Black Monday

[Fortunecookie]

Do we need to rename this the Jenny Craigs thread.

[SailorRob]

The "biggest loser" contestants tried that... they gained most of it back.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/...r-202201272676
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/h...ight-loss.html

The funny thing is that in some ways they are even more wrecked than before given the need for low calories simply to maintain weight and the malnutrition that results.

Diets have to include good advice and nutrition to avoid issues like this. Trying to calorie restrict on junk food, also, has downsides (even if it doesn't outweigh the positives).

Just plant some damn vegetables, catch and eat possum and eel

Get real man

[troyvdh]

Dear panda and sailor can you please depart this thread and give us adults some peace.

[Valuegrowth]

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/20...compared-world
https://www.gfmag.com/global-data/ec...-addicted-debt

[bull....]

Fed Chair Powell calls inflation ‘too high’ and warns that ‘we are prepared to raise rates further


https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/25/fed-...s-further.html

jackson hole speech pretty much repeating his previous comments about being data dependant going forward

geez wonder if the nz50 will gain on monday ? down 5% for the mth

[Azz]

geez wonder if the nz50 will gain on monday ?

I doubt it. Things are looking very shaky for NZ.

[Azz]

The *silence* was not by choice if you weren't being shutdown on social media and other platforms in the guise of misinformation and hate speech, you would be lambasted by your neighbours, who are influenced by such proxies of the DPMC such as the Disinformation Project, if not outright arrested.

Why would we want to stand up to be counted when even our own secret service launched an initiative to help the public identify individuals who have become radicalised. "Know the Signs" is a guide for identifying signs of extremism.

Indeed, the government clearly made a concerted effort to manipulate public opinion and the narrative by giving advance notice to Covid "Commentators" of announcements before they were made public. Further, as NZ Herald journalist, Kate Mcnamara, wrote "what is surprising here, and ill-advised, is the opaque endeavour to draw the independent voices of civil society, and particularly of academia, so close to the mechanism of Government spin."

Said Sanjana Hattotuwa, of the Disinformation Project, during Posie Parkers recent visit to NZ, "there has been a disturbing increase in anti-transgender sentiment following the rally in Auckland that disapproved of her presence". There was no empirical evidence this occurred to that extent and it is evident that these comments were intended to discredit and vilify critics of the counter-protest. This kind of propaganda is dangerous. It creates a false narrative that casts legitimate dissent and criticism as hate speech and attempts to silence those who hold differing views.

Are you willing?

The Labour Government, for an extended time, put in place a police state with mass house-arrest and removal of dissent, and it was very easily executed, and had majority support from the populace.

[Azz]

Financial markets are tanking. No exception for the tech sector. So far NVDA is bucking the trend. I expect unexpected. I took refuge in defensive consumer staples.

I might take refuge in cash, for fund or fund-like assets.

[Azz]

Everything made with milk is more expensive though...cheese, yoghurt etc.

Buying loads of cheese at the supermarket is a good way to impress anyone who sees it as to your wealth and status. The New Zealand equivalent of owning a super yacht.

[Snoopy]

Buying loads of cheese at the supermarket is a good way to impress anyone who sees it as to your wealth and status. The New Zealand equivalent of owning a super yacht.

Quite right. And owning a super-yacht that has been hand carved out of cheese: the ultimate status symbol for a kiwi!

SNOOPY