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Of course I know how stonks work… pt 2

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This is gathering so much attention…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G4ix8-0rq4

Leonidas proceeds to throw a purchase order receipt like Gambit and cut King Xerxes right in the foking wallet.

Day of two of the GME shenanigans. This has snowballed into something bigger than all of us.

This is almost like the plot of a movie. It’s the underdog story we all love to hear, except it is literally allowing people to change their lives.

The bubble is going to burst eventually, there’s no doubt about that, but right now, it is a beautiful sight to behold.

In the last 24 hours the subreddit r/wallstreebets has gained a ton of new users. Those new users get excited about the spike and buy the stonk. This causes the stonk to go up, which scares the hedge fund fellers and forces them to seller. This causes the stonk to go up more, which then creates more buzz about the movement, and brings more new users.

That, to me, is the most interesting part. This is happening organically and as I said before, is the only possible resolution to the way the system was built. Wall Street has done everything possible to fix the game legally and it was only a matter of time until someone noticed that one of us may not have a million dollars, but there’s a million of us with a dollar ready to spend on foking back the systems that foked us. 

 

 

Of course I know how stonks work… pt 1

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So the minnows decided to take on the whales…

“Retail investors with the help of technology acting as a union in attacking is a new phenomenon,” 

-Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at the Leuthold Group.

I woke up this morning to an interesting phenomenon.

The subreddit r/wallstreetbets was trending, specifically chat on the GameStop stonks.

The little guys have taken on the big guys and I sincerely feel that this is going to be a historic event. Something economy professors will teach about in the future.

You know I was going to bring it up. This is part of the #DataWars. Using public knowledge and channels of communication made possible by #NetNeutrality, an army of traders managed to create what’s known as a “short squeeze“

I would love to say that I know what I am talking about, but to be honest, I have pretty much Jar Jar Binksed my way through anything that has to do with stonks. I haven’t had any plan or discernible pattern as to what I buy or how long I plan on holding. It has usulally worked out because I don’t take big chances and I only use the money I would have spent on going out to eat that month. That way I reduce the anxiety that comes with trying to understand anything that’s happening…

However, there are others out there that have taken the time to understand and share knowledge online. I think the powers that be will say this was all by design, but I feel this is the only logical organic resolution possible. Either way, we are watching history being made.

I’m going to keep my eye on this for the next couple days. I suggest my friends do too.

r/wallstreetbets

Original forum where the party seems to have started.

r/wallstreetbets2

Second forum started as traffic or censorship took down the original wsb subreddit

Discord

Discord for wsb

Directory structure in life

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#SelfAccountability

proper_Directory_Structure

I like to think I am organized.

However, if If I’m being honest and self aware, it really is more like I’ve managed to channel a bunch of my obbsessive compulsive behaviors into tidiness and efficiency. I need better systems.

Time to level up.

I’ve added the new Minimalists on Netflix to the list. I wanted to give Marie Kondo a chance. Her techniques and advice seem logical, I just couldn’t get past the fact I feel creeped out by her. Nothing specifically wrong, she acts like a very wise and sweet being. I’m just saying, no one has proven to me that she isn’t a robot.

Either way, that made me start thinking about hacking my brain. I started thinking about directory structure and how computational thinking, time management and all these things may come together to form a system that may work for me.

After all, we have to agree by now that if we can find chaos inside order, then surely we can find order inside our own chaos.

Plan of Attack

  • Learn about directory structure
  • Learn about time management techniques
  • ???
  • Profit

“Your subconscious is like a computer—more complex a computer than men can build—and its main function is the integration of your ideas. Who programs it? Your conscious mind. If you default, if you don’t reach any firm convictions, your subconscious is programmed by chance—and you deliver yourself into the power of ideas you do not know you have accepted. But one way or the other, your computer gives you print-outs, daily and hourly, in the form of emotions—which are lightning-like estimates of the things around you, calculated according to your values. If you programmed your computer by conscious thinking, you know the nature of your values and emotions. If you didn’t, you don’t.”

