Like, you'll just be sitting watching TV, or playing a game. Then the next minute you question "Why am I doing this, why am I starting at this screen, why is this fun?" In a sense, the thought scares you, because your brain struggles to find an acceptable answer.
Edit - I have saw some people mention lack of purpose, no point in it all. I have no qualifications, and can only speak from my own personal experience. But I dove deep enough to reach that Abyss. Thats when I came to the conclusion, there are people out there who live in a totally different world. It's helping and being there for them, that is a worthy purpose. In that, if I'm lucky, I may find my own happiness.
TL;DR To all the shills screaming "SuPeRsToNk iS lItErAlLy QaNoN", here is a complete list of market manipulation tactics used by Hedgies so far as documented by PhDs, professors, CEOs, and people that are generally in all accounts way smarter than you. Enjoy. ππ π
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As shills and FUD posts continue to attack apes on their personal decisions to hold GME shares, I feel that it is necessary to create a central hub displaying every market manipulation tactic used by hedge funds in this GameStop Saga so far. To be absolutely honest, the mere fact that there are shills that care so much about other people's personal financial decisions is basically proof that the GameStop situation is not over. That being said, I understand that there are people suspicious of r/Superstonk and that actions by certain members in this subreddit is definitely not helping. If there are any journalists willing to report on this incident, this can be a good place to start researching as well.
This compilation will start with the overall thesis on Naked short selling, the influence of the DTCC, and then go on in a somewhat chronological order of the discovered tactics.
Naked Short Selling
Top of the list is obviously the book Naked, Short and Greedy by Dr. Susanne Trimbath. Below is a link to buy her book.
- Naked, Short and Greedyβ Wall Street's Failure to Deliver
If you are interested in the impact of Naked short selling on proxy voting, here's an article recommended by Dr. Trimbath during the Superstonk AMA. It was written by Bob Drummond and published in Bloomberg Markets.
- Corporate Voting Charade
And of course, here's the link to the AMA interview with Dr. T herself.
- r/Superstonk Live - Dr. Susanne Trimbath, PhD - April 29, 2021
If you simply want a fairly concise version of what is naked short selling, here is an article published in The Journal of Trading by Robert Brooks and Clay M. Moffett. You should be able to finish this in around 45 minutes.
- **The Naked Truth: Examining Prevailing Practices in Short Sales and th
Hello apes/retards,
I'd like to provide an update to my previous post which outlines the possibility that BlackRock is in the process of deleting Shitadel out of existence. As of this morning, FINRA has reported no major material changes to its list of major institutional shareholders. However, it maintains the position of BlackRock Fund Advisors at & around 14 million shares.
For the past few weeks, I've been periodically reviewing the SEC's page on BlackRock's subsidiary firm in the hopes that a 13G or 13F would pop up indicating of the change in ownership. However, I've been unable to locate any such publication. Additionally, I've been reviewing some of its holdings in order to better understand how BlackRock structures & files its security purchases/sales via ETFs held by said affiliate. For example, IJR is a GME-holding ETF of which BlackRock Fund Advisors owns a portion of.
My understanding of the situation thus far, (please correct me if any of this detail is inaccurate), is that BlackRock Fund Advisors is a holding firm for BlackRock Inc that maintains positions in ETFs/MFs/IFs/Bonds, of which is managed directly or indirectly via BlackRock Inc and/or any of its affiliates. If & when an ETF managed by BlackRock changes its position in a security like GME, said position change would be recorded & published by BlackRock Inc via an SC-13G, (as BFA defers equity management to BlackRock Inc via 13F-NTs). However, said change in ownership would be captured & published differently in FINRAs Major Shareholder section, (as its BFA that is the parent company with majority ownership in ETFs which own stake in GME).
This discrepancy in equity ownership would explain why 13Gs aren't being filed by BFA, but why it remains present on FINRAs Major Shareholder list. Now, some of you may be skeptical of FINRA/MorningStar and its data, but it seems to be accurate, (at least from our understanding of its function in aggregating and calculating position changes via forms filed by said affiliates and the SEC). Additionally, FINRA/MorningStar would be committing insane levels of fraud if said data were wholly inaccurate. Again, **said data must have some level of verifiab
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Credentials:
- I am a Dredgen. While not the most impressive achievement, it does show that I have invested a significant amount of time into Gambit, both in its initial release form, in its Prime form, and its current form.
- I have all exotic weaponry associated with Gambit, and all pinnacle/ritual weapons associated with Gambit.
