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Negatives of my dad but no large prints

2024.05.29 05:58 SnooMemesjellies5802 Negatives of my dad but no large prints

Negatives of my dad but no large prints
Hello,
I’d love to have this series of negatives turned into something with a high enough resolution that I could possibly enlarge and print. I don’t know if this is possible, but I appreciate anyone willing to try!
My dad died in 2007, and I didn’t know of these photos before then. They were found when my mom cleaned out his office.
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/4K) $7
Moneyball (2011) (MA/HD) $2.50
Monuments Men (2014) (MA/HD) $2
Mortal Engines (2018) (MA/4K) $6.50 (MA/HD) $3.50
Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2014) (MA/HD) $3.25
Mother! (2017) (Vudu/HD) $3.25
Motherless Brooklyn (2019) (MA/HD) $3.50
Mother's Day (2016) (MA/HD) (iTunes/HD) $4.75
Mud (2013) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $3
Mulan (1998) (MA/4K) $6.75 (MA/HD) $5 (GP/HD) $3
Mummy (1999), Returns (2001), Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008), Scorpion King (2002), Mummy (2017) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $22
Mummy, The (2017) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $2.75
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016) (iTunes/HD) Ports to MA $3.75
My Dinner with Herve (2018) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $4.25 (GP/HD) $2.75
Never Grow Old (2019) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $4.50
News of the World (2020) (MA/HD) $3.50
Night at the Museum 3-Movie (MA/HD) $11.50
Night House, The (2021) (MA/HD) $5 (GP/HD) $3
Night School (Extended Cut) (2018) (MA/HD) $4.25
Nightmare Alley (2021) (MA/HD) $4.50 (GP/HD) $3.50
Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) (MA/HD) $6 (GP/HD) $3.50
No Time to Die (2021) (iTunes/4K) $3.50
Noah (2014) (Vudu/HD) $1.75 (iTunes/HD) $1.50
Nobody (2021) (MA/HD) $5
Norm of the North (2016) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $2.75
Notting Hill (1999) (MA/HD) (iTunes/HD) $3.75
Now You See Me 1-2 (Vudu/HD) $4 (iTunes/HD) $6.50
Oblivion (2013) (MA/4K) $7 (iTunes/4K) $3.50 (MA/HD) $2
Office Christmas Party (2016) (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $2.25
Olaf's Frozen Adventure Plus 6 Disney Tales (2017) (MA/HD) $4.50 (GP/HD) $3
Old (2021) (MA/4K) $7 (MA/HD) $4.25
Oliver! (1968) (MA/4K) $6.50
Olympus Has Fallen (2013) (MA/HD) $5
Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood (2019) (MA/4K) $6.75 (MA/HD) $4.25
Oranges, The (2011) (MA/HD) $4.50
Other Guys, The (2010) (MA/4K) $6.50
Other Woman (2014) $4.25
Ouija (2014) (MA/HD) (iTunes/HD) $2.50
Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) (MA/HD) $2 (GP/HD) $1
Pacific Rim Uprising (2018) (MA/4K) $7 (MA/HD) $4.25
Paper Towns (2011) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $4.25
ParaNorman (2012) (iTunes/HD) $5
Parasite (2019) (MA/4K) $6.50 (MA/HD) $4.50
Patriot Games (1992) (Vudu/4K) (iTunes/4K) $5
Patriots Day (2017) (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $2.50
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015) (MA/HD) $3.75
Peanuts Movie (2015) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $2.50
Penguins of Madagascar (2014) (MA/HD) $2.75
Peppermint (2018) (iTunes/HD) $2
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) (MA/HD) $2.25
Perfect Guy (2015) (MA/HD) $3.50
Pet Sematary (2019) (Vudu/4K) $4 (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $2.50
Pete’s Dragon (2016) (MA/HD) $6 (GP/HD) $4.25
Peter Pan (1953) (MA/HD) $6 (GP/HD) $4.50
Peter Pan: Return to Neverland (2002) (MA/HD) $6 (GP/HD) $4.50
Peter Rabbit 2 (2021) (MA/HD) $4
Phantom Thread (2017) (MA/HD) $3.75
Philadelphia (1993) (MA/4K) $6.50
Pinocchio (1940) (MA/HD) $5.50 (GP/HD) $3.75
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) (MA/4K) $7 (MA/HD) $2.75 (GP/HD) $1.50
Pitch Perfect (2012) (MA/HD) $2.50 (iTunes/4K) $3.50
Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) (MA/HD) $2.50 (iTunes/4K) $3.50
Pitch Perfect Collection 1-3 (MA/HD) $11.50
Planet of the Apes 1-3 (Newer) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $9
Playing with Fire (2019) (iTunes/4K) $1.50 (Vudu/HD) $2
Pompeii (2014) (MA/HD) $3.25
Poms (2019) (iTunes/HD) $2.50
Power Rangers (2017) (iTunes/4K) $3 (Vudu/HD) $2.50
Predator (2018) (MA/4K) $5.75 (MA/HD) $3.50
Premium Rush (2012) (MA/HD) $3.25
Pretty in Pink (1986) (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $4.50
Priceless (2016) (iTunes/HD) Ports to MA $4.50
Prince of Egypt (2002) (MA/HD) $6
Proud Mary (2018) (MA/HD) $4
Psycho (1960) (MA/HD) $4.50
Purge, The (2013) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $2.75
Puss in Boots (2011) (MA/4K) $6.50
Queen of Katwe (2016) (MA/HD) $3 (GP/HD) $2.25
R.I.P.D. (2013) (MA/4K) $6.50 (MA/HD) (iTunes/HD) $3
Rambo Collection 1-5 (Vudu/HD) $12.50
Rampage (2018) (MA/4K) $6.50
Rebel Without a Cause (1955) (MA/4K) $7
Red Dawn (2012) (Vudu/HD) $5.25 (iTunes/SD) $2
Red Sparrow (2018) (MA/HD) $3.75
Rescuers Down Under (1990) (MA/HD) $5.75 (GP/HD) $4
Rescuers, The (1977) (MA/HD) $5.75 (GP/HD) $4
Reservoir Dogs (1992) (Vudu/4K) (iTunes/4K) $5
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) (MA/HD) $2.25
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021) (MA/HD) $4.25
Revenant, The (2015) (MA/4K) $5 (iTunes/4K) $3.75
Rhythm Section (2020) (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $4
Ricki And The Flash (2015) (MA/HD) $4.50
Riddick Collection 1-3 (Unrated) (MA/HD) $13.50
Ride Along 1-2 (MA/HD) (iTunes/HD) $5 $2.75 Each
Rings (2017) (Vudu/HD) $2.75 (iTunes/HD) $1.50
Rio 2 (2014) (MA/HD) $2
Rise of the Guardians (2012) (MA/HD) $3
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2010) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $5.75
Risen (2016) (MA/HD) $4.50
Robin Hood (Animated) (1973) (MA/HD) $3.75 (GP/HD) $2.75
Rock Dog (2016) (Vudu/HD) $4
Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017) (MA/HD) $3.50
Room (2015) (Vudu/HD) $4.25
Rough Night (2017) (MA/HD) $4
Rudy (Director's Cut) (1993) (MA/4K) $6.50
Runner Runner (2013) (MA/HD) $3.25
Russell Madness (2015) (MA/HD) $3.75
Safe (2012) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $1.75
Safe House (2012) (MA/HD) $3.50 (iTunes/HD) $2.50
Same Kind of Different as Me (2017) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $2
Samson (2018) (MA/HD) $3.75
Sausage Party (2016) (MA/HD) $4.75
Savages (2012) (iTunes/HD) Ports to MA $2.25
Saving Mr. Banks (2013) (MA/HD) $4.25 (GP/HD) $2.50
Scary Movie Collection 1-3 (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $13.50
Schindler's List (1993) (MA/HD) $4.50
Scoob (2020) (MA/4K) $3
Scream Collection 1-3 (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $13.50
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) (iTunes/HD) Ports to MA $4.50
Selma (2015) (Vudu/HD) $2.75 (iTunes/HD) $2.25
Semper Fi (2019) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $4.25
Serenity (2005) (MA/HD) $3.50
Sex Tape (2014) (MA/HD) $2.75
Shack (2017) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $1.50
Shape of Water (2017) (MA/HD) $3.25
Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) (Vudu/HD) $3.75
Sherlock Gnomes (2018) (iTunes/4K) $2.25
Shrek (2001), Madagascar (2005), Home (2015), Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2003), How to Train Your Dragon (2010), Croods (2013), Kung Fu Panda (2008), Boss Baby (2017), Abominable (2019), Trolls (2016) (MA/HD) $16
Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018) (MA/4K) $7 (MA/HD) $3.75
Silent Night, Deadly Night: 3-Film Collection (1989-1991) (Vudu/HD) $5.50
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014) (Vudu/HD) $6
Sing (2016) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $2.50
Sinister (2012) (Vudu/HD) $3 (iTunes/HD) $2.75
Sixteen Candles (1984) (iTunes/HD) Ports to MA $4.25
Skyscraper (2018) (MA/4K) $5 (MA/HD) $1.75
Sleepy Hollow (1999) (Vudu/4K) (iTunes/4K) $6.75
Smokey and the Bandit (1977) (MA/4K) $6 (MA/HD) $4.50
Smurfs 2 (2013) (MA/HD) $3
Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017) (MA/HD) $3
Snow White and the Huntsman (Extended) (2012) (iTunes/4K) $3.25 (MA/HD) $2.25
Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (1937) (MA/HD) $6 (GP/HD) $3.75
Snowden (2016) (MA/HD) $3.50 (iTunes/HD) $4
Snowman (2017) (MA/HD) $2.75
Son of God (2014) (MA/HD) $1.50
Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) (Vudu/4K) $6.25 (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $4
Soul (2020) (MA/4K) $6 (MA/HD) $3.75 (GP/HD) $2.25
Space Between Us, The (2017) (MA/HD) (iTunes/HD) $4.50
Spider-Man Collection 1-8 (MA/HD) $26
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) (MA/4K) $6.25 (MA/HD) $3.50
Spirit Untamed: The Movie (2021) (MA/HD) $5.25
Stand Up Guys (2012) (Vudu/HD) $2.75
Star Trek Beyond (2016) (Vudu/HD) $1.75 (iTunes/4K) $3.25
Star Trek Collection 1-3 (Vudu/HD) $9.50 (iTunes/4K) $13.50
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) (Vudu/HD) $1.75 (iTunes/4K) $3.25
Still Alice (2015) (MA/HD) $3.25
Stillwater (2021) (MA/HD) $4.75
Stoker (2013) (MA/HD) $4.50
Straight Outta Compton (Unrated Director’s Cut) (2015) (MA/HD) (iTunes/HD) $2.50
Stronger (2017) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $4.50
Stuber (2019) (MA/HD) $5.25
Suburbicon (2017) (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $3.25
Suffragette (2015) (iTunes/HD) Ports to MA $3
Super Troopers (2002) (MA/HD) $5.50
SW: A New Hope (1977) (MA/4K) $7 (GP/HD) $3.50
SW: Empire Strikes Back (1980) (MA/4K) $7 (GP/HD) $3.50
SW: Rise of Skywalker (2019) (MA/4K) $6 (iTunes/4K) $4.75 (GP/HD) $2.25
SW: Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) (iTunes/4K) $5 (GP/HD) $3.50
Sword in the Stone (1963) (MA/HD) $5.75 (GP/HD) $3.25
T2 Trainspotting (2017) (MA/HD) $7
Tangled (2010) (MA/HD) $4.75 (GP/HD) $3.50
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $3
Terminator: Genisys (2015) (Vudu/4K) $7 (Vudu/HD) $1.75 (iTunes/4K) $3
Think Like a Man (2012) & Too (2014) (MA/HD) $8.50
Thor (2011) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $7 (GP/HD) $3.50
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) (MA/HD) $3.50
Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast (2014) (MA/HD) $5.50 (GP/HD) $3.75
TMNT Out of the Shadows (2016) (iTunes/4K) $4
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) (MA/4K) $5.75 (iTunes/4K) $4.50
Tomorrowland (2015) (MA/HD) $5.50 (GP/HD) $3.50
Top Five (2014) (iTunes/HD) $3.50
Top Gun (1986) (Vudu/4K) $4.50 (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $3.50
Total Recall (1990) (Vudu/4K) $5 (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $4.75
Total Recall + Extended (2012) (MA/HD) $4.75
Toy Story 1-4 (MA/4K) $23 (iTunes/4K) $21 (GP/HD) $11.50
Trading Places (1983) (Vudu/HD) $4.50
Trainwreck (2015) (iTunes/HD) Ports to MA $1.50
Transformers 1-5 (Vudu/4K) $25 (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $23
Transformers: Last Knight (2017) (Vudu/4K) $4.25 (iTunes/4K) $2 (Vudu/HD) $1.75
Trauma Center (2019) (iTunes/4K) $3.25
Trolls (2016) (MA/HD) $1.25
Trolls Collection 1-2 (MA/HD) $5.75
Tully (2018) (MA/HD) $5
Turbo (2013) (MA/HD) $2.50 (iTunes/SD) $1
Turning, The (2020) (MA/HD) $5.25
Uncle Drew (2018) (Vudu/4K) $6 (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $3
Uncut Gems (2019) (Vudu/HD) $4.25
Under the Skin (2014) (Vudu/HD) $4.75
Underworld: Blood Wars (2016) (MA/HD) $2.25
Unhinged (2020) (Vudu/HD) $4.50
Up in Smoke ‘Cheech and Chong’ (1978) (iTunes/HD) $2.75
Us (2019) (MA/HD) $4.75
Usual Suspects, The (1995) (Vudu/HD) $6
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) (Vudu/HD) $3.75
Venom (2005) (Vudu/HD) (iTunes/HD) $4
Vertigo (1958) (MA/HD) $4.75
Vice (2015) 'Bruce Willis' (Vudu/HD) $2.50
Visit (2015) (MA/HD) $4.50
Vivo (2021) (MA/HD) $4
Vow, The (2012) (MA/HD) $3.25
Walk, The (2015) (MA/HD) $4.25
Walking with Dinosaurs (2013) (MA/HD) (iTunes/HD) $2.50
Warcraft (2016) (MA/4K) $4.50 (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $2.25
Watch, The (2012) (MA/HD) $4
What Men Want (2019) (Vudu/HD) $1.75 (iTunes/4K) $1.25
When the Bough Breaks (2016) (MA/HD) $4.50
White House Down (2013) (MA/HD) $3.25
Why Him? (2016) (iTunes/4K) (MA/HD) $2
Widows (2018) (MA/4K) $6.50 (MA/HD) $2
Wild Card (2015) (Vudu/HD) $3.50
Witch, The (2016) (Vudu/HD) $3.50
Wolverine (Unrated) (2013) (MA/HD) $3.25
Woman in Gold (2015) (Vudu/HD) $2.75
Wonder (2017) (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $2.75
Wonder Park (2019) (Vudu/HD) $3.50 (iTunes/4K) $2.25
Wonder Woman: Bloodlines (2019) (MA/HD) $2.75
Won't Back Down (2012) (MA/HD) $4
Woodlawn (2015) (MA/HD) (iTunes/HD) $3.50
World War Z (2013) (Vudu/HD) $3.25 (iTunes/4K) $4.50
Wraith, The (1986) (Vudu/HD) $5
X (2022) (Vudu/HD) $6.50
X-Men (2000), X2 (2003), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) (MA/HD) $12
X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019) (MA/HD) $6
X-Men: First Class (2010), Days of Future Past (2004), Apocalypse (2014) (MA/HD) $10.50
xXx: The Return of Xander Cage (2017) (iTunes/4K) (Vudu/HD) $1.25
Yesterday (2019) (MA/4K) $7 (MA/HD) $4.75
Zero Dark Thirty (2012) (MA/HD) $2.75
Zookeeper's Wife, The (2017) (iTunes/HD) Ports to MA $3.75
Zootopia (2016) (MA/4K) $7.25 (iTunes/4K) $5 (MA/HD) $4.50 (GP/HD) $3.25
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2024.05.29 02:55 electric-cowgurl Property maintenance inspector left their card in my door. Is this normal?

I rent my parent’s former home from them and found a county business card in my door from the Building Inspectors Office. I didn’t call anyone. My parents have owned this home since 2007 and are not selling it. Is this normal routine stuff? I’ve never had them come by in the 3 years I’ve lived her. Or did someone make like a report or something? The house is structurally fine so I’m just confused about why they came out.
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2024.05.29 00:40 Historical-Western59 Can someone review my Spider-Man story for my media class

