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>>1202
"I thought Chosen Ones would usually get some kind of warning or goal to pursue..."
"Ha, you're right. You're not the chosen one... A chosen one doesn't need no guidance, a chosen one guides his people. Listen kid, get your powers ready, and go back to your world, or if you can't do that, anywhere outside the prison. Do it, before you're sold, because... because I don't think you'd survive what awaits you after that. We'll just have to wait for the real Chosen One, who will save us from the evil and return this world to its former, peaceful state."

>Is the voice male or female? Does it sound familiar to us in any capacity?
It's a deep, calm male voice. It doesn't sound familiar to you.

>>1203
"Well, shit."

Once we somehow wake up, let's talk to the girl, and hatch an escape plan. Double check how well these bindings are on us are. I want to lure the guard in somehow, and bash him upside the head with our bindings if that's possible.

>>1204
"Well, shit."
"That's your reaction? Yeah, go back to your world and return Irziel her body! Or rather, I'll help you go back!!!"
His roaring sound is echoing from everywhere, the world starts shaking, the white world suddenly turns dark. You can't see anything, you can only hear the roar... it's like hundreds or thousands of horses running... they're getting louder and louder, the world is shaking harder and harder...

...

"Ngghhh" you wake up with a slight headache. You look around, it's the weird exorcist's room, there are three chairs next to each other, you're laying on them.
"Are you okay, Irziel?... I mean, no, you're not Irziel anymore, you're Tom again, right?"

>>1205
>"Are you okay, Irziel?... I mean, no, you're not Irziel anymore, you're Tom again, right?"

"Wait Irziel went into this body? Anyway, yes, I'm back after some weird voice somewhat forced me back in here. I don't think Irziel will very much enjoy where I somehow ended her up in, which at this point is like 3 for 3 in the, I somehow made things worse department."

Any rabbits, or things that look wildly out of place here?

>>1206
"Wait Irziel went into this body? Anyway, yes, I'm back after some weird voice somewhat forced me back in here. I don't think Irziel will very much enjoy where I somehow ended her up in, which at this point is like 3 for 3 in the, I somehow made things worse department."
"Yes, I told you, she took control of your body... or not? And she didn't want to go back... But, suddenly a few minutes ago, she said that she doesn't feel well, and wanted to lay down a bit. Then I felt an unknown but very strong presence, then you woke up. Could you tell me about this weird voice? It seems like it's very powerful, more powerful than anything I've seen before."

>Any rabbits, or things that look wildly out of place here?
You look around the place, but everything seems normal, nothing out of the ordinary. Except the slight headache.

>>53 (OP) 
Shit, looks like something broke with jschan 0.11.0, looking into it.

>>54
Fixed for the time being.
https://gitgud.io/fatchan/jschan/-/merge_requests/277

I'll give $100 if you fuck off forever

>>172
6 digit, loser.

>>173
suck my nuts
start drawing space marines and cool sentai rangers that are worth 6 digits you fucking retard

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>>174 you dont even know what s 6 digit space marine ya dum cunt not even hypothethically or theorethically

>>55 (OP) 
buy Newmont mining and keep adding to your position

>>207
Car manufacturing is a joke, there are only a very few big players, and all of them own hosts of companies that all do their own things, except when they work together and either use parts manufactured by an other member of the group, or manufacture the exact same car with a different brand name. I  hope electric cars will develop like PCs, and you will be able to buy all the components separately and put them together on your own, if that's what your thing.

Some kind of mass sell off has begun on natural gas futures for Americans. It's not really a mass sell off as much as people getting antsy about high prices when Freeport is coming back online, gas reserves are full, and predictions of a warmer than usual winter. Last time this happened all it took was some cold air to pass through the US northeast and prices reversed. Maybe history will repeat or maybe I will lose a few dollars.

Question to all of you. Do you use automatic buying/selling (limit sell and limit buy) to help automate your trading when away from the internet? It seems like a good idea to let a machine follow your trading instructions instead of having to check prices daily/hourly/etc.

