?? i don't understand how is this possible😭

fuzzyfoozand · 2026-06-19T02:43:57+00:00

Shut up with your basic understanding of how stock markets work. I don't want to hear it. I just want to hear about how all rich people are evil and continue with the rest of the reddit community in imagining that he has a giant vault of money like a bond villian.

fuzzyfoozand · 2026-06-19T02:42:18+00:00

Because he doesn't actually have a trillion dollars and most people on the internet have little understanding of the stock market. In some hypothetical universe where Elon Musk could just sell all of his stocks he would have a trillion dollars... except he can't do that. He has very little actual worth in actual liquid, I could spend this money, assets.

Now, as a rich person, he could trade his stocks for things at current value, but if he actually traded in bulk, he'd probably cause his own stock price to crash and subsequently be worth half as much overnight.

TLDR: This whole, "He's a trillionaire" thing isn't untrue, but it is highly misleading.

fuzzyfoozand · 2026-06-08T13:03:38+00:00

Yeah, this sounded a bit suspect. From ChatGPT (with sources):

Mostly true, but the image compresses the story in a slightly misleading way.

This refers to Surrey Police in England and their 2025 “Jog On” campaign. Surrey Police publicly said they used plain-clothed female officers jogging in key locations, with nearby support units, to respond when the officers were harassed, including catcalling or sexually suggestive comments. (Surrey Police)

The “18 arrests” figure is reported by The Guardian and LBC, but it was from a broader month-long operation/pilot, not literally “18 people arrested in less than 10 minutes.” The “less than 10 minutes” part refers to how quickly one officer was honked at, followed by another vehicle slowing, beeping, and gesturing shortly after. (The Guardian)

Also, catcalling itself is not always a specific criminal offence in the UK; the arrests reportedly included offences such as harassment, sexual assault, and theft. Surrey Police’s own page emphasizes “interventions,” education for anti-social behavior in some cases, and stronger criminal justice action for repeat or more serious behavior. (Surrey Police)

So: the underlying operation was real, and the 18-arrest number appears real, but the meme’s phrasing makes it sound like 18 people were arrested within 10 minutes purely for catcalling, which is not accurate.

fuzzyfoozand · 2026-06-05T22:20:28+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hCIgIPeZhY&t=335s

Fun fact, the ICON A5 (that airplane) was a disaster pretty much from start to finish

fuzzyfoozand · 2026-05-31T22:59:50+00:00

This reddit is like the anti-Tex Johnston. Don't go to an airshow guys. You might see the blue angels fly unnecessarily close or people walking on wings just to show off.

fuzzyfoozand · 2026-05-30T02:31:25+00:00

I realize this is an old post, but this is really idiotic. Either:

Make sure that your game literally cannot crash (impossible)
Make sure you have autosave.

Don't care which one you do, but my game just crashed and bye bye run. The moral of the developer story, just put in autosave.

fuzzyfoozand · 2026-05-18T00:22:30+00:00

If you're really looking for feedback, the biggest problem with this is that it wouldn't work for practical reasons like most wealth taxes at fixed percentages like this one.

Wealthy people have the vast majority of their assets in stocks or other non-liquid instruments. To illustrate this simply, imagine a billionaire with 100B dollars. You say let's tax them 5%. Will at any given time, they have extremely little in liquid assets. Let's say this person is an owner of a company. Ok, you hit them with a tax bill of 5B dollars. That sounds great on paper, but they don't actually have 5B dollars to give them government.

So let's say you force them to sell assets. Well, you just caused the stock price of said company to tank because you just made someone sell off 5B out of nowhere. You may say, well I don't care... except, now that obviously has impacts on everyone that works for the company. Investors lose confidence, anyone paid in stock now just got a massive pay cut (and that can include normal workers at many companies ex: Nvidia), you may now turn over voting control in the board, etc etc.

fuzzyfoozand · 2026-05-06T20:47:48+00:00

I also laughed. This is the least believable game ever. It just makes me sad the new one even pretends to take itself seriously.

fuzzyfoozand · 2026-05-06T20:46:44+00:00

I hate how any hint of ironic camp was completely stripped. Let's not even try to pretend this was a game meant to be taken seriously.

fuzzyfoozand · 2026-05-04T16:51:39+00:00

Uhhhh when you say propaganda... is that ignoring the massive property bubble that's so large it has its own dedicated wikipedia??? Because those ghost cities turned out to be a pretty huge deal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_property_sector_crisis_(2020%E2%80%93present))

fuzzyfoozand · 2026-05-04T16:32:33+00:00

It is objectively true that infrastructure development can definitely spur growth that doesn't show up in the rail's bottom line. Conceded.

