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Comment on NVIDIA reportedly preparing to fire Jensen Huang in ~tech
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Comment on RIP Cybertruck. You were unloved, unwanted, and utterly absurd. in ~transport
Grumble4681 Link ParentThe fact that it seems so many people still use it, even people who aren't rightward on the political spectrum, makes me wonder if Twitter ends up being a good purchase for him. I'm still...The fact that it seems so many people still use it, even people who aren't rightward on the political spectrum, makes me wonder if Twitter ends up being a good purchase for him. I'm still surprised so many people use that cesspool of a platform.
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Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of November 2 in ~society
Grumble4681 Link ParentThis is one of the issues in modern American politics where it becomes about 'us versus them' and team sports type of environment, there's only two options and you have to choose. The issue needs...This is one of the issues in modern American politics where it becomes about 'us versus them' and team sports type of environment, there's only two options and you have to choose. The issue needs to be much less divisive than that. For her, it became about spite, ego and delivering a message that Israel is a sticking point to her, but the reality is a bit simpler than that.
She is supporting and voting for this person, Mike Rogers, and that's the only message she's really delivering whether she's aware of it or not. A vote for Mike Rogers is as good as a vote for Donald Trump. A vote for Mike Rogers is a vote for modern Republican agendas, because he's aligned himself with those, meaning anti-choice for women, supporting tariffs and bad tax policies, cowardly backing down against Trump and supporting corruption. I realize it's a political death sentence for most modern Republicans to go against Trump on anything, so some of them do it for practical purposes, but it really doesn't matter whether they actually support him openly or silently support him as the results end up being the same either way. This isn't a leftist or Democrat issue in that particular sense, that's a Republican issue that they don't support reasonable or rational Republicans and don't hold them accountable for moral failures.
I personally wouldn't have a problem with her pulling her endorsement from El-Seyed if that reflects how she feels, I don't think she owes him that and I don't think anyone who typically votes as a Democrat or aligns more on the leftist side owes him a vote, but you don't vote for someone like Mike Rogers out of spite or because he's the only alternative. You pull your support and put your support in the voice of fighting for a system that gives you another choice. To me, that's the right way to do it, and I'm not saying it still wouldn't draw the ire from some Democrats or some on the left but at least it shows you have some principles and you don't back things you don't believe in.
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Comment on Proposal: For sensitive topics, if a thread is intended for a particular demographic, there needs another thread open for everyone to discuss without having to join the targeted thread in ~tildes
Grumble4681 (edited )Link ParentIt comes across like you're saying it's bad to be fragile, but everyone has something they're fragile over in the way you frame it. Some people associate with certain identities, they may have...This is fragility, for the reasons I outlined.
It comes across like you're saying it's bad to be fragile, but everyone has something they're fragile over in the way you frame it. Some people associate with certain identities, they may have pride in them or just outwardly everyone else recognizes it about them. I could say all artists are a bunch of lazy slobs and obviously that doesn't mean every artist actually is, and even the ones that aren't are possibly going to take offense to that because I'm devaluing an identity they associate with. They take pride in being an artist, and I'm degrading artists by saying they're all lazy slobs. That's not my personal belief but it's something along a stereotype that I'm aware exists for artists. Point being that if I were to say that, I'm making it worse for them to identify as an artist by perpetuating that image of them even though it's not true in their case, because whether its true in their case or not doesn't matter, more and more people will start thinking of artists as lazy slobs and like it or not, that's going to be an initial judgement they make on the person when they find out they're an artist.
Some things people also can't change. Whether they want to identify with it in that way or not, they can't separate themselves from it and if they're externally visible factors then everyone can immediately take all that baggage and apply it to them before they've even spoken to them to know whether or not they personally carry that baggage.
