I'll start with what's to come for 2022 and then move to Africa. A series of fortunate events leading to vision 2025. All info is widely available and verifiable. Sources and links given below.

Ecosystem growth in 2022:

1. 10+ DEXes, built from ground up, that will specifically use the advantage of the extended UTxO model. Note the emphasizes on "built from ground up" meaning that they will be different from what you're used from the Dapps on the account-based model blockchains. Benchmarking shows that with the eUTXO model, around 25 to 30 orders can be easily handled within one single transaction.
2. Borrow and lending protocols + robust DeFI ecosystem dropping in Q1/Q2 '22 after auditing and testing on testnet. Remember that it took Ethereum 2.5 years to have cryptokitties and Solana over more than a year to have some decent DApps. Cardano entered the smart contract era on 9 September 2021 so Q1/Q2 is pretty damn fast and it's gonna give a shockwave to the entire ecosystem not to mention biggest ADA supply crunch once DExes are running at full speed. As the DeFi ecosystem starts to take off, an alliance was announced to help speed it on its way through standardisation and best practice -> Cardano DeFi Alliance.
3. DJED: a crypto-backed algorithmic stablecoin contract that acts as an autonomous bank. I can't stress the importance of this enough. Djed is the first coin to use formal verification to eliminate price volatility. The first implementation of a Djed stablecoin contract was SigmaUSD on Ergo.
4. Hydra is Cardano's solution to ultimate layer 2 scalability that aims to maximize throughput, minimize latency, incurring low to no costs, and greatly reducing storage requirements. Hydra introduces the concept of isomorphic state channels: that is, to reuse the same ledger representation to yield uniform, off-chain ledger siblings, which we call Heads (hence the Hydra name, which referen

Greetings fellow autists.

I’ve been meaning to give back to this community from which I’ve benefitted a lot since its founding, and decided to do a write-up on the modern EV Battery and Grid Storage sectors. I also wanted to do one for Magnis Energy Technology’s projects (MNS) and where it strategically fits in this high growth but very complex sector, so I combined the two DDs into what you have here.

While I do hold MNS stocks, and I WILL address the current Murdoch media/Twitter/HC campaign against MNS, this post will first and foremost be to help understand the global EV Battery sector and related sub-industries/downstream markets.

Then using this as a framework, I’ll share my own DD on MNS, their projects/holdings, and whether it is a good or risky investment choice within the sector & in the current ASX/media climate. Anything I couldn't fit in 40k characters will go into a FAQ comment.

But tl;dr for those just wanting a quick answer, I am holding firm, with a SP target of ~$2.15 by June 2022 depending on MANY factors.

Table of Contents

1 - Lithium Ion Batteries 101

Batteries are a way of storing electrical energy that can be collected at any point in time, then discharged for consumption at any other point in time, and due to its relative technological maturity and long lifespan, the overwhelming majority of passenger electric vehicles (PEVs) made in commercial quantities today use Lithium-ion Batteries as their energy solution.

1.1 How does a lithium-ion battery work?

A modern Lithium-ion Battery (or LiB), co-invented in the 1970s by Nobel Laureates Professor M. Stanley Whittingham, John Goodenough, and Akira Yoshino, is made up of 5 key aspects: the Cathode, Anode, Electrolyte, Separator and a Cell form factor. The way these batteries discharges or recharges electrical energy is by transferring electrically charged atoms (the ions) between the cathode material and the anode material through the electrolyte medium. The lithium part of LiBs sits in the anode.

See diagram below for high level illustration.

Key components of a Lithium-ion Battery

1.2 What exactly is inside your LiBs (Battery Cell Chemistry)?

There are a large

Disclaimer :. I am not a telecommunications professional, nor a blockchain expert, nor a financial advisor. I bought a (too) small bag of WMT during public sale back in July. Do your own research. This is just my take on what I understood from the project. Do not try to buy WMT from anyone, it is not yet listed on exchanges

TLDR : Rural villages in Africa suffer from a lack of access to education, and education is the key to many of world's problems. World Mobile is building a decentralized mobile network, in which community builds antennas to bring coverage, and are rewarded with tokens (World Mobile Token, WMT) paid to use the network. They are for now focusing on building a test-network in remote areas in Zanzibar, part of their "Connect the Unconnected" program, and are planning on a full-scale launch in Tanzania Q3-4 2022. It is not available on exchanges yet, but is apparently planned for this month. They have collaborations with IOHK and have met Binance CEO. The team is amazing, their social media is extremely knowledgeable and professional.

Link to the presentation video

Link to the whitepaper

Link to the slide deck

Link to the tokenomics

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/world-mobile-token/

1 - Project and technology

Abstract of their Whitepaper :

A shared economy model to deliver network infrastructure would enable improvements in efficiencies of network design and operation, as well as provide a more fluid delivery of connectivity to users of a network.

The use of blockchain in this model enables the removal of intermediaries and a layer of cost from the delivery mechanism. It also enables the rapid expansion of the network thanks to the transparency provided by smart contracts, which allow the participants to have a provable and guaranteed rewards system. We propose a solution to the global problem that nearly half of the world is still not connected, as highlighted by the United Nations.

This solution aims to address the affordability issue, as well as the more efficient use of network resources, to enable connectivity to be provided in a more distributed and decentralised manner.

The technology is based on 3 types of nodes, meshing the whole network

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I saw some similar posts to this so I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon.

I work for a mid-size lawfirm that hired me as an IT specialist to handle all of their digital evidence for trials. The law-firm was in the process of changing their evidence managing system to Cloud based and wanted me to to be the only person with admin access to the Cloud, everyone else would be limited to view only and would work on a local network drive. Sounds great, but I quickly realized this was the only task they expected me to perform in my 8-hour shift. This was in no way an 8-hour job, so I was stuck pretending to work at the office most of the time.

Then COVID happened and I was asked if there was any way I could work from home. I set up a remote workstation, tunneled it to my house, and that's when the real fun began. In about a week I was able to write, debug, and perfect a simple script that performed my entire job. It essentially scans the on-site drive for any new files, generates hash values for them, transfers them to the Cloud, then generates hash values again for fidelity (in court you have to prove digital evidence hasn't been tampered with). I clock in every day, play video games or do whatever, and at the end of the day I look over the logs to make sure everything ran smoothly... then clock out. I'm only at my desk maybe 10 minutes a day.

For a while I felt guilty, like I was ripping the law-firm off, but eventually I convinced myself that as long as everyone is happy there's no harm done. I'm doing exactly what they hired me to do, all of the work is done in a timely manner, and I get to enjoy my life. Win win for everyone involved. Plus, I've already decided that if they ever try to get rid of me I'll just get rid of the script. I'm running it on equipment that I own so if they lose me, they lose the work. Creating my own job security.

Edit: Wanted to answer a few questions I've been getting.

1. How much am I getting paid? Just shy of 90k. I think I'm doing alright.

2. What work did they hire me to do? Sorry if it wasn't clear. The firm gets thousands of digital documents, photos, etc on a daily basis. All of this goes on a local drive. My job is to transfer all of these files to the Cloud and then verify their fidelity.

3. Why do they think this is an 8-hour job? Before they hired me they were struggling to keep up with things. Employees submit a spreadsheet of all the files they've placed on the local drive at the end of the day. Then the

This is your 13-minute Tuesday report in 3229 words.

##national soccer team's Joaquín Caparrós is voted as coach of the year

The national soccer team played well earlier this year. Caparros had a sizeable lead over Ararat-Armenia coach Dmitri Gudko. This is his second title as the best coach.

##national team's Varazdat Haroyan is voted as soccer player of the year

The Spanish "Cádiz" defender scored 92 points, while Henrikh Mkhitaryan finished second with 62

##Henrikh Mkhitaryan plans to continue to play in Italian league

He rejected a transfer offer from Moscow's "Spartak" club. Roma doesn't give him enough playtime so he plans to move to another Italian team after this season.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1071856.html https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1071880.html https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1071830.html

##Joe Biden approved the 2022 NDAA bill

Section 1302 is about Armenia. The U.S. defense agencies will have to submit a report to Congress about the 2020 war, and the use of American technologies and weapons.

It'll have info about other foreign influences, hiring of mercenaries, sale of weapons, diplomatic activities of other states during the war.

The report should mention all the violations of the November 9 agreement, including about POWs and arrested civilians.

The U.S. should double its efforts as part of the OSCE Minsk Group.

https://factor.am/458954.html https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/1605/text

##Pashinyan visited St. Petersbourg for an informal CIS bloc meeting

A group of men gathered to say nice things about each other before returning home to their wives.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1071891.html

##Yerevan will collect the bodies of dead stray animals to fight disease

The Council has decided to find and remove dead bodies and disinfect the areas in and around Yerevan.

The decision comes amid reports from the past few years that numerous stray animals were found to have a dangerous disease such as leishmaniasis, which can transfer to humans through insects.

Yerevan's Center for Stray Animal Control will be tasked with the cleanup. There are proposals to create a new crematory for animals in the Center.

