Pidgeon spikes, they’re little wire or plastic spikes that stop pidgeons and other small birds landing there and shitting all over everything.

The funniest thing is, this is always how the excuses run when it comes to reddit.

A small percentage of individuals do good things? Clearly, we all share some credit for that, it means the group is good, they’re doing good things, they’re on the side of right, we are good people!

A larger percentage of people in the…

I was going to ignore this because honestly you’re entitled to your dumb fantasies and it’s a waste of calories to try and take that away from you, but there’s one part I needed to correct you on, because even I feel bad watching you make a fool of yourself.

Well, that went in an entirely predictable direction. If I say yes, you say I’m biased because I’m invested, and disregard. If I say no, you say I’m clearly not really there, and disregard.

I can’t blame them too much. They’re not financial reporters, not used to the ins and outs of this kind of story, and they got on it well after the prevailing narrative on social media had become “Brave working class heroes take down evil hedge funds” instead of “/b/ with a bloomberg terminal accidentally lucks into…

Zero. I took no position on GME - or any other meme stock - short or long. Nor do I work for anyone who does, have close personal relationship with anyone who did, or any other tenuous connection you want to try and accuse me of next. And, to round out the obvious conspiracy-minded accusations, I also don’t work for…

I’m sorry to be the bearer of this shocking news, friend. We have a support group, we meet on thursdays, and there’s free coffee and doughnuts.

You really wern’t around at at the start. The goal wasn’t to punish hedge funds, the goal was to punish ONE SPECIFIC GUY because he’d previously laughed at WSB, and said they were largely irrelevant bit players(which was, and mostly still is, true.) It wasn’t about hedge funds at all, that’s just a pretty dressing on…

Except the ones who re-upped, or jumped on, and shorted at peak - which includes the original hedge fund they were trying to go after - and are currently making far more money now as the arse falls out of the stock now that the internet’s attention span is coming to an end, and people move on, than they ever would…

Except, for one, while it’s not 100% proven it seems most of the action on GME was not retail traders, but Hedge funds and High volume traders taking advantage, and for two, many hedge funds have made out like absolute bandits on this, because they simply shorted at peak, knowing that the internet has a pretty limited…

That’s unfair, and completely untrue.

I think it may have something to do with the constantly precarious state of production at Tesla...

That is the kind of line I might have expected about of my highschool girlfriend after a discussion about sports.

“Anish Kapoor owns the exclusive rights to Surrey NanoSystems’ Vantablack paint, which is made from carbon nanotubes that are capable of trapping and absorbing 99.965% of visible light. ... Kapoor’s ownership means no one else can use VantaBlack, but thankfully”

This isn’t really true, I’m afraid. Kapoor has an…

Is it weird that I think that sounds kinda cool?

To add to your comment:

- The UK government and Surry Nanosystems demanded that exclusivity contract, not Kapoor, because the coating to that point had only been used in Military and research applications.

Yes, but that version(the original) is also only able to be applied by a single lab in the south of the UK, costs thousands per square inch, and the ONE person who has used it for anything other that millitary or research applications had to sign an exclusivity contract with the lab just to be allowed to use it, and…

Not necessarily small volume - pretty much any major lapel pin manufacturer will also offer challenge coins, because the production process is pretty similar, including many of the manufacturers Disney goes through for their official pins. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if some of these were made at the same…

There’s also the fact that in D1, as Mara’s Spymaster, his spies were referred to as “Crows”, and one of his titles, along with Prince of the Reef, was “The Master of Crows.”

Which honestly doesn’t sound that impressive, give me a bag of small-sized cat biscuits and some fine-diced red meat, I’ll master as many crows…

While that’s true, I was there for the launch on steam, and they still had issues. Less than expected for your usual big-name AAA multiplayer title, yeah def, but we can’t forget that by this point, they’d already had the infrastructure for the game running for, what, two years at that point, so you’d bloody well hope…