So many times, I get the impression that when people call out men or white people, they think that it's fine because they're the majority or they're punching up. Somewhere in this twisted logic of striving for equality, punching up is seen as acceptable, encouraged even. What's lost in this is that not everyone within those groups is actually up. While you imagine you're punching up at the business executives who hire promote or hire white men more because of biases, or because you're imagining old white men politicians who have outdated ideas of society or even if you're just imagining the male coworker who hits on a woman, gets rejected and then starts taking out his hurt feelings by hurting her career, it's not always what you imagine and you're not always punching up, sometimes you're punching down.
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Comment on A man rescued a bear cub, now they’re inseparable in ~life.pets
Grumble4681 Link ParentThe thing is, the ending where it ends without the bear killing him is the one you'll likely never hear about. We're far more likely to only ever hear about the bear killing him ending which makes...The thing is, the ending where it ends without the bear killing him is the one you'll likely never hear about. We're far more likely to only ever hear about the bear killing him ending which makes it hard to have an idea how likely each ending is to actually happen.
I actually suspect that he will have to find some kind of animal sanctuary or something for the bear since as he acknowledges it would be a bad idea to release it back in the wild.
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Comment on Following the money from Tim Tebow to Sage Steele and cancel culture in ~sports
Grumble4681 Linkhttps://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/tim-tebow-dropped-out-of-life-surge-then-came-the-celebrity-exodus/ For anyone interested in a written version. Not sure that it covers all the same...For anyone interested in a written version. Not sure that it covers all the same things in the video, but PTFO podcast is filled with a lot of fluff if that's not your thing. That's also a follow-up and below is the first part.
This part in particular I find rather aggravating, regarding the founder of the Life Surge group and the history of other things he had been involved in.
In 2013, he founded a company called Welfont Group, which last year became the target of a Department of Justice lawsuit over its “abusive” practices. According to the complaint, the company recruited property owners to sell real estate—a former assisted living facility and an industrial site, for example. Welfont would then sell these properties to charities (including one that Johnson founded) at bargain sale prices. After soliciting inflated property appraisals—which, the DOJ alleges, routinely quoted Johnson’s own marketing materials verbatim—he found charities to purchase the property at the low price, which would enable property sellers to take a charitable deduction based on the difference between the discounted sale price and the appraised value. The lawsuit accuses Johnson of making “as many as 190 abusive bargain sale transactions” resulting in tax losses of more than $46 million.”
Nosek noted that Johnson denied the government’s allegations, maintaining that “neither Welfont nor Welfont’s clients are responsible for providing the necessary support, since Welfont’s clients were not the beneficiaries of any tax deductions.” Ultimately the DOJ offered Johnson a settlement with no monetary damages or civil penalties and no admission of wrongdoing, though as part of the settlement Johnson agreed to an injunction that prohibited him from making these bargain sales in the future.
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Comment on Non-queer men of Tildes: PLEASE consider before commenting on ~life.women and ~lgbt without careful consideration. We are losing members over this issue. in ~tildes
Grumble4681 Link ParentI was actually more engaging literally with the hypothetical you presented, while the emphasis of the word 'all' was used in part to tie it to the referenced topic it was also because it provides...If you're referring specifically to the use of #AllMen, my understanding is that the message is that all men have a responsibility to help make spaces safer, not that all men are guilty of causing harm.
I was actually more engaging literally with the hypothetical you presented, while the emphasis of the word 'all' was used in part to tie it to the referenced topic it was also because it provides a clear scenario where I think most people would see it as reasonable if people did come into that thread and start posting about plants that don't need watered daily. That part is not intended to be some kind of meta commentary on a 1:1 level on the other thread, again, I was working on the more literal basis of the plant idea. You presented a scenario where it sounded farcical and stupid that someone would post something about a plant that hasn't needed water in 5 years, and that generally no one would even bother posting such a message, but I attempted to re-frame that to show that it's not that crazy people would post something like that in a different context.
Furthermore, I asked the initial question about how you know whether the topic is intended for a certain audience because the thread we're all talking about here arguably doesn't meet the criteria. It's not that clear cut, and yet the "not a genius" person acted like they thought it was so obvious, so clearly if other people don't get it, they're further below the "not a genius" person. My other comment in this thread discussing why I don't find it was all that clear cut who the topic was 'intended' for, especially in the context of what started this chain of comments here where someone said groups on this site don't work that way.
