By how it reads, it kind of looks like more of a Jack-ass situation if voluntary abuse. There was some mention of him getting shot with paint balls. Also, the autopsy report said he had no trauma.

Alive, but not growing.

Ahem…Aliens

Wow. Your school hated you if you didn’t learn about the alligator or crocodile.

About 5 million people is good. I was on Digg as it grew and became shit. I was on reddit as it grew and then became shit. Once the active user base goes over ten or fifteen million people, things start going down hill. Advertisers and bots and mods that can’t keep up and too much outside press and governments mentioning the platform with unwanted attention.

Right now things are OK for general news and info, but not big enough for more unique communities. Like I can’t go to a community within lemmy to find another thousand+ people all about yo-yo’s, but reddit has r\throwers with over 40k subscribers so I can go this “stout guy” show me how to do a new trick.

A lot of people from California come to the smaller cities near bigger cities in southern Missouri. What sucks is that they’re driving up the costs of homes and real estate. Wish I could go somewhere that’s still kinda nice and get a bigger nicer house for 1\4 the cost and retire early.

I literally just fixed a zoomers laptop last night. Lol

Then why did Sony also increase pricing in several other countries?

A single gram of plutonium has enough calories to keep a human alive for about 28,000 years. If we could just properly digest it without death.

“can dance all night”

She DTF.

It was after Jesus asked them to move it because he wanted to have his birthday party near the end of the year so people could have an extended holiday. It gave time for people to travel to his party without having to worry about getting right back to work.

Do you know the difference between “diversified portfolio” and “diversified stock portfolio” ?

That was the 2nd time they got in trouble. Not the first where the government was poking around on them for OS monopoly practices. You’re talking about what happened around 1998 and it was mostly for using its size to crush Netscape as a web browser by bundling their own Microsoft browser for free, along with some other software bundled things. That suit had nothing to do with being a monopoly over operating systems or PC hardware. In other words, it had nothing to do with anything Apple was involved with at the time.

I re read my post and see how that could be confusing, but I mean that I don’t have any penny stocks any more. Closest thing to a penny stock I currently have is just a flyer I took on about $500 worth of Lucid that’s floating around $2 something a share, and that’s a very small part of my portfolio.

Also, I’ve done quite well over the past 8 years with my individual stock choices. I generally invest in companies that I have a lot of knowledge in, and it’s worked out for me.

That is a well diversified stock portfolio. If you have over 20 different stocks across several industries you might as well just put it all in index funds.

That monopoly issue and fines had come and gone years before this.

I got stocks in like a dozen different things. I used to be like you, but now I’ve just diversified my portfolio and bought mostly non fad stocks or penny stocks. Sometimes I’ll go a month without even looking at any of it.

I could go back to “trying to hit it big” but yeah; way too stressful.

*Edit: To clarify - non fad stocks and non penny stocks.

Apple was falling apart and on the verge of bankruptcy it was down to like 10 CENTS a share in late 1997.

The only reason they exist is because Bill Gates gave Steve Jobs a ton of money to stay afloat so long as he promised to make some charitable contributions to give back if the company got its act together (Apple under Steve Jobs continued to be one of the least charitable companies on the S&P 500, completely breaking his promise) and they got lucky cornering the market with the iPod.

So Bill Gates and the iPod are the only reason Apple has a stock value. If things had gone just slightly different Mr.Wozniak would have had $0 if he’d of kept the stock. Also, the stock value dropped like another 40% in 1985 after he sold off his shares before starting to rebound back up and just floating around 25 to 35 cents a share for over a decade.

The musical episodes in The Magicians were all bangers too.

I’m 42. I fucking walked for miles all over the place when I was a kid. This being a “problem” is straight up retarded. Shit was actually a lot more dangerous back in the 80s and 90s than it is now. Kids are safer today than 30 years ago.