>>209
I'm not trading enough to do that, but if I was serious about it I'd set limits for securities where I am pretty sure what I want from them, and still use manual trading for some more risky business just to keep myself on the edge. In other words, I imagine that automating transactions related to a market you have no idea about could bite you in the ass, but once you know the inns-and-outs I don't see why not.

>stock investment and literal fiat speculation in the same thread
>no investment resources
lol

if you are a fag zoomer or millenial or even boomer looking for a safe(r) place to put your money and let it sit stick to the large cap stocks like merck, eli and lily, chevron etc...everything else is fucked as we are now entering a decade or longer bear market with some pops in between.

Merry Christmas /quests/ !

The britbongs did a Margaret Thatcher and the pound dropped again.

>>182
What did they do exactly? I know that they are in the process of replacing all the paper banknotes with polymer ones, and then soon they will replace those with the ones that have the head of the new honcho, but I assume you are not speaking about either of these.

>>185
The Truss Admin. cut taxes on the wealthy in the middle of record high inflation, leading to even more inflation as spending increased, citing what basically amounts to "it'll trickle down". I don't know anything about britbong politics, but even her own party seems to hate the idea

>>186
So that's what's up. I've seen headlines criticizing "tax cuts" to the point that the IMF is publicly telling them it's a terrible idea, but I had no idea what had gotten everyone so worked up about it, given that I thought I'd also seen a bunch of other countries cut taxes without any fuss as a way to ease cost of living.
But now I read that these particular tax cuts come in the form of eliminating the highest income tax bracket and removing a cap on bonuses for bankers.

By all indicators, the local economy here is about to hit a brickwall at high speed, and both the government and the national bank are run by clowns, and yet the local monopoly money is actually getting stronger. It's still around 10% weaker against the €uro compared to January, but not that long ago the difference was more than 20%. I of course had to invest in € some of my monopoly money, and as it stands I'm actively losing money with that investment.

>>4456 (OP) 
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I remember one of the Hayate movies had the idiot character involved in a highly leverage trade that lost her millions. I think she paid off the debt with an equally leveraged trade. Anyways, every dip is an opportunity for success and failure at the same time.

I'm thinking of buying out-of-the-money calls on VIXY, please talk me out of it, anon.
>is trading at only $17 despite market uncertainty
>historically has reached highs as far as $160 during similar bear markets (e.g. 2018)
>big number makes my penis feel big
There's also UVXY, which is a 1.5x leveraged version of VIXY, going for only $13.
Something about this feels stupid, IV is already at levels higher than they were during that 2018 crash, surely this can't work, and I hope some smart 'non can tell me why. **I'm still going to do it anyways.

>fucked up spoiler
Looking closer at .VIX and VIXY I'm even more confused. The .VIX was at 19.85 in early 2018, back when VIXY spiked to $160, but the .VIX is at 31.75, and VIXY is still trading low, even relative to other periods of high .VIX this same year. I'd wager it probably has to do with VIXY trading futures on .VIX rather than the .VIX directly, but why isn't have no idea why or what I'm doing.
Still, if understanding is right, these calls are dramatically underpriced, I'm looking at an [$18 10/28 Call] on UVXY that only needs a (by historical standards) small spike to start printing money, and it's only going for $75. I'm probably misunderstanding or ignoring something obvious that'll bite my ass later, but fuck, man, it beats buying scratch tickets.
Maybe predicting the timing of the catalyst for a .VIX spike is the biggest factor keeping prices on these options low? Again I'm hoping someone smarter than me on options is here and can call me out as a retard.

Christ I shouldn't write long posts at midnight, I wrote that like a ESL retard.

>>190
I'm not knowledgable at all about this but its interesting to read about. Good luck.

For the time being I have moved those schizo-tier posts to the poorfag thread, but if the posting does not improve I will resort to deleting those posts. Rule Nº 2 is not to be taken lightly.

