"Love has gotten such a bad reputation—and he's earned it for the last couple of years, with the way he's pouted and everything and some of his on-court antics. When they drafted a big man [Evan Mobley] and then they signed another one with [Lauri] Markkanen, they told Love, 'Hey, you're gonna go to the bench,' and Love said, 'OK, but I want to make a deal. The deal is, if I earn minutes, you play me those minutes. In other words, don't John Wall me.'"
The proceeding is a transcription of events as I recorded them in a digital diary.
I was jerked awake this morning by my car rocking violently as the result of a semi passing a little too close for comfort. It was still night time when I decided to pull off the road in the middle of Death Valley to get some sleep. That was 4 hours ago. Guess I needed it more than I thought, but I’m not surprised; I had been driving for almost 40 of the 55 hours that I’ve been cramped up in my car. I rubbed my eyes and put the car in gear.
My brother’s death came conveniently during my summer break making me the last remaining Pichler. I left him and my dad a year ago and went to college – community college in Brstol, just outside of Philly. I had to get as far away from them, their weirdness, their obsession with the desert, their lack of motivation to do anything with their lives, and… that mine. It was always like father-son bonding activity to go stare at the entrance of the mine, and by father-son, I mean my brother and my dad – I went with them once and watched them just stare at it for a few hours in near silence, then we left. I didn’t see the point, so I just stayed home after that.
Dad went missing the day I told him that I had received a federal loan to go to school in Pennsylvania and was found to have been involved in a hit and run five days later. He wasn’t in a car when he was hit. He seemed to be just wondering around the desert on some state road in the middle of nowhere. His body had apparently been obliterated by the collision and, at a cursory glance, unrecognizable as even human.
Unknown to me at the time, I reported him missing on the very day they found his body. It took about a week, but the state police finally put two and two together and requested DNA samples from his tooth brush and identified the body as Henry Allan Pichler, my father.
My brother, on the other hand, seemed to have just gone insane in the time between my old man’s death and his own. He was about 6 years younger than me. He was 20, but to him and my dad, I was treated as his inferior – like a younger sibling. He was caught breaking and entering in the nearest town to the house we grew up in. He had woken the inhabitants when the door to their bedroom squeaked open and there he was – knife in hand and a surprised look when they turned on their bedside lamp. He panicked and tried to flee, but tripped and landed his dumbass on the knife. That’s not what killed him though. He
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This estimate is based on:
- A jump in gross profit margins (thanks to new mega warehouses)
- YoY increase (2020 Q3 vs 2021 Q3)
- Possibly a trillion $ worth in free [global] market advertising all year [based on the january saga and ensuing saga]
- pre-holiday sales being consistently sold out
- successful shift to e-commerce and new products
Also Wall Street: 1st of its kind Digital Marketplace
-Loopring leadership is coming out now coalescing with GME leadership, in what is anticipated as a major NFT marketplace announcement.
-Statements swirling around: that this marketplace is the "first of its kind" and "state of the art" for the future of value exchange of digital assets.
-They are calling this the new GameStop NFT Marketplace, a Ethereum 'Layer 2' technology, fair+automated marketplace with no middleman, 2000+ transactions/second (compared to Ethereum 2.0's ~30 transactions/second), and with ZERO gas fees / transaction. This historic marketplace may be announced on wednesday.
Stocks that remain heavily shorted, such as $GME , $AMC , $DWACW will likely face buy pressure from here. DWACW began squeezing at the end of the day because of this. $AMC and $GME are up significantly after hours.
NSCC is elevating capital requirements on egregious short-borrow positions due to value-at-risk and falling asset values across the board in long positions. Hedgies won't be able to sustain those borrows when value-at-risk is going awack in the middle of a market panic. $GME, $AMC, $DWACW looking good here.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Western Michigan University, December 18, 1963
May I reiterate the problem will not work itself out. May I reiterate that it is not a sectional problem. No area of our country can boast of clean hands in the realm of brotherhood. If this problem is to be solved there must be a sort of divine discontent all over this nation.
I say to you, my friends, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good‐will will be maladjusted until the good society is realized*. I say very honestly that I never intend to become adjusted to segregation and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. I never intend to* adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few*.*
I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, to self‐defeating effects of physical violence. No nation can win a war. It is no longer the choice between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence. The alternative to disarmament, the alternative to strengthening the United Nations and thereby disarming the whole world may well be a civilization plunged into the abyss of annihilation.
In other words, I’m about convinced now that there is need for a new organization in our world. The International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment‐‐men and women who will be as maladjusted as the prophet Amos. Who in the midst of the injustices of his day could cry out in words that echo across the centuries, “Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
As maladjusted as Abraham Lincoln who had the vision to see that this nation would not survive half‐slave and half‐free.
As maladjusted as Thomas Jefferson who in the midst of an age amazingly adjusted to slavery would scratch across the pages of history words lifted to cosmic proportions, “We know these truths to be self‐evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator certain unalienable rights” that among these are “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
As maladjusted as Jesus of Nazareth who could say to the men and women of his day, “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you. Pray for them that spitefully use you.”
*Through such maladjustment, I believe that we will be able to emerg
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At first, I thought I was just infatuated and just being a dumb hopeless romantic. But it’s been a while now and that feeling hasn’t died at all. In fact, it’s grown.
I’m self learning so my learning is relatively unstructured. I’m having great difficulty learning and remembering new words and have been told that it helps to understand radicals on the left and the right part of a word which hints at the phoneme. Is there a good book that I can buy that will put me on the right path? Otherwise it seems like most apps and textbooks just start you off learning words and phrases rather than characters and radicals. This is such a hard language to tackle and I have no idea what I’m doing. I just know I’m supposed to know 150 characters but I keep forgetting and struggling with some of them because I’m not able to recognize the radicals and phonemes which seem like it would be easier. Plus maybe they’re different phoneme characters but sometimes they look exactly the same but two words with it sound completely different. I am yet to find a pattern to guess word sound or remember one when I’ve learned the character.
Idrk how to explain this. Im only 16 but like how does a drug for example make us feel like we are gigantic and not miniature at a given time. What makes our brain decide what we are seing/feeling. I hope this makes some kind of sense. Have a great day :)
Does anyone have this requirement? How do you use it? I can’t find any research as to its effectiveness outside of primary grades and it seems like a waste of my time. Thanks!
This estimate is based on:
- A jump in gross profit margins (thanks to new mega warehouses)
- YoY increase (2020 Q3 vs 2021 Q3)
- Possibly a trillion $ worth in free [global] market advertising all year [based on the january saga and ensuing saga]
- pre-holiday sales being consistently sold out
- successful shift to e-commerce and new products
Also Wall Street: 1st of its kind Digital Marketplace
-Loopring leadership is coming out now coalescing with GME leadership, in what is anticipated as a major NFT marketplace announcement.
-Statements swirling around: that this marketplace is the "first of its kind" and "state of the art" for the future of value exchange of digital assets.
-They are calling this the new GameStop NFT Marketplace, a Ethereum 'Layer 2' technology, fair+automated marketplace with no middleman, 2000+ transactions/second (compared to Ethereum 2.0's ~30 transactions/second), and with ZERO gas fees / transaction. This historic marketplace may be announced on wednesday.
Stocks that remain heavily shorted, such as $GME , $AMC , $DWACW will likely face buy pressure from here. DWACW began squeezing at the end of the day because of this. $AMC and $GME are up significantly after hours.
NSCC is elevating capital requirements on egregious short-borrow positions due to value-at-risk and falling asset values across the board in long positions. Hedgies won't be able to sustain those borrows when value-at-risk is going awack in the middle of a market panic. $GME, $AMC, $DWACW looking good here.
