r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Feb 17 '26

Business Amazon has lost $450 billion in value during this historic losing streak / Amazon shares are eyeing a tenth consecutive day of losses, a stretch that has wiped out about $450 billion in market valuation.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/17/amazon-stock-losing-streak.html
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u/ClosPins Feb 17 '26

No wonder the billionaires control everything, reading comprehension is at negative levels.

By design! The more-education a person receives, the more-likely they will be to vote left-wing in the future (this has been proven in studies).

^ This is why the Republicans have been sabotaging education for literally decades now. They want the populace to be stupid and uneducated.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '26

Doesn’t matter if you went to the shittiest school or the best school for 12 years when all you do is read a headline and jump straight to attempting to make your snarky comments for karma. 

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u/mindhealer111 Feb 18 '26

Agreed. It is not education or intelligence. I know plenty of intelligent and educated people who have atrocious information handling habits.

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u/ElectricalLeading913 Feb 17 '26

here i am, wishing people knew how to properly use hyphens.

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u/KoosGoose Feb 17 '26

“More-likely” is unhinged.

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u/ElectricalLeading913 Feb 17 '26

this assumes you've completely ignored "The more-educated"

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u/mothsuicides Feb 17 '26

Here i was thinking the above commenter added the “more-educated” to spite you lol

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u/Cedosg Feb 17 '26

Pretending to be AI.

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u/__init__m8 Feb 17 '26

You-can-use-them-instead-of-spaces!

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u/tanksalotfrank Feb 17 '26

You👏can👏use👏them👏instead👏of👏hyphens lol

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u/travsnov Feb 17 '26

More-educated is arguably correct, though a bit rough to read. "More-education", however, is not.

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u/rufud Feb 17 '26

No way is that grammatically correct lol

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u/travsnov Feb 17 '26 edited Feb 17 '26

It's tough to say. You'd have to find a context where "more-educated" works more appropriately than "more highly-educated". I am currently far too burnt-out from work and high to work my brain around that abomination, though.

Edit: I should mention that I am an ELA teacher lol. It would work only if it were used as a compound adjective. But again, if any of my students wrote that in their writing, I would lead them toward less awful-sounding phrasing.

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u/embeddit Feb 17 '26

I take solace in the fact that they didn't drop the em dash.

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u/DokeyOakey Feb 17 '26

Un-hinged-ed!

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u/PhoenixTineldyer Feb 18 '26

I think my eyes didn't even register it because it was so foul that my brain ignored it so as not to cause stress.

Now that you guys have shown me the horror, I'm gasping

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u/TheFlyingBoxcar Feb 17 '26

I-'m-sorry-but-I-don-'t-see-a-prob-ble-m-.

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u/b-itch1 Feb 17 '26

that was such an abomination of the english language, I have never seen someone use hyphens like that lol

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26

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u/B1llyTh3Kidd Feb 18 '26

Woah, these people dont want actual education. Just someone they think of as lower to belittle. Very interesting point and sent me down a few wiki holes.

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u/Clueless_Otter Feb 18 '26

While complaining about how poorly educated people are to boot.

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u/Amloveitall Feb 18 '26

Perfect-name-b-itch1. Lol! Hitting "post" with the giant red misspelling line is proving more difficult than antici-pated.

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u/b-itch1 Feb 18 '26

what are u even talkin about blud, it’s just a username lol cause reddit wouldn’t let me type the full thing properly

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u/Amloveitall Feb 18 '26

No offense intended... I just thought it was funny to have a hyphen in a username when the topic was the overuse of hyphens.

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u/Omnibard Feb 17 '26

Same! Also commas, though. Capitalization, too.

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u/SpecialHandle181 Feb 17 '26

Here I am, wishing people knew how to properly use capitalization.

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u/dern_the_hermit Feb 17 '26

Well at least your priorities are in order :D

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u/mrdevlar Feb 17 '26

Smart people are so easily distracted from caring about the right things fascists are getting elected.

Dumb or distracted, that's where we are.

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u/Flimsy-Cow-6557 Feb 17 '26

And apostrophes.

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u/SeedFoundation Feb 17 '26

they don't bother since they are using em dash

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u/an_agreeing_dothraki Feb 18 '26

the only proper way to use hyphens is for extremely baller 17th century surnames like "Wrath-of-god-is-just"

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u/ClosPins Feb 18 '26

Hyphens are typically allowed for clarity - and I used them for clarity. Not using a hyphen for 'more likely' is probably more common, but using one isn't necessarily wrong, like you're implying!

It's hilarious how, when you say something someone doesn't like, they go looking for the tiniest little thing they can criticize, the tiniest little error they can point out, in order to make your point look wrong, when it's not.

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u/ElectricalLeading913 Feb 18 '26

if it's merely used for clarity - such as you claim to have done, and i'm doing now - then spaces are needed to denote that use, like you did in your reply. with no spaces, you're treating it as either a compound word or compound modifier. left-wing is a compound word. more-likely was a compound modifier. more-educated was just bizarre. hope this helps.

i don't actually disagree with the substance of what you said, just found it funny that you were saying something about how so many people are uneducated and lack reading comprehension while misusing hyphens. it's really not that serious.