>>157
The hardest thing based on your description is going to be getting the first job, since that's pretty much the only time your grades (GPA) have any influence on hiring (you don't need to put it on a resume, but a 3.5 or higher will look good). If you're still in school, finding a summer internship is the best bet, and then going around any job fairs (some universities have a career center where you can book practice interviews, have someone review your resume and application letters, etc.).

From my understanding of programming (and if someone knows more, jump in here) is that it's not just enough to know it; you also need to start building a portfolio, throwing yourself at people, and perhaps picking up certificates. Some people can find coding boot camps and the like, but a lot of those are scams, and I have no idea how to vet the good vs. bad ones. Still, I've known a few people to come out ahead with them. Of course, just having the skills is still useful. And the same goes for just having a bachelor's degree - it gives you options. An old roommate of mine (philosophy major, for perspective here) started in some consulting job at around $52k, made a good impression on a coworker there, taught himself some code, and about a year later got invited by that guy to a new job at some tech start-up for $90k.

If you do decide to go for a masters, and not brave the immediate job hunt in search of that job, 

Bribery or not, the American student loan system is predatory and needs to be castrated. The economy is fucked regardless and the absurdly high taxes americans are expected to pay are more than enough to keep the government afloat.
Maybe if they spent less money on Israili gibs or literally burning it in the desert they wouldn't need to fuck over young adults and patients.

>>158
>is that it's not just enough to know it; you also need to start building a portfolio, throwing yourself at people, and perhaps picking up certificates
In my experience, this is incredibly true. I'm certain all of my jobs in embedded development was due to my portfolio of independent projects with only a helping hand of my degree to get in the door. My classes never taught me much of embedded design, pcb design or much practical programming. All of those things I had to learn on my own. My employees were impressed I could even hold a soldering iron since it's not really taught anywhere. My GPA was also a little rough. Learning seemingly unrelated skills also helps. I never knew that fumbling around with a personal website to learn the basics of HTML and CSS, or messing with an old computer to make a home server would help in embedded, but it does. Learning programming has been a great skill for me, and I highly recommend picking it up, even if it's just to automate something boring in your life, like organizing data, moving files around, or have something like Excel not suck so much.

>>164
>My employees were impressed I could even hold a soldering iron
Lol, that's something even I can do, and I'm not doing embedded shit.

>>164
A soldering iron is a big hot pen. Its very obvious how to hold. But this is another example of the value of a skill being overlooked in HR. Is there even a way of putting such skills on your resume to get the actual hiring people (future bosses) to notice without getting mad at HR? Similarly when it comes to salary negotiations, HR does not give a shit about this and in my experience will attempt to undervalue you. The best thing I ever did was twist HRs arm to get more out of them and even then I still feel undervalued.

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Wish I didn't put half of my savings into crypto. Oh well, I hope 5 years from now it's gonna get better or something.

>>141
Why did you not sell when it was high?

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>>142
Because I'm a retard who bought at near ATH.

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>>71
It looks like the map only cares about USA and China, and China while still were a communist country, it was always an outlier, so I can imagine countries actually traded more with USA than China. Also note that the Chinese economy only really took off 20-30 years ago, while USA were mostly stable during this timeframe (image from kikepedia, so take it too with a grain of salt). An USA vs USSR in the 80s and USA vs China now comparison probably would make more sense.
But on the other hand, Romania is like the whitest country on the map, while they were the most (along with Yugoslavia) fuck Moscow, we're doing things our own way country in the bloc, so who knows.

>>72
>It looks like the map only cares about USA and China
I see, I guess ˝A map that shows if a given country traded more with the USA or the PRC in a given year˝ does not have the same ring to it. 
>An USA vs USSR in the 80s and USA vs China now comparison probably would make more sense.
It seems to be one of those things that are hard to cram on a map, even if you use a fancy interactive one, because to do it properly you would have to include a chart or list that shows all trade partners by percentage for every country, and that is overwhelming enough so that you really could not see the forest from the trees.

wire service he had used for years to pay vendors in Ukraine had suddenly stopped working.

He contacted AmEx for an explanation. A representative told him that the company had suspended service in the country. “I understand Russia, but why Ukraine?” Mr. Nayandin, who is based in Fairfax County, Va., said he told the AmEx rep.

