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  • Be careful with the plastic spatula used to flip your eggs I guess.

    Except you know, plastic isn’t a real chemical. There’s polyethylene, polypropylene, polyurethane, and silicone… of which there are food grade versions and non food grade versions of said plastics (and many thousands of formulations).

    Anyone bullshitting with scare words like ‘Plastic’ are immediately discounted by me. Real scientists are at least specific with their terminology and not using weasel words that have effectively no meaning in a serious discussion


    Meanwhile my buddy gets fucking arsenic poisoning and there’s not even a ruckus about it at all. Do you know what a REAL poisoning is like?




  • You’ve got equities, debt and derivatives.

    Equities are ownership into shares. These are the simplest to understand. You own a share of a company and thus are entitled to a % of the profits (though most companies today choose 0% as their decision).

    Debt means funding… debt. SLABs (student loan backed securities), MBS (mortgage backed securities), bonds (government debt), bank loans etc. etc. These are surprisingly complex in practice but perhaps easiest to understand. There’s lots of different details to debt (callable, puttable, tax free, convertible, coupons, notes, bills, bonds, I-bonds, EBonds, 10Y, 3M, overnight repos). But in all cases, you lend money to someone, and later they try to return it to you + a little extra.

    Derivatives (usually options but there are many kinds) are new inventions that are more complex. Ignore these as they are very very complex.


    That’s about it.

    The general recommendation is to buy an ETF for equities and an ETF for Bonds. ETF is just a combination of simpler investments that you pay 0.04% to 2% a year for convenience.

    VOO takes the 500 biggest companies in the USA (aka the S&P 500) and buys mostly the biggest company and a very little bit of #500.

    BND is a similar idea except it’s a whole bunch of different debts from across the entire economy.

    So buy some equities (mostly equities), some bonds, and leave some cash in a high yield savings account. Done.

    Stocks (aka VOO) make the most money on the average, but also loses money the most often.

    Bonds (aka BND) makes middle amount of money but rarely loses money.

    Cash / savings accounts never lose money (except inflation). But makes very very little. It’s still worthwhile to keep necessarily amounts as cash and this you should always be considering how much cash to keep.





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    While Hercules is impressively wrong, I knew Aladdin was a fun original read when it began with ‘In the Far East Kingdom of China…’

    Hercules, for all of its faults, actually takes place in Greece. Which is kinda sorta close to Rome (Hercules is his Roman name lol. Heracles is his Greek name).

    On the other hand, Aladdin might be a fake story all together. As in, some French Guy may have made up Aladdin as part of his translation of 1001 Arabian Nights. IIRC, Arabs don’t know wtf that story is doing in the (French) book.

    So Aladdin might be an entirely fake addition to the 1001 Arabian Nights novel. Canonically fake. So it’s in the true spirit of Aladdin (and 1001 Arabian Nights) to screw with the story anyway.


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    Btw: the original Aladdin story had no three wishes rule.

    Aladdin just spammed the heck out of wishes. Got everything he ever wanted.


    The only part of the Disney movie that’s accurate is when the sorcerer returns, teleports the Sultan (of China) palace to Africa, and Aladdin needs to use the weaker Genie of the Ring to steal the Genie of the Lamp back through trickery.

    The princess of China (yeahhhhhh) helps Aladdin out a bit IIRC.

    But yes, palace teleportation, sorcerer wishing to be Sultan, that’s the legitimate part lol



  • Now AI can sort through the hours of traffick camera footage

    No it can’t, not without major hallucinations and/or basic errors (ex: Black People tend to be misidentified).

    That’s the big thing about this AI push, it’s subtle mistakes are fucking people over right now. If AI actually worked reliably that’s another thing. But right now, people are mostly pretending that AI works and/or ignorant of its flaws.