Not finished yet but nearly done just need to know if it's decent.
Spider-Man VS The Punisher
A man walking his footsteps sounds like mini explosions as a row of computers with people typing on them. The man stops upon a window looking down to a glass cage with yellow electricity emerging from it.
“He's here, he's taking us all out. We need back up. Noooo.” The man looks at one of the scientists saying “wait for him to get here.” The man cleans up his suit and tightens his tie.
“Ohhh you're getting dressed up just for me. I shoulda brought flowers.” The man looks up where he sees a man in a red and blue webbed suit. “I should have killed you years ago. Well after today you will be.” “We both know that's not going to happen Willy. I'll arrest you and you'll escape, Rinse and repeat, it's always been like that.” The man grinds his teeth and grips his hands. “Unleash him.” the scientist looks at him and then at the computer pressing a button.
“Unleash him Fisk are you cheating on me with another hero.” as he says this a bolt of lightning strikes through the glass levitating in front of him. “You must be Spiderman. I'm electro, the man that's been tasked to kill you.” Spider-Man whispers to himself. “This guy's making my spider sense go crazy. I don't think this will go well.” he coughs then says. “Shouldn't you be at the circus.” Electro looks at Fisk and says “Leave Mister Fisk now.” Fisk and the scientists walk out into an elevator. “Don't disappoint me Max.” The elevator goes up with Spider-Man and Electro looking at each other “So electricity man are we gonna start.” He looks down to his hands where they start to glow brighter with electricity shooting out. BANG electricity shoots out his hand Spider-Man just dodging it. BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG Spider-Man narrowly dodges the bolts. He creates a continuous line of lightning towards Spider-Man. Cracking Peter tries to dodge it but fails on the ground Peter feels his muscles shut down. Electro walks over to him, shocking him again. “Ahhhhhhh.” He stops Spider-Man trying to crawl away BANG “AHHHHHH.” An alarm goes off as sprinklers also go off hitting Electro causing him to grunt.
Spider-Man using this crawls up a wall into a vent leaving the building Spider-Man takes off his mask feeling the rain hit his face. He hears Fisk talking to Electro below. “Is the job done.” “No, he escaped. The sprinklers set off burning my skin.” “You let him escape. I gave you one job and failed me." Electro looks at him sternly saying “Mister Fisk you gave me these powers and you want me to kill Peter I will. You know where he lives, I can go over there and kill him and his family.” “You will do no such thing. He will not try to kill us if we just go after him he won't understand.” Electro nods and walks away with an umbrella.
Spider-Man looks at his web shooters. “Great, they're gonna have to get the train. May's gonna kill me when I get back.”
Brooklyn, New York, 21:32
“PLEASE, PLEASE DON'T DO IT. I HAVE A FAMILY LOOK. PLEASE I'LL DO ANYTHING. WHAT DO YOU WANT MONEY, POWER.” A man shouts breaking down in fear of whoever is trying to kill him. “I want to know why you do it. Why commit crime when there's hundreds of heroes. I think I know why though. They won't kill, they won't just take the godam leap and end you scumbags. So I chose to do it myself.” The man says in a deep voice wrapping a cord around his neck. He picks him up, showing him a fifteen floor drop. “No, no, please don't do this.” He starts to cry as looks at him blankly, throwing off the building with him screaming for about three seconds till the man hears a snap. “Good Riddens.”
Queen's, New York, 9:29 pm
Walking into a house a teenager walks in “Peter where have y- My god what happened to you?” Peter looks at his aunt and says “Some people tried to rob me, it's alright May.” “Did they take anything? Did you call the police.?” “No and no May I'm fine May.” He looks at May. “I'll call the police.” “DON'T. I never saw what they really looked like, you'll just waste their time.” She looks at him saying “From now on you'll be back before it gets dark.” Peter nods “Now Peter time for your cake Happy Eighteenth Peter.” Peter looks at a cake with candles on it. He blows them out “Thanks May I'm just gonna go to my room I've had a ruff day.” May looks at him. “Are you sure you don't want some cake I've made? It's your favourite.” “I'll have some tomorrow really.” Peter walks up to his room turning on the TV playing the daily bugle. “Today Spider-Man failed to capture this so-called Lizard. I think he's just too lazy to put in any work. When the police lose a suspect their back on the streets trying to find him but Spider-Man swip swap swoops his way down and destroys peoples properties.” Peter looks at it in a rage “People would have died if i wasn't there yet I don't get thanked but hated. Why do I do this?” He looks at the picture next to his bed of him and uncle Ben. The time when he didn't worry if Aunt May would see him tomorrow. If she'll be targeted by villains. “Ben would call me stupid for doing something like this. Even more stupid I was responsible for his death. I couldn't just tell him where I was, I just had to storm out. He goes looking for me and ends up getting shot. I'm sorry Ben.”
Manhattan, New York, 06:34
“What will it be?” “Coffee, milk and two sugars.” She turns around and the man looks at his watch as he checks the time. “06:36 still have seven.” “It's ready. Have an amazing day.” he hands her a ten and leaves. He walks to an old burned building. Walking in he goes up five floors and goes towards a sniper pointing out a window. He takes a sip of his coffee checking his watch. “06:42 one minute.” A minute later a limousine drives up to a small building. A man dressed in a white and gold suit walks. “Gotcha.” BANG, a single bullet from the sniper shoots the man in the head obliterating the back of his head. He walks away with screams of people running and people shouting. “It's him, Punisher, he's here.” Pointing their pistols in the air looking where the shot came from.
Queen's, New York, 7:45 am
BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BE-. Bang Peter hits his alarm destroying it. “Uhh, great way to start the day.” Peter goes to the bathroom brushing his teeth. He leaves the bathroom getting changed into his new clothes then goes to check on his web shooters. “Thank god for the science lab.” Checking his costume he sees it burnt and destroyed. He messages MJ to ask her to bring his spare costume she's working on. He gets his bag and web shooters going downstairs. “Hey Aunt May I'm off to school.” “Not so fast, I've got some cake for you to take.” Petter goes up to May and takes it. “Thanks May love ya bye.” Peter walks out to the school bus.
On the bus he sits next to his girlfriend Mary Jane. “My god Pete what happened to you. Also you suits in my bag.” Peter looks at her saying “New villain in town calls himself Electro.” “You've got to stop doing this Peter really you're going to kill yourself. How many villains do you have?” Peter looks down and says “Well Theirs the lizard, Shocker, Electro, Fisk, Otto Octavius and sin eater. Don't forget about the small time.” She looks at him saying “God why do I put up with you.” “Because I'm irresistible.” She smirks.
A couple hours later Peter only had two lessons left. Peter in the back of his English class looked at his web shooters making sure they still aren't broken and that he fixed them during science. Peter looks at his phone where he sees a notification from the daily bugle saying that sandman is robbing a bank. “Can I go to the bathroom?” Peter shouts. “Sure Mister Parker uh just take the pass.” Peter takes it and leaves. He goes to the janitor's closet putting on his Spidey suit and web shooters jumping out of the window. He looks at his phone while swinging. “Sometimes I wish I had a GPS in my suit instead of needing to use Oscorpe maps.” He swings wondering why sandman is robbing a bank. “He's stupid but not this stupid to rob a bank, especially during the day.” He swings across Queensboro into Manhattan.
When he arrives the swat team surrounds the area with Captain Stacey on standby. Spider-Man drops down in front of him. “Hey.” Looking up Captain Stacey talks to Spider-Man. “Spider-Man good thing you're here we need your help. Sandman has taken over the bank and he has three hostages.” Spider-Man looks at him saying. “Guess you can say things are getting out of sand.” “Sure just when you go in don't destroy much will you.” “I won't captain you know me, just get your officer's to sand back.” Spider-Man does finger guns at Captain Stacey swinging in. “Everyone shut up. I'm gonna pay it off with this score.” Spider-Man slowly swings down “It's ironic that you're named Flint. You know because flint and steel create fire and fire turns you into glass.” “WHAT.” Spider-Man sighs as he launches a kick towards him. He kicks him with Spider-Man going straight through him as this happens he webs his feet and pulls causing him to fall. He goes to punch sandman but punches him through the glass into a police car. CRASH, the police start firing at him but they do nothing. “SPIDER-MAN GET UP.” Captain Stacey shouts at spider-man. Spider-man jumps in slingshotting himself into sandman. He goes straight through him knocking sandman back as well. “Stop this Flint, think of all the good you've done.” He jumps onto the wall looking at a fire hydrant. “Like you've no that won't cut it. Ok you haven't done anything good but that doesn't mean I have to kick your ass again.” Sandman gets up. “You think you can kick my ass again. Not happening.” Spider-Man sighs. “Ok.” Spider-Man jumps down and grabs the fire hydrant and pulls. CRACK, the fire hydrant breaks splashing water all over sandman. “I told you Flint, I always win.” Flint starts to turn into a pile of wet sand. Spider-Man webs the hydrant to stop the water then walks over to Flint. Barely able to keep your normal form. “Screw you.” Spider-Man looks over at the captain. “He's all your captain enjoy.” Spider-Man jumps onto the side of a swat van. “Where do you go when you finish?” “School, besides I'm only missing one class.” Peter says this jumping and swinging away. “About ten minutes getting there. HEY I'M SWINGING HERE. Five minutes there and ten back is enough to miss english.”
Last lesson goes pretty boring for Peter. He's thinking about the lizard and how he escaped yesterday.
Bronx, New York, 15:45
“Nah he'll be here soon. The boss says after today's shipment the police are going to leave the Bronx alone.” An unknown man, clearly a gangster in a suit, is talking to another man in a suit. “Yeah, isn't he worried, though I mean what happened yesterday? You know Freddy.” One of them says “Nah, his new guy almost killed Spider-Man yesterday. He was talking about how he was crawling to escape only got away because of the sprinklers.”
BANG, BANG, The Punisher walks into a restaurant with seven men in suits in it. “HEY WHO LET THIS GUY IN.” The Punisher grabs his M4 and start to spray into a crowd killing three of them. Two of them pull out micro uzi's shooting at him. The Punisher grabs a grenade and throws it at the bar. BANG, The grenade goes and kills the two of them. The other two put their hands up and surrendered. Frank drops his AR. BANG, BANG, He shoots them with his pistol. He walks upstairs where five line a wall of AK's. The Punisher pulls out a stun grenade throwing it at them. BANG, they all drop their guns blind and staggering The Punisher walks in picking up one of their guns firing on them all. He walks to a door with the dead piled up next to it. He kicks it open to see a man in a suit. “I wondered how long it would take for you to find me, Frank. Now I have some you want and in return you'll let me go, unde-.” BANG, “No deal.” Frank starts to pack a duffel bag with money. Once he's done he lights the office on fire and leaves.
He walks to a van getting into the driver's seat. He drives for about thirty minutes to a small house. Walking in he puts the money in the pantree where about fifteen of the same bags are. He puts on the TV playing the news and works on making bullets. “Spider-Man today was responsible for the destruction of one bank. One I go to, when i wanted to go there today I realised I COULDN'T BECAUSE SPIDER-MAN HELPED SANDMAN DESTROY IT AND WHEN THE COPS SHOWED UP HE THREW HIM UNDER AND PRETENDED TO BE THE HERO. Now why do I have to pay for it? Why doesn't he? We know who Captain America is and he destroys a bank because he's civilised and not a maniac.” Frank looks at the TV turning it off and continues working.
Manhattan, New York, 4:21
“PARKER, PARKER, these photos are blurry I'll give you fifty.” Peter looks at him “Mister Jamerson I need a hundred and twenty.” “I need better pictures.” A man walks in “We need pictures Jonah.” He looks at Peter. “Ok one twenty.” He sighs a check giving it to Peter.
Peter leaves and goes to the woman working at the desk in front. “Hey Betty.” Peter gives Betty the check to Betty who gives him the money. “Thanks.” Peter leaves the daily bugle checking phone. He sees that he's missed a call from Captain Stacey. He calls him. “ you at the station up town.” “Ok but which one?” He runs into the alley next to the bugle changing into his costume swinging away. “So which one.” “You won't miss it kid really.” The call ends. “Ok, quite weird but he didn't even say why he needed me.” It takes him about thirty seconds to realise what he's about. In the distance he sees a giant ball of electricity. “Oh no.”
“Where is it?” CRACK, BANG, Electro kills three police officers. Captain Stacey tells all the police officer's to get into the building. “YOU CAN'T HIDE.” Spider-Man swings down checking the pulse of one of the dead police officers. “no. SURRENDER NOW.” Electro flies in front of him. “Or what. At least I'll get to kill you now. Peter.” Peter feels nervous looking around and Captain Stacey shouts for him to get in. “STAY INSIDE CAPTAIN.” The captain goes to one of his men. “Is it ready?” “yeah” Electro shoots electricity at spider-man. BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG. Spider-Man webs a man hole throwing it at him. Electro catches it, Spider-Man using this moment slingshots himself punching Electro multiple times. “I'M DONE PLAYING. YOU KILLED COPS I'M NOT GOING EASY.” Electro smirks at Peter creating an emp knocking Peter down. Electro drops to the ground, shocking him. “AHHHHHHH. BANG, AHHHHHHHH. BANG, AHHHHHHHH.” Electro walks up to Spider-Man who is crawling away. “Poor little Peter Parker. Once I'm done with you I'll deal with the ones you love. Rest in piece Peter Parker.” Electro charges his hands then. BANG.
Manhattan, New York, 16:23
Punisher loads his sniper talking to himself. “Really, they would kill me immediately. At least I'll kill this freak.” He toggles with the scope. “SURRENDER NOW.” “He won't do that kid” he waits for a clear shot. “YOU KILLED COPS I'M NOT GOING EASY.” he waits for his moment. Bang “AHHHHHHH.” Electros hands start to charge he lifts them. “bang.” BANG. A single bullet goes through the chest of Electro. Frank picks up his sniper and walks downstairs.
Walking down he sees Electro holding his chest on the ground and Spider-Man next to him barely alive. The Punisher walks up to Electro with a knife. “No please d-dont do this.” He gets close to Electro as tries to crawl away. The Punisher grabs him and turns him around. Fear in Electros eye's “Once I'm done with you I'll deal with your loved one's.” “No please.” The Punisher stabs him in the throat, killing him. “You know kid stay away from fisk for the next couple of days you understand. Deal with that giant lizard terrorising the city. Got me Parker.” Peter just looks as he starts to lose consciousness. “Good.” Gorge Stacey and his men leave the building telling The Punisher to surrender. He walks away as no one dares goes to arrest him. Gorge gets his men to help Peter.
Manhattan, New York, 7:32 pm
“You've got to take it easy kid. The doctors said you could have died.” Peter listens to Captain Stacey saying. “I know but with this guy out there, bloods gonna spill in the streets.” The Captain sighs. “So what are you going to do.” Peter coughs “I'm going to try and find the lizard first.” “Stay safe kid.” Peter jumps of the empire state building swinging through the city calling MJ to tell May he's staying at hers tonight.
Thirty minutes Later Peter hears on the police radio that a giant lizard is destroying Oscorpe. Swinging over he feels the stitches in him starting to rip.
When he arrives he sees a fire and a chunk of the side of the building gone. He swings in where fire and dead security guards are. “W-who is he?.” He hears a continuous clicking sound. “There aren't any alien space hunters down there, ha ha.” He laughs nervously. Suddenly a human sized lizard runs towards him trying to eat him. He dodges jumping on a wall “Hey I'm from the zoo, they said a lizard needed to be put down. That doesn't make sense. I don't kill. Hey no bitey.” He sees on the lab coat he's wearing it says Dr Connors. Still dodging “Connor's wait Curt Connors how did you. AHHH.” The Lizard scratches Spider-Man across the chest leaving a claw mark. Spider-Man looks up and sees him jumping to bite him. Spider-Man cartwheels backwards into a jump webbing his head and face planting him. “If you chill out I'll give you a box of insects to eat.” The Lizard gets up. “AHHHHHHHH.” Spider-Man looks at him. “Uh I don't know what to say to that. Raw maybe." As Spider-Man gets ready to attack, the Lizard's left arm starts to turn grey. It looks at it and runs away. Spider-Man swings after him through the streets of Manhattan “YOU MIGHT UGLY BUT I'M FINE WITH IT YOU DON'T HAVE TO RUN.” As he swings the lizard throws a hotdog stand at him. He webs it to a wall and keeps swinging. “SERIOUSLY A HOTDOG STAND IF YOU DON'T STOP I'LL TURN YOU INTO A LIZARD DOG. WELL I THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY.” The lizard goes into an alley into a sewer. Spider-Man follows him slingshotting himself in shouting. “YEAAAAH.”
Inside of the sewers Peter looks around and sees only one way forwards. He crawls ol the walls seeIng the destruction Connor's did. “UH MISTER CONNOR'S, CURT, LIZARD, ANYONE. AM I JUST TALKING TO MYSELF, YES, why did I shout that.” He keeps crawling till he hears shouting. “PLEASE I DIDN'T HAVE CONTROL PLEASE DON'T DO THIS.”
Manhattan, Sewers, New York, 19:28
“Where is this freak? This vermin to society.” The Punisher walks through the sewers trying to find the rat killing innocent people. “HISSSS.” He hears a hiss and feels something watching him. “SHOW YOURSELF YOU FREAK OF NATURE.” A black figure crawls out from the shadow. “Tries to hurt me, hurt Edward. AHHHH.” He hisses and screams at him. He goes to attack him but The Punisher unloads bullets from his M4. Vermin shouts in pain “AHHHHHHHH.” Frank slowly followed him. “YOU CAN'T RUN VERMIN. I'LL KILL YOU MATTER WHAT. I'LL DO WHATEVER, YOU'RE COWARD THAT PREY ON THE WEAK.” “Vermin doesn't prey on the weak. I DON'T HAVE CONTROL, AHHHH. Vermin needs to eat, Edward needs to live.” he scurries away. After a minute of walking he arrived in a circular area where Vermin threw him in. “AHHHHH. Vermin will kill you now.” Frank picks his M4 up again, shooting him. He screams crawling up the wall. The Punisher pulls the trigger when vermin is above it and doesn't do anything. He checks the mag to see it's empty. Vermin drops down Scratching Frank across the face. He pulls out his pistol shooting him in the eye. “AHHHHHH, AHHHHH.” Frank goes up and shoots him on the head, killing him.
He hears a scream further down. Going down the tunnel he sees lab equipment and a lizard transforming into a person. “The Lizard, perfect timing.” Limping, he goes over to The Lizard waiting for him to transform. “AHHHHH, AHHHHHHHHH, HELP PLEASE, AHHHHHHH.” Frank just stands there till he transforms. He pulls his pistol out and points it at Connor's. “You're the lizard. What's your name? WHAT YOUR NAME?” “Connor's. Dr Curtis Connors.” Frank starts to pull the triggers. “PLEASE I DIDN'T HAVE CONTROL PLEASE DON'T DO THIS.”
Peter drops down in front of him webbing his pistol. “We don't kill people, understand.” The Punisher grits his teeth “Back off kid really.” “So you can kill him. Like you did Electro. You told me you were going against Fisk, why are you going for The Lizard.” The Punisher smirks at Peter, making nervous. “I wasn't here for him. It's just a coincidence.” Peter stands there wondering what's next. The Punisher runs towards him Peter jumps over him kicking him in the back. The Punisher hits his head knocking him to the ground Peter uses this to web him up.
“Ok we need to get outta here understand.” Connor's nods and starts to pack his stuff. “I won't kill you kid.” Peter looks at him. “Good because neither will I.” “I'm ready Spider-Man.” Curt says to Peter “Alright let's get outta here.” Peter swings Curt Connors out of the sewers
Manhattan, New York, 8:53 pm
“Ok you need a cure. Uhh, I've got it. I'll take you to the Baxter building. Reed can help you.” Connors thinks. “What if he finds me?” Peter sighs. “It's probably got more security than the raft and it's got four of the best heroes in the world in there.” Connors agrees and Peter swings him there.
When he gets there they walk in. Peter shouts. “REED YOU HERE. REED RICHARDS.” “Peter.” They turn around to see Sue. “Hey Miss Richard's I need your help.” She looks at Peter then at Connor's “What's wrong Peter are you in trouble.” Peter looks at her then Connors. “Not me. Have you ever heard of The Punisher?” She looks confused. “Uhh no why.” “He's trying to kill him. He needs a secure place to stay. And he needs a cure to stop him from turning into a lizard.” She looks. “What about you? Will he kill you?” He sighs “No he won't. He just wants to kill villains.” She looks at Connors saying “Reed is out but he'll be back soon he can make you a cure. Be safe Peter this stuff doesn't end well.” Connor's looks at Peter “Thanks Parker I would never expect you to be a superhero. Miss Richards, can you get my family?”
Peter leaves, going to the top of the Baxter building for some peace. “I'm too tired. I just want to go home but I need to find Fisk.” He checks the wound Connor's left. “I'm losing too much blood. My costume is destroyed and I helped the guy escape death. How am I going to explain this to May my wounds? I can't believe it. First day as an adult and I might not live to see the second. Uncle Ben must think I'm stupid.” He shakes his head. “I've got to go to Fisk tower and warn him.” Peter swings to Fisk tower.
Manhattan, New York, 9:01pm
Spider-Man arrives feeling light headed. He swings up to the office where Fisk and his men are sitting. He opens the door, his men immediately pointing their guns at him. “DROP YOU WEAPONS.” Fisk tells his men. Reluctantly they do Peter Limping towards him. “I need to warn you. A guy, a guy is uh is uh going to kill you.” His voice started to slur and he was barely able to keep his eyes open.” Fisk walks towards him. “You two get the medics now.” Peter falls unconscious.
Waking up Peter wonder's where he is looking around and he sees medical equipment. He gets up and walks through a pair of doors into a room full of men and Fisk working at a desk. “You're awake. You've been out for nine hours.” Peter realises that his face is exposed and Fisk notices this. “We all know who you are, Parker.” Peter walks up to him. “Why did you save me? You're goon tried to kill me yesterday.” Fisk calmly got up saying. “Yesterday you came to warn me. I knew why because of the Punisher. When you came here you were close to death. I saved you because. I need you to defeat the Punisher. I've asked every mercenary in this city and it's the same answer. No before Punisher was a myth but now after the men he's killed. The only one who can defeat him is you.” Peter looks at him. “Who's to say I'll stop him.” “Because yesterday you came here to warn me. The only one who wants me dead that can do anything is him.” Peter looks at him. “Where's my stuff.” Fisk clicks his Fingers and one of his men comes over to Peter giving him his phone, suit and web shooters. Putting them on Peter goes to the window telling Fisk. “Thanks Fisk. You really should leave the city.” Peter swings away.
Queen's New York, 6:09 pm
Peter swings through Queens arriving at his girlfriend's house. He goes to her window knocking on it. She wakes up opening it. When Peter enters he takes off his mask. “I can't do it anymore Peter last night you never showed up. I thought you were dead. This Electro almost killed you and the lizard. Peter I ju- AHH.” She screams seeing Peter's face covered in stitches. “I'm not that ugly.” Peter jokes but MJ says. “What happened yesterday.” Peter sits down “It's a long story.”
Manhattan, New York, Sewers, Time Unknown
“DOWN HERE, THERE'S A LAB.” Two police officers walk down the sewers seeing a lab. They both walk into Connor's lab looking around. “What the hey Chris, what is this place? Chris.” Click the police officer feels a gun to the back of his head. “I'm going to take your gun and handcuffs. And Chris is alright just incapacitated.” Frank takes the cop's gun and handcuffs him to a metal pole.
Leaving the sewers Frank feels the cold air on his face. Checking his watch he realises it is broken. He goes to his van and drives off to his house.
When he gets inside he goes to the kitchen checking the clock. “Wasn't down there for long.” He puts on the TV while he makes shotgun shells. “Breaking news this morning we have word that Spider-Man and the Lizard destroyed Oscorpe hours ago, fleeing in the sewers. They also found the cannibal serial killer known as Vermin dead. They say it's a man dressed in black wearing a white skull on his chest. Now I don't condone murder but I want to personally thank this heroe for dealing with someone Spider-Man probably thinks isn't worth his time.” Punisher looks at the TV and at his shotgun loading. “That's all for now J, Jonah, Jamerson signing off.”
Frank goes into his pantree grabbing a bag of cash. He looks in it seeing about hundred and fifty grand. He takes it to his van with him driving off.
Manhattan, New York, 04:41
Frank walks into a small café and enters. “Mister Castle, quite a busy night was it.” Frank walks up giving him the bag of money. “Do you have the thing?” the man clears his throat. “Yes, your coffee is ready. Hot, two sugars and no milk. That'll be one dollar fifty cents.” Frank looks at the bag and at the device he's buying. He picks it up and leaves. “Keep the change.”
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2024.05.29 00:22 Professional_Prune11 Human Trauma II----Section Thirty Four: Bygone Mento(Book Two End)

Hello Hello my buds, bobs and babes. We are back at it again with the end of Human Trauma book two. In this one Martinez gets grilled by Ivorn of all people. and when the calm caring man decides you messed up enough that he is yelling at you. lord you must have messed up.
Let's get this bread.
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Snow drifted lazily around Martinez, the first snowfall this year in Draun. Celna had been under snowpack for weeks, but in this massive city, this was untimely late. Each fresh flake glowed like embers in the evening light, burning just like the Human's ragged breath.
“Get the fuck out of my way,” Martinez barked at a group of aliens, ordering them to make a hole or get barreled through.
This group took the warning of the two-meter-tall man to hearty and skittered away like rats, allowing him to pass.
Those were the smart ones; not all had that many survival instincts. Martinez had crashed through a group of Ruqaura, their flabby builds jiggling as they fell to the duracreet and cursed his existence.
Fuck them; they did not matter, nor did the abject panic Martinez was stirring up in his wake. The Human certainly was causing a scene in the otherwise serene city. Whether the aliens thought he was being chased, was a crazy nutter on the loose, or that he was a deranged rapist, he did not care.
They could think he was a serial killer or a terrorist for all he cared. All Martinez cared about was reaching Shiksie and ensuring she had not done the unthinkable.
By the time Martinez had reached Shiksies posh neighborhood, sweat was flooding off his brow; on her front lawn, he nearly collapsed from vomiting, having just run the fastest he had done in years. Fuck even Raliegh could not hold a candle to the show of speed and athletics Martinez had demonstrated, and that man ran ultra marathons.
Through blurry vision, Martinez looked up at Shiksie’s house. It was as spartan as the last time he was here. The house showed off the owner's simple, straightforward personality, a bold defiance of the bright pastels and gaudily decorated homes of her neighbors.
At least the house had not changed.
Pounding on the door with hammer-like fists, Martinez roared into the gloom. “Shiksie, are you there?”
The milliseconds dragged out into hours; each breath dagged into eternity. With each passing eon, Martinez repeated the process with more desperation, beating the door as if it owed him money.
Each repetition drew on more of the same. A silence so deafening it crushed Martinez’s soul like an ant.
“Please, if you are in there, answer the door,” Martinez barked, punching the door hard enough that his knuckles bled. “I need to know you are alive.”
With no answer coming from inside, Martinez changed tactics. Between savage attacks on the door, he sent texts to everyone both he and Shiksie knew, trying to get any sitrep on her.
No one had any answers for him. They did not know if Shiksie was alright, nor had they seen her in well over a week. That only compounded his worry. Did they not care about her?
` Therein—Nothing, he did not even want to talk to anyone.
Sursee—Nothing other than word that she did not know.
Harsnis, of all people, also had no answers, and that man kept tight tabs on his workers.
What in God's name was going on?
The only one who gave Martinez more than sorrowful nothingness was Ivorn.
Ivorn: Come over to my place; we need to talk.
Considering that beating Shiksies' door was getting him nowhere, and Martinez was not about to break in, he hurried out of Shiksies' neighborhood, destined for Ivorn and Sursees' place in old town.
Martinez glanced over his shoulder, hoping to see Shiksie at her door, but no. All he saw were the neighbors peering from behind curtains at him. He ignored them.
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“Henry, it’s great to see you,” Sursee purred after opening the door to her and Ivorns' place.
Sursee was a Prinoral, a small feline-like species that was sociable beyond belief. Like many of her species, Sursee stood only as tall as Martinez’s chest and had traits that made her as cute as a button.
Sursee wore a long, draping dress held loosely around her dainty form. Its bright white color made her golden fur and amber hair stand out boldly. Her radar dish-like cat ears and long flicking tail made her the picturesque housecat-like woman.
“Please, come on in,” Sursee said, stepping abreast of the door and bidding his entry.
“Thanks, Sursee,” Martinez replied, entering and taking stock of their home, having never been here before.
Their apartment was quaint and comforting. Most surfaces and furnishings were colors like autumn, oranges, yellows, and browns, giving the space an overwhelmingly comfortable vibe. That matched with what smelled like freshly baked pumpkin pie, making the entire local breathtaking.
A menagerie of plushies was staged on shelves across the astel, adding splashes of vibrant summer to the otherwise warm home.
Martinez had no doubt the plushies were Sursee’s. She was a little ball of sunshine, and they fit her personality and aesthetic to a T.
“So, Henry, can I get a hug?” Sursee asked, her tail swaying happily behind her while she smiled as bright as sunlight.
“Not now. Where is Ivorn,” Martinez replied instantly.
Sursee pouted, her ears folding flat and tail tucking away. Any semblance of joy that overflowed from her died instantly.
Martinez appreciated that Sursee was listening to Ivorn's advice and not latching onto him like a heat leech, asking first. But he had not registered the sorrow in her—-this was the only time she had been told no to a hung from him. She expected it at this point, even if she was being polite.
“Ive is in his office,” Sursee said, pointing down the hallway.
Before Sursee registered that Martinez had moved, she turned around and picked up a plate of steaming cookies off the coffee table, hoping to help Maetinez feel better. While she did not know the man intimately, she was flawless at gauging emotions, and Martinez oozed sorrow.
“Would you want some—” Sursee trailed off, realizing the Human had already left her alone in the living room.
If pouting harder could be done, she did so. His leaving her like that felt like ice to the soul. She baked the cookies for him once Ivorn had told her Martinez was coming over. But the Human did not care about that or Sursee’s feelings.
Opening the indicated door, Martinez found Ivorn lounging behind a desk, reading a book with a massive smile across his face.
“What do we need to talk about?” Martinez asked.
Ivorn jumped at the intrusion and squirreled the book away. Not having expected Martinez for several hours. “Do you not know how to knock?”
“Where is she?” Martinez asked, ignoring everything but Shiksie.
Ivorn sighed, leaning back in his chair. “Not even a hello, huh? I get it.” Ivorn said. “Sit,” he finished by gesturing at a seat across from him.
Martinez was about to argue and tell Ivorn to get to the point, but the alien man could read him like a book and beat him to the punch.
“I get you are likely upset, but can I please explain,” Ivorn insisted.
“Fine,” Martinez grumbled and sat down, knowing this was the only way he would get any answers.
Over the next few minutes, Ivorn calmly explained what had happened with Shiksie after he head left. According to Ivorn, once Martinez had left Shiksie in her house, she drank; drank to the point it was nearly lethal.
By the time Ivorn had arrived, she was three beers deep and was about to have liver failure. If not for Martinez telling Ivorn she would have died. Following that, Shiksie spent several days in the ICU, needing it to not die.
After Shiksie was out of the ICU, she vanished, never showing up to work again. The director also told Ivorn not to mention anything that happened between Martinez and Shiksie to anyone, along with instructions to funnel the human to the Director once he returned.
“So you don’t know where she is?” Martinez said.
“No, I don’t,” Ivorn admitted.
“Then why the fuck am I here? I need to find her,” Martinez replied, standing up and heading toward the door.
“No, you are not,” Ivorn barked, stopping Martinez. “The director made it clear. The only reason you were not fired, and she was not in jail, was because Shiksie left.”
Martinez turned around and glared at Ivorn, knowing damn well what the director had pulled his friend into—a cover-up. Things like that were all to common in the Military and large corporations. It was easier to hush things up than face the reality of what happened. ;
“So for your own sake. Forget about her,” Ivorn sighed.
“Forget her! What the fuck are you on about. She is my friend; I have to help her,” Martinez argued, stepping forward and leaning on the desk with both hands. “She needs help.”
“Oh, does she? I dont think she does. You just want to feel better after having made her nearly kill herself.” Ivorne challenged with a growl—the last two weeks of having to hold his emotions overflowing.
Ivorn might like Martinez as a friend, but Shiksie deserved more than this. She was kind, a bit aloof, but for Kilera’s sake, why did she have to fall in love with a detestable asshole who thought he could solve everything alone.
Martinez paused and was taken aback by the challenge. Of course, he wanted to help her. Shiksie was his friend, mentor, and a woman he lov—er liked dearly. This was not about him but her.
“Are you high? I want to make sure she is OK,” Martinez replied, pointing at Ivorn.
“Oh, shut the fuck up and stop grandstanding,” Ivorn replied, standing to his full height. Usually, Ivorn, due to his gorilla-like build and posture, only stood as tall as Martinez. But at his full grandeur—he nearly touched the ceiling. “If you gave a fuck about her, you would have asked for help with her. You would not have gone into her house, knowing damn well she loved you.”
Ivorn stepped around the desk and jammed a finger into Martinez’s chest. “Now you have the fucking gall to think she needs you? How about you face reality and understand you fucked up and can't fix it.”
“Woah Ivor—” Martinez started backing up, but his friend persisted.
“How about you get that you are not some infallible bastion? What you have done has caused so many issues. My friend and mentor is gone; now we all have to suffer because you just had to not say no!” Ivorn growled, nearly pressing Martinez to the wall.
“We all like you. Sursee, Shiksie, Therein, Harnsis, fuck even me. But dude, you fucked up and have just to let bad enough die,” Ivorn said, backing up and giving Martinez some room. “Just go talk to the director in the morning. He will tell you the same.”
Martinez was going to argue to assure Ivorn he could fix this. But Sursee stepping into the room deflated any tension between the two.
“Can you two not yell at each other?” Sursee asked.
Ivorn turned to Sursee, returning to his usual leisurely posture. “Don’t worry about it, Sursee. Henry was just leaving. Right?” Ivorn said, looking at Martinez, his last shred of patience visible.
“Yeah. I am,” Martinez said, slipping past Sursee, who, for her lovable part, tried to reach out and grab him, but Ivorn stopped her and shook his head.
Martinez stormed out of the house and went toward his own, refusing to believe that he could do nothing to fix this. There was always something he could do. He just did not know the answer yet.
Without a doubt, even if he had to sell his soul to the devil, Martinez knew he would find Shiksie and make this all ok.
It just would cost him, blood, sweat, tears, and all he had to give.

