A list of puns related to "Spectro Polarimetric High Contrast Exoplanet Research"
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TL;DR- No freaking way I can do that.
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1. Pilot
I wasn’t looking into GameStop when all of this began. Most of my time was spent researching the pandemic’s impact on the economy. I’m talking about the economic steam engine that employs people and puts food on their tables. Especially the small businesses that were executively steamrolled by COVID lockdowns. It was scary how fast they had to close their doors.
I spent a lot of time looking at companies like GameStop. Brick-n-mortar businesses were basically running out of bricks to sh*t. Frankly, GameStop looked a lot like the next Blockbuster and it just seemed like a matter of time before they went under. Had DFV not done his homework, it's possible we wouldn’t have a rocket to HODL or a story to TODL.
Whoever has/had a short position with GameStop was probably thinking the same thing. The number of shares that can be freely traded on a daily basis is referred to as “the float”. GameStop has 70,000,000 shares outstanding, but 50,000,000 shares represented “the float”. With a small float like this, a short position of 20% becomes significant. Heck, Volkswagen got squozed with just a 12.8% short position. So let’s use little numbers to walk through an example of how this works.
Assume VW has 100 shares outstanding. If 12.8% of the company has been sold short, then 12.8 shares (let’s just say 13) must be available to purchase at a later date (assuming VW doesn’t go bankrupt). However, VW had a float of 45% which meant there was no real strain to cover that 12.8% short position at any moment. However, when Porsche announc
... keep reading on reddit ➡In literally every single thread about NASA on here, the top comment is some variation of "NASA is lying" or "NASA is hiding evidence of aliens" or just generally shitting on them as if they're the foremost enemy of people interested in UAPs.
Even after NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced that their organization was getting directly involved in studying the Navy's UAP info, people continue to attack them, to disparage their work, and to hurl ridiculous, false accusations at them.
It's one of the most unjustified opinions I regularly see here.
NASA is perhaps the most interested governmental organization in finding life beyond Earth. They have spent unbelievable amounts of money and manhours over decades trying to find evidence that life exists elsewhere in the cosmos. They are hugely invested.
Proof of alien life would cause NASA's budget to be massively increased through huge public and scientific interest. It would only benefit them, regardless of who made the discovery. Don't believe me? NASA's funding dropped after the Viking landers failed to detect life on Mars.
Consider that the Perseverance rover's landing spot in Jezero Crater was chosen specifically because it was determined to have been an ancient lake and would be a likely harbor of ancient microbial life. The rover has multiple instruments designed purely to detect life: https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8863/searching-for-life-in-nasas-perseverance-mars-samples/
NASA's strategy includes an entire arm dedicated to Astrobiology. Past projects have made serious efforts to find evidence of life on other planets:
>The search for life beyond Earth is so intertwined with other NASA goals (and is so interdisciplinary by nature and design), it can never really be separated or isolated from them. The Cassini mission to Saturn discovered plumes spitting out of the moon Enceladus, and the Hubble Space Telescope did the same for Europa. Both plumes tell of an inner water world, and so are important to planetary science as well as astrobiology. The Kepler mission has identified thousands of exoplanets in a small segment of the constellation Cygnus, 500 light years away, adding enormously to our understanding of the inventory and nature of distant planets. Included in those discoveries are th
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Good Morning San Diago,
I am Rensole and this is your daily news.
Does anyone smell that?
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Be sure to vote with your shares, don't think it won't matter because it does, over-voting would show there are lots of things being wrong and would give the company a much needed excuse to call their votes back in.
Also for the 6/9 (nice) annual shareholders meeting, remember that we will most likely not see a lot happen to the stock immediately after this because if they have something planned (NFT/Dividend/ recounting their own shares etc) it can be mentioned there but could still take some time before it can be implemented.
