It's back up now. They apparently use Bing as the backend search and Microsoft fsck'd it for a few hours: https://www.theverge.com/...

Discord is OK for real-time chat or VC, but is awful for forum-like discussions. Comment-specific context is lost in the single-threaded noise and search is borderline useless. The true forum-designed format of Lemmy, Reddit, and predecessors is far and away better. In my opinion Twitter - the legacy, ubiquity and tech - would be a better forum than Discord. That was hard to type and I need to quickly bleach my fingers.

I really hope this becomes the defacto forum for this community. I've been dabbling in the Lemmyverse and it seems like the most appropriate solution at this time. Not only am I suspicious of Twitter/X, but it is a terrible design for forum-like interaction - in that regard Reddit's format really is ideal, and that's what Lemmy has emulated.

PP's app idea as a forum is the stupidest shit he's said yet. He forgets that he isn't the main character of this community, and it was simply dumb luck and circumstance that led to his handle/name being in the subreddit's name we all congregated in. I fear he's trying to capitalize/monetize on his 15 minutes, and this isn't the way. I'm not installing a "PP app", but I would actually donate money to someone(s) wanting to stand up a dedicated "stonks"** lemmy server. Hopefully we have a conclusion to this story before the ambitious dev intern who offered their services has a prod release.

** FoilVesting? FTDville? Or default to the existing WhyDRS ?

I don't use headphones often, but when I do its' via wired headphones. I had to buy a USB-C-to-3.5mm adapter, but the max volume is half of what my old phone with a 3.5mm jack could deliver.

Cheap wireless devices like headphones are way too finicky and prone to breakage, not to mention the battery lifespan is just a few years. I've had my nice wired headphones for 10 years.

That we know of so far... Release the Epstein files, Krasnov.

I haven't watched more than a few minutes of the actual PP show before but this seemed significant enough that I had it on in the background while finishing up work. Thoughts:

• Whole thing occurs at a windy airport tarmac, with a stage & everyone waiting. Pulte & PP arrive by helicopter. Why? Why that place, why a chopper? Pulte highlights he paid for the heli ride, not paid by participants' $500 tickets. Chopper remains in the background the whole time. Is it vanity, or a clue?
• Holy fuck Kais shouldn't be on the stage. I still don't know why he's significant.
• Lots of promotion of PHM
• Lots of circle jerking. Konga line of it.
• Houston Wade is weirded out and doesn't seem to be buying the production. He's stuck on stage, poor guy.
• Pulte says he is NOT involved with bbby or Teddy in any way, but says he'd invest 1m if RC lets him. Someone calls him out that he could invest a lot more than that, and has dropped several million in Twitter/X.
• Pulte shoots down every bit of tinfoil theories about him, no validity to any of it.
• LC attended virtually, talked for 5 min. Pulte made it clear LC will not be discussing any publicly traded companies. LC comments about the helicopter... The damn chopper again - was LC subtly calling Pulte vain, or is this a coordinated reinforcement of a clue? Leaning towards the former. Most of what LC says is about RC. I'm really surprised he agreed to be a part of this... And why LC? Did RC convince LC to do this as a consolation prize to placate the PP crowd? LC is the GME investor furthest from bbby, at least as far as we currently know. Was RC a consolation prize delivered by RC?

This has left me very confused. I try to keep an open mind about Pulte but this made me dislike him more... Everything he said was the most meaningless generalizations delivered in the style of a pseudo-politician. He's a trust fund-ed 35 yo who looks 50... But RC keeps liking Pulte's tweets and then LC. My BS sensor is detecting a presence, but the signals are too mixed IMO. Is this all a make-a-wish production for Pulte, with RC & LC humoring a dying man-child? I kid, but this whole thing is just so unexplainably strange.

Still don't care for PP though, sorry. His app idea is just dumb, but I think Pulte is funding it.

Thoughts?

I'm going to suggest possibly irresponsible advice, but step 1 - you need to solve your depression and porn addiction, and ASAP. For that you could try therapy, and/or psilocybin or DMT... Not a heroic dose, but enough to get introspective from an altered POV. Therapy is the obvious long-term recommendation, but the psychedelic route may get you there faster, and you might learn a few things, such as your social obstructions or root causes.

Second, you need a close friend, at least one, preferably one who is also your desired romantic demographic. Maybe not someone who you'd normally "go for", but who you'd be happy spending time with - platonically, romantically, whatever it does not matter. The goal is to ground yourself with empathy for that person, and they for you too.