A member of the Council's ruling faction accused the Center director of wasting resources and being incompetent. She asked mayor Hrachya Sargsyan to fire him.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1071883.html https://www.armtimes.com/hy/article/228374

It has been a heavy year of imperial activities, especially with an unusual amount of coups, coup attempts and hostile coalition forms. Naturally, the pandemic have overshadowed everything, and I'm afraid Ive been unable to properly capture the ways this have had an imperialist manifestation beyond a crude reference to the vaccine apartheid that is unfolding in front of us. What follows is a compendium of all imperial activities of the year that I've managed to archive. Feel free to suggest pieces that are missing! I'd love for it to be as big and accurate as possible. Though note that I'm trying to be light on poorly-sourced and speculative stuff. Entries are sorted by the dates where the events happened, or the dates their sources were published by the publishers that are referenced in parentheses. The pieces are all taken from sources, some properly linked, most denoted at the end of the sentence.

January

11/1 Cuba back on US terror list.

15/1 AFRICOM troops meet deadline, withdrawal from Somalia.

19/1 Biden to recognize Guaido (reuters).

24/1 So far already 6 US drones in Somalia this year, higher than in 2020 (militarytimes 27/1).

30/1 US and Colombia: testimony claims supported VZ invasion attempt (grayzone).

February

2/2 Enduring propaganda: Blinken says Iran weeks away from nukes (aljazeera), while Biden threatens Myanmar with sanctions. UK sanctions 4 gov officials in Zimbabwe (allafrica).

3/2 Ukraine prez close 3 opposition (pro-rus) news channels days after Navalny imprisonment, cited "national security, propaganda" (nrk).

4/2 UK revoke license to CGTN-TV, citing "CCP-link" (bloomberg).

6/2 Venezuelas Saab’s US-orchestrated imprisonment by Cabo Verde in 2020, unyielded in ECOWAS court.

7/2 Biden rejects Iran deal progress until Iran ends atomic industry, even though US broke the deal first @guardian. The 9th coalition convoy, the latest being by US coming from Iraq, enters Syria, in 2021 (basnews). Israel asked allies to pressure ICC to drop charges (axios).

8/2 US gov report on VZ admits sanctions is major cause of the crisis, is impeding aid orgs (foreignaffairs.house.gov). Meanwhile embassy to Nicaragua says the law requiring NGO's registering nationality “drives towards dictatorship".

10/2 US to sell 1m bbl oil seized from Iranian tanker (aljazeera).

11/2 the west joins in air fleet deployment to South China Sea (afr.com). UNHCR report on Venezuela urges sanctions removal, stresses its role in the crisis.

1

I (F31) have a brother (M29) and he is getting married next year. We lost our Mum in 2012 and our Dad in 2016. We are each others only living relatives. I have a good job, I earn a lot of money (£150,000 per year). My brother also has a good job, but doesn’t earn anywhere. near as much (£35,000). We we raised to always look after each other and share. My partner and I are child free.

Over the years I have paid for my brothers Masters degree, paid the down payment on his house (our parents rented, so there is no family home). I will also be paying for my future SIL (F26) and my brother to have future rounds of IVF. SIL works part-time and earns about 15k a year, her parents are not well off.

My brother asked if I could contribute to the cost of the wedding. I said I’d pay for it, as is is small with 100 guests, and set up a wedding account for them into which I put £25,000 which they both have access to.

SIL’s entire family are involved as bridesmaids and groomsmen. My husband and I are guests. Brother and SIL have been going around venues with her family, and I get emailed the costing if it’s selected.

I told my brother I don’t mind paying for the wedding but I feel really weird that everyone else is involved in the decision and I’m just involved with paying. Brother has said that I’m not our parents, I can’t replace our parents and that’s why I’m not involved. Why can’t I just do something nice without making him feel shit. I feel like an asshole for causing drama, but also feel taken advantage of. AITA?

UPDATE: This is in the UK, in Northern Ireland to be exact. 35k is a good salary. I don't have student debt to pay off because I didn't go to uni. I was in the military before becoming a commercial pilot. My brother's salary will increase as at his company, he needed a master's to progress beyond his current rung. SIL works part-time because she has a medical issue, she will never be able to work full-time because of this. Related - it is unclear if this is impacting fertility. In NI you get one round of IVF on the NHS which they did. They paid for two more at 8k each. SIL family paid for another and stipulated they wouldn't be able to afford to pay for a wedding if that was the case. Brother and SIL have been emotionally through the wringer with fertility issues, it isn't a cynical attempt to get money. For all of y'all talking about adoption, there is some serious BS about SIL's illness meaning they aren't "attractive candidates". I am close with m

My partner (F/36/Accountant) and I (M/44/Software Dev) landed in Sydney a couple of days ago, back from a 10 day holiday in Fiji.

Due to bad weather conditions, our return flight was delayed by 30 hours, so we ended up spending 30 hours in Nadi airport waiting to come home. We finally landed in Sydney late in the evening and gee wasn't it wonderful to be home!

After going through the immigration check we waited at the carousel for our suitcase, dreaming of the soft bed we would soon be lying in (we only managed a few hours sleep during the long wait in Nadi airport, so we were both extremely exhausted when we landed).

Once we grabbed our suitcase, we headed toward the exit and handed our arrival cards to the customs officer, and this is where things began to go pear shaped. The customs lady said "I need you to follow me", and we were led away to the bag inspection area (straight out of a scene in one of those border protection reality shows).

When we arrived at the bag inspection area, we were asked to empty our pockets so we did this (including our phones). She then asked the standard stuff - did you pack your bags, are you aware of the contents etc. Then she said "you are required to provide the passcodes for your mobile phones".

Normally I would have argued at this point, but we were so tired, it was easier just to comply. So we recited our passcodes and she wrote them on a piece of paper.

She then summoned another officer who came over and took our phones away, out of sight, to another room. Presumably they hooked them up to some kind of machine to inspect them.

They then proceeded to search our bags, but it seemed very cursory. They did not pull all the contents out of our backbacks (if we had a kilo of heroin in the bottom of one of our backpacks, they wouldn't have found it). They just seemed to be very keen to inspect/scan our phones. They were not even interested in our laptops (which we both had in case we got stranded in Fiji), which they just set aside while they searched through our suitcase.

Once she finished the half-assed inspection of our bags, we then had to sit waiting for our phones to be returned. After about 30 mins, they finally came back, handed our phones to us and said we were OK to leave.

Needless to say, the whole experience was extremely traumatic for both of us (but especially my partner). I understand that customs need to have the ability to search peoples phones in certain circumstances, but this is an absolute abu

If you’re from Africa, South America, or Asia…

And you wonder whether you can make it as a full-time freelance copywriter…

This will be the most important post you’ve read this year.

I’ll tell you why in just a minute, but first…

What’s Really Stopping You From Writing Copy Full-Time?

You want to believe it’s possible.

You want to believe that you can get paid like an American, turn your back on the underpaid jobs available to you locally, and live like a king…

But every day you encounter obstacles that your American and European counterparts don’t.

❌ Payment processors that have blacklisted your country…

❌ Freelancing websites that make you jump through hoops for access to low-level gigs…

❌ And clients who expect to pay you pennies when they see where you’re from…

These challenges are very real. Nobody who’s experienced them can deny that. But you don’t have to let them define your future.

Presenting: The First-Ever r/copywriting Non-Anglosphere Copywriter Q&A Panel

Hosted by Rod Satterwhite, this panel features 4 of r/copywriting's most successful African, South American, and Asian copywriters.

Each of the speakers is ready to deliver their expertise to all copywriters outside of the anglo-sphere who are determined to make 2022 the year they finally become successful freelancers.

u/AskACopywriter a.k.a. Victor from UnfairCopy: Email copywriter with half a million dollars in sales. The only copywriter from his country of Tanzania, Central East Africa. An expert on how to succeed as a copywriter in a developing country, including how to access Paypal in blocked countries.

Marcelo N.: An Argentinian copywriter and storyteller who earned over $1MM for a single client last year. He got his first clients when he could barely write in English and knows the struggle of having to learn a language while working with it, and the secrets to making fewer mistakes than native speakers.

Akshay Gupta: An Indian freelancer working as a direct response copywriter and specializing in Facebook ads. As a failed engineering graduate, he used the craft of writing to get back on his feet. His passion for writing allowed him to write stories for Forbes, PBS Next Avenue, Naspers, and dozens of other outlets.

Benjamin Obeten: At the start of 2021, he set out on a mission to break into the world of financial copywriting from his home country of Nigeria. He knew nothing about copywriting, had no job, couldn’t afford a laptop… He was

I recently held a big survey and 7500ish people voted on what they thought were the best coffee SHOPS in Vancouver and the surrounding areas.

I wrote the list up on my blog, with fancy photos and whatnot (link here), but here is the list in case you want the text version only:

Quick Note: I'll be sticking around today to answer any questions you have about coffee in Vancouver, so fire away. (Sorry, I was a bit absent from my Best Roasters post, but I'll go answer everyone now)

10. Revolver

325 Cambie St, Vancouver

The pandemic saw Revolver cleverly switch to a window-only method of serving coffee. But 2021 was the year of them reopening their doors to the public!

