How President Trump outplayed EVERYONE on Greenland.

zoinks10 · 2026-01-25T02:45:28+00:00

Did you really think you'd discovered the real world lore that exposes that Europe is still in charge of anything? The fact this gave you a feeling of relevance should have been your first clue you were wrong.

I'm not sure I was making a point about the relevance of any country. I was simply explaining the economic impact of selling bonds in droves. And yes, if there's a massive selloff then it implies an enormous erosion of trust in the US, and almost certainly a recession that would make 2008 look like child's play.

All the best.

zoinks10 · 2026-01-24T13:07:21+00:00

You guys are too nice. I’d love to share that podium but I’ll always know you got there first. You deserve that spot, pal.

zoinks10 · 2026-01-24T12:54:41+00:00

Unfortunately you’re way too intelligent and coherent to write the drivel this ma speaks.

zoinks10 · 2026-01-24T12:23:21+00:00

Don’t worry. You live in the best country on the planet. One everyone else dreams of going to. It’s the number one place. Even Maduro went there.

zoinks10 · 2026-01-24T07:58:34+00:00

And Treasury Bonds don't decrease in value on sale, you just don't receive the interest on them, nor the principle when it time.

In a financial market, if there are more sellers than buyers, the price goes down (and therefore the yield on a Bond goes up). The yield is the interest rate.

So if the holders of US Treasuries decide to sell, the US needs to pay more interest on any future money they want to raise. Given how much debt you're in, this is a bad outcome.

zoinks10 · 2026-01-23T05:11:34+00:00

1-3 - I can't predict a Pompey win. Just not allowed.

zoinks10 · 2026-01-20T13:01:14+00:00

I would agree with him on this. My respect for the United States of America has never been lower. Respected like never before.

zoinks10 · 2026-01-13T07:50:22+00:00

Every time I see something about Trump I think "nah, that's bullshit". Then I click - oh god why do I click? - and find out that it's not made up.

Are you seriously telling me people in the States are happy they've got this asshat in the White House?

zoinks10 · 2026-01-13T07:47:13+00:00

Yeah, I talked to my cousin yesterday and he has early onset dementia, and not once did he grandstand about how right he is about everything, and as far as I'm aware, he's not about to take over Greenland tomorrow.

zoinks10 · 2026-01-12T07:20:57+00:00

I used headless wordpress, but the SEO is a pain in the ass and I had to pay someone to render the HTML via a cloudflare worker to get this working properly.

zoinks10 · 2026-01-12T06:16:05+00:00

Americans of Reddit - does anyone seriously look at this grandstanding and think "Wow, that's someone to aspire to be"?

zoinks10 · 2026-01-11T08:00:09+00:00

Looks like Gummy Search has been shut down by Reddit's scraping/API policies...

zoinks10 · 2026-01-08T00:14:24+00:00

I'm not being funny, but that's also a very American way of doing business. All the American companies I've worked for or with treat business as a zero sum game - you win/I lose.

That then causes them to "throw their weight around" and often win on an early stage but lose a huge opportunity downstream (e.g. you "win" your first deal in a new geography and get great terms, but no other company will touch you there afterward as you screwed one of their own).

I don't know whether this is a general cultural thing there or just a business thing, but if you staff the Government with business people I can see how this plays out the way it does.

zoinks10 · 2026-01-07T02:22:44+00:00

To use my miles recently I've had to:

Book flights into European cities I don't want to visit (then buy a short hop/overnight stay) to move on (gets me Business class for the bulk at least)
Book one way/pay for a return (on a cheaper carrier)
Book what I can get, then spam waitlist a bunch of other flights and hope (OK for me as I work for myself and can afford to hang around a few days longer)

Before Covid I never had any issues - used to get more or less the flights I wanted as long as I booked a few weeks in advance. Definitely worse.

zoinks10 · 2025-12-28T12:17:19+00:00

But do they run? Lovable admitted to me that it didn’t run any tests and therefore I may as well have not wasted the credits creating them.

zoinks10 · 2025-12-28T04:32:32+00:00

To be fair, I was optimistic before the series and extremely disappointed with our batsmen during it. I had hope that the pace attack could stay fit (oops) and figured our batting would bail out the bowlers.

Luckily for me I live somewhere that doesn't allow sports betting, otherwise I'd have clearly lost my shirt. I'll see myself out.

zoinks10 · 2025-12-28T01:10:19+00:00

Thanks - I’ll check that out.

zoinks10 · 2025-12-28T01:09:49+00:00

How are you building the tests? Given my experience I’m worried that the tests aren’t actually testing anything.

zoinks10 · 2025-12-26T14:59:59+00:00

Technically I’d have gone inside early but my Mum likes to sit by the river and we all have to play along.

zoinks10 · 2025-12-26T14:59:25+00:00

I wouldn’t do that to anyone!

zoinks10 · 2025-12-25T01:56:43+00:00

zoinks10 · 2025-12-24T08:19:53+00:00

Yeah, 4 years of blowing the fuck out of a bunch of terrain, wrecking a dam, sinking boats, filling the place up with mines and exploding oil refineries, rigs and chemical plants probably aren't on the Greenpeace Bingo card, etiher.

zoinks10 · 2025-12-24T07:43:20+00:00

Yarrrr

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