samnoack.bsky.social
Engineer. Husband. Researcher. Proud XXX Gamestop shareholder. I post commentary on the ongoing Gamestop saga. Occasionally share opinions of varying popularity.
Anti-MAGA/DNC/Russia/Hamas/IDF. If any of that triggers you, do us both a favor and block.
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correction: *3 fucking years*
My memory is a bit foggy about that event. They watched in real-time, on monitors, what happened while the UN spent 3 YEARS pretending to debate what happened.
That is how far our space/drone/intelligence stuff is ahead of what most understand.
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I personally knew someone who worked in a very secret setting (think underground bunker he can't say the location of). He told me he saw MH17 happen in real time and it was a wild experience to watch the world debate if a Russian missile hit it for the next 3 weeks.
I'm aware this is "trust me bro"
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Their last real nuclear test was in 1990, there has been practically no external confirmation that they have truly maintained and working warhead capabilities in the past 20 years, they lack air superiority needed for a traditional drop, and there is not a thing they do not watched in real time.
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From a strategic perspective, there was very little reason for Russia to NOT do at least a very public nuclear test earlier on in the war, if for no other reason than to demonstrate their capabilities are still working, instill fear of intervention, and frighten Ukrainians into fleeing. They didn't.
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What I know, almost positively, is that the Kremlin itself does not even know if their nukes work.
Which is why they will never use them. If they could, they would have used them already to double down on the terror of "escalation consequences" and to eliminate particularly troublesome targets.
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I hope they put the Staten Island Stapler's Stapler in jello
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If, for instance, Russia actually had a working nuke to prep, it would be known about and destroyed before it even got to a proper launchpad, and I suspect NATO does not want to give China the ability to study those kinds of intelligence capabilities in real time.
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There is no need to even put boots on the ground. Our drone, space, and cyber warfare capabilities are so far beyond what Russia can handle, I suspect the only hold up is that the world doesn't want bigger threats like China to see NATO's real hand.
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I bet my life Russia does not have working nukes. They are sending people on 1960's motorcycles as "armored" divisions.
They are full of shit and any claim that they are capable of waging a ww3 is a joke. We should have "escalated tensions" to the maximum 6 months ago. This could be over next week.
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Literally the stupidest liberals I know were prophesying exactly this as far back as September of 2024 LOL.
If you did not see this coming... You need.. You need to be better at reading people. This was a softball difficulty prediction 🤣
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If one good thing comes out of this let us hope that it is Trump corruptly directing the supreme court to overturn citizen's united to curb the threats to them from Musk.
If he's gonna be corrupt least we could get out of this is corruption defeating other corruption.
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Hey guys maybe we should all agree that Citizens United was fucking dumb and that both parties shouldn't be reduced to the "suck the dick of the billionaires funding you or be ruined" platform.
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There is a lot more info in the post, but this is the main kicker. The ETF is leveraged at a ratio of 1.2 million shares long exposure to 37 million shares short exposure. And yet, the short exposure is (??? how????) reported as a notional value of $0. That seems illegal, but who cares at this point
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The superstonk post broke it down very well. Basically what it is is a total return swap liquidity pool, and effectively seems to functions as 10% of the float short. They seem to have dug deep though. 28% CTB is truly absolutely nuts. People are paying that much for a x2 short position basically.
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"There have been lines outside the doors of gamestop every week for the past 4 months. This is why this is bad news for the memestock"
- Some dumbass seeking alpha stooge, somewhere
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Well, it's never too late to realize you got order 66'd and stop being a nazi 🤷♂️ better late than never.
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This is how any ICE officer with a moral compass should be behaving right now. Grow a fucking ballsack and be like my legendary clone trooper boi Howzer.
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Does Mike Johnson calling Elon instead mean he has not checked in on his accountabilibuddy? Is Johnson being tempted by the enemy to watch nude sodomy? Lot's of people are saying it, people who are close to the situation. Very big if true. After all, he has not denied that he has not checked in.
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Mike, don't you have to make your accountability buddy phonecall with your son to make sure neither of you have been tempted to watch BDSM midget porn?
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There was not a single day that went by during Biden's 4 years that my conservative mother was not texting me about how America is falling apart because he slurred a word, or because a cabinet member didn't show up to an interview, etc.
But, crickets in the face of the current shitshow unfolding.
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Frankly, the Conservatives are an AMAZING opposition party. They are truly incredible at enraging people into action over everything from bloody tan suits to regular military drills in the Arizona desert.
What they have no idea how to do, apparently, is lead when they stop being just opposition.
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And then when those bad things happen, they suddenly become instagram activists, make a flurry of posts out of nowhere, post black-out posts, add the current tiktok buzzwords to their bio, and forget to give a shit or even really think about life the next time an election rolls around.
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Most of my coworkers did not vote. Most of them said they didn't to the effect of "eh I was kind of tired."