You can expect a huge selection of impeccably created coffee, some light sweet treats (their coffee cake is honestly the best I've ever had) and a chic and a stylish NYC-themed indoor space.

Vancouver Coffee Snob Recommendation: I'm all about the pour overs at Revolver. However, when I'm feeling like it, their macchiatos are truly something special.

9. Veille Coffee

2547 Montvue Ave, Abbotsford, BC V2S 3V2

Veille already placed number 3 on the Best New Coffee Shops of 2021 list, so it's a joy to see them in here too.

Vielle is actually just one person, Aimerance, operating out of a coffee van in Abbotsford!

You can expect espresso and filter coffee by way of Road Coffee Roasters, a friendly and welcoming experience and some killer treats.

Vancouver Coffee Snob Recommendation: Try their "one coffee done three ways" or "three coffees done one way" for a truly unique experience.

8. Modus Coffee Roasters

112 W Broadway, Vancouver

On Siply - Yes!

2021 saw Modus truly solidify themselves as one of the best brunch destinations in the city.

Of course, their coffee game is still as strong as ever, with a focus on lighter and bright coffee. But we also saw the launch of their Coast roast, which is an astonishingly accessible coffee, as well as their beer collab with Studio Brewing.

Vancouver Coffee Snob Recommendation: As much as I love Coast, a Modus experience for me is all about their LATIF or HIRO roasts. Always, always, always on pour over.

7. Smoking Gun Coffee

46168 Yale Rd #101, Chilliwack, BC V2T 0J6

On Siply – Soon!

Taking the 1st place in the Best New Coffee Shops 2021 award and 4th in t

Throwaway Account

I (41m) have a 13 year-old daughter "Mandy" with my ex-wife "Jane" (37f). I would say post-divorce we had a decent relationship and were cordial for our daughter's sake but everything changed they day Jane started dating her current husband "Tom" (47m). I guess she needed to prove to him that she was over me by becoming hostile because I for the life of me can't explain what else could be the reason for her becoming so angry and refusing to follow the custody agreement anymore.

Because of my job at the time she had primary custody but I was supposed to get every other weekend and summers while we alternated Holidays. I had to take my ex to court twice and was just grateful that former-MIL was on my side and wouldn't allow Jane to feed Mandy lies about me. I tried to be patient and forgiving in the beginning but eventually Jane pushed me too far and now I just handle her with cold aloofness and documenting as much as I can when interacting with her.

During the pandemic Tom and Jane lost their respective jobs and were in danger of loosing the house. Jane took me to court for more child support which I wasn't going to fight but was mad when she didn't get as much as she wanted. After the decree I started getting suspicious because Jane and I have equal access to Mandy's college fund so I decided to add-in special protections and alerts. I'm the primary on the account and Jane was just an Authorized-Signer.

Unfortunately my suspicions were confirmed and I received a call from the bank about an attempt to take out $10,000. It was Jane, and I was pissed. So pissed that I went to Jane's place and yelled and cursed at her. I knew Mandy was out at the time so I thought I was in the clear but didn't realize when she and my former-MIL pulled up to the driveway. Mandy didn't hear everything but she did learn about what her mom tried to do. Mandy is now upset and acting out and when Jane tries to discipline her Mandy counters that she'll just live with me and loose the child support Jane and Tom desperately need.

Jane is now asking me to help her put up a "united front" but after what she did I'm not looking into doing her any favors. However, my MIL thinks that by allowing Mandy to play us against each other it will end up hurting her. AITA?

ETA: Hey had to step away but I've been seeing the comments. Thanks for the NTA/ESH tips and advice. I haven't gone through all the comments yet however I do keep seeing a few things that I just wanted t

I'm not either OPs. This is a repost.

(The earlier updates have been shared here, but the last two haven't. That's the new update I'm referring to.)

Original Post - by u/Throwaway_dadisadoof

AITA for selling my PS5 rather than sharing it with my step brothers?

My (15, M) mum and dad met and briefly dated while they were both studying at uni. My mum gave birth to me after they had broken up and had to sue my dad for child support. I was raised by my mum and had virtually nothing to do with my dad throughout my childhood. My mum was an international student and her family cut ties with her due to the circumstances of my birth. Tragically, two years ago, I lost my mum to cancer and thus I was placed under the care of my dad.

My dad has remarried and has two sons (5 and 7) with his wife. It wasn’t a bad arrangement at first, but we were all essentially strangers. I was given a bedroom to myself and we shared some meals but other than kept to myself.

About 10 months ago, I was lucky enough to score a casual job at an aged care facility as IT support. It was stupid easy money as it involves installing and maintaining a dozen or so common PCs used by the residents plus running basic computing workshops.

I ended up accruing a whole lot of disposable income in a short time. Stupidly, instead of just keeping quiet about it, I decked out my room with a new TV, headphone and a PS5. Obviously, this setup was of great interest to my two step-brothers. Initially, my rule was that they could play the PS5 anytime I wasn’t using it but I would get first dibs if I wanted to play or use my TV. I was also super accommodating by buying an extra controller (which I didn’t need) and several kid friendly games that they wanted to play. I eventually had to change the rule to ‘only play when I was there’ because the 5 y.o destroyed one my controllers through spilling juice on it. This is where the drama started.

They whined to my ‘parents’ who then ‘ordered’ me to place the PS5 in the living room. I refused stating that I had purchased it with my own money. This led to their argument that I have too much money and should contribute rent, utilities and food money. I called their bluff and said ‘sure, draw up a contract and I’ll get a lawyer to review it to ensure it complies with the Family Law Ac

Gino and Jasmine are about to enjoy their first dinner as a couple in Panama City, and Gino’s forced to read the menu with glasses, proving his age-deflection hat works as well on vision as it does on hair. Thankfully, Jasmine can’t see his red flags, because she is one.

“I love being in a new country!” Gino declares, as the waitress approaches. “Is there a good burger here? Does it come in disposable packaging? Can it? What does ‘muy blanco’ mean?”

“Muy blanco is mayo, and mucho gringo is mayo with American cheese. If you want the gringo-blanco, that’s poutine instead of fries, and we’ll pretend you’re Canadian.” This waitress has been working awhile.

“I smell the presence of estrogen,” Jasmine discretely pees in corners to mark her territory. “I’m not leaving him alone. She doesn’t get a chance to warn him.”

Gino is too busy being relieved to notice. “Mucho gringo, please! I only like cheese when it’s individually wrapped and not cheese at all. Otherwise I’d have to try something exotic, like cheddar.”

“Not sure which wine to pair that with, but here’s something red and something white,” the waitress knows.

“It’s gotta be the white one. Hmm. Did you get this from Trader Joe’s? It feels like a 2020 blend,” Gino tests the wine’s legs. “Nice bouquet. Is that… MadDog 20/20?”

“Oh, THAT 2020. Well, the red one is strawberry rose Mad Dog. The white is PBR with a shot of corn syrup.” This is not her first day.

“Do you need to see my ID?” Gino suddenly remembers. “This hat throws people off all the time.”

“Why are you still talking to the waitress?” Jasmine’s robot voice has clicked over to “warning” mode.

Jasmine receives a text message from someone named Paul, and Gino ignores his instincts to say nothing. That counts as a green light to Jasmine, who leaps up and says that’s her friend Paulina. She shows him how to unlock her phone, and wants to do the same with his.

“Because men cheat,” Jasmine repeats her motto. “That’s what I say every time a restraining order is filed. Before I remind them that they cannot hide.”

“Well sometimes I get eczema on my hands,” Gino wants to contribute. “That’s why I buy Lotion For Couples. Is this a good time for product placement?”

The waitress arrives with the check, and Gino seems to consider asking Jasmine to split it before she reminds him that he’s an ATM. Jasmine also declares tipping doesn’t happen in Panama, because people who live there don’t have spare money.

“Because they spend it on hair extensio

My daughter and I have been trading these. Here is our current list - would love to hear more!