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So what did you all think of book two? Shiksie is MIA, Lysa is going through mood swings, and Martinez needs to get he cant fix it all on his own. We covered a lot in this book and we will cover even more in the third book where Chloe, Martinez, Lysa, and the rest of our cast will have to deal with a kidnapping ring, doctors, and their own physiology.
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2024.05.28 22:46 gorgonzolamcdonalds Registered Traveller - Do not bother if you're a Hongkonger

I have paid for the Registered Traveller service and been approved a few months ago. I have tried on 3 seprate occasions after the initial verification to use the e-gates and it has not worked on any occasion.
The first time was at Stansted where I was redirected to the UK manual check line. The officer said I could not use e-gates because "my passport doesn't have the chip" (even though the HK passport does in fact have a e-reader chip). She told me to use the UK line next time.
The second time at Heathrow I went straight to the UK line and was informed by the officer to use the e-gates. When I told him it doesn't work for me, he said that it shouldn't be the case and I should use the service I paid for. I agreed with him.
The third time was at Paris going through the Eurostar e-gates. I decided to give it another shot and yet again it did not work. This time, I think I finally got the real answer from the officer. He informed me that the Hong Kong passport is the incompatibility exception of the Registered Traveller scheme, because the passport is issued by China and has the "CHN" code in the bottom serial code area. He said that the "CHN" code never passes on the e-gates no matter what. So there's that :/ why isn't this info included when applying for the service? The eligiblity page is quite misleading.
Conclusion: if you have a Hong Kong passport, you shouldn't bother with the service.
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2024.05.28 21:49 spacedebriss THE DEADPOOL THEORY

THE DEADPOOL THEORY
THE DEADPOOL THEORY
I stayed up way too late last night and got up way too early this morning trying to put this together. I should probably edit it more, but oh well. This is what I have. I need to go do some other stuff now.
NONE OF THIS IS FINANCIAL ADVICE.
Probably should have waited to post until I toiled some more. I want to add to the deadpool theory. Not take away from it, just add to it. I think the Deadpool and Retail Pool go more hand in hand. I think the Deadpool is the original pool that feeds the retail pool.
The key for me has always been how the naked shares are created. Over a year ago I honestly reached a point where the DD was a jumbled mess in my mind. I wanted to start from zero and see what I could find, but not really zero because I had read a lot of DD, thanks to others I knew what to start searching for, so I set out.
https://preview.redd.it/1qkm2bck183d1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=700c6d2615eeb8805943faec5977200eb3414279
CITATIONS
If you think I’m pulling all of this out of my ass similar to how naked shares are pulled out of asses then please go read my old DD with charts and figures, goes more in depth, and has some strong citations in my opinion. OR better yet go absorb some of those citations, especially these first four:
1. THREE ESSAYS ON NAKED SHORT SELLING AND FAILS-TO-DELIVER by John W. Welborn
2. MARRIED PUTS, REVERSE CONVERSIONS AND ABUSE OF THE OPTIONS MARKET MAKER EXCEPTION ON THE CHICAGO STOCK EXCHANGE by John W Welborn
3. ETF Short Interest and Failures-to-Deliver: Naked Short Selling or Operational Shorting?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncq35zrFCAg&t=1655s
4. Exchange-Traded Funds, Fails-to-Deliver, and Market Volatility by Thomas Stratmann and John W. Welborn
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2183251
If you’re going to only read one of these then I’d make it this one.
Everybody here should read a little Welborn in my opinion. Dude is the GOAT!
SOME RELEVANT SEC FILINGS:
  1. https://www.sec.gov/investopubs/regsho.htm
  2. https://www.sec.gov/rules/2003/11/commission-guidance-rule-3b-3-and-married-put-transactions
These two are pretty good, especially for understanding the old options loophole.
PDF FILES:
DISCLAIMER: these links will try to download a PDF from the SEC’s website
3. https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/34-50103.pdf
4. https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2012/34-67451.pdf
5. https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2007/34-56212fr.pdf
6. https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2008/34-58775fr.pdf
7. https://www.sec.gov/rules/othe2008/34-58190.pdf
8. https://www.sec.gov/rules/othe2008/34-58592.pdf
9. https://www.sec.gov/rules/othe2008/34-58572.pdf
10. https://www.sec.gov/rules/othe2008/34-58723.pdf
11. https://www.sec.gov/rules/othe2008/34-58711.pdf
12. https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2008/34-58773.pdf
13. https://www.sec.gov/about/offices/ocie/options-trading-risk-alert.pdf
14. https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2008/34-58775.pdf
15. https://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/2006/34-54154.pdf
16. https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/nscc/2020/34-89088.pdf
MORE SEC
17. https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2008/2008-143.htm
18. https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2008/2008-155.htm
19. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1159510/000137036821000064/a210729-ex992.htm
PLAYING BY THE RULES?
I wanted to research that old DD by looking at the rules of naked shorting. When I would look into old DD and theories, I kept ending up at the answer of fraud. They didn’t stand up to the rules, unless lots o’ fraud was involved. Until I got to ETFs….
Now again, if you want more info go read the first four citations up at the top. The first 2 citations are PhD papers covering possible naked shorting and the Options loophole. This is the old way, this Options loophole was closed by the SEC back in 2008. For the new ETF way of naked shorting you can explore citations 3 and 4. These two citations cover how ETFs could be used to still naked short today. This is why I always felt the reactions to my old DD were so strange. I’m basically saying there could be a monstrous naked shorting position out in the market and it could be operating under the rules. No fraud is needed! Why didn’t superstonk respond with more positivity to my old DD a year ago?! I still think that DD did a pretty good job of laying out how naked shorters could be operating under the rules.
The rules make it clear to me that:
BULLET SWAPS – Can’t be used to make naked shares of a stock. If a naked shorter points to bullet swaps as where they got the shares from then the SEC should laugh in their face. You would need a lot of SEC fraud. Bullet swaps would have other good uses, but not for the actual creation of naked shares.
REHYPOTHECATION – The idea here is that the naked shorter borrows shares infinitely. The naked shorter points to the borrow and sure the SEC could let that pass, but it should still count as a borrow. Otherwise, you need more SEC fraud to explain this one. The Market should see the naked short position because it should be tagged as borrowed, and the naked shorter would also need to pay for that borrow. These are both things the naked shorter is trying to avoid – that’s why they create naked shares rather than borrow shares. Alternatively, the naked shorter could have a deal with a broker. The naked shorter does infinite borrows off of the brokers stock, but again you would need fraud from the broker and the broker would likely demand payment on the “borrows”. For rehypothecation to work you need a lot of fraud and naked shorters would likely need to pay borrow fees. Properly creating naked shares within the rules means no borrowing would be done (could be expensive) and means no fraud has to be done.
OPTIONS – This is where it gets confusing. Options used to be used to naked short, I wrote a big DD on this about a year ago. It has a lot of pictures and deep dives into a lot of stuff including options. If you want to learn more about the options loophole, don’t read my old DD, scroll back up to the top and read some of Welborn’s Options work (citations 1 and 2).
You would need two participants to naked short back in the day and I believe that’s how it’s still done today. One would be a Market Maker and one would typically be a Hedge Fund. The Market Maker had special privileges around options, MMs and only MMs could point to un-exercised options as a locate for shares. They create shares out of thin air and send them to a hedge fund. The hedge fund sells the MM back futures contracts and/or calls. The Market Maker uses the calls as a locates and the Market is none the wiser. Or is just apathetic. But they were technically following the rules as written. These packages of naked shares would have been built with options, futures, and naked shares all packaged together. This Options Market Maker loophole went away in 2008.
Options should not be an effective loophole for creating massive amounts of naked shares anymore. Again, you would need lots of SEC fraud.
ETFs – I’m not just throwing ETFs out there. There is a fucking fantastic Welborn paper (citation 4) and also a youtube video from a business professor (citation 3) on ETFs and how ETFs could possibly be used to naked short. To use ETFs you would still need a Market Maker and a Hedge Fund (the HF could be another MM or big institution). The Market Maker has special privileges. 1. They can pull shares out of ETFs. 2. They can also set future redemption/creation dates with that same Hedge Fund and not tell anybody. It seems the Options loophole to naked short was replaced with an ETF redemption/creation loophole to naked short.
Here’s a footnote in an SEC filing – I think this could be a smoking gun:
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Page 10 from: https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/nscc/2020/34-89088.pdf
The new ETF loophole:
  1. The Market Maker and the Hedge Fund enter into an agreement that the Market Maker will create ETFs for the Hedge Fund far in the future.
  2. The Market Maker sends naked ETFs to the Hedge Fund.
  3. The Hedge Fund sends the naked ETFs back to the Market Maker and redeems them (requests) that the ETFs be opened up for the (naked) shares inside.
If the SEC comes sniffing around they’re just going to see a bunch of shares sitting in the Hedge Funds account. They were pulled out of an ETF for him by the Market Maker. The SEC goes to the Market Maker and the Market Maker says, “yep, pulled ‘‘em out of ETFs for the Hedge Fund.” SEC says, “cool”.
If the SEC goes back to the Hedge Fund and asks where they got the ETFs from he points to the Market Maker. SEC, “sounds good, can I leave you my resume?”
If the SEC goes to the Market Maker and asks where he got the ETFs, the Market Maker would probably say, “Ha! Fuck if I know! I could buy and sell a million of that fucking ETF in a day. You want to look through our ledgers?” SEC, “Oh. I should probably take ‘em, but I’ll just look at porn instead. You guys hiring?”
  1. 4. The Hedge Fund now has naked shares from the Market Maker that look like real shares to the SEC. The Hedge Fund can sell them into the market to naked short and it just looks like selling shares. The Deadpool has been created.
The Deadpool. Naked shorters creating a pool of naked shares between themselves. Now they’d likely want to set expirations for this position far in the future. The Deadpool was just to create the original naked shares. You want to naked short the stock into the ground which could take decades, so you’d want this pool you created to last as long as possible.
These naked shares from the Market Maker to the Hedge Fund would be insured through futures and/or LEAPS. I believe they would likely insure them with one another using futures contracts instead of LEAPS, but I’m not positive. Either way, this “insurance” means that if it gets to expiration and the Hedge Fund hasn’t delivered shares, the Market Maker can use those futures contracts to force delivery. But why might we also see naked shorters holding huge amounts of options? The options could be hedging and leveraging with the wider market (not other naked shorters).
So, if naked shorters are using futures to insure that they won’t be left holding the bag with one another then they would likely want to use common expiration dates for LEAPS. That lets them grab some “insurance” (Call Options) and extra leverage (Put Options) from non-naked shorters. If the naked shorters position blows up and they owe the other naked shorter shares then they can use their calls to get some shares from the market. Or if they’re position does well then they can make extra profits off of their puts.
Here’s a diagram that will hopefully explain some of this better:
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The Hedge Fund is selling the naked shares from the Deadpool through the Market Maker into retail hands. Now the hedge fund like the market maker is going to want some futures or calls to make sure the market maker sells the shares back to him. But they’ll probably do this on a shorter timeline. Maybe they built the dealpool with three year expirations. Now they’ll naked short to retail probably using 1 year expirations.
I think retails average is about nine months for holding a stock. A year should be enough time to find a new share to buy in order to close/roll an old naked share. Retail naked shares would likely expire every March, June, September, December. Naked shorters are constantly closing and rolling their naked shorts with retail throughout the year. Or at least that’s the idea, usually retail sells pretty quickly and naked shorters can keep driving the price down.
Here’s a diagram to visualize deadpools and retail pools together. The red is the deadpool. The deadpools are the original pools of naked shares that are created with long expirations. It would make sense to have these expire three years out so 1. they last long – don’t have to keep creating naked shares and 2. they can be hedged/leveraged with the wider market using common expiration dates.
Then the yellow would be the pools of naked shares that are sold to retail. These would have shorter expirations because ideally the naked shorter would want to churn these in a year or less.
The naked shorters create a big deadpool of naked shares that will expire in three years. Then, if they’re using 1 year expirations with retail, they can use those naked shares in the market up to three times.
https://preview.redd.it/7fe2fwzl183d1.png?width=1366&format=png&auto=webp&s=029649336a89107a0519a9198fedee49929cc59c
Now look at where expiration dates line up between red pools and yellow pools. January and June. January and June are common expiration dates for LEAPS. Again, if the naked shorters want to hedge/leverage with the wider market then these would be the expiration dates they would want to build their naked shares around.
If the naked shares are built in this way then January of 2021 could have been a time where some of the Retail Pool and some of the Deadpool were expiring. Let’s say it’s a big expiration time and there are not enough shares. Maybe some DFV dude and a bunch of other retail investors are buying calls and shares. In this scenario, the Market Maker would try to find shares to close/roll the position. If unable, then the Hedge Fund would need to exercise their “insurance” and demand the shares from the MM. The Market Maker also has “insurance” though because he’s the big boy and he won’t be left holding the bag. The MM throws down his uno reverse card and screams, “No! You!”
BASKET THEORY – Why do other stocks move hard with GME at certain times?
Alright, let’s say naked shorters are building their positions how I’ve laid out. When naked shorters open the ETFs at the beginning of the deadpool, they are also pulling out naked shares of other companies. They could use those shares for a lot of different things. They could hold them and sell options to make money. Or they could also naked short some of those companies too.
Maybe, they open an ETF and pull out naked GME and some naked shares of another company. They could also naked short the other stocks into the market. It would move differently on a shorter timescale to GME because they’re rolling the position with retail a year at a time. It might move more in line with GME on a longer time scale.
When the deadpool expires they need to finish buying shares and creating ETFs. That could mean buying a bunch of different stocks at one time. Buy some the remaining GME, STOCK B, STOCK C, etc. and close/finish rolling your deadpool position by packaging those shares up into nice little ETFs.
2021 – 2024
This could all explain some of the wild stuff we’ve been seeing lately.
  1. Big price movement could signify that a big chunk of the deadpool opened three years ago could be expiring. Was all of that position rolled? Was a really big chunk of the deadpool created three years ago? I honestly have no clue.
  2. June would likely be when a chunk of retail naked shares also need to be closed/rolled. Retail naked shares expiring would be a yearly occurrence.
  3. Price movement of unrelated stocks. If a big chunk of the deadpool was built three years ago and is now expiring that would mean that shares need to be bought in order to finally create some ETFs. ETFs are made from baskets of stocks. If a naked shorters need to buy some other companies to build their ETFs then you could see price jumps in unrelated stocks.
  4. The naked shorted company sells some shares. Sure, some suspicious shit happened with your stock and maybe it could be naked shorting, but naked shorting is illegal and shorts closed, right? Really you just need cash to revolutionize your company so you put it out there that you’d like to start sell some shares. This could look like an off ramp for anyone who was naked shorting or someone who inherited a bunch of naked shorts. Might as well ask if you can get some of those shares. You know exactly when a large chunk of the deadpool is expiring because you’re know holding that toxic shit, so you’ll wait until the last minute to get out. How do you “insure” you can get out? If you can’t get enough shares directly from the company or from the market then your next best bet is options…
  5. Lots of options being bought lately. Let’s say you know you need a shit ton of shares soon and you have a pretty strong feeling that the stock price could rocket soon. You have a finite amount of cash you can spend on shares. You can buy options! We covered how they’re like insurance.
Let’s keep the math simple and use 100 batches since options are sold in 100 share batches. You need 100 shares of Stock A by June 22nd. Stock A is around $20. You do the math and find out you have enough money to buy 100 shares and 1 $20 call. 100 shares of stock A at $20 would be $2000 and let’s say the call would be about $200. You have $2200 total. Now, there’s no guarantee that you can get 100 shares in the market for $20, especially if you think buying pressure is about to turn on hard. By your 100th share you could be paying a lot more, meaning your $2200 could run out before you have 100 shares.
And you NEED 100 shares! The call insures that someone else has to find the shares for $20 each. You spend your $200 on the call option expiring June 22nd. Now you’re guaranteed to get your 100 shares for $20 each even if the price skyrockets. You spent $2200 on 100 shares.
Again, no one knows who is buying these calls or why, but this could line up nicely with my theory that a chunk of the deadpool is expiring soon.
I don’t want to get anyone excited for MOASS. I’ve made bad predictions in the past. In the past I thought a MOASS would probably happen in March, but that was because I hadn’t connected the deadpool to everything. Don’t get hyped, but if deadpools are built with January and June expirations then it would make sense that MOASS could happen in January or June. It would explain why naked shorters almost got fucked in January 2021. If, they were able to survive and push a huge chunk of their deadpool out three years then June 2024 could be a rough time for them. I’m not going to say it’s a guarantee of a MOASS this June/July. I will say that I really would not want to be a naked shorter trying to roll a bad bet on GME this June.
Now this is all conjecture, but what if part of the deadpool needed to be rolled in January of 2021? Meaning the Hedge Fund needed to settle up with the Market Maker so they could finish closing the deadpool and keep the position rolling.
Now the Deadpool was the original pool of naked shares. The Market Maker pulled these naked shares out of ETFs and sent them to the Hedge Fund. Naked shorters usually want to keep the train going until the company is bankrupt so they’d usually keep closing and rolling the deadpool until that happens.
So, if you’ve followed along then January of 2021 could have been a pretty key date where a Market Maker may have needed to buy to settle a portion of the Retail Pool. These would be shares that the Hedge Fund naked shorted to retail through the Market Maker – insuring with futures and/or LEAPS. Then the Hedge Fund would have also needed to finish settling a portion of the Deadpool back to the Market Maker that’s about to expire. Again, these deadpool naked shares are the original naked shares pulled out of ETFs, probably three years ago. They’ve been using and abusing that naked share with retail for three years, probably a year or so at a time.
If the position blew up, say in January of 2021 then some Hedge Funds would have also blown the fuck up. First, the market maker would go to the market and try to buy shares. No shares. The market maker turns to the hedge fund and says, “sorry, no shares.” This is why the Hedge Fund bough “insurance” or hedged with his “buddy”. The Hedge Fund uses his contracts with the Market Maker to say, “here’s the cash, where are the shares?”
The Market Maker plays his reverse uno card: The original contracts he made with the Hedge Fund when the naked shares were created and says, “No! You!”
Hedge Fund: Fuck! There are no shares!
MM: Not my problem. Where are my shares?
Market: No shares.
The Market Maker has the Hedge Funds other positions liquidated until there’s enough cash to buy shares in the market. In asinine cases where this happens the market might allow the Market Maker to just turn off the buy button to save his sorry ass. This is considered by many to be complete bullshit.
The deadpool is closed/rolled. Possibly three years into the future. 2021 to 2024.
I think there might always be a Deadpool that then feeds the Retail Pool.
My other DD adds to the Deadpool theory and rehashes some of this, but the gist is that if you can create a deadpool with your “buddy” then could you just add a ton to the deadpool three years ago through the market to drive the price down and not add it to the retail pool. In other words, more naked shares that drive the price down, but they end up in your “friends” hands. He also want to drive the price down so you can worry less.
Adding to the deadpool in a really desperate time would make sense to me. Now if a bunch of shares were added to the deadpool three years ago and were split by the splividend then how does that all work? I think with a normal split, naked shares that are split in the deadpool could be settled with cash. Does the splividend change that?
In other words, if there were a bunch of naked shares shat into the deadpool three years ago. Then they were split, but delivery was delayed until expiration. And now they’re finally expiring. Can they be settled with cash or do real shares need to be bought to fulfill the long overdue splividend?
THE DRS POOL
https://preview.redd.it/rtxz74em183d1.png?width=1366&format=png&auto=webp&s=60d875bd27f7567deeb55e34c9f0283127d973af
This just tries to simplify thing. The way the naked share is likely built results in it ending up in a deadpool between the naked shorters. They then pull naked shares from the deadpool and send them out into the market to naked short.
Good thing, you have recourse! Believe you’ve been sold a naked share?! Your only way to truly find out if you have a real share or not is by DRSing. Pull your shares into the DRS Pool. Now you can have peace of mind that it’s a real share.
ENDGAME
If I were a naked shorter facing a potential MOASS, what would I do?
  1. CHAOS & INFIGHTING – I would make sure I have as much control over the group as I could. If a MOASS pops off then I want to get hodlers fighting and not listening to one another. Confusion! Panic! Sell! I need their shares! I need hodlers to sell!
If I’m a naked shorter then I don’t want people to stay calm. I don’t want them learning about the market or sharing what they’ve learned. I want confusion.
  1. FEAR OF CALLS – Yes, I am pro options, but no I’m not telling you to go buy options. Options are risky, but if you know what you’re doing they can be very beneficial. In this scenario, I’m a naked shorter facing down a MOASS and I want people to sell shares. I really don’t want hodlers buying LONG CALLS or LEAPS. These are call options shot way out into the future, they’re risky, but less risky then short term options. Now, if I’m a naked shorter why don’t I want hodlers buying LONG CALLS?
  2. I could hedge that position by buying shares – if I’m super naked I probably won’t though. But if someone else sells the call they might hedge by buying shares.
  3. I want shares! I NEED shares! If I start smashing that buy button and no one sells then the price goes up until someone does. If everyone is hodling their shares and the price is going up then CALL options are getting more expensive. That means if hodlers have shares and calls they can sell the calls for profits and not sell me (the naked shorter) a single one of their shares. They can keep hodling, and/or use call profits to buy more shares and/or buy calls.
The price rises. Hodlers sell their calls for profits instead of their shares. I can’t find shares. The price rises. Hopefully, you get the picture.
HOW WOULD A MOASS START IN THIS SCENARIO?
Alright, we don’t know why a MOASS would pop off. It would probably be expiration dates and/or too many DRSd shares. But we still actually do know why: naked shorting, not enough shares, buy button smashed, price goes boom!
If it’s built the way I explained here, then MOASS means the Market Maker went to the market to buy some shares and there weren’t enough shares. But they like REALLY NEED SHARES. The price rises.
If it gets to expiration of some of the retail naked shares and they haven’t been rolled then the position starts unraveling.
MM: No shares.
HF: Contract. Shares now!
MM: No! You!
HF: Fuck.
MM: Margin Call
HF: I’m dying.
Let’s say this is what happened last time. The Hedge Funds blew up, if it happened again, would it now be a Market Maker and a bigger Market Maker stuck in this death loop?
MM: I have assumed the position.
lol
MM: Fuck, you know what I meant. I absorbed the HF’s toxic naked shorts!
So, if the Market Maker absorbed the naked short side of the play and is now the one who will be margin called. Who absorbed the Market Maker’s side? The one holding the “No! You!” reverse uno card this time around? If the Market Maker can’t survive like the Hedge Fund? Can the new guy survive like the MM did last time?
TL;DR
Some PhD papers by Welborn everyone needs to read like three years ago!
Options were used to naked short in the past – Welborn explains how.
ETFs likely used now – again, read Welborn. Please!
I layout how ETFs are likely pulled apart and shuffled around to create naked shares or what I like to call a deadpool. Dead shares that shouldn’t even exist.
Then the deadpool is pulled from to send naked shares into the market.
Again, if you want to learn how I got here I have a long DD from a year ago in my history OR preferably go read Welborn’s work.
The way this is all done means because of the way the naked shares are sent to market there could be weird price movement around triple-witching dates. March/April, June/July, SeptembeOctober, DecembeJanuary. Triple-witching dates are March, June, September, December, but I push them out a month because Market Makers get a little extra leeway that us common folk don’t get. Again, in my old DD I talk about why they could potentially have an extra month tacked onto their expirations.
Then because of the way the shares are originally pulled out of ETFs there could be weird movement around common expirations for LEAPS. January and June.
January and June could be extra special times where a batch of naked shares are expiring in the hands of retail and need to finish being rolled. While, also having a batch of naked shares originally created for the deadpool that need to finish being rolled.
I know this is all confusing, but basically I believe the rules allow a loophole for naked shorting through ETFs. I believe the way those naked shares are created makes a deadpool parked with naked shorters. When they want to match a buy on the market (retail buys a share) they then pull a naked share out of the deadpool and send it to retail. Naked shares in the deadpool hangout for about three years at a time meaning they need to be closed or rolled within 3 years. Naked shares to retail would likely be done with a 1 year expiration since retail usually churns through shares fast. You’re able to create a naked share and sell it to retail and buy it back and sell it and buy it several times before the naked share needs to be renewed (rolled – a new naked share created and the old one finally closed).
Using ETFs could also explain weird movements in other stocks. If you’re already pulling a bunch of different stocks out of the ETF (not just GME) then you could use some of those naked shares to naked short other stocks as well. You’d be selling to retail at different times so the price may not move in tandem around the triple-witching dates, but they could move similarly around deadpool expiration dates. Remember, to close the naked shares from the deadpool you need to buy shares and create the ETFs. January 2021 could be a time where you need to buy a bunch of different stocks to close/roll some of the deadpool. June 2024 could also be a time where naked shorters might need to buy a bunch of different stocks in order to finally create some ETFs. You might see some unrelated stocks suddenly increasing in price at the same time.
In my opinion, if a stock is heavily naked shorted, then a MOASS would kick off for 1 of 2 reasons.
  1. All or enough of the Real Shares are DRSd, and the naked short position is revealed in the market.
  2. Converging expiration dates cause naked shorters to buy large amounts of stock at one time mixed with strong retail buying. I think this may have been what happened in January 2021 – it’s a common expiration date for the derivatives used to naked short and there was strong retail buying. It’s possible something similar is happening in June of 2024 – a common expiration date and would be 3 years from 2021 allowing for LEAPS to be bought on the wider market. And this time around, there’s also still strong buy pressure, hodling, and DRSing.
This summer could be exciting, but it’s not a MOASS guarantee. I think DRSing and hodling is the only true guarantee to uncover naked shorting.
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2024.05.28 21:45 spacedebriss THE DEADPOOL THEORY