Like the NFT is set to launch around the 14th of July, if they were to give a dividend it could also be a few weeks, a recount can take a lot longer though, due to the audit process being very specific it may take a month or maybe longer (I can't say, or imagine, how long auditing the shares would take as this is a scale because the situation unprecedented) and there is a chance the vote count can be doctored to make sure it shows a non accurate vote count, regardless of everything just hodl and wait, as news reports have already stated SHF have list close to 2 billion usd just from Monday till Wednesday, but also these are "paper" losses as there is only an actual loss once they close their positions.
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After being silent for a few weeks our boy is back shitposting once again, even if he's not putting new DD forward or doing videos at the moment, but just seeing signs of life brings me joy to see.
Now there have been some people posting yesterday "oh we shouldn't look up to dfv, no hero worshipping" I'd say you're right, no one should be hero worshipped (we've seen this go wrong many a time) but DFV is our boy, a friggen time
... keep reading on reddit ➡There has been a lot of talk about transgender athletes on this subreddit over the last week or so, and it seems like the general consensus is something along the lines that the science is clear, and it shows that trans women always have an advantage over cis women, and should not compete with cis women but should instead be relegated to only comparing themselves to other trans women (or even to cis men). "It's a settled issue". I aim to challenge this perspective in this post.
The discussion on /r/xxfitness last week ago centered around the case of Laurel Hubbard. Laurel Hubbard is a 43 year old trans woman who transitioned in her mid 30s. She has competed professionally in women's weightlifting since 2017. She participated (and lost to a cis woman) in the women's world championship in 2019, and qualified for the New Zealand Olympic team in 2021.
The nuanced but still critical questions to ask here would be things like "what is the appropriate hormonal limit for trans women to participate in women's sports, and should the existing guidelines be adjusted?" and perhaps "how long does it take for muscle and fat redistribution to stabilize after starting HRT?", or perhaps even the spicier "should we apply different standards to trans women depending on their age of transition?"
None of these critical but at least somewhat reasonable questions dominated the discourse in the post discussing Laurel Hubbard. Instead the discourse centered around comments such as:
> It doesn't really matter how little testosterone a male to female trans person has; she still had her entire adolescence to develop male-level muscle and bone density, which explains the records she is setting in the female league. The non-trans women don't stand a chance against her, despite how hard they train.
This claim is not backed by science. She has lost the world championship to cis women twice, and is not expected to win any medals at the Olympics, so the idea that cis women stand no chance is ignorant or just an outright lie (and of course, if she does win that would not prove this statement either because the statement is not provable, especially not through one case study).
> Limb length and associated levers are also a sporting advantage that male to female trans people have that is not done away with by medical transition, although I'm unsure of the degree of impact of this in weightlifting.
Long limbs is a disadvantage in weig
... keep reading on reddit ➡The following is a recap of the key events leading up to the moment that I posted this. It's probably going to miss out a lot of minor stuff, as I've tried to focus on the most important and/or interesting material. Hopefully it can be useful for newcomers and people who want a refresher. I've tried to make it reasonably unbiased. I haven't sourced it all yet (I will work through it and do whatever I can later; I just wanted to get the core summary down first), but I provided some links to stuff at the start. If there's anything major that I've missed please comment it! Perhaps I will update this at intervals, as it may be nice to have a complete-ish log of core events that can be referred to afterwards. This ordeal is so complicated now that most people will probably find it impenetrable if they didn't start following this earlier.
DISCLAIMER: Just because something is recounted here, that doesn't mean I agree with it. I chose to include stuff that I thought was important or interesting in the context of the overall story. I have not fact checked every specific ''clue'' or whatever. I have tried to be clear about where I am obviously inserting my own opinion.
ACT I - (The Phantom Game)
1.) Everything begins when the following article is posted on PSN in April: https://blog.playstation.com/2021/04/07/abandoned-a-cinematic-survival-sim-hits-ps5-later-this-year/. The article introduces 'Abandoned', a survival horror game about a man who evades a cult in a woodland area. The trailer is cheaply made and the voiceover contains errors in the wording. It is discovered much later that the trailer uses pre-made assets that the developer Blue Box purchased for 35 dollars. Already in the comments, some people are speculating that the game is actually by Hideo Kojima, owing to the similar strategy used to market P.T/Silent Hills. Some people note the similiarities to Silent Hill in the voiceover, such as the tone of the actress, and the references to ''gods town'' etc.
2.) Geoff Keighley tweets a GIF. saying ''Interesting'' in response to something about the game.
3.) These rumours circulate mildly for a while. They do not garner much attention, though the developer Blue Box Game Studios (BB) responds by posting a public statement on their website, denying any relation to Hideo Kojima. [https://www.theloadout.com/ps5/abandoned-hideo-kojima](https://www.th
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Here are 100+ DDs that have shaped the GME saga.
This is the story of you, Apes, and the DD writers who have held us together and made us proud. As always, I hope you will enjoy.
I polled the Daily Chat about the name of this post and wanted to shout out some of the top alternatives.
u/scrollwheeler - "The Snoop Scoop"
u/jaxpied - "🍌🚀"
u/Hefaystos - "Another useless DD that has nothing smart inside and is nothing more than karma farming."
All very strong contenders, tbh.
💎🙌🦍💗🚀🚀
Lately I have seen a lot of new Apes joining the community, but confused about where to start. I have also seen Apes that need a bit of a confidence boost, or that just want to add a wrinkle about a particular topic so they can sleep better at night. And yes, even some shills get in on the action when they think they can use it to drive a wedge in the community. I literally saw two MOAFUDs in the Daily Chat last night while on patrol.
And you know what, I often find myself unable to answer their questions satisfactorily. I know that at some point in the past I came to understand or believe a piece of the puzzle -- SI% is Fake, shorts haven't covered, MOASS inevitable, for example -- but my diamond mind had forgotten the source of its strength.
In my opinion we want to welcome as many new Apes into the fold as possible, and we want to be able to parry any FUD quickly with a link to the 💎🙌 facts and arguments.
That's what this guide is for.
tl;dr: A chronologically and topically organized guide to the DD that explains the situation at hand and the history of the Apes' contributions to one another. This can be used to quickly get new Apes up to speed, or to confidently shoot down FUD and leave evidence for those who find the comments and posts later.
I selected DD that I think tells the story of how we got from there to here, as simply and clearly as possible. It's meant to be all the DD necessary to explain the Ape mantra:
Buy. HODL. Vote. Shorts must cover. MOASS is inevitable.
Oh yeah, and just for fun I organized it like an RPG campaign guide, combining backstory with mechanics and an actual play report. I know, I can be a little extra at times.
You'll have to forgive me writing my own character in. I might be one of those annoying GMs that falls too in love with their own character. It's all in good fun, and as always I'm proud to be one among the
... keep reading on reddit ➡Hi Juniors and Seniors (and sophomores hold on to this)!
This is basically an abbreviated version of pretty much everything I say throughout the year; hopefully, it's organized in a way you can find useful.
Junior year is where your college admissions journey starts for real. You now have quite a few items to tick off your to-do list, but don't freak out if you're already a rising senior -- (or even a fall semester senior for that matter if you’re reading this much later). You have plenty of time to get all this done.
Please note that my views about this might be different from the advice you hear from other sources or even other students, counselors, or consultants. My philosophy is that it’s good to hear different thoughts and ideas, and then you can make decisions about what works best for you.
Here’s how I suggest you tackle this list. If you are new to admissions, no matter where you are in high school, start reading here from the beginning. Don’t panic. It’s totally ok if you haven’t done any of the stuff on the list. Most kids haven’t. I’m just providing a timeline for “an ideal world” situation.
ENJOY YOUR SUMMER: This is super important. You need to take time to recharge your batteries. Be sure to take some time completely off from school and college admissions stuff.
You can read more about my thoughts on summer in this post, Let's Talk about Summer.
FOCUS ON YOUR MENTAL HEALTH: Here's my post about Mental Health Awareness and Mindfulness in Admissions, where you can read more about all the ways I suggest (and use) focusing on your mental health while being in the middle of your admissions experience.
ACTIVITIES: I love what MIT Admissions Says: "Some students feel so much pressure to get into the “right” college that they want to make sure they do everything right—down to their extracurricular activities. Fortunately, the only right answer is to do what’s right for you—not what you think is right for us. Choose your activities because they delight, intrigue, and challenge you, not because you think they’ll look impressive on your application. Go out of your way to
... keep reading on reddit ➡I’ve been learning up on the scrap/salvage market the past few months and heavily for the past few weeks. What I’ve been able to soak up has compelled me to shift more to SCHN and IEP. These companies seem to have built the perfect mousetraps as they provide recycling solutions and divert materials from landfills. I’m on the West Coast, so my primary research in this sector is mainly focused upon SCHN.
Where to begin? Let’s start with a few conclusions I’ve drawn below. I’ll spare the heavy DD and/or backgrounds of the companies. I can excitedly write novellas about these companies, but will limit this to summary opinions and supporting rationale. Feel free to add your thoughts in the comments. I’m not in the industry and have no particular expertise here. I can be way off-base. I also have seven figure positions in SCHN, IEP, MT, and CLF (with more steel positions, and plans to buy more) that can viewed as a potential conflicts of interest.
At the present time, Scrap/Salvage companies are better commodity plays (in the U.S.) than raw product miners. Additionally, profit margins will expand for scrap dealers as their acquisition and processing costs do not scale proportional to the materials sale prices.
The expanding margins, FCF, and demand warrants/promoted CAPEX to increase production/efficiency. Thus, the high prices coupled with the higher collection/production further alters the upward trajectory of gross and net for these companies. Profits are uniquely compounding here.
Despite the increased collection and output for scrap/salvage dealers, they will struggle to meet increasing market demand for (ferrous and non ferrous scrap.) We will see this trend persist / continue to rise for the next decade. Consequently, scrap/salvaged material prices will decouple / no longer similarly track in lockstep with historical ratios. I believe scrap will share a similar upward trajectory as steel, but will not sustain as large of a percentage drop as HRC in the years ahead.
Steel scrap prices appear to lag HRC. I expect the two will become a little more closely conjoined. When we enter the late stage of the steel rally, scrap dealers should become sought after as acquisition targets.
Here’s the thinking:
Hello, fellow gamers!
I want to tell you about a new board game. Development of the game started in September 2020. At the moment, it exists in the form of a prototype, which has been repeatedly tested and modified.
A game for 1-4 captains of an interstellar ship.
Aleksey Borisov-Gagarinskiy – game-designer, scenarist, main graphic design concept developer.Anastasia Borisova-Gagarinskaya – artist and graphic designer, junior game-designer.
Graphic design expert assistance: Sergei Butkin.
The idea of the game came after reading the book "Planet Factory" by Elizabeth Tasker. The plot of the game partly intersects with the plot of Alexander Kazantsev's novel "Stronger than Time" and the theme of the 'Interstellar' movie. The idea of the game partly echoes the computer games Outpost (1994), Outpost 2 (1997), Alpha Centauri (1999) and Civilization: Beyond Earth (2014). Among the board games, some analogues include Terraforming Mars (2016) and Cassiopeia (2019).
In the XXIV century, the worlds near the Sun are developed and the problem of overpopulation is brewing. The four factions of the space pioneers are united in their desire to open the way to the stars, but they strive to achieve their goal in different ways. In their quest, they joined forces and created the interstellar ship Patria Nova (Latin for "New Homeland"). The best Solar System specialists are ready to board, plunge into hypobiosis for centuries, and wake up on arrival to distant stars to devote their lives to exploring and preparing distant worlds for a large-scale migration from Earth.
The game concept is based on one of the most realistic interstellar flight scenarios. Its details (as well as the design of the ship) we agreed with the expert of the space industry, Ivan Moiseev.