– Ayn Rand

 

#NoTaxationWithoutRepresentation

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This is going to be a rough looking one…

I promise I’ll come back and polish this.

I just want to get it out while I have time.

As I type, I have been on hold wiht the IRS for 28:42.

I have pressed more than 40 numbers into the keypad, this not counting the phone number I dialed into.

The song is repetetive and “our representatives are still helping other costumers”.

“Costumers”…

Is that what we are to the IRS? Costumers?

An agent came on the line. He just asked me to identify myself. After I identified myself through the machine. With button presses.

If we don’t trust the foking things, then get rid of them and hire more people like “John” then.

#TheseAreNotNewProblems.

Why am I doing the work of computers?

“John” hears my issue.

I owed money according to my 2019 return. I paid my penalty for lack of insurance and have my statement to confirm. Even on the IRS site it shows my payment was received (there’s no confirmation number because shit design). “John” asks if I can give him the check number I sent in. I tell him I paid over the internet #TheFutureIsNow. He says he is going to check, tells me it should take 5 to 7 minutes and places me on hold. When he comes back he fumbles as through an explanation. There’s no issue and everything is in order, it had something to do with using the direct pay option and the implication here is that I marked the wrong box somewhere so even though the site registered the funds, it didn’t trigger the funds being received so I was flagged for those lovely IRS collection letters. The way he explains it to me makes it sound as if he had just found a physical envelope sitting in a pile of other envelopes. He says it should take another 5 to 6 minutes to transfer things where they need to be and I could disregard the notices. I ask for confirmation number. “John” explains that there’s no way for him to do that, but he can send me a letter saying they where going to  hunt me down. I thank him for his help.

 

[End Scene]

Thoughts?

Civil Service with a smile

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The Last American Oligarch…

“Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class.”
― Giuseppe Prezzolini

I watched Joe Biden’s innaguration as the 46th President of the United States. The music played by the Marines was parade music. It was happy music.

It didn’t do a good job distracting from the visible tension at the event and the anxiety in the air.

I went over it again, and as I type, the Biden children and grandchildren are making their way out of the building and being introduced. I saw the Clintons and the Obamas introduced already, but I wanted to point out an interesting comment made by the announcers when the Bushes where announced. He refered to the “Bush Legacy”.

It made me wonder.

Two generations of Bushes, we almost had two Clintons, and I heard from both sides of the political spectrum some wouldn’t be oposed to seeing an Obama or Trump “legacy” continue.

What the fok are we doing America? I thought we where proud to not have a king. Wasn’t that the whole foking point? Why are we ok with this if we are still a democracy, because if we are not, I’m going to have to see the memo.

I don’t think Trump was the first one to attempt an oligarchy in this country. He was simply the most overt and careless about it. That doesn’t change the fact that we have families TRYING to cement political bloodlines into our government.

This has gone too far and it ends now.

And also, can we please stop wasting resources while on a super-spreader for the sake of “tradition”? Maybe I’m noticing these things because they look so foolish and humanly fragile without adoring subjects to back them up.

Watching the Inauguration without the crowd is like watching Friends without the soundtrack.

It isn’t as distracting, and you realize Ross sounds like a psychopath.

So I hope we are all woke to this now. There is no excuses anymore. Anyone remotely close to looking like they are trying to pull this “oligarchy” stunt needs to be voted out, no questions. If you love the family so much, go be with them. We need someone to meet the needs of their country, not their heirs.

#CivilSERVANT with emphasis on the servant.

So get to serving the will of the people.

From someone that has had to provide service with a smile, and got the job done, like it or not.

 

Favorite highlight from the inauguration

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Poetry

The innaguration isn’t over, but I already chose my favorite highlight from the whole thing.

The moment she stepped into the camera I saw a giant. She carried herself with poise and dignity, I barely remember seeing her walk. To be honest I wouldn’t argue if someone said she just floated towards the podium.

