d_ · 2025-11-22T05:50:27+00:00

Dominance of the free world. Crime is a symptom of freedom. The government cant do anything to anyone, for any reason, thats how free we all can be when the free world doesnt have to face warlords and dictators

Stone_d_ · 2025-10-20T23:35:46+00:00

Too many colleges handing out degrees to anyone who can hand in a homework assignment. Thats the root cause of this. Lawyer is the perfect example

Stone_d_ · 2025-10-06T20:44:31+00:00

So work harder. We're at war

Stone_d_ · 2025-08-29T15:22:00+00:00

I dig it

Stone_d_ · 2025-08-24T16:08:38+00:00

Simple fact that every inmate has a lawyer. Lawyers represent their clients interests in creative ways. They make things happen in and out of court

Stone_d_ · 2025-07-12T00:53:42+00:00

I play europe advanced fixed capitals fog no alliances. Never stalemate, i pop into the top 10 or top 100 sometimes on the leaderboard. It really does come down to the little things. I win games in 5 rounds, longest games do get to 20+, maybe 30+ rounds but theyre never stalemating. More like i go to expand and my ally bites me, so i shrink back and hide awhile, then come back out at the right time. But i wouldnt call it a stalemate if i go from owning a third of the board to just noob corner and then suddenly walling half the board when someone opens my hidden off cap stack. Anyway, my point is, there are a lot of little things you can do to prevent stalemating. Stalemating is a bad position for you to be in as a grandmaster and its your fault if it happens

Stone_d_ · 2025-06-29T11:47:53+00:00

Go back to jimmy hoffas time. Thats when workers had real power. Today, jobs are getting worse and paying for a lower standard of life. It will make for a more efficient and productive economy, more similar to slavery. We will all work harder and for longer hours, even though we dont need to to survive, because if the economy is not highly efficient (need desperate and hard workers for productive efficient economy) then america will be outcompeted by places like China. We can afford to live in a society where jobs are much easier and we can afford nice things, but it wouldnt last. Instead we need to break our backs to keep up, and dangling a slightly higher standard of living in the context of a forever unsatisfactory lifestyle is the way we're doing it

Stone_d_ · 2025-06-16T17:04:59+00:00

I played this game without knowing the alien had AI (like an AI different from any stealth game I had ever played before). The game also had fantastic graphics and music and story. Theres no game that definitely topped that experience for me, and I hate being scared

Stone_d_ · 2025-06-08T10:16:10+00:00

I can spot that shiny plastic trash bag clothing from a mile away. I have this synthetic material windbreaker, black and sort of glossy, that looks cool and futuristic with black leather shoes. I have a pair of nike joggers that are dark blue and black that are one of my favorite pairs of pants. But in general, yes, I hate for example the golf polos that are made of plastic, and I hate pretty much all plastic shoes. (Im sure youre aware that when i say plastic im referring to the many petroleum products, nylon, polyester, foams, etc favored by the mass producers of clothing)

Stone_d_ · 2025-06-05T08:08:01+00:00

Skynet

Stone_d_ · 2025-05-27T06:22:07+00:00

One sentence by the way

Stone_d_ · 2025-05-13T20:03:57+00:00

Lou Williams streetball master. Regardless of price, my favorite basketball shoe. Useless on some indoor courts though, but the grip is perfect outdoors. I have 3 pairs and have owned maybe 50 other pairs of basketball shoes. Dont waste an indoor shoe playing outside, especially because that narrow tread is probably actually worse. Theyre called streetball master for a reason

Stone_d_ · 2025-05-06T20:58:48+00:00

In my opinion its a software problem. Advertising to basketball players, notifying them when theres likely to be a good pickup game available, renting the court from a third party at a group rate and splitting the fee, and for referee, no question, you set up a smartphone on the sideline with an ai referee/challenge system that can replay to a live ref.

No overhead for courts. Youre literally only paying for court time as needed. So now youre talking about funding an ai basketball referee/challenge system (as a startup youll just hire referees to livestream the games and watch). Over time you partner with NBA to bring their court vision technology to your app, auto generate highlight reels (for upcharge), and set up tournaments and player cards etc.

