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New comment by weard_beard in "How to hide from killer drones"

weard_beard — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:42:13 +0000

There is video out of Ukraine of Russians with shotguns shooting at drones. It’s not very effective.

New comment by weard_beard in "Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016)"

weard_beard — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:30:44 +0000

hmm good question.

New comment by weard_beard in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

weard_beard — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:35:08 +0000

War is inherently amoral and in an argument about its efficacy I don’t understand what your argument is?

New comment by weard_beard in "Yes, AI Will Take Your Job"

weard_beard — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:18:19 +0000

My takeaway was that the purpose of AI is not to do “your job” as well as you but to do the things you refuse to do in your job as a person with taste and ethics.

New comment by weard_beard in "Does average person understand that all disc media dies too?"

weard_beard — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:23:51 +0000

Courts have upheld that you have a right to break copyright protection to preserve your purchased physical media and upheld the right to make and distribute tools to pursue this. Until the law catches up and does the same for digital you are wrong to compare digital and physical media this way.

New comment by weard_beard in "Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements"

weard_beard — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:18:31 +0000

CEOs: “Do something about it.”

Luigi Mangione: …

CEOs: “Not like that…

I’m not suggesting that it’s a good response. I’m suggesting that this interpretation of what CEOs are saying is wrong.

New comment by weard_beard in "Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer"

weard_beard — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:03:24 +0000

Sounds like you've got a great idea for a proof of concept for DefCon next year...

New comment by weard_beard in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

weard_beard — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:13:54 +0000

Same! I added leaderboards to a couple titles and did minor upgrades. Bible Fight, Brak headkicker, and the Inuyasha shell game specifically.

New comment by weard_beard in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

weard_beard — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:36:41 +0000

You’ve presented a plausible and concise counter argument here. Time will tell.

https://dasams.substack.com/p/the-cohen-endgame?r=af3hc&utm_...

New comment by weard_beard in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

weard_beard — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:10:44 +0000

He has a massive stake in Gamestop outside of this pay package. The loss from diluting his massive accumulated position is not worth the bonus unless he thinks the price will recover long term.

New comment by weard_beard in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

weard_beard — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:30:14 +0000

My take? The strategy is like a contractor fixing up houses. GameStop was the crappiest house on the block. He’s fixed it up and is using it as collateral to take out a loan and buy the dilapidated mansion next door (eBay). He’ll keep going until he’s gentrified the whole neighborhood using the value of the current business as collateral to buy the next. He wants to sell only when the value of the entire gentrified neighborhood reflects market rate for the work he's put in.

New comment by weard_beard in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

weard_beard — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:12:08 +0000

GameStop has a standing approved agreement to issue up to a billion new shares. If you read the offer you will see it is 50% financed by GameStop stock.

They threw him a hardball today in his cnbc interview on this topic. $GME stock value would plummet short term, but the combined company would revalue much higher.

Current Gamestop shareholders would be diluted. They would own, proportionally, a much small slice of the combined company, but at a higher price point.

The framing of this as, "Ryan Cohen is diluting Gamestop shareholders in order to meet the terms of his enormous pay package" is disingenuous though, as his pay package is all stock. He's diluting himself too. He obviously has faith that, long term, the value of the combined company can substantially grow.

New comment by weard_beard in "GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay"

weard_beard — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:06:44 +0000

I believe it was this time last year Ryan had a sit down with the Qatari sovereign wealth fund.

New comment by weard_beard in "GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay"

weard_beard — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:36:50 +0000

The attention stunts were a strategy toward finding profitability for the core GME business model.

This is significantly different, in line with a strategy that seems to have been in place since he became CEO of Gamestop.

This appears to be an attempt to take over eBay the same way he took over Gamestop by acquiring a 51% controlling interest with capital he will raise by further diluting the value of Gamestop shares.

It appears long term he is trying to build the, "Amazon of the secondhand market".

New comment by weard_beard in "U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP"

weard_beard — Fri, 01 May 2026 01:49:47 +0000

The impartial arbiter is the voting public.

New comment by weard_beard in "U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP"

weard_beard — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:30:50 +0000

Incentives are key. If Congress does not present a balanced budget then there has to be consequences. Many other countries work this way. No balanced budget forthcoming? Then there is an immediate collapse of the current government or ruling party and run-off elections to replace them.

New comment by weard_beard in "UAE to leave OPEC"

weard_beard — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:15:52 +0000

My understanding is that unique historical, cultural, and even geographical factors have led to this outcome for Oman. I would encourage you to read up on the history of the country to understand the nuance here and not paint with such a broad brush.

New comment by weard_beard in "UAE to leave OPEC"

weard_beard — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:36:39 +0000

Oman is the Switzerland of the Middle East.

New comment by weard_beard in "Congressman Introduces Bill to Ban AI Chatbots in Children's Toys"

weard_beard — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:56:02 +0000

Did... Did this congressman do his research by watching the MOVIE A.I. by Steven Spielberg?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JMvs5f0Mks

New comment by weard_beard in "Apple TV's Upcoming Cyberpunk Series Will Be the Matrix Meets Blade Runner"

weard_beard — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:10:27 +0000

Its ok he'll just slot some new softs from Shinjuku corp and break the ICE on the implants from his VR 3d rendered file system that he jockeys into with his Nintendo power glove.

*Oh god, you made me remember Adobe Atmosphere was a thing...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Atmosphere