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Hey guys, wondering what you would do here…
I met a guy off one of the apps and we’ve hooked up a few times, great chemistry, lots of fun, and overall our sexual interest are very similar. But each time we hang out there’s been some odd behavior:

1. Always late. We’ll agree on a time (early evening) and he starts texting around this time and is like “coming soon” or “just stopped along the way”’and inevitably he’s 2 hours late.
   
2. He rarely responds correctly to questions and the flow of text conversation is confusing.
   
3. He has a bag he brings (usually with some poppers, lube, etc.) but is super secretive and protective of it.
   
4. He’ll say random things when we’re together that just seem way out of left field.
   
5. He looks about 15 years older than he is.
   
6. The night always starts with him having very high energy but a few hours later he’s the exact opposite - and seems withdrawn, distant and almost confused.
   
7. When I look into his eyes I just see struggle… dark(er), slightly sunken in eyes.
   

The last time we hung out he text me after and said “I really like you.” Now here’s the thing: I have my stuff together - stable, good job, healthy, have hobbies, good friend networks, etc. He on the other hand seems lost.
I can’t help but think he’s using meth.
And I know addiction is a thing, but I also see good qualities in him. I don’t want to date this guy but I can’t help but wonder if I can at the very least offer some help.
Do I ask him if he has a meth problem? If so how? Or do I just disengage? Should I at least offer support? What would y’all do?

Traveling to Tokyo in a week with my wife and 16-year-old son for their 16th birthday. Staying in Shinjuku for a week. Wanted to run an itinerary check by you guys. I excluded arrival/departure, room/board, and Breakfast. Already planning to secure rail passes as soon as we land. Please feel free to add any recommendations or critiques. All of the events and restaurants are within a short distance of the event/activity for the day.
Day 1: Shibuya and Digital Art • Morning: o 10:00 - 12:30: Nintendo Museum (Nintendo Tokyo Store in Shibuya) • Lunch o 12:30 - 14:00: Nabezo Shibuya Center-gai • Afternoon: o 14:00 - 17:00: TeamLab Planets TOKYO (Pre-book tickets) • Dinner: o 17:00 - 18:30: Yachiyo (note the early close)
Day 2: Ueno • Morning: o 9:30 - 12:00: Ueno Park and Zoo (if possible) • Lunch: o 12:00 - 13:30: Restaurant Juraku • Afternoon: o 14:00 - 17:00: Tokyo National Museum of Nature and Science • Dinner: o 17:30 - 19:00: LA COCORICO
Day 3: Ueno and Taito • Morning: o 10:00 - 12:30: Tokyo National Museum • Lunch: o 12:30 - 14:00: Yurinoki • Afternoon: o 14:00 - 17:00: HEY (Hirose Entertainment Yard) • Dinner: o 17:00 - 18:30: Nagasaki Toruko Rice Shokudo
Day 4: Shinjuku • Free Day: Rest or explore!!
Day 5: Asakusa • Morning: o 10:00 - 12:30: Sensō-ji (Buddhist temple) • Lunch: o 12:30 - 14:00: Gonpachi Asakusa Azumabashi
Day 6: Tsukiji • Morning: o 10:00 - 12:00: Tsukiji Outer Market • Lunch: o 12:00 - 13:30: Tsukiji Ihachi
Day 7: Yokohama • Morning: o 10:00 - 12:30: Cup Noodles Museum (Yokohama) • Lunch: o 12:30 - 14:00: Yoshimuray

I'm not very well versed with Thinkpads and their various models, so some help would be appreciated. I plan to use this machine for light security research and development. I don't need anything small or light. More so looking for comparison of processors as well as if I'm missing any base feature changes between the models. Thanks all.
Models:
https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Thinkpad-Laptop-Windows-Renewed/dp/B0CV1ZL45S/ref=sr_1_4?crid=OGG3SRHR6O4&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.rfg7P0ik0MmpnqxmmcHknGOu8b6y84bV1SqBftSxEiqeozzzXO5tdZXr91dJd3OXWQnfHBVKjoCN8JaAFqQIHN34LE-RT1epqgKbMhkGcZ7m3JdtbJ7ABtbAjUXr0ll5FvB4VBRyLEtIdqchmzqV1GalLf5ShvzvlO21D4iHKxr85vc3cOYbPJnE6SHGEbDq7q9ZcBhfvG8IrmVx1fyK4LtPlva3rtFSElZGnyZiO8sDlNUKpu4kP_fCBWmYvxZCwSKU3J3bm_d46afcWD6HwHf11DsN2HasiLrPkljDydg.8O2ZxfaNhwbPSxuxL0OUiTPBs_5In1Rj5RjQYZ0yMcw&dib_tag=se&keywords=lenovo+thinkpad+p14s+gen+2+4%22+Laptop+AMD+Rysen+PRO+5850U&qid=1716076587&s=electronics&sprefix=lenovo+thinkpad+p14s+gen+2+4+laptop+amd+rysen+pro+5850u%2Celectronics%2C164&sr=1-4
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Edit: I got scolded for these Amazon codes being affiliate linked. I am not selling any of these computers and I recommend nobody buy through these links to avoid giving extra money to someone for drop shipping computers.
Edit: removed product that was marked as fake