1. I lost my job at the chess factory. I couldn’t work knights.
2. I lost my job at the bank. A lady asked me to check her balance so I pushed her over.
3. I lost my job at the keyboard factory. I wasn’t putting in enough shifts.
4. I lost my job at the calendar factory. I took too many days off.
5. I lost my job as a maze designed. I got lost in my work.
6. I lost my job as an electrician. I was shocked!
7. I lost my job as a psychic. I didn’t see it coming!
8. I lost my job at the funeral home. Apparently, the options are “cremation” or “burial,” not “smoking” or “non-smoking.”
9. I lost my job as an astronomer. I thought my work was looking up!
10. I lost my job as a cyber criminal. I couldn’t hack it.
11. I lost my job as a human cannonball. I got fired!
12. I lost my job as a garbage collector. I had no training but I thought I would pick it up as I go.
13. I lost my job as a math teacher, same job I’ve had since 2000. That’s 46 years down the drain!
14. I lost my job in pool maintenance. It was too draining.
15. I lost my job as a fisherman. I didn’t make enough net income.
16. I lost my job as a baker. I really kneaded the dough!
17. I lost my job as a historian. There was no future in it.
18. I lost my job as a tour guide in Australia. I did not have the right koalafications.
19. I lost my job at the upholstery repair shop. I may never recover.
20. I lost my job as a massage therapist. I rubbed people the wrong way.
21. I lost my job as a seamstress. And I tried sew hard.
22. I lost my job as a musician. I just wasn’t noteworthy.
23. I lost my job at the unemployment office. And I still need to go back there tomorrow.
24. I lost my job feeding giraffes. I just wasn’t up to it.
25. I lost my job as a water slide attendant. My career is going down the tubes.
26. I lost my job at the paper shredding factory. It was a tearable job.
27. I lost my job as a drummer. I’m sure there will be repercussions.
28. I lost my job as a pole vaulter. I'll never get over it.
29. I lost my job as a pet groomer. I couldn’t make heads or tails of it.
30. I lost my job as a pastry tester. That job was a piece of cake.
31. I lost my job as a mirror inspector. I could see myself doing that for a long time.
32. I lost my job as a yoga instructor. I bent over backwards for them.
33. I lost my job at Dunkin. It’s ok, I was fed up wit

As I sit here on the first day of the new year, writing this post, I think to myself how much can one human take before it's just too much? The world can just be an absolutely awful, awful place.

I read these "stolen or hacked crypto" posts all the time. I always think, wow that person doesn't know what they're doing, shouldn't be investing in crypto in the first place, or that would never happen to me, because I'm super careful! Maybe they are just lying and trying to just get sympathy? Believe me, I wish I was.

Although, the posts that seem legit I always try to help. Now, I am on the other side of it. Never thought I'd be here.

I've been investing in digital assets since early 2016. I would consider myself pretty knowledgeable on all things related crypto/blockchain. I believe in the tech, I built my portfolio up for years and this is pretty much one of the only things I enjoy in life.

I have a hardware wallet (Ledger Nano S) since 2017 and 4 different Metamask "hot" wallets. The hardware wallet consisted of 80% of my portfolio.

Yesterday, I used my Metamask to access all my wallets for a balance status check before the new year. Everything seemed normal. After checking again late last night and after seeing one of my accounts showing as zero, I noticed every wallet was wiped.

My only possible conclusion is that I clicked a malicious link while surfing the internet. The trojan must have somehow took control over my Google Chrome browser (or Metamask extension) while I was using it, while my ledger was unlocked. Checking the transactions times they were sent out around the time I had it open. Again, I never was prompted to accept or approve anything that I myself wasn't doing. It is frightening.

As I look at all of my wallets today, I see zero balances and I am absolutely crushed. It took all my power to even get out of bed, file reports, and write this post today.

I reached out and filed reports to my local law enforcement and the FBI.

Checking the transactions, it seems like the wallets were completely wiped in a matter of minutes.

Hacker's ETH address:

0x365DB2B5722d13F431224066898b4CF8cA7AdFe5

Address on all chains:

https://blockscan.com/address/0x365DB2B5722d13F431224066898b4CF8cA7AdFe5

I'm hoping one of the wallets leads to a KYC connection, but obviously a long shot here. Super grateful for any research or help.

Some of the crypto that was stolen:

$ETH

Context:

One attraction of Biden (primarily discussed on reddit) was the potential cancellation of student debt. This was seen as an ideal by progressives and was heavily pushed by popular figures (mostly on social media) such as AOC and Bernie Sanders. Biden had also made similar discussions on the subject and at one point, had promised too cancel $10,000 of student debt. The expectation has been driven further by many activists discussing the idea and pressuring his administration. However, in a sudden twist, the White House is set to restart student loan payments in February.

This sudden change in both reality and rhetoric has led to some soul searching and heated discussions on the future of the current Democratic party. Progressives, many of whom strongly dislike so-called 'Neoliberals' are disgusted at this and see it as a betrayal. Many progressives are becoming increasingly frustrated with current Democrat policies, threatening to sit out the mid-terms and the election. As a result, infighting within the Democratic support base has been rekindled. In an environment of recent Progressive losses (Several mayoral campaigns across the country went to Republicans and Neoliberals, with few major progressive victories), the worst time to break apart would be now.

Nevertheless, Is it truly Biden's fault? Did he ever promise to cancel all these debts? Are the midterms finished? Who should shut their mouths, progressives of neoliberals? Is choosing not to vote principled or privileged? Should we vouch for accelerationism, revolution or protest? Is any criticism, legitimate or not, levied at the current administration Republican Obstructionism, and ultimately serving their interests? Are we a bunch of whiney babies for taking a loan and refusing to pay it back? Find out in possibly the most widely debated political subject since Bernie's second drop out.

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This will involve several different threads

This is how D's lose the House, Senate, and WH... and then we all lose democracy. GG.

"We thought about taxing billionaires. But ultimately we decided to squeeze a little more money out of the unemployed, homeless young people who voted for us in the hope of a better life."

[This is pretty bad politics at a ti

APOLLO MISSIONS

Apollo 1

Apollo 2

Apollo 3

Apollo 4

If you have a proven model that can turn $1 into $1.50, that’s awesome. You make 50% returns.

But… if your buddy has a magical power that can convince people that $1 is only worth $0.10, and you buy that dollar for $0.10, you turn that 50% return into 1500% return.

WE HAVE NOT BEEN LOOKING AT THE WHOLE PICTURE

We’ve been looking at the people convincing us that $1 is worth $0.10, but have missed the bigger picture of those that buy the $1 for $0.10 and turn it into $1.50.

Apes and Apettes, it’s time to discuss APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT.

This article will be delving into Apollo, but make no mistake… this strategy and process are likely widespread and far-reaching.

I have chosen to discuss this firm because it relates directly to our beloved Gamestop, and this shit goes DEEP.

We’ve got… Criminal Activities, Hostile Takeovers, Private Military Contractors, Presidential Pardons, MSM Manipulation, and shockingly… POPCORN APES WILL NOT BELIEVE A WORD I SAY!!

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IN ALL SERIOUSNESS Apes, I know we like to tease, and some of us hold both, but if you read this article and see what I see in it, please do your best to educate the Popcorn Apes. (Don’t harass or Brigade, let them draw their own conclusions) - But I am now OFFICIALLY worried for them!

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DISCLAIMER: *I am not a financial advisor, and I do not provide financial advice. Many thoughts here are my opinion, and others can be speculative. Where possible, I do

*Obligatory: I am not a financial advisor, and this is not financial advice. I have suffered at least 3 significant head injuries in my lifetime. Some of the information I am going to provide is speculative in nature but backed by data.

I have done my best to break this information down to a snot bubble blowing education level, but I needed to learn a lot of information to put this all together. Most items you may be unfamiliar with will have an ELI5 within the post to the best of my ability. *Long Post Warning

TL;DR

The (Collateralized Loan Obligation) CLO market exploded with activity this year. As has Shitadel’s exposure as an obligor (debtor/borrower) in the CLO market. CLOs are a form of Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO). You know, the bad things from 2008. The banks are divvying up Shitadel’s leveraged loans (among many other corporate loans) and selling them to CLO Managers whose investors (other banks, hedge funds, insurance companies, mutual funds, ETFs, private funds, pension funds, etc.) invest in the loans through securitization. Securitization regarding a CLO is the pooling of 150-200 leveraged corporate loans into a single Asset Backed Security (ABS). This process reduces exposure to the banks who initiated the loan and allows them to remove most of the loan from their balance sheet… Good for them. Better yet, Banks aren’t even required to report their CLO information. Mutual funds, pension funds, and ETFs also are directly investing in portions of the loans themselves through syndication as well. Syndication is a loan being arranged by a group of lenders instead of one single lender.

In the event When Shitadel defaults on these loans, the mutual funds, pension funds, ETFs, and other entities will be the ones left holding the bag… But, aren’t mutual funds and ETFs common investment strategies for individual investors and retirement funds? Yes, they certainly are. Anyone invested in those mutual funds and ETFs will share a proportional risk of the default.

So, the money that you, your mom, wife’s boyfriend, or retirement plan put into the effected mutual fund or ETF will be at risk to Shitadel’s loan defaults. “In 2020, an estimated 102.5 million individual investors owned mutual funds—and at year-end 2020, these investors held 89 percent of total mutual fund assets, directly or through retirement accounts.” [[SOURCE]](https://www.icifactbook.org/21_fb_ch7.

and it's weird that I have to state this. But a few minutes ago one of these "3 posts and 50 comments a day exactly" moon farmers on here made a pseudo-wholesome post saying that nobody is too poor to buy crypto and "Crypto is for everyone regardless how poor or wealthy they are". And of course you guys are upvoting this.