THE DEADPOOL THEORY
THE DEADPOOL THEORY
I stayed up way too late last night and got up way too early this morning trying to put this together. I should probably edit it more, but oh well. This is what I have. I need to go do some other stuff now.
NONE OF THIS IS FINANCIAL ADVICE.
Probably should have waited to post until I toiled some more. I want to add to the deadpool theory. Not take away from it, just add to it. I think the Deadpool and Retail Pool go more hand in hand. I think the Deadpool is the original pool that feeds the retail pool.
The key for me has always been how the naked shares are created. Over a year ago I honestly reached a point where the DD was a jumbled mess in my mind. I wanted to start from zero and see what I could find, but not really zero because I had read a lot of DD, thanks to others I knew what to start searching for, so I set out.
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CITATIONS
If you think I’m pulling all of this out of my ass similar to how naked shares are pulled out of asses then please go read my old DD with charts and figures, goes more in depth, and has some strong citations in my opinion. OR better yet go absorb some of those citations, especially these first four:
1. THREE ESSAYS ON NAKED SHORT SELLING AND FAILS-TO-DELIVER by John W. Welborn
2. MARRIED PUTS, REVERSE CONVERSIONS AND ABUSE OF THE OPTIONS MARKET MAKER EXCEPTION ON THE CHICAGO STOCK EXCHANGE by John W Welborn
3. ETF Short Interest and Failures-to-Deliver: Naked Short Selling or Operational Shorting?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncq35zrFCAg&t=1655s
4. Exchange-Traded Funds, Fails-to-Deliver, and Market Volatility by Thomas Stratmann and John W. Welborn
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2183251
If you’re going to only read one of these then I’d make it this one.
Everybody here should read a little Welborn in my opinion. Dude is the GOAT!
SOME RELEVANT SEC FILINGS:
  1. https://www.sec.gov/investopubs/regsho.htm
  2. https://www.sec.gov/rules/2003/11/commission-guidance-rule-3b-3-and-married-put-transactions
These two are pretty good, especially for understanding the old options loophole.
PDF FILES:
DISCLAIMER: these links will try to download a PDF from the SEC’s website
3. https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/34-50103.pdf
4. https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2012/34-67451.pdf
5. https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2007/34-56212fr.pdf
6. https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2008/34-58775fr.pdf
7. https://www.sec.gov/rules/othe2008/34-58190.pdf
8. https://www.sec.gov/rules/othe2008/34-58592.pdf
9. https://www.sec.gov/rules/othe2008/34-58572.pdf
10. https://www.sec.gov/rules/othe2008/34-58723.pdf
11. https://www.sec.gov/rules/othe2008/34-58711.pdf
12. https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2008/34-58773.pdf
13. https://www.sec.gov/about/offices/ocie/options-trading-risk-alert.pdf
14. https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2008/34-58775.pdf
15. https://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/2006/34-54154.pdf
16. https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/nscc/2020/34-89088.pdf
MORE SEC
17. https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2008/2008-143.htm
18. https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2008/2008-155.htm
19. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1159510/000137036821000064/a210729-ex992.htm
PLAYING BY THE RULES?
I wanted to research that old DD by looking at the rules of naked shorting. When I would look into old DD and theories, I kept ending up at the answer of fraud. They didn’t stand up to the rules, unless lots o’ fraud was involved. Until I got to ETFs….
Now again, if you want more info go read the first four citations up at the top. The first 2 citations are PhD papers covering possible naked shorting and the Options loophole. This is the old way, this Options loophole was closed by the SEC back in 2008. For the new ETF way of naked shorting you can explore citations 3 and 4. These two citations cover how ETFs could be used to still naked short today. This is why I always felt the reactions to my old DD were so strange. I’m basically saying there could be a monstrous naked shorting position out in the market and it could be operating under the rules. No fraud is needed! Why didn’t superstonk respond with more positivity to my old DD a year ago?! I still think that DD did a pretty good job of laying out how naked shorters could be operating under the rules.
The rules make it clear to me that:
BULLET SWAPS – Can’t be used to make naked shares of a stock. If a naked shorter points to bullet swaps as where they got the shares from then the SEC should laugh in their face. You would need a lot of SEC fraud. Bullet swaps would have other good uses, but not for the actual creation of naked shares.
REHYPOTHECATION – The idea here is that the naked shorter borrows shares infinitely. The naked shorter points to the borrow and sure the SEC could let that pass, but it should still count as a borrow. Otherwise, you need more SEC fraud to explain this one. The Market should see the naked short position because it should be tagged as borrowed, and the naked shorter would also need to pay for that borrow. These are both things the naked shorter is trying to avoid – that’s why they create naked shares rather than borrow shares. Alternatively, the naked shorter could have a deal with a broker. The naked shorter does infinite borrows off of the brokers stock, but again you would need fraud from the broker and the broker would likely demand payment on the “borrows”. For rehypothecation to work you need a lot of fraud and naked shorters would likely need to pay borrow fees. Properly creating naked shares within the rules means no borrowing would be done (could be expensive) and means no fraud has to be done.
OPTIONS – This is where it gets confusing. Options used to be used to naked short, I wrote a big DD on this about a year ago. It has a lot of pictures and deep dives into a lot of stuff including options. If you want to learn more about the options loophole, don’t read my old DD, scroll back up to the top and read some of Welborn’s Options work (citations 1 and 2).
You would need two participants to naked short back in the day and I believe that’s how it’s still done today. One would be a Market Maker and one would typically be a Hedge Fund. The Market Maker had special privileges around options, MMs and only MMs could point to un-exercised options as a locate for shares. They create shares out of thin air and send them to a hedge fund. The hedge fund sells the MM back futures contracts and/or calls. The Market Maker uses the calls as a locates and the Market is none the wiser. Or is just apathetic. But they were technically following the rules as written. These packages of naked shares would have been built with options, futures, and naked shares all packaged together. This Options Market Maker loophole went away in 2008.
Options should not be an effective loophole for creating massive amounts of naked shares anymore. Again, you would need lots of SEC fraud.
ETFs – I’m not just throwing ETFs out there. There is a fucking fantastic Welborn paper (citation 4) and also a youtube video from a business professor (citation 3) on ETFs and how ETFs could possibly be used to naked short. To use ETFs you would still need a Market Maker and a Hedge Fund (the HF could be another MM or big institution). The Market Maker has special privileges. 1. They can pull shares out of ETFs. 2. They can also set future redemption/creation dates with that same Hedge Fund and not tell anybody. It seems the Options loophole to naked short was replaced with an ETF redemption/creation loophole to naked short.
Here’s a footnote in an SEC filing – I think this could be a smoking gun:
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Page 10 from: https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/nscc/2020/34-89088.pdf
The new ETF loophole:
  1. The Market Maker and the Hedge Fund enter into an agreement that the Market Maker will create ETFs for the Hedge Fund far in the future.
  2. The Market Maker sends naked ETFs to the Hedge Fund.
  3. The Hedge Fund sends the naked ETFs back to the Market Maker and redeems them (requests) that the ETFs be opened up for the (naked) shares inside.
If the SEC comes sniffing around they’re just going to see a bunch of shares sitting in the Hedge Funds account. They were pulled out of an ETF for him by the Market Maker. The SEC goes to the Market Maker and the Market Maker says, “yep, pulled ‘‘em out of ETFs for the Hedge Fund.” SEC says, “cool”.
If the SEC goes back to the Hedge Fund and asks where they got the ETFs from he points to the Market Maker. SEC, “sounds good, can I leave you my resume?”
If the SEC goes to the Market Maker and asks where he got the ETFs, the Market Maker would probably say, “Ha! Fuck if I know! I could buy and sell a million of that fucking ETF in a day. You want to look through our ledgers?” SEC, “Oh. I should probably take ‘em, but I’ll just look at porn instead. You guys hiring?”
  1. 4. The Hedge Fund now has naked shares from the Market Maker that look like real shares to the SEC. The Hedge Fund can sell them into the market to naked short and it just looks like selling shares. The Deadpool has been created.
The Deadpool. Naked shorters creating a pool of naked shares between themselves. Now they’d likely want to set expirations for this position far in the future. The Deadpool was just to create the original naked shares. You want to naked short the stock into the ground which could take decades, so you’d want this pool you created to last as long as possible.
These naked shares from the Market Maker to the Hedge Fund would be insured through futures and/or LEAPS. I believe they would likely insure them with one another using futures contracts instead of LEAPS, but I’m not positive. Either way, this “insurance” means that if it gets to expiration and the Hedge Fund hasn’t delivered shares, the Market Maker can use those futures contracts to force delivery. But why might we also see naked shorters holding huge amounts of options? The options could be hedging and leveraging with the wider market (not other naked shorters).
So, if naked shorters are using futures to insure that they won’t be left holding the bag with one another then they would likely want to use common expiration dates for LEAPS. That lets them grab some “insurance” (Call Options) and extra leverage (Put Options) from non-naked shorters. If the naked shorters position blows up and they owe the other naked shorter shares then they can use their calls to get some shares from the market. Or if they’re position does well then they can make extra profits off of their puts.
Here’s a diagram that will hopefully explain some of this better:
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The Hedge Fund is selling the naked shares from the Deadpool through the Market Maker into retail hands. Now the hedge fund like the market maker is going to want some futures or calls to make sure the market maker sells the shares back to him. But they’ll probably do this on a shorter timeline. Maybe they built the dealpool with three year expirations. Now they’ll naked short to retail probably using 1 year expirations.
I think retails average is about nine months for holding a stock. A year should be enough time to find a new share to buy in order to close/roll an old naked share. Retail naked shares would likely expire every March, June, September, December. Naked shorters are constantly closing and rolling their naked shorts with retail throughout the year. Or at least that’s the idea, usually retail sells pretty quickly and naked shorters can keep driving the price down.
Here’s a diagram to visualize deadpools and retail pools together. The red is the deadpool. The deadpools are the original pools of naked shares that are created with long expirations. It would make sense to have these expire three years out so 1. they last long – don’t have to keep creating naked shares and 2. they can be hedged/leveraged with the wider market using common expiration dates.
Then the yellow would be the pools of naked shares that are sold to retail. These would have shorter expirations because ideally the naked shorter would want to churn these in a year or less.
The naked shorters create a big deadpool of naked shares that will expire in three years. Then, if they’re using 1 year expirations with retail, they can use those naked shares in the market up to three times.
https://preview.redd.it/9plf8u92183d1.png?width=1366&format=png&auto=webp&s=a29d688b91802dc2fe01416a00a5b96a014ede8f

Now look at where expiration dates line up between red pools and yellow pools. January and June. January and June are common expiration dates for LEAPS. Again, if the naked shorters want to hedge/leverage with the wider market then these would be the expiration dates they would want to build their naked shares around.
If the naked shares are built in this way then January of 2021 could have been a time where some of the Retail Pool and some of the Deadpool were expiring. Let’s say it’s a big expiration time and there are not enough shares. Maybe some DFV dude and a bunch of other retail investors are buying calls and shares. In this scenario, the Market Maker would try to find shares to close/roll the position. If unable, then the Hedge Fund would need to exercise their “insurance” and demand the shares from the MM. The Market Maker also has “insurance” though because he’s the big boy and he won’t be left holding the bag. The MM throws down his uno reverse card and screams, “No! You!”
BASKET THEORY – Why do other stocks move hard with GME at certain times?
Alright, let’s say naked shorters are building their positions how I’ve laid out. When naked shorters open the ETFs at the beginning of the deadpool, they are also pulling out naked shares of other companies. They could use those shares for a lot of different things. They could hold them and sell options to make money. Or they could also naked short some of those companies too.
Maybe, they open an ETF and pull out naked GME and some naked POPCORN. They could also naked short POPCORN into the market. It would move differently on a shorter timescale to GME because they’re rolling the position with retail a year at a time. It might move more in line with GME on a longer time scale.
When the deadpool expires they need to finish buying shares and creating ETFs. That could mean buying a bunch of different stocks at one time. Buy some the remaining GME, POPCORN, HEADPHONES, etc. and close/finish rolling your deadpool position by packaging those shares up into nice little ETFs.
2021 – 2024
This could all explain some of the wild stuff we’ve been seeing lately.
  1. Big price movement could signify that a big chunk of the deadpool opened three years ago could be expiring. Was all of that position rolled? Was a really big chunk of the deadpool created three years ago? I honestly have no clue.
  2. June would likely be when a chunk of retail naked shares also need to be closed/rolled. Retail naked shares expiring would be a yearly occurrence.
  3. Price movement of unrelated stocks. If a big chunk of the deadpool was built three years ago and is now expiring that would mean that shares need to be bought in order to finally create some ETFs. ETFs are made from baskets of stocks. If a naked shorters need to buy some other companies to build their ETFs then you could see price jumps in unrelated stocks.
  4. The naked shorted company sells some shares. Sure, some suspicious shit happened with your stock and maybe it could be naked shorting, but naked shorting is illegal and shorts closed, right? Really you just need cash to revolutionize your company so you put it out there that you’d like to start sell some shares. This could look like an off ramp for anyone who was naked shorting or someone who inherited a bunch of naked shorts. Might as well ask if you can get some of those shares. You know exactly when a large chunk of the deadpool is expiring because you’re know holding that toxic shit, so you’ll wait until the last minute to get out. How do you “insure” you can get out? If you can’t get enough shares directly from the company or from the market then your next best bet is options…
  5. Lots of options being bought lately. Let’s say you know you need a shit ton of shares soon and you have a pretty strong feeling that the stock price could rocket soon. You have a finite amount of cash you can spend on shares. You can buy options! We covered how they’re like insurance.
Let’s keep the math simple and use 100 batches since options are sold in 100 share batches. You need 100 shares of Stock A by June 22nd. Stock A is around $20. You do the math and find out you have enough money to buy 100 shares and 1 $20 call. 100 shares of stock A at $20 would be $2000 and let’s say the call would be about $200. You have $2200 total. Now, there’s no guarantee that you can get 100 shares in the market for $20, especially if you think buying pressure is about to turn on hard. By your 100th share you could be paying a lot more, meaning your $2200 could run out before you have 100 shares.
And you NEED 100 shares! The call insures that someone else has to find the shares for $20 each. You spend your $200 on the call option expiring June 22nd. Now you’re guaranteed to get your 100 shares for $20 each even if the price skyrockets. You spent $2200 on 100 shares.
Again, no one knows who is buying these calls or why, but this could line up nicely with my theory that a chunk of the deadpool is expiring soon.
I don’t want to get anyone excited for MOASS. I’ve made bad predictions in the past. In the past I thought a MOASS would probably happen in March, but that was because I hadn’t connected the deadpool to everything. Don’t get hyped, but if deadpools are built with January and June expirations then it would make sense that MOASS could happen in January or June. It would explain why naked shorters almost got fucked in January 2021. If, they were able to survive and push a huge chunk of their deadpool out three years then June 2024 could be a rough time for them. I’m not going to say it’s a guarantee of a MOASS this June/July. I will say that I really would not want to be a naked shorter trying to roll a bad bet on GME this June.
Now this is all conjecture, but what if part of the deadpool needed to be rolled in January of 2021? Meaning the Hedge Fund needed to settle up with the Market Maker so they could finish closing the deadpool and keep the position rolling.
Now the Deadpool was the original pool of naked shares. The Market Maker pulled these naked shares out of ETFs and sent them to the Hedge Fund. Naked shorters usually want to keep the train going until the company is bankrupt so they’d usually keep closing and rolling the deadpool until that happens.
So, if you’ve followed along then January of 2021 could have been a pretty key date where a Market Maker may have needed to buy to settle a portion of the Retail Pool. These would be shares that the Hedge Fund naked shorted to retail through the Market Maker – insuring with futures and/or LEAPS. Then the Hedge Fund would have also needed to finish settling a portion of the Deadpool back to the Market Maker that’s about to expire. Again, these deadpool naked shares are the original naked shares pulled out of ETFs, probably three years ago. They’ve been using and abusing that naked share with retail for three years, probably a year or so at a time.
If the position blew up, say in January of 2021 then some Hedge Funds would have also blown the fuck up. First, the market maker would go to the market and try to buy shares. No shares. The market maker turns to the hedge fund and says, “sorry, no shares.” This is why the Hedge Fund bough “insurance” or hedged with his “buddy”. The Hedge Fund uses his contracts with the Market Maker to say, “here’s the cash, where are the shares?”
The Market Maker plays his reverse uno card: The original contracts he made with the Hedge Fund when the naked shares were created and says, “No! You!”
Hedge Fund: Fuck! There are no shares!
MM: Not my problem. Where are my shares?
Market: No shares.
The Market Maker has the Hedge Funds other positions liquidated until there’s enough cash to buy shares in the market. In asinine cases where this happens the market might allow the Market Maker to just turn off the buy button to save his sorry ass. This is considered by many to be complete bullshit.
The deadpool is closed/rolled. Possibly three years into the future. 2021 to 2024.
I think there might always be a Deadpool that then feeds the Retail Pool.
My other DD adds to the Deadpool theory and rehashes some of this, but the gist is that if you can create a deadpool with your “buddy” then could you just add a ton to the deadpool three years ago through the market to drive the price down and not add it to the retail pool. In other words, more naked shares that drive the price down, but they end up in your “friends” hands. He also want to drive the price down so you can worry less.
Adding to the deadpool in a really desperate time would make sense to me. Now if a bunch of shares were added to the deadpool three years ago and were split by the splividend then how does that all work? I think with a normal split, naked shares that are split in the deadpool could be settled with cash. Does the splividend change that?
In other words, if there were a bunch of naked shares shat into the deadpool three years ago. Then they were split, but delivery was delayed until expiration. And now they’re finally expiring. Can they be settled with cash or do real shares need to be bought to fulfill the long overdue splividend?
THE DRS POOL
https://preview.redd.it/x6uj1n24183d1.png?width=1366&format=png&auto=webp&s=7887d54ea5fcaff20e6c65865826657c4b9c13cf