If you're referring specifically to the use of #AllMen, my understanding is that the message is that all men have a responsibility to help make spaces safer, not that all men are guilty of causing harm.
That might be the message some people convey with it, but other people convey a different message with it. If you don't account for the context of what people are saying about men in general outside of just the time that hashtag is mentioned, then you might miss it. I haven't bothered to take note of all the comments I've seen on this site so that I could pull them up as some kind of receipt for this exact moment, but I've seen it often enough where it's acceptable to push 'men=bad' on this site even. Within that context, it's harder to find the more charitable interpretation you give the #allmen hashtag.
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Comment on Non-queer men of Tildes: PLEASE consider before commenting on ~life.women and ~lgbt without careful consideration. We are losing members over this issue. in ~tildes
Grumble4681 (edited )Link ParentIf the topic title was something like 'PSA: ALL plants need watering daily', I would fully expect that tons of people would go in there highlighting the various plants they have that don't need...If the topic title was something like 'PSA: ALL plants need watering daily', I would fully expect that tons of people would go in there highlighting the various plants they have that don't need watered daily. For one, it's PSA, public service announcement, so it's basically an attempt to push a message out to the public, not just to other plant enthusiasts and two, it would be helpful to know that there are some plants that don't need watered daily if your only source of information on the watering of plants comes from the title that tells you ALL plants need watered daily. That's the type of topic title that would draw non-plant enthusiasts in to dispute a blanket statement that isn't true.
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Comment on Non-queer men of Tildes: PLEASE consider before commenting on ~life.women and ~lgbt without careful consideration. We are losing members over this issue. in ~tildes
Grumble4681 (edited )Link ParentI avoided commenting in the referenced post as well, though I view a meta topic as different in terms of the audience so now I'm commenting. The main thing that I see is, the topic title...I am one of those that avoids these topics. I did watch the #yesallmen video and read the thread and upvote, but didn't comment. If that title is incendiary, it's designed to be, probably for engagement purposes, but also as a reflection of the author's deep frustration (and who could blame them?). It looks sexist only on the surface, but the content clarifies the stance of the author beautifully into something closer to "all men need to be better allies, need to be more aware, need to be more willing to be uncomfortable."
I avoided commenting in the referenced post as well, though I view a meta topic as different in terms of the audience so now I'm commenting. The main thing that I see is, the topic title essentially invited all men to comment on it. If you're going to have a tag that says allmen, and the author in the video as you described is effectively conveying a message to men, is the topic for men or is it not? Even more so, the author in that video wasn't just speaking to men who already are allies, she was speaking to men who may have been part of the problem in the experiences that she described. I really think the way that the experiences and messages she conveyed in her talk were really well done and it's a bit of a disservice to the talk that the title of the video didn't match it. I realize titles are challenging and even more so when they're on platforms that demand shitty titles in order for the 'algorithm' to push the videos, but it is still a choice to choose 'engagement' on that level.
I just find it a bit ironic that some people are stating that the post wasn't for men, but then some would argue it's for men but it's only for men that agree with it, but the talk was ended with a message directed at men in general. It was obviously at least partly intended to get men to think about those experiences and think about how to do better in their own lives so I recognize it's not an open invitation for men to dismiss or discount everything she just talked about, but I don't see how its reasonable to assume you can just call out #yesallmen and not get at least some variance in response that goes beyond what was perhaps intended.
I don't think "it looks sexist only on the surface" is justifiable. That's called out for anything else. If someone said "it looks racist only on the surface" or "it looks misogynist only on the surface" with the same meaning that you conveyed, I believe they'd be heavily criticized for that. Some people would argue that "surface" matters a lot, even if the content conveyed something else.