2019 Honda CRV. 56k miles.
Hello everyone. As the title says, All of my dashboard lights are on.
Last weekend all of my dashboard lights popped up. I went to auto zone to get it diagnosed. It came back as a piston one misfire code. I brought it to the mechanic. Mechanic replaced all of my spark plugs and the ignition coil. Lights go off, car runs fine.
The next morning I remote start the car. It goes, but then shuts off a minute into it. All of the lights return. I bring it back to the mechanic. He looks at it, hooks it up to the computer, road tests it, everything is fine. Doesn't charge me for the follow up. Says if it comes back on to bring it back monday. Lights go off. I did a decent amount of driving for a few days, everything is fine.
This morning I turn on the car, the lights come back on. I go back to autozone for a diagnostic...it comes back as a piston one misfire. I explain I had it repaired. Autozone guy asked if it is a duralast engine coil. Turns out that it was indeed a duralast one. He says that may be the issue as they had people bring those back. He listed some OEM parts (don't know what this means) but said not to use after market parts. He suggested I go to the dealership to purchase an ignition coil, go back to my mechanic, and have him put it in.

1. Does this make sense?
2. Do I have to go to the dealer? They are closed today?
3. Can I purchase another type of coil and if so what would be a good one/where can I get it?

TYIA
EDIT: Autozone said they have Hitachi OEM rated ignition coils

Been doing a L2G save in Shifting Sands based in the South East. Currently 6 months in and finally decided to create a Midcard title. The CCW Chaos Championship is a mix of the Hardcore and X-Division title with the matches being No DQ and the belt only being held by guys who are lightweight or lower. Doing a Mini Tournament at the show with the final 6 being put in a ladder match for the title. These are the final 6 and I wanted to ask who would y’all book as the Inagural Chaos Champion?
Tyler Black- Bitter Rivals with Jon Moxley early into their career they are tied in their best of 3 series 1-1. Doing a Prodigy gimmick were he insults legends stating how he is the Evolution of Wrestling.
Jon Moxley- Bitter Rivals with Tyler Black. Doing a similar gimmick to Darby Allin as the Face of the Degenerates and the Hardcore Messiah.
Austin Creed- Had a losing streak gimmick which he recently snapped against Gangrel. Using his TNA Apollo Creed inspiration as a underdog
Justin Credible- Doing his Impact Player gimmick but as a Babyface. Mentor to Jon Moxley early into his CCW Run
Alex Shelly- Making his first appearance in the company for this show. Currently using his Generation Next Gimmick
Sabian- Also making his first appearance for the company. Just finished a run as CZW Junior Heavyweight Champion. Using a Hardcore Gangster gimmick
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Hey everyone, this will be my first attempt at a serious post on this sub. I’m not exactly practiced in articulating my thoughts (I’m more of a fiction writer) so please bear bull with any mistakes and please correct me if I’m wrong. The last thing I want to do is spread misinformation, I’m not an expert (or a financial advisor) on any of this. I'm here to learn, not to teach.
This post will be the first in a series of me reading through the entire Diamond Handbook (2nd) and just commentating on points I find interesting or discussion worthy. I will be asking questions as well as giving my own personal thoughts based on my understanding of the events that have transpired. I became an ape right after the sneeze, and followed a lot of the discussions back then, but have been zen for a while so I haven't fully kept up with a lot of the new developments.
I haven't actually sat down and read DD in a long time, so I decided to give myself a refresher and actually look at the Diamond Handbook (2nd) for the first time. I had read a lot of these posts as they had come out, so I had never felt the need to look at the full PDF before. For the apes that haven’t read it either, I recommend giving it a read. You can find the full DD library in the pinned post of this sub, and the Diamond Handbook is the first one there.
As I have been reading it, I’ve quickly realized that some of the stuff is a little outdated. That can’t really be helped since so much DD has been done between then and now, but this brings me to the two reasons for this post. The Diamond Handbook is likely the first piece of DD a new ape will be recommended; I want to spark discussion to clear up some things that are misguided or outdated in this handbook. The second reason is more of a personal challenge. Whenever someone denies the legitimacy of the DD, an ape usually responds by saying something like “Well, read the DD and prove it wrong”. The average MOASS denier won’t do this though, in my experience they just think it’s ridiculous on a conceptual level, and won’t take the time to actually look through all the DD available and construct a proper debate. I can’t really blame them for this though, spending so much time on something you have no interest in doesn’t sound like a fun time.
But I have a lot of interest in this, and I am an aspiring author who writes 400K word fanfictions for fun. I’ve got the time and the writing willpower. I am very big into trying to understand how a reader will interpret a piece of my writing, so I’ll be looking through that lens and will be writing this with the assumption that you have already read the Diamond Handbook (2nd). Please take the time to respond/correct what I say here, I want to learn.
With all that out of the way, let’s get started.
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The Mother of All Short Squeezes (MOASS) Thesis, Published on May 26, 2021, by u(slash)HCMF_MACEFACE
Before we even get into the meat of this section I already see a bit of an issue. A lot of the language implies that MOASS is imminent, take this section for example:

*“If you don't believe me, just look at the chart of GME which our DD (Due Diligence/research/analysis) has been forecasting for a while now. The below pattern has only preceded massive spikes in price, but this time, those on the other side of the trade are going to have a much harder time suppressing the price like they did in January and March. Thanks to the activity on 5/25, we have entered the end-game. The MOASS is beginning.”* 

I think most new apes will look at this, then look at the date of posting (three years ago), and think this is delusional thinking. They will say that MOASS did not ‘begin’ because it hasn’t happened yet. This would be pretty short sighted though, GME has always been a Deep Value investment, long positions are called long for a reason. ‘Buy and HODL’ is such a repeated mantra because that is the investment strategy most apes employ. Like most investments, it takes a long time to realize gains. Your retirement account will be growing for 40+ years before you cash that thing out, GME is my retirement plan so I don’t expect it to be much different.
Just because the sneeze happened in a week doesn’t mean MOASS will, in theory it should be a very long event as both the shorts and longs have a test of wills to see who caves first. However, the sneeze was the ‘beginning’ because it was exposed a lot of the fuckery that is going on in the market right now, I think that is the message that should be taken from this section.

*“These terms are key to understanding the theory and speculated value of a GME investment. Hyperlinks to Investopedia, "the world's leading source of financial content on the web", have been included for most market terms and concepts and it is recommended to check them out if they are not clear. We will be breaking down some of the more complex terms and concepts within the post and framing them within the context of GME.”* 

After the introduction, this post does a great job of explaining all the concepts of the stock market that are relevant to the MOASS thesis. However, I do wish it mentioned some other stock terms for the sake of new investors. Since none of the DD is supposed to be financial advice, I can’t really blame them for these omissions, but at the beginning the OP does say they wanted the post to be good for newer investors, so I think some more pointing in the right direction should’ve been provided. I do appreciate the link to Investopedia, but this DD is already a novel, and the average reader might forget about that link by the time they finish it. So an additional link should’ve been provided at the end.
The two big concepts I see missing are Options and Wash Sales/Stop-Losses.
Options are interesting because they create a different type of buying/selling pressure compared to just buying/selling stocks regularly. There are concepts like gamma ramps and stuff that can be relevant when discussing catalysts for price movement. However, options are pretty scary for most investors, I’ve only ever bought one, and forgot about it so it auto-exercised for me (lol), so it’s not a concept I would call essential. I just think it’s better to be educated than not.
The much more egregious omission is that of Wash Sales and Stop-Losses. Wash Sales are extremely dangerous to new investors who still make decisions based on emotions and are not used to the volatility that comes with GME.
If you are unfamiliar, a Wash Sale is when a person sells a stock at a loss, then buys the stock again within a short period of time. As an example, let’s say you bought a stock at $50, then the stock goes down to $40.00 and you no longer feel comfortable with your investment. You sell the stock at a loss. You lost $10.00 on this transaction, but it’s not all bad. When you go to do your taxes, you can report this $10.00 loss to the IRS. This is good because if you make a $10.00 profit off another trade, you now don’t have to take taxes out of that profit, since the IRS will see this as you breaking even in the grand scheme of your portfolio. You didn’t actually make any money, so they aren’t going to tax you for it.
A Wash Sale is triggered when you buy back the stock you sold in a short period of time, this can even apply if you buy a stock in the same sector. So if you buy a stock at $50.00, sell it at $40.00 then buy it again. That $10.00 loss you took can no longer be reported to the IRS as an actual loss. So when you make $10.00 on some other trade, the IRS won’t see you as breaking even, they will tax you on that $10.00.
For a stock as volatile as GME this can be very dangerous, I know people who brought in the peak, then as the price went back down they triggered a Stop-Loss (auto-sale you can program to trigger when a price falls), only to then buy back in when the stock dropped even lower, creating a wash sale that fucked their taxes.
We say “Buy and HODL” a lot, but I think the ‘why’ of it has been lost in the meme. I personally buy and HODL because averaging down is a lot better for me than accidently triggering a Wash Sale. I fucking hate the IRS and don’t want any of that smoke.

