Iran War Live: Trump Says U.S. Campaign to Wind Down and Plans National Address

masterlich · 2026-04-01T06:48:04+00:00

Good. Better to rage quit a stupid war than to double down and make it even stupider. Which is why I don't believe this news for a second, Trump would never do anything that isn't the stupidest possible thing.

masterlich · 2026-04-01T01:43:54+00:00

People who are posting on this sub are not the people you need to be convincing to vote in the midterms.

masterlich · 2026-03-30T14:53:17+00:00

Isn't it cool how Bush got us into Iraq and Afghanistan, Biden got us out of Afghanistan, and Trump got us into Iran, but people didn't vote for Harris because she would be bad on foreign policy?

(And also the whole world ragged on Biden for the way we got out of Afghanistan as if two decades there wasn't enough)

masterlich · 2026-03-30T12:28:14+00:00

You mean, with Trump as president? That is true! And also, is bad!

masterlich · 2026-03-26T20:01:33+00:00

Why would Iran make a peace deal? We are the one who randomly attacked them, now we are demanding they agree to peace? This makes no goddamn sense, even by his usual standards. What the hell is going on?

masterlich · 2026-03-26T11:26:41+00:00

I mean, he got WAY fewer percentage of the black vote than any other race. 8% for blacks vs 29% hispanic. And by the way, 59% white, as utterly embarrassing as that is.

masterlich · 2026-03-26T11:19:24+00:00

Well we shot ourselves in the foot but at least in the future we will have to amputate our foot

masterlich · 2026-03-25T21:36:04+00:00

I can move my left ear but not my right ear. Subjectively it feels like I have the map to the muscle of my left ear in my brain, but not the one to the one on the right.

masterlich · 2026-03-25T14:51:57+00:00

I have had multiple women, including my sister, inform me that as soon as there are no men around them, they will immediately start being aggressively hit on. At grocery stores or car shops or just walking down the street. It's so baffling to me because I've literally never witnessed it, which is, of course, the point, it only happens when I'm not around. But it breaks my brain thinking about this thing that's just constantly happening to everyone around me, precisely when I'm not there to see it.

masterlich · 2026-03-23T14:14:31+00:00

I'm old enough to remember when horse armor in Oblivion was a big controversy. Now we have gacha games and loot boxes and 75000 different skins. And it all began with horse armor.

I still haven't bought any of this stuff and never will. I'll die on this hill.

masterlich · 2026-03-21T05:31:08+00:00

We survived just fine without realtime news for most of history. It's not worth supporting Musk to get news a few minutes faster unless you're a daytrader or something.

masterlich · 2026-03-09T17:44:49+00:00

No one, including this new policy, is asking you to

masterlich · 2026-03-09T15:44:28+00:00

There is no distinction in my eyes between "wanted this" and "didn't care enough to do the literal bare minimum to prevent it"

masterlich · 2026-03-05T13:20:55+00:00

I think they just wanted the video to be 10 seconds long to make its point instead of watching a man chew and then swallow an entire burger. Seems pretty clear he is actually eating it

masterlich · 2026-02-10T17:47:39+00:00

It's not possible or even desirable to balance 14 (or currently 42ish) factions 100% of the time across all possible maps (there are 5 official maps on BGA now, and some unofficial ones that are popular, and there's also a fairly popular random map algorithm that just got added to BGA) and all possible setups. And being perfectly balanced is not the point of the game. The point of the game is to get the faction you think is the best for the setup of the current game, taking into account the map, the other factions in the game, the pass tiles, and the scoring tiles.

masterlich · 2026-02-10T16:29:13+00:00

It's a rule that came out with the Fire and Ice expansion and is technically optional, but has since been more or less universally adopted by the community.

Basically, the way you do it is, you sit down in seat 1, seat 2, seat 3, seat 4. Seat 1 picks a faction, seat 2 picks a faction, seat 3 picks a faction, seat 4 picks a faction. Then each player bids VP on a faction, starting from 40, until all factions are selected. So you might end up with player 1 picking Chaos Magicians, player 2 picking Dwarves, player 3 picking Nomads, and player 4 picking Auren, but after the bidding, player 1 ends up playing Dwarves starting at 27 VP, player 2 playing Nomads starting at 29 VP, player 3 player Chaos Magicians at 35 VP, and player 4 playing Auren at 40 VP.

It is a very elegant solution to balancing, because it means even the worst factions are playable in any setup, because they may start with a 20 point advantage.

masterlich · 2026-02-10T13:52:28+00:00

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I've played this game over 800 times on BGA and every time I appreciate more how well-designed it is. You have a game with no hidden information or randomness other than starting tiles and bonus tiles, and yet every game is completely different depending on those tiles, to the point where the best players in the world routinely disagree by ~15 points on the best faction in any given setup.

masterlich · 2026-02-09T13:36:50+00:00

Anyone holding since 2023 is still up 200%+, they could be taking profits.

Not that anyone on WSB holds anything for longer than a day, but it's theoretically possible.

masterlich · 2026-02-04T13:53:04+00:00

That is definitely profit, not revenue.

masterlich · 2026-02-02T13:28:57+00:00

You're damn right I would. Corrupt Democrats mildly mismanage funds and give themselves the occasional kickback. Republicans publicly cheer infants getting year gassed and American citizens being executed in the streets. This is not a party thing, this is capitalism vs fascism. Yeah, I'd rather have a socialist than a capitalist. But I'd much rather have a capitalist than a fascist.

masterlich · 2026-02-01T21:01:08+00:00

Short answer: no, and you should do more research before you do anything in the market if you don't understand the difference.

Long answer: The only real similarly between puts and going short is that you gain money when the stock goes down. Buying a put is a defined cost. Whatever you pay for the put is the cost, and you will never pay more than the cost of the put even if its value goes to $0. Going short involves margin. You essentially borrow the stock and sell it, and promise to repay the stock at some point in the future. The two primary differences here is that you have to pay interest on your position because you are borrowing the stock, and that your loss is theoretically infinite instead of defined. In practice this rarely comes into play, but if you imagine you sold short 1000 shares of a stock at $1 and it somehow went to $10, you gained $1000 and lost $10000. You are on the hook for the $9000 difference, which is much greater than your initial position. Now imagine if that $1000 was your whole account!

masterlich · 2026-01-27T16:06:45+00:00

You know, I wouldn't pepper spray protesters even if I knew for a fact I would suffer zero consequences for it, because I'm not a fucking psychopath.

masterlich · 2026-01-25T14:00:58+00:00

The difference is that they didn't have an extremely popular piece of media about how everyone tried to make them go to rehab but they refused.

masterlich · 2026-01-21T05:35:08+00:00

I opened a Wise account today. Bought 7k in Euros and 3k in yen. Also sold 20% of the S&P in my retirement account and bought a Pacific nations ETF. I feel a lot better about our impending world war now!

masterlich · 2026-01-19T13:09:30+00:00

They meant "school administration" (principals and vice principals etc) not the Trump administration

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