Are people just now realizing that Beetlejuice Bob here is really fucking stupid? Hamas Piker loves to LARP as a communist, but he has no clue what he’s even talking about.
Hakeem Jeffries says he wants to bring back DACA recipients who have been deported and pay them damages: "We need to provide remedial assistance to them."
Capitalism 101 - Firms borrow because they think they can be profitable. Banks lend because they think they can be profitable.
The question is, where do profits come from and how to rates effect the change in profits.
I agree, with higher rates, some companies may borrow less, their business model is less successful under a high rate regime. However some companies are more successful under higher rates. Rates just change who wins or loses, but its a fallacy to apply what happens at the micro level to the macro level.
The question is where do additional profits come from, where are they exogenously added? The answer is govt spending, which increases with higher rates.
Empirically I'm 100% correct, the slowest credit growth we've ever happened under zirp because zirp took profits away from the private sector, disincentivizing lending.
This story about a potential $5 billion economic development project being blocked by a functional midwit backed by Chinese money is the perfect metaphor for America's utterly insane society today. Incredible.
What I find so amusing about this is that when I was a teacher, a group of Black students could be misbehaving in the hall, and when I told them to get to class, they’d hit me with, “Dis muh f*cka honky-ass cracka be doing the most, boy!” I’d be lucky if the administration gave them so much as a verbal warning.
Then you have some drunk girls making monkey noises at a door in the middle of the night- with no evidence they even knew the residents were Black- and they’re getting raked over the coals in the national media for something that should’ve been, at most, a sit-down with the dean.
This is what people hate. It feels like we have two sets of rules for conduct in this country. One for white people and one for black people.
If you’re white and do anything perceived as even slightly racist, people line up to ruin your life. If you’re Black and get held responsible for hurting a white person, people line up to donate to your GoFundMe.
Happy Veterans Day to all of our Veterans. Thank you for your Service and your Sacrifice! Thank you for your Courage and your Bravery! I salute you. #HappyVeteransDay2026
I believe the comparison of YouTube watch time to Netflix is misleading investors.
Consider a few examples: This "Chill lofi mix" is almost 2 hours long (length of a movie) has 35 *million* views in just four years. And this is one of hundreds of these types of videos.
People throw these up on their computer monitor as they're working, studying, working out, doing laundry. It sits in the background and adds some ambiance while they're actively working on something else.
In fact it's become a modern trend to throw up one of these videos on a TV in your room, living room, to set a 'vibe'. You could let it play for 8-10 hours a day, non stop, as background ambiance. (I know people personally who do this).
YouTube counts every hour of this as an engaged hour that is directly related and calculated the same as a Netflix viewer watching East Of Eden.
You realize the issue here, right? Well, it goes further than that. People use YouTube constantly as a substitute music-player. One of the most common use cases is to find a music playlist and play it right from youtube.
3rd party firms have estimated that 30-40% of YouTube's total watch time is from music alone. Netflix does not even compete in Music, yet this isn't broken out by YouTube because it paints a much better story to portray them as dominating the TV.
All this stuff like music and background videos contributes to their engagement numbers but it's fundamentally different than the type of content Netflix produces. This is why I believe many investors in Netflix are being misled.
Imagine, you are shopping at Home Depot, 2 homeless men, and a juvenile begin harassing you and start a fight.
It's 3 on 1 so you grab a weapon to defend yourself, all of sudden Karen the 5 foot nothing cop shows up, tases your ass, and then you get the shit kicked out of you by the men you were trying to defend yourself against.
All because Karen 5 foot, had no fucking idea what was going on, and decided to tase you while letting 3 homeless nothings beat on you.
That is what happened to this guy.
NO WOMEN COPS.
$ANT IPO at $1.4T valuation is now multiple times oversubscribed.
After trying to raise $57.8–64.4B… pushing total Anthropic IPO funding closer to $100B.
I guess the pool of capital is infinity in America if you can cure cancer with AI in 5–10 years?