With Lemmy there's distinct difference between the frontend/UI & backend (the application itself, & data storage). Lemmy is primarily the backend, but they allow anyone to create a frontend (or mobile app, browser extension, etc.) to interface with it. Lemmy does come with a default web UI which sucks, and this is where Kbin rose to initial popularity with a slightly better web UI. Now there is a robust ecosystem of apps like Voyager or Sync which are quite good and far more enjoyable to use, even when compared to Reddit's official app.

Good news is the web UI can change, and you can experiment with other federated instances which uses different web UIs.

Lemmy's main problem is a lack of user base and content. I've lurked daily on Reddit for 13 years without an account, but with Lemmy I'm choosing to vote, comment & post to help get the "ball rolling". Reddit had the same problem initially, and the creators & friends busted their asses with alt accounts to give the impression of a larger user base... Until Digg imploded

Further, I'll say this community should no longer the "property" of PP, but the collective we've become. We are all individual investors making our own decisions & enjoying this unique community of people, not PPseeds himself - in fact I've watched maybe 5 minutes of the show ever; can't stand it, and certainly don't have time to listen to 4hrs of BS for maybe a few minutes of solid content. This community, though, is special. Nowhere else that I've found allows for big-picture discussions outside of specific stock tickers, and I do appreciate the GME/Butterfly/IEP (and more) theories & tinfoil.

Again, fuck Twitter/X. Any links to that awful platform should be through nitter.net like a condom.

Woodworker in US here, and I prefer metric. Also consider the thickness of plywood is actually in metric now - "3/4" is actually 18 mm but they have to market it as 23/32.

I've chosen to join the other 8 billion people on earth.

Disappointed people are not shills. We must refrain from a cult of personality, because the types which gravitate to that spotlight are usually disappointing. This event was rife with "cult of personality" which turns me off completely. But I acknowledge that some people are jazzed by such things as this event, HS pep rallies, religious services, etc. I'm just here for the DD, analysis, and a few hits of tin.

I think Pulte likes to play off the community hype around ice cream & 741. It was obviously orchestrated & he's a hype man who aspires to to deliver what the crowd likes. Is there actual significance around 741 & ice cream? Perhaps, or maybe there used to be, or nothing at all - but it's community symbolism none the less.

LC's participation was the one sticky point for me. Even after sleeping in it I'm still of a mind that RC is trying to placate the most currently active sub-group of his investment followers until D-Day, and likely convinced LC to make an appearance to pacify & intrigue this audience in lieu of himself.

After sleeping on it I'm more annoyed by PP & Pulte blatantly cutting off any interesting BBBY discussion. Jake2b, the attorney, Houston Wade... Every time they were cut off and momentum on the topic killed, never to return. I think they were trying to make it more about themselves and didn't like the spotlight shining elsewhere.

For anything construction-scale, all supplies sold in the US are based on 4x8' sheet goods and 16-24" on-center framing. I also concede that king George the 74th's foot length is more human-scale when dealing with large measurements: 20 feet vs 6096 mm. I still use metric when possible, however - I find it easier and more accurate.

For EVERYTHING else I've switched to using metric.

Context: I grew up in the US using imperial units and only pivoted to the metric system in 2020. If I grew up thinking in metric and building supplies/standards used it, it'd be superior in every way.

TL;DR I like my imperial/metric combo tape measure.

Agreed, with an addendum. We must simultaneously work to reform the existing system AND build a new system. One incentivizes the other, thereby ensuring the outcome & its expediency. There's growing public awareness, community participation, and current (& future) activist whales with good intentions to kick-start the journey to a better future on both fronts. Needless to say I'm 100% convinced we need non-fungible securities ownership via NFTs or some equivalent system.

The "hard to build things, easy to destroy" truth resonates - Markets should be (financially) incentivized to create rather than destroy, which is why I'm against short selling at all - legit or naked/counterfeit. It is simply too easy to destroy a company & profit from its destruction, either forced via massive short positions or plants/sellouts within a board/C-suite.

Agreed. Links to content on it posted here should be via nitter.net where at least I can view without a login.

Great idea about tracking the 'choppa. It seems to use the Pompano Beach Airport as its home base, so unless specified all logs start there. N212SP is owned by "Airman Helicopter Inc." so it appears to be a charter chopper. It is NOT frequently flown.