That's garbage. A billion people have less than 1 USD a day. Those that have a bit more than that are not exactly rich either. There are millions of homeless people around the world, many of which don't have access to the internet to buy crypto - and none of which have money to do so. There are so, so many people in the world who cannot afford to buy enough food, pay rent, or other important commodities, and many more who can barely do so but have nothing left in their bank account at the end of the month. Those people are definitely too poor to buy crypto.

Sure, don't get me wrong, if you get by and only have a few bucks each month to gamble away, you're not too poor to buy crypto, you can just buy small amounts and it's fine. But saying "Nobody is “too poor” to invest", as one of the commenters did, is just arrogant - and blatantly wrong.

Edit: please stop telling me that this is also true for other investments. Of course it is. My point is that people like to pretend while this is true for other investments, the barrier is so low for crypto that it isn't true for crypto. I'm not saying crypto is more exclusive than other investments, I'm saying it isn't really more inclusive

My mom found a bottle of vodka in my room and both my parents lost their shit. I decided for once I was going to stand my ground (They were abusive and used to hit me and gaslight me all the time. Only stopped getting hit when I finished high school and I'm still convinced it was because I scared them when I started getting more pissed than scared and telling my dad to hit me since that's all he knew how to do when I could see it coming. Even offered him the other cheek after he did once lol. The gaslighting and occasional verbal abuse still continues though). I was an adult and it wasn't like I was abusing it, I only ever drank once or twice a month and never enough to not be able to act sober if needed. A bottle lasted me a while. So I said yes it's mine, I'm an adult and I choose to drink occasionally.

They started accusing me of being a drunk, saying all the times I've been happy or laughed the last few months was only because I was drunk. They then moved on to accusing me of probably smoking crack and other hard-core drugs (They had previously found some weed before, but that's a whole shit show of its own). Said I choose to be a bad girl and do this shit when there are girls that don't (I bet the girls they're thinking about drink more in a month than I have in my whole life since I was so terrified of getting caught by my parents when I used to get hit for stupid shit).

Finally, they said they were going to cut me off and pull me out of school (lol its university) since they were paying for it while actively discouraging me from working so I could focus on my studies (I have had part-time jobs before and they always encouraged me to quit).

My dad had his name in my bank account and had previously emptied it of the (what I consider) significant amount of money that consisted of insurance money I received from being injured in a car accident as a child when I turned 18 and the money I earned working summers at our family business (related to weed incident). They probably planned to do the same again.

They said that they weren't going to pay for my university and that if I was going to drink and do bad shit then they weren't going to help me with school and that I had to drop out, make my own money, and get out. They wanted nothing to do with a daughter like me. My dad also made it a point to say that it didn't matter what happened to me and said he doesn't care if I die of a drug overdose or covid (it was the last thing he said to me before giving

Hi everyone, Bob here,

This is going to be part 2 of the series where we check out how things are lining up. I really feel like our wrinkles are coming together nicely with the DD we are independently doing, and arriving at very similar conclusions. In this chapter, We will be reviewing some choice DD and making some really neat connections.

https://preview.redd.it/39nrny3r9mb81.jpg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c08fc380d92ef16c0cadfb584169ad23e47e9c59

PS, get jacked, because this DD has been reviewed by some of the greatest wrinkly minds I know of before posting. Hope you learn something, and gain some wrinkles yourself - god knows we need ‘em.

Table of Contents

I will be breaking this up into a couple posts because reddit is retarded - so retarded you cannot post over 40,000 characters per post. I guess they never anticipated the level of autism we could muster. 🤷🏽‍♂️. I hope you enjoy the first part of this series.

Looking for Part 1? Go Here!

Chapter 1:

• 1.0 - Recap on understanding the T+ cycles and how they work, along with some insight to market mechanics

1. 1.1 - T+ Cycles & How They Work
2. 1.2 - Supplemental Liquidity Deposits
3. 1.3 - CBOE Futures Cycles
4. 1.4 - Key Terms

In This Chapter:

• 2.0 - Notable Theories & Observations

1. 2.1 - Leenixus SLD Theory
2. 2.2 - Gherkinit Futures Theory
3. 2.3 - Zinko83 Variance Swaps
4. 2.4 - Turdfurg23 Heartbeats
5. 2.5 - My Own Observations
6. 2.6 - Tying it All Together

• 3.0 - Conclusions

1. 3.1 - For The Wrinkles
   1. 3.1-🌈🐻 - Is Moass Inevitable? - An Exercise in Rationality
   2. 3.1-🚀🦧 - Is Moass Possible? And Could it Be Near?
2. 3.2 - For The Smoothest Among Us (Yes there’s a TADR)

• 69.420 - Disclaimers & Sources

I posted one of the emails she sent in r/antiwork and they mentioned I should tell the full story here. To see the photos click the link below.

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/rqq213/boss_fired_me_for_being_pregnant_and_then_didnt/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

This last year during Covid had been a tough year for my family. My husband went from six figures supporting our family on his salary alone while we pocketed my entire salary to losing his job for 8 months.

I work in political campaigning which means I work on short-term contracts as an independent contractor. In other words if we lose an election I move onto the next race. I made a pretty good name for myself working on the lower levels of a campaign and moving up quickly. In my state this year there were statewide elections and I caught a lucky break and ended up the Campaign Manager on a statewide race. I am the youngest CM (24F) to run a statewide race in about the last 20 years. When the primary came up we lost the election by 200 votes. While we lost the campaign, coming so close to winning and my age made me kind of a superstar in my field. After we lost I had offers from all over the state for jobs. The problem is I had just bought a house and wasn’t looking to relocate (like you often have to do in politics) or the positions weren’t high enough coming off being the top dog as the higher positions were already filled.

I got an offer to join a local campaign (so no relocation) but the salary was lower than what I was used to, I would however, be the CM again.

However, I learned quickly my boss had a “holier than thou” personality. She made several comments about how “real” women breast feed and have natural births. I would later be able to do neither and it really screwed with my emotional well being. I don’t have time to list all the red flags but I was literally just waiting until my husband got a job to exit.

The campaign hadn’t been built out at all. There was no one other than the candidate. I ended up building out our entire team, consultant, fundraiser, staff, ect. Luckily I have made a lot of powerful connections in my time. I signed my contract and sent it in with the salary we had agreed on with the stipulation that if we raised enough money 3 months down the line my salary would be raised but could not be lowered at any point. Just a few weeks prior I had also found out that I was pregnant and my due date was the week of t

Do your worst!

My (f40) husband (m39) has been in charge of our finances for our entire relationship. I have no online access to our bank account though I do have an ATM card. He has his own separate account that I have no access to as well.

He manages all of the bills minus my credit card which I opened recently. I get a weekly payment that he approves and I am expected to buy groceries, my gas, and I get a small allowance (assuming my groceries stay under budget which rarely happens because two teenage children and rising costs).

With the holidays I put on a little bit of additional money on my card. Just around 250 dollars.

I knew I was going to have a 200 dollar bonus from my job so I said several times that I was going to use that to pay my card. I said it on at least 3 occasions.

Today I found out the money went in the bank 3 days ago and he already spent it. I got upset and we had an argument and I cried.

He told me it was our money and went to our bills but I wouldn't even know if that was true.

Am I the asshole for being upset?

Thanks for your patience on this one! I was sick.

Mike figures out that by outside baggage claim Ximena meant outside, so he takes his bags for a walk and finds her, wearing the classiest pair of stilts to meet feet outside of a voguing competition.

Mike: (Stares.)

Ximena: (Blinks.)

“I’m starting to think this language thing is going to be an issue,” Mike admits.

Ximena has been to the Caleb School of Greetings, and notes that Mike is pretty adorable, but shorter than she expected.

“When he said he looked like an elf, I thought Legolas,” Ximena explains. “I did not realize he meant in a workshop building toys.”

After a quiet cab ride, their silence is interrupted by a call that Mike deletes a bit too quickly. No one keeps their phone that tidy. Ximena lobs a few suspicious questions in his direction, which makes Mike happy, since he sees it as a woman rubbing her armpits on his head before the other she-people rally to claim his thoughts.

“Yes. The questions about this phone call are very romantic. Very.” Jasmine wants to remind you she’s not fucking around. “He should not have a phone, or eyes.”

They stop for lunch, and it’s clear that Mike’s understanding of Spanish is limited to what he could glean from Legos instructions.

“This is a drink!” Mike begins, wondering if the waitress lied to him about the promised alcohol content. “Traffic New York eat tired, yes, work.”

“Yes. Te amo,” Ximena falls back on old ideas, while growing increasingly uncomfortable with Mike and his zero preguntas and no habla of the espanol, and his weird fish pucker that suggests his interest in another kiss. They agree that solutions are for assholes, so they just stare into the void like the mom from Get Out stirred them into her creepcup and then ordered them to sink.

“I just know I’m going to wake up with an old man inside of me,” Ximena says as she hunts for a camera flash.

Mike’s first ever 37 hour day continues, as lunch is chased by the surprising news that he’ll be meeting Ximena’s entire extended family.

