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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Half of the websites when I google and sometimes the AI summary depending on how it’s googled. This became a debate with my wife last night. I said only iron is ferrous she said showed a bunch of references to Nickel and Cobalt as ferrous.

    I also found this in Wikipedia, which seems the most likely reason for the terminology confusion:

    In chemistry, the term is largely obsolete, but it often means iron, cobalt, and nickel, also called the iron triad;[1]. It may sometimes refer to other elements that resemble iron in some chemical aspects, such as the stable group 8 elements












  • Not that I am aware of, maybe they are also marketing on the English side of Rednote… But I doubt that’s preferable lol.

    It’s just the marketing that’s done on Tiktok, they have some websites that look like they were slapped together as fast as possible and WhatsApp and similar ways they conduct the actual orders.

    I was, and am still a little bit skeptical. But some of these guys aren’t new apparently as they have happy past customers, they just weren’t selling stuff like Nike that would normally flow through the contracted distribution chain until recently.

    They are also trying to link everyday Americans up with industry specific manufacturing markets. A lot of companies on these have also dropped their min qty thresolds as a way to allow everyday Americans to buy stuff directly, skipping all the middlemen, assuming they meet minimum purchase thresholds for shipping, or have a Chinese shopper.

    If you want a list of marketplaces that don’t have middlemen, I can compile that. If your trying to get a pair of Nikes or something for cheap I suggest you find one of the sellers on tiktok.



  • They are also selling things direct to consumer on Tiktok, and it’s hilarious. They can’t name prices or brands… But you can communicate via their WhatsApp they list and buy almost any luxury bag for $100 and Nikes for $10-$15. Laundry pods for a few cents a pod.

    They are even giving directions for how to order from manufacturers and avoid tariffs with personal shopping services.







  • I actually have an unfortunate amount of knowledge through education of the whole system… Didn’t end up sticking with it because I didn’t want to scam stupid and old people for transaction fees, and that’s like half of investment finance. But anyway… Vibe trading is definitely a thing. It just works until it doesn’t… I think it has to do with people starting to intuitively understand the way algorithms are pushing the market. They get really good at it, until the algorithms eventually change and they lose money.

    I think it’s about not becoming overwhelmingly risk tolerant. They usually take larger and larger positions, becoming more sure of themselves before the market as they understand it changes, and they hoist themselves up by their own petards.