Like many American companies, AmEx suspended operations in Russia and Belarus after Western governments bombarded the two countries with sanctions. But AmEx went a step further by shutting down a service in war-torn Ukraine that businesses use to make cross-border payments.

“In light of the war in Ukraine and the changing sanctions environment, which has made it difficult to provide a reliable customer experience, we have suspended a wire transfer service, FXIP, which is used by a small number of companies to make vendor payments to recipients in Ukraine,” an AmEx spokesperson said in a statement.

AmEx’s better-known card business remains fully functional in Ukraine, the spokesperson said.

Sprawling sanctions meant to cripple Russia’s financial system sometimes trip people and businesses out of their reach, even in Ukraine, the country they were meant to help.

Financial firms often take an overzealous approach to interpreting penalties due to the harsh penalties for violations. The potential extension of sanctions to new targets may also make companies cautious about who they do business with.

“From a business perspective, if the deal size is small, why take the risk? said Robert Clifton Burns, senior counsel at the law firm Crowell & Moring LLP.

>>79
I cannot find anything about how this FXIP thing works from a technical perspective, but what makes international wire-transfers somehow complicated is that the national banking systems are not directly connected (hence SWIFT and everything else discussed ITT). The usual solution is that a bank opens an account at a foreign bank, and use that as an ˝access point˝ to the banking system of that country. I suspect AmEx also has at least one bank account in every country where it's available, in order to deal with card payments, and this system piggybacks on that. So instead of using the normal method of sending funds from a bank account in one country to a foreign bank account, they credit the sender's money on the AmEx bank account in the sender's country, and then the once receiving the funds gets them from the AmEx bank account in his country. 

In short, it really has nothing to do with the technological side of things, instead they simply decided that they won't use their Ukrainian bank account to send money to individuals and businesses.

>>86
So the common point between US and Japan is that they've experienced economic crisis due to housing bubbles. But how do you even prevent that if house price normally go up in most market? 
Not even the Chinese government with its strong hold on domestic market was willing to let Evergrande and house prices fall by itself.

>>87
Those three are quite different beasts. In Japan they deliberately kept giving out cheap mortgages like candy, in order to artificially pump up the price, thus creating the bubble. After all, if all buyers can get cheap loans, then sellers can also demand more money for the same property. After a while prices got to the point where they became genuinely unaffordable, so nobody wanted to buy properties, simply because they could not afford it. And if nobody wants to buy something, then it worths less, and suddenly you had lots and lots of Japs saddled with mortgages for properties that are worth a lot less than when they took out those loans. 

In Shina, the same kind of bubble happened, except that this time it wasn't a deliberate attempt by the central bank to crash the economy with no survivors. As one strelok explained it, the average Chinaman is simply not allowed to buy stocks or bonds or land or anything like that, and the only way to invest his savings is to buy a flat. This means that every Chinaman wants to buy flats no matter what, and that leads to prices rising until not Chinaman can afford a house, and this created the same kind of bubble as the one in Nippon, just for different reasons.

What happened in the US was entirely different. There are certain financial instruments called mortgage-backed securities. The way they work is that banks pool together the monthly payments from lots of mortg