“I think her second cousins are even here,” Mike’s never been more grateful for the language barrier. “I didn’t bring enough toys. Even if everyone only takes one marker.”

Juan and Harold are nervous at first, but both are super happy to meet Mike.

“He’s like a dad, but there’s no bars,” Harold has thoughts.

Despite the sweetness of this intro, those rascals at 90DF can’t resist zooming in on Mike’s arm around Harold, like he’s Woody All

https://i.redd.it/ihym06vdcl781.jpg

Regulation of Cryptocurrency Around the World: November 2021 Update - Law Library of Congress

> Prohibiting banks and other financial institutions from dealing in cryptocurrencies or offering services to individuals/businesses dealing in cryptocurrencies or banning cryptocurrency exchanges are examples of implicit bans. >>It is worth noting that, since the publication of the 2018 report, the number of countries found to have issued cryptocurrency bans has increased significantly. While the 2018 report identified 8 jurisdictions with an absolute ban and 15 jurisdictions with an implicit ban, the November 2021 update identifies 9 jurisdictions with an absolute ban and 42 with an implicit ban. Likewise, the application of tax laws, AML/CFT laws, or both types of laws to cryptocurrencies has increased exponentially. In the November 2021 update, 103 jurisdictions are identified as applying these laws to cryptocurrencies, with a majority applying both. These jurisdictions include the European Union Member States, with the exception of Bulgaria. Previously, in 2018, only 33 jurisdictions were found to regulate cryptocurrencies in these areas, with only five applying both tax and AML/CFT laws.

 

I got another scam call, and normally I block them, but I was feeling frisky and wanted to hear what they were trying.

They said I had a $900 iphone purchase on my Amazon account, and to get it off I needed to download 'Remote Desktop' app.

We all know that this allows them so much more access than just one bank account.

Please tell loved ones that might fall for this scam.

Next level BS.

Edit: Yes I was wasting his time and enjoying it. It was obvious it was a scam from the beginning with his deep Indian voice from a call center.

I asked him which account was charged, which card was used, where it was supposed to be shipped etc. This went on for a good 4-5 mins. Finally he got pissed and said, "if you get charged, don't come crying to me." and he hung up on me. I enjoyed playing with him, but thought who would actually download the app and lose so much.

Thanks for the awards. Let's help each other.

It really does, I swear!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

IM SO SORRY YALL! I was not my best person Saturday. While there is no excuse for my cussing, insulting and hurtful messages that I sent while extremely intoxicated. I am still grieving the loss of an individual to opiates. I was and still am very lost and that night I chose Cognac. And put focus on this post. I'm embarrassed and I will look for future opportunities to be a better and kinder Redditor.

Edit: I paid for a legal consultation to be completed this evening. On a Saturday night. This issue was bugging me. I didnt really have the very generously offered rate of $75. But he bought my drinks so who cares. Enjoy and 🖕you haters.

Its long and every thing I have said is 100% accurate and individuals saying it's fraud are ignorant trolls and miserable people who love to find something wrong in everything I truly pity y'all now. If you want more than í provide below go get your own consultation. Do your own research. But I didn't have the foresight to think that the legality of first person fraud would be an issue. Im an unethical person sure. I'm not trying to get anyone in trouble. Enjoy it at the bottom of the post.

Hint! Its totally a non issue and the haters are "silly and likely not attorneys I didn't post in r/legaladvice or whatever because I wanted to pay for the privileges that come when you pay for legal advice.

Begin original post here . .

This is literally printed in every advance app that is out there. They have to do this to call it an advance and not a loan. Loans require fair credit practices where as advances are still a gray area legally. You MUST revoke your Bank account's authorization AND your debit card authorization! Template email to send is below. You must send the email 3 Business days before the repayment date. Legally, they have 3 days to revoke but if you revoke in time they are required to cancel all prior Authorized Payments. Find your banks email address and CC them on to the email too.

Here you go:

Dave Terms of use section 9.3:

"However, Dave warrants that it has no legal or contractual claim against you based on a failure to repay an Advance, but Dave will not provide you further Advances while any amount remains unpaid under the Advance Service. With respect to a failure to repay an Advance, Dave warrants it will not engage in any debt collection activities, place the amount owed with or sell to a third party, or report you to a consumer reporting agency. "

MoneyLion Instacash Help Center - Inst

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lastpass-users-warned-their-master-passwords-are-compromised/

Just a warning to anyone else in the community that uses Lastpass as a password manager that there are many reports streaming in of master passwords being compromised. If you haven't done so already, now would be a good time to change your master password and enable MFA on your account. Not really a personal finance topic directly but since many of us use Lastpass to store banking account credentials and other information, I felt it was important to get the word out.

Edit: LP saying the attacks are a result of credential stuffing. While this likely to be correct, please do not take any chances with you account and take action now just in case.

Edit 2: thanks to u/Curse_you_Reddit

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/lastpass-says-no-passwords-compromised-in-latest-security-scare/

Appears to be a false alarm at this time. Issue was due to a logging error that erroneously reported access attempts to some user accounts. Sorry for any inconvenience caused but as always, better safe than sorry.

Network cabling technician for an investment bank.

Early shift. Get a ticket handover from late shift, came from Network Operations: "There's a switch with hostname X that's offline. Kindly verify power with visual check."

Search the hostname in the database of network equipment in all the datacenters and IDFs, can't find the thing. Well that's odd.

Late shift guy calls in, "I'm gonna be late; hungover. But if NetOps calls, the elevator is down."

"The what?"

"The elevator. You know that ticket about the downed switch? It's a smart elevator, but the elevator is down."

"So where is the switch?"

"On top of the elevator."

"Ah, okay." Don't wanna know how he found that out. Kick the ticket back to Network Operations. Elevator is offline and undergoing maintenance. Switch is in elevator, ergo switch is also offline.

Ticket is kicked back. Network Operations: "Can you turn it back on?"

"To gain access to the switch I'd have to have an Otis technician move the elevator, and if they could do that, I wouldn't need to gain access to the switch."

"Well, when can we expect the switch back on?"

"When Otis fixes the elevator, I'd imagine."

"I don't understand. Switches are supposed to be powered separately on standard rack PDUs. This is inconvenient."

I send pictures of an electrician and three elevator repairmen in an open elevator shaft, and a picture of the switch in question in a small metal box affixed to the top of the elevator. "Where do you think we could put a standard rack PDU?"

"Well can you move it to someplace more standard, with the rest of the switches?"

"Can I move this switch that controls the elevator... away from the elevator?"

"Oh." Network Operations then contacts Network Deployment. "Is there any way we can turn this switch back on?"

I turn to the late shift guy, as this game of email tag has gone on all day. "Now it's my turn to drink."

Look into CBDCs and the amount of control they give to central banks.

• they are fully centralized
• transparent, every transaction is subject to surveillance.
• transactions are directly taxable.
• endless money printing ie. inflation.
• negative interest rates.
• expiry dates on money (literally you have 3 months to spend your salary or it is gone).
• control over what you can and cannot spend your money on.
• easily restrict where you can spend your money, at what time you can spend your money, or even turn off bankaccounts/people.

Look into social credit systems, how effectively they oppress populations. They are already a reality in parts of China.

• a point system that determines your social status.
• virtue points for stuff the government likes
• penalty points for stuff the government doesnt like.
• your "citizen privileges" are determined by this point system.
• want access to restaurants? your score needs to be over 100 or your QR doesnt work.
• went to the wrong protest?, talked to a dissident?>>> no traveling for you, no supermarket for you... no school for your kids.
• sucked off the balls of the government? >>> maybe youre allowed to buy better food or even some alcohol this month, sucked hard enough?? maybe your kids get to go to a better school.

Now combine CBDC's and social credit...

CBDCs are every totalitarians wet dream. An airtight tool for oppression.

The QR code system that they've been trying to introduce though the covid pandemic is the perfect trojan horse. (I happen to think that is not a coincidence, but then again I am also a crazy conspiracy theorist.)

I know one thing though:

If CBDC's ever get widely implemented we will forever be cattle to whoever controls them.

TL;DR: Big banks like HSBC led the charge in helping al Qaeda but no peeps about that from MSM. Also Michael Pachter's Wedbush has had nearly 17-20 million in fines since 2000.

Edit 1: added at the bottom: Did you know that al Qaeda files expense reports, has HR, its own bylaws, and Mexican drug cartels have lengthy subcontractor agreements & insurance policies for cocaine shipments? How do you think big banks like HSBC are able to work with so many fellow criminals?

Big banks, like...pretty much all the time.

Just like many of you I was pissed about the terrorism BS being spouted about our favorite stock. So decided to do some digging. Guess al Qaeda isn't really known for being on OpenSea (maybe not art fans?) but guess what they are a fan of? Big banks.