*“SPOILER: GME and \[Popcorn\] have tons of FTDs reported.”* 

I just kinda don’t like the mention of the Popcorn stock here, it has never been a deep value investment. If you are unfamiliar with the Deep Value investment strategy, please take a look at the old Roaring Kitty livestreams. In summary, Deep Value investing is defined by looking for stocks that are extremely undervalued and unpopular due to no fault of the company. These external factors that are making the stock undervalued can be anything, shorting, COVID, stuff like that. But what makes it a Deep Value investment is always strong management within the company. If the company is not mismanaged in any way, then it is very unlikely to go bankrupt, and will have opportunities to make a comeback. GME has Ryan Cohen leading, a proven successful businessman that has already taken precautions to ensure GameStop never goes bankrupt. Popcorn just doesn’t have that. It is very short-squeezable, but it’s not deep fucking value.

*“Short sellers must eventually close, or cover, their short position.”* 

Ok, but why ‘must’ they? This is another point I think has been lost in the memes. There are two problems with just saying ‘shorts must close’ without providing context. The first is the simple fact that there isn’t a due date. Unlike a common car loan or mortgage, a short position doesn’t operate on a time table. They can wait forever to close, unless they get margin called.
This next part I’m a little shaky on, I’m probably getting some things wrong here:
Ok, well how are they going to get margin called? The problem I see is that these Short Hedge Funds (SHF) are making a lot of money by selling naked shorts. It’s really hard to get margin called when they are literally printing money, and since they don’t have to report these their books just look to be filled with an infinite amount of cash.
So, there are a couple solutions to this:
1, Government regulation. If the SEC puts a stop to naked shorting, these SHF can’t print money anymore. Eventually the interest from their positions will eat them alive, and they will get margin called. Unfortunately, MOASS has the potential to destroy the economy like in 2008, so they probably aren’t too keen on just doing this without creating some kind of safety net. So I can’t really count on them to help, because the government has a vested interest in keeping MOASS from happening. It’s just not something I believe will be the catalyst. Although they might just do it on purpose given the right reason, like pinning the economic collapse on a scapegoat, or by GameStop forcing their hand by exposing the fraud somehow. I’ve seen a lot of apes hoping for one of these reasons to come to pass, but for me, I don’t see enough motivation from the participating parties.
2, A price run-up. If the price of the stock can unbalance the books of the SHF enough then they could also get margin called. I’m not counting on this either, since the price is manipulated by the process of naked shorting. Sure, they are digging a bigger grave when they suppress the price like this, but it can also help smaller SHFs with exiting their positions with OTC stuff. Over-The-Counter trades are trades made off the lit exchanges, historically it was intended to kind of simulate a transaction between two individuals, like buying a video game from a buddy off the books, no taxes, no regulation. Unfortunately, this is abused by institutions and can’t even be used by individuals, making dark pools of trades full of fraud and undermines the free market. Smaller SHFs that are more at risk of getting Margin Called due to their lack of collateral, can make OTC trades with the big naked-shorting market makers to ‘close’ their positions using fake shares. Of course, this only passes the buck so to speak, but it’s a viable strategy for them since the big SHFs that take on these ‘bucks’ are less likely to get margin called. A lot of historic short squeezes happen because a small SHF gets margin called, then drives the price up and causes a bigger SHF to get called, and so on until they’re all in the grave. This is why I don’t really give a shit if the price goes up to $80 in a week, it’s not enough, the buck has been passed. (To be clear, I don’t have proof that this is the reason for the uptick in OTC transactions, it’s just a theory. If a smarter ape than I can get on this that would be great.) But, even if a price run-up itself doesn’t cause MOASS, it may give motivation for the true trigger:
3, Interest Rates. Here is the big one that I look at, that I believe will be the true cause of MOASS. Now please, correct me if I’m wrong again, I am just an ape who dropped out of college. So, from what I understand a Short institution has to pay a certain amount of interest to the people they borrow the stocks from. This is the cost of borrowing and is how these Lenders make money. For a long time, the interest rate was at like 1%, this means that selling one naked short could cover the cost of the interest 100 times over. However, let’s say that the interest rate becomes 110%, sounds crazy, but this would mean that borrowing the share would cost more than the share. This would destroy the balances of the SHFs and ensure they get margin called. Why would this ever happen though? Because these lenders want to make money. These lenders are the real winners of MOASS, and they aren’t talked about enough in my opinion. Lenders can’t sell the shares they’ve lent out, their income is in the interest rates, there has to be a balance here between it being more profitable to lend the shares or to sell them. If Lenders start to think that lending their shares aren’t making them more money than the alternative, they will raise interest rates to make these profits until SHFs can’t pay them, then the SHFs have to return the shares, causing MOASS with the massive buyback, then lenders can just sell the shares on the way down. Lenders have a monetary business interest in causing MOASS, so they are the most likely cause of it in my opinion.