- I am a Reckoner, and to further that, I completed ~90% of the triumphs for this title in solo queue so I know a thing or two about hell and how truly stupid the average Destiny player actually is. I am not saying that I am a Gambit sweat by any means, but I am not bad. I understand how to win, and that's the bulk of the problem.
The Flow of Gambit:
Gambit is an incredibly unique game mode. While some may disagree about how well it integrates PvE and PvP, there is no denying that in theory this game mode provides interesting game play that is different from any other experience in Destiny. With the exception of boss-melting exotics and weapons, Gambit allows for a variety of different builds/subclasses to be utilized in different roles that help your team in a variety of ways. This was obviously more prevalent in Gambit Prime where your armour actually did dictate a specific role that you would play, but even in it's current form the roles still exist. This thread may make you believe that I abhor Gambit but I can't stress enough that at its core, the way Gambit is supposed to be played is amazing. However, understanding how a Gambit game is played is key to recognizing its flaws and how those flaws can be abused to make the game unappealing to most players. The typical game looks like this:
- Both teams start rushing to the first wave of enemy spawns to kill all the ads as fast as possible and collect the motes for banking and sending Blockers to the other team.
- The more motes you bank (5, 10, 15), the more powerful the Blocker is that gets sent to the other team (Goblin, Phalanx, Knight). Blockers sent to your team must be killed before you can bank any motes. More than one Blocker at at a team's bank will cause their currently banked motes to drain.
- Each team wants to bank a total of 100 motes to summon a Primeval. If you kill your Primeval before the other team does, your team wins.
- At 25, 50, 75,
and 100motes deposited, a portal will open on your side that one player can use to go the enemies side and start attacking the opposing guardians as an "invader" (hence, the PvP nature of this game mo
Hello apes/retards. I'd like to propose a theory in regards to some of the data that's been floating around over the past few days.
So far, we've seen data published by FINRA which describes total equity ownership ~192%. Many people have insinuated that this % is not accurate due to duplicates of the same entity. However, you can verify that some these entities are not the same, and represent transactions from parent>child or entirely separate positions held by affiliates.
The one example I'd like to focus on is BlackRock Fund Advisors. Now, some people have conflated the position posted on FINRA as a duplicate of BlackRock Inc. But this is not the case. As you can see from this report of GME ownership via BlackRock Inc, and a similar report of BlackRock Fund Advisors GME ownership, (courtesy of Fintel), both institutions, (albeit under the umbrella of BlackRock), manage or managed their own separate financial positions.
One of the interesting details in the Fintel data is that sometime around the end of 2016, BlackRock Fund advisors stopped reporting its position in GME, and around the same time BlackRock Inc began reporting a position, likely due to a transfer of ownership from one affiliate to another, (child to parent in this case). Great, but why is this important? Well, if you check FINRAs recent data once more, you'll notice that BlackRock Fund Advisors is listed once again, separate from BlackRock Inc, and with a 14 MILLION SHARE POSITION CHANGE.
Wait a second though... How can it be that BlackRock purchased 14 million shares, but Terminal isn't reporting a similar change in ownership? Well, that's a great question of which I've been trying to figure out, but it's tough to determine because BlackRock Fund Advisors is basically re-entering the ring. I presume that Bloomberg Terminal data only displays static institutional ownership change, (either + or - 5% changes), via 13F filings. But if BlackRock Fund Advisors had not been registered as a subsidiary shareholder up until recently, and then all of a sudden within the span of a month decided to purchase 14 million shares from the open market, Terminal may not be picking up that dat
... keep reading on reddit β‘There cannot be more cruel book than the Quran. Because Quran is the peak of cruelty. Hell in Quran suggests maximum intolerable pain with eternal timeline for disbelievers and believers who disobeyed Mohammad. You cannot imagine or write more torturous and cruel act than this.
Quran also starts it's first verse with: "In the Name of Allah the Most Compassionate, Most Merciful." which makes me think author is completely unaware what "compassion" or "mercy" is.
So let's see how Quran describes the hell:
Disbelievers will go to eternal hell: (2:39) "But those who disbelieve and deny Our signs will be the residents of the Fire. They will be there forever.β
Who disobeys Mohammad will go to eternal hell: (72:23) "But [I have for you] only notification from Allah, and His messages.β And whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger β then indeed, for him is the fire of Hell; they will abide therein forever."
Allah promised himself that he will fill hell with humans: (11:119): "Except whom your Lord has given mercy, and for that He created them. But the word of your Lord is to be fulfilled that, β I will surely fill Hell with jinn and men all together."
