They were called foursquare balls, too. I don’t think anyone plays that game anymore.

Edit: quick look around online and some are indeed called “foursquare” balls.

When you tell the people to mash the easy button and then they do exactly what you wanted. They created the monster.

Ok dude.

Ah, good job. Now you’ve swung to insults. That’ll win ya. Guess you need everything explained to you. Your argument is attempting to force a point against what society has deemed what monetary worth is.

You’re not gonna win that argument, but feel free to bang your head on the keyboard uselessly while you attempt to bend the world to your will.

Not only that, but you have moved the goalposts from “billionaires are still worth money even if it isn’t all in cash” to “they can’t possibly cash it all out so it doesn‘t count.“ A real strawman that has no bearing on how wealth works. So your “truth” is irrelevant.

Wonder who is paying for that mansion.

edit: whole streetfull of these homes.

I’m not playing financial Schrodinger’s Box with you.

Understanding this level of finance is not hard and I don’t understand what you’re trying to prove or your resistance to it.

What a billionaire is doing is no different (as a radical simplification to make it easy to understand) than a normal person taking a home equity loan. Your argument is that “the home isn’t real” and that’s the same as saying “SpaceX isn’t real”. The home’s value can fluctuate thanks to the real estate market, or whether or not the owner does a good job maintaining and upgrading the home. SpaceX can suffer market fluctuations and be well managed or suffer bad decisions. The money leveraged on the values of these investments is real.

As far as what you just said I can tell that you haven’t thought one step further than making the statement, I am pointing out how the money is real. We’re done here, you plainly want to be right rather than learn how the system works.

We also picked up a carbonation setup so we can make our own sodas and mineral water. Just to reduce plastic waste, I don’t think it’s cheaper than what you’re buying, though.

This is right. Alcohol is almost a flavor multiplier and also holds flavors that might be more volatile and disappear. That’s why if you were to completely remove the alcohol from a drink like gin or something it would taste wildly different and probably very flat even though the rest of the beverage is the same.

Yes, it can fluctuate due to market value,

I literally stated that possibility.

What are you saying? Are you trying to make some financial hot take? Are you trying to still imply it’s not worth real money? Won’t anyone think of the poor trillionaire who is now only simultaneously worth/not worth hundreds of billions? The path you’re going down leads to “is any money real money?” and adds nothing to the conversation.

Stop.

This “billionaires don’t have any real money” is ignorant.

The investments have value, the value is leverage and loans, those are power and money. Yes, it can fluctuate due to market value, but nonetheless that’s what billionaires are worth.

It’s real money.

This. Too many people view work devices as “Free [ipad, laptop], bro!” and use it for all sorts of personal stuff.

It’s not yours. The company can take it at any time, or if remotely managed, view device contents at any time. If any of that material is against company policy or illegal, you’re probably gonna be disciplined or fired.

For most it’s probably NBD. Corporate won’t care if you’re just some mid-level lackey watching Netflix on the company device.

That’s good, and just fizzy mineral water too. Luckily the NA market for more interesting adult drinks is growing, so things like fake Moscow mules, Hop Tea, or other mocktails that have interesting flavors are starting to become more widely available and have zero alcohol. Not the same as the real thing, but generally pretty good and better than soda or other sugary stuff.

Just saw a report on my feed here that said something like 80 60% of TikTok is AI crap and over 20% of Facebook is. So that means that sites like Threads, Instagram, X, or any other social media is going to have a large percentage of bots, AI and real trolls, and corporate shills over and above those numbers.

On top of the unaffiliated trolls and shit-stirrers already out there.

So it’s well on the way to happening.

Edit: it was 60%

Eh, I quit a few years ago. When you have to have conversations with yourself about it, it’s time. So cold turkey I went, luckily NBD for me. The only time I miss it is after a really trying, long day; or I’m just craving flavors that aren’t sugary drinks like soda. I don’t like sweet drinks very much. Alcohol lends an intensity to flavors that’s impossible to replicate.

Looking back at it I’m really glad I quit.

Anyway, hopefully added years/stopped shaving years off my life. We’ll see.

Similar boat. Already had a house, been together for years. Getting married was just for fun and tax benefits. It changed nothing, otherwise.

Just further enshittification. Companies don’t make new things or new technologies anymore. They just find new ways to rent squat and extract fees. They’ve stolen everyone’s work, manufactured a way to give it to you first without you seeing the author’s material, and told everyone to use this method to access information so they can charge for it.

Probably just thanks to insurance companies yet again

Doctors don’t get to make their own decisions anymore, they’re paid more like car mechanics and get a “job rate”.

Change a tire? It’s billed at $28 bucks. Doesn’t matter if it takes you 10 minutes or an hour. Air and balancing is included. Anything extra you don’t get paid for.

Gotta put in an IUD? You get $500 for the job, included is one shot of pain meds, the IUD, and one set of sterile equipment. Pain meds not working so great on this patient? Insurance doesn’t pay for extra, outpatient center doesn’t get paid for it or has to fight insurance for it.

Same for novocaine in dental work.

Insurance is terrible.

Must be a nice school. The Schultüte I’ve seen are usually smaller.

Trump did blame “vandals” on ripping up the blue paint material from the bottom of the pool.