Catch 22 (miniseries) Puns

This was a film video essay probably released shortly after the 2019 Catch-22 miniseries dropped. I don't think it was specifically about the differences between the two adaptations of Catch-22, but rather was comparing scenes from them to make a larger point. The specific scenes from both adaptations are the Doc explaining "Catch-22" to Yossarian (linked here and here).

It's likely on a fairly popular youtube film essay channel as I don't get too far in the weeds on this kind of thing. Just can't quite remember what it was and my search engine-fu is failing me.

I recently watched the Catch-22 miniseries on Hulu, and I think fans of Patriot would enjoy it. Like Patriot, it was in my queue for a long time, but I just got around to it now. Once I did, I binged all the episodes pretty quickly (like with Patriot).

This is from the first chapter and my second attempt at the book. The last time I tried reading, I didn’t understand this paragraph and it put me off reading the rest of the book for some reason. Paragraph is below:

“The colonel was in Communications, and he was kept busy day and night transmitting glutinous messages from the interior into square pads of gauze which he sealed meticulously and delivered to a covered white pail that stood on the night table beside his bed.”

Edit1: Never thought not understanding a paragraph could start a whole (tiny) movement. I still don‘t know what side i‘m on. #teamblowingnose #teamjerkingoff

Edit2: The responses on this post have been so fun to read. Someone said Heller was probably laughing to himself when he wrote this sentence. And I’m sure he’d be hella rolling if he saw the responses and divides it ensued. Also thanks for the awards 😊

There are spoilers here so if you haven’t seen the show I’ll leave you with “it’s a great show”.

So I just finished Catch-22 and it was a very good miniseries. I understand that it wasn’t for everyone but I personally really liked it; maybe it’s because of my love for dark comedy, but this show was really clever as well as being really depressing at times, especially Snowden’s death in the final episode. It was so heart-wrenching to see this young soldier fading away as he bleeds to death.

That being said, the comedy is really well-done here. A lot of the jokes have quick talking and stuff like that, but it’s done fast enough that there’s some comedic effect in the speed alone, but slow enough that you can keep track of what’s going on in the joke.

All around, a brilliant show that I absolutely loved. I’m starting to watch a lot of miniseries instead of 20-episode shows because I feel like they encapsulate the story a lot better in like 8 episodes than a show that tries to introduce like 70 subplots in 20 episodes. I’m thinking about watching either The Night Of or 11.22.63 next. Please let me know which one I should watch!

Citadel found themselves in an extremely important Catch-22 that involves both GME and AMC.

Before anyone downvotes or disregards this post just hear me out. I very well count be wrong but it makes sense.

What we know: Citadel has a liquidity test on Thursday. Amc borrow rate hit 80% GME dropped 11% We are at the end of the MOAW

How it connects: Citadels liquidity test coming up is a huge opportunity for them to avoid a margin call. So today to prepare, they short attack tf out of gme to get those liabilities down and sell some tech stocks so boost their assets. This explains the 11% drop and a huge red day for the market.

By doing this the hedgies also try and convince apes that we are falling out of our MOAW. After reading wardens DD they realized we were hyped and they dropped the price. However Warden did talk about a possible short ladder after the wedge followed by a slow upward trend. Yes hedgies we do read. The drop and wedge went as expected and are perfectly fine.

This is where amc comes into play. The amc borrow rate spiked to 80% and the price went up 10% or so. The amc apes are hyped and word is likely getting out as GME saw a similar borrow rate spike before the baby squeeze. This is the catch-22. If citadel chooses to short amc to drop the price their interest payments will be huge and their liabilities will increase. If they do nothing and let amc run they will see the same spike in their liabilities. ALL BEFORE THEIR LIQUIDITY TEST THURSDAY.

IF THEY FAIL THEIR TEST THEY WILL BE MARGIN CALLED AND THE DOMINOS WILL FALL

Tl:Dr hedgies fukd, gme is on a fire sale.

EDIT: Thanks for the support guys, means a lot! To the people saying this is an amc message blah blah blah, it’s not. Check my post/comment history it’s obvious what side I’m on

EDIT2: People in the comments asking if amc will moon before gme. There is no way to tell. Apes with more wrinkles than me have speculated that it could happen as their last effort to get apes to sell GME. GME is over 100% shorted, and we own the float. GME is much more catastrophic to them than amc.

EDIT 3: Liquidity test post

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/n763vq/dtcc_members_are_having_a_liquidity_check_may_13th/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

I'm a smooth brained ape, but I just realized something that I find quite interesting and soothing. I'm by no means a stock expert, but I think I have a pretty good grasp concerning the market manipulation that we have seen.

• In late January price rose to 19,90, since they covered millions of shorted stock. This covering brought them 7 million FTDs.

This created a massive problem: Since the share price was 19,90 they were burdened with an immense load of FTD's. They couldn't deliver those shares without rising the price further. Their only option was to short the hell out of the stock and try to generate an feedback loop that would lower the price. So they start doing that and covering those FTDs. They manage to do it, the FTD's are covered, but they have brought the price to 14$ and burdened themselves even with more shorts. So they start shorting it.

The catch-22 i'm going for is this:

• In order to cover the FTD's the stock has to be shorted
• Which burdens them with shorts, but they get rid of FTD
• They cover the shorts which bring more FTD
• Repeat

Do you see where I'm going with this? They are locked in a cycle and the original market forces are slowly but steadidy spinning out of their control. All they can control is the price, and it indeed changes and fluctuates, but due to the zero-sum nature of the marketplace the value doesn't change before anyone sells.

Think of it like this - there's 10 apes sitting around a table playing a game of selling and buying bananas. On a closer look two of them are actually lions from the same herd in disguise. Everyone at the table has some money and 10 bananas, the bananas have a price of 1$, but their real value is unknown, but believed to be very high. The two lions (who are actually playing together) sell 1 banana back and forth between each other. They sell it first for 1$, then with 0,98$, 0,99$, and so on. While selling they create huge fuss, telling the apes to do the same, since soon their bananas will be worthless. But in order for the value to change the others have to start selling.

if I understand this correctly and this is what they've been doing through the darkpools, the manipulation of the price is true, but the manipulation of the value is impossible. I think this has something to do with the so called nash-equilibrium, which states that single player in a game cannot affect the whole.

**The manipulation cannot last, because no one is winning and no one is

(This is a follow up to another thread I created. I figured, with all the digressions, it's better to stat a new thread.)

I went to the Labor Bureau this morning. In short, I was told I am in a catch 22: I am not officially fired, so they can not get involved and once I apply for the visa there will be a 2 month extension on my visa, so I will also not be fired and they can not get involved. They told me to go to the immigration offices for consultation and that a lawyer won't be able to help me.

The immigration offices said that since I had not been fired, they could not officially give me an extension to look for a job and that, without my company filling out the form on my behalf, I would not be given an extension. They asked me to bring in a print out of the correspondence and gave me form to fill out explaining, in detail, what happened and said they would use that to determine whether I could get an extension to look for work. They also told me to register at Hello Work ASAP and bring whatever registration they give me with the application.

I then saw a lawyer. I think the lawyer was a bit of a charlatan. His basic advice was to just get on a new "looking for work" visa and forget the extension. Basically, move on.

My next step is registering at Hello Work and looking for a lawyer who can help. Tomorrow morning at 9:00am I am to pick up a document from my company saying that I work for them (the form I filled out requesting the document was in English, so I have no idea what I'm actually getting tomorrow) and then I go straight to immigration. After, I am supposed to go back to the Labor Bureau and get further advice based on what happens at the immigration offices.

Wish me luck. I am going to look at this experience as an opportunity to break the 英会話 cycle and get on the path to permanent residence.

Edit: Just after I made an appointment with a lawyer from the Japanese Bar Association I got an email saying that they have "reconsidered" and decided to "grant me this favor" and the paperwork will be available for me tomorrow morning.

My ability to stand up to this company is because of all the support I got yesterday, which mattered so much to me. Without the many posts that said I have a voice -- and rights -- under the law, I would not have been able to threaten this company with a legal claim by stating those rights and their obligations to me. I am very grateful to you all. m(_ _)m

**Ironically, I posted here a few weeks ago a

Hey guys. I'm having a really rough time and if anyone has any ideas how I can get myself out of the hole I'm in. I'd really like to hear them.

A year and a half ago I burned my legs really bad. I've been hospitalized twice and I have a chronic case of acute lymphadema that might never go away now. I still have nurses coming to my home 2-3 times a week and a physical therapist working with me. Because I've basically been hospitalized at home for the last year and a half, I've lost a lot of muscle and gained weight. I feel that I'm not longer really able to care for myself, and I lost my job in August as well right as I was hospitalized for the second time. I have no energy, I can't predict my sleep schedule which makes it hard to work a remote job, and I can't pay my bills.

Yesterday, my landlord filed suit with the local magistrate for an eviction. I have no hard feelings towards him, he has been very supportive and compassionate towards me during this time and he's helped me so much. But it gets to the point where, he just didn't sign up to take care of me, and I'm unable to pay for my board. It's not his problem and I'm taking up space in his house, creating problems. I have a hearing on the 7th with the local court.

I have reached out to the local county and city resources and I have a social worker trying to find some help for me but there don't seem to be a lot of resources for someone in my unique position. I am out of time, and I don't know what to do.

If I end up on the street, I'm pretty much dead. I don't see a way out and its extremely scary and I feel like a deer in the headlights. Does anyone have any ideas?

How do so many reddit users ever do this?! I've been participating on reddit for over a week trying to leave helpful and uplifting comments so I can start being a true member of this community, but I just can't seem to get passed the 10 karma threshold.

What am I doing wrong? :( It's an incredibly frustrating experience, how did you guys ever overcome it?

Following yesterday's update, if you don't have either a Dex or a Fbow does it make more sense to Solo CoX for a Dex before running Corrupted Gauntlet, or run Corrupted Gauntlet for Fbow to then go to CoX for a Dex? I see good arguments for both sides here.

What I mean is that I will look at people posting about get-togethers online and be depressed because I feel like I’m missing out, BUT at the same time I know that if I were there, I’d be miserable because it’s just so tiring to go out.

Original Article:

https://www.money.it/Comma-Fed-Archegos

By Mauro Bottarelli May 7th, 2021

Google translated version (Italian apes, feel free to correct):

The US Central Bank's half-yearly report warns: the market is hostage to risk appetite. At the same time, the ECB announces a squeeze on leverage to hedge funds. Which continue to sell tech stocks, opening the scenario to two hypotheses: a colossal short squeeze or the harbingers of a watershed event on the Nasdaq. With name and surname.

https://preview.redd.it/95oa38gzssx61.png?width=680&format=png&auto=webp&s=8fa3eb6de91f91fa0c8cb9a3e9fba353838e6098

The air is bad. The Fed is in full swing at Catch 22. And as Alan Greenspan always remembered, when things get really serious, a central banker's duty is to lie. And the Federal Reserve in this sense also wanted to stamp the official seal, even using its Financial Stability Report for this purpose. The meaning is all in this excerpt:

Source: Bloomberg

not by chance immediately taken up by the agencies: according to the US Central Bank, the stock exchanges are at risk of sharp correction since the valuations have become such as to fully depend on the maintenance of the current level of propensity towards the same risk. If this falls, thud is guaranteed.

In fact, a get your hands on that tastes a lot like a self-feeding vicious circle. The paradox of paragraph 22, in fact. Although Joseph Heller certainly thought of other things when he coined it as the basis of his novel of the same name, rarely has a theoretical artifice been so well adapted to reality. What is it about? Simple, **Paragraph 22 is the archetype of an apparent possibility of choice within a rule or procedure** that, in reality, hides a single possible epilogue. A trick, in short. It is a lie. Exactly equal to what the Fed felt the need to sell to the public: only now having realized a potentially dangerous situation on the equity market and immediately warned everyone, in case something should happen tomorrow.

It is a pity that what is happening, in addition to lasting for quarters and quarters, is part of the sack of the Federal Reserve and its perennial Qe, between zero interest rates and continuously expanding collateral audiences. Can you try it again? These two titles:

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I don’t know if any scene, aside from Snowden’s death (and even that had a dark punchline about Milo stealing morphine) was played entirely seriously, but there were a surprising number of poignant moments throughout the novel. Snowden’s death is the obvious go-to, but I’d also include Yossarian’s voyage through Rome at the end of the novel, Orr’s disappearance, and Kid Sampson’s/McWatt’s deaths. Furthermore, I was quite surprised by the poetic quality of Heller’s prose. You’d think it’d be contradictory to use elevated language when trying to be funny, yet Heller somehow makes it work. Perhaps his use of language is just another example of the many internal paradoxes the book lampoons.

Hey all, can anyone weigh in on navigating what I think has to be a common situation?

I am looking at a new model which is always sold before it hits the lot, so I would need to reserve one if I want it. I am asking a salesperson to get me a quote that includes all taxes and fees, but they refuse to include manufacturer incentives since they may expire before the car arrives.

They argue that I may be using this quote as ammunition against another dealer. I argue I just want to know how much I’ll be paying. Thoughts?

Spoiler alert for those that have not read the book!

If I recall the short of it, he buys eggs for 1 cent, sells them to a city for 4.5 cents, buys them from that exact city for 7 cents, and sells them to the mess hall for 5 cents. He nets profit off the entire series of events and the city likes him because he brings in a good not normally there and the city profits off selling it as well. It feels convoluted and I may be wrong on the example and don't recall why the original egg seller simply didn't sell eggs to the mess hall directly. Perhaps it was trade rules or something, or that it was a book and the example was complicated for the purpose of being complicated and nothing more.

Is there an example of a firm or series of firms singely owned by a larger firm that do this profit-loss-loss style of buying to move goods or services around in a complicated manner?

As an Ex JW, ive always had a bug about the marriage thing, many are together not married who are more faithful than most who are married, and yet the JW put way to much power in a bit of paper from a government who is owned by Satan (that in itself is ironic). At least the Jews dont really recognized it unless it came from a Rabbi (which itself is a mission to get).

However i just realized my issue with this, Marriage was designed for PERFECT HUMANS, we are not perfect, so the BORG expects you to uphold a law that was designed for perfect humans in a known imperfect world, they expect you to endure a relationship that clearly doesn't work and would never work as we are NOT perfect !!!