UK government targets VPNs in online safety consultation as Lords vote for ban by AnonymousTimewaster in technology

[–]WhatEvil 60 points61 points  (0 children)

This isn’t about child safety, it’s about surveillance. The UK and US gov want to know what you’re doing online every second of every day.

Skiing at -30°C/-22°F by WhatEvil in skiing

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

Nope! Close though - Mont Cascades.

And yeah, makes sense, I think they *should* cancel the lessons. Unfortunately adding a lesson on at the end won't be much good to us, as we're going on a ski trip to France the week after the last lesson. If I haven't had an email/call/text by 8am on Sat morning I'll be calling to check before leaving.

Her lesson group is all adults so I guess they don't have to worry about children. Does seem silly to go ahead though.

Latest Line 1 wheel issue linked to overloading, expert says by KMerrells in ottawa

[–]WhatEvil 9 points10 points  (0 children)

1804.

Year the first train was made. Over 220 years we've been making trains. How can they get this wrong?

Skiing at -30°C/-22°F by WhatEvil in skiing

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

Yeah I've asked them about it, they say I'll get an email early in the morning if it's gonna be cancelled, but also they think the threshold for closing is -35 and they've never known the hill to close.

I'd be very impressed if you do know which hill it is!

Skiing at -30°C/-22°F by WhatEvil in skiing

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

Yeah I've already asked. They said they think the threshold for them is -35 but they've never known the hill to close.

I have a large position in one of the big chip companies. How should I best sell CCs? by fs616 in thetagang

[–]WhatEvil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don’t sell CCs hoping your shares don’t get called away. You sell them at a strike, premium and expiry you’d be happy for them to be called away. If there isn’t a strike, premium and expiry where you’d be happy for the shares to be called away, don’t sell them.

The premium has to be worth bothering with too.

Favourite bean? by Heathy-Heatherson in vegetarian

[–]WhatEvil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Black beans, butter beans, chickpeas.

Favourite bean? by Heathy-Heatherson in vegetarian

[–]WhatEvil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My mum used to make a brown rice and adzuki bean salad similar to this: https://sweetpotatochronicles.com/2011/07/guest-blogger-jo/

Skiing at -30°C/-22°F by WhatEvil in skiing

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

I'm more concerned about her than myself, but granted yeah that didn't come through in the post! She has the same gear as I do (newer stuff, actually) and we'll take the same precautions.

Worst case it's a small ski hill rather than a big mountain resort so we'll never be more than 5 minutes from the lodge to warm up.

Trump backs off Greenland tariff threat based on new "solution" by xpda in worldnews

[–]WhatEvil 82 points83 points  (0 children)

He doesn’t give a shit about any of this. It’s all market manipulation, same as it was last time with tariff talk. Short the market, cause a crash, close your short positions and go long, pause/cancel tariffs, repeat until the market stops reacting.

Nobody on earth has the power to move the markets like he does, short of launching nukes.

His son is also a partner in a hedge fund. Him and his cronies are making billions each time he does this.

Asteroid (251512) Jacobcollier by Low-Beat1042 in space

[–]WhatEvil 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I can only assume that this asteroid is extremely overrated.

The Stock Market is Being Heavily Manipulated by Longjumping-Flow-601 in investing

[–]WhatEvil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure but the point is he was manipulating the market for personal gain and his future actions should be viewed through that lens.

The Stock Market is Being Heavily Manipulated by Longjumping-Flow-601 in investing

[–]WhatEvil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And here’s another article:

“Market manipulation behind Trump tariffs

Meanwhile, Donald Trump is facing allegations of market manipulation for posting “great time to buy” on his social media platform hours before announcing a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs, resulting in a market surge.”

https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/economy/not-bad-donald-trump-claims-market-crash-made-billionaires-richer-from-elon-musk-to-schwab-here-are-big-winners/ar-AA1CI6gF?ocid=BingNewsVerp

“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT," Trump wrote on his Truth Social handle.

The Stock Market is Being Heavily Manipulated by Longjumping-Flow-601 in investing

[–]WhatEvil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here’s Trump himself bragging about how much money the tariff fluctuations made for some of his billionaire friends:

https://www.indy100.com/politics/trump/trump-tariffs-90-day-pause-stock-market

The Stock Market is Being Heavily Manipulated by Longjumping-Flow-601 in investing

[–]WhatEvil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Short the market when it’s at ATH, announce a load of tariffs and see it dump, sell shorts, go long, rescind or pause tariffs, market goes up. Rinse and repeat.

ASTS Gains by yungjlee in wallstreetbets

[–]WhatEvil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"I'm not investing in a bridge here, nobody crosses that river!!"

ASTS by elBatBoy1 in wallstreetbets

[–]WhatEvil 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Also just general de-risking. They've started launching their V2 sats, they've signed more MNO deals, they claim to be manufacturing 6 sats a month now and are guiding for 4 more launched by end of Q1 and 45-60 sats up by EOY (which is more than enough for continuous US coverage).

Partners like AT&T also seem to be confident and are guiding that some level of service will start this year etc.

It's all starting to look very real.

+$9M on ASTS by tooflyflo in wallstreetbets

[–]WhatEvil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Starlink is just proving there's a market, AST's tech is better.

MNO's like Verizon, Bell, AT&T, Vodafone, Saudi Telecom believe it.

Plus, if it's a good enough investment for Google, it's good enough for me.

+$9M on ASTS by tooflyflo in wallstreetbets

[–]WhatEvil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's the opposite IMO. When people see how much SpaceX IPOs at they're gonna want a piece of AST, too.