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Disney+ Star coming to other markets on Feb. 23rd, including Canada. -- (link) - Shaun Jan 28, 09:26 1
- The politics of where to put some of those titles is interesting - Reagen Jan 28, 09:29
Captain Phasma aka Brienne of Tarth has been cast as Lucifer in the Sandman Netflix series. -- nm - Remlik Jan 28, 09:20 5
- and Tywin Lannister as the bad guy! -- nm - decline Jan 28, 09:25
- They are raping my childhood with this female Lucifer!!!!!! -- nm - Comment section I assume Jan 28, 09:22 3
  - And blonde!?! I did laugh at the first episode of Boston Legal last night. It had the case of the black Little Orphan Annie. When Rev. Sharpton was - Spawn Jan 28, 09:27
  - How do you feel about female Gabriel? ^^ -- nm - Hibernating Baron Jan 28, 09:27
  - heh -- nm - mud Jan 28, 09:23
Mighty Ducks trailer (letterkenny!) -- (link) - Beaker Jan 28, 09:14 [youtube] 3
- "All we need is an ice rink." "OK, I can squeeze you in at 5:30 am or 11:30 pm." -- nm - Hibernating Baron Jan 28, 09:30
- Looks charming. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 09:18
- also, holy shit does Emilio look and sound like his dad in this... -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 09:16
I’m on a zoom meeting, and the person conducting the meeting is a dead ringer for Allison Mack -- nm - Flavorize Jan 28, 09:14 1
- at the next pause in the conversation say your stomach really hurts and you could use a Nexium - decline Jan 28, 09:15
me: Hey, why are records not included in Query X, but are included in Query Y? Tech support: It's because Query X references field Z - prayformojo Jan 28, 09:12 1
- easy peasy - just drop field Z -- nm - decline Jan 28, 09:14
"Sam Summers was sitting at home with his penis wrapped in an internet-connected chastity cage when he got a weird message on the app that connects to the device" -- (link*) - decline Jan 28, 09:09 3
- “Your name sir, for the article?” “Sam Summers........uh....but my friends call me John Doe.... Sam Summersson.” -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 28, 09:20 1
  - "I don't have a scar or anything but I was bleeding and it fucking hurt," -- nm - JD Jan 28, 09:22
- *approved* -- nm - MUG Jan 28, 09:10
SAG Noms next Thursday ! -- (link) - mud Jan 28, 09:09
Options goofiness - Reagen Jan 28, 09:08 1
- There must be a shitload of wacky plays to do with options. (NM) - Marlowe Jan 28, 09:14
Spawn, here's one -- (link) - ty97 Jan 28, 09:01 4
- I'm down. I miss HSX trading so much. -- nm - Pippy Jan 28, 09:11
- Do they have a chat board? -- nm* - Spawn Jan 28, 09:06 2
  - ST? -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 09:07
  - r/fakewallstreetbets -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 09:07
Nevermind that the policy resulted in a massive increase in abortions, Biden reversing the Mexico City Policy (it flip flops ever 4 years), I'm sure - oblique Jan 28, 09:01
Kind of cool - "Velvet Love" made the Spotify "Fresh Finds: Pop" playlist. -- (link) - pmb Jan 28, 09:00 [spotify] 4
- Awesome! I think it's a cool song. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jan 28, 09:26
- that's awesome! -- nm - Andie Jan 28, 09:24
- She's on her way now! -- nm - Pippy Jan 28, 09:12
- ! -- nm - prayformojo Jan 28, 09:06
In Houston (this was actually outside the second loop, so... not Houston) we do shootouts during the daytime, brah. -- (link*) - Qale Jan 28, 08:59 [youtube]
Chuck Wendig has taste-tested the everything bagel ice cream and says it's amazing - decline Jan 28, 08:59 3
- Alleged M & M flavored coffee creamer in the wild. Let me know if yall see it and where. Also 'Glazed Doughnut'and " oatmeal something something" -- nm - Pippy Jan 28, 09:16
- Thanks for clarifying, I thought it was Chuck Tingle. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 09:00 1
  - Pounded In The Ass By A Pint Of Everything Bagel Ice Cream -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 09:26
The Blue Jays Are Officially Going for It—and Baseball Is More Fun As a Result -- (link) - Beaker Jan 28, 08:57 1
- and now I have to watch the end of the Jays/Rangers game again... -- (edited) - Beaker Jan 28, 08:59
YouTube finally got off the fence and announced that Trump's suspension is indefinite. -- (link) - Mop Jan 28, 08:56 2
- "Indefinite" *is* on the fence. Not on the fence would be "permanent," which is what Twitter said. -- nm - mara Jan 28, 08:59 1
  - It's slightly less on the fence than "temporary". But otherwise, yes. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 08:59
*thinkeyes emoji* -- (pic) - ty97 Jan 28, 08:55 [Attachment]
a dude on my team left. I am trying to backfill him. central HR is telling me that I have to backfill in a different profile that has a much higher - amanda jeans Jan 28, 08:53 3
- That's . . . weird. -- nm - pmb Jan 28, 09:01
- It's strange that hiring restrictions due to coronavirus are dictating hiring someone at a considerably higher salary. -- nm - Mop Jan 28, 08:59
- But not time to fill the water glass? I see where your loyalties are -- nm - Chubby siamese cat Jan 28, 08:54
a GameStop comment - mud Jan 28, 08:51 8
- it was fun while it lasted -- nm - Pippy Jan 28, 08:53 7
  - is it over yet? -- nm - mud Jan 28, 08:54 6
    - Big time—dropping like a rock -- nm - Flavorize Jan 28, 08:55 4
      - Just because everyone halted buying the stock, and you could only sell. -- nm* - Shaun Jan 28, 08:57
      - up quite a bit in the past 30-60 minutes -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 08:56 2
        