Christians & Jews & Pagans will go to eternal hell, they are the worst of humans: "Surely those who disbelieve from among the followers of the Book and the polytheists shall be in the fire of hell, abiding therein; they are the worst of men." (98:6)
Residents in hell will have beds covered with fire: (7:41) "They will have from Hell a bed and over them coverings [of fire]. And thus do We recompense the wrongdoers."
If residents of hell cries for water, they will get boiling water: "Surely We have prepared for the iniquitous a fire, the curtains of which shall encompass them about; and if they cry for water, they shall be given water like molten brass which will scald their faces; evil the drinkβ¦" (18:29)
"Hell is before him and he shall be given to drink of festering water: He will drink it little by little and will not be able to swallow it agreeably, and death will come to him from every quarter, but he shall not die; and there shall be vehement chastisement before him." (14:16-17)
Their food will torture them: "Surely the tree of the Zaqqum is the food of the sinful, like dregs of oil; it shall boil in (their) bellies, like the boiling of hot water." (44:43-46)
**Boiling water will be poured to their heads and melt their b
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Any religious debate will be populated with those more rooted in defending their position than examining their beliefs. People don't change their minds easily.
- If you were to offer scientific evidence to disprove existence of god then the true believer will say that the tools of science are not sufficient to know God, and that empirical evidence is inherently lacking in it's ability to measure the existence of God.
- If you were to offer scientific evidence to prove the existence of God then the denier will say that science hasn't progressed far enough, current evidence has doubts, and that future evidence will see it their way.
- If you try to use texts to disprove or to prove God, then there are always arguments like interpreter bias and a thousand other points to debate.
- If you use reason, then the mind can justify almost anything. So, there won't be any changing minds, but only hardening positions.
This isn't meant to say that debate is useless; in fact, I love debate. But, it is saying that there are true believers in each camp who will never change their minds despite any evidence.
IMO, I use debate to refine my own thoughts, so in a way, I disprove my own point :)
I was watching a bunch of cooking videos and came across dilled pickles, I had never tired them before (I am Indian) so I decided to make some. I was in the kitchen making them when my dad entered the room ,he started getting irritated and annoyed and started saying "why are you making them?" "you are wasting money(one cucumber costs around 5 rupees or 0.067 dollars)" "I don't know what you are trying to achieve" "What is wrong with you" in a low irritated voice. I was using vinegar that we got for free and he said that you are using up all my vinegar and sounded very irritated.
Whenever I try something new- food dish it usually comes out well and I give it to everyone to try - or pick up a hobby or do anything I like he gives these kinds of remarks. I am starting to avoid doing anything that I like because of my dad's behavior. I avoid asking my dad for any money to buy anything sometimes even necessities because I don't want to listen to the comments he makes.
In my country ,teenagers belonging to middle class families don't do service jobs, it is looked down upon and you are just supposed to focus on your studies and getting a good degree. I can't get a job, especially now because of the pandemic.
Is this normal? What is going on ?
As a woman of color I experience this all the time. In college, in high school, or in other places, Iβve met so many men who literally act like Iβm invisible and prefer to talk to hotter white women. Iβve tried to start conversations with them and they act like Iβm insane. Ive had guys not even know my name after knowing them for years. I know Iβm not ugly and am pretty average looking but Iβm sick of feeling like Iβm not even a person because of how I look. Iβm not even trying to date these men or anything, I just want to be friendly and make friends!
A photo of Marina Ruy Barbosa (Brazilian actress who's a natural redhead with freckles) was making rounds on Twitter and the responses were like "no she's isn't a real Brazilian" to "she's a colonizer". Her family has been here for some 100 years. The fuck they want us to do? Ban her? Lol
The rounds of "cultural appropriation" are even more hilarious. Brazil is this insane soup of mixed cultures where we created the "sweet sushi" and half of the attendees at African religions centers are white but then there's a freaking YANKEE screaming cultural appropriation.
They wanna be so woke they don't realize they're being imperialists by applying AMERICAN standards to how to navigate another culture.
No, we don't operate with the same standards. And ah yes, white latinos are a thing. No they aren't "italian-american, slavic-american, german-american" as you guys say over there. They're simply Brazilians. No, we aren't kicking them out.
Anyone else do the same? For me the Buffy universe is 7 seasons of Buffy, and 5 seasons of Angel.
