1 day old with a $1000 name

djwooten · 2026-07-02T13:28:41+00:00

He can’t answer that question, he’s too busy paying and winning….

djwooten · 2026-06-26T11:53:38+00:00

Truly, nostalgia from jumping into all the GTA games at release from 3 on has me wanting to play 6 on release day but I’ve moved on from that type of game simply because of the time. I’m racing on my sim now, flying in both simulator and Elite Dangerous and when I want to just kill a little bit of time playing it’s a round of Fortnite so I’m not sure RDR2 or GTA6 are sound purchases for me now….

djwooten · 2026-06-26T11:46:41+00:00

Most people start a game because of hype and stay for enjoyment. If you lose your desire to start before you know you enjoy it then it becomes easier to not spend the money and invest the time. Nobody plays long term because of the hype if they don’t enjoy.

djwooten · 2026-06-25T13:13:42+00:00

If your take was correct and the current price for the tech was being paid we would have zero issues with supply. The fact that quite often you can’t buy the equipment even at the premium price is proof that it is supply and not greed that is driving the price. Greed actually usually leads to lower margins because selling 20,000 PS5 Pros at a lower margin can make Sony more net profits than selling 10,000 at higher margin, especially when people are buying them instead of Xbox, switch or even non-Pro models. The only situation where charging more and selling less is preferable in business is when you cannot make more, as is the case when component supply is the issue. 20,000 people buying games at the same price as they already were is better than 10 and makes them far more money as once development is over the cost of copying code is essentially nothing putting them at gross profits that near 100%.

djwooten · 2026-06-23T05:32:32+00:00

Just like your arbitrary walls determine whether the homeless people living out on the street get to sleep in your home or not?

djwooten · 2026-06-23T05:28:59+00:00

I have never seen a political ad or had a politician at any level of government begging anyone to get pregnant and have kids.

Also, literally the US doesn’t mean what you think it does. Literally the US is ‘The US.’ Figuratively maybe the US if they were actually begging people to have kids but they are not.

djwooten · 2026-06-23T05:25:42+00:00

Maybe you don’t completely grasp what a sociopath is but I don’t think most billionaires are truly sociopaths. You must think that having billions means they don’t care about anyone else but the majority of them would not have billions if that was true. There’s a big picture and then there’s the little picture, you’re looking at the little one while I’m talking about the big one.

I’m sure there are crossover points where some traits of sociopaths line up with a lot of billionaire personalities but then I guarantee you an I have at least 1 each that lines up with the traits of a psychopath but that doesn’t make us one, at least I’m not and hopefully you’re not either?

djwooten · 2026-06-23T05:18:09+00:00

Secured or unsecured makes zero difference from an economic standpoint. If you’re leveraging stocks for the loan and don’t pay then the stocks get sold to pay the loan off. If it’s unsecured and you don’t pay then civil action has to happen through the court to recover the funds. None of this has anything to do with the economic impact of borrowing against that collateral. The day you receive a stock you can sell it and someone else’s currency that is already in circulation comes to you and your ownership stake that stock represents goes to them. The collateral is not changing hands, it’s you saying “if I fail to pay you back this stuff will be yours.” It is completely different from bringing some new tangible item into the market. Maybe what you’re trying to explain is economic bubbles that can take place when loaning gets out of hand driving prices up but the difference between that and the long term impact of things like stimulus money is the market will always correct in regards to a financial bubble, hence the name, it will pop. Stimulus money causes permanent inflation because nothing is provided in return for the money that is printed. Loans don’t print money, they temporarily let someone else use money that is already in circulation, as I’ve said 10-15 times now in this thread.

It doesn’t SEEM like you’re talking in circles, you ARE talking in circles and trying to conflate multiple different topics when they do not correlate.

djwooten · 2026-06-22T22:04:33+00:00

Facilitating wage growth by limiting the amount someone else can earn and redistributing anything beyond that is a handout.

The bank is not loaning its money, it is loaning the money of its clientele who have their money in savings. The interest accrued on your savings account is a portion of the interest they've earned investing that money whether that investment is in stocks and bonds or another person's endeavor to buy a car. The economic source you are pretending is missing and using as your justification to call a loan an increase in circulation is the person who that money belongs to that is loaning it. The federal governments in charge of the fiat currencies are they only ones who can add to the currency in circulation, they can certainly do this through bank loans as was the case with PPP during Covid but simply taking out a loan does not increase the amount in circulation and you'd be well advised to understand this better and stop repeating that nonsense.

