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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (7 children)

whos cashing all this out? and are they paying taxes on it? like how does it work? can you just move your assets/ close out on positions and immediately shove them into some compounding interest account but still capture all the profit, with no capital gain tax?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

The FO phase of FAFO.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

All I see here is a bunch of companies that were massively over valued in the first place.

I sleep.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Karma. Thats what's goin down!

[–] [email protected] 95 points 2 months ago

He did say he would be bringing prices down on day 1, just didn't clarify he meant stock prices, not grocery prices.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Everything! 🔥

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Big Tech always amplifies gyrations in the market. Hence, every single one of these stocks (except Microsoft, I just checked) is still beating the S&P 500 over 6 months, even with these drops. And Microsoft is still way up in the long term.

Look, I want meteors to hit them all, but huge swings are the norm for these now. Hotter stocks trade a lot like crypto these days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hotter stocks trade a lot like crypto these days.

Hum... That's not a good sign.

Instead, that's a really strong indication that people believe those stocks have the same kind of fundamentals than crypto.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It’s more an implicit acknowledgment that it’s all a game. Kind of like crypto, roulette, or poker.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Tech stocks are overvalued right now because they're all inflated by AI hype. When that hype finally collapses the crash is going to be nasty.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (2 children)

As of 1:00 PM EST, it's down 12% on the day and dropping 🥰

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

As of 3:00 PM EST, it's down over 15% on the day and in a bit of a further swing 😍

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

You love to see it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It’s stocks, innit?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Buyeu and buycanada are gaining momentum?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I agree with the sentiment but I work in IT and yearn for when we will get rid of Microsoft, Amazon, and the tech giants.

My mother won't buy anything American at the grocery store but uses Amazon and Facebook every day.

My coworkers won't buy American products but use Windows, Teams, and Office every day.

I may be using Linux, open source software, and avoid American tech when possible, but I still use Google and Gmail.

At some point we may want to (or should) also extend that boycott to software and tech services. Have our governments, institutions and people not dependent on American corporations. It can only be good for our sovereignty anyway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I asked in another thread about the possibility and likelihood of a sort of "digital embargo" where the states would order American companies like steam to halt service.

Forget not being able to get oranges or having to eat frozen veggies part of the year, this is somewhere that I can't really change my buying habits and move on (my steam library can't leave steam in this example)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was questioning that myself.
So far digital goods haven't been the subject of tariffs on either side.
It would also be hard to tariff successfully as it wouldn't be difficult for Steam to setup something in another country's Data center as "Steam International " to bypass any Tariffs.
Although this trade wars has prompted me to start buying games on GoG when that is an option.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've been choosing gog over steam since idk when, but some games gog didn't have. And steam is actually fairly painless to use now compared to all the fights I had getting it to run for me 5+ years ago, so I do sometimes choose steam over gog if it's a game I'm intending to play with family online, since it's easy to invite them to a game through the chat.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I hear you there, Steams multiplayer infrastructure is top notch, I've seen a few games get significantly clunkier when they added cross play and moved away from Steam's services.
Steams also the leader in getting games to run on Linux, although between the heroic launcher or running the offline installers through Lutris, GoG isn't that bad anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

One can hope for it to be Consequences of their actions.

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