        . -- (pic) - ty97 Jan 28, 08:58 [Attachment]
        
        short! -- nm - mud Jan 28, 08:57
    - *shrug* they are going to have to move their gains somewhere. -- nm - Pippy Jan 28, 08:54
TIL: You can transfer the full balance of your stimulus debit card to your bank account with no fees. -- nm - Mop Jan 28, 08:49
Biden ends fossil fuel subsidies from govt agencies -- (link) - TWuG Jan 28, 08:46 1
- Well, that sounds like a stupid program. Up to $20 billion/year? Let's hear from Twitter what we could have been spending that money on instead... -- nm - Mop Jan 28, 08:48
Rashida Tlaib on the Robinhood company's attempt to "fix" things -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 28, 08:42 6
- AOC, as well -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 28, 08:55
- if lawyers haven't started drafting a massive class action lawsuit against them I will eat my hat -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 08:43 4
  - Here -- (link) - Beryllium Jan 28, 09:21 3
    - figured "I could of sold at $380 except for this". They are so fucked (especially with AOC et al on the case too) -- nm - Beaker Jan 28, 09:22 2
      - I think robinhood was still allowing sales, just not purchases -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 09:28 1
        
        Although by not allowing purchases, that broke/"fixed" the market for that stock... -- nm* - Beryllium Jan 28, 09:29
I'm beginning to think the stock market might be a rigged system designed to make the rich richer. -- nm - Dano Jan 28, 08:38 6
- As if we needed a more obvious example of how 'the game' is rigged, this is certainly proving the point -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 08:42
- Same reason why you have VIP, Gold, Platinum statuses in business. -- nm - budice Jan 28, 08:41 1
  - oh speaking of plus, discovery plus gets HGTV programming tomorrow, right? -- nm - amanda jeans Jan 28, 08:42
- In all seriousness, I am enjoying the fact that we now have a real world example for all those people who think the stock market = the economy. nm -- nm - Clarence Beeks Jan 28, 08:39 2
  - And stock squeezes are nothing new. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 08:40 1
    - Hell, I've seen people trying to squeeze market players they dislike before. As in, I was in the room as this was talked about. (NM) - Marlowe Jan 28, 08:42
(if you haven't figured it out yet) Big-ass spoilers in this teaser for tomorrow Wandavision -- (link) - Mop Jan 28, 08:33 2
- Its been in a few trailers so nothing uge -- nm - eag Jan 28, 08:38
- Yeah, had that spoiled last week. -- nm - Spawn Jan 28, 08:36
Now Reuters is looking at American Airlines - up over 10% earlier. Still only about half of what it was a year ago. -- nm - Meg Jan 28, 08:33 6
- I think bery needs to build us a Gotham Stock Exchange. -- nm - Spawn Jan 28, 08:34 5
  - ... what would that be? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 08:43 4
    - We can practice trading real life stocks and make a game of it? - Spawn Jan 28, 08:46 3
      - Don't sites like this exist already? I'm sure we could create a group there and have seasons or something -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 08:47 2
        
