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Cake day: July 30th, 2023
  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldtoSteam Hardware@sopuli.xyz•Anyone get the email yet? (Steam Machine)
    6 hours

    I put in for all 4 hoping to get one of them:

    "You’re officially in the reservation queue for Steam Machine 512GB with Controller

    When your Steam Machine 512GB with Controller becomes available, we will send you a separate email with the option to purchase. You’ll then have 3 days to complete the purchase before we cancel your reservation and move on to the next person in the queue.This is the only email you will receive about the results of the randomization. If you ended up with a reservation queue spot for more than one model, you were allocated a reservation for the highest end model, and were removed from all the others."

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•How does this scam work?
    3 days

    https://www.pitzlfinancial.com/blog/ode-shoeshine-boy

    "In 1929, at the height of an economic boom in America, Joseph Kennedy Sr. (father of JFK) was working as a stockbroker on Wall Street. As the story goes, Joseph was walking around when he decided to sit down for a shoeshine. While polishing his shoes, the young worker gave Joseph some of his favorite stock picks. When Joseph heard the shoeshine boy giving out stock tips, he figured the party was about to end, and it was time to get out of the market. Joseph proceeded to exit his positions in the market and bought short positions that bet on the market going down.

    Shortly after that, the stock market entered a free fall. On Monday, October 28, 1929, the market dropped about 13%. The next day it fell another 12%. These became better known as Black Monday and Black Tuesday, and ushered the United States into The Great Depression.

    Now did Joseph profit from this type of bet? Absolutely. It’s estimated that he made somewhere north of $150 million during that period, which equates to roughly $3.5 billion in today’s dollars.

    Did he make these bets based on the shoeshine boy? Probably not, but it makes for a good narrative."

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldtoMovies@lemmy.world•Recommendations for newer martial arts moviesEnglish
    4 days

    I’d add Love Hurts to that, also with Ke Huy Kwan.

    Bullet Train is more fun than it has any right being, but not really kung fu, just similar energy. Ditto for The Nice Guys.

    The Nobody movies were fun and Normal LOOKS good but I somehow missed that…

    Oh yeah, older Korean flick:

    The Good, the Bad, and the Weird! Great watch!