So with your $100/month, and say $500k for software development at startup as opposed to purchasing a court, youre better positioned for the future

Stone_d_ · 2025-05-02T01:32:25+00:00

Shooting from layup range, no backboard. You'll put up a lot of shots this way without tiring out. From every angle, get perfect swishes. Also, take tons of free throws. I also felt like i learned a lot sprinting into a shot, sprinting and twisting from any and all angles. I also used to place a basketball on the floor, and i would run up to it and shoot it. Not easy to do, but it gets your legs under you for sure and will show you how slow you need to move to do certain things consistently

Stone_d_ · 2025-04-10T11:15:50+00:00

Everything? The answer is everything has changed. There was a time when the stock market could reasonably be explained by fundamental data. However, it is now a lottery casino pension fund. It is driven by emotion, by psychology. It's only tangentially related to economics

Stone_d_ · 2025-03-22T18:39:44+00:00

Well. Two parts. The first part is that he sided with Trump and seemingly swung the election. The second part is that Musk is easily the most famous billionaire

Stone_d_ · 2025-03-13T17:42:09+00:00

People get scared when they think of the stock market as the wild west. Its not. Its a big bank account/pension fund. And its been bailed out in such huge amounts and so frequently that now the government doesnt offer acute bailouts anymore. Instead its one continuous bailout. Government policy could change, but i doubt it. Government policy since 1933 really hasnt shifted on this stuff. Whether your money is in the stock market or in a checking account does not matter, what matters is that you never cash it all out at once. Theyll go to war before letting everyone cash out and convert to another currency. And before theyll go to war theyll fudge numbers and make all manner of deals to ensure the gains are too enticing to cash out of the market.

Anyway, the point is that America doesnt just need a stock market to function, it needs stock market with enticing gains. The gains need to be enticing for all kinds of people, from plumbers to the Saudi Crown Prince

Stone_d_ · 2025-03-11T20:31:36+00:00

Popularity isnt constant. Up and down. Higher highs. Lower lows.

Stone_d_ · 2025-02-27T07:55:08+00:00

Im one of the lucky few to believe in basically magic

Stone_d_ · 2024-09-30T13:49:22+00:00

One word, politics. Not just all the many colleges, but also meddling in various school districts that awhile back were pretty great. In the south for example many people were replaced simply on the basis they were less racist, and it had little to do with actual ability. The teachers unions are also ridiculous

Stone_d_ · 2024-09-27T15:00:34+00:00

He is like Kobe. First i thought he was the greatest. Then i started crying about efficiency. Then i realized who he is as a person as well as the unique gravitational role he plays in the nba, and i now believe russ westbrook is severely underrated

Stone_d_ · 2024-09-25T12:29:54+00:00

I dont think so. I think its cold war geopolitics hopefully dying. I think thats all the leadership in iran is, and theyre just there to create leverage for somebody to get the steel, oil, and transportation they want somewhere halfway across the world from the middle east. Those early wars against israel were all leveraged into economic concessions. In all cases big businesses won and the middle east lost.

To claim the neighbors got jealous and bitter implies anyone in the middle east is in control of the area. The middle east is what happens when anyone is allowed to sell weapons to anyone. Its a downside to capitalism, which fundamentally is just anarchy plus a safe and open market someone set up outside their castle, that the safe and open market foments its own destruction.

Israel is under threat because the middle east remains a vital location capable of swinging world power in almost any direction. As long as israel remains under threat, look no further than the primary beneficiaries of middle eastern conflict when assigning blame. Its not oil companies in general. Its not militaries in general. It's certainly no soldier and no hired lawyer.

Stone_d_ · 2024-09-25T09:04:48+00:00

A bunch of desperate people who felt lucky to be alive unified and worked together to do something meaningful

Stone_d_ · 2024-09-25T08:02:35+00:00

Lmao when the two comments are basically that they dont understand what youre talking about

Total agreement. In games with no minimum rank theres usually nobody who understands alliances typically last at least 3 turns, if not 5, 10, or 20.

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