Amanda Morgan.

Thank you for sharing your art.

“The Hill We Climb”

When day comes we ask ourselves,
where can we find light in this never-ending shade?
The loss we carry,
a sea we must wade
We’ve braved the belly of the beast
We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace
And the norms and notions
of what just is
Isn’t always just-ice
And yet the dawn is ours
before we knew it
Somehow we do it
Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed
a nation that isn’t broken
but simply unfinished
We the successors of a country and a time
Where a skinny Black girl
descended from slaves and raised by a single mother
can dream of becoming president
only to find herself reciting for one
And yes we are far from polished
far from pristine
but that doesn’t mean we are
striving to form a union that is perfect
We are striving to forge a union with purpose
To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and
conditions of man
And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us
but what stands before us
We close the divide because we know, to put our future first,
we must first put our differences aside
We lay down our arms
so we can reach out our arms
to one another
We seek harm to none and harmony for all
Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true:
That even as we grieved, we grew
That even as we hurt, we hoped
That even as we tired, we tried
That we’ll forever be tied together, victorious
Not because we will never again know defeat
but because we will never again sow division
Scripture tells us to envision
that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree
And no one shall make them afraid
If we’re to live up to our own time
Then victory won’t lie in the blade
But in all the bridges we’ve made
That is the promise to glade
The hill we climb
If only we dare
It’s because being American is more than a pride we inherit,
it’s the past we step into
and how we repair it
We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation
rather than share it
Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy
And this effort very nearly succeeded
But while democracy can be periodically delayed
it can never be permanently defeated
In this truth
in this faith we trust
For while we have our eyes on the future
history has its eyes on us
This is the era of just redemption
We feared at its inception
We did not feel prepared to be the heirs
of such a terrifying hour
but within it we found the power
to author a new chapter
To offer hope and laughter to ourselves
So while we once we asked,
how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe?
Now we assert
How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?
We will not march back to what was
but move to what shall be
A country that is bruised but whole,
benevolent but bold,
fierce and free
We will not be turned around
or interrupted by intimidation
because we know our inaction and inertia
will be the inheritance of the next generation
Our blunders become their burdens
But one thing is certain:
If we merge mercy with might,
and might with right,
then love becomes our legacy
and change our children’s birthright
So let us leave behind a country
better than the one we were left with
Every breath from my bronze-pounded chest,
we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one
We will rise from the gold-limbed hills of the west,
we will rise from the windswept northeast
where our forefathers first realized revolution
We will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the midwestern states,
we will rise from the sunbaked south
We will rebuild, reconcile and recover
and every known nook of our nation and
every corner called our country,
our people diverse and beautiful will emerge,
battered and beautiful
When day comes we step out of the shade,
aflame and unafraid
The new dawn blooms as we free it
For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it
If only we’re brave enough to be it

Easter Eggs

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Community S5E10: Advanced Advanced Dungeons. That is DEFINITELY a “Harmon Dong”

 

CLICK HERE

 

Easter Eggs

I may have mentioned my love for the show “Community”.  Almost as much as Abed loves “Cougar Town”.

Am I doing meta now?

In any case, I think one of the places where the Venn diagram between hackers and artists meets is right at “Easter Eggs”. I love finding them in all types of media, so I try to be observant. I think “Community” has some of the best easter eggs in the business.

I don’t know if this was one of those, but based on Rick and Morty art, I’m going to say I found an early example of what I have come to call a “Harmon Dong”. They are like the “Hidden Mickeys” thing Disney has, but with dongs.

If you find any examples of “Harmon Dongs”, please link in the comment section below!

On an unrelated note, I may need to start going out more…

#SignalDown

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Messaging app Signal is down

I wanted to make a note of it. The administration really had it in for encrypted communication apps and with Ajit Pai almost out, they may have lost their chance. Not saying these things are related, but like I said, I wanted to make note of it.

As always #FokAjitPai.

