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6months ≈ 180 days
180 days × 2,222 calories per day = 400,000 calories.
A 1lb potato has 620 calories.
400,000/620=645 pounds of potatoes.
13×50=650
13 of these 50lb bags of potatoes will feed 1 man for 6 months.
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6 bags are stacked up to this man's shirt pocket.

50lb potato bags are 36"×18"×8" which is exactly 3 cubic feet. 13 bags is 39 cubic feet.

A single "twin" sized bed is 75"×38". A platform bedframe with 22" of room underneath results in 39 cubic feet of storage space. The perfect amount of room for 650lbs of potatoes!

TL;DR:
Move into a Five Guys and sleep on top of their potatoes.
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Storing water wastes a lot of space. Filter your water source.
6 sqm is 64½ sq.ft.; you could store 1000 pounds of potatoes in there (450kg).
Potatoes emit poison gas as they decompose. Use them as bedding and you will die peacefully in your sleep, to the envy of the living.
 
You can't have anything that can be affected by warmth and moisture, which rules out your oh so precious rice and basically everything except for canned goods, which have varying levels of healthyness and quality
Beef tallow obliviously. 1 LB has about 4000 calories. You only need about 100lbs for your mythical 400,000 calories.
Much less than the 5 guys restaurant worth of potatoes.
 
Cola is my one vice. I really hate that whenever I bring this up I get a bunch of people telling me to just stop drinking soda; I understand the arguments against it but I like it and drink it anyways. "Stop enjoying simple pleasures" should not be your reflexive reaction when simple pleasures become unaffordably expensive.

Why not buy a soda maker and make your own? I have one that I use for carbonating water (which tastes fine enough on its own without adding any soda syrup) or for making tonic water if I want a G&T.

See, again, limited understanding here, but it's my understanding the big firms had shorted the stock. GameStop was supposed to die, right? That means they had borrowed someone's stock under the promise they'd give it back later, and were gambling on the fact that the stock would be cheaper when they had to buy it back from the market to return it. What happens when you short a stock and suddenly you can't buy it back at any price? But wait, how did they do this, stocks are a limited thing and they could short something if there wasn't any stock to buy/sell, so there's no way someone could buy up all the stock and leave someone unable to resolve a short unless they were gaming the numbers and that stock didn't exist (stock counterfeiting)....

It was even more depraved than that. While there's a limit to how much stock can be bought, there's no limit on how much can be shorted. I recall that someone who looked into it discovered that the people who had been shorting it had done so much of it that they just wouldn't have had to purchase all of the stock to cover those shorts, but would have to purchase much of it against a second time in order to cover all of the shorts.

Generally if people want to buy a stock and no one wants to sell theirs the company can sell some of their own shares or just issue additional shares. As I recall GameStop did do this (and made some good money in doing so) but the companies had made such a ridiculous number of shorts that not even issuing additional shares could unfuck things.

Short squeezes aren't uncommon in the market and are used to keep people honest. The problem here was that a few people got exceptionally greedy and put themselves into a position where anyone smart enough to realize it could fuck them hard. I'm sure there were some handshake deals done so that none of the major firms who had the capital to buy up all of the shares would do this to them, but some random nobody still noticed it and crowdsourced the response by getting bored Redditors involved.

It's not surprising that it got shut down. The situation that they had brought about effectively created infinite liability for them and their firm. Anyone so inclined could just keep driving up the price, particularly if GameSpot wouldn't or couldn't issue additional stock. At a certain point it doesn't matter since the firm can't pay, but there's nothing theoretically stopping coordinated buyers from driving the price up to several billion dollars per share and creating a debt that would exceed the GDP of the planet for the next century. In reality it wouldn't quite work out that way (individual holders are going to be bailing out much earlier to make a huge profit) but no one wants anything approaching this kind of outcome to happen. People might realize how silly the stock market is and pull money out.
 
Get rid of social security and replace it with a welfare program only for old people that need it.
What % of people receiving SS, need it?
I am not factoring it into my retirement plan at all.
If you don't need it, don't collect it.
"But waaahh I paid into it." So what, you also paid for USAID and Ukraine. You didn't have a choice, write it off as a loss. All it is is a tax, a tax that would be lower if we weren't giving it to people that don't need it.
 
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They have clearly indicated that they intend to eliminate Social Security. The Trump Administration's lies are easily debunked. Got anymore names for me?

Chucky's just fuming because his money laundering scheme is coming to an end, due to the dismantling of USAID. Trump and people in his cabinet have stated REPEATEDLY that they have no interest in cutting Social Security. They've said this numerous times. They've said it about Medicaid as well. They're cutting dead weight from the programs. Stop being fucking retarded.
 
Short squeezes aren't uncommon in the market and are used to keep people honest. The problem here was that a few people got exceptionally greedy and put themselves into a position where anyone smart enough to realize it could fuck them hard. I'm sure there were some handshake deals done so that none of the major firms who had the capital to buy up all of the shares would do this to them, but some random nobody still noticed it and crowdsourced the response by getting bored Redditors involved.
They were not just shorting the stock they were shorting the stock and using Washington Post and other news organizations they own to push bad stories about gamestop. That is supposed to be illegal when Jeff Bezos owns both. Turns out they have been doing this to American companies for the past decade a new sick kind of leveraged buyout. Past victims include Toys R Us and Circuit City.

Should Amazon be able to use its massive capital to push brick and mortar companies out of business? I don't think they should. They still owe all those shares back and they don't have enough.
 
This showed up on my twitter timeline:

Redsteeze responded:
The only thing missing from this clip is Jon Stewart wearing a giant hot dog costume.
He's attempting to be satirical by describing Fox News and has no idea he's describing himself and an entire industry of journalists who have wanted and have tried to be him for 20 years.
 
They were not just shorting the stock they were shorting the stock and using Washington Post and other news organizations they own to push bad stories about gamestop. That is supposed to be illegal when Jeff Bezos owns both. Turns out they have been doing this to American companies for the past decade a new sick kind of leveraged buyout. Past victims include Toys R Us and Circuit City.

Should Amazon be able to use its massive capital to push brick and mortar companies out of business? I don't think they should. They still owe all those shares back and they don't have enough.
Not a one of those companies mentioned weren’t already rapidly dying. Shitty, bit at least pick some examples that weren’t collapsing back in 2013 or earlier already
 
Not a one of those companies mentioned weren’t already rapidly dying. Shitty, bit at least pick some examples that weren’t collapsing back in 2013 or earlier already
Blockbuster, Borders, RadioShack, Hertz Global, Chesapeake Energy, Eastman Kodak, Sears, J.C. Penney, Gildan Activewear, Kodak, Linens ‘n Things, Pier 1 Imports, American Apparel, T-Mobile USA, J. Crew, Clayton Homes, The Wet Seal, Sports Authority, Sharper Image.
 
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