This just tries to simplify thing. The way the naked share is likely built results in it ending up in a deadpool between the naked shorters. They then pull naked shares from the deadpool and send them out into the market to naked short.
Good thing, you have recourse! Believe you’ve been sold a naked share?! Your only way to truly find out if you have a real share or not is by DRSing. Pull your shares into the DRS Pool. Now you can have peace of mind that it’s a real share.
ENDGAME
If I were a naked shorter facing a potential MOASS, what would I do?
  1. CHAOS & INFIGHTING – I would make sure I have as much control over the group as I could. If a MOASS pops off then I want to get hodlers fighting and not listening to one another. Confusion! Panic! Sell! I need their shares! I need hodlers to sell!
If I’m a naked shorter then I don’t want people to stay calm. I don’t want them learning about the market or sharing what they’ve learned. I want confusion.
  1. FEAR OF CALLS – Yes, I am pro options, but no I’m not telling you to go buy options. Options are risky, but if you know what you’re doing they can be very beneficial. In this scenario, I’m a naked shorter facing down a MOASS and I want people to sell shares. I really don’t want hodlers buying LONG CALLS or LEAPS. These are call options shot way out into the future, they’re risky, but less risky then short term options. Now, if I’m a naked shorter why don’t I want hodlers buying LONG CALLS?
  2. I could hedge that position by buying shares – if I’m super naked I probably won’t though. But if someone else sells the call they might hedge by buying shares.
  3. I want shares! I NEED shares! If I start smashing that buy button and no one sells then the price goes up until someone does. If everyone is hodling their shares and the price is going up then CALL options are getting more expensive. That means if hodlers have shares and calls they can sell the calls for profits and not sell me (the naked shorter) a single one of their shares. They can keep hodling, and/or use call profits to buy more shares and/or buy calls.
The price rises. Hodlers sell their calls for profits instead of their shares. I can’t find shares. The price rises. Hopefully, you get the picture.
HOW WOULD A MOASS START IN THIS SCENARIO?
Alright, we don’t know why a MOASS would pop off. It would probably be expiration dates and/or too many DRSd shares. But we still actually do know why: naked shorting, not enough shares, buy button smashed, price goes boom!
If it’s built the way I explained here, then MOASS means the Market Maker went to the market to buy some shares and there weren’t enough shares. But they like REALLY NEED SHARES. The price rises.
If it gets to expiration of some of the retail naked shares and they haven’t been rolled then the position starts unraveling.
MM: No shares.
HF: Contract. Shares now!
MM: No! You!
HF: Fuck.
MM: Margin Call
HF: I’m dying.
Let’s say this is what happened last time. The Hedge Funds blew up, if it happened again, would it now be a Market Maker and a bigger Market Maker stuck in this death loop?
MM: I have assumed the position.
lol
MM: Fuck, you know what I meant. I absorbed the HF’s toxic naked shorts!
So, if the Market Maker absorbed the naked short side of the play and is now the one who will be margin called. Who absorbed the Market Maker’s side? The one holding the “No! You!” reverse uno card this time around? If the Market Maker can’t survive like the Hedge Fund? Can the new guy survive like the MM did last time?
TL;DR
Some PhD papers by Welborn everyone needs to read like three years ago!
Options were used to naked short in the past – Welborn explains how.
ETFs likely used now – again, read Welborn. Please!
I layout how ETFs are likely pulled apart and shuffled around to create naked shares or what I like to call a deadpool. Dead shares that shouldn’t even exist.
Then the deadpool is pulled from to send naked shares into the market.
Again, if you want to learn how I got here I have a long DD from a year ago in my history OR preferably go read Welborn’s work.
The way this is all done means because of the way the naked shares are sent to market there could be weird price movement around triple-witching dates. March/April, June/July, SeptembeOctober, DecembeJanuary. Triple-witching dates are March, June, September, December, but I push them out a month because Market Makers get a little extra leeway that us common folk don’t get. Again, in my old DD I talk about why they could potentially have an extra month tacked onto their expirations.
Then because of the way the shares are originally pulled out of ETFs there could be weird movement around common expirations for LEAPS. January and June.
January and June could be extra special times where a batch of naked shares are expiring in the hands of retail and need to finish being rolled. While, also having a batch of naked shares originally created for the deadpool that need to finish being rolled.
I know this is all confusing, but basically I believe the rules allow a loophole for naked shorting through ETFs. I believe the way those naked shares are created makes a deadpool parked with naked shorters. When they want to match a buy on the market (retail buys a share) they then pull a naked share out of the deadpool and send it to retail. Naked shares in the deadpool hangout for about three years at a time meaning they need to be closed or rolled within 3 years. Naked shares to retail would likely be done with a 1 year expiration since retail usually churns through shares fast. You’re able to create a naked share and sell it to retail and buy it back and sell it and buy it several times before the naked share needs to be renewed (rolled – a new naked share created and the old one finally closed).
Using ETFs could also explain weird movements in other stocks. If you’re already pulling a bunch of different stocks out of the ETF (not just GME) then you could use some of those naked shares to naked short other stocks as well. You’d be selling to retail at different times so the price may not move in tandem around the triple-witching dates, but they could move similarly around deadpool expiration dates. Remember, to close the naked shares from the deadpool you need to buy shares and create the ETFs. January 2021 could be a time where you need to buy a bunch of different stocks to close/roll some of the deadpool. June 2024 could also be a time where naked shorters might need to buy a bunch of different stocks in order to finally create some ETFs. You might see some unrelated stocks suddenly increasing in price at the same time.
In my opinion, if a stock is heavily naked shorted, then a MOASS would kick off for 1 of 2 reasons.
  1. All or enough of the Real Shares are DRSd, and the naked short position is revealed in the market.
  2. Converging expiration dates cause naked shorters to buy large amounts of stock at one time mixed with strong retail buying. I think this may have been what happened in January 2021 – it’s a common expiration date for the derivatives used to naked short and there was strong retail buying. It’s possible something similar is happening in June of 2024 – a common expiration date and would be 3 years from 2021 allowing for LEAPS to be bought on the wider market. And this time around, there’s also still strong buy pressure, hodling, and DRSing.
This summer could be exciting, but it’s not a MOASS guarantee. I think DRSing and hodling is the only true guarantee to uncover naked shorting.
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2024.05.28 21:33 marina7890 Always feeling like"I am getting sick" after Vyvanse wear off.

Hi everyone,
I have been on Vyvanse 30 mg for a few months now. I only take it on weekdays and it took a few weeks to feel the affects and, for a while, it was great. I turned from a serial procrastinator into a top performer at work. It isnt like that anymore unfortunately but better than how it used to be. I also feel like anything above 30mg makes me depressed, especially during home office days.
Anyway, I have noticed that for weeks I have had the feeling of "I am getting sick" almost every evening when it wears off. My legs feel achy, my jaw, sometimes even my lungs and I get cold. Does anyone else experience this? Is there something I can do?
Ideally I would be talking to a doctor about this, I know. However, I still havent found one that accepts new patients. The one that diagnosed me only does that: Assessments. And my insurance doesnt cover them as they are in another state.
So, I would be very greatful if someone with similar experience could maybe share some insights in here.
Thank you!
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2024.05.28 21:02 Americankitsune1 [1252] The Cyrofrozen Case part 1. Murder Mystery, time period, Anthro.

Oscar Wilson has been Night City’s greatest detective since 2010 but in 2014 he will attempt to solve a case that will break him. As a new serial killer emerges he will need to employ his strengths as a wolf.
‘Detective Wilson you will run out of time before you catch me!’ Is written on the museum wall in the victims blood. John Strath the museum’s night janitor was brutally murdered by a carnivore.
“Funny you’d think the domestication of feral animals would’ve prevented every hunting incident.” Officer Morales says to Oscar.
“I don’t see any bites.”
“Think he did it for fun?”
“Every serial killer does.”
“Yeah I guess. Anyways Johnson reported a missing camera come help me find it.”
“In a moment.”
“Oscar I know he’s threatened your family but you worry too much. It’s not like he’s going to do it immediately. Come on. It’ll keep your mind off of it.”
Oscar continues to stand over the body as morales walks away. Eventually he turns around and follows.
The two sit in front of the security camera screens rewinding the footage to when the camera was taken. They watch as the camera is placed down. They pay close attention. The security footage glitches for a second. When it stops, the camera is gone.
“What the fuck?”
“Yeah. What the fuck?”
“Who’s nearby. Maybe they snatched it.”
“That quick?”
“I think that’s Clawson. Ask him.”
Oscar leaves the room. He approaches a cheetah officer hanging outside waiting at the window.
“Clawson!”
“Oscar! Hey. Sorry about the threats. My wife’s a therapist if you want to see her about it.”
“I’m not here to talk about your wife. The security footage shows you nearby the spot Johnson’s Camera was taken.”
“And you think I took it? Listen I know the importance of not stealing from a crime scene. It’s been embedded in me for years and if I had it I would’ve immediately returned it.”
“You’re notorious for stealing.”
“Name one instance.”
“That donut on Friday was mine!”
“That’s food that’s different.”
“Still. How do we know you didn’t take it quickly enough that the Camera didn’t get seen on the footage?”
“I’m not that quick.”
“Clawson! Chief wants us on a car chase! Oscar, Morales, Johnson! Stay overtime! This case needs to be solved.”
“Will do.”
“Bye Oscar. Have fun looking for a camera.” Clawson says as he leaves.
“There is a notorious thief here.” Morales says. “Countless reports of missing items. All standardized police equipment. I’ve reviewed the footage it’s all the same thing. Glitch then gone.”
“No one would be able to steal this much from an active crime scene that isn’t a cop or invisible!”
“I know which is why this is crazy to me.”
“You don’t think it might be aliens?”
“Okay I didn’t know you were a conspiracy theorist as well Oscar.” Morales and Oscar look at each other. Morales is a beautiful black pantheress with silky smooth fur and emerald green eyes. Her wet pink nose is lined with long black whiskers.
“Why are you staring at me like that?” She catches Oscar zoning out.
“Oh sorry. Just didn’t notice how green your eyes are.”
“We’ve been working together how many years? Plus big green eyes were a decoration at my wedding in which you were invited if you didn’t remember.”
“Yeah sorry.”
“Would you two stop gawking over each other? We need to look for all the equipment!” Johnson says. He’s a Rhinoceros. His heavy footsteps shake the old west museum.
“Relax Johnson we are!”
Johnson scoffs as he gets on the ground to search below a counter.
“What’s the inventory count?”
“3 tasers, 6 Handcuffs, 2 Cameras, 1 Gun, 5 Flashlights.”
“All big enough items. How they’re lost is beyond me.”
“Same.”
The three spend hours searching but don’t find any clues or evidence.
Eventually they all go home.
Months go by and the killer doesn’t kill. Then more months. Faith in the case falls. But Oscar isn’t going to give up. Years go by. The Serial Killer just hasn’t killed anymore. The Museum is abandoned and the chief decided to close the case.
Night City 2016.
“Chief Garcia! You can’t consider calling this case a cold case! The killer is still out there!” Oscar yells at the chief in his office.
“Detective Wilson I understand your desire to solve this case. You believe your children are at risk but I assure you. It’s fine the trail is dead! This killer is no longer active! Solve it on your own terms but if you argue to open it up again diverting much needed resources elsewhere you’re fired. Got it?”
“Yes chief.”
“Good.”
Oscar enters his car and drives home. He enters his house and takes off his uniform.
“Daddy!” Oscar’s children rush to him hugging his legs. He leans down and picks them up.
“Oh Clint, Azalea I missed you two!” Oscar swings them around laughing and blowing raspberries. They laugh as Oscar twirls them around. Oscar stops and begins a howl. His kids join in. A fourth howl forms from the kitchen. Once the howl dies down Oscars wife exits the kitchen. A gorgeous she-wolf her gray pelt reflects the moonlight she wears sweats and a baggy shirt. She seems a little tired and worried as well.
“Oscar?”
“Oh sorry pups. Momma wants to talk to me.”
“Ok daddy!”
“Summer break right! Whoop whoop!” He cheers them.
“Oscar.”
“Rebecca honey?”
“I heard the news. Garcia faxed me.”
“Who still faxes?”
“My hospital.”
“Wow. Old fashioned much?”
“Babe.”
“What?”
“You need to re open that case. Find something out.”
“Yeah.”
“I’m concerned for our safety especially theirs!” Rebecca points at the kids. “It seems your chief doesn’t have them in mind. The case becoming cold will inspire the killer to strike again. And if it was his plan all along! Shit.”
“I’m doing what I can baby. Relax.”
“There was missing equipment at the scene right? Maybe going to find that will help.”
“I’ll go see.”
“I’ll go tell the kids you’ll be gone for a bit.” Oscar leans in for a kiss.
The museum.
Oscar pulls up and enters the building. As he walks through the entrance hallway he hears a thud.
“Who’s there?” He yells as he pulls out his taser getting in a defensive position. He walks through. He clears room after room till he gets to the main room. No people.
“Ahh fucking old floorboards. OWWWW!” Oscar steps on a nail. He panics this building has been abandoned since the murder 2 years ago this nail has to be rusted.
He winces as he leans down and pulls the nail out.
“Gahhh Fuck!” He screams. The nail is covered in his blood but it’s not rusted somehow.
“What the…” He notices a box of nails on the ground.
“This museum really kept its artifacts well kept huh. Even post abandonment. Heh.”
‘Marshall and Johnson’s Supplies est 1856. manufactured products in 1936.’
“Ok now that’s weird.” He says reading the label.
He walks up to a glass case. He places his taser down on a table and uses both hands to lift the glass case.
A loud swoosh is heard. He turns and notices his taser is taken in a diamond shaped rift. He panics.
Another rift appears. A gun drops through.
Oscar rushes and grabs it.
‘Nicholas Parker’s Luger Sweet Valentine.’
“Nicholas Parker? What? Isn’t that my Grandpas boss?” Oscar realizes the situation.
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2024.05.28 20:37 swingerlover THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF LOVE SPELLS #lovespell #lovespells

THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF LOVE SPELLS #lovespell #lovespells
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The erotic attraction spells also known as love spells, can be traced from the syncretic magic custom of Hellenistic Greece- which included the Hebraic and Egyptian features as recorded in texts like the Greek Magical Papyri and also on amulets as well as other artefacts that date up to late third century A.D. The magical rituals continued to impact on private custom among German society, in Gaul (for Celtic people) and Roman Britain. Erotic magic exhibited gender responsibilities in classical Greece and dropped the contemporary misconceptions on gender lines and sexuality. According to the University of Chicago’s Christopher Faraone- a classical professor, there was a clear distinction between magic practiced by both genders with men practicing Eros and women Philia.
Indeed, the two kinds of spells can be linked to gender responsibilities in Ancient Greece. Because women depended on men, they used philia. From ancient times, women weak and utilize any means possible to maintain their spouses. At the time when men had the liberty to leave their wives as they wished, the use of philia was necessary. With that, most women chose to use it as a way to maintain their beauty and as a source of peace of mind.
Make Men Faithful
Women used philia magic to make their men faithful and stick to them. Elementary beliefs on sexual attitudes in Greece were rejected by the discovery of the philia love spells, rituals, and potions. Rather than applying it as a means of getting sexual pleasure, women used the spells as medicine or therapy. Women used philia spells to try to conserve their beauty and remain appealing. This can be related to general medical usage by women. In ancient Greece, most women used spells as a kind of therapy. Despite the form of spells and whether they worked or not, there was something special about them- they made the users feel more contented with their situations and have the feeling that they have some powers over the prevailing situations. In that case, magic works just like regions. In a nutshell, prayers and spells have a lot of similarities in that both bring the tranquility of mind and they both use something spiritual to command something that is presently unmanageable.

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For men and prostitutes, Eros spells were mainly used to serve an entirely different role in ancient Greece. They were mostly applied by men to introduce lust and enthusiasm into women, directing them to accomplish the men’s desires. Without some kind of powers like that exhibited by spells, women felt insecure that is why they would strive to seek the affection producing spells. While men experienced a free life where they chose what they wanted to do, women on the other hand were relatively restricted. For instance, they were required to serve only one husband and home. This prompted women who were not practicing prostitution to apply eros magic to meet their sexual demands.
Women in love Magic.
Malleus Maleficarum of 1487 best illustrated the view of women in the Renaissance. The introduction part of the text presents the sexuality of women with respect to the devil. In his book, Heinrich Kramer wrote, “All witchcraft originates from sexual desire, which in women is unquenchable.” At this time, men of the Renaissance fretted the sexual capability of the opposite gender. They linked it to the devil and thought of them as sexual associates to demons. The book, Kramer narrates a case where a witch got her powers by summoning the devil to get into sexual relations. By the use of her sexual powers, she acquires power, therefore, viewed as evil and a threat. To confirm this, in most of the witchcraft prosecutions submitted before the Holy Office (in Roman Inquisition), women were accused using their own sexuality to bind their lusts and sexuality.
From Ancient experiences and stories, it is evident that Love Spells had a great impact on love matters. Like today, it was respected and feared by people. Also, it was used by others to fulfill their sexual needs where possible. Love spells are deeply rooted to the lives of most people. Therefore, even in the contemporary world, many people can still relate to it. Although there has been a lot of transformations in terms of lifestyle and the view of people on supernatural powers, love spells can’t be underrated.
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2024.05.28 19:05 Boredom_of_bore Top Five Anime on MAL Per Year, 1970-2022

Inspired by this thread from 2016. Like OP, I tried to skip sequels to keep the list diverse. All anime are classified in the year of their debut as indicated on MAL. Let me know if you see any mistakes.
1970:
  1. Tomorrow's Joe
  2. Akakichi no Eleven
  3. The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee
  4. Mahou no Mako-chan
  5. Inakappe Taishou
1971:
  1. Lupin the Third
  2. Gegege no Kitarou
  3. Nozomi In The Sun
  4. Tensai Bakabon
  5. Ryu the Primitive Boy
1972:
  1. Mazinger Z
  2. Gatchaman
  3. Panda! Go Panda!
  4. Dokonjou Gaeru
  5. Devilman
1973:
  1. Doraemon
  2. Belladonna of Sadness
  3. Aim for the Ace!
  4. Neo Human Casshan
  5. Cutie Honey
1974:
  1. Space Battleship Yamato
  2. Heidi, Girl of the Alps
  3. Getter Robo
  4. Majokko Megu-chan
  5. Vicky the Viking
1975:
  1. UFO Robo Grendizer
  2. A Dog of Flanders
  3. Arabian Nights: Sinbad's Adventures
  4. Gamba no Bouken
  5. The Little Mermaid
1976:
  1. Candy Candy
  2. 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother
  3. Manga Fairy Tales of the World
  4. Super-Electromagnetic Robo Combattler V
  5. Dino Mech Gaiking
1977:
  1. Nobody's Boy Remi
  2. Voltes V
  3. Invincible Superman Zambot 3
  4. Raccoon Rascal
  5. Yatterman
1978:
  1. Future Boy Conan
  2. Treasure Island
  3. Galaxy Express 999
  4. Space Pirate Captain Harlock
  5. The Story of Perrine
1979:
  1. Rose of Versailles
  2. Anne of Green Gables
  3. Mobile Suit Gundam
  4. Cyborg 009
  5. Flower Angel
1980:
  1. Ganbare Genki
  2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  3. Astro Boy
  4. Wonderful Adventures of Nils
  5. Sanpei the Fisherman
1981:
  1. Urusei Yatsura
  2. Fang of the Sun Dougram
  3. The Swiss Family Robinson
  4. Tiger Mask Nisei
  5. Queen Millennia
1982:
  1. Macross
  2. Space Cobra
  3. The Mysterious Cities of Gold
  4. Patalliro!
  5. Tokimeki Tonight
1983:
  1. Igano Kabamaru
  2. Barefoot Gen
  3. Armored Trooper Votoms
  4. Plastic Model Wrestling Sanshiro
  5. Captain Tsubasa
1984:
  1. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
  2. Macross: Do You Remember Love?
  3. Fist of the North Star
  4. Sherlock Hound
  5. Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs
1985:
  1. Touch
  2. Angel's Egg
  3. A Little Princess Sara
  4. Dirty Pair
  5. Vampire Hunter D
1986:
  1. Castle in the Sky
  2. Maison Ikkoku
  3. Silver Fang
  4. Dragon Ball
  5. Saint Seiya
1987:
  1. City Hunter
  2. Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise
  3. Kimagure Orange Road
  4. Lady Lady!
  5. Bubblegum Crisis
1988:
  1. Legend of the Galactic Heroes
  2. Grave of the Fireflies
  3. My Neighbor Totoro
  4. Akira
  5. Gunbuster
1989:
  1. Kiki's Delivery Service
  2. Ranma ½
  3. Patlabor: The Movie
  4. Yawara!
  5. Alfred J. Kwak
1990:
  1. Moomin
  2. My Daddy Long Legs
  3. Chibi Maruko-chan
  4. Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
  5. Be-Bop Highschool
1991:
  1. Dear Brother
  2. Who's Left Behind?
  3. The Trapp Family Story
  4. Dragon Quest: Dai's Great Adventure
  5. Only Yesterday
1992:
  1. Yu Yu Hakusho
  2. Porco Rosso
  3. Crayon Shin-chan
  4. Sailor Moon
  5. Tenchi Muyo!
1993:
  1. Slam Dunk
  2. The Irresponsible Captain Tylor
  3. Black Jack
  4. Ninja Scroll
  5. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
1994:
  1. Galaxy Warring State Chronicle Rai
  2. Magical Circle Guru Guru
  3. Magic Knight Rayearth
  4. Marmalade Boy
  5. Future GPX Cyber Formula Zero
1995:
  1. Neon Genesis Evangelion
  2. Romeo and the Black Brothers
  3. Ghost in the Shell
  4. Whisper of the Heart
  5. Golden Boy
1996:
  1. Rurouni Kenshin
  2. Detective Conan
  3. Kodocha
  4. Slayers Next
  5. Sans Famille
1997:
  1. Princess Mononoke
  2. Berserk
  3. Perfect Blue
  4. Revolutionary Girl Utena
  5. The File of Young Kindaichi
1998:
  1. Cowboy Bebop
  2. Trigun
  3. Initial D First Stage
  4. Cardcaptor Sakura
  5. Serial Experiments Lain
1999:
  1. One Piece
  2. Great Teacher Onizuka
  3. Hunter x Hunter
  4. Digimon: Digital Monsters
  5. Master Keaton
2000:
  1. Fighting Spirit
  2. FLCL
  3. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
  4. InuYasha
  5. Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
2001:
  1. Spirited Away
  2. Millennium Actress
  3. Hikaru no Go
  4. The Prince of Tennis
  5. R.O.D - Read or Die
2002:
  1. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
  2. Princess Tutu
  3. Azumanga Daioh
  4. The Twelve Kingdoms
  5. Naruto
2003:
  1. Tokyo Godfathers
  2. Kino's Journey
  3. Planetes
  4. Interstella5555
  5. Fullmetal Alchemist
2004:
  1. Monster
  2. Howl's Moving Castle
  3. Samurai Champloo
  4. Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
  5. Bleach
2005:
  1. Mushi-Shi
  2. Paprika
  3. Glass Mask
  4. Eureka Seven
  5. xxxHOLiC The Movie
2006:
  1. Gintama
  2. Code Geass
  3. Death Note
  4. Nana
  5. Hellsing Ultimate
2007:
  1. Gurren Lagann
  2. Mononoke
  3. Baccano!
  4. Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor
  5. Sword of the Stranger
2008:
  1. Clannad: After Story
  2. Aria the Origination
  3. One Outs
  4. Natsume's Book of Friends
  5. Spice and Wolf
2009:
  1. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
  2. Cross Game
  3. The Beast Player Erin
  4. Bakemonogatari
  5. Redline
2010:
  1. The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
  2. The Tatami Galaxy
  3. Katanagatari
  4. Bakuman
  5. Durarara!
2011:
  1. Steins Gate
  2. Hunter x Hunter
  3. Nichijou - My Ordinary Life
  4. Madoka Magica
  5. K-ON! The Movie
2012:
  1. Wolf Children
  2. Psycho-Pass
  3. Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199
  4. Daily Lives of High School Boys
  5. Nisemonogatari
2013:
  1. Attack on Titan
  2. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
  3. The Wind Rises
  4. Kill la Kill
  5. The Garden of Words
2014:
  1. Your Lie in April
  2. Ping Pong the Animation
  3. Haikyu!!
  4. Barakamon
  5. Parasyte: The Maxim
2015:
  1. One Punch Man
  2. Owarimonogatari
  3. Non Non Biyori Repeat
  4. Death Parade
  5. Food Wars!
2016:
  1. A Silent Voice
  2. Your Name
  3. Mob Psycho 100
  4. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.
  5. Erased
2017:
  1. Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju
  2. Made in Abyss
  3. Land of the Lustrous
  4. Girls' Last Tour
  5. Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
2018:
  1. Violet Evergarden
  2. I Want To Eat Your Pancreas
  3. A Place Further Than The Universe
  4. Banana Fish
  5. Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
2019:
  1. Vinland Saga
  2. The Promised Neverland
  3. Demon Slayer
  4. Kaguya-sama: Love is War
  5. Given
2020:
  1. Jujutsu Kaisen
  2. Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
  3. Great Pretender
  4. Moriarty the Patriot
  5. Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
2021:
  1. Link Click
  2. Odd Taxi
  3. Ranking of Kings
  4. Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song-
  5. To Your Eternity
2022:
  1. Bocchi the Rock!
  2. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
  3. Spy x Family
  4. Chainsaw Man
  5. Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie
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2024.05.28 18:32 spacedebriss Expanding on my Deadpool Theory: Does everything come from the Deadpool?

