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Showing content with the highest reputation on 01/28/21 in Posts

  1. Lazy as fuck, shitty body, only eats lasagna
    23 points
  2. They can take their $340 stock to GameStop and get a $12 store credit.
    22 points
  3. I love how quickly you have to come here to post your masturbatory doom-porn for the rest of us to see. If it's bad new (or in most cases, just some wescott ebberts-esque drummed up fake bullshit bad news) you're faster than Machinator. Tell us the truth, your leaked a little bit when you posted this, didn't you?
    19 points
  4. Outstanding. Can I ask you, sarvanaash, and anyone else who follows Burnt Orange Nation or visits their site, what it is that you hope to gain from it? Have they ever broken anything newsworthy? Is there fruitful discussion on a board there? Do they have writers who are secretly must-reads? I've been following Texas and CFB on the Internet since the late '90's. I visited their site once, a while after it launched, wasn't impressed. Never went back or bookmarked it. Forgot about them. Then Peter Bean started popping up regarding a burgeoning meltdown or some shit from people who knew him and posted. Dude was strung out on coke or meth and blowing dudes in his work parking lot for money or something, allegedly, by the end of his run. Then I think he got involved with some sort of shooting at the Omni in downtown Austin? Can't remember. Anyway, the side stories are bizarrely entertaining. What I don't find useful or entertaining are the stupid ass, uninformed, negatively-oriented tweets that you dipshits regurgitate from them here. They're not a fucking news source. It's like some insipid poster here was reading other people's shit and decided to tweet their third-hand takes on developments, and then you guys mistakenly believe we need to have them thrown back in our face here for a reaction. It's fucking obnoxious and lazy. Posting tweets from those clowns, and their complete lack of any connection to the program, is a negative contribution to this site and threads like this. Anywho, the ND transfer took Lawrence's spot. The rest is spin. Good luck to the guy at UH, but he didn't have a better choice. Seemed like a JAG to me anyway.
    16 points
  5. "Getting more conservative as you get older" = Getting a cheap education at UT that was heavily subsidized by the state and then telling younger people who have to take out loans to get that same education now that it isn't as heavily subsidized by the state to chug your balls.
    15 points
  6. You think anyone below the age of 35 has any hope for this? I'm literally a partner in a law firm and I still think it's completely insane. Boomers and Gen Xers had the map of what life would be like growing up, and it wasn't particularly fulfilling, but there was opportunity there. Your "partner track." It may not have been glamorous, but everyone knew the path and most people knew it was available. Get an education --> get a job that will become a career -----> start a family, buy a house, etc. Millennials were given the map, but right before we got to the starting line boomers lit the map on fire. It's gone. The jobs that were lost in the recession were never recovered. Careers didn't come back, they were replaced with the gig economy. That's what millennials are looking at, for the rest of our lives. Gen Z has it even worse, because they'll have even more debt. Your idea that people get more conservative as they get older was a product of an economic reality that no longer exists.
    14 points
  7. I started to change when Oliver North became a national hero during the actor's time as president. It just got worse. Another milestone was the re-election of W after such a disastrous four years. The swiftboating of a decorated combat soldier in favor of a guy who couldn't show up for National Guard duty was jaw-dropping and demoralizing. Trump's candidacy started as an amusing bit of spice that mortifyingly took over the entire dish. His nomination and election proved that the electorate was not merely stupid; they are malignly embracing a huge lie. His election was jaw-dropping. After four years that make W look like good deal, 70 million Americans vote for Trump. My jaw doesn't drop, it clenches. This is bad. This is going to get worse. It's to be a battle pitting a massive cult that believes in a fake dangerous enemy (me and you) while invoking God in their cause against reason based in reality. Reason won't win or even budge religious zeal. Argument crashes on the rocks of mania. I think you've led me to realize an underlying reason I feel so strongly about the BLM movement and organization. They represent a righteous cause and a reason to take to the streets against the jihad. They are citizens denied the status of citizenship. The cause calls to me as a citizen and as someone who has at least some standard of fairness and decency. Great post even if dark, my friend.
    14 points
  8. As long as 700% APR payday loans exist, you can fuck right off with "protecting people from themselves".
    14 points
  9. I'm not sure what your definition of Chang's guys is, but if you are speaking on the young GAs and coaching assistants departing the program, they weren't Chang's, and they damn sure weren't evaluating talent for Chang. Most couldn't name more than 2 or 3 people in Chang's department, and most couldn't name more than one or two recruits at their position. The coaching guys and GAs interview with and are selected by the coaches. Yurcich for example brought in a guy from Michigan or Minnesota, one of the M's anyway. If you are including Shipley in this group, which I am not sure if you are but the post was unclear to me, Shipley was hardly ever in the facility more than a few days a week, one being Saturday for game days. The dude has been pseudo-retired for a while according to a couple people, but I've yet to have that verified by anyone other than them. I have no idea if he's sticking around and I haven't read or asked around to find out. Obviously I'd prefer he stays on, but he's also not irreplaceable. I wouldn't be surprised if Shipley leaves Texas on his own for retirement or whatever. However, if you are speaking on the younger interns, volunteers, and staffers such as Langi, those who actually cut up film and evaluated recruits with and for Chang, only some of which speak to recruits and their families, those are "Chang's guys". Most, if not all of them remain with the program currently. Chang was the only member of the recruiting staff that worked through the transition that has been let go (so far). A majority of these guys, recruiting and coaching interns alike, didn't form or even attempt to form relationships with recruits or coaches, much less their trainers and street agents, outside assistants like Langi and rarely a coaching assistant like former assistant Coats. According to a former coaching assistant, the recruiting department actually had grievances about the coaching assistants and GAs not being more involved in recruiting to assist their position coaches. There are several reasons not to have a full staff hired in the department by now, unfortunately the recruiting facility is not as simple as sticking a bunch of evaluators in a room with cubicles containing a desk treadmill, a pillow, and routine rations and saying "get to work". There are several criteria and standard that must be developed and agreed upon by the new staff for them to implement the system they desire to replicate to form the basis of evaluation going forward before the recruiting staff can evaluate to the coaches' standards. This was not a transplanted staff like Herman brought from Houston, so they weren't magically all on the same page once they were graced by the doorway of the northern gates of DKR. I share your sense of urgency on the trail, but we wouldn't have gotten it done anyway with the few stooges Hughes may have managed to uproot and transplant on an overnight flight. The recruiting staff has been in high gear both before and after Hughes was brought on, the urgency from them is a non-issue. Chang was one of Herman's very few phenomenal hires and did a great job, but that doesn't mean things in his department couldn't have been improved upon. There's no need to deal in absolutes. all of these ive seen at least have been former ga's and coaching assistants not recruiting staff. Agreed with all of this above, much more accurate take. There is reason for some skepticism as golfclap has said, but we don't need to twist ourselves into Satya knots over inconsequential or forgone changes (insert "You new here?" comment). I was told it became apparent to those within the department that a "Chang and Hughes" deal was never truly on the table. the reception from Sark to the retainees has been welcoming and the coaching staff relied heavily on certain individuals throughout the transition. i've yet to receive any feedback about hughes himself but his resume is more than enough to have earned the benefit of the doubt at the very least I laughed, sadly. 11 years. Pray not much longer.
    14 points
  10. Agree. The Hedgies shorting 140% of a stock is greedy as fuck and deserving of market punishment. They thought they were immune from market forces. Now they are hinting a bailout might be needed. Shorting 100% of a stock is dangerous; shorting 140% of a stock is asking for an ass-kicking.