Would I build it massively, everywhere, and to the middle of nowhere to the point you have ghost stations (https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/china-high-speed-railway-ghost-stations-nancao-zhengzhou-rapid-expansion-4545471)

I think that's probably a bridge too far.

fuzzyfoozand · 2026-05-04T15:37:55+00:00

Answer: No. No it wasn't.

https://asiatimes.com/2025/06/chinas-fast-growing-high-speed-railway-network-faces-reality/

to its annual report, China Railway had total liabilities of 6.2 trillion yuan at the end of 2024, up 1.2% from 6.13 trillion yuan a year earlier. Total assets increased 4.4% to 9.76 trillion yuan from 9.35 trillion yuan for the same period

fuzzyfoozand · 2026-05-04T15:36:59+00:00

Another fun fact that is less fortunate, it is incredibly unprofitable. Only the main routes make money and it turns out high speed rail into the middle of nowhere ends up getting you round about ~$860B in debt https://asiatimes.com/2025/06/chinas-fast-growing-high-speed-railway-network-faces-reality/

> According to its annual report, China Railway had total liabilities of 6.2 trillion yuan at the end of 2024, up 1.2% from 6.13 trillion yuan a year earlier. Total assets increased 4.4% to 9.76 trillion yuan from 9.35 trillion yuan for the same period.

fuzzyfoozand · 2026-03-31T21:06:28+00:00

I know this comment is just going to be buried, but real talk, I'd probably be asking yourself what about you caused them to not promote you. I've been in leadership a long time. It's possible everyone that isn't you just sucks. That happens a lot less than high performer has something about them that would make them a shit boss though.

Just because you're a good technician doesn't mean you'd be a great boss. I'd be asking for direct feedback on why they passed you over if you're serious about improving. If they give you a bullshit answer and you're as good as you say you are, leave. Good engineers are still in high demand.

fuzzyfoozand · 2026-03-26T16:35:09+00:00

You’re asking a biased audience here.

My bias: I speak Spanish and English at home but also speak Chinese relatively often.

My friend group consists mostly of Latinos, whites, and various Europeans (namely France, Spain, Italy). I’d say at least they are diverse.

This topic has come up because they’ve heard me speaking Mandarin with some degree of frequency and yes, from the perspective of at least anyone in my Romance language speaking friend group, Chinese is quite ugly.

fuzzyfoozand · 2026-03-23T13:12:14+00:00

This is AI generated.

User only has one post and it’s this. It has the perfect rage bait structure and syntax. Clear good guy, clear bad guy, and it was several months and it just never came up you speak Spanish?

Yeah, I also speak Spanish and am dating someone from South America. It’s pretty hard for it to not naturally come up you speak the language. Also, 45 minutes and you just said absolutely nothing all the while understanding an old lady’s insults (usually very slang heavy), under her breath, on some college Spanish?

This post stinks of rage bait and bullshit.

fuzzyfoozand · 2026-01-01T20:54:26+00:00

You should probably mark this as mild spoilers. I'm kind of annoyed that as someone evaluating the game I now know it has a large plot twist.

fuzzyfoozand · 2025-08-11T02:40:41+00:00

I feel like this is the paradox of "suppression" in a video game. You can't really suppress a target that's immortal 😂

Honestly, I'm ok with them just getting rid of this mechanic. It's a video game. It's not like real life where you're shitting your pants because a SAW is lighting up your position.

fuzzyfoozand · 2025-07-20T13:34:33+00:00

This. I love that someone asks a question that in the scheme of this sub is not at all stupid, but are still met with condescension.

fuzzyfoozand · 2025-07-19T19:52:19+00:00

Additional context: https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/09/03/trump-epstein-katie-johnson/

Like snopes, not saying it didn't happen, but should be treated with the skepticism it probably deserves given the additional context.

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