There should be an exam, not quite a series 7, but more like a finance drivers license test, that you are required to take before becoming a retail investor.

How is what the Reddit meme stick guy doing not a pump and dump?

There's this extremely weird attitude that farmers are growing food as a form of charity. In fact they are doing so for profit and are heavily subsidized in order to do so in a way that carries low risk

Then withdraw from the Palestinian territories and relinquish jurisdiction over them. I don’t want my tax dollars subsidizing an explicit ethnostate political project.

Mexico’s next president, Claudia Sheinbaum, is another member of a powerful group that seek to run the world from the shadows and regard the rest of us as mere pawns (physicists)

When the kebab guy doesn’t call you “boss”:

they don’t believe in equality under law, they don’t believe that you should be a full citizen. they are proud of this and will tell you it.

I no longer wish to be LinkedIn. Please unlink me.

I’m sorry but this duck won’t hunt — Donald Trump is the greatest hero in the history of the abortion-banning movement which has loyally backed him through three national campaigns now.

His contempt for women is perfectly aligned with their values and they love him.

If a Democratic politician who said this about rural Indiana we would have a months long “national conversation” about how coastal elites sneer at Real Americans with endless ponderous op-eds in The NY Times

Under adversarial conductions (they’re pitching like they’re trying to strike me out), probably not. 100 mph pitch in the same place each time, probably.

The commentariat loves to keep saying this presumably because they’ve heard it smarmy pundit friends say it, but it’s still completely false.

Businesspeople in New York are prosecuted for cooking their books in exactly this way all the fucking time.

'average president is convicted of 0.7 felonies' factoid actualy just statistical error. average president is convicted of 0 felonies. Felonies Denald, who lives in country club & is convicted over 30 times, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

My new favorite example of why the mean is unreliable in the presence of outliers is definitely that the average president has been convicted of .74 felonies

Crimes Donald is an outlier adn should not have been counted