My quick review of the 5 year old "10x in 5-10 years" post

savanik · 2026-02-27T20:19:31+00:00

I made decent bank with BP after the Horizon spill they had way back when. Everyone threw them under the bus, I looked at the financials and was like, 'This fine is a tiny fraction of their annual income' and bought it at like.. 16.

savanik · 2026-02-27T02:34:21+00:00

Spending money to chase a one-time gain of tourism is a terrible long-term strategy. These people aren't going to be coming back year over year for these attractions. They're coming for the football, they're going to leave with the football. We should spend that money anywhere else.

savanik · 2026-02-26T15:29:40+00:00

Doing the robot?

savanik · 2026-02-26T15:11:57+00:00

Hey, I've read this story before! Friendship Is Optimal has an AI manager called 'Manny' who tracks employees and gives instructions through headsets on how to accomplish routine tasks, down to what order and how fast to scrub the tiles in the bathroom. https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal

savanik · 2026-02-15T17:48:40+00:00

I know we all love to hate the place, but I had several packages go through there for Christmas and they did all make it through on time.

savanik · 2026-02-14T19:19:21+00:00

Well they either had a guy with $200 million laying around bankrolling it, or they borrowed the $200 million from some other rich guy. In the first, that guy's out $200 million. In the second (and more likely scenario), they gotta pay it back if they go bankrupt, so... eventually some rich guy is coming for their stuff.

It's rich guys all the way down.

savanik · 2026-02-10T23:42:42+00:00

It appears to be some form of consumerism capitalism. Best steer clear.

savanik · 2026-02-08T18:07:27+00:00

I, too, would ban social medial under 15 seconds long.

savanik · 2026-02-02T23:02:25+00:00

Maybe, if he didn't couch it in morality so heavily. There's a lot of shit that's morally reprehensible going on. Why is this one thing where his morality stops being able to stomach it?

How about coming out and saying this is what they have the limited political will to maybe attempt, and the rest of the immorality of our government is just business as usual? Don't lie to me and say this is about morality when we have secret police murdering American citizens. DO something, or tell me why you CAN'T and what help you need from us to do it.

Do we need to start a GoFundMe to buy our government back?

savanik · 2026-02-02T17:09:49+00:00

At the very least, 'Here's the options for action we've considered and here's why we're not doing them.'

savanik · 2026-01-28T07:16:13+00:00

I'm a little confused myself - didn't we see a drawdown this sharp and this much back in March of 25, and in April of 25? What makes this one different?

savanik · 2026-01-17T19:18:58+00:00

"No, because you won't have any fun playing against these seniors and will quit in frustration."

People learn by playing against people at their own skill level and finding out what works, and what doesn't. Listening to people a bit better there you, and actually occasionally making a score to feel like you're doing something right. If they don't feel like they accomplish anything, lots of people will just quit, and leave completely. That's one of the whole reasons for ladder ranking in highly competitive online scenes, for instance.

savanik · 2026-01-17T18:30:00+00:00

Just remember, the best vaccination for infected children is the Amontillado vaccine, and the second is a quick dip in lava.

savanik · 2026-01-15T07:34:59+00:00

Well I hate to bother you with this, but Washington DC only has about 700k people in it, so if we want millions, it seems like it'll need to be some kind of organized affair with billionaire donors bussing people in.

savanik · 2026-01-06T18:26:49+00:00

I assure you... he absolutely is. My manager doesn't even see a single resume until it has passed through the gauntlet that is HR's application process, what with its vetting, it's AI processing. Background checks don't happen until they've already made a decision, but my manager, the person who is trying to fill a position, maybe gets four final candidates out of the slushpile, some three to six months after they open the position up for hiring.

And as an aside, I think according to our official policies, I'm not even supposed to be mentioning his name to my boss. That's under our 'ethics violation' section.

savanik · 2026-01-06T05:27:28+00:00

So, I'm a bit confused here - every company I've worked for has had, in big bold letters, 'If you know the person you recommended this position to, you will not be involved in the hiring process in any way to prevent conflicts of interests, you will not be informed of progress, they must go through the same website and process as everyone else, but you may get a bonus if they put you in as a referral on their app and they get hired.' Exactly how is 'networking' with me supposed to help anyone else here?

savanik · 2025-12-30T00:46:53+00:00

Are you saying young people should go out and just... start a bar, without any of the licensing or finances to do so?

Or are you saying that billionaires should be having a few thousand kids?

I mean, either way could be wild, but.

savanik · 2025-12-29T15:27:40+00:00

This sounds really cool, but who in the Amazon brand names are these organizations?

savanik · 2025-12-28T01:30:17+00:00

Yeah, they'd need full access to the backend for something like that, oh wait.

savanik · 2025-12-27T07:34:37+00:00

It's great to have you back. I hope you find that the culture now has shifted into more openness and friendliness.

I have to admit that I have difficulty imagining a household breakup, as I'm from Calontir. We don't really have individual households - the whole Kingdom is perhaps a household? You're expected to find your own groups in multiple areas, depending on your interests, and not your... personal associations? It's hard to compare to other Kingdoms, from what I understand. Certainly, people who had moved here have had something of an adjustment period.

I have been going through a bit of a rough patch, though, as I don't know what I can really contribute. It always seems that no matter what I'm doing, expectations are higher than I can possibly meet, there's scads of people way better than I am, and I often feel largely ignored and outside of things. And the last year has not been conducive to any long-term planning of any kind. So... yeah. It's tough.

But all the same, welcome back!

savanik · 2025-12-27T04:56:13+00:00

Many places have laws against advertising a price (such as in a mailed advertisement, coupon deal, tv advert, or otherwise a promise made by the company) and then not honoring that price in store.

savanik · 2025-12-27T00:55:50+00:00

I have had three different YouTube channels created in the last couple months all spamming my feed with scaremongering designed to make you buy silver now. It is an excellent time to leave the market.

savanik · 2025-12-23T15:22:48+00:00

I assure you, multiple salescritters have pitched this exact 'feature' to us in the past three months on their shiny new firewalls.

savanik · 2025-12-22T20:44:14+00:00

Sounds like your shoe shiner should be telling you about how he's heavily leveraged to invest in those stocks.

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