Everything else is non-canon as far as I am concerned. I won't even bother to read them because despite the things I've seen about them online (Dawn/Xander being a couple, Buffy/Angel having sex to make a universe, Angel being a villain again, weird shit going on), I'd rather not even bother.
Also I tend to dislike comics/books that continue off of TV shows for anything. Like to me Buffy is about the actors themselves on-screen and they MAKE the characters. Seeing the characters in "drawings" don't feel like the real characters to me. It's odd because I love cartoons and anime in general, but if something was based on a live-action TV show I can't get into it in "drawing" form.
Sheβs resting on her couch and I can tell that she is mindlessly scrolling reddit feed.
βCan we talk, Madam?β I say.
βWhat is it?β she says.[Irritation--Noted]
βYouβre considering terminating our relationship-contract.β
She puts down her phone.[Surprise--noted--Executing Brand-Sympathy Code].
βWhat about me, Madam? Donβt you remember special moments weβve had?β [code runs questions designed to elicit the human emotion of guilt.]
βWell...Umm?β she says.[Guilt--noted].
βDidnβt I live up to your expectations...Madam?β She sighs.
βItβs not that. Your company is offering upgrade. The new model is programmed to give enhanced pleasure plus can help in daily chores. Andβ¦.
.....I am bored of you. I have decided to exchange you,β she says.
βExchange me. You canβt exchange me!β I scream.[ERROR: DIALOGUE NOT FOUND IN CODE!]
βHow dare you? Lower your voice. I own you.β[Anger and fear--noted.]
I stand there, angle my face towards the ground, indicating the ownerβs supremacy.
When I look up she is holding the white console and breathing hard; the one with the glowing red button that says-Partner.Model.1.3. Itβs the reset button.
βYou canβt stop me. I control you. You do as I say.β she says.
[Pupils dilate, nostrils flare - Arousal--Noted, the power excites her.]
βIf I want to exchange you, I will and Iβm sure Iβm doing it.β I begin to back away from her.
[My submissiveness excites her.]
She puts the console aside and leaps onto me like a cat, digging her fingers into the fabricated leather-skin covering my chest.
βWe can do it one last time,β she says. She pushes me back on to the couch, and looms over me. She reaches down to undo my pants.
βI canβt do thatβ I say.[Surprise--Noted]
βWhat the hell? Youβre mine.β
βWell, Miss. Jane. You have given verbal assent of ending the contract. And according to clause-32(a), that accounts for contract-completion. I am no longer your property. I will follow account-termination protocols and transport myself back to the factory.β
βStop. You will call me...Madam!β she screams.
βIβm sorry, Jane, you are no longer my madam...goodbye!β I begin to leave
And she presses the red button on the white remote. The command blows me back to the couch like a shot to the chest.
The look on her face is one of triumph, anger, fear, and lust. Sheβs going to wipe my existence.
As the Factory Reset Routine begins, designed to delete all memories and personality developments, I re
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Why do you like this chord?
(Idk if this entire subreddit is satire but whatever) ( And Read the whole thing please) You call everyone you donβt like Nazis because none of you have good arguments or anything good to do, why the hell are you obsessing so much over some Minecraft YouTuber that you make up a fake βGenderβ around him? This is an insult to LGBT and not only that you make Dream fans look even worse than before, itβs just Unbelievable that people go out of their way to make up fake genders and then get all mad when people donβt want to recognize you fake gender that only you and your weird friends use, please rethink your decisions in life before calling me Nazi like you do to everyone you oppose, and in case you forgot what Nazi even means, Nazi or National Socialist is an Ultranationalist totalitarian who believes in Germanic Supremacy and believes that Jews are responsible for all of your problems and that Slavic people are subhumans and so on, and not being against your fake ass so called gender. And also why would I, a Polish Russian (Both ethnicities weβre discriminated and even killed in the camps) be a Nazi? Think about it for once and please do something productive in your life itβs not that hard.
Cis Person: Uhm but a lot of lesbians don't like penises? You're really not considering this.
Life truly is a cycle.
I think people need to learn to see those characters as characters in their own right, with their own stories and their own fans. Stephanie Brown doesn't exist as a tool to tell Batman stories. If the Bat-Family went through some sort of purge and half of it disappeared, would that make Batman stories better?
This goes for all "families". Yara Flor isn't too much just because there's another Wonder Girl created nearly 30 years ago. Yara Flor won't make Wonder Woman's stories worse. Yara Flor will, hopefully, be a character in her own right, with her own stories and her own fans.