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Comment on Non-queer men of Tildes: PLEASE consider before commenting on ~life.women and ~lgbt without careful consideration. We are losing members over this issue. in ~tildes
Grumble4681 Link ParentWhat makes a topic specific to a small minority? It was just mentioned in the parent comment to yours that groups don't necessarily establish that anything posted there is specific to anyone in...What makes a topic specific to a small minority? It was just mentioned in the parent comment to yours that groups don't necessarily establish that anything posted there is specific to anyone in particular.
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Comment on Does Tildes welcomes “self-promoting” links to personal blog posts? in ~tildes
Grumble4681 LinkI look at it through the lens of 'what if everyone did this?' instead of self-posts, and while that's a bit of an extreme and not realistic scenario for a small site like this, I think it does...I look at it through the lens of 'what if everyone did this?' instead of self-posts, and while that's a bit of an extreme and not realistic scenario for a small site like this, I think it does highlight the base issue of the activity even if it's not very apparent on a smaller scale. If everyone were posting their ideas on a blog and then linking that here instead of just posting it here, it does send a different message than if you post it here where the intention is that this is your intended audience and it was meant for people here. There's a bit more community behind it. Now perhaps your blog post is meant for people beyond Tildes and of course that would be the natural and obvious thing for a publicly available blog, but then that is where I think it highlights a level of impersonal nature to it if everyone were to do that.
Of course, even if everyone were doing this in moderation, perhaps it would still feel that way, I'm not sure, so I'm not saying it's the definitive perspective on the matter. Since it's sort of at self-moderation scenario if Deimos isn't around to set strict limits then I don't know if there's a super solid answer.
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Comment on Three children and a teacher were killed in Bend, Oregon, elementary school shooting, police say in ~news
Grumble4681 (edited )LinkOther news reports have highlighted a teacher had also apparently fought with the attacker and was trying to get the gun from him when the armed father mentioned here came in and shot the...Other news reports have highlighted a teacher had also apparently fought with the attacker and was trying to get the gun from him when the armed father mentioned here came in and shot the attacker.
From a "a good guy with a gun stops bad guy with a gun" perspective, this would be about as least bad an outcome as you generally can expect from that situation and still 4 people were murdered and 2 others seriously injured, along with many more who will have to live with painful memories of this experience and the ever-present reminder to millions more that it could happen to them. I think that can't be understated. When the nearly 'least bad' outcome is still a horrific tragedy, regardless of whether some will hear it, it's clear that 'good guy with the gun' isn't going to stop these events and the people that are pretending it will are woefully delusional or just bad actors.
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Comment on iPhone Duo sells out immediately, now backordered until next year in ~tech
Grumble4681 Link ParentThese foldables are markedly different than a standard phone in price. That's true for non-Apple phones too. Wouldn't doubt if part of it is that this is one of the upper parts of the K audience...These foldables are markedly different than a standard phone in price. That's true for non-Apple phones too. Wouldn't doubt if part of it is that this is one of the upper parts of the K audience and the audience that doesn't think people would buy it isn't on that part of the K. Some people can just buy anything and other people are too locked into their own world to realize that those people create a whole class of product they wouldn't consider worth buying. That isn't saying the products aren't good or worth buying, but they're luxury items. They aren't intended for the majority of people with average income, they're intended for the minority with more money than they know what to do with.
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Comment on Metallica’s James Hetfield has a message for entertainers who bring their ‘bullshit‘ agenda to the stage in ~music
Grumble4681 Link ParentRight, his statement actually comes across as a bit of a political statement, especially by vaguely referencing "other entertainers" and "influence you with their bullshit". This message is...Right, his statement actually comes across as a bit of a political statement, especially by vaguely referencing "other entertainers" and "influence you with their bullshit". This message is intended to be speaking to an audience of people who feel alienated by the 'other entertainers' he's referring to, and there's of course very notable recent ones that have come out as well as the general notion that artists tend to be more liberal than conservative. That's a coded political message right there 'These other entertainers that have made it newsworthy enough for me to make a statement right now are pushing a identifiable ideological-side messaging which is bullshit and Metallica is a safehaven for all of you who disagree with that side, and for those who don't see that messaging as bullshit, well I didn't call out any specific entertainer or specific messaging, so rest assured we also want your money still too'. It really just comes across as coded pandering while not attempting to overtly push anyone away.
