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  1. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    *not profitable enough to justify the pricetag. Also that was before TikTok stepped up the pressure other social media companies. Like it or not, TikTok is the future, until the next thing after that comes along.
  2. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    If shitposting forums were profitable, FOH would have minted a couple amod millionaires by now, and moot would be richer than Zuckerberg. The idea that Musk is going to be able to Make Shitposting Great and Profitable Again is a joke. It's just going to lose money.
  3. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    Nothing is spin free. You can post a video of any event, caption it with whatever spin you want, and most people are unable to discern what they're actually looking at. You can take the same exact video, and say it shows 1 Russian executing 5 Ukrainians, or 1 Ukrainian executing 5 Russians...
  4. Mist

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    https://www.amd.com/en/direct-buy/us Apparently you can just buy a an AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT for MSRP right now.
  5. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    It's about targeting though. I just don't see Twitter ever being good at the hyperlocal and hyper-specific targeting that Facebook or Nextdoor can deliver. Twitter is a shitposting forum for adult children.
  6. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    Why should it be valuable? Twitter is not Facebook. Facebook for all its faults is very good at being a place for small and medium size businesses to setup a page and advertise to local residents who are actually likely to visit those businesses. Twitter is just a place for people to argue...
  7. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

  8. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    Wrong. Tesla and SpaceX both have a lot of innovative technology that keeps getting improved through iteration. It's very obvious that in the future those technologies will be worth more money than they are today. Twitter will always be worth effectively nothing. Also this:
  9. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    What is the point of buying an unprofitable company with no real underlying technology that only exists to waste peoples' time while they're supposed to be working?
  10. Mist

    No Man's Sky

    Tell me if this patch is worth playing.
  11. Mist

    X

    Was expecting this:
  12. Mist

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Literally flat earthers.
  13. Mist

    MTG thread

    Yes, that's the best common ever. Maybe they felt green needed something good in pauper lol.
  14. Mist

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?
  15. Mist

    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    ALERT https://www.evga.com/products/productlist.aspx?type=0&family=GeForce+30+Series+Family Massive price cuts. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
  16. Mist

    MTG thread

    Streets of New Capenna is like a 6/10 for flavor/concept but a 10/10 for cards and mechanics. It's basically Shards of Ravnica.
  17. Mist

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    no fucking shit.
  18. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    I threatened to quit 4 times in the past 7 years (3 at previous employer over the course of 5.5 years, once at new employer 11 months in) and got a >15% raise each time, plus I actually did quit once to get a >60% base raise (but also switched to salary) when I switched employers. This is intop...
  19. Mist

    Gaming and general purpose monitors

    What's the point of multiple monitors if you have to turn around to use them?
  20. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    I really should have bought those Series I bonds.
  21. Mist

    LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

    Lego Rey made me realize that IRL Rey looks like she has a Lego head.
  22. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    The powers that be will engineer a brief but significant recession. This will let companies cut 15-20% of their workforce, work the rest of their workers to death. Retail investors will bail out of the market on the way downward, and people will cash out their retirement to live off of. Wage...
  23. Mist

    Investing General Discussion

    https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/11/elon-musk-decides-not-to-join-twitter-board-says-ceo-parag-agrawal.html The reason is because once you're on the board you can't really talk about the company/say anything that would damage the stock price of the company, without the shareholders suing the board...