        One of my banks has it, to promote their trading platform. The interface is a real turnoff for me. Good job, bank. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 08:59
        
        *shrugs* - Spawn Jan 28, 08:48
Suckers. -- nm - Clarence Beeks Jan 28, 08:32
the "enemy is within..." -- (link) - mud Jan 28, 08:24 1
- “What could they be thinking?“ -- (link) - mud Jan 28, 08:30
In which a Winkelvoss makes a good point -- (link) - ty97 Jan 28, 08:18 23
- Same idea. -- (link) - Tim Jan 28, 08:26 7
  - (This is the guy who cut his CEO salary and starts employees off at 70k a year, and “experts” predicted he’d go out of business within a year.) - Tim Jan 28, 08:39 1
    - I never understood why that was supposed to run him out of business, unless people were going to try to because he....ohhh -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 09:03
  - Indeed. -- nm - David Jan 28, 08:33
  - Apples and oranges. -- nm* - znufrii Jan 28, 08:28 2
    - It's really not. -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 08:41 1
      - The stock market is not the economy, so his first point is a non-sequitur. - znufrii Jan 28, 08:57
  - yup -- nm - prayformojo Jan 28, 08:28
- Not really. -- (edited) - znufrii Jan 28, 08:23 13
  - NONE of this is being done to protect the "naive retail investors being taken advantage of". That's a cover story excuse -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 08:31 12
    - It’s all about protecting the market. If you can manipulate a stock price like this for the lulz, you destroy confidence in the market - Will Hunting Jan 28, 08:36 3
      - So we need a revamp to the market? Cause from the outside looking in, it seems the majority of stock prices and movement are not - JD Jan 28, 08:40 2
        
        Noted. Call me a victim of general press coverage which would lean toward covering the flashy stocks and movement -- nm - JD Jan 28, 08:42
        
        Majority would be stretching it, a lot. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 08:41
    - I’m not saying it’s being done to protect them, it’s to protect against the risk they present to the market. -- nm* - znufrii Jan 28, 08:33 6
      - And what protections have they put in place to protect 'the market' from the 'professionals'. - ty97 Jan 28, 08:40 5
        
        Start here -- (link) - znufrii Jan 28, 08:45 4
        
        Great, now what has Robinhood, TDAmeritrade, etc done specifically, like they've done for GME retail buyers today -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 08:53 2
        
        That’s entirely the wrong question to ask. -- (edited) - znufrii Jan 28, 08:58 1
        
        More broadly, I would make an important distinction (apologies to any experts reading this if I don’t use more exact terminology) -- (edited) - znufrii Jan 28, 09:16
        
