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  • Haven’t day traded but I have speed ran games, you get a similar awesome feeling when you’ve accomplished the goal, and similar feelings when your runs that day are just worse than yesterdays.

    You can’t separate your mood and results. At least I couldn’t. Most days this was fine, I could focus on “I got this trick down, just need to integrate it into the run better” or “wow, that was a perfect 2 minutes” (of an hour-long run). The days where there wasn’t a silver lining, those days were a mess. Spend hours, all fucking day, accomplishing nothing? Killed me. I stopped speedrunning. Mostly stopped gaming, but I still like doing factory games or doing things like making a living dex in Pokémon, and still play games with others.

    If you’re shutting down on those bad days, you have it worse than me, which makes sense, since you’re spending money to do this. My advice is to look at what money you’ve actually made. Is it more than what a normal job would make for the time you’ve put in? If not, then stop doing it, its not profitable. If it IS making you more money, then you need to put a value on your happiness, since its costing you that. Spoiler, most people want money to live well and get happiness. Even if you’re making more, think of it like “was the extra hundred I made worth the crashes I’ve been having?”.

    Gambling isn’t sustainable, anyway. Day trading is a short term thing, at best, and it sounds like you’ve tapped that out, at least as far as you can without sacrificing your health.







  • So at this point you know what it is, you know how to avoid being scammed, and you are aware that the most optimal way to deal with these people is to just block them and move on.

    With all these things known, you can waste their time by pretending to have trouble depositing the check, saying the deposit went through while doing nothing, saying it worked and then playing hard to get with their “overpayment return” (usually they play on good Samaritan/pay it forward kind of guilt, so just pretend to be an asshole), and fucking with them every step of the way.

    Atomic Shrimp on YouTube has done a bunch of these, if you’d rather live vicariously rather than expose yourself.




  • Yeah. Any Co2/other climate change regressions that the US makes affect everyone globally, and while water use is local, its also as-needed, so post-collapse you have to use up all your water anyway.

    AI could use solely graywater/non-water cooling and renewable energies, and that’s the answer, just takes slowing down, building specific and rigorous facilities, . Letting the US speed along just hurts everyone due to climate change.

    That and every major company economically depends on each other, and disconnecting from the US in a way that doesn’t cause backlash also takes time.

    Fuck america but don’t let them drill holes in the boat we’re all riding.



  • A lawyer is considered an extension of your (legal) self. The reason is that if your lawyer can be compelled to talk about your private communications, then a client won’t actually get a fair trial, as they needed that lawyer aware of everything to defend them properly, but if prosecution could just call your lawyer to the stand and go “did they do it?”, no one would tell lawyers anything incriminating.

    Your spouse is also considered to be part of you, legally. You have a right to confide in them, they are part of your life.

    Same for a priest, many religions require confessions and have religious consequences for not confessing or a priest telling what they heard. The right for them protects them from being forced to break religious rules, although notably this one doesn’t exist everywhere.

    Nurses and doctors are covered in the same way, actually. Revealing your medical information improperly is a HIPAA violation.

    Aside from spousal privilege, all of these relate to their job. Your lawyer defends you, your priest hears your confessions, your doctors and nurses treat you. If you tell your priest about your heart condition and your lawyer about your blaspheming against god and your doctor about that time you murdered a man back in '03, then no privilege protects you at all.



  • No.

    That’s true for people. Corporations don’t learn from mistakes and cannot improve over time, they’re legally obligated to seek shareholder value.

    Expecting a corporation to do things for the right reasons is like expecting AI to do things for the right reason.

    If we must interact with either, we must simply be glad when the answer is correct. If we want corporations to act more like people and be able to have real values, we need to bake a corporation’s values into law in some way.

    Private businesses can still have morals and can learn and all that good stuff where the method matters, but public ones will always dehumanize.

    So I’m happy they hit the right result. I’m also happy they’re talking about it like this even though this talk is also just a publicity response, because other companies might see this and also do the right thing for the wrong (purely financial) reason.

    But this is also why corporations shouldn’t be people and should be barred from everything involving government and all that, if not abolished altogether.