Even the idea of getting ahead of the questions is not really that compelling to serve this narrative of being apolitical. If they had said nothing like this message and made no political remarks, if someone asks them, its not that hard to respond "Well we've not done that at our concerts and don't plan to", no need to throw shade at 'other entertainers', no need to make an opinion known about it one way or the other if its purely a business decision. Just state the relevant fact and move on. Instead what this response they have given should generate as questions towards them is more like "So is Metallica's music not meant to serve any meaningful messages to the audience if you're not here to peddle any messages to the audience?" After all, everything can be made political, as modern times have shown us. Personal struggles and tragedies surely aren't off limits either. I'd be real interested to know if Hetfield is actually stating that Metallica's music has nothing meaningful at all to say.
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Comment on US Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed in ~society
Grumble4681 LinkThere is a segment of mass murderers who want exactly this. I'm not distinguishing by ideology or anything, but there is a segment of people who want to kill a lot of people, want to go out in a...There is a segment of mass murderers who want exactly this. I'm not distinguishing by ideology or anything, but there is a segment of people who want to kill a lot of people, want to go out in a blaze of glory, and why even open the door up for the possibility you're going to give one of those people what they want? This is reopening the wounds this person created many years ago by turning this person's death sentence into a public spectacle. Not even referring to the livestreaming of the execution itself, but the simple prospect of doing the livestream is the spectacle at this point. Whether the convicted in this particular case personally has the characteristics to be the person who is actually enjoying the fact that this administration is turning the spotlight onto this guys actions, I don't know, but I believe there absolutely would be some people who would enjoy that, and this administration is giving that person a reward.
I don't believe half of what this administration does is genuine, whether they intend to follow through or not is often secondary as far as I see. I see it as, they do these things to see if they can, to test the boundaries of what they can do and how people will react and also as more distraction fodder. They don't care that they might be giving this guy what he wants or incentivizing other people to possibly commit crimes that could lead to this insanely elevated public spectacle. I know there's been some mass murderers who have live streamed or attempted to live stream their crimes and got shut down before it became too widespread, now imagine the US government turns their blaze of glory into the Superbowl. And the people in this administration just don't care, they only care what they can use for their own benefit. Just like getting diesel from Russia to lower the prices before the election, promising payouts for certain election results, and it's just incredibly demoralizing how far a civilization can fall behind such stupidity.
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Comment on The fine dining flip in ~food
Grumble4681 Link ParentThese would also be some of the cheaper ways to revamp the place into something else. A fine dining place that's struggling to bring in enough business to justify itself, which is obviously what...I found the first photo really interesting to compare what, of the space, they kept the same and what they changed to signal the less swanky, more approachable tone. All the bones: the floor, lighting, and tables the same, but toss down some nice rugs and put up wood panelling.
These would also be some of the cheaper ways to revamp the place into something else. A fine dining place that's struggling to bring in enough business to justify itself, which is obviously what situation they were in, has to make some kind of change. You can't get fancier without spending a bunch of money, but you can take your already sunk costs in a fine dining place and tone it down a bit for much less to target a different audience.
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Comment on Was watching a history YouTube video when I realized they are all AI in ~tech
Grumble4681 LinkThis will surely get worse. I just recently had a friend try to convince me to make videos like this. He sent me a video of someone on Youtube explaining the 'business model' of making videos like...This will surely get worse. I just recently had a friend try to convince me to make videos like this. He sent me a video of someone on Youtube explaining the 'business model' of making videos like this and also making 'influencers' with AI and just pumping out slop and my friend was telling me I should do this to make money since I'm unemployed. I'm not going to do it because it sounds terrible and not even viable, seems like a few people can automate the vast majority of this and just churn out most of the AI slop.