*“This is the GME MOASS thesis. GME is a stock that stands to hit an unprecedented price point due to the fact that manipulators of the market have failed to bankrupt GameStop thanks in huge part to the Legendary Keith Gill AKA* u(slash)DeepFuckingValue*, Ryan Cohen, and all of the GME investors who took part in this saga. It may not be today, this week, or even this month, but one day soon, these toxic participants have no choice but to buy the stock to close out their short positions.”* 

I don’t think this is necessarily inaccurate, but I think it’s misguided, and the language here is a bit to emotive for my taste. I think the reason the company didn’t go bankrupt is because of the strategic share offering made by Ryan Cohen to build up more cash than the company’s valuation (at the time). All the other stuff was just dressing, DFV and retail did not make RC do this, this move by RC is what ensured the company literally can’t go bankrupt, until then (and at the time this was posted) it was still a risk in my opinion. So this huge thanks feels kinda like a pre-cum celebration, and I've never really liked putting Keith on a pedestal, he's just an individual investor, just like the rest of us.
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FAQ, Published April 12, 2021, by u(slash)BYE_TRIANGLE

*“Why does Holding do anything?”* *“They need your shares to cover their short positions! They got greedy. Thinking GameStop would fail, the short sellers started Naked Shorting the stock. Long story short they created synthetic stocks with their special privileges as Market Makers. But they can’t cover a short with a synthetic share. So because of the Naked Shorting, the Short Sellers, multiple large greedy money managers, and Hedge Funds need a total number of shares greater than the number available to purchase. THEY NEED EVERY SHARE, EVEN YOURS CONAN!”* *“aRe YoU GuYs MaNipuLatIng THe MaRKeT?!”* 

Holding does something else that I think is really important. It proves that retail is not responsible for the manipulation of the price. You see it in the mainstream media every time the price fluctuates, they say that retail and Roaring Kitty is driving the price up for the memes, and that the ‘meme stock craze is dead’ whenever the price falls, claiming that retail is selling. However, it quickly becomes clear to anyone with the willingness to research that retail holds. Holding doesn’t move the price at all, so they literally can’t blame this sub for the fuckery that happens.
Now, on the flip side, I know people on the old sub to buy and sell with these fluctuations, they did it during the sneeze and I’ve seen comments claiming to do it last week. I think this is why Roaring Kitty really had to speak to congress about this, because a legitimate-seeming argument could be made that retail was buying and selling at high volumes. The loss and gain porn on the old sub could be presented as evidence. Here though, apes hold, we glaze purple doughnuts.
So when MOASS does happen, the massive price increase will be only due to buying pressure from SHFs, so they are the only ones that can take the blame for what happens next.

*“No one knows how high the squeeze could take the stock price. The best rational reasoning says that these numbers \[500k per share\] are possible through the laws of supply and demand. Furthermore, it is likely that the Short Percentage is a lot higher than reported, with many suggesting that the short-sellers, cumulatively, need more than 100% of the float to cover.”* 

A lot of naysayers will claim people are insane for thinking that phone number prices are possible. They will cite that it would make the company’s valuation higher than the amount of money in the world, which is true. However, with the nature of fraudulent naked shorts being fake, the price is fake too, and the valuation of the company doesn’t necessarily mean that the whole float will be sold at those prices. Yes, it shouldn’t be possible, by all accounts it wouldn’t make sense, but it is possible due to the naked shorting. Also, institutions that own shares likely won’t HODL out for the phone number prices, they will sell when they think it’s safe, and when they won’t get in trouble with the SEC for destroying the economy. The infinity pool (the shares that will be sold at these prices) will be a small fraction of the total amount even among retail investors. So the argument that I see against the possibility of this doesn’t hold a lot of weight.
Keep in mind that even though ‘buying pressure’ moves the price up, someone has to be willing to sell in order for someone to buy. So as the price creeps up from $100 to $1000 to $100000 to $8675309 someone will be selling on the way up to get there.

*“Synthetic long positions could be used to disguise their short positions as well, the mechanisms behind this practice utilize the options markets and could explain some of the crazy options activity that we have seen in GameStop the last few months.”* 

So uhm… I don’t understand ‘Synthetic Longs’ at all. Could an ape with more wrinkles elaborate on this? From what I can extrapolate, this may refer to an institution purchasing a naked shorted share from someone else?

