Altima...that’s a car, right? Sounds like a car name.

That’s the thing people who claim capitalism don’t understand about scalpers.

They’re not capitalists. They’re actively HARMING capitalism.

Each step in the supply chain is supposed to add some sort of value to the product to justify the price increase that each step creates.

Scalpers simply add an extra step,…

Israel space laser...

“I almost died choking with these shoe laces because it didn’t say not to tie it around your neck and pull the ends. The hell, shoe lace companies!? I’m suing!”

WallStreetBets started calling him “Papa Cohen” and told tales of being taken to the moon on rocket ships made of “tendies” once the pet food genius transformed GameStop into a digital company.

I am a chemical engineer and this actually prompted some interesting thought for me. I always imagined a Pokeball as having a kind of thin plastic weight and feel, but that doesn’t make much sense when it has to stand up to this stuff and it’s so technology-rich. I wonder if it’s steel or something with wiring running…

“We have audited your car and noticed that you have not purchased the Reverse function. We are deleting this function from your vehicle.”

It is an interesting question. Some musings:

No, despite what other people are saying, there is a legitimate reason. The government and stock exchanges can and do halt trading on stocks and other securities in the event of freefall or massive volatility.

It’s actually a fairly common occurrence.

I mean, plenty of “real” brokerages still let you trade GME and these other stocks. This is more of a “Robinhood’s business model has a fundamental flaw” than anything else. You trade through a broker like Fidelity, and they aren’t selling your trade to someone else (Citadel) for a profit. They just don’t function…

Well, it is - but maybe in a roundabout enough way so as not to technically be manipulation.

“Even Michael Burry, GameStop’s original booster, called the stocks recent exploits “unnatural, insane, and dangerous.””

Happenstance is different than active planning. Your friend of a friend’s friend didn’t plan on getting the shot, they just happened to be there at the right time and if they didn’t get the shot it probably would have gone to waste. Better somebody get it rather than it being trashed. There’s no moral question there.…

With enough small traders rallied to its cause, WallStreetBets can create its own stock market reality, at least for a little while.

‘Memba back in the day when AMC was trying not do die and they would dig into their parts bins and slap together new cars out of stuff they had lying around?

Photo, video, audio recordings are authentic and tied to a real but now expired experiences. It is not the same as having a “living” conversation with a chatbot. That is not therapeutically ethical for reasons I already said. Want the super simple version: Lucy Liu Bot.

...tell me more about this cat.

Unless the car thief is also a herpetophile. Then you just lost your car and your snake. 

The Jalopnik game was shelved for 2 reasons: