Chuck Flay

Not investment advice, life advice, or good advice

[Chuck Flay @ChuckFlay]

The biggest mistake I always make in markets is investing how I think things oughta be instead of how they are.

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@LinkofSunshine Many of them have an operating memory of the recent past in which the filibuster was the party's only defense against a huge leftward shift in American politics

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@RichardHanania @GWBPatriot Yet

It’s brewing, unfortunately

Different progression rates of the same cancer in discrete patients

[Chuck Flay @ChuckFlay]

Lots of people seem to not understand that in the foundational Cyberpunk work the dynastic Tessier-Ashpools lost control over Wintermute and its merger with “Neuromancer” was to create a rogue ASI. Molly and Case were middle class. Corpos were the false antagonist.

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@bdquinn You never meet Tim Cook, but you do meet and hate your landlord’s garbage PMC.

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@Legal_Fil That’s such an interesting set of priorities. I’m 41, so my openness to being annoyed by commies and morons ended years ago.

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What’s funny is that the internal politics of a country are almost always thermostatic oscillation

What really changes the politics of a nation is the emergence or departure of exogenous forces

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@GayBearRes We really, really missed having a clarifying enemy like the USSR

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@tylermacro10 Put another way: the assumption is that capital misallocation will kill us when it will actually be shortages of food and energy

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@Zennistrad Cyberpunk is about the downwardly mobile middle class seeking recognition from and victory against a transhuman rump aristocracy that has lost control of AI

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@sidprabhu “It’s an experiment!” No it isn’t. It was an experiment, the last several times; now it’s a deliberate crime.

[Sid Prabhu @sidprabhu]

These people are never intellectually honest. They still believe in MMT and claim inflation was transitory. They will weasel out of any result that does not support their desire for power.

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@MasterWambo Cyberpunk fiction accounts for these anesthetized chuds and they are present in the narratives. The protagonists are always anti corporate aspirants to the middle class or the downwardly mobile, a role now crowded and shouted out by the modern left. Kurt Cobain liberals.

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@TheLastNeocon This is just the kind of decadent horsecrap people fixate on when things are good

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@fiago7 Nooooo. No. No no no. Used to be fun, it’s very run down now.

[Chuck Flay @ChuckFlay]

What’s frustrating about the modern world is politics circling around solved problems and people who know better acting like this is some kind of genuine experiment

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

Am I the only person who has no strong feeling about the rent freeze other than “cool to try out a policy like this on a short-term basis so we can test if it actually works?” My only hope is we all learn some important information from this experiment and are honest about the results, whatever it brings.

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The rent control debate is simply tension between how people want prices to behave and how they must. They don’t want to experience this evidence of their perpetual existential struggle for basic socioeconomic position despite being in one.

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@junkbondanalyst God, what a time. We all tried it, it tasted bad, and it’s taking this long for the whole thing to wrap up.

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@lambda_thoughts @LinkofSunshine We’re not doing the humane part very well at all, agreed

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@Jesse_Livermore The total size of that market was tiny and most of the volume was tape-painting between a couple of crypto wallets netting to a fraction of the daily moves in hyperscalers

NFTs were a play money bet on utopia, AI is mortgaging the farm