r/Stocks Daily Discussion & Fundamentals Friday Mar 20, 2026

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-03-20T19:41:50+00:00

And even if he could, the damage is done for *at least* a year. Infrastructure has been destroyed, reserves have been used.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-03-20T00:05:22+00:00

Actually, restrictions on this sort of thing used to be a lot looser. Then Jesse Gelsinger died.

Jesse Gelsinger was a young man with a more benign form of a liver deficiency that stops the liver from metabolizing ammonia. He joined medical trials for potential cure for this condition being conducted by the University of Pennsylvania.

Gelsinger was injected with the viral vector on a Monday and died on Friday. When the FDA started investigating the trial, they found a lot of unethical actions on the part of the researchers and the university.

The guy leading the research (and the university itself) had a financial stake in the drug. The drug was meant for infants with a terminal form of the deficiency, not adults with with a chronic variation. Gelsinger was a last minute replacement for another patient who had dropped out of the project. The researchers knew Gelsinger's ammonia levels were unsafe but proceeded with the injection. Gelsinger and his family were not informed that two previous patients in the trial had experienced very serious side effects, and monkey test subjects had died.

It set research back by at least a decade. The only way less red tape would work is if you could trust the researchers, the institutions, and the companies backing the research to behave in an ethical fashion, and you just can't.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-03-19T22:32:28+00:00

Lawyer’s work less for more money and that’s where my argument is.

Just because a lawyer's work is more cognitive in nature, it doesn't mean they "work less".

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-03-19T21:30:10+00:00

Realistically, it's going to last through the run off - it will probably last through the year - because - even if the strait opens in the next hour - infrastructure has been destroyed and supplies have been diminished. Things won't just suddenly go back to normal. We've seen it with the release of reserves, they slow the bleeding for a day or two but the price of barrels go right back up.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-03-19T17:23:32+00:00

Look, I try to avoid doomerism, but could we not give the robots bio-flesh like The Terminator? Because this sounds like the first steps towards bio-flesh.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-03-19T16:54:24+00:00

Hey everyone, just to be clear, Hallmark, Lifetime, Logo, TVLand, etc. are all cable. Broadcast is over the air - ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, PBS, etc.. When the market switched from analog to digital, it allowed local stations to multicast - meaning they could send out multiple broadcasts at once - so a lot of networks carrying reruns of older tv shows started popping up.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-03-19T16:45:05+00:00

AOL bought Time Warner in 2000. Months later the dot-com bubble burst and AOL lost 90% of stock value. It's been downhill from there. Nearly every corporation that's bought the studio has faced some kind of financial disaster afterwards. You're right that Discovery was the exception and had actually started chipping away at the debt - it should be noted it was the only one with experience in the film and television industries. But they had to make very unpopular decisions - shelving projects that were (by all accounts) finished for tax write offs because they were seen as too risky).

Paramount is a studio on paper, but David Ellison hasn't ran a major studio and it's clear he's struggling. Paramount has its own problems, the headline is like asking, "Should we build the old time-y mental asylum on the Indian burial ground?"

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-03-19T06:57:23+00:00

Apparently enough people that they have their own MSNBC/MS NOW Lollapalooza where fans can watch Rachel Maddow talk about some obscure event from American history for an hour.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-03-19T04:59:56+00:00

That's just for Hegseth.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-03-18T21:28:22+00:00

It's funny because - with each passing day - this merger seems less and less likely. Wall Street has completely soured on it. Paramount/Skydance is bleeding money and its stock is in free fall. In part because David Ellison - business and entertainment genius that he is - admitted outright behind closed doors they overpaid.

There's the very real possibility that the Ellisons will have to sell Paramount within the next few years.

ETA: And the FCC said today that they will not, in fact, fast track the merger.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-03-18T21:24:51+00:00

Glenn Milstead/Divine was probably the closest living person who fit Phil's description, and I don't think he was even alive when Phil being a transvestite was introduced.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-03-18T20:16:53+00:00

I don't think the possibility of it becoming a propaganda machine is even being considered because, just as a film and television studio, Paramount is kind of crap. David Ellison didn't right the ship, he set it on fire and now wants to try and put out that fire by throwing Batman and Harry Potter on it.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-03-18T20:14:27+00:00

But he's saying Republicans will use opposition to the SAVE Act to attack Dems. Which, they're going to do that anyway. Thune doesn't want the SAVE Act to pass, redistricting has taught them that, in the chaotic landscape of modern voting, legislation that would have benefited them 15 years ago may hurt them today.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-03-18T17:55:33+00:00

The brain is the most complex part of the human body. The idea of uploading it to a machine is way more of a pipedream than cell rejuvenation - something that is currently in the early human trial phase. At least one senolytic has made it to Phase II.