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Comment on The fine dining flip in ~food
Grumble4681 (edited )LinkFor something like dining that doesn't really scale with the widening wealth gaps, it doesn't surprise me. Increased wealth can buy you a bigger house to buy more objects to store those things in...For something like dining that doesn't really scale with the widening wealth gaps, it doesn't surprise me. Increased wealth can buy you a bigger house to buy more objects to store those things in so people on the high side of the wealth gap can have a much greater influence on what products are made even when they are the minority, but it isn't going to expand your stomach to eat more or give you more days in the week to visit restaurants more often. It just means they'll spend more on the same trips to restaurants they already would take, but that isn't going to increase the frequency of it.
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Comment on Blocking of unverified apps on Android starts in Brazil and other three countries in ~tech
Grumble4681 Link ParentThe very Wikipedia page you linked provides an image that uses the phrase, and it doesn't say the image is a fake or anything like that but is supposedly an official image. So 4chan didn't even...The very Wikipedia page you linked provides an image that uses the phrase, and it doesn't say the image is a fake or anything like that but is supposedly an official image. So 4chan didn't even coin the phrase, and they certainly don't have ownership over the rights to lambast it. The fact that they attached it to their own ridiculous ethnic/racist conspiracies shouldn't prevent anyone else from being able to use it anymore than you shouldn't be able to use a keyboard because people on 4chan also use keyboards.
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Comment on Sling TV day, weekend and weekly passes are no longer available in ~tv
Grumble4681 Link ParentIt also coincides with Dish exiting bankruptcy. (Sling is owned by Dish) Whether that actually had anything to do with it I don't know, but it was fairly obvious from the start that this day pass...It also coincides with Dish exiting bankruptcy. (Sling is owned by Dish) Whether that actually had anything to do with it I don't know, but it was fairly obvious from the start that this day pass was likely dead once their contracts with networks came up because they were utilizing the fact that there was apparently a loophole in their existing agreements to offer it and the networks obviously didn't like it based on their reaction.
That 'promise' url is interesting because Dish used that earlier this year on their own site when they had a dispute with Gray Media for carrying the local network stations.
I'm not the one that made that claim and I'm not sure that I agree with it, but IF something like that were going to happen, I think it would be kinda like a bank run (not down to the specific details). Meaning that a lot of the valuation and money going into Nvidia and other companies are speculative, and Jensen still leading Nvidia was a big part of that speculation. Nvidia in turn may have taken that money and leveraged themselves in ways they wouldn't have done without the investment, and other investors may pull out across the AI sector, leaving a lot of companies who are already burning cash at unsustainable rates based on speculative value with even less runway.
I mention a bank run because we know bank runs can happen even when banks are not necessarily failing, but the speculation of the banks failure causes people to pull their money and it's not necessarily the case that the bank is failing that they can't produce all the requested deposits but may still be a failure of the bank/system that allows them to convert those deposits into non-liquid assets. Meaning a system that could theoretically could continue to function normally as it has been can be disrupted or broken down a lot by speculation changing where people are holding their money or willing to put their money into.
I don't know the specific financials of Nvidia or some of these other AI companies so I can't even come close to actually putting any weight to their specific situation, but if you look at Nvidia's growth over time, their recent financial growth completely dwarfs their historical measures. If they happen to over-leverage based on all this growth, and you peel back the speculation that drove that growth back to the prior levels, that prior revenue they were producing would not be able to pay for all the leverage that they were capable of getting themselves into afterwards. It's like if you go from making 50K a year to 5 million, and before no one would think of giving you a multi-million dollar loan based on your 50k income but now with your $5 million salary they will and then you lose that salary, you're still on the hook for the loan even if you go back to your 50k income but now you have zero chance of paying it off. Now imagine your income isn't based on just what you're capable of producing right now, but what people speculate you can produce in the future, and that's how it jumps from 50k to 5 million. You're still the same person whether you're making 50k or 5 million, nothing changed there, but the speculation of what you could do in the future changed.