I agree with you for places that have ranked choice.

In states with locked down primaries and a lack of ranked choice, it’s better to run as a dem and win the primary as a dem.

They are always the JV team to the GOP.

Krispy Kreme Krew… that explains a lot.

Fuck him. They raise prices if people vote for a democrat. They raise prices if people vote for a Republican.

Thanks Obama!

What?

I’m super happy and excited that someone on Lemmy asked me! It’s buying a “call option” on SPY (which is an ETF of the S&P index - otherwise, it’s basically a way to invest in the “stock market” blindly). So when you break it down… it’s like saying "I can buy a lotto ticket that says “SPY will be > x as of y date” - If you’re not familiar with how the market works *(and I sure as hell wasn’t 2 years ago), if you buy an option, it’s a contract to buy 100 shares of a stock. If you buy 10 options, you’re basically on the hook to pay for 10x 100 shares of a stock; but here’s the kicker… when you buy options, as long as you sell your options contract before the expiration date, you don’t have to actually pay for the stock - so while your random ass gamble is becoming more and more likely; you can just sell off the profits you made to cash in before you’re shelling out $44k on stock.

Lol, yea… I sold off a bunch of stuff before Trump’s tariff’s too. Guess what else, I also bought a few contracts of SPY when it dropped as a result. I’ve made a bunch of money off the Trump corruption. You can too.

It’s entirely fucked up that this is happening, but you’re a fool if you’re not taking advantage of the system that they’re manipulating right now.

General advice at this point, check the dumb shit he says on Truth social every once in a while, and consider buying really cheap SPY calls after the man-made dips.

That’s absurd.

There’s a possibility that the artist might come back to me with something different from the AI mockup. We don’t know that yet. I only told them that the logo needs three specific components.

If I ask an AI to give me a premise for a book, write the entire book, delete it before anyone ever reads it, decide on a different premise and write a different book, did I use AI to write the book that people are going to read? No.

… and then paying a designer…

It’s a side business with $0 in income. There’s no fucking way I’m going more than 2 rounds on revisions as it is. If it’s more than that, I’ll do the art myself and it’ll be shit; but better than nothing. Simply not worth it at $0 income. If AI wasn’t an option to get things started, the artist wouldn’t be getting paid at all because I wouldn’t be hiring an artist.

Haha… I started an LLC on Wednesday. I had AI generate a (temporary) company logo for me.

Yesterday, I sent that logo to a real artist and asked them to re-make and improve it because I’m not planning on using AI shit.

If I can afford to spend $75 on a side hustle, any real company that I’m buying shit from better at least be doing the same.