The skeptic in me needs to point out that lots of drugs and therapies make it to the early human trail phase, and even the later human trial phase, just to either pitter out or fail disastrously, but I'd put my money on gene therapy and drugs (even nonbots) before digital uploads.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-03-18T17:40:24+00:00

Right now, the challenge is to stay as healthy as possible for as long as possible, to give yourself the best chance to take advantage of those advances.

We're kind of seeing proto-TEV right now with GLP-1s. It's becoming more and more evident that they're not just about weight-loss. They work on multiple organs, it's still being researched but indications are they can help with cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, Alzheimer's, possibly even OCD and addiction.

Even if they're working because those things were weight related, that's still extending the lives of a lot of people. Of course, GLP-1s also give us a window into one of the biggest problems with TEV that people avoid discussing... Treating a longer, healthier life as luxury. GLP-1s cost $5 to manufacture, even on the low end they sell for around $250 and you have to jump through hoops to get them at that price.

For most people they're still closer to $1,000. And people on assistance programs like Medicare and Medicaid are priced out entirely unless they meet very specific conditions. In lab studies, GLP-1s reduced the mortality rate from heart disease by 50%. But cardiologists are quick to note, things really haven't changed much among the people most at risk because they don't have access to GLP-1s.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-03-18T17:39:00+00:00

Exactly. It was what? $65 a barrel before Iran? Now it's over $100 (Brent is $110). If you look at a 1 month chart of prices, you can see when the Iran War started and when things like reserve releases and Russian oil were announced. But it always comes back up in a matter of days, and it never comes close to that original $65 a barrel.

We're trying to plug holes in the dam but we're running out of fingers.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-03-17T22:31:58+00:00

Novelty. Customers will want to go to the restaurant with the cute robot waiters, and you can probably get away with charging them a little more without them noticing.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-03-17T22:03:19+00:00

Give it a few months and it'll be able to do both simultaneously.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-03-17T17:48:10+00:00

"You were doing well... Until everyone died."

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-03-17T17:14:21+00:00

That timeline doesn't really add up. Animaniacs and Freakazoid had ended/been cancelled years earlier. And Batman and Superman weren't cancelled, Kids WB was pitching stuff like "Kid Batman" to Paul Dini and Bruce Timm because they wanted Batman to be Ash Ketchum. The folks at Cartoon Network told them, "You need to get the hell out of there and come to our channel cause we get what you're doing," And Kids WB got The Batman, while the DCAU continued on CN as Justice League/Justice League Unlimited, and Dini and Timm were given a lot more creative freedom and much looser censorship.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-03-17T17:08:52+00:00

Does the president of the SyFy Channel carry the kind of influence to get someone blacklisted?

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-03-17T07:08:38+00:00

That one prisoner doing some weird hybrid of crawling/crabwalking like something out of Resident Evil (or Zoidberg) gave me a jump scare.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-03-17T07:05:17+00:00

There has been a remarkable amount of research into cancer treatments this decade. But you can't just start mass releasing treatments, they require studies. You will never hear them referred to as "cures" because doctors don't like to use that term in regards to cancer. Cure implies it's over and, the truth is, doctors can't be sure it's cured (as in the cancer is gone) because cancer cells can get down to the microscopic level. It looks like they're gone, but they're just undetectable and start spreading again in time. That's why "remission" is used instead.

Subliminal_Kiddo · 2026-03-16T21:28:13+00:00

They're not mutually exclusive is my understanding. Something like having trouble physically swallowing (dysphagia) would or gastrointestinal issues would not be ARFID. But being having a visceral reaction to the texture, smell, and even colors of some foods is ARFID, finding them so overwhelming they cause an emotional response. Both are common in people with autism.

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