Never left, really

I’ve come to realize that I was assuming that there was a limit somewhere to “the market staying irrational”. I’m not so sure anymore

Tow the generators and impound them!

On the other hand, how easy is it to swap out a rack after a fault?

I just reviewed a paper for a major journal and felt bad for participating, but what else are we to do? Submit everything to arxiv, but when asked to review, seems you should review

I’m actually in the middle of catching up on ted lasso through my library system - though season 3 is on 3 disks, meaning 2 cases, so I have to track down how to separately request season 3 disc 3 of 3

Funny. I call on Russia to fuck off out of Ukraine

Oil rigs aren’t billed as automatable. This is most likely just a way to offload liability

I recall that a common January 6 defense was “the window was already broken”

When a company is talking about TAM, you know they’ve got nothing better to do with their air

How do you share a democracy with those that are opposed to democracy?

I believe the grand jury system is working as intended

I haven’t. Looking into therapy

I did #2 except I didn’t exercise, I just sold it to someone else when the pice was up a bit on my small bet. I like to think that circuitously, Elon bought me a few lunches because screw that guy

Some folks like to gamble! More and more people are desperation gambling these days out of doomer mindsets that see 0dtes and kalshi bets as their way out of crushing poverty.

And here and there, it’s possible to look at pricing and conclude it’s pants-on-head bananas. Trading and therefore price action is dominated by algorithms which amplifies hype cycles. Who couldn’t see SpaceX as being overvalued? Other than the assholes at NASDAQ

That only matters if lenders a) don’t believe he can pay the loans back, and b) would not themselves be hurt by calling in loans. With how incestuous the Epstein class is, my cynical bet is that he gets away with far too much for far too long

Short sellers are an important part of the equity ecosystem as it provides downward pressure in price discovery. Lucky gamblers have made, and are making, far more than that with long positions in equity and options.

It’s difficult to say that we don’t need markets at all (e.g. would you plant cotton with no idea what it will sell for at harvest?). It then becomes a slippery slope of abuse and wealth concentration.

If anything this all feels like a failure of regulation and the SEC not going far enough

Removed by mod

I’m looking forward to Helen of Troy being part Bird or whatever

We don’t have the support systems in place for a general strike. We can (and I think probably should) do it anyways, but it’s gonna hurt a lot without mutual aid networks in place