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I love Ars Technica. "The complete moron’s guide to GameStop’s stock roller coaster" -- (link) - oblique Jan 28, 05:55
Annual assessments for my team...complete! -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 05:48 3
- I give them a 75. It's got a good beat but I can't dance to it. -- nm - Hibernating Baron Jan 28, 06:01 2
  - Your dancing skills aren't their problem! -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 06:01 1
    - I got skills. I can dance to Mission: Impossible. -- nm - Hibernating Baron Jan 28, 06:03
US economy shrank in 2020 (-3.5%) for first time since the Great Recession after growing at 4% (annualized) rate last quarter -- (link) - decline Jan 28, 05:48 4
- SELL! SELL! SELL! (Except GME probably?) -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 05:48 3
  - The average price per square foot of a Trump property in 2016 was $3,346. In 2020? $1,619 -- nm - decline Jan 28, 05:57 2
    - BUY! BUY! BUY! -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 05:57 1
      - Unemployment claims down a bit to 874K (another 427K applied for PUA) -- nm - decline Jan 28, 06:04
Uh oh -- (link) - Reagen Jan 28, 05:46 30
- Their wikipedia page is rather humorous right now -- (edited) - oblique Jan 28, 06:02
- (Dropped 140 per since this happened) -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 06:01
- Also, the later you get in this game, the bigger the chance you will be the dumbass holding the bag. (NM) - Marlowe Jan 28, 05:54 2
  - Oh yeah. As soon as it becomes "a story" it's already too late in the game for me. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 05:56 1
    - Normally yes, but I guess getting in Friday or Monday wouldn't have been bad after all. - ty97 Jan 28, 05:56
- Robinhood makes the vast majority of their money selling order flow to Wall Street. Guess they were reminded of that fact. -- nm - spamlet Jan 28, 05:51 1
  - I would like to know if they were pressured into this, which in a way could be its own manipulation of sorts. - ty97 Jan 28, 05:54
- bastards -- nm - decline Jan 28, 05:49
- I was just about to post something similar. Is that allowed? Isn't that market manipulation? -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 05:48 21
  - Interesting question. In theory, robin hood users could just buy via a different brokerage provider - ty97 Jan 28, 05:50 7
    - Basically anyone let’s you buy fractional shares and has no commissions now. -- nm - spamlet Jan 28, 05:51 6
      - Interesting, I didn't realize that. -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 05:55 3
        
        (I'm a rather boring investor as you may have surmised) -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 05:55 2
        
        I don't do anything crazy either, but the machinations are interesting. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 05:57 1
        
        oh definitely -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 05:57
      - (We can't do this in Canada, FWIW) -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 05:54 1
        
        Well in AMERICA where we have FREEDOM you can. - spamlet Jan 28, 06:02
  - Ultimately it's up to the broker what they want to offer. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 05:49 12
    - They're about to lose a lot of customers -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 05:50 11
      - They make zero money from zero commissions and their order flow data is worthless as long as this goes on. -- nm - spamlet Jan 28, 05:52 10
        
        They make no money on people trading stocks? -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 05:53 9
        
        pretty much nobody makes their money that way anymore -- nm - decline Jan 28, 05:58
        
        Not directly no. - spamlet Jan 28, 05:55 3
        
        Thanks. Retail investing seems like a foolish idea for 99% of people -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 06:02 2
        
        *ding* -- nm - spamlet Jan 28, 06:12
        
        There's a reason I tend to invest in ETFs and not individual stocks -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 06:04
        
        That's part of why they are popular. - ty97 Jan 28, 05:55 3
        
        Interesting -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 06:01
        
        The SEC probe is because they didn’t disclose the order flow revenue. Not that it’s illegal. - spamlet Jan 28, 05:56 1
        
