Oh I'll add the Estonian ones because we've got fun ones
Ü - pretty much does not exist in English, you might hear it in a weird dialect, apparently in the word "few" as spoken by scousers and some South Africans?
Õ - same preface, apparently you might hear a person from Cardiff pronounce "foot" this way or a southern USian might say "nut" this way, but I've never heard either.
Ö and Ä are the same as in Swedish and we do not have Å
Blackstone's REIT. I'm keeping the typo so your comment would continue to make sense
You're still part of the corporate machine if you work at Walmart or McDonald's, they won't pay you enough to feed your family and I doubt the job is satisfying.
Like you do realise it was standard operating procedure in the US tech scene to apply for at least 400-500 jobs BEFORE the layoff craze that's lasted years now, right?
It's different in my country but it took me 3 whole months to find a new job when unemployed which was pretty bad compared to my previous experience. A bit later it took my friend a YEAR to get a new job. Now their boss is saying every engineer should be providing at least 3x value to customers using AI and they have no option but to stay at this job because nobody is hiring.
"My family's homeless but at least I'm not working for a corporation anymore"
Open-weight not open source mostly. And they're not keeping them open weight forever. Once they've truly surpassed the west, their future models will likely be closed down too so they could charge Anthropic level pricing and turn a profit.
They support Putin's Russia, let's not pretend they're leftists. They're authoritarians and like auth regimes regardless of political leaning, as long as they're not western. So they support fascism too.
Blackstone laughing all the way to the bank again because BlackRock is taking the heat for their activities lol
Blackstone specifically buys up residential property, BlackRock has a commercial real estate portfolio and it's smalmer
Oh if you're a retail investor selling options you're a bit of a moron tbh, though at least with selling put options the downside is limited I guess
I'm wondering what Ian McKellen would think of this... They've pretty much stolen his likeness to promote a product
Yeah people seem to forget that when the US economy crashed in 2008, unemployment rose in much of the rest of the world too.
Unlike the market cap numbers that get thrown around when people say X dollars "destroyed" from the stock market or Y dollars "gained", this isn't nearly as imaginary (or invented out of ether).
Depending on whether we're talking about real shorting, or put options, it's one of two things:
They borrowed expensive SpaceX shares, sold them, bought back for cheaper, the people who bought shares at the higher price paid for it.
They bought put options and exercised them. The bank or financial organization selling the put options paid for it.
Now I went to actually read the article and this particular number was #1, but I'm sure a lot of people profited through #2 as well (the wallstreetbets types).
I suggest you try going and being homeless with your kid so you don't have to work for any corporation.
They'll be happier that way, then there's no forgiveness to seek since you never failed them by working for a corporation.