    12 points
  11. You're quadrupling down in a really weird way.
    11 points
  12. I met R. V. Burgin, the Marine from the show, The Pacific. I'm paraphrasing him, but like most Marines probably, when I asked him a bit about how he was able to do what he did during the war, he looked at me kind of funny (I suppose because I look funny and he wanted to strangle me) and more of less said that it's what Marines do. When my wife was taking care of her mom who was fading away with Alzheimers, I kind of got the same vibe from my wife. It's what you do -- you take care of your dying parent. There is no secret or way to sugar coat it, but you do your familial duty. I'm starting to get a bit hopeless about the nonsense in the US and Texas. Before there was some hope, but now it's quickly turning into "you do what you do as a citizen" and if it helps fine, and if not, fuck it.. You are for impeachment when someone should be impeached, you are for government programs when they might effectively help people, you are against what isn't working. But all you can do is to put on your CITIZEN cap, vote and perhaps get involved in some small way but thinking things will be better? Man, I know many of you have been preaching that but it seems worse now than it did when we were working to jettison fuckhead. These fucking zombies won't go away. Just because it doesn't seem like there is any hope with all the knuckleheads screwing everything up, doesn't mean you don't do your duty. I guess.
    10 points
  13. Me reading "Jeff Banks was lead recruiter at Alabama" forty times
    10 points
  14. A little bit of Opal in my life A little bit of Cecily by my side A little bit of Kristie is all I need A little bit of Katie is what I see A little bit of Lindy in the sun A little bit of Heather all night long A little bit of Sarah, here I am A little bit of you makes me your man -Jason Collier, 2021
    10 points
  15. My mom is 84. She's not healthy. Smoked, overweight, diabetic. Has gone into the hospital several times over the last 5 years for double lower pneumonia. Covid would absolutely kill her. My dad died 15 years ago and although she has lots of grand kids to be with she's pretty ready to leave the earth. She claimed for months that she would not take the vaccine. A few weeks ago she was offered it at the retirement community and asked me if she should get it. I said "Mom. I know you are ready but do you really want to die by yourself on a vent?" She got her second shot today.
    10 points
  16. Regarding the WR positions, it's becoming very obvious that there is about to be a purge there. I don't know if Harrison ever actually puts on pads at Texas. Maybe Kennedy Lewis will put the bong down for a minute this spring and attempt to compete, but I doubt it. Herman's handling of WR from the beginning to the end should be pursued as a crime against humanity and prosecuted before high council at The Hague.
    10 points
  17. They didn't take their cue from the fucking government, they took it from their industry friends who were getting nervous.
    10 points
  18. I always find this sentiment really interesting when it pops up because it almost exclusively comes 1.) From people who will, with a straight face, argue that black people today face no real impact from slavery or Jim Crow because it was so long ago and they weren’t alive, while of course they themselves had fuck all to do with the American war effort in WWII, and 2.) Without acknowledgment that America currently leads the west in production and acceptance of Nazis by a wide margin.
    10 points
  19. I'm not a financial advisor. This is not financial advise. I don't work in finance. I do not have a degree in finance. Actually, I have a BA and I'm bad at math past Cal I. I won't apologize for the length because this post is me spiking the football and other than banter about the moves GME makes in the future, this is the last time I ever dig into the fundamentals of the GME trade. What we saw today was covering either due to what is called a gamma squeeze or a short squeeze. Maybe a mix of both. We won't really know until later, possibly at the end of close Wednesday when brokerages like TD update their short interest. A gamma squeeze occurs as the price moves up, crossing the thresholds of strike prices of calls that will soon be expiring. Market Makers use the Delta of an option to determine how many shares of a stock they should purchase in preparation of possibly covering the calls when they are exercised, either by the buyer of the call or upon expiring in the money. As the share price goes up, combined with the days getting closer to expiry, up goes the Delta, up goes the amount of shares the MMs buy. Last Friday, every call on the board for GME was in the money at expiry. I'll repeat: EVERY CALL ON THE BOARD WAS ITM AT EXPIRY. I don't know if that's ever happened in the history of the market. That means that if every call was exercised, 11.7 million shares would need to be transferred over to the new owners today and tomorrow. Now, as the Delta on a lot of the lower strikes were already at 1 and the shares already (hopefully for the call seller) purchased, it shouldn't be a big deal. However, the big pop happened ON Friday, not before. That caused a mad scramble in the after hours Friday, today, and possibly tomorrow for those who are gambling on the price decreasing further