Matthew Connatser

Damn thanks for rubbing it in.

What does the guy's shirt say?

So Q4 GDP growth wasn't even 1% despite us pumping the brakes on imports, we might actually see an official recession this year.

This is very crazy as a person who is in the middle of securing a mortgage, for my first house no less. I'm glad I got in now but I wonder if Trump going into Iran for no reason means I had to settle for ~7% instead of 6.

We better clean house come 2029.

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Maybe the faster interconnect will fix Gen 5 SSD issues?

I support this level of pettiness 1000%.

I'd love to know what this third option is.

So either AI is as unprofitable as we thought or Anthropic is lying... To the federal government... Which it is suing. I'd put down $5 on them being honest in the suit.

Shit that would be nice! It'd be nice to work because I want to.

Well I hope that's the case for him. I do all my investing myself, or at least I did and will do once stocks are worth buying. I don't think it's that hard to beat the management guys.

Oh my god he's getting scammed, these wealth management guys know it's a bubble according to someone who has a big portfolio and is looking to get out. And despite knowing how risky it is, they wanna keep investing in AI anyways.

Same, I pulled out completely last year. I'm strapped for cash right now because I'm buying a house but even once I get more liquid I'm either putting it into the house or keeping it in high yield savings. Stocks are doing shit anyways.

And yet this will not concern investors, somehow.

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It's funny how wrong people can be on new hardware that has a supposedly cutting-edge interface. We're not typing away on flat screens just because it's cheap and simple, it's literally the best way to interact with tech overall. Tons of these guys just don't get it (and other stuff too).

Okay so the F&G is in Extreme Fear territory right now but the stock price strength and breadth tickers are still showing greed, so the index is being propped up by this. If we get to May and the war is still going, we're gonna hit single digits in the F&G, maybe even 0 if that's possible.

I'm sure it'll be fine, they still have lots of levers they can pull before they finally admit this business model is too expensive to make sense.

With Senators it's a little different because they get to stay for six years. If your House Rep is an ass they can be booted in a couple years, Presidents get four, but six is a really long time and whether it's a Presidential election year or a midterm can be important too.

Well it looks like he's gonna win that Senate seat so we better hope he's good at heart.

Honestly my only qualm with Platner is he could end up like Fetterman. Him being proactive on ICE is great to see.

Yes because we know that individual soldiers are foaming at the mouth for war, it's well known that this is what they wanted above all else in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, and Korea.

It's beyond parody.

It's basically $3 in some places in Knox County, it's up anywhere from 15% to over 40% for some stations that used to offer good deals.

Oh so this is the thing Robinhood keeps bothering me about.

It's hard to not see the parallels with what happened with Ars Technica, but the silver lining is that I think you guys handled it well just like they did. Publishing is built on trust and no editor ever jumps to bad sourcing or outright fabrication. The original author is the real loser here.

I hope it's not an Ars Technica sort of situation.

Wow really cool to see the price of gas at the West Knoxville Costco go up 20 cents in like a day, thanks Trump. It's not like I'm spending over ten grand or so trying to close on a house! No fucking biggie!

I've got the Panther Lake MSI Prestige 14 so I've not even bothered loading Linux on it yet. Unfortunately Windows 11 works well enough after using the debloat tool.