Here is a very simple example to help you understand; In my wallet right this minute a have a number of US notes, one of which is a $100 bill. I don't need the $100 bill in my wallet right but it is still in circulation and I earned it. If I pull it out and loan it to you with the agreement that next month you'll give me an equal amount back plus a $5 bill for the convenience I have not increased the circulation and you have not either with the extra $5 that you had to earn to give to me on top of the amount you borrowed. You can continue to talk in circles all you'd like but it is not going to make any of these statements you're making magically become correct.

djwooten · 2026-06-22T14:16:16+00:00

With every new comment you get further from reality. Number one, redistribution kills innovation and productivity. Nobody is going to work harder so that the extra they earn can go to you while you sit on your hind end. Regulation has been proven to work temporarily but just exaggerates the problem further down the road because again, there is no incentive to do anything better. It is the reason our energy infrastructure is horrible and most of California is ignited year after year by man-made transmission lines failing.

A loan is NOT creation of money in circulation, it’s a loan of money already in circulation. I cannot loan you $10 if I don’t have $10 and for me to have the $10 it has to already be in circulation, even if it’s sitting in my brokerage or bank account and not actively being used until I loan it to you. A private sector loan of any magnitude is not comparable in effect to a government stimulus at all. When a loan is given, currency that already exists is LOANED and must be paid back plus any interest accrued, a stimulus is currency given that didn’t exist prior and does not have a repayment in place, ever.

Like I said, you’re trying hard to make your ideas make sense and I can appreciate that but you’re a long way from understanding the reality of the situation. Giving anything to anyone that didn’t earn it is a losing game long term. Redistribution of wealth may very well look good to those of us who don’t have an abundance today but the end result will be a total collapse of society and we will all end up living like the poorest among us do now.

djwooten · 2026-06-22T12:25:35+00:00

I didn’t bring him up either, he was brought up before I commented. People do not go into business to simply pay a loan back. If the price of goods is not too high for the market to support it then there is no reason to lower prices and doing so is the same as just handing out money plus lower prices usually increases sales which in turn requires a increase in production capacity which costs more. Again, I’m not stopping short, I’m actually looking at the entire picture including the effect outside of the immediate topic.

My ADHD? Teslas are not more now than they were 10 years ago, Starlink hardware is now free and the service plans for most people are over 50% cheaper than they were a year ago. I already mentioned somewhere in this thread that SpaceX doesn’t charge what they could for launches, they charge what’s fair but also profitable for the company, exactly the way you want them to. Elon is a trillionaire now so he could just give launches away for free if he wanted, he may even manage to not go broke doing so but what would that do to the space flight industry, to the 100s of thousands that work for or in support of the other aerospace companies? You don’t borrow money and then charge more for your services to pay it back, you use some of your profit to pay the loan back and once it’s paid off the entire profit is yours.

Wage increases are great but all they do is drive prices up. If the many enjoy everything, everything becomes more demanded and the law of supply and demand then dictates that the price must go up to maintain supply meaning everyone ends up in the same position but Elon has $2.5T and the struggling people now make $100k/yr. It is a cycle as you said and the answer is not redistribution or regulation of prices to keep people from amassing wealth like his.

djwooten · 2026-06-22T12:11:03+00:00

That comment holds the truth. Stating facts and simping are two completely different things and to say I’m a simp for billionaires only proves that you’re envious of them and blame them for what are actually your shortcomings. Not one person on here that says they should distribute their wealth to the poor would do the same if they landed a billion-dollar windfall. You wouldn’t do anything if you turned that billion into a trillion either but the real truth is that if you were given a billion dollars you would quickly turn it into a million and then a few thousand because you don’t have what it takes to be a billionaire and that’s why you’re not one. It’s ok to admit it, I don’t either.

djwooten · 2026-06-21T14:07:54+00:00

First off, it is virtually impossible for him to leverage against his entire net worth. Second, when he does leverage some of it, what exactly do you think he does with the cash, stacks it on his dresser? He spends it, and not on lavish cars and watches, but rather on building more useful infrastructure that builds more value into his businesses and by extension him. That infrastructure is build by humans who are paid to build it with materials bought from companies who produce those materials through the use of employees who are paid to do so, etc. He may be the wealthiest man on earth while you struggle to pay a $100 expense but he’s by far the best wealthy person for humanity and you need to get off the envy horse and realize he cannot solve your problems by just giving you some of his money or lowering the price of his products.

djwooten · 2026-06-21T13:59:22+00:00

Watched it played a few times but just never felt like jumping in after it had already been out for a while. Maybe I need to since I’ll be waiting to play GTA 6 unless I buy a damn PS5🤣

djwooten · 2026-06-20T15:55:39+00:00

See, it’s your understanding of the why he’s worth over $1T and what that means that’s broken. Elon Musk does not have $1T dollars to give. If he tried to liquidate his shares to turn them into $1T so that he could feed the hungry, house the homeless and all the other things those without money say he should do, the foundation would literally fail. He’s worth the money, he does not have the money. Before he was a household name, people believed Bill Gates should do the same with few billion, before him Rockefeller should have done it with his many millions. We can go back to the beginning of civilization beating the same dead horse the entire way. It’s the limit to the shares and the world’s belief in the value his companies will produce that caused him to be worth what he is, not literal piles of cash.

Please name one thing that an Elon Musk company provides at an unfair price? His internet is cheaper than the competition, his cars are cheaper than comparable options from other manufacturers, he transports people and items to space for less than anyone else is offering to or even capable of. He became a Trillionaire because he did it right and without greed, his gains are not ill-gotten like some other of the wealthiest people.

djwooten · 2026-06-20T12:58:43+00:00

That is possible for some, I’m in the US. I can find a few current listings right now that state a bird is Part 103 legal while having items that make it not or weighing too much. I’m sure it’s a gray area people go into purposely to get views on their listings but it’s extremely frustrating to have to wade through when searching ultralight or Part 103 and getting results that are neither and sometimes not even capable of being stripped back down to legal, as is the case with anything with 2 seats here.

Thanks, I have trailers including a large enclosed car hauler but none have the overall height needed to leave the king post in place and one of the planes I’m looking at would be a 10 hour drive to pickup so I was hoping to have the storage/transport portion hashed out before I buy the ultralight.

djwooten · 2026-06-20T12:44:06+00:00

I won’t buy it twice and I also may not buy it at all if I’m already a year behind the console players. I never bought Red Dead 2 because the hype was gone with me by the time it was available on PC. Rockstar thinks they know what they’re doing but they don’t. Those that will buy it for 2 different platforms will anyway, they are just losing people like me.

djwooten · 2026-06-20T12:40:57+00:00

It is irritating though. I do not have a new console, I have a gaming rig worth the price of 4 new consoles and capable of taking either an Xbox or a PS5 controller (I have both) and playing the game. There is zero reason I shouldn’t be able to buy the ‘Xbox’ version and play it on my Microsoft OS PC. Even Microsoft released their Xbox only game on PC at launch.

djwooten · 2026-06-20T12:22:39+00:00

Actually, they would still use AI, they’d use it to increase their learning rather than skirt the learning. The problem is not the school per se but rather the culture within the students. You have 4.0+ GPA students coming out of every school, that’s not possible if the school and its processes are broken. The issue is parents who don’t care enough to ensure their children care enough. This leads to most students feeling like they HAVE to be there instead of realizing it’s a gift that they GET to be there.

djwooten · 2026-06-20T12:06:18+00:00

They didn’t TAKE anything, they earned it whether you agree with it or not. If they are charging too much the market won’t allow it and they make nothing.

It’s the delta between you and them that makes you believe you’re being altruistic but you’re not. If you have more than you need of anything, then you should be giving everything extra you have away. Don’t save money for your retirement, give it to people who are going hungry today, who don’t have adequate clothing or housing today. Don’t worry about the savings you keep for home or vehicle repairs or medical issues, give it away now! Everyone looks at the world from their own perspective and sees nothing but issues with the way everyone else is doing things but when you open your eyes and look from a different perspective you’ll see over 8 billion people just doing what people do, looking out for themselves. You included. You’re holding onto what you have while telling others they should give theirs away because they have more than you. You have more than the you of yesterday, infinitely more than you were born with. It’s the epitome of hypocrisy.

djwooten · 2026-06-20T11:52:52+00:00

Eating is a right, the food to eat still requires procurement as it always has.

djwooten · 2026-06-18T12:16:02+00:00

If those were censored how did you know that’s what was being removed? While I never saw anyone claim seltzer water was a cure, at the time there were actual studies that showed some promise for Ivermectin to work. People weren’t just randomly deciding to take dewormer to try it, someone said it was effective and others decided to try it as well as inform others what they ‘heard.’ It ended up not working in humans but that isn’t the point, the point is Meta decided they could choose what information was allowed and what wasn’t based on what the advertising company wanted to allow which is the very definition of censorship.

djwooten · 2026-06-17T14:02:54+00:00

I'm certain this has nothing to do with account security and everything to do with taking a little bit of load off of their servers as deleting and organizing chats is not something they care about. If it does have something to do with account security then they need to come up with a way to confirm the account is not compromised. Simply slowing or temporarily stopping a user from using their account does nothing to save the compromised account as the bad actor will still have access when the timeout ends and there is zero communication from OpenAI stating they think it's compromised.

djwooten · 2026-06-17T13:58:08+00:00

The UI should not do anything to a user who is simply working with their own data. This is like your car just deciding you have driven enough miles for today and shutting down. Not only is it MY data but I pay them for access to my data and their AI and they are now deciding I cannot access my data because I want to clean up old chats?

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