Expanding on my Deadpool Theory: Does everything come from the Deadpool?
THE DEADPOOL THEORY
I stayed up way too late last night and got up way too early this morning trying to put this together. I should probably edit it more, but oh well. This is what I have. I need to go do some other stuff now.
NONE OF THIS IS FINANCIAL ADVICE.
Probably should have waited to post until I toiled some more. I want to add to the deadpool theory. Not take away from it, just add to it. I think the Deadpool and Retail Pool go more hand in hand. I think the Deadpool is the original pool that feeds the retail pool.
The key for me has always been how the naked shares are created. Over a year ago I honestly reached a point where the DD was a jumbled mess in my mind. I wanted to start from zero and see what I could find, but not really zero because I had read a lot of DD, thanks to others I knew what to start searching for, so I set out.
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CITATIONS
If you think I’m pulling all of this out of my ass similar to how naked shares are pulled out of asses then please go read my old DD with charts and figures, goes more in depth, and has some strong citations in my opinion. OR better yet go absorb some of those citations, especially these first four:
1. THREE ESSAYS ON NAKED SHORT SELLING AND FAILS-TO-DELIVER by John W. Welborn
2. MARRIED PUTS, REVERSE CONVERSIONS AND ABUSE OF THE OPTIONS MARKET MAKER EXCEPTION ON THE CHICAGO STOCK EXCHANGE by John W Welborn
3. ETF Short Interest and Failures-to-Deliver: Naked Short Selling or Operational Shorting?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncq35zrFCAg&t=1655s
4. Exchange-Traded Funds, Fails-to-Deliver, and Market Volatility by Thomas Stratmann and John W. Welborn
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2183251
If you’re going to only read one of these then I’d make it this one.
Everybody here should read a little Welborn in my opinion. Dude is the GOAT!
SOME RELEVANT SEC FILINGS:
  1. https://www.sec.gov/investopubs/regsho.htm
  2. https://www.sec.gov/rules/2003/11/commission-guidance-rule-3b-3-and-married-put-transactions
These two are pretty good, especially for understanding the old options loophole.
PDF FILES:
DISCLAIMER: these links will try to download a PDF from the SEC’s website
  1. https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/34-50103.pdf
  2. https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2012/34-67451.pdf
  3. https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2007/34-56212fr.pdf
  4. https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2008/34-58775fr.pdf
  5. https://www.sec.gov/rules/othe2008/34-58190.pdf
  6. https://www.sec.gov/rules/othe2008/34-58592.pdf
  7. https://www.sec.gov/rules/othe2008/34-58572.pdf
  8. https://www.sec.gov/rules/othe2008/34-58723.pdf
  9. https://www.sec.gov/rules/othe2008/34-58711.pdf
  10. https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2008/34-58773.pdf
  11. https://www.sec.gov/about/offices/ocie/options-trading-risk-alert.pdf
  12. https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2008/34-58775.pdf
  13. https://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/2006/34-54154.pdf
  14. https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/nscc/2020/34-89088.pdf
MORE SEC
  1. https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2008/2008-143.htm
  2. https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2008/2008-155.htm
  3. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1159510/000137036821000064/a210729-ex992.htm
PLAYING BY THE RULES?
I wanted to research that old DD by looking at the rules of naked shorting. When I would look into old DD and theories, I kept ending up at the answer of fraud. They didn’t stand up to the rules, unless lots o’ fraud was involved. Until I got to ETFs….
Now again, if you want more info go read the first four citations up at the top. The first 2 citations are PhD papers covering possible naked shorting and the Options loophole. This is the old way, this Options loophole was closed by the SEC back in 2008. For the new ETF way of naked shorting you can explore citations 3 and 4. These two citations cover how ETFs could be used to still naked short today. This is why I always felt the reactions to my old DD were so strange. I’m basically saying there could be a monstrous naked shorting position out in the market and it could be operating under the rules. No fraud is needed! Why didn’t superstonk respond with more positivity to my old DD a year ago?! I still think that DD did a pretty good job of laying out how naked shorters could be operating under the rules.
The rules make it clear to me that:
BULLET SWAPS – Can’t be used to make naked shares of a stock. If a naked shorter points to bullet swaps as where they got the shares from then the SEC should laugh in their face. You would need a lot of SEC fraud. Bullet swaps would have other good uses, but not for the actual creation of naked shares.
REHYPOTHECATION – The idea here is that the naked shorter borrows shares infinitely. The naked shorter points to the borrow and sure the SEC could let that pass, but it should still count as a borrow. Otherwise, you need more SEC fraud to explain this one. The Market should see the naked short position because it should be tagged as borrowed, and the naked shorter would also need to pay for that borrow. These are both things the naked shorter is trying to avoid – that’s why they create naked shares rather than borrow shares. Alternatively, the naked shorter could have a deal with a broker. The naked shorter does infinite borrows off of the brokers stock, but again you would need fraud from the broker and the broker would likely demand payment on the “borrows”. For rehypothecation to work you need a lot of fraud and naked shorters would likely need to pay borrow fees. Properly creating naked shares within the rules means no borrowing would be done (could be expensive) and means no fraud has to be done.
OPTIONS – This is where it gets confusing. Options used to be used to naked short, I wrote a big DD on this about a year ago. It has a lot of pictures and deep dives into a lot of stuff including options. If you want to learn more about the options loophole, don’t read my old DD, scroll back up to the top and read some of Welborn’s Options work (citations 1 and 2).
You would need two participants to naked short back in the day and I believe that’s how it’s still done today. One would be a Market Maker and one would typically be a Hedge Fund. The Market Maker had special privileges around options, MMs and only MMs could point to un-exercised options as a locate for shares. They create shares out of thin air and send them to a hedge fund. The hedge fund sells the MM back futures contracts and/or calls. The Market Maker uses the calls as a locates and the Market is none the wiser. Or is just apathetic. But they were technically following the rules as written. These packages of naked shares would have been built with options, futures, and naked shares all packaged together. This Options Market Maker loophole went away in 2008.
Options should not be an effective loophole for creating massive amounts of naked shares anymore. Again, you would need lots of SEC fraud.
ETFs – I’m not just throwing ETFs out there. There is a fucking fantastic Welborn paper (citation 4) and also a youtube video from a business professor (citation 3) on ETFs and how ETFs could possibly be used to naked short. To use ETFs you would still need a Market Maker and a Hedge Fund (the HF could be another MM or big institution). The Market Maker has special privileges. 1. They can pull shares out of ETFs. 2. They can also set future redemption/creation dates with that same Hedge Fund and not tell anybody. It seems the Options loophole to naked short was replaced with an ETF redemption/creation loophole to naked short.
Here’s a footnote in an SEC filing – I think this could be a smoking gun:
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Page 10 from: https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/nscc/2020/34-89088.pdf
The new ETF loophole:
  1. The Market Maker and the Hedge Fund enter into an agreement that the Market Maker will create ETFs for the Hedge Fund far in the future.
  2. The Market Maker sends naked ETFs to the Hedge Fund.
  3. The Hedge Fund sends the naked ETFs back to the Market Maker and redeems them (requests) that the ETFs be opened up for the (naked) shares inside.
If the SEC comes sniffing around they’re just going to see a bunch of shares sitting in the Hedge Funds account. They were pulled out of an ETF for him by the Market Maker. The SEC goes to the Market Maker and the Market Maker says, “yep, pulled ‘‘em out of ETFs for the Hedge Fund.” SEC says, “cool”.
If the SEC goes back to the Hedge Fund and asks where they got the ETFs from he points to the Market Maker. SEC, “sounds good, can I leave you my resume?”
If the SEC goes to the Market Maker and asks where he got the ETFs, the Market Maker would probably say, “Ha! Fuck if I know! I could buy and sell a million of that fucking ETF in a day. You want to look through our ledgers?” SEC, “Oh. I should probably take ‘em, but I’ll just look at porn instead. You guys hiring?”
  1. 4. The Hedge Fund now has naked shares from the Market Maker that look like real shares to the SEC. The Hedge Fund can sell them into the market to naked short and it just looks like selling shares. The Deadpool has been created.
The Deadpool. Naked shorters creating a pool of naked shares between themselves. Now they’d likely want to set expirations for this position far in the future. The Deadpool was just to create the original naked shares. You want to naked short the stock into the ground which could take decades, so you’d want this pool you created to last as long as possible.
These naked shares from the Market Maker to the Hedge Fund would be insured through futures and/or LEAPS. I believe they would likely insure them with one another using futures contracts instead of LEAPS, but I’m not positive. Either way, this “insurance” means that if it gets to expiration and the Hedge Fund hasn’t delivered shares, the Market Maker can use those futures contracts to force delivery. But why might we also see naked shorters holding huge amounts of options? The options could be hedging and leveraging with the wider market (not other naked shorters).
So, if naked shorters are using futures to insure that they won’t be left holding the bag with one another then they would likely want to use common expiration dates for LEAPS. That lets them grab some “insurance” (Call Options) and extra leverage (Put Options) from non-naked shorters. If the naked shorters position blows up and they owe the other naked shorter shares then they can use their calls to get some shares from the market. Or if they’re position does well then they can make extra profits off of their puts.
Here’s a diagram that will hopefully explain some of this better:
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The Hedge Fund is selling the naked shares from the Deadpool through the Market Maker into retail hands. Now the hedge fund like the market maker is going to want some futures or calls to make sure the market maker sells the shares back to him. But they’ll probably do this on a shorter timeline. Maybe they built the dealpool with three year expirations. Now they’ll naked short to retail probably using 1 year expirations.
I think retails average is about nine months for holding a stock. A year should be enough time to find a new share to buy in order to close/roll an old naked share. Retail naked shares would likely expire every March, June, September, December. Naked shorters are constantly closing and rolling their naked shorts with retail throughout the year. Or at least that’s the idea, usually retail sells pretty quickly and naked shorters can keep driving the price down.
Here’s a diagram to visualize deadpools and retail pools together. The red is the deadpool. The deadpools are the original pools of naked shares that are created with long expirations. It would make sense to have these expire three years out so 1. they last long – don’t have to keep creating naked shares and 2. they can be hedged/leveraged with the wider market using common expiration dates.
Then the yellow would be the pools of naked shares that are sold to retail. These would have shorter expirations because ideally the naked shorter would want to churn these in a year or less.
The naked shorters create a big deadpool of naked shares that will expire in three years. Then, if they’re using 1 year expirations with retail, they can use those naked shares in the market up to three times.
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Now look at where expiration dates line up between red pools and yellow pools. January and June. January and June are common expiration dates for LEAPS. Again, if the naked shorters want to hedge/leverage with the wider market then these would be the expiration dates they would want to build their naked shares around.
If the naked shares are built in this way then January of 2021 could have been a time where some of the Retail Pool and some of the Deadpool were expiring. Let’s say it’s a big expiration time and there are not enough shares. Maybe some DFV dude and a bunch of other retail investors are buying calls and shares. In this scenario, the Market Maker would try to find shares to close/roll the position. If unable, then the Hedge Fund would need to exercise their “insurance” and demand the shares from the MM. The Market Maker also has “insurance” though because he’s the big boy and he won’t be left holding the bag. The MM throws down his uno reverse card and screams, “No! You!”
BASKET THEORY – Why do other stocks move hard with GME at certain times?
Alright, let’s say naked shorters are building their positions how I’ve laid out. When naked shorters open the ETFs at the beginning of the deadpool, they are also pulling out naked shares of other companies. They could use those shares for a lot of different things. They could hold them and sell options to make money. Or they could also naked short some of those companies too.
Maybe, they open an ETF and pull out naked GME and some naked POPCORN. They could also naked short POPCORN into the market. It would move differently on a shorter timescale to GME because they’re rolling the position with retail a year at a time. It might move more in line with GME on a longer time scale.
When the deadpool expires they need to finish buying shares and creating ETFs. That could mean buying a bunch of different stocks at one time. Buy some the remaining GME, POPCORN, HEADPHONES, etc. and close/finish rolling your deadpool position by packaging those shares up into nice little ETFs.
2021 – 2024
This could all explain some of the wild stuff we’ve been seeing lately.
  1. Big price movement could signify that a big chunk of the deadpool opened three years ago could be expiring. Was all of that position rolled? Was a really big chunk of the deadpool created three years ago? I honestly have no clue.
  2. June would likely be when a chunk of retail naked shares also need to be closed/rolled. Retail naked shares expiring would be a yearly occurrence.
  3. Price movement of unrelated stocks. If a big chunk of the deadpool was built three years ago and is now expiring that would mean that shares need to be bought in order to finally create some ETFs. ETFs are made from baskets of stocks. If a naked shorters need to buy some other companies to build their ETFs then you could see price jumps in unrelated stocks.
  4. The naked shorted company sells some shares. Sure, some suspicious shit happened with your stock and maybe it could be naked shorting, but naked shorting is illegal and shorts closed, right? Really you just need cash to revolutionize your company so you put it out there that you’d like to start sell some shares. This could look like an off ramp for anyone who was naked shorting or someone who inherited a bunch of naked shorts. Might as well ask if you can get some of those shares. You know exactly when a large chunk of the deadpool is expiring because you’re know holding that toxic shit, so you’ll wait until the last minute to get out. How do you “insure” you can get out? If you can’t get enough shares directly from the company or from the market then your next best bet is options…
  5. Lots of options being bought lately. Let’s say you know you need a shit ton of shares soon and you have a pretty strong feeling that the stock price could rocket soon. You have a finite amount of cash you can spend on shares. You can buy options! We covered how they’re like insurance.
Let’s keep the math simple and use 100 batches since options are sold in 100 share batches. You need 100 shares of Stock A by June 22nd. Stock A is around $20. You do the math and find out you have enough money to buy 100 shares and 1 $20 call. 100 shares of stock A at $20 would be $2000 and let’s say the call would be about $200. You have $2200 total. Now, there’s no guarantee that you can get 100 shares in the market for $20, especially if you think buying pressure is about to turn on hard. By your 100th share you could be paying a lot more, meaning your $2200 could run out before you have 100 shares.
And you NEED 100 shares! The call insures that someone else has to find the shares for $20 each. You spend your $200 on the call option expiring June 22nd. Now you’re guaranteed to get your 100 shares for $20 each even if the price skyrockets. You spent $2200 on 100 shares.
Again, no one knows who is buying these calls or why, but this could line up nicely with my theory that a chunk of the deadpool is expiring soon.
I don’t want to get anyone excited for MOASS. I’ve made bad predictions in the past. In the past I thought a MOASS would probably happen in March, but that was because I hadn’t connected the deadpool to everything. Don’t get hyped, but if deadpools are built with January and June expirations then it would make sense that MOASS could happen in January or June. It would explain why naked shorters almost got fucked in January 2021. If, they were able to survive and push a huge chunk of their deadpool out three years then June 2024 could be a rough time for them. I’m not going to say it’s a guarantee of a MOASS this June/July. I will say that I really would not want to be a naked shorter trying to roll a bad bet on GME this June.
Now this is all conjecture, but what if part of the deadpool needed to be rolled in January of 2021? Meaning the Hedge Fund needed to settle up with the Market Maker so they could finish closing the deadpool and keep the position rolling.
Now the Deadpool was the original pool of naked shares. The Market Maker pulled these naked shares out of ETFs and sent them to the Hedge Fund. Naked shorters usually want to keep the train going until the company is bankrupt so they’d usually keep closing and rolling the deadpool until that happens.
So, if you’ve followed along then January of 2021 could have been a pretty key date where a Market Maker may have needed to buy to settle a portion of the Retail Pool. These would be shares that the Hedge Fund naked shorted to retail through the Market Maker – insuring with futures and/or LEAPS. Then the Hedge Fund would have also needed to finish settling a portion of the Deadpool back to the Market Maker that’s about to expire. Again, these deadpool naked shares are the original naked shares pulled out of ETFs, probably three years ago. They’ve been using and abusing that naked share with retail for three years, probably a year or so at a time.
If the position blew up, say in January of 2021 then some Hedge Funds would have also blown the fuck up. First, the market maker would go to the market and try to buy shares. No shares. The market maker turns to the hedge fund and says, “sorry, no shares.” This is why the Hedge Fund bough “insurance” or hedged with his “buddy”. The Hedge Fund uses his contracts with the Market Maker to say, “here’s the cash, where are the shares?”
The Market Maker plays his reverse uno card: The original contracts he made with the Hedge Fund when the naked shares were created and says, “No! You!”
Hedge Fund: Fuck! There are no shares!
MM: Not my problem. Where are my shares?
Market: No shares.
The Market Maker has the Hedge Funds other positions liquidated until there’s enough cash to buy shares in the market. In asinine cases where this happens the market might allow the Market Maker to just turn off the buy button to save his sorry ass. This is considered by many to be complete bullshit.
The deadpool is closed/rolled. Possibly three years into the future. 2021 to 2024.
I think there might always be a Deadpool that then feeds the Retail Pool.
My other DD adds to the Deadpool theory and rehashes some of this, but the gist is that if you can create a deadpool with your “buddy” then could you just add a ton to the deadpool three years ago through the market to drive the price down and not add it to the retail pool. In other words, more naked shares that drive the price down, but they end up in your “friends” hands. He also want to drive the price down so you can worry less.
Adding to the deadpool in a really desperate time would make sense to me. Now if a bunch of shares were added to the deadpool three years ago and were split by the splividend then how does that all work? I think with a normal split, naked shares that are split in the deadpool could be settled with cash. Does the splividend change that?
In other words, if there were a bunch of naked shares shat into the deadpool three years ago. Then they were split, but delivery was delayed until expiration. And now they’re finally expiring. Can they be settled with cash or do real shares need to be bought to fulfill the long overdue splividend?
THE DRS POOL
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This just tries to simplify thing. The way the naked share is likely built results in it ending up in a deadpool between the naked shorters. They then pull naked shares from the deadpool and send them out into the market to naked short.
Good thing, you have recourse! Believe you’ve been sold a naked share?! Your only way to truly find out if you have a real share or not is by DRSing. Pull your shares into the DRS Pool. Now you can have peace of mind that it’s a real share.
ENDGAME
If I were a naked shorter facing a potential MOASS, what would I do?
  1. CHAOS & INFIGHTING – I would make sure I have as much control over the group as I could. If a MOASS pops off then I want to get hodlers fighting and not listening to one another. Confusion! Panic! Sell! I need their shares! I need hodlers to sell!
If I’m a naked shorter then I don’t want people to stay calm. I don’t want them learning about the market or sharing what they’ve learned. I want confusion.
  1. FEAR OF CALLS – Yes, I am pro options, but no I’m not telling you to go buy options. Options are risky, but if you know what you’re doing they can be very beneficial. In this scenario, I’m a naked shorter facing down a MOASS and I want people to sell shares. I really don’t want hodlers buying LONG CALLS or LEAPS. These are call options shot way out into the future, they’re risky, but less risky then short term options. Now, if I’m a naked shorter why don’t I want hodlers buying LONG CALLS?
  2. I could hedge that position by buying shares – if I’m super naked I probably won’t though. But if someone else sells the call they might hedge by buying shares.
  3. I want shares! I NEED shares! If I start smashing that buy button and no one sells then the price goes up until someone does. If everyone is hodling their shares and the price is going up then CALL options are getting more expensive. That means if hodlers have shares and calls they can sell the calls for profits and not sell me (the naked shorter) a single one of their shares. They can keep hodling, and/or use call profits to buy more shares and/or buy calls.
The price rises. Hodlers sell their calls for profits instead of their shares. I can’t find shares. The price rises. Hopefully, you get the picture.
HOW WOULD A MOASS START IN THIS SCENARIO?
Alright, we don’t know why a MOASS would pop off. It would probably be expiration dates and/or too many DRSd shares. But we still actually do know why: naked shorting, not enough shares, buy button smashed, price goes boom!
If it’s built the way I explained here, then MOASS means the Market Maker went to the market to buy some shares and there weren’t enough shares. But they like REALLY NEED SHARES. The price rises.
If it gets to expiration of some of the retail naked shares and they haven’t been rolled then the position starts unraveling.
MM: No shares.
HF: Contract. Shares now!
MM: No! You!
HF: Fuck.
MM: Margin Call
HF: I’m dying.
Let’s say this is what happened last time. The Hedge Funds blew up, if it happened again, would it now be a Market Maker and a bigger Market Maker stuck in this death loop?
MM: I have assumed the position.
lol
MM: Fuck, you know what I meant. I absorbed the HF’s toxic naked shorts!
So, if the Market Maker absorbed the naked short side of the play and is now the one who will be margin called. Who absorbed the Market Maker’s side? The one holding the “No! You!” reverse uno card this time around? If the Market Maker can’t survive like the Hedge Fund? Can the new guy survive like the MM did last time?
TL;DR
Some PhD papers by Welborn everyone needs to read like three years ago!
Options were used to naked short in the past – Welborn explains how.
ETFs likely used now – again, read Welborn. Please!
I layout how ETFs are likely pulled apart and shuffled around to create naked shares or what I like to call a deadpool. Dead shares that shouldn’t even exist.
Then the deadpool is pulled from to send naked shares into the market.
Again, if you want to learn how I got here I have a long DD from a year ago in my history OR preferably go read Welborn’s work.
The way this is all done means because of the way the naked shares are sent to market there could be weird price movement around triple-witching dates. March/April, June/July, SeptembeOctober, DecembeJanuary. Triple-witching dates are March, June, September, December, but I push them out a month because Market Makers get a little extra leeway that us common folk don’t get. Again, in my old DD I talk about why they could potentially have an extra month tacked onto their expirations.
Then because of the way the shares are originally pulled out of ETFs there could be weird movement around common expirations for LEAPS. January and June.
January and June could be extra special times where a batch of naked shares are expiring in the hands of retail and need to finish being rolled. While, also having a batch of naked shares originally created for the deadpool that need to finish being rolled.
I know this is all confusing, but basically I believe the rules allow a loophole for naked shorting through ETFs. I believe the way those naked shares are created makes a deadpool parked with naked shorters. When they want to match a buy on the market (retail buys a share) they then pull a naked share out of the deadpool and send it to retail. Naked shares in the deadpool hangout for about three years at a time meaning they need to be closed or rolled within 3 years. Naked shares to retail would likely be done with a 1 year expiration since retail usually churns through shares fast. You’re able to create a naked share and sell it to retail and buy it back and sell it and buy it several times before the naked share needs to be renewed (rolled – a new naked share created and the old one finally closed).
Using ETFs could also explain weird movements in other stocks. If you’re already pulling a bunch of different stocks out of the ETF (not just GME) then you could use some of those naked shares to naked short other stocks as well. You’d be selling to retail at different times so the price may not move in tandem around the triple-witching dates, but they could move similarly around deadpool expiration dates. Remember, to close the naked shares from the deadpool you need to buy shares and create the ETFs. January 2021 could be a time where you need to buy a bunch of different stocks to close/roll some of the deadpool. June 2024 could also be a time where naked shorters might need to buy a bunch of different stocks in order to finally create some ETFs. You might see some unrelated stocks suddenly increasing in price at the same time.
In my opinion, if a stock is heavily naked shorted, then a MOASS would kick off for 1 of 2 reasons.
  1. All or enough of the Real Shares are DRSd, and the naked short position is revealed in the market.
  2. Converging expiration dates cause naked shorters to buy large amounts of stock at one time mixed with strong retail buying. I think this may have been what happened in January 2021 – it’s a common expiration date for the derivatives used to naked short and there was strong retail buying. It’s possible something similar is happening in June of 2024 – a common expiration date and would be 3 years from 2021 allowing for LEAPS to be bought on the wider market. And this time around, there’s also still strong buy pressure, hodling, and DRSing.
This summer could be exciting, but it’s not a MOASS guarantee. I think DRSing and hodling is the only true guarantee to uncover naked shorting.
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2024.05.28 18:32 spacedebriss Expanding on my Deadpool Theory: Does everything comes from the Deadpool?