Cross-posted from my blog at https://jonahfranks.blogspot.com
I was recently watching a college lecture where the professor prefaced a discussion of game theory with "and the concept of a prisoner's dilemma is one of those things I am confident saying you are not an educated person in any meaningful sense if you have never taken the trouble to understand or learn it. The idea that we can map out the conditions under which cooperators will defect given individual incentives, even despite the fact that the collective incentive can be to cooperate for a higher payoff, is so fundamental to understanding the problems of the 21st century (like Climate Change) that I think it's only fair that we set our bar/expectations for the educated person high enough that they would know this enough to be able to act on it."
This got me thinking: what is your list (or solitary individual entry for what could become a larger list) of things every 21st Century person who likes to think of themselves as having achieved a serious education should know, but probably doesn't? I say "probably doesn't" because a list of what an educated person should know in general would be too long and (for the most part) too obvious for my purposes here (i.e. please don't say something like "the earth orbits the sun"). I also want people to emphasize knowing things that are considered groundbreaking in their respective fields and that may even have a practical or important connection to a larger issue, particularly the larger issues that we will be counting on the "educated (but common) person" to address in this century.
Pick any discipline you want, but try to meet my criteria. Here's mine! (A list like this is bound to sound opinionated and self-congratulatory because it's an attempt to list the things you think you already know but that many others don't, but for the same reason that the "rationalist" community has chosen a vaguely positive adjective for itself, and only aspirationally rather than narcissistically, I want you to put aside the self-conscious worry that you sound self-indulgent and just do your best to outline the greatest ideas an education can impart for someone aspiring to a true education)
These are not in any particular order from most to least important, but more "what occurred to me first," and it is bound to be horribly incomplete or include things it shouldn't--that's where you come in!
Here goes nothing:
Biden administration to buy 500 million Pfizer coronavirus vaccine doses to donate to the world
Keystone XL Pipeline Project Cancelled by TC Energy
Germany: Frankfurt police unit to be disbanded over far-right chats
Houston hospital suspends 178 employees who refused Covid-19 vaccination
Special German police unit will be disbanded after investigators found right-wing extremist messages shared by some of its members
More than 17 million salmon will be released into San Francisco bay in massive bid to save species
**Low doses of 'laughing gas' could be fast
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The humans were billions. Tens of billions. A number that was so staggeringly high, Nyarn'Enth-Hep could not imagine those to live on ten planets - no - a hundred planets. How could a sapient species become so numerous? Did they reproduce so quickly? Was this a species of fast breeders that had become intelligent by some fluke? Because those were not supposed to be smart, never mind capable of space travel.
This was not how this meeting was supposed to go. Nyars body had tensed up since that reveal. These humans could be massively dangerous with their immense numbers alone and they decidedly had a technological edge as well. Now she was glad she had so far been unable to disclose much information about her species, what she had shared so far was enough of a risk.
There was nothing left to do but break this meeting off and share what she had learnt to warn everyone. She had always thought that being afraid of the fast breeders was reserved to her non-sapient ancestors, but here she was, scared by numbers.
"I hereby stop this meeting, because I desire to depart immediately. Please leave my ship and return to your own in short order as I must remove the room you currently occupy."
Unsurprisingly she felt great confusion from the human when they had fully heard her words from their interpreter machine and made the attempt to find out more about her reasoning.
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"Please tell me why", Neil desperately pleaded again at the unmoving, now mute alien being. What had she done wrong? It was clearly a reaction to the information on the population count of humans. But why would that cause this sudden change in behaviour? I was just going well, she had gotten to see the amazing building abilities of the alien. After that demonstration she was convinced that it would be able to build whatever it wanted using only its hands.
The translator re-stated its last message: "Please. Leave."
She walked right up to the transparent barrier to be as close to the sapient alien creature as possible, looking right into two of its black eyes. After breathing deep, she said: "Okay, I will leave. But first I want to tell you this; I came here with the promise of peace. And I don't know why our popu
... keep reading on reddit ➡So I'm a huge advocate of something known as sortition, where people are randomly selected to serve in a legislature. Unfortunately the typical gut reaction against sortition is bewilderment and skepticism. How could we possibly trust ignorant, stupid, normal people to become our leaders?