 

Wisdom you should ignore

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Lessons learned from random things

My Grandfather was a wise man. He had an almost encyclopedic knowledge about anything you could think of asking him, but the really impressive part was that when he wasn’t sure, he used his wonderful imagination and unequivocal common sense to come up with something that was as close to fact if not more so than whatever the real answer was…. What I’m saying is my Grandfather was Wikipedia before the internet was even plugged in!

In any case, I always admired this quality of his, and as I grew older I wondered what a man had to do in ordered to collect the vast knowledge my Grandfather seemed to possess. Well, WikiGrandpa had the answer for that too! “Never stop paying attention.” he said, “Everyone AND everything has a story to tell and a lesson to teach”!

Well, I took this to heart and so now I give you a compilation of lessons I have learned from everything around me! Tips that will hopefully help you with school, life, love and maybe even sex! Sound advice from a guy that can’t get his crap together so seriously, listen at your own risk!

Mi Abolito Rafael

RUGBY and FRIENDSHIP

 I play Rugby which is a fantastic sport. If you don’t know what I’m talking about I highly recommend a quick Youtube search! Its like being in the middle of the movie 300 except with more fat guys and less homoerotic undertones! For the most part. But I digress, the point is that rugby is a game where there is no such thing as a superstar player! No matter how fast and tough you are, you can’t win the game unless you have the support of the rest of the team, because the moment things go wrong, you will find yourself alone and lose the ball. To me, that is EXACTLY how a good circle of friends should be! A group of friends should work together to win at life. Sure everyone may have a different position and may take a different approach, but the constant should be that the moment things get heavy, everyone else should be there to support and push and fight to make sure no one is left alone in the field carrying a ball and having to face everything on their own! You don’t just follow the guy that scores all the time, you follow everyone so that you build a strong bond! This way, when you end up with the ball in your hands, you don’t have to look back, you just trust that your team and friends will be there if things get tough!

ZOMBIES and FINANCES

 Picture if you will a day just like today. You are sitting there, doing whatever it is that you are doing when you hear some noise outside. You get up and walk to the window to see what the commotion is and that’s when you spot a group of zombies chasing Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Katy Perry! Welcome to the Zombie Apocalypse! You may be asking yourself if I have gone crazy or what any of this has to do with finances, and if this is the case then I ask you to have a bit more faith in my hereditary ability to bullshit and I warn you, question my sanity again and I will be forced to send my army of Ninja Space Monkeys after you. With that said, the lesson here is to practice survival mode and be prepared! Just like Z Day, you never know when financial adversity will strike, and the only way to survive is to be ready! Now you may be thinking that stockpiling a cache of food and weapons or money is enough, but the reality is that if you don’t practice how to use both your arms and your cash in a tight situation then you won’t make it far when the real disaster goes down! This is actually how I learned to save money! Pretend my car broke down and it’s a $200 dollar fix. That money gets put away and remains untouched as if it was a real scenario and I survive on cereal for 2 weeks so that the cash is there when I really need it for an emergency or to bribe the customs agent so I can have my one time use hand made Chinese silk pajama pants. Point is preparedness is not just having the resources but the ability to use them at a moments notice, follow this advice and just like me you will be ready when the scenario I proposed happens and just like me you too can save humanity when you see Gaga and Bieber and Perry running for their lives, and you pull out your sniper rifle, pop one in each of their ankles and enjoy the show!

SEX and VIDEOGAMES

I’m dividing this one as advice for each corresponding gender and I’m trusting that you will only read the one that applies. Also I want to assure this is simply a gross oversimplification about male and female sexuality that does not take into account feelings!