Expanding on my Deadpool Theory: Does everything comes from the Deadpool?
THE DEADPOOL THEORY
I stayed up way too late last night and got up way too early this morning trying to put this together. I should probably edit it more, but oh well. This is what I have. I need to go do some other stuff now.
NONE OF THIS IS FINANCIAL ADVICE.
Probably should have waited to post until I toiled some more. I want to add to the deadpool theory. Not take away from it, just add to it. I think the Deadpool and Retail Pool go more hand in hand. I think the Deadpool is the original pool that feeds the retail pool.
The key for me has always been how the naked shares are created. Over a year ago I honestly reached a point where the DD was a jumbled mess in my mind. I wanted to start from zero and see what I could find, but not really zero because I had read a lot of DD, thanks to others I knew what to start searching for, so I set out.
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CITATIONS
If you think I’m pulling all of this out of my ass similar to how naked shares are pulled out of asses then please go read my old DD with charts and figures, goes more in depth, and has some strong citations in my opinion. OR better yet go absorb some of those citations, especially these first four:
1. THREE ESSAYS ON NAKED SHORT SELLING AND FAILS-TO-DELIVER by John W. Welborn
2. MARRIED PUTS, REVERSE CONVERSIONS AND ABUSE OF THE OPTIONS MARKET MAKER EXCEPTION ON THE CHICAGO STOCK EXCHANGE by John W Welborn
3. ETF Short Interest and Failures-to-Deliver: Naked Short Selling or Operational Shorting?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncq35zrFCAg&t=1655s
4. Exchange-Traded Funds, Fails-to-Deliver, and Market Volatility by Thomas Stratmann and John W. Welborn
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2183251
If you’re going to only read one of these then I’d make it this one.
Everybody here should read a little Welborn in my opinion. Dude is the GOAT!
SOME RELEVANT SEC FILINGS:
  1. https://www.sec.gov/investopubs/regsho.htm
  2. https://www.sec.gov/rules/2003/11/commission-guidance-rule-3b-3-and-married-put-transactions
These two are pretty good, especially for understanding the old options loophole.
PDF FILES:
DISCLAIMER: these links will try to download a PDF from the SEC’s website
  1. https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/34-50103.pdf
  2. https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2012/34-67451.pdf
  3. https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2007/34-56212fr.pdf
  4. https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2008/34-58775fr.pdf
  5. https://www.sec.gov/rules/othe2008/34-58190.pdf
  6. https://www.sec.gov/rules/othe2008/34-58592.pdf
  7. https://www.sec.gov/rules/othe2008/34-58572.pdf
  8. https://www.sec.gov/rules/othe2008/34-58723.pdf
  9. https://www.sec.gov/rules/othe2008/34-58711.pdf
  10. https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2008/34-58773.pdf
  11. https://www.sec.gov/about/offices/ocie/options-trading-risk-alert.pdf
  12. https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2008/34-58775.pdf
  13. https://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/2006/34-54154.pdf
  14. https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/nscc/2020/34-89088.pdf
MORE SEC
  1. https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2008/2008-143.htm
  2. https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2008/2008-155.htm
  3. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgadata/1159510/000137036821000064/a210729-ex992.htm
PLAYING BY THE RULES?
I wanted to research that old DD by looking at the rules of naked shorting. When I would look into old DD and theories, I kept ending up at the answer of fraud. They didn’t stand up to the rules, unless lots o’ fraud was involved. Until I got to ETFs….
Now again, if you want more info go read the first four citations up at the top. The first 2 citations are PhD papers covering possible naked shorting and the Options loophole. This is the old way, this Options loophole was closed by the SEC back in 2008. For the new ETF way of naked shorting you can explore citations 3 and 4. These two citations cover how ETFs could be used to still naked short today. This is why I always felt the reactions to my old DD were so strange. I’m basically saying there could be a monstrous naked shorting position out in the market and it could be operating under the rules. No fraud is needed! Why didn’t superstonk respond with more positivity to my old DD a year ago?! I still think that DD did a pretty good job of laying out how naked shorters could be operating under the rules.
The rules make it clear to me that:
BULLET SWAPS – Can’t be used to make naked shares of a stock. If a naked shorter points to bullet swaps as where they got the shares from then the SEC should laugh in their face. You would need a lot of SEC fraud. Bullet swaps would have other good uses, but not for the actual creation of naked shares.
REHYPOTHECATION – The idea here is that the naked shorter borrows shares infinitely. The naked shorter points to the borrow and sure the SEC could let that pass, but it should still count as a borrow. Otherwise, you need more SEC fraud to explain this one. The Market should see the naked short position because it should be tagged as borrowed, and the naked shorter would also need to pay for that borrow. These are both things the naked shorter is trying to avoid – that’s why they create naked shares rather than borrow shares. Alternatively, the naked shorter could have a deal with a broker. The naked shorter does infinite borrows off of the brokers stock, but again you would need fraud from the broker and the broker would likely demand payment on the “borrows”. For rehypothecation to work you need a lot of fraud and naked shorters would likely need to pay borrow fees. Properly creating naked shares within the rules means no borrowing would be done (could be expensive) and means no fraud has to be done.
OPTIONS – This is where it gets confusing. Options used to be used to naked short, I wrote a big DD on this about a year ago. It has a lot of pictures and deep dives into a lot of stuff including options. If you want to learn more about the options loophole, don’t read my old DD, scroll back up to the top and read some of Welborn’s Options work (citations 1 and 2).
You would need two participants to naked short back in the day and I believe that’s how it’s still done today. One would be a Market Maker and one would typically be a Hedge Fund. The Market Maker had special privileges around options, MMs and only MMs could point to un-exercised options as a locate for shares. They create shares out of thin air and send them to a hedge fund. The hedge fund sells the MM back futures contracts and/or calls. The Market Maker uses the calls as a locates and the Market is none the wiser. Or is just apathetic. But they were technically following the rules as written. These packages of naked shares would have been built with options, futures, and naked shares all packaged together. This Options Market Maker loophole went away in 2008.
Options should not be an effective loophole for creating massive amounts of naked shares anymore. Again, you would need lots of SEC fraud.
ETFs – I’m not just throwing ETFs out there. There is a fucking fantastic Welborn paper (citation 4) and also a youtube video from a business professor (citation 3) on ETFs and how ETFs could possibly be used to naked short. To use ETFs you would still need a Market Maker and a Hedge Fund (the HF could be another MM or big institution). The Market Maker has special privileges. 1. They can pull shares out of ETFs. 2. They can also set future redemption/creation dates with that same Hedge Fund and not tell anybody. It seems the Options loophole to naked short was replaced with an ETF redemption/creation loophole to naked short.
Here’s a footnote in an SEC filing – I think this could be a smoking gun:
https://preview.redd.it/wl18r6p7273d1.png?width=593&format=png&auto=webp&s=2072c332bad9ba42c108ed477fbb0d27d4e983b8
Page 10 from: https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/nscc/2020/34-89088.pdf
The new ETF loophole:
  1. The Market Maker and the Hedge Fund enter into an agreement that the Market Maker will create ETFs for the Hedge Fund far in the future.
  2. The Market Maker sends naked ETFs to the Hedge Fund.
  3. The Hedge Fund sends the naked ETFs back to the Market Maker and redeems them (requests) that the ETFs be opened up for the (naked) shares inside.
If the SEC comes sniffing around they’re just going to see a bunch of shares sitting in the Hedge Funds account. They were pulled out of an ETF for him by the Market Maker. The SEC goes to the Market Maker and the Market Maker says, “yep, pulled ‘‘em out of ETFs for the Hedge Fund.” SEC says, “cool”.
If the SEC goes back to the Hedge Fund and asks where they got the ETFs from he points to the Market Maker. SEC, “sounds good, can I leave you my resume?”
If the SEC goes to the Market Maker and asks where he got the ETFs, the Market Maker would probably say, “Ha! Fuck if I know! I could buy and sell a million of that fucking ETF in a day. You want to look through our ledgers?” SEC, “Oh. I should probably take ‘em, but I’ll just look at porn instead. You guys hiring?”
  1. 4. The Hedge Fund now has naked shares from the Market Maker that look like real shares to the SEC. The Hedge Fund can sell them into the market to naked short and it just looks like selling shares. The Deadpool has been created.
The Deadpool. Naked shorters creating a pool of naked shares between themselves. Now they’d likely want to set expirations for this position far in the future. The Deadpool was just to create the original naked shares. You want to naked short the stock into the ground which could take decades, so you’d want this pool you created to last as long as possible.
These naked shares from the Market Maker to the Hedge Fund would be insured through futures and/or LEAPS. I believe they would likely insure them with one another using futures contracts instead of LEAPS, but I’m not positive. Either way, this “insurance” means that if it gets to expiration and the Hedge Fund hasn’t delivered shares, the Market Maker can use those futures contracts to force delivery. But why might we also see naked shorters holding huge amounts of options? The options could be hedging and leveraging with the wider market (not other naked shorters).
So, if naked shorters are using futures to insure that they won’t be left holding the bag with one another then they would likely want to use common expiration dates for LEAPS. That lets them grab some “insurance” (Call Options) and extra leverage (Put Options) from non-naked shorters. If the naked shorters position blows up and they owe the other naked shorter shares then they can use their calls to get some shares from the market. Or if they’re position does well then they can make extra profits off of their puts.
Here’s a diagram that will hopefully explain some of this better:
https://preview.redd.it/bfupzl3f273d1.png?width=768&format=png&auto=webp&s=6cb63fd2f137a5f0b71d304663d91b16fdcd6ac4
The Hedge Fund is selling the naked shares from the Deadpool through the Market Maker into retail hands. Now the hedge fund like the market maker is going to want some futures or calls to make sure the market maker sells the shares back to him. But they’ll probably do this on a shorter timeline. Maybe they built the dealpool with three year expirations. Now they’ll naked short to retail probably using 1 year expirations.
I think retails average is about nine months for holding a stock. A year should be enough time to find a new share to buy in order to close/roll an old naked share. Retail naked shares would likely expire every March, June, September, December. Naked shorters are constantly closing and rolling their naked shorts with retail throughout the year. Or at least that’s the idea, usually retail sells pretty quickly and naked shorters can keep driving the price down.
Here’s a diagram to visualize deadpools and retail pools together. The red is the deadpool. The deadpools are the original pools of naked shares that are created with long expirations. It would make sense to have these expire three years out so 1. they last long – don’t have to keep creating naked shares and 2. they can be hedged/leveraged with the wider market using common expiration dates.
Then the yellow would be the pools of naked shares that are sold to retail. These would have shorter expirations because ideally the naked shorter would want to churn these in a year or less.
The naked shorters create a big deadpool of naked shares that will expire in three years. Then, if they’re using 1 year expirations with retail, they can use those naked shares in the market up to three times.
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Now look at where expiration dates line up between red pools and yellow pools. January and June. January and June are common expiration dates for LEAPS. Again, if the naked shorters want to hedge/leverage with the wider market then these would be the expiration dates they would want to build their naked shares around.
If the naked shares are built in this way then January of 2021 could have been a time where some of the Retail Pool and some of the Deadpool were expiring. Let’s say it’s a big expiration time and there are not enough shares. Maybe some DFV dude and a bunch of other retail investors are buying calls and shares. In this scenario, the Market Maker would try to find shares to close/roll the position. If unable, then the Hedge Fund would need to exercise their “insurance” and demand the shares from the MM. The Market Maker also has “insurance” though because he’s the big boy and he won’t be left holding the bag. The MM throws down his uno reverse card and screams, “No! You!”
BASKET THEORY – Why do other stocks move hard with GME at certain times?
Alright, let’s say naked shorters are building their positions how I’ve laid out. When naked shorters open the ETFs at the beginning of the deadpool, they are also pulling out naked shares of other companies. They could use those shares for a lot of different things. They could hold them and sell options to make money. Or they could also naked short some of those companies too.
Maybe, they open an ETF and pull out naked GME and some naked POPCORN. They could also naked short POPCORN into the market. It would move differently on a shorter timescale to GME because they’re rolling the position with retail a year at a time. It might move more in line with GME on a longer time scale.
When the deadpool expires they need to finish buying shares and creating ETFs. That could mean buying a bunch of different stocks at one time. Buy some the remaining GME, POPCORN, HEADPHONES, etc. and close/finish rolling your deadpool position by packaging those shares up into nice little ETFs.
2021 – 2024
This could all explain some of the wild stuff we’ve been seeing lately.
  1. Big price movement could signify that a big chunk of the deadpool opened three years ago could be expiring. Was all of that position rolled? Was a really big chunk of the deadpool created three years ago? I honestly have no clue.
  2. June would likely be when a chunk of retail naked shares also need to be closed/rolled. Retail naked shares expiring would be a yearly occurrence.
  3. Price movement of unrelated stocks. If a big chunk of the deadpool was built three years ago and is now expiring that would mean that shares need to be bought in order to finally create some ETFs. ETFs are made from baskets of stocks. If a naked shorters need to buy some other companies to build their ETFs then you could see price jumps in unrelated stocks.
  4. The naked shorted company sells some shares. Sure, some suspicious shit happened with your stock and maybe it could be naked shorting, but naked shorting is illegal and shorts closed, right? Really you just need cash to revolutionize your company so you put it out there that you’d like to start sell some shares. This could look like an off ramp for anyone who was naked shorting or someone who inherited a bunch of naked shorts. Might as well ask if you can get some of those shares. You know exactly when a large chunk of the deadpool is expiring because you’re know holding that toxic shit, so you’ll wait until the last minute to get out. How do you “insure” you can get out? If you can’t get enough shares directly from the company or from the market then your next best bet is options…
  5. Lots of options being bought lately. Let’s say you know you need a shit ton of shares soon and you have a pretty strong feeling that the stock price could rocket soon. You have a finite amount of cash you can spend on shares. You can buy options! We covered how they’re like insurance.
Let’s keep the math simple and use 100 batches since options are sold in 100 share batches. You need 100 shares of Stock A by June 22nd. Stock A is around $20. You do the math and find out you have enough money to buy 100 shares and 1 $20 call. 100 shares of stock A at $20 would be $2000 and let’s say the call would be about $200. You have $2200 total. Now, there’s no guarantee that you can get 100 shares in the market for $20, especially if you think buying pressure is about to turn on hard. By your 100th share you could be paying a lot more, meaning your $2200 could run out before you have 100 shares.
And you NEED 100 shares! The call insures that someone else has to find the shares for $20 each. You spend your $200 on the call option expiring June 22nd. Now you’re guaranteed to get your 100 shares for $20 each even if the price skyrockets. You spent $2200 on 100 shares.
Again, no one knows who is buying these calls or why, but this could line up nicely with my theory that a chunk of the deadpool is expiring soon.
I don’t want to get anyone excited for MOASS. I’ve made bad predictions in the past. In the past I thought a MOASS would probably happen in March, but that was because I hadn’t connected the deadpool to everything. Don’t get hyped, but if deadpools are built with January and June expirations then it would make sense that MOASS could happen in January or June. It would explain why naked shorters almost got fucked in January 2021. If, they were able to survive and push a huge chunk of their deadpool out three years then June 2024 could be a rough time for them. I’m not going to say it’s a guarantee of a MOASS this June/July. I will say that I really would not want to be a naked shorter trying to roll a bad bet on GME this June.
Now this is all conjecture, but what if part of the deadpool needed to be rolled in January of 2021? Meaning the Hedge Fund needed to settle up with the Market Maker so they could finish closing the deadpool and keep the position rolling.
Now the Deadpool was the original pool of naked shares. The Market Maker pulled these naked shares out of ETFs and sent them to the Hedge Fund. Naked shorters usually want to keep the train going until the company is bankrupt so they’d usually keep closing and rolling the deadpool until that happens.
So, if you’ve followed along then January of 2021 could have been a pretty key date where a Market Maker may have needed to buy to settle a portion of the Retail Pool. These would be shares that the Hedge Fund naked shorted to retail through the Market Maker – insuring with futures and/or LEAPS. Then the Hedge Fund would have also needed to finish settling a portion of the Deadpool back to the Market Maker that’s about to expire. Again, these deadpool naked shares are the original naked shares pulled out of ETFs, probably three years ago. They’ve been using and abusing that naked share with retail for three years, probably a year or so at a time.
If the position blew up, say in January of 2021 then some Hedge Funds would have also blown the fuck up. First, the market maker would go to the market and try to buy shares. No shares. The market maker turns to the hedge fund and says, “sorry, no shares.” This is why the Hedge Fund bough “insurance” or hedged with his “buddy”. The Hedge Fund uses his contracts with the Market Maker to say, “here’s the cash, where are the shares?”
The Market Maker plays his reverse uno card: The original contracts he made with the Hedge Fund when the naked shares were created and says, “No! You!”
Hedge Fund: Fuck! There are no shares!
MM: Not my problem. Where are my shares?
Market: No shares.
The Market Maker has the Hedge Funds other positions liquidated until there’s enough cash to buy shares in the market. In asinine cases where this happens the market might allow the Market Maker to just turn off the buy button to save his sorry ass. This is considered by many to be complete bullshit.
The deadpool is closed/rolled. Possibly three years into the future. 2021 to 2024.
I think there might always be a Deadpool that then feeds the Retail Pool.
My other DD adds to the Deadpool theory and rehashes some of this, but the gist is that if you can create a deadpool with your “buddy” then could you just add a ton to the deadpool three years ago through the market to drive the price down and not add it to the retail pool. In other words, more naked shares that drive the price down, but they end up in your “friends” hands. He also want to drive the price down so you can worry less.
Adding to the deadpool in a really desperate time would make sense to me. Now if a bunch of shares were added to the deadpool three years ago and were split by the splividend then how does that all work? I think with a normal split, naked shares that are split in the deadpool could be settled with cash. Does the splividend change that?
In other words, if there were a bunch of naked shares shat into the deadpool three years ago. Then they were split, but delivery was delayed until expiration. And now they’re finally expiring. Can they be settled with cash or do real shares need to be bought to fulfill the long overdue splividend?
THE DRS POOL
https://preview.redd.it/2yv2husj273d1.png?width=1366&format=png&auto=webp&s=21dd192a3f928710978067ddd41ef445d74b50bc
This just tries to simplify thing. The way the naked share is likely built results in it ending up in a deadpool between the naked shorters. They then pull naked shares from the deadpool and send them out into the market to naked short.
Good thing, you have recourse! Believe you’ve been sold a naked share?! Your only way to truly find out if you have a real share or not is by DRSing. Pull your shares into the DRS Pool. Now you can have peace of mind that it’s a real share.
ENDGAME
If I were a naked shorter facing a potential MOASS, what would I do?
  1. CHAOS & INFIGHTING – I would make sure I have as much control over the group as I could. If a MOASS pops off then I want to get hodlers fighting and not listening to one another. Confusion! Panic! Sell! I need their shares! I need hodlers to sell!
If I’m a naked shorter then I don’t want people to stay calm. I don’t want them learning about the market or sharing what they’ve learned. I want confusion.
  1. FEAR OF CALLS – Yes, I am pro options, but no I’m not telling you to go buy options. Options are risky, but if you know what you’re doing they can be very beneficial. In this scenario, I’m a naked shorter facing down a MOASS and I want people to sell shares. I really don’t want hodlers buying LONG CALLS or LEAPS. These are call options shot way out into the future, they’re risky, but less risky then short term options. Now, if I’m a naked shorter why don’t I want hodlers buying LONG CALLS?
  2. I could hedge that position by buying shares – if I’m super naked I probably won’t though. But if someone else sells the call they might hedge by buying shares.
  3. I want shares! I NEED shares! If I start smashing that buy button and no one sells then the price goes up until someone does. If everyone is hodling their shares and the price is going up then CALL options are getting more expensive. That means if hodlers have shares and calls they can sell the calls for profits and not sell me (the naked shorter) a single one of their shares. They can keep hodling, and/or use call profits to buy more shares and/or buy calls.
The price rises. Hodlers sell their calls for profits instead of their shares. I can’t find shares. The price rises. Hopefully, you get the picture.
HOW WOULD A MOASS START IN THIS SCENARIO?
Alright, we don’t know why a MOASS would pop off. It would probably be expiration dates and/or too many DRSd shares. But we still actually do know why: naked shorting, not enough shares, buy button smashed, price goes boom!
If it’s built the way I explained here, then MOASS means the Market Maker went to the market to buy some shares and there weren’t enough shares. But they like REALLY NEED SHARES. The price rises.
If it gets to expiration of some of the retail naked shares and they haven’t been rolled then the position starts unraveling.
MM: No shares.
HF: Contract. Shares now!
MM: No! You!
HF: Fuck.
MM: Margin Call
HF: I’m dying.
Let’s say this is what happened last time. The Hedge Funds blew up, if it happened again, would it now be a Market Maker and a bigger Market Maker stuck in this death loop?
MM: I have assumed the position.
lol
MM: Fuck, you know what I meant. I absorbed the HF’s toxic naked shorts!
So, if the Market Maker absorbed the naked short side of the play and is now the one who will be margin called. Who absorbed the Market Maker’s side? The one holding the “No! You!” reverse uno card this time around? If the Market Maker can’t survive like the Hedge Fund? Can the new guy survive like the MM did last time?
TL;DR
Some PhD papers by Welborn everyone needs to read like three years ago!
Options were used to naked short in the past – Welborn explains how.
ETFs likely used now – again, read Welborn. Please!
I layout how ETFs are likely pulled apart and shuffled around to create naked shares or what I like to call a deadpool. Dead shares that shouldn’t even exist.
Then the deadpool is pulled from to send naked shares into the market.
Again, if you want to learn how I got here I have a long DD from a year ago in my history OR preferably go read Welborn’s work.
The way this is all done means because of the way the naked shares are sent to market there could be weird price movement around triple-witching dates. March/April, June/July, SeptembeOctober, DecembeJanuary. Triple-witching dates are March, June, September, December, but I push them out a month because Market Makers get a little extra leeway that us common folk don’t get. Again, in my old DD I talk about why they could potentially have an extra month tacked onto their expirations.
Then because of the way the shares are originally pulled out of ETFs there could be weird movement around common expirations for LEAPS. January and June.
January and June could be extra special times where a batch of naked shares are expiring in the hands of retail and need to finish being rolled. While, also having a batch of naked shares originally created for the deadpool that need to finish being rolled.
I know this is all confusing, but basically I believe the rules allow a loophole for naked shorting through ETFs. I believe the way those naked shares are created makes a deadpool parked with naked shorters. When they want to match a buy on the market (retail buys a share) they then pull a naked share out of the deadpool and send it to retail. Naked shares in the deadpool hangout for about three years at a time meaning they need to be closed or rolled within 3 years. Naked shares to retail would likely be done with a 1 year expiration since retail usually churns through shares fast. You’re able to create a naked share and sell it to retail and buy it back and sell it and buy it several times before the naked share needs to be renewed (rolled – a new naked share created and the old one finally closed).
Using ETFs could also explain weird movements in other stocks. If you’re already pulling a bunch of different stocks out of the ETF (not just GME) then you could use some of those naked shares to naked short other stocks as well. You’d be selling to retail at different times so the price may not move in tandem around the triple-witching dates, but they could move similarly around deadpool expiration dates. Remember, to close the naked shares from the deadpool you need to buy shares and create the ETFs. January 2021 could be a time where you need to buy a bunch of different stocks to close/roll some of the deadpool. June 2024 could also be a time where naked shorters might need to buy a bunch of different stocks in order to finally create some ETFs. You might see some unrelated stocks suddenly increasing in price at the same time.
In my opinion, if a stock is heavily naked shorted, then a MOASS would kick off for 1 of 2 reasons.
  1. All or enough of the Real Shares are DRSd, and the naked short position is revealed in the market.
  2. Converging expiration dates cause naked shorters to buy large amounts of stock at one time mixed with strong retail buying. I think this may have been what happened in January 2021 – it’s a common expiration date for the derivatives used to naked short and there was strong retail buying. It’s possible something similar is happening in June of 2024 – a common expiration date and would be 3 years from 2021 allowing for LEAPS to be bought on the wider market. And this time around, there’s also still strong buy pressure, hodling, and DRSing.
This summer could be exciting, but it’s not a MOASS guarantee. I think DRSing and hodling is the only true guarantee to uncover naked shorting.
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2024.05.28 18:19 trippingWetwNoTowel CMV: Elon Musk is just simply a walking, talking, and tweeting example of the Monopoly Experiments

I was a CompSci student from 2003 to 2007, which means for better or worse I was kind of aware of Elon Musk’s career in real time - the sale of PayPal, parlaying that money directly into two huge risky investments; SpaceX and Tesla. I read the Ashley Vance book when it came out, etc. And as a person who is seriously concerned about climate change I was applauding the aggressive push toward EVs at Tesla and his willingness to risk such a windfall on pushing that agenda.
Fast forward to 2019, 2020, and especially after the Twitter purchase - and the person that I had read so much about and applauded much of what he was doing - was starting to look more like just another person and less like the serial-entrepreneur-savant-persona that he had put forward for some time.
I’ve been ruminating on this for some time and finally decided CMV might be the place to post it - but all of this has reminded me of these monopoly experiments where they show that even when a person is directly aware of a coin toss that benefited them over their opponent, they still started to behave in different ways and attributed their accumulation of monopoly wealth directly to their own decision making and not to the coin flip.
If we set aside the South African Emerald mine money, and only focus on the fact that he did play a part at PayPal, the sale of which did allow him to make two very large investments into both SpaceX and Tesla, and look at the fact that both of those investments paid off in a very big way…. And also not get overly distracted by how much he directly contributed at both companies. (It seems fair that he contributed directly earlier on, and equally fair that it wasn’t only him contributing at either of these organizations - many people have worked very hard for both companies to achieve their goals). On that note - say whatever you want about Elon but landing rockets on boats (not his original idea I don’t think, but execution does matter) is pretty fucking cool in my book.
All of this leads me to conclude that outside of Donald Trump, Elon Musk might be the greatest living example of the monopoly experiments being reflected in reality. He obviously worked hard but there were also many factors that contributed to the successes of each of these companies - not all of which were directly under his control.
Every time he tweets = it’s just him banging his piece on the board. Every time he talks about how hard he worked = it’s just him ignoring the other circumstances that led to his wealth (the coin toss) Every time he whines about his taxes or diminishes someone else’s hard work = it’s just him spreading large on the other side of the table and eating all of the pretzels and laughing at people who have less than him (which is basically everyone, when you’re that rich).
CMV?
References for those that aren’t familiar with the monopoly experiments that I’m referring to; - https://nymag.com/news/features/money-brain-2012-7/ - https://www.marketplace.org/2021/01/19/why-rich-people-tend-think-they-deserve-their-money/. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ8Kq1wucsk - https://www.reddit.com/todayilearned/comments/22slwe/til_that_in_a_uc_berkeley_study_where_a_game_of/. - (here’s the direct video of the experiments themselves, which I think is most useful) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qri10wUxyos
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2024.05.28 18:17 DEEERROOON Will this work for csas ?? Ug admission or i have to get central one ? I think this is delhi one

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2024.05.28 18:17 lfg1985wb [WTS] Tuesday Mixed Sale! Book fillers, little silver, little gold

Couple items up for sale today. Mostly book fillers from upgrading my daughter’s collection.
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2024.05.28 17:11 weepingdragons Unsure if I should sue after car accident.