Many would rather watch tiktok, call people making political commentary around them cringe and too serious, and act like things are honky dory until grandma can't get a knee replacement.
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The reason democrats lost is because people didn't vote. It's really that simple. There are a lot of reasons people didn't vote. One of those reasons are both-sideism driven by seeing supposed "democrats" agree with horrible shit. But the biggest reason is sheer fucking American privileged laziness.
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The entire concept of dragging peoppe away without allowing them a defense or even to face their accuser is absurdly anti-American.
The last time Americans covered their faces to do things it was the lynch mobs. Just saying. Covered faces don't exactly have great historical alignments.
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Well, they did raise OUR taxes immensely via tariffs, but I see your point.
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I have spent the last year working directly with Palantir's software at a huge use-case level probably similar to what the government is trying to employ.
Believe me. I know. Their tech is insane, and it is genius, and it is terrifying. I probably shouldn't make the mistake of underestimating them
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Although I was still peeved they didn't have enough staff to deal with midnight release lines + trade-in's simaltaneously. But at least mine was helpful and didn't treat me so disrespectfully. Asking for a trade-in is part of the business ffs.
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The whole reason half of us invested is because we wanted a company we liked to survive and thrivs, and they've made huge strides to treat customers so much better than before, but it's super frustrating to hear some managers still treat their customers like idiots and shit. Our local one is great.
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As a Gamestop shareholder, I actually recommend you filing a complaint (unfortunately the important people use twitter but the CEO himself has responded to stuff like that before). The company has worked hard to cut waste, bad actors, and untrustworthy employees/stores. They would very likely listen
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This irks me too, actually. Our local Gamestops said they "don't want to deal with the hassle when there is a line." I asked if I come later in the day when it isn't as crazy if they would, and the said sure.
Kind of seems like a thing that should not be time of day dependent though, at all.
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(4/3) Ok, I can't help myself. This is becoming a nuclear bomb of an ETF, I did not realize the CTB fees had increased that tremendously over the past weeks. Some people are deeply in Enron levels of trouble here, there will be financial textbooks written about this. ARE YOU WATCHING CLOSELY?!
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(3/3) Even by short standards, betting on a 13-14% annual downside just to turn a profit is delusion levels of risk taking. And they are doing it to a stock price that is practically chained down and backed up by straight-up cash holdings, in the middle of a once per decade product release. INSANE.
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(2/3) Compare that to a business truly, and deeply in trouble, with seriously likelihood of downside like Tesla. 0.25% fees. Shorts are willing to pay 0.25% in the likelihood that Tesla drops at least that amount at somepoint within the next year. A functionally 14% fee is absolutely bonkers.
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I think it's both. Everyone with a brain knows this admin is a clusterfuck destined to implode, and Elon has just enough of his left to realize he should try to save face and gaslight everyone while the gaslighting is good.
And he is probably also personally mad because he got punched in the face.
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Here is what I think happened:
Cabinet: "Let's raise the debt ceiling"
Elon: "But we promised we would fix it! And be efficient! And *insert weird excessive tech-nerd words*"
Cabinet: "You promised us trillions in savings but gave us nothing! It's your fault!" *punches*
Elon: *sobs and leaves*
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Good. I'm not against you. I genuinely commend what you are doing, and I hope it somehow saves innocent lives that can still be saved.
It's just fucking tragic that their own actions aren't exactly helping you build support as strongly as it rationally should.
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Humanity will beget humanity, and fury will beget fury.
Lack of empathy will beget lack of empathy. Where were Palestinians on 9/11? Celebrating in the streets. And you all wonder why NYC is more concerned about the switch 2 today than about their fate.
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wanna know why I support Ukraine? Because despite all moral rights to behave like monsters, they treat their prisoners with dignity. They shield their women and children, rather than use them as human shields to make a point. They watch Trump's absolute bullshit but don't bomb our cities. Etc.
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Humans are pretty shit, and no lifetime has been without its genocides.
Those groups that survived chose to resist in peace or overwhelming support, rather than gasoline on a raging fire.
There are lessons to be learned, and history tells me that Palestine has simply learned it far too late.
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In the entire course of human history, 75 years have been without war. Romans conquering the world. Mongolians slaughtering so many humans they changed the climate. Vlad the Impaler making a forest of living humans skewered on stakes. On, on, and on.
Have we ever had the humanity for true peace?
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I just truly don't understand what anyone ever wants or expects people to do when they say "free palestine."
I could donate to them maybe, and then Hamas would just steal it all if it even makes it past the IDF. And Ukraine deserves my limited help more.
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Is Netenyahu a piece of shit? 150%
Is it really surprising most of the world doesn't really care to save a society that will probably try to terrorize everyone again even if they try to save them? No, not really.
The whole situation is fucked, and it needs to be studied in history books.