FOR THE GENTLEMEN

Honor system ladies, remember the Ninja Space Monkeys, I’m not afraid to use them, skip to the next section…. O.K., now that they are gone here it is, there’s two types of women when it comes to sex, it’s up to you to figure it out so that you can please her. The first type is like your first console, let’s say a Nintendo with Mario Bros. Once you start playing its pretty intuitive and each button does something specific, there really isn’t much to figure out so now its up to you to see how good can you get at the game. You could probably play for hours but if you don’t develop your technique things will get repetitive. Be inventive and you will always have fun! The second Type is more like the current consoles. Let’s say PS3 with Modern Warfare! You start playing and you realize you don’t really know what everything does so you have to take your time to figure out each function, you might play a few rounds and not do very well because you haven’t learned the controls yet, but if you really slow down and pay attention you will develop the right technique and begin to enjoy the game. After some time things become second nature and before you know it you are leveling up like a boss and getting all kind of achievements you weren’t expecting. Patience and attention will help you master and thoroughly enjoy each game!

FOR THE LADIES

Well, I was just telling the men about respect and totally not reinforcing sexist stereotypes, matter of fact I just copy and pasted something from the Cosmo website. Boring stuff really. Actually what I wrote up there actually applies to men too, if you already went through it then shame on you, but let me add to that just a little more. My advice for you ladies is very simple. Whether we like you or not we are probably going to let you play videogames with us, but only if we like you are we going to really enjoy ourselves, let you win and won’t care what buttons you where pressing and you know exactly what I mean!

SCHOOL and DRIVING

 Driving is one of my favorite things to do. School, not so much, at least not until I realized how the way I drive could be applied to my behavior at school. I truly enjoy driving. I could be stuck in traffic and seriously could fill a pool with the amount of damns I just don’t give! When I go out for a drive I feel comfortable. I focus on the road and pay attention to everything around me but only take in the information that truly matters like traffic signals while ignoring the distractions that serve no purpose but to stop me from my destination like that cheerleader car wash. And that’s the problem I suspect must of us have in school. We know where the hell we need to go, but there’s so many obstacles and distractions that the ride stops being enjoyable and we just become frustrated and either turn around and go home or barely do what we can to get there. But just like driving, you are in control. You choose what station you listen to, you choose the speed at which you drive, you choose what route to take and you choose to drive past that car wash because in the end they are not paying for your gas and could care less where you end up after you leave there!

DRINKING AND MARTIAL ARTS

If you know me, you probably have had a beer with me at one point or another, if you don’t, then you will when you meet me. Because that’s the first thing you should do when you find yourself in my glorious presence. You should buy me a pint of Guinness. This will bring you good fortune. Anyhow, I love me some brew. I enjoy beer and partake on its consumption. Nowadays I sit down and have a couple glasses of good craft beers and tend to enjoy the finer brews, but that’s because I earned my black belt. When I first started, I drank like a frat boy and held records at my local hospital for most abuse to the liver in one weekend and had an honorary mention for most likely to flirt with a defibrillator. So basically I was in the Cobra Kai school of drinking. I wanted to pick every fight and walked around with a false sense of pride because I knew I could beat everyone around me. But that’s not the point of martial arts, and it sure as hell isn’t the point of having a drink. Just like the old masters teach us that “We learn to fight, so we don’t have to”, I feel that we kind of “Learn to drink, so we don’t have to”. Let me explain. Sure it seems cool to be able to down a bottle of Jack Daniels by yourself, but are you enjoying yourself any more than the guy that’s having a couple shots to get a nice buzz going and actually remembers what happened that night without the killer hangover? When you drink, you must be like the ancient masters. Able to whoop everyone’s ass, but no one around you should be able to suspect a thing! Martial Arts teach you discipline and push your limits so that you know yourself and can use your skills responsibly and that’s the approach you should take when you drink. Know what you can drink, know when to stop, and know what you can or cannot handle. Also, practice regularly and with good company!

So there you have it. Just a couple pearls of wisdom from me to you. Don’t bother thanking me, but specially don’t bother complaining when none of this works because I probably won’t remember typing it since I downed 2 bottles of cough syrup before I got started and I sure as hell can’t be held liable for the crap my brain is spewing. May the force be with you!