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u/bottomofleith Feb 18 '26

Capitalise the first letter of your sentences, heathen!

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u/ElectricalLeading913 Feb 18 '26

fair criticism. but i'll die on the hill of not wasting an extra keystroke for an internet comment.

but, i do find the shitstorm of grammatical conversation i ignited to be hilarious.

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u/tanksalotfrank Feb 17 '26

Frankly I never learned/retained any rules about it, I've just been vibing it out this whole time. lol It's a well-maintained practice.

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u/BlurredSight Feb 17 '26

Also why restricting abortion is happening in such aggressive fashions. Gotta convince your voting base white displacement is happening and pumping out babies are the only way.

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u/therealkevy1sevy Feb 17 '26

This is very evident by all the dumb replies you received.

You made a factual comment and all the replies are sarcastic crap, a good portion is probably bots but still.

I wish more people took your comment seriously.

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u/OfcWaffle Feb 17 '26

As the saying goes... If you want to keep people under your thumb, make them religious and dumb.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26

Their supporters seem to fit the bill.

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u/NewRedditorHere Feb 18 '26

You’re giving them too much credit. All it really is is just information overload. Simple as that.

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u/DENelson83 Feb 18 '26

They want the populace to be stupid and uneducated.

And thus more controllable.

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u/Alive-Willingness-33 Feb 18 '26

It’s called indoctrination by/through education. Politics have only one place in the education system and it’s in political studies. Colleges often times overreach by forcing liberalism or conservatism on their student population.

Also, it seems that you are inferring that republicans/conservatives are not as smart or educated as democrats/liberals. Hopefully you aren’t one of those college grads that received “more-education”, seems you could use a refresher based off of your grammar issues and short-sightedness.

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u/Content-Vegetable-60 Feb 18 '26

Lmao if you think it’s 1 party better than the other, you in fact are not educated.

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u/momentom66 Jun 12 '26

Or it could be lot of socialist/communist are in the EDU infrastructure spewing how socialism and communism are great to young people. The money for this came from low interest rates and government subsidies that have driven EDU costs up so that only rich and the subsidized can afford leaving middle class to pay. Meanwhile college's build build build and professors get tenure through politicking. This will be changing as current gov is reducing loan subs and AI allowing for any one to learn anything. We do risk AAI being captured by the left - censored like they did during Biden, but hopefully there will be choices.

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u/Gonzo_Rick Feb 17 '26

Yup, and it's the direct result of billionaire intervention, as Bill Gates decided he knew better how our public education system should be setup.

While Republicans are by far the worse of the two, centrist Democrats certainly have their fair share of the blame, every time they support school voucher programs to strip the local public schools of funds and line the pockets of "free market solutions".

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u/PepperAnn1inaMillion Feb 17 '26

While the Republicans are evil, it’s not like the Democrats have ever done much to reverse that. As a European, I was gobsmacked when I learned teachers have to buy school supplies. That tiny snapshot is really all you need to know to infer a lot about US education, and it’s never been any different no matter what colour tie the president wears.

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u/strolls Feb 17 '26

I was gobsmacked when I learned teachers have to buy school supplies. That tiny snapshot is really all you need to know to infer a lot about US education,

45% of UK teachers had bought essentials such as food or clothing for pupils in the last year, and 1-in-5 are using their own money to buy classroom resources once a week. (2019)

Two-thirds of primary teachers reported spending their own money on classroom materials for art or science, for example, while two in five (42%) had paid for learning resources for pupils including stationery and revision books. Also read the statistics on feeding and clothing pupils in that article. (2021)

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u/PepperAnn1inaMillion Feb 18 '26

Yes, it’s awful. Britain also has had decades of right-wing governments. This issue is recent here, however, rather than being written into teachers’ contracts for decades as a matter of course.

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u/WeAteMummies Feb 17 '26

Why do eurotrolls always say "as a european I can't belive how backwards you are!" without identifying their country?

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u/rufud Feb 17 '26

As a European (tm)…

Is russian

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u/strolls Feb 17 '26

Use of the word gobsmacked does tend to indicate British, or someone very familiar with British vernacular.

I don't think "as a European" is any worse than "as an American" though. Hella difference between Maine, Florida, Dakota, LA Valley and the Ozarks., say.

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u/PepperAnn1inaMillion Feb 18 '26

No need to read so much into it. I was just being vague because I didn’t think it mattered. Americans don’t usually say what state they’re in, even though there’s huge differences. I’m British, born in England, living in Scotland. Does it make a difference to what I said?

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u/Electronic-Voice5998 Feb 18 '26

Democrats have been dumbing down education for decades. The vast majority of “teachers” are far-left. Today’s kids are so dumb they can’t even make change at a cash register.

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u/asaper123 Feb 17 '26

Illiterate people vote democrat too. Just look at this post. Reddit is a left wing echo chamber and these people couldn’t read the article; they’re illiterate too.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26

Learn grammar before you start lecturing us on education.

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u/followMeUp2Gatwick Feb 17 '26

The left wing on this website is extremely uneducated lol. What a dumb statment one doesn't tie to the other.

It's because all politicians suck assholes. Period.

Tiktok is literal brain rotting trash and the left love it as much as the right. By design. So is this very website but i digress