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Chinese property developers accept farm produce for homes
https://archive.ph/FNjPx
>Several Chinese property developers have said they would accept food as payment for homes in recent months, as they attempt to attract buyers. The companies advertised deals to let people use produce - including peaches, water melons and garlic - as down payments on new homes. However, some of these unusual offers have now reportedly been pulled. Home sales in China have fallen for 11 months in a row, while this week a major developer defaulted on its debts. 
>Last week, a property company in the eastern city of Wuxi said it would allow peaches be used to offset as much as 188,888 Chinese yuan ($28,218; £23,289) in down payments for homes.
>Another developer in nearby Nanjing said it would accept as much as 5,000kg of watermelon from farmers. It valued the produce at 100,000 Chinese yuan - several times what it would cost at local markets. However, the promotion that was meant to run until next Friday has been suspended, the state-run Global Times newspaper reported. "We were told to delete all promotional posters on the social media platforms," the paper quoted a representative of the company as saying, without giving further details.
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China crushes mass protest by bank depositors demanding their life savings back
https://archive.ph/sRJPr
> Chinese authorities on Sunday violently dispersed a peaceful protest by hundreds of depositors, who sought in vain to demand their life savings back from banks that have run into a deepening cash crisis. Since April, four rural banks in China's central Henan province have frozen millions of dollars worth of deposits, threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of customers in an economy already battered by draconian Covid lockdowns. Anguished depositors have staged several demonstrations in the city of Zhengzhou, the provincial capital of Henan, over the past two months, but their demands have invariably fallen on deaf ears. 
>On Sunday, more than 1,000 depositors from across China gathered outside the Zhengzhou branch of the country's central bank, the People's Bank of China, to launch their largest protest yet, more than half a dozen protesters told CNN.  The demonstration is among the largest China has seen since the pandemic, with domestic travel limited by various Covid restrictions on movement. Last month, Zhengzhou authorities even resorted to tampering with the country's digital Covid health-code system to restrict the movements of depositors and thwart their planned 

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>>116
>This being China, it could be anything from a tiny local problem to the sign of a coming economic collapse, so I'd rather not make any grand conclusions. 
My opinion is unchanged, but maybe I'm starting to err on the side of the latter possibility.
https://archive.ph/znBdc

>>101 (OP) 
I think he wanted to shitpost like usual, but then he (or some sort of assistant or manager or whatever) thought that this might somehow or an other get him into trouble. Musk is a good investor, and by that I mean he is good at convincing others to throw money at various things, but he also seems to be a shitposter at heart. It's best to just ignore him, except if you really do have too much money.

>>105
>Musk is a good investor
Musk is a good conman.

>>105
>Musk is a good investor, and by that I mean he is good at convincing others to throw money at various things,
>>108
>Musk is a good conman.
Conmen are good investors, exactly because they are good conmen. The world is such a horrible place in no small part because we have too many people who only want to see numbers go up, and they will throw money at anything that promises a good enough return of investment.

>>34
pdf?

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>>19
OwO what's this cool game?

>>41
Liberal Crime Squad, I guess?

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>>90 (OP) 
I don't know the details, but I somehow doubt that mormons were secretly amassing these very specific products for years, so that they can suddenly release them on the market to bring  down the price. Do they have some sort of a closed economy of their own that can serve tens of millions of people, and yet they just don't use all of that capacity to sell to the general market? Because that sounds implausible to me.

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>>91
>Do they have some sort of a closed economy of their own that can serve tens of millions of people, and yet they just don't use all of that capacity to sell to the general market?
Yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow6mnAowINw

>>92
Sounds like most of that stuff is already tied up for existing programs. The ˝best˝ they could do is to reroute what is meant for global disaster relief, but methinks they wouldn't do that over this comparatively small issue.

>>798
(##1d20) Rolled 1 dice with 20 sides = 3
Is this how this shit works?

Never done quests before. How to participate?

>>834
Just reply whatever you want, even though this quest is a bit dead. But if I say RIP quest, I'm sure the other anon will reappear in a few days

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>>836
And here I am.
>>834
Respond to the prompts, roll dice when needed. Enjoy the ride, baby.
>>800
Excellent roll.
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You arrive at the gates of Nethram by the time it is deep into the night, but you somehow managed to avoid any chance encounters with any monsters or wild beasts, how fortunate.
You can spot two guards at the gate, being lightly illuminated by a few torches. They shout in your direction, hearing the clopping sound of your horse's feet. "By the order of Lord Nethram, halt! Who goes there?!"

>I am here to slay the witch!
>I am a lowly traveler looking for a place to stay.
>(write in)

>>931
"I'm a traveling merchant. Bandits attacked my caravan, killed two of my men and got away with my wares. I'm the only one who managed to escape. I'm looking for a place to stay... and maybe someone who could give those bastards a curse."