A few weeks ago, I was in an accident that totalled my car which was determined to be the other drivers fault. Now I'm trying to decide if I should sue, and I was looking to get some advice as everyone I talk to says something different. I'm from Massachusetts if that makes any difference.
I was heading home from work on a Friday and was right down the street from home. I was going the speed limit and noticed a vehicle sitting stationary, waiting to take a left turn. There were no stop signs or lights, it's just a normal road. I continued on going straight, and the other driver suddenly started taking their left without giving me nearly enough space to brake. The second I realized she started turning I slammed on my brakes, but obviously there was nothing I could do and my car hit hers. My airbag went off and smoke was coming from the vents. I was able to get out and the woman was instantly Yelling at me, saying how she couldn't believe I hit her and how it was my fault. I will admit I raised my voice and said "no ma'am" 2x and "the speed limit is 35" after she claimed I was speeding and didn't slow down for her. (I actually double checked and it's a 40 mph limit) She was able to drive her car to a side road whereas mine was completely stopped in the middle of the two lanes. Someone called 911 and the police were there within minutes. As an officer was standing there, the other driver went to take photos of my car, and I took a moment to apologize to her for yelling and that it did not help the situation. She continued to yell and blame me, and I just responded to it all with "no ma'am". (Not in a rude way)
Now, an important point to make is I have nasty social anxiety. I take medication for it and the accident definitley put me into shock, but once I got home and everything hit I had a nasty panic attack. I'm so grateful to my partner and his friends who came that night to help me recover, I don't know how I would've done it alone.
Because of that, I didn't have enough in me to take photos of her car even though I should have. Ems came to check me out as I had what I've been calling a "seatbelt hickey" and some pain on my leg and shoulder but I didn't go to the hospital. I did go to urgent care later for documentation of the soreness and bruising, but nothing was considered to be major enough for concern. Considering I was right down the street from home, my partner picked me up. I confirmed with the officer that I could go, and I spent the night dealing with the aftermath.
I later found that the car is totaled, and it still hurts me to think about. The vehicle was a 2007 Pontiac convertible that was gifted to me by it's owner because of how much I have been financially struggling. I am on food stamps and state insurance and work at a school 15 minutes away, and my aunt had been looking to sell and opted to give it to me. It had new seats installed and I barely had it a year before the accident. Now it feels like everything is in shambles. My partner borrows his grandfather's truck whom we rent from and who has been an absolute saint to let me take it to and from work to finish out the school year, but it has been a struggle to work around everyone else's schedules. Unfortunately because of this I'm really unable to find summer work as well. I also have car anxiety in the first place due to an accident I was in as a kid, and this has really bothered me. I am still able to drive, but my anxiety has almost made me pass out while other people are since I'm not in control. I trust myself with driving, but not other people.
I have a few people who have mentioned suing since I doubt I will be getting much (I've been back and forth with insurance for 3 weeks trying to get payment and I feel like I'm going insane. I don't have collision and everyone's on vacation) and I can't afford a new vehicle, but I have others telling me it's a waste of time and will turn out negative in the end. I'm sorry it's such a long story, I just wanted to make sure I got in all the details 😅
Tldr; another driver did not yield to right of way and caused me to crash into them by mistiming a left turn. She repeatedly yelled at me that it was my fault although it was later ruled as hers. The vehicle I was driving was gifted to me because of my current strapped financial situation which I barely had for a year, and it is now totalled, leaving me struggling to work my school job and find summer work.
Any advice is truly appreciated! I know that I can do free consultations, but my dad keeps putting it in my head that if I win they'll take like 90% of the money I win. I also now know to always have collision 😂
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2024.05.28 15:39 kksingh11 Role of IMF in Impoverishing Countries

Role of IMF in Impoverishing Countries
The Communists communist party of great britain (marxist-leninist) Argentina Role of the IMF in impoverishing countries – the case of Argentina How the imperialists use the debt trap to loot the wealth of and enforce their hegemony over oppressed nations.
Imposed by executives in sharp suits and air conditioned offices, the conditions attached to IMF ‘loans’ (funds that very rarely reach the people of an indebted country) amount to a brutal war on the poor and a demand that all the resources of their country should be funnelled to the corporate bloodsuckers in the imperialist heartlands.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was founded at the Bretton Woods conference in July 1944. This financial agency presents an image of itself as a democratic organisation that works “to achieve sustainable growth and prosperity for all of its 190 member countries … by supporting economic policies that promote financial stability and monetary cooperation”. Nothing could be further from reality, however. Not only is the IMF not a democratic organisation but, as this article will show, the policies that it promotes favour only a handful of countries. The decisions of the IMF are related to the ownership of SDRs (special drawing rights), known as the ‘quota’, which by reflecting the relative position of a country in the world economy, determines its voting power. Thanks to this self-perpetuating formula, the United States commands 16.5 percent of IMF votes, while the G7 countries combined (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, United States) command 41.25 percent. In a nutshell, the imperialist countries collectively, and in practice the dominant US imperialists, decide IMF policies, while the 171 non-imperialist countries that together hold less than half of the votes, have to obey them. The cure-all panacea of the IMF for any economy has always been ‘austerity’. In bourgeoise economic lingo, this is euphemistically referred to as ‘fiscal consolidation’ – a process aimed at ‘closing the gap’ between public income and public expenditure. In plain language, this inevitably means slashing pensions, healthcare and education services; cutting the salaries of doctors, teachers and other public servants; selling off publicly owned companies to international investors; cutting taxes to the benefit of corporations and banks; and implementing a raft of macroeconomic policies that will favour international finance capital. To implement these policies, the IMF relies on a so-called ‘surveillance process’, defined as “monitoring the economic and financial policies of member countries and providing them with policy advice … by recommending appropriate policy adjustments”. This in turn must be facilitated by a suitably servile comprador bourgeoise, whose members are willing to assist in this process of looting in return for a few tasty morsels from the imperialist banqueting table, all while the masses are being reduced to destitution. In his powerful The Open Veins of Latin America, Eduardo Galeano pointed out: “With the magical incantation of ‘monetary stabilisation’, the IMF – which not disinterestedly confuses the fever with the disease, inflation with the crisis of existing structures – has imposed on Latin America a policy that accentuates imbalances instead of easing them … liberalises trade by banning direct exchanges … forces the contraction of internal credits … freezes wages, discourages state activity. To this programme it adds sharp monetary devaluations.” (1971, p220) The people of Latin America, Africa and Asia have been suffering from IMF-imposed austerity for decades. For Argentina, the story of deception via its external debt started earlier. In 1824, Buenos Aires negotiated a loan with Britain’s Baring Brothers & Co bank. From the £1m agreed, the country received only £570,000 – not in gold as had been agreed but in paper notes agreeing the sale of British commodities at a price of their choosing! The interest on this extremely one-sided loan soaked up most of the country’s revenues for several decades. After successive rounds of refinancing the, ‘loan’ had been inflated to £4m, and was finally paid off 124 years after it was taken out by the government of Juan Perón in 1947. At the time of writing, yet another debt crisis is creating the conditions for the complete collapse of Argentina’s economy. As has happened at other times of harsh neoliberal austerity regimes (1976-83, 1989-99 and 2015-19), Argentina looks as though it is heading for bankruptcy. The military junta and Argentina’s first neoliberal experiment The military coup of March 1976 provided the opportunity to implement neoliberal policies for the first time in Argentina. During the junta’s rule (1976-83), the country’s industrial base was destroyed, 20,000 manufacturing businesses were closed, and the value added by Argentinean industry, including construction, as a percentage of GDP dropped from 50.89 in 1976 to 41.55 percent in 1983. As a result, the once strong and organised proletariat, which had fought fiercely against dictatorships earlier in the century, disappeared and many workers’ rights were eliminated. As the country moved from production to financial profiteering, the masses were impoverished as the country’s wealth was hoovered up by big corporations and international financial institutions. Before being kidnaped and murdered, Argentine writer Rodolfo Walsh wrote to the military junta: “The economic policies of this junta – which follow the formula of the International Monetary Fund that has been applied indiscriminately to Zaire and Chile, to Uruguay and Indonesia – recognise only the following as beneficiaries: the old ranchers’ oligarchy; the new speculating oligarchy; and a select group of international monopolies headed by ITT, Esso, the automobile industry, US Steel, and Siemens, which Minister Martinez de Hoz and his entire cabinet have personal ties to.” (24 March 1977) During this process, thousands of Argentineans were detained, tortured and killed, and people around the globe learned a new word: “desaparecidos” (the disappeared). Thanks to the good will of the IMF, Argentina’s external debt grew from $7.9bn in 1976 to $46bn in 1983. As one of its last acts in government, the junta nationalised all private debt, making the people of the country responsible for loans taken out by bankers and landowners. Unable to pay this huge debt, Argentina has never been in a ‘normal’ state since; its ‘external debt’ became an ‘eternal debt’, dictating every aspect of economic and social life. Democracy returns but the eternal debt remains In 1983, the first democratically elected government following the junta decided not to reject the external debt inherited dictatorship but to honour it. Thus the government of Raúl Alfonsín, which had incarcerated the junta criminals for their human rights abuses continued the junta’s policy of surrendering control of the economy to the IMF and its monitoring missions. As Fidel Castro correctly pointed out in 1985: “How can a government and a country that has to go every month to discuss with the International Monetary Fund what it is able to do at home be called independent? It is a fiction of independence, and we see this as a national-liberation struggle, which can truly bring together, and for the first time in the history of our hemisphere, all social strata in a struggle to achieve true independence.” Between 1984-88, IMF-imposed policies continued to be enacted, to the benefit of imperialist corporations and financiers. The result was that, despite some success in curbing inflation for a short period in 1985-86, the economy never recovered. In 1989, the Alfonsín government’s last year in office, the IMF withdrew financial support to Argentina in response to missed interest payments, pushing the country into a crisis. Inflation became hyperinflation (reaching a high of more than 3,000 percent annually) and elections were called six months early. In the end, thanks to the recommended policies of the IMF, the debt continued to grow from the $46bn that had been inherited in 1983 to $65bn in 1989. Everything was ready for a second neoliberal experiment. How a popular leader become a neoliberal After the failure of the Alfonsín government, the new president was elected on a platform of social justice, promising to defend jobs, salaries and publicly-owned companies, and to improve the life of millions in the tradition of Peronism. Having been installed in office, however, he changed sides and become the president of the landowners, big corporations and banks. With the support of the IMF, Carlos Menem (1989-99) implemented the recommendations of the ‘Washington consensus’ and applied the mantra of neoliberalism: privatisations, cuts to social expenditure, and further opening of the economy. The first step was to sell off all the publicly-owned companies that had been created through the efforts of several generations of Argentinians. Gas, oil, electricity, telephone, water, airlines and railroads all disappeared as public assets, their wealth being transferred so as to make foreign corporations and corrupt politicians richer at the expense, once again, of the Argentine people. This was followed by a cut in public social expenditure via reductions in spending on education, healthcare and social security, and via the privatisation of state-held pensions assets. Finally, the import duties were slashed, to the benefit of overseas monopoly corporations, allowing foreign goods to flood Argentina’s internal market. The consequent destruction of Argentinean industry, as initiated by the military junta, was now complete. To sustain these policies, the government set a one-to-one exchange rate between the US dollar and the local currency (known as the convertibility law), allowing foreign investors to exchange dollars for pesos, invest the pesos at an interest rate higher than the global IRR (internal rate of return) and then, months later, convert the pesos back to dollars. This operation, known as carry-trade, favoured big investors from around the world to the further detriment of the country’s finances, and was supported by the IMF, which continued lending money to Argentina. In the final years of the Menem government, the country’s economy deteriorated rapidly, poverty and inflation increased, and the country fell into a deep recession in 1998. Corruption was rampant, and anti-government resistance through the first organised cacerolazos (people making noise by banging pots or pans to protest) was on the rise. The IMF had done its job well. During this period, Argentina’s external debt grew to 133 percent of GDP, from $65bn in 1989 to $152bn ten years later. The second neoliberal experiment was reaching its end. Elections and the 2001 collapse The next government arrived promising to resolve the economic crises and fight corruption. Under the direction of the IMF, however, it continued to apply all the same policies that had failed the country before. In August 2001, as foreign deposits were leaving the country, Argentina was unable to pay the interest on its debt and requested an extension of the arrangement. IMF managing director Horst Köhler demanded the substitution of the local currency by the US dollar, and while the government hesitated, the IMF withdrew support. As the economy plummeted, money withdrawals increased, and the government decided to freeze all bank deposits (a measure known as the corralito). Popular protest increased and, incapable of resolving the crisis, the government announced a state of siege. During the ensuing December riots, 36 people were killed by police in the streets. President Fernando de la Rua (1989-2001) resigned on 20 December, and the crisis-hit country had five presidents during the two weeks that followed. Under the slogan “All of them must go!” (Que se vayan todos!), millions of people participated in neighbourhood assemblies, occupying unused land and implementing workers’ self-management in hundreds of factories. In the end, Argentina defaulted on its public debt (at that time $152bn), abandoned the fixed exchange rate by devaluing the peso (40 percent in January to around 300 percent at the end of the first semester of 2002), with the result that production collapsed and high levels of unemployment and poverty become the norm. IMF out of Argentina After the 2001 default, the new government of Nestor Kirchner (2003-07) developed a strategy for undermining the neoliberal agenda that had been responsible for the country’s economic collapse. His government worked to eliminate the permanent interference, recommendations and pressure from the IMF. In 2005, to the dismay of the financial centres, the President Hugo Chávez strengthened Venezuela’s relationship with Argentina. The Bolivarian government bought $2.4bn of Argentina’s debt, providing a welcome boost to the central bank reserves and helping the country to break its dependency on the IMF for debt refinancing. By repaying in full the $9.81bn owed to the IMF, Argentina gained financial independence from the institution’s endless negotiations and recommendations, all of which were unfailingly unfavourable in social and economic terms to Argenina’s people. The repayment followed a similar move by President Lula da Silva of Brazil, whose Workers party government had paid off its IMF debt in full two days earlier. For the first time, Latin America’s two largest economies were in a position to develop social policies that would improve the life of their people. As President Kirchner pointed out: “With this payment, we bury an ignominious past of eternal, infinite indebtedness.” The volume of the inherited external debt didn’t change with the payment to the IMF, but it did allow the government to pursue more independent policies. During the 12-year Kirchner period (Nestor Kirchner’s presidency [2003-07] was followed by two terms of office for his wife Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner [2007-11 and 2011-15]), Argentina implemented economic measures outside the neoliberal toolbox and built a political consensus through a discourse of social justice, economic independence and national autonomy. The economy improved, with GDP up by 62 percent and the value of exports by 81 percent. Unemployment and poverty were significantly reduced, and the government renationalised some of the key sectors that had been privatised during the neoliberal years, the most relevant being Argentina’s national oil company (YPF). The Kirchner government also restructured 93 percent of the country’s foreign debt, on it had defaulted in 2001. A small group of ‘vulture funds’ had acquired credit default swaps (CDS) against Argentinean bonds and $1.3bn of the bonds’ total value for cents, and they pursued the country via various courts in an unceasing quest for full payment. Much to the imperialists’ chagrin, the Kirchner governments never gave in to the vulture funds’ rapacity. Return of the IMF In 2015, the Peronist movement went to the elections divided into different factions, and the election was won by Mauricio Macri (2015-19) supported by a right-wing neoliberal coalition. A third neoliberal experiment was begun in Argentina. During the first 60 days of his government, President Macri paid off the vulture funds, reversed most of the social policies implemented during the Kirchner period, and reintroduced the carry-trade policies that had failed the country in the past – all to the benefit of international finance capital. To fund this massive transfer of wealth, the government increased its external debt once more, from $153bn at the end of 2014 to $280bn in 2019 – an increase of 83 percent in only four years! In June 2018, the Macri government asked the IMF for help, reaching an agreement on a 36-month stand-by arrangement (SBA) amounting to US$50bn (equivalent to about 1,110 percent of Argentina’s quota in the IMF), what has become known as the biggest loan ever in the history of the IMF. IMF managing director Christine Lagarde congratulated the Argentine authorities on reaching this agreement, stating: “The plan owned and designed by the Argentine government is aimed at strengthening the economy for the benefit of all Argentines.” The speed with which the agreement was reached led many to speculate that the intervention of US president Donald Trump in support of the loan was aimed at helping Macri to win the upcoming 2019 elections, giving him some leeway to make investments in social infrastructure. Nothing was further from reality, however: none of the promised schools, hospitals or roads were ever built. The money disappeared in capital flight, in paying dividends to overseas corporations, and in boosting the profit margins of financial institutions. As even the IMF’s own ex-post facto evaluation report admitted: “The programme did not deliver on its objectives … mounting redemptions, along with capital flight by residents, put considerable pressure on the exchange rate.” The result was that “the exchange rate continued to depreciate, increasing inflation and the peso value of public debt, weakening real incomes, especially of the poor”. In 2019, the Peronist ‘Frente de Todos’ (Alberto Fernandez and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner) coalition won the elections for the period 2019-23, and millions hoped for the reversal of Macri’s policies. Sadly, it was not to be. Failure of the Fernandez government Right at the outset, the new government committed a cardinal sin. Instead of repudiating Macri’s IMF agreement, it accepted this vast inherited debt. The ideological limitations of Peronism were clearly revealed, and became a major obstacle to country’s development and to the welfare of millions of Argentinean people. Accepting the IMF agreement, and without any investigation into how this vast sum had been used, the government accepted IMF monitoring missions and found itself forced to limit its plans to implement progressive macroeconomic policies, conduct an independent foreign policy and invest in social services. Recognition of the IMF debt put the government into a trap, as had happened so many times in the past, and Argentine once again became a slave to impossible repayment commitments. The clock for the next economic crisis was ticking again. According to the government, the main causes of the economic debacle were the three consecutive years of drought that affected agricultural production, the mandatory lockdown and social distancing measures for the Covid pandemic, and to a lesser extent the war in Europe. But government and bourgeois politicians of all stripes failed to acknowledge the core of the problem: the IMF and the external debt that had been taken on by the previous government. Neoliberal policies return to Argentina with a vengeance With the victory of Javier Milei (2023), Argentina is returning once again to the bad old days, beginning its fourth neoliberal experiment. During the first days of the Milei government, the local currency was devaluated by 100 percent, public investment in infrastructure was suspended, barriers to the import of goods and services were removed with no consideration to the impact on jobs, energy prices were raised, subsidies for the poorest were reduced, and thousands of public employees were made redundant. At the same time, a complete alliance was declared with the USA, and now Israel, the country’s planned entry into the Brics group was cancelled, and a vociferous discourse was mounted against every progressive government in the region. The IMF was delighted. As director of communications Julie Kozack stated in December 2023: “IMF staff welcome the measures announced earlier today by Argentina’s new economy minister Luis Caputo. These bold initial actions aim to significantly improve public finances in a manner that protects the most vulnerable in society and strengthens the foreign exchange regime. Their decisive implementation will help stabilise the economy and set the basis for more sustainable and private sector-led growth.” In reality, of course, these measures are resulting in mass impoverishment, as reported by the Social Debt Observatory of the UCA (Catholic University of Argentina), which has declared poverty to be at a 20-year high (57.4 percent). This means that 27 million people are now considered poor in Argentina, while extreme poverty is affecting 15 percent of the population. Through a 664-clause bill, President Milei is pushing for further reforms that will destroy the existing social and economic structure of the country in favour of landowners, international corporations and finance capital. The bill will erase worker’s rights that have taken decades to achieve, while also curtailing the right to protest – with penalties of up to six years in prison for participants and organisers of demonstrations. By declaring a state of emergency, Milei is demanding absolute power to govern without the involvement of Congress, following in the steps of Adolf Hitler, who in 1933 pushed the Nazis’ Enabling Act through the Reichstag, granting himself absolute power to make and enforce laws without further parliamentary involvement. Right-wing backbenchers support the bill, while other sections of Argentina’s bourgeois political parties are testing the waters, sometimes mildly confronting the bill or requesting minor changes. Although the majority of backbenchers for UxP (Union por la Patria) are opposed to the bill, changing sides is not an unknown feature of bourgeois political life. Unable to trust backbenchers, Argentina’s main CGT (General Confederation of Workers) trade union has appealed successfully to the National Labour Court, challenging the constitutionality of the labour legislation contained in the proposed law. Since President Milei is refusing to accept any change to the proposed bill, even his supporters are rethinking their position in each of the bill’s clauses. In the latest developments, after some defeats the bill was sent back for further study, constituting a temporary defeat for the government. But this is a war against the people and there is no place or time for complacency. Without a clear political direction, the masses of Argentina are marching again, as in the economic crisis of 2001, to defend their basic rights. Within two months of the installation of a new government, cacerolazos and demonstrations had become the new normality. Those progressive forces who are debating whether or not the time is ripe to confront the government, would do well to remember the apt observation of Juan Perón: “People will march with their leaders at the head or with the heads of the leaders.”
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2024.05.28 15:34 bethesda13 [WTS] Post Office Run - Vortex Viper PST Gen II 1-6x24 (MOA) with Extras - $410 total

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Selling this barely used Viper PST Gen II 1-6x24 (MOA reticle) in excellent condition, only used to zero. Comes with extras including MKM flip caps and Vortex SV-5 throw lever. Also comes with its original packaging, manuals, cleaning cloth, etc.
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