> Specifically vegetable seed oil, like sunflower oil or canola oil.
Please be more specific, my understanding is there is no easy X is harmful in nutrition. Your example vegetable seed oil:
Refined sunflower oil at high temperatures --> bad
Cold pressed sunflower oil --> ok (great source of Vitamin E, but too much omega 6 compared to 3)
Cold pressed linseed oil --> good
> The other thing I'm very skeptical of now is milk replacements, like oat milk.
Could you elaborate? You can make oat milk easily at home. Let oat flakes soak in cold water over night, blend, sift, done. Go fancy and add a drop of rapeseed oil (will work as a natural emulsifier) and a pinch of salt.
There’s a palm oil hysteria in Russia. Social media is full of moms saying that palm oil has been banned in the EU. Yet here I am, enjoying pastry with palm oil in Belgium.
It's annoying. The regular guy should be able to profit off this too.
I was at the gym yesterday and heard like 5 people talking about stocks: gme, amc, bb. Everyone is trying to get in on this and they're trying to stop it. They bogged gme at open to scare people and now it's back up. If they didn't remove the option for users to buy they surely would have bought the dip.
Blocking people from buying a stock is not the same as blocking people from profiting off of a stock; nobody knows what the future valuation of the stock will be, so if you prevent people from buying, you may just as well be preventing them from losing money as from gaining.
Keep in mind that this is very likely a zero-sum game. At some point the bubble will pop, and as many people as gained money on the way up will lose money on the way down.
The bubble only needs to pop though if GME management screws it up.
GME has now become a $25B hedge fund with a gaming focus. They absolutely have the ability to become long term successful given these black swans they just experienced.
Now, I know *nothing* about their management, but they at least have been given a chance. Their's an Eminem song that they should be playing throughout their buildings right now. If I were them I'd sell more shares, pay down any bad debt, and invest in 10-100 of the best black swan ideas of my rank and file and see what happens.
GME has now become a $25B hedge fund with a gaming focus.
I think you're confusing their market cap with their balance sheet. A $25B hedge fund has $25B in assets, but a $25B market cap does not mean that they have access to anywhere near that amount of capital.
Sure, maybe they could issue a dilutive follow-on offering and bring in some cash, but who knows where the stock price will be by the time they get through the paperwork on that. And they're currently losing about half a billion per year on about $6B in revenue, so I'm not sure that an extra billion or so in cash is going to fundamentally remake the company....
You're right, I'm off by an OOM. I think perhaps comparing them to a $2.5B hedge fund might not be out of the ballpark.
Didn't know about the $500M lost on $6B in revenue, but gaming is a growing market, they just got a ton of free advertising, so seems like they have a chance to do something great.
I don't know but it reminds me of the pro eating bugs propaganda, and this recent "You'll own nothing. And you'll be happy"[1] ad from the World Economic Forum. They're trying to get the plebs to not want their own homes or possessions.
I get no use out of the vast majority of objects in my house on a day-to-day basis. I know people in my community need objects that I have. I know people in my community have objects that I need. If they/I had those objects when they/I needed them, the entire community is more productive and "worth more."
If you have ever lent tools to anyone you will quickly realize why this kind of utopian sharing doesn't work. Most people have terrible standards for caring for or maintaining things even if they are their own things, much less someone else's. Thus the stigma against lending or borrowing tools in the trades.
There are already antitrust proceedings running, they generally take years from start to finish (the old antitrust Microsoft case took 8 years IIRC), a lot can happen in the meantime.
Lol. This reminds me of the cases where parties have someone run for election with a similar/identical name to the opposition and thereby split the vote to win.
I think things like that happen more than people realize and are pretty funny.
Like Steve Perry was replaced as the lead singer for Journey.
In the beginning of the 2nd movie of Back to the Future, they replaced Michael J Fox's girlfriend with someone else. (did anyone notice? I was ... hmmm... I swear something's different...)
Well, chaste is already something every Catholic is bound to be. I assume they aren't taking vows not to murder or not to steal or to not lie, because those things are already forbidden. The vows are for things that raise the bar.