But heyyyyy if upstanding citizens like Pachter are to be believed, it's only GME that would be that evil no? The big banks wouldn't do that? Right...big banks, not unlike, oh I don't know HSBC:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/gangster-bankers-too-big-to-jail-102004/

>For at least half a decade, the storied British colonial banking power helped to wash hundreds of millions of dollars for drug mobs, including Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, suspected in tens of thousands of murders just in the past 10 years – people so totally evil, jokes former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, that “they make the guys on Wall Street look good.” The bank also moved money for organizations linked to Al Qaeda and Hezbollah, and for Russian gangsters; helped countries like Iran, the Sudan and North Korea evade sanctions; and, in between helping murderers and terrorists and rogue states, aided countless common tax cheats in hiding their cash.
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>“They violated every goddamn law in the book,” says Jack Blum, an attorney and former Senate investigator who headed a major bribery investigation against Lockheed in the 1970s that led to the passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. “They took every imaginable form of illegal and illicit business.”

Oh wait, what's that ? CrImE?

I mean, but the US authorities did something about them right? All those HSBC guys helping the motherfuckers tha

In 2013 the Cyprus government has closed banks and confiscated 6.75% from accounts with less than 100k euro, and 9.9% from accounts with 100k euro and above.

If your government would do this to you, would you be upset and angry?

You saved up money, worked your arse off for it, and here they are closing your access to it in one moment and taking a big chunk because of their incompetent failure to run a stable monetary system.

Now imagine this happening to you EVERY YEAR.

This is inflation. They have done this to you YOUR ENTIRE LIFE.

They are taking from you without you noticing, and just because your government currency stays in the same amount, it doesn't look like you're actually losing something.

THEY ARE SYPHONING YOUR TIME AND EFFORT. YEARLY, MONTHLY, DAILY.

no need to be upset. what's done is done.

opt out. own your time.

They’re on standbi

https://cryptopotato.com/charles-hoskinson-this-is-cardanos-roadmap-for-2022/

>With many countries in Africa still lacking financial inclusion, Hoskinson revealed that the Cardano Foundation is planning to “build a financial operating system” in Q2 2022 that will give Africans access to DeFi services.

>Earlier this year, Cardano inked a partnership deal with Tanzania to give residents access to social, digital identity, and financial empowerment. In August, IOHK partneredwith the European Business University of Luxemburg to provide more educational options to students in African nations.

if a coin like ADA has had all its issues with a solid team developing it how will Safemoon ever get to this level with outsourcing everything? It seems that they have great ideas but a thousand great ideas with no ability to produce makes them equal to me and you

Some right wingers have always criticised Universal Health Care for it's significant upfront costs and logistical challenges but on the other hand, Universal Health Care is genrally considered to be good for the economy as it leads leads to a healthier populace, and thus, in the long-term, helps to mitigate the economic costs of an unhealthy nation.

So then what is Universal Healthcare ?

Well, Universal healthcare (also called universal health coverage, universal coverage, or universal care) is a health care system in which all residents of a particular country or region are assured access to health care. It is generally organized around providing either all residents or only those who cannot afford on their own, with either health services or the means to acquire them, with the end goal of improving health outcomes. It is described by the World Health Organization as a situation where citizens can access health services without incurring financial hardship. The Director General of WHO describes universal health coverage as the “single most powerful concept that public health has to offer” since it unifies “services and delivers them in a comprehensive and integrated way”. One of the goals with universal healthcare is to create a system of protection which provides equality of opportunity for people to enjoy the highest possible level of health.

The history of Universal Healthcare:

The first move towards a national health insurance system was launched in Germany in 1883, with the Sickness Insurance Law. Industrial employers were mandated to provide injury and illness insurance for their low-wage workers, and the system was funded and administered by employees and employers through "sick funds", which were drawn from deductions in workers' wages and from employers' contributions. Named after Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, this social health insurance model was the first form of universal care in modern times. Other countries soon began to follow suit. In the United Kingdom, the National Insurance Act 1911 provided coverage for primary care (but not specialist or hospital care) for wage earners, covering about one-third of the population. The Russian Empire established a similar system in 1912, and other industrialized countries began following suit. By the 1930s, similar systems existed in virtually all of Western and Central Europe. Japan introduced an employee health insurance law in 1927, expanding further upon it in 1935 and 1940.

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Hello beautiful apes,

I have some things to share with you that I feel we need to internalize as a community. This is not hopium, and it is not FUD.

This is somewhere in the middle. Giving a realistic perspective on what's actually going on. And it is important that we grasp the severity of the real situation so no one gets trapped anymore.

And the real reason why MOASS is finally upon us. No hype baiting, no calls to action, no dates.

Just sharing my perspective with some strong opinions, speculation, a fun story, and some pictures of charts.

There are 3 sections.

Section 1: Addressing today

Section 2: Story / Thought Experiment

Section 3: Review of charts with lessons learned.

Let's get into it.

Section 1: Addressing today

I know today sucked. I'm mad that I was right. I was hoping it wouldn't be a rug pull. I was hoping the subtle call to action with a time sensitivity that came out of nowhere promising the moon if you do this one thing... would be true.

But we need to learn from this.

I posted 2 posts prior to this one saying to be skeptical about it.

But because neither post went with the narrative being spun, it didn't get any traction. I tried to warn to be cautious of the options trap.

My only thought was.. this looks too perfect. It has to be a trap.

Because MOASS will just fucking happen.. It won't be laid out on the charts. It won't be a subtle bread crumb that we find. It won't be predictable. Someone's not going to come out of nowhere and say "GUYS LOOK AT THIS THING I FOUND IN THE CHART AND IT WILL HAPPEN ON THIS DAY AND ONLY THIS DAY BECAUSE XYZ"...

It will be a sudden violent shift up. It will be a fucking Tsunami that hits everyone by surprise. It will be an asteroid in the dark. A black hole that swallows the entire financial sector and there's not a damned thing they can do to stop it. And not a damned thing any one of us, neither individually nor collectively can do to make it happen any faster.

The only thing I as an individual investor can do to secure the investment that I believe in, is to buy, hold and make sure that share is in my fucking name by direct registering it. That's all. Nothing else.

Options.. somebody show me one law that states MM must hedge with shares which drives a gamma squeeze?

Someone show me a law that states the calls being exercised must be purchased on a lit exchange, and can not be a synthetic fake share that they internalized?

BY ALL MEANS if you wan

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#Hannity text messages

The Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol released a letter to Fox News personality Sean Hannity, seeking his voluntary cooperation with their investigation. The letter the Hannity revealed several text messages he sent to Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in the lead up to the insurrection (pdf):

On December 31, 2020, Hannity sent Meadows:

>“We can’t lose the entire WH counsels office. I do NOT see January 6 happening the way he is being told. After the 6 th. [sic] He should announce will lead the nationwide effort to reform voting integrity. Go to Fl and watch Joe mess up daily. Stay engaged. When he speaks people will listen.”

On Jan. 5:

>“Im very worried about the next 48 hours.”

>“Pence pressure. WH counsel will leave.”

The Committee adds that after the attack on the Capitol, Hannity “texted to Meadows press coverage relating to a potential effort by members of President Trump’s cabinet to remove him from office under the 25th Amendment.”

On Jan. 10:

>“Guys, we have a clear path to land the plane in 9 days. He can’t mention the election again. Ever. I did not have a good call with him today. And worse, I’m not sure what is left to do or say, and I don’t like not knowing if it’s truly understood. Ideas?”

#Smoking gun

Bernard Kerik, the former New York City Police Commissioner, is cooperating with the Select Committee’s investigation pursuant to a subpoena issued in November. Kerik was one of the first members of Giuliani’s “war room” convened to plan Trump’s strategy to overturn the election.

He has reportedly turned over a trove of documents to the Committee, including a log of all the material he is claiming as protected ([pdf

Hell, it's not only Kevin H. who can announce the world takeover during the monthly IOG drops...

I'll start with what's to come for 2022 and then move to Africa. A series of fortunate events leading to vision 2025. All info is widely available and verifiable. Sources and links given below.

Predictions for ecosystem growth in 2022:

1. 10+ DEXes, built from ground up, that will specifically use the advantage of the extended UTxO model. Note the emphasizes on "built from ground up" meaning that they will be different from what you're used from the Dapps on the account-based model blockchains. Benchmarking shows that with the eUTXO model, around 25 to 30 orders can be easily handled within one single transaction.
2. Borrow and lending protocols + robust DeFI ecosystem dropping in Q1/Q2 '22 after auditing and testing on testnet. Remember that it took Ethereum 2.5 years to have cryptokitties and Solana over more than a year to have some decent DApps. Cardano entered the smart contract era on 9 September 2021 so Q1/Q2 is pretty damn fast and it's gonna give a shockwave to the entire ecosystem not to mention biggest ADA supply crunch once DExes are running at full speed. As the DeFi ecosystem starts to take off, an alliance was announced to help speed it on its way through standardisation and best practice -> Cardano DeFi Alliance.
3. DJED: a crypto-backed algorithmic stablecoin contract that acts as an autonomous bank. I can't stress the importance of this enough. Djed is the first coin to use formal verification to eliminate price volatility. The first implementation of a Djed stablecoin contract was SigmaUSD on Ergo.
4. Hydra is Cardano's solution to ultimate layer 2 scalability that aims to maximize throughput, minimize latency, incurring low to no costs, and greatly reducing storage requirements. Hydra introduces the concept of isomorphic state channels: that is, to reuse **the same ledger repres

Gino and Jasmine are about to enjoy their first dinner as a couple in Panama City, and Gino’s forced to read the menu with glasses, proving his age-deflection hat works as well on vision as it does on hair. Thankfully, Jasmine can’t see his red flags, because she is one.