*“While at the same time they employed the use of social engineering to slowly depress the positive sentiment for the stock on Reddit and elsewhere.”* *“You may have been called a Shill for one of a number of reasons. This community is very inclusive and open to everyone, but because of the blatant attacks this forum has suffered a lot of people are understandably paranoid. (Myself included). Please, unless you really are a shill, don’t take it personally.”* 

I want to address this, because there is a lot of misconception about SuperStonk. A lot of people will claim that this sub is just an echo chamber cult that can’t handle anyone questioning the narrative. This may seem true on the surface, but I think the reality is just that we’ve become hyper sensitive to the social engineering the old sub fell victim to, and I remember this sub being attacked with that as well. So whenever we see a post that has extremely emotive language, we become skeptical and down vote it. Emotions have no place in investing, that is a common rule touted in even the oldest investing books, so posts that try to incite an emotional response are shot down. Apes aren’t about to be manipulated again. That being said there are emotive posts that still get upvoted, ones with positive hype-filled narratives. Since these get upvoted and the negative ones don’t that sometimes gives the impression of an echo chamber. This is because the facts do support the MOASS thesis, so a hype title and opening paragraph is just more agreeable with the facts-based narrative. Some people are just scrolling on their phone and don’t have time to read the whole post.
However, if you go into the comments of these posts, there are apes investigating the profile history to determine if posters are bots, regardless of the pushed narrative. If you look past the upvote counter, apes are very skeptical of any post that isn’t based in fact or harmless memes. The comments rule the post, and I have to say I’ve very proud of this sub for staying vigilant in the wake of Reddit restricting moderation tools.

*“Ryan Cohen clearly believes in Gamestop, to the point of announcing that he will be taking equity as compensation. In fact, as of writing this all of the new Gamestop board members are going to be taking equity as compensation. This is seen as an incredibly bullish sign of the company's future success.”* 

This is one of the principles of Deep Value investing, I wish this was elaborated on more of why this is bullish. This means that the board, and more importantly Ryan Cohen, is tying their individual self-worth to the company. Due to this tie, they will essentially ‘go down with the ship’ if the company goes down. This means that the board and Ryan actually have an interest in the company doing well, instead of having an interest in making money off the company. You may think this sounds like the same thing, but it’s not. If RC cared more about money than the company, then he could destroy the company to make money (this is what’s happening to popcorn), but by tying his worth to the shares, the only way for him to become richer is for the company to flourish.
I don’t really like the language being used here, stuff like ‘clearly believes’ ‘seen as incredibly bullish’ are all pretty emotive and doesn’t actually explain why these are positive growth signs for the company, they are just saying it is ‘bullish’, the average new investor isn’t even going to know what that really means. Even though GME is extremely manipulated, causing Technical Analysis to become increasingly difficult to depend on, the investment is still rooted in fundamentals of deep value.

*“Below is a shortlist of some of the potential catalysts people are speculating about:* 

-A Stock Split, or some similar move from Gamestop that recalls shares
-Gamma Squeeze
-Gamestop’s Q1 Earnings Call
-Some speculate Gary Gensler (Newly appointed head of the SEC), may make some move that sets things in motion
-DTCC rule changes taking effect
-Appointment of a new CEO”
Yeah… this feels bad man. I’ve talked about this already, but we can rapid fire down this list.
The stock split didn’t work out, since those in charge of distributing the splits did it fraudulently. Gamma Squeeze is the kind of thing that could trigger a smaller hedge fund to get margin called and cause a domino effect, but I’ve shared my theory of the OTC action. Earnings are nice, but public sentiment has always been more tied to the media manipulation than actual facts. Fucking Gary.
On the subject of bringing in new talent, I do feel like a big move will happen soon. We’ve already seen a lot of job offerings from the Corporate side of GameStop so this could be the next phase of the plan. I really think that RC has spent these last few years taking precautions to make sure the company can’t go bankrupt, the last thing he wants is to turn out like Toys-R-Us. A lot of downsizing happened, so now he can start thinking about upsizing again.
I’m not necessarily saying that these things can’t trigger the squeeze, but I am saying that depending on something to start it is just inviting disappointment. I think the ‘no dates’ rule has been sorely forgotten lately with all the hype and speculation around Roaring Kitty’s tweets and stuff. I am a zen ape, it happens when it happens.

*“First of all, it is incredibly important to note your potential biases when determining if someone is just a shill trying to spread FUD. Not all FUD is invalid, someone may bring up a solid point against an otherwise great DD, and that could scare you. Remember that just because you do not like what someone is saying, doesn’t make it invalid. It is important users here work with constructive criticism to refine their theories.”* 

Damn, wasn’t I just talking about this? This critique isn’t going to just be wagging fingers, this is really good stuff that still applies today, and from what I’ve seen apes are doing a great job of distinguishing between FUD and legitimate criticism. I also want to take a second to thank the mod team, especially after their tools were restricted, they’ve been a great help.

