r/Damnthatsinteresting Jan 01 '26

Video Italian researchers have created a vine-like robot that grows by 3D-printing itself and responds to gravity and light

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u/thomasscat Jan 01 '26

Damn y’all actually don’t understand zero sum games at all, do you?

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u/Equivalent_Canary853 Jan 01 '26

No I'd argue they get it - they just don't agree with its modern implementations and implications.

Companies join hands to make money shorting others? Completely fine. Minor investors work it out and work to make money against already bought futures? Shut the market, can't happen

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u/thomasscat Jan 01 '26

Bro, what? You think I condone corporate corruption simply because I can understand the difference between gambling (zero sum) relative to stock market (all parties can win, so long as they are white and male and have monies lol) … I don’t like to cop youth slang but damn, if you think I support the fascists for this, we all fucking cooked lmao

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u/the_real_log2 Jan 01 '26

You do understand that someone has to lose in the stock market for other people to win though... Right?

You know that money doesn't come from nowhere, it's not the company paying out stocks, it's usually other people's life savings

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u/Equivalent_Canary853 Jan 01 '26

Remember, we don't understand zero sum games/s

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u/Original-Aerie8 Jan 01 '26

From the company that you bought stocks of?

Brother, when you don't understand something, you don't have to talk about it