Imagine a Congress that actually looks like America. It's filled with nurses, farmers, engineers, waitresses, teachers, accountants, pastors, soldiers, stay-at-home-parents, and retirees. They are conservatives, liberals, and moderates from all parts of the country and all walks of life.
For a contemporary implementation, a lottery is used to draw around 100 to 1000 people to form one house of a Congress. Service is voluntary and for a fixed term. To alleviate the problem of rational ignorance, chosen members could be trained by experts or even given an entire elite university education before service. Because of random sampling, a sortition Citizens' Assembly would have superior diversity in every conceivable dimension compared to any elected system. Sortition is also the ultimate method of creating a proportionally representative Congress.
Democratic lotteries are an ancient idea whose usage is first recorded in ancient Athens in 6th century BC. Athens was most famous for its People's Assembly, in which any citizen could participate (and was paid to participate) in direct democracy. However, the Athenians also invented several additional institutions as checks and balances on the passions of the People's Assembly.
Athenian democracy was regarded by Aristotle as a “radical democracy”, a state which
... keep reading on reddit ➡This subreddit has grown a lot over the past few weeks, so I think it's time for a little refresher on Jill and Derick's history. Yes, Jill is rocking tank tops these days, and yes Derick graduated from law school, but I think it's important to understand why we still snark on them.
I know there will always be contrasting opinions on Jill and Derick on this subreddit, but for the people who have only vaguely heard that Jill and Derick are "problematic", this is why.
I may have missed something or gotten something wrong, so this post will be edited as it needs to be!
I think a lot of confusion surrounds Jill and Derick's decision to leave Counting On, and subsequently distance themselves from the Duggar family. This separation was not related to Josh, the abuse Jill suffered, and Derick also was not fired because of his tweets. Jill and Derick left Counting On because Jim Bob was controlling their lives, and more importantly because he was hoarding all of the TLC money. Until Jill and Derick sued Jim Bob, they didn't receive any money from the show.
GOTS, part 1.2
Hey apes.
tldr: part 1.1 of this series introduced the market media manipulation of the meme stock narrative to paint retail investors and GameStop in a negative light, the possibility that RC's Sears tweet points directly at predatory vulture funds, and a big finance play to coordinate a massive meme stock pump and dump that crushes retail and gives the SEC an excuse to regulate Wall Street's retail investment competition, a scheme that centers around AMC and it's CEO, Adam Aron. Part 1.2 dives deeper into vulture funds and specifically focuses on Apollo Global Management, a vulture fund founded by Leon Black, the Apollo founding CEO who stepped down as CEO and from the board for paying Jeffrey Epstein $158 million dollars. Why is that relevant to our favorite stock? Apollo Global tried to orchestrate a leveraged buyout of GameStop in 2019. It also attempted a leveraged buyout of AMC in December 2020. And Adam Aron? He's been with Leon Black and Apollo for 30 years and was an Apollo Global vulture fund Senior Partner when Apollo sold AMC to Chinese vulture fund, Wanda Group.
This post also sets the stage for an exploration of why a company's senior note debt is as important to future company projections as its ability to control the dilution of its shares when attempting to maintain shareholder value. This discussion aims to shed light on the importance of RC paying off GameStop's outstanding senior note debt, though market media has attempted to thoroughly obscure how important that event was in the meme stock narrative, and why.
And thanks to everyone who took the time to read GOTS 1.1 and leave comments and point deeper down rabbit trails. Please continue. Apes together strong.
Let's go.
ENTER APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT
Apollo Global Management is a predatory vulture fund that has a long history with AMC. Here's an article that paints a clear picture of Apollo entering the AMC bankruptcy sweepstakes written by Mark Hake for investorplace.com before price action in January; here’s a big chunk of Hake’s article:
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