“I love being in a new country!” Gino declares, as the waitress approaches. “Is there a good burger here? Does it come in disposable packaging? Can it? What does ‘muy blanco’ mean?”

“Muy blanco is mayo, and mucho gringo is mayo with American cheese. If you want the gringo-blanco, that’s poutine instead of fries, and we’ll pretend you’re Canadian.” This waitress has been working awhile.

“I smell the presence of estrogen,” Jasmine discretely pees in corners to mark her territory. “I’m not leaving him alone. She doesn’t get a chance to warn him.”

Gino is too busy being relieved to notice. “Mucho gringo, please! I only like cheese when it’s individually wrapped and not cheese at all. Otherwise I’d have to try something exotic, like cheddar.”

“Not sure which wine to pair that with, but here’s something red and something white,” the waitress knows.

“It’s gotta be the white one. Hmm. Did you get this from Trader Joe’s? It feels like a 2020 blend,” Gino tests the wine’s legs. “Nice bouquet. Is that… MadDog 20/20?”

“Oh, THAT 2020. Well, the red one is strawberry rose Mad Dog. The white is PBR with a shot of corn syrup.” This is not her first day.

“Do you need to see my ID?” Gino suddenly remembers. “This hat throws people off all the time.”

“Why are you still talking to the waitress?” Jasmine’s robot voice has clicked over to “warning” mode.

Jasmine receives a text message from someone named Paul, and Gino ignores his instincts to say nothing. That counts as a green light to Jasmine, who leaps up and says that’s her friend Paulina. She shows him how to unlock her phone, and wants to do the same with his.

“Because men cheat,” Jasmine repeats her motto. “That’s what I say every time a restraining order is filed. Before I remind them that they cannot hide.”

“Well sometimes I get eczema on my hands,” Gino wants to contribute. “That’s why I buy Lotion For Couples. Is this a good time for product placement?”

The waitress arrives with the check, and Gino seems to consider asking Jasmine to split it before she reminds him that he’s an ATM. Jasmine also declares tipping doesn’t happen in Panama, because people who live there don’t have spare money.

“Because they spend it on hair extensio

This is a repost, I'm not OP.

Original here

AITA for selling my PS5 rather than sharing it with my step brothers?

My (15, M) mum and dad met and briefly dated while they were both studying at uni. My mum gave birth to me after they had broken up and had to sue my dad for child support. I was raised by my mum and had virtually nothing to do with my dad throughout my childhood. My mum was an international student and her family cut ties with her due to the circumstances of my birth. Tragically, two years ago, I lost my mum to cancer and thus I was placed under the care of my dad.

My dad has remarried and has two sons (5 and 7) with his wife. It wasn’t a bad arrangement at first, but we were all essentially strangers. I was given a bedroom to myself and we shared some meals but other than kept to myself.

About 10 months ago, I was lucky enough to score a casual job at an aged care facility as IT support. It was stupid easy money as it involves installing and maintaining a dozen or so common PCs used by the residents plus running basic computing workshops.

I ended up accruing a whole lot of disposable income in a short time. Stupidly, instead of just keeping quiet about it, I decked out my room with a new TV, headphone and a PS5. Obviously, this setup was of great interest to my two step-brothers. Initially, my rule was that they could play the PS5 anytime I wasn’t using it but I would get first dibs if I wanted to play or use my TV. I was also super accommodating by buying an extra controller (which I didn’t need) and several kid friendly games that they wanted to play. I eventually had to change the rule to ‘only play when I was there’ because the 5 y.o destroyed one my controllers through spilling juice on it. This is where the drama started.

They whined to my ‘parents’ who then ‘ordered’ me to place the PS5 in the living room. I refused stating that I had purchased it with my own money. This led to their argument that I have too much money and should contribute rent, utilities and food money. I called their bluff and said ‘sure, draw up a contract and I’ll get a lawyer to review it to ensure it complies with the Family Law Act’. My dad then told the boys that he was going to buy a separate PS5 for the boys for Christmas but the dude is clueless about the global shortage.

Finall

Friends, I was so sick this week. Not even kittens could cure it. Without further ado:

Mike figures out that by outside baggage claim Ximena meant outside, so he takes his bags for a walk and finds her, wearing the classiest pair of stilts to meet feet outside of a voguing competition.

Mike: (Stares.)

Ximena: (Blinks.)

“I’m starting to think this language thing is going to be an issue,” Mike admits.

Ximena has been to the Caleb School of Greetings, and notes that Mike is pretty adorable, but shorter than she expected.

“When he said he looked like an elf, I thought Legolas,” Ximena explains. “I did not realize he meant in a workshop building toys.”

After a quiet cab ride, their silence is interrupted by a call that Mike deletes a bit too quickly. No one keeps their phone that tidy. Ximena lobs a few suspicious questions in his direction, which makes Mike happy, since he sees it as a woman rubbing her armpits on his head before the other she-people rally to claim his thoughts.

“Yes. The questions about this phone call are very romantic. Very.” Jasmine wants to remind you she’s not fucking around. “He should not have a phone, or eyes.”

They stop for lunch, and it’s clear that Mike’s understanding of Spanish is limited to what he could glean from Legos instructions.

“This is a drink!” Mike begins, wondering if the waitress lied to him about the promised alcohol content. “Traffic New York eat tired, yes, work.”

“Yes. Te amo,” Ximena falls back on old ideas, while growing increasingly uncomfortable with Mike and his zero preguntas and no habla of the espanol, and his weird fish pucker that suggests his interest in another kiss. They agree that solutions are for assholes, so they just stare into the void like the mom from Get Out stirred them into her creepcup and then ordered them to sink.

“I just know I’m going to wake up with an old man inside of me,” Ximena says as she hunts for a camera flash.

Mike’s first ever 37 hour day continues, as lunch is chased by the surprising news that he’ll be meeting Ximena’s entire extended family.

“I think her second cousins are even here,” Mike’s never been more grateful for the language barrier. “I didn’t bring enough toys. Even if everyone only takes one marker.”

Juan and Harold are nervous at first, but both are super happy to meet Mike.

“He’s like a dad, but there’s no bars,” Harold has thoughts.

Despite the sweetness of this intro, those rascals at 90DF can’t resist zooming in on Mike’s a

Thanks for your patience! I was sick.

Mike figures out that by outside baggage claim Ximena meant outside, so he takes his bags for a walk and finds her, wearing the classiest pair of stilts to meet feet outside of a voguing competition.

Mike: (Stares.)

Ximena: (Blinks.)

“I’m starting to think this language thing is going to be an issue,” Mike admits.

Ximena has been to the Caleb School of Greetings, and notes that Mike is pretty adorable, but shorter than she expected.

“When he said he looked like an elf, I thought Legolas,” Ximena explains. “I did not realize he meant in a workshop building toys.”

After a quiet cab ride, their silence is interrupted by a call that Mike deletes a bit too quickly. No one keeps their phone that tidy. Ximena lobs a few suspicious questions in his direction, which makes Mike happy, since he sees it as a woman rubbing her armpits on his head before the other she-people rally to claim his thoughts.

“Yes. The questions about this phone call are very romantic. Very.” Jasmine wants to remind you she’s not fucking around. “He should not have a phone, or eyes.”

They stop for lunch, and it’s clear that Mike’s understanding of Spanish is limited to what he could glean from Legos instructions.

“This is a drink!” Mike begins, wondering if the waitress lied to him about the promised alcohol content. “Traffic New York eat tired, yes, work.”

“Yes. Te amo,” Ximena falls back on old ideas, while growing increasingly uncomfortable with Mike and his zero preguntas and no habla of the espanol, and his weird fish pucker that suggests his interest in another kiss. They agree that solutions are for assholes, so they just stare into the void like the mom from Get Out stirred them into her creepcup and then ordered them to sink.

“I just know I’m going to wake up with an old man inside of me,” Ximena says as she hunts for a camera flash.

Mike’s first ever 37 hour day continues, as lunch is chased by the surprising news that he’ll be meeting Ximena’s entire extended family.

“I think her second cousins are even here,” Mike’s never been more grateful for the language barrier. “I didn’t bring enough toys. Even if everyone only takes one marker.”

Juan and Harold are nervous at first, but both are super happy to meet Mike.

“He’s like a dad, but there’s no bars,” Harold has thoughts.

Despite the sweetness of this intro, those rascals at 90DF can’t resist zooming in on Mike’s arm around Harold, like he’s Woody Allen looking f