But how do we hate-follow Elon then? We need our daily dose of outrage after all.

Are you sure? Last time I checked it just gives you a pop-up asking if you’re sure you want to use that word as some people can find it problematic and if you say yes it’ll get posted like a normal tweet.

Well I said black twitter because I’m talking about the Voldemort slur I’m not even allowed to say aloud

To my knowledge, twitter doesn’t block anyone from using slurs to begin with. I’m sure you can find plenty used on daily basis on “black twitter” for example.

That being said I’m going to need a more credible source than a random screenshot

These sorts of long-term questions and concerns are not things shareholders and investors think or care about.

Well that’s not true at all. The vast majority of investors are in it for the long run.

Remember when crypto replaced all the banks?

No, I actually don’t remember that. When did this happen?

It’s no less compatible with capitalism than any other economic system. The idea that humans are no longer needed to do any kind of work is an issue the world has never faced before.

No… First of all: electricity is never free to produce. Running a powerplant costs the same no matter what price the electricity is at. The price goes to zero when supply greatly overceeds demand. That means I’m not paying to the electric company for the electricity but I’m still paying for the company that maintains the grid to deliver that electricity to me. It doesn’t just magically hop from the powerplant to my house.

It’s happening on a social media platform none of you has ever heard of before and will never hear of again. Calm down and move on.

No, the prices are decided about 24 hours in advance and they don’t change after that.

I check sahko.tk in the evenings to see if it’s going to be particularly expensive the next day. This is mostly in the winter time, at summer I hardly pay any attention to it. They usually warn people in the news too for the handful of really expensive days in a year. Depending how high it gets I might turn off the heating for the peak hours but generally not because it doesn’t really make that of a big difference as the prices average out over a long period of time. Some people have automatic thermostats that turn off the heating after the electricity price passes a certain limit. My water heater for example is set to go on during the night when electricity is at its cheapest.

According to ChatGPT:

15% on the first $49,275 of taxable income.

20% on the next $49,275 of taxable income (over $49,275 up to $98,550).

24% on the next $19,170 of taxable income (over $98,550 up to $117,720).

25.75% on the taxable income over $117,720.

What’s so neat about it?

I live in Finland and me like a large number of other Finns have a plan in which the price changes every hour according to the market price. Typical price for electricity is around 4c/kWh in the summer and around 15c/kWh in the winter. However it’s not uncommon at all for the price to spike into 30c/kWh or even 70c/kWh. Last winter there was a day that it spiked to 200c/kWh.

How do we deal with it? By turning down/off the heating if possible and burning wood instead. If not then you just deal with it and have to pay significantly more for a few months. Then again if your plan has a fixed price to like 10c/kWh then that also mean you’re paying that even when the price drops to zero which also is not uncommon at all. Often happens several times a week during the summer time. Sometimes it even goes into negative. It’s still not literally free though since the transfer cost is around 6c/kWh plus energy fee and taxes.

Most layoffs are an effort to boost stock prices because some executives made a dumb fucking decision.

…what? You want to elaborate on that a bit?

I believe the vast majority of people are using twitter on phone. Or are you implying that instead of social media we should be calling our friends by a phone? Ew…

Ironically that’s not too different from the content we’re seeing on Lemmy as well. I never fully figured out why that is but it seems like we’re somehow addicted to outrage and when there’s no algorithm to serve us that we do it ourselves.

I only use twitter for porn and I almost never get anything else on my feed but when I do it’s usually either cat videos or political content, generally right-wing, but not even once have I seen anything racist there.

I think that as long as the bathroom is half-decent I can tolerate the rest. Then again if it’s a nice and renovated place with old and mouldy bathroom it’s an absolute no-no even if the price is good.

He’s not a passive investor then. Passive investing doesn’t require any managing. What he’s doing is not the recommended style for normal people because it’s effectively gambling.

My investing requires zero managing. I set it up once and haven’t touched it since. It automatically buys more shares each month and never sells anything. If the market crashes tomorrow, I’m not doing anything differently. It’s like automatically moving money to a savings account each month, but instead of putting it in a bank, I’m buying index funds.

Keeping large amounts of money in the bank not only isn’t making you any money, but you’re losing money you’ve spent your valuable time working for. It’s like giving back around 5% of your salary each time you get it.