        And here -- (link) - znufrii Jan 28, 08:46
    - Right. -- nm - David Jan 28, 08:33
- Stop trying to distract us with more Arnie Hammer stories. -- nm - Qale Jan 28, 08:21
Dear GME sellers, buy the stocks I own, thanks! -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 08:17
The Egyptian artefacts stolen by the Hobby Lobby people for their museum have been returned to Egypt. -- (link) - ❄TWuG 🚀 Jan 28, 08:10
I am supposed to request a propane delivery when I am at 20%. I am at 5%. I hadn't checked all winter. no fireplace for cats until delivery, -- nm - amanda jeans Jan 28, 08:05 2
- How did this MUG fall off the counter? I just can't say. -- nm - cats Jan 28, 08:14
- They're gonna freeze!! -- nm - decline Jan 28, 08:06
I think the fun is over with Gamestop. - Inigo Jan 28, 07:57 34
- Hmm. I was wrong. Rollercoaster! -- nm - Inigo Jan 28, 09:08
- the focus needs to switch next to how to ensure this doesn't happen again. -- nm - amanda jeans Jan 28, 08:19 4
  - I'm not sure that's possible? There's nothing illegal about say ST deciding that we're all going to buy stock X for the lulz. If we're stupid enough -- (edited) - JD Jan 28, 08:29
  - Now why would we go and do something like that? -- nm - con_carne Jan 28, 08:26
  - That's on the hedge funds. They obviously can't handle the intricacies of the market, so they need stricter regulations. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 08:26 1
    - Someone should teach the hedge fund managers how to budget -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 08:45
- No one was going to hold it long term. -- nm - Mop Jan 28, 08:14 3
  - But, but, but, it was going to $1000!!!!!!! - zunkskunk+ Jan 28, 08:15 2
    - Diamond hands! - znufrii Jan 28, 08:16 1
      - Taking all the tendies -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 08:23
- Daily range as of this second. 196.05 - 482.85. On the low... -- nm - zunkskunk+ Jan 28, 08:10 7
  - Every time someone wants to sell, there has to be a buyer. Who is offering more than a buck right now? -- nm - Mop Jan 28, 08:17 6
    - But with some of the short sellers deciding to cut their losses, there are people willing to buy at current prices - JD Jan 28, 08:36 2
      - And not to put too fine a point on it, some people have to buy, right now, at what ever price they can. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 08:37
      - Oh and there's the infamous margin call scenario? -- nm - JD Jan 28, 08:37
    - If no one wants to sell for a buck, you ain't getting it for that. It's into pure scarcity pricing, like a baseball card. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 08:24
    - Hedge funds covering and re-shorting on the way down to lock in their gains? -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 08:19 1
      - Also HFTs don’t care what the price is. -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 08:25
- All the other Stock Market stuff seems boring in comparison -- nm - budice Jan 28, 08:07
- Has it been posted that some platforms/brokerages are prohibiting new buying today? I guess Robinhood isn't so "cool" now. -- nm - zunkskunk+ Jan 28, 08:04 3
  - They might get sued, but certainly (and perhaps more hurtfully to them) their reputation will be in tatters after today. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 28, 08:06 2
    - They’d get sued regardless. - znufrii Jan 28, 08:09 1
      - I look forward to the book -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 08:13
- That's one thing I didn't understand the end game for. Someone is going to be the last person out. -- nm - Dano Jan 28, 08:02 6
  - Oh, it's a stampede for the exit, which is why I wanted nothing to do with it. -- nm - Reagen Jan 28, 08:42
  - Outcome could be healthy for sure. The impetus for the action was not that though, IMO. -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 08:11 2
    - You are right, probably not. Still. If this keeps going, do you know who will really line their pockets? Hedge funds. (NM) - Marlowe Jan 28, 08:15
    - VVVV This is in response to Marlowe -- nm - ty97 Jan 28, 08:11
  - And that's why I think that blocking the purchases in Robinhood is actually healthy. Those suckers would bleed to death. (NM) - Marlowe Jan 28, 08:06
  - But as long as you're not the last one out. I also think that there was a non-end game goal which was to see if they could hurt the hedge funds -- nm - JD Jan 28, 08:06
- Once people start heading for the exits, it'll become a stampede very quickly - Brian Jan 28, 08:01
- It’s almost like inflating something 35x it’s true value doesn’t lead to consequences. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 28, 08:00 2
  - works for Tesla -- nm - decline Jan 28, 08:08 1
    - As much as I think Tesla is ridiculously overpriced, there’s a hope case where it actually achieves Musk’s vision. It’s potentially not a joke. - Will Hunting Jan 28, 08:21
Reagen, give that kid an F-triple-minus. That should drag down the average. -- nm - Hibernating Baron Jan 28, 07:55
Thanks, oblique -- (link) - JD Jan 28, 07:49 [Backboard] 1
- and somewhere I see Dawson telling his bosses, It's not illegal to be an idiot. - JD Jan 28, 07:53
"He is going to eat all of them." -- (link) - mud Jan 28, 07:48
“He walks now, guys, so I’ve lost all control.” -- (link) - decline Jan 28, 07:44 4
- She handles it well. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 28, 07:59
- We've got a poopy weather front moving in from the south. -- nm - Hibernating Baron Jan 28, 07:48
- Sounds about right. -- nm - znufrii Jan 28, 07:47
- Adorable. #WeatherBaby must be a regular thing now. -- nm - Mop Jan 28, 07:45

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