Nov 24: Busy day of shuttling to/from places, but note the loops before landing in Pompano Beach:

• Started outside Port St. Lucie, Treasure Coast Airpark
• Causeway Island, stopped for about 10 min
• Vero Beach, stopped for about 30 min at an undeveloped field (not airport) - near Game Street, FWIW.
• Stuart, stopped at Witham Field for literally 30 seconds
• Palm Beach Shores, flew two circles over the tidal zone at latitude of Bamboo Rd.
• Ocean Vue, flew one circle over the tidal zone at latitude of Sevilla Dr.
• Landed at Pompano Beach Airport

Nov 28: Flew laps over a nature preserve, landed in Ft. Lauderdale for 2 min, then returned.

Dec 08: Went to southern Palm Beach and without landing U-turned over the tidal zone (around Algoma Rd, Kings Rd. a block or two north of the infamous Mar-a-Lago) and returned. Joyride? Algoma Rd reminds me of algo...rithm.

Dec 14: Went to Pompano Community Park - literally a few blocks away (to pick up PP?) and then flew right back to the airport for the event.

I don't have time to survey the land ownership of each property around the circle points, being the only remotely interesting indications in the flight history. I've taken this as far as I'm willing to go without feeling crazy or stalk-y. County records typically contain ownership info, such as this example of one property near the u-turn on Dec 8: https://pbctax.publicaccessnow.com/... Mind you many wealthy people likely have obfuscated custody of the properties they own, so this might be a futile endeavor. No, Ryan Cohen or Carl Icahn don't live anywhere near where the chopper went, although I discovered they do live within a mile of each other (Indian Creek, Bal Harbour).

Although it'd be poetic justice & would force the general public into awareness of the fraud at play, we have to assume anything which happens must be of service to the new company - they won't just give away equity as a gesture of goodwill. A credit bid or legal decree could catalyze a chain reaction which leads to a black swan event, but anything outside of "business justification" or precedent will present a legal (or legislative) liability; IE, a loophole to shutdown the ensuing madness.

The ongoing fraud investigation presents a massive "undo" button for this entire mess, though. If fraud is determined to be a cause of BBBY's bankruptcy then something vaguely resembling what you describe is possible. Until then, I'd assume redemption would only come in the format of a credit bid or legal settlement, because as of now BBBY/Q shares are extinguished & dk-butterfly is a legal entity of the bankruptcy process.

Everything is speculation & we simply don't have all the info yet - there are too many positive indications, unanswered questions & seemingly nonsensical factors for this NOT to be significant. Hell, it appears even the big boys like JPM & whoever has Gasparino by the sack is clouded in confusion too. Those who know are battling major players and likely have obfuscated as much as possible, deployed red herrings, and proxied tactical elements through multiple layers - one mis-step and their play may be in jeopardy. All we need to do is relax, not get too invested in one particular theory (of many), and let the titans battle this out.

Is this really just a screenshot, not even a link? C'mon....

1. We're here on Lemmy due to a dislike of formerly-Twitter/X (and neo-Reddit, etc.).
2. At least provide a fucking link, preferably to a copy on Spotify or Youtube - something which doesn't require an account to listen.
3. Mind summarizing what about this specific stream excited you enough to post a screenshot?

This post is just lazy & useless. As an aside I really wish Sal & Jake2b didn't exclusively post to formerly-Twitter/X. It is a terrible platform with an incredibly large concentration of equally terrible people.

My comment was from a place of empathy regarding his possible situation, but it doesn't mean we should encourage Edwin or put his ramblings on a pedestal. Also autism isn't a mental disability, but schizophrenia is and is manageable with the proper diagnosis. I appreciate the pattern-seeking efforts (a symptom of schizophrenia - hyper-vigilence & pattern-seeking; blame snakes for honing our ancestor's brains), but his latest stuff is practically nonsensical - aside the already nonsensical Qanon stuff. I didn't realize he had gone off the deep end until reading into his Dr Eyeball thing this morning - I had to go to TwitterX for the full-res image of the texts, and I actually didn't see anything concerning in Eyeball's messages... Which led me to review Edwin's other stuff and was appalled. Everything I read of Edwin's tried to, poorly, to link every conspiracy theory thread to every other similar thread, and a dash of our stocks too. I'm all for entertaining the possibility of some theories where actual evidence exists, valid unanswered questions, etc. but his recent posts are just... Unsubstantiated and lacking in links between points A, B & C of any sort. I hope he is OK.