*“…but since then retail investors have been buying on every single dip in the price… That's more than two whole months of buying-the-dip. Now, I will not speculate on numbers here, if you want to know more you will have to read the DDs on that.”* 

This is pretty outdated now. Apes have been buying for three years now, and with the advent of Direct Registering we have a much better idea of how much apes hold. I can say with confidence now that retail owns a floats worth of shares. Since there is so much naked shorting, a lot of institutions probably own their own floats too.
I glaze those purple doughnuts, yum.
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Citadel Has No Clothes, Published March 14, 2021, by u(slash)ATOBITT
Ohhhh, this one is special to me, I read it when it first came out, first time I was there on release night. Let’s see how it hodls up.

*“TL;DR - Citadel Securities has been fined 58 times for violating FINRA, REGSHO & SEC regulations. Several instances are documented as 'willful' naked shorting. In Dec 2020 they reported an increase in their short position of 127.57% YOY, and I'm calling bullsh\*t on their shenanigans.”* 

58 times. I don’t actually know how much that number has gone up, but I’m sure it has. I am reminded of an old saying, that if the punishment for a crime is a fine, then it only a crime for the poor. The crime being done to GME is class warfare, it’s nothing less.

*“$295,347,948,000 of that is split into options (calls & puts), while $78,979,887,238 (20.52%) is allocated to actual, physical, shares (or so they say). The rest is convertible debt securities.”* 

This is why I’m skeptical that it’s even possible for Citadel to get margin called by a normal price run-up. Let’s do some math here. GME’s float is at 232 million-ish shares, let’s say they shorted 300% of that, just to be conservative (lmao), so that’s 696 million. To take what the first post said, Margins don’t get called unless an entities’ collateral becomes less than 80% of what they’ve borrowed. If they use their entire $384,926,232,238 portfolio as collateral, then GME would have to soar to a price of… divide by 4, multiply by 5… $691.32 per share. That may sound relatively reasonable, but I don’t think a normal catalyst would be enough for that. I really think interest rates are the key, think about it, if they have to pay like 30% interest on all of those shares, their portfolio will be reduced by that much (kinda) and we can find a much more reasonable midpoint. Now brace yourselves, I’m about to spend an unreasonable amount of effort on something that is probably wrong because I don’t know shit about fuck about margins or getting called (I have a cash account and I lack rizz).
In order to calculate that we gotta do one of those double equation variable bullshit things we all hated in school, I forgot what they were called but I remember how to do them.
So, we have a few variables:
C = Citadel’s Portfolio = $384,926,232,238
S = Shorted Shares = 696,000,000
I = Intrest = 0.30
X = Price Per Share
Y = Citadel’s new portfolio amount after paying interest
So, X and Y are undetermined, but we have two equations to work with
C – I(X*S) = Y
This one calculates how much money is going to be in citadels new portfolio after paying interest, we calculate the interest by multiplying the cost per share, by the amount of shorted shares, and multiplying that by the interest rate, then subtracting it from their total portfolio.
Y * 1.25 = X * S
This one calculates the total amount those shorted shares have to be in order for Citadel to get margin called, by multiplying their new portfolio by 5/4 and calculating the total cost of the shares.
X * S has a direct value; we can plug the left side of the second equation into the first to get
C – I(Y*1.25) = Y
Now we just gotta isolate Y on one side of the equation.
C = Y + 0.3(Y*1.25)
C = 1.3Y * 0.375
C= 0.4875Y
C * 0.4875 = Y
Y = $187,651,538,216.03
Now we gotta find X, we can just plug in the other stuff.
(Y* 1.25)/ 696,000,000 = X
X = $337.02 per share for shitadel to get margin called on 30% interest.
Holy shit, now that’s what I call reasonable. See how much interest can completely fuck a portfolio? They lost almost half of their portfolio value to a 30% interest to this. This is why the whole market will bleed red on the run up to MOASS, they will have to sell half of their portfolio just to pay the interest.
Citadel is probably not a good example of this, since they print the naked shorts themselves... so they would be paying interest to... themselves... when they borrow them? Citadel is so fucked up, I don't have enough wrinkles for this.
But hey, I think the concept of what I said is fine. High interest rates can reduce collateral and cause margin calls. Hey, just out of curiosity, how much is the borrowing interest rate looking now?
16.5%
SHF are fucked.
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Anyway, I’m writing this on a Wordpad document so I’m not sure if I’ve come up on the character limit, but I think I’m getting close so I’ll end this part here. Please let me know what I’ve got wrong or any insights you want to share, I’ll be sure to talk about any interesting comments when I do a part 2!
TLDR: I am reviewing the Diamond Handbook (2nd) and seeing what has changed in the three years since it’s been compiled. I have a bias in thinking that high borrowing interest rates are what will cause MOASS, and that is shown here. This is not meant to be an impartial analysis, just my thoughts. Not financial advice.

So I want to talk about a few things about the latest teaser. In the teaser I saw 1 new unreleased skin the read biker guy, thinking probably that it’s a battle pass or shop skin. Also when I saw the big dude pushing out chaos agent, the first thing that came to me, he looks exactly like Gunner. But also if anyone remembers that in Chapter 3 Season 2 Resistance there was chaos agent on the IO’s side. It seems like the dot are starting to get connected… So my theory for Chapter 5 Season 3 is, that Fortnite brings back the IO but as a different faction, and characters are the same but look totally different!
What are your thoughts on this?

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Benchmade Claymore D2: 1st owner, no cut no carry, blade centered, action fabulous, no blems. $170 $150
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Rike Athron: Had no intentions of moving this guy, cuz it's a sweet thick blade. M390, LNIB, never cut or carried, centered, no blade play, never disassembled, action is excellent, 1st owner. $250$200
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GME filed paperwork for an Open Market Sales Agreement. I see people saying that it is and At The Market Offering. It isnt.Check out number 5 below.
An Open Market Sale Agreement (OMSA) is a legal arrangement between a company and a financial institution (such as an investment bank) that allows the company to issue and sell its shares on the open market. Here are the key points:

1. Purpose: The company proposes to issue and sell shares of its Class A common stock through the financial institution acting as a sales agent and/or principal.
2. Agent: The financial institution (e.g., Jefferies LLC) acts as the agent for the company in executing the sales.
3. Terms: The agreement outlines the terms, including the floor price (minimum sale price), issuance amount, and agency period.
4. Reporting: The company must report these transactions to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
5. Insider Trading: OMSAs allow insiders (company officers, directors, or large shareholders) to trade shares legally without violating insider trading laws¹².

Remember, open-market transactions provide insight into a company’s outlook, and investors pay attention to them. If insiders buy shares, it may signal positive prospects for the company. Conversely, selling by insiders might raise questions about the company’s performance².
Prospectus Supplement linked below. It states that the agreement is an Open Market Sales Agreement.
424B5 (sec.gov)

Hi! Does anyone know the name of the song that plays at the end of episode 1 of Season 3 (around 1:08:30) when they new guy Park Min-kyu is waiting in the car to meet Hye-Seon as she leaves the hotel?
Thanks for your help!
Song audio link: https://sndup.net/xzcj/

Last May 2023 my wife was diagnosed with ALS. She now is in a wheelchair and is barely able to speak or walk. She can currently use her iPhone to text, email, homekit, etc. and just received an iPad Pro with TobiI Dynavox integration for eye tracking control.
Last June 2023 we had a house fire where we lost 95% of our contents and they had to strip the house down to the studs and are now rebuilding.
During the rebuild, I'm planning on making the house more accessible for my wife including widening doors, roll-in shower and as many smart home automations as possible to make things easier for her.
I'd like to get your thoughts and suggestions on what else I can add to increase the smart accessibility of our home.
I've always been an apple guy and we have many Homepods, AppleTVs, iPhones, iPads, Macbooks, Apple Watches etc. For my smart home, here are my plans and purchases so far:

1. Three AppleTVs, 1 for each TV in our house.
2. Homepod or Homepod mini in each room. (I have setup a shortcut on her phone/ipad that will intercom over every homepod asking for help)
3. 65 Philips Hue slim downlights for kitchen, livingroom, hallway, dining room
4. 5 Philips Hue flourish ceiling lamps for each of the bedrooms.
5. 2 Philips Hue bridges.
6. Pre-order Inovelli White (Thread/Matter) 2-1 light switches for every light switch in the house.
7. Inovelli White (Thread/Matter) 2-1 smart fan switch for all bathroom fans / ceiling fans.
8. Ecobee Smart thermostat premium
9. Eve Energy Outlet (Thread/Matter) outlets for every outlet in the house.
10. 3 SmartMi Air purifiers (HomeKit)
11. 5 Ubiquity UniFi G5 Pro outdoor cameras
12. 1 Ubiquity UniFi G4 Doorbell Pro
13. 1 homebridge running on Rasberry Pi 5 for UniFi and other HomeKit integrations.
14. Schlage Encode plus smart lock (HomeKit)

That's it so far. I really would like to get some smart blinds, but haven't really found any that are HomeKit/Thread/Matter and not ridiculously expensive. Any suggestions?
What else could I add to improve accessibility? Thanks!

Hi Guys,
I am newly transfer student to the Uni and I got admitted to Mechanical Engineering engineering. I have some questions about the major and what to expect. Ex: labs, projects, grade distribution, programs used, …. Please feel free to DM me. It is okay not to answer all the questions. Much appreciated.
1) I want to know information about the laboratory components of the major ? What type of experiments or activities do they typically involve ?
2) projects associated with the major. Ex: does Dynamics have project ?. Especially, capstone and pre-capstone project. Could you provide more details on these ?
3) Which courses include Matlab programming and what type of assignment or projects typically completed using MATLAB?
4) what other software programs are commonly used in the major ? Ex: SolidWorks, Matlab, … etc.
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