        yeah, I was just pasting a copy of their revenue system from wiki -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 05:58
Tanaka is going back to the Rakuten Eagles of the NPB. -- (link) - spamlet Jan 28, 05:32 1
- He will be greatly missed by Yankees fans. I'm sad that we couldn't get him a ring while he was here. I hope he does well back home. -- nm - Krusty Jan 28, 05:40
Uh Oh, He's On The Electric Six Again - Reagen Jan 28, 05:13
The Texans have hired Baltimore Ravens assistant David Culley to be their next head coach -- (link) - Beaker Jan 28, 05:08 2
- Deshaun should just leave. -- nm - budice Jan 28, 05:15 1
  - Culley and Watson have a good connection from what's been rumored. - Inigo Jan 28, 05:24
TV PSA: NBA, BattleBots, Hell's Kitchen, Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, Walker, Mr Mayor, Superstore, legacies, Call Me Kat, Chase, Go-Big Show, Unicorn, -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 04:23 2
- Last Man Standing, ST Discovery, Hustler, The Rev, The Stand (CBS AA), Search Party (HBO M), The Queen Of Black Magic (Shudder), Possessions (HBO M), -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 04:25 1
  - grown-ish, Jersey Shore, Dateline, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 04:26
Like I was saying about big money being on both sides of this thing -- (link) - Reagen Jan 28, 04:12 2
- Blackrock is mostly indexes though. I don’t know that they had any speculative shares. -- nm - spamlet Jan 28, 05:18 1
  - right. 2 of the largest institutional investors in gamestop are Blackrock and Vanguard - decline Jan 28, 05:39
looks like dogecoin is trying to get on the reddit game -- (link) - zeitgeist Jan 28, 01:20 19
- I'm kind of shocked that people (scammers) haven't been using Reddit or other sites to pump and dump stocks already. this can't be the first time - Beaker Jan 28, 04:08 18
  - I don't think it's coincidence that it happened just weeks after Jan. 6th. - Max Jan 28, 04:48 5
    - This has been building for like a year and a half, it finally just hit critical mass -- (link) - Reagen Jan 28, 05:04 4
      - (Reader mode is your friend) - Reagen Jan 28, 05:07 2
        
        Somehow I don't think it's the guy that made $750 that truly drove the price. (NM) - Marlowe Jan 28, 05:30 1
        
        In no way. Hedge fund guys are looking for scapegoats for why they got caught with their pants around their ankles. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 05:37
      - c&p article please? -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 05:05
  - hotcopper for Australian stocks. I’m sure there are others. Usually they stick to penny dreadfuls, easier to swing. -- nm - mafic Jan 28, 04:15 11
    - the Gamestop makes sense at the start. with 136% shorted, eventually it would tick up when they started covering; I think the shorters assumed -- (edited) - Beaker Jan 28, 04:21 10
      - I have a question, how can something be more than 100% shorted? -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 04:24 9
        
        You can chain short sellers to create more shares. - spamlet Jan 28, 05:06 2
        
        You've really let yourself go, Margot Robbie in a bubble bath -- nm - con_carne Jan 28, 05:32 1
        
        +10 Qale Points -- nm - Qale Jan 28, 07:18
        
        this is a reddit post from 4 days ago on the subject (no idea if accurate, but appears to make sense) - Beaker Jan 28, 04:29 5
        
        First set of options expire tomorrow. Should be interesting. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 04:39 3
        
        ELI5 -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 05:26 2
        
        When an option expires you have to make the choice to exercise it or let it expire worthless - Reagen Jan 28, 05:36 1
        
        (There's people with options to buy at 0.50 ...like fuck you're not gonna execute that if you can) -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 05:59
        
        another thing I found, ties into the greed mentioned in the above post - Beaker Jan 28, 04:32
Pfizer says they're good for UK & SA variants -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 27, 23:53 2
- yeah but the Brazilian is starting to sound like a whole new mutation of its own -- (link) - zeitgeist Jan 28, 01:01 1
  - There's nothing that is bad that won't get worse as it goes through our shores. (NM) - Marlowe Jan 28, 04:18
Mr/Mrs Pense have been couch surfing because they apparently thought the donald would pull a reelection out of his ass and made no plans... -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 27, 23:50
Tonight I learned that Google Sheets lets you embed images inside of cells, instead of just floating wherever ... - Beryllium Jan 27, 23:47
Seems like they brought Brandon Routh onto The Rookie to embody the "bad apples" ... - Beryllium Jan 27, 22:37 3
- wow, I watched the episode and it didn't even register in my brain that that was Superman. -- nm - Max Jan 28, 03:02 1
  - plus he is so great and huggable on Legends of Tomorrow -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 04:05
- Oh! - Beryllium Jan 27, 23:22
The Arch. Soc. is currently in discussions with the USPS over their inability to forward mail to the treasurer's home from the PO Box. An email - Meg Jan 27, 21:59
Republicans demand audit of Kelli Ward's narrow win for Arizona GOP chair -- (link) - ty97 Jan 27, 21:43
Chinese botnets getting in on the political disinformation game on social media, looks like. -- (link) - znufrii Jan 27, 21:13 1
- Is it really these foreign powers fault Americans are so easily dis... Squirrel!! -- nm - Qale Jan 27, 21:21
whoa -- (link) - Jovian Jan 27, 21:11 1
- That's awesome! -- nm - Krusty Jan 27, 21:17
SITWAP: A normal person explains what’s happening on the stock market. -- (link) - zunkskunk+ Jan 27, 20:39 4
- "Not today." -- nm* - Arya Investor Group Jan 28, 01:37
- Awesome. -- nm - Mop Jan 27, 21:05
- This one is for Tim -- (link) - Remlik Jan 27, 20:55
- Brilliant. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 27, 20:47
Resident Alien was pretty great. The funny vs the dark could be a bit of a jolt at times, but Tudyk is fantastic. WATCH IT. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 27, 20:21
I’m watching the Price is Right. Am I high... or are these contestants high? -- nm - Mop Jan 27, 20:14 1
- Yes. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 27, 20:20
Gamestop:We are now hiring out of work hedge fund managers. No ponytail required. -- (link) - Remlik Jan 27, 19:42 5
- like these folks :) -- (pic) - Peglegpete Jan 27, 21:04 [Attachment]
- I wouldn’t make it a week. Not because of upper management but the gamers themselves. -- nm - Qale Jan 27, 20:11
- I took a screenshot in case the account gets deleted. -- (pic) - Beryllium Jan 27, 19:56 [Attachment] 2
  - it's not really GameStop -- nm - Tim Jan 27, 19:57 1
    - Which is why I said the account might get deleted, not the tweet. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 27, 20:14
Librarians love a challenge, right? -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 27, 19:42 1
- Ook. -- nm - znufrii Jan 27, 21:40
Resident Alien spoiler - mud Jan 27, 19:24 3
- I'll say one thing about whiskey... - Cuzzin Todd Jan 27, 19:50 1
  - of course -- nm - mud Jan 27, 20:00
- Just started it and agreed, was a bit taken aback by that. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jan 27, 19:28
Everybody is fungible. - Spawn Jan 27, 19:06
Star Trek Voyager: Robin Williams wanted to do the show, was a fan of Neelix. He was supposed to be on TNG playing the Matt Frewer character -- (link) - Remlik Jan 27, 19:04 2
- Could you imagine being Ethan Phillips in that moment? Wow. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 27, 19:10 1
  - right? a private one man show from Robin where he does a routine about Neelix -- nm - Remlik Jan 27, 20:56
The Toronto Blue Jays are reportedly trading for starting pitcher Steven Matz from the Mets for 3 prospects -- (link) - Beaker Jan 27, 18:47 1
- hope he brings his mitts. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 04:57
so as you may recall, I live in central pennsylvania, where we have almost nothing. my sister today sent me a UPS priority mail box - amanda jeans Jan 27, 18:45 5
- make preserved lemons, cut not all the way through in quarters, jar, water, tablespoon of kosher salt per lemon, let time do its thing - zeitgeist Jan 27, 22:35
- When life gives you lemons... -- nm - Qale Jan 27, 21:23
- Nice! Enjoy! -- nm - Krusty Jan 27, 18:50
- The first two sound great, but surely lemonade would be a better third option? :) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 27, 18:47 1
  - (I just mean ... that's a loooot to eat) -- nm - Beryllium Jan 27, 18:49
started rewatching The Witcher. So much better than the books imo (I've read 4 of the books) -- nm - Beaker Jan 27, 18:35
Stole this from facebook. -- (pic) - znufrii Jan 27, 18:27 [Attachment]
GameStop, BlockBuster, Bed Bath & Beyond, AMC… it’s like some kids remembered their favorite places in the mall 20 years ago and decided to invest in -- (link) - Remlik Jan 27, 18:25 4
- that's not Blockbuster -- nm - Tim Jan 27, 19:21
- BB Liquidating? -- nm - Mop Jan 27, 19:02 1
  - Looks like it's the corporate remnant left after Dish bought all the rest of their remaining assets out of bankruptcy in 2011. -- nm* - znufrii Jan 27, 19:33
- Funds are gettin' the fuck outta dodge and covering their shorts -- nm* - Beaker Jan 27, 18:28
Multiple reports, from the Senior bowl, that Mac Jones is looking good -- nm - Flavorize Jan 27, 18:16
We need to give The Next Three Days the reddit treatment to reach the #1 spot on Netflix. watch watch watch! -- nm - Max Jan 27, 18:01 8
- I'll throw 3 minutes at it to make it count -- nm* - Beaker Jan 27, 18:16
- This is the one from 2010? -- nm - GregW Jan 27, 18:15 1
  - wow, I would have guessed it was older. but yes. -- nm - amanda jeans Jan 27, 18:18
- Apologies, I must have missed. Happy to do it. elevator summary? -- nm - loosilu Jan 27, 18:04 4
  - The Next Three Days? Liam Neeson film about a prison escapee who is so badass the police are like 'let's not even bother with him' -- nm* - Max Jan 27, 18:05 2
    - Neeson's only in it for like 15 mins. And Banks plays the escapee. Crowe is great IMO. -- nm - con_carne Jan 27, 23:50
    - it's a russell crowe film feat liam neeson. #2 in the US on NF today!! -- nm - amanda jeans Jan 27, 18:13
  - t's so great! it's about a dude who ... just watch it. -- nm - amanda jeans Jan 27, 18:04
Looking good for a Starship flight tomorrow -- (link) - TWuG Jan 27, 17:31 3
- Boca Chica village? - ty97 Jan 27, 17:43 1
  - The village predates the SpaceX facility. SpaceX owns most of the residences there now. I think only 1 or 2 non-employees still live there. - TWuG Jan 27, 17:52
- That sounds... alarming? -- nm - Max Jan 27, 17:35
I did not laugh. More of a sigh, or some similar exhalation. -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 27, 17:21
Made me laugh -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 27, 17:13
The shot, which....seriously people...what?!?! -- (link) - ty97 Jan 27, 17:03 7
- And the chaser -- (link) - ty97 Jan 27, 17:04 6
  - I'm glad to hear that. Too many people from outside of the city have been getting the vaccine here. -- nm - Krusty Jan 27, 17:51 2
    - Yep, we had to provide picture ID verifying our age and that we were residents of Orange County. -- nm - Meg Jan 27, 17:55 1
      - They've been letting anyone that lives or works in the city to get the vaccine here. People should be getting it where they live, not where they work. - Krusty Jan 27, 18:16
  - The more I hear the happier I am to be in Orange County. Of course living a mile from Disneyland didn't hurt. - Meg Jan 27, 17:10 2
    - I'm going to be so screwed when everyone else has those 3 extra arms and I don't. -- nm - Qale Jan 27, 17:13 1
      - While I was there someone called for a Vietnamese interpreter - only to discover the patient was Korean. Welcome to the OC :) -- nm - Meg Jan 27, 17:21
Mina Kimes is just so good—here’s her talking about MLB HOF -- (link) - Flavorize Jan 27, 17:03
Looks like r/wsb is public again. Apparently Reddit asked them to go private because it was overloading their servers. -- (link) - spamlet Jan 27, 16:54
Still has projects coming out. -- (link) - Remlik Jan 27, 16:46 3
- She'll always be Frau Bloucher -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 27, 16:52 2
  - *horse whinny* -- nm - znufrii Jan 27, 18:29
  - Ruth Popper gonna cut you. -- nm - mafic Jan 27, 16:58
16'th century locket portrait is of King Henry III of France -- (link) - Peglegpete Jan 27, 16:36 1
- smarmy. -- nm - Max Jan 27, 16:46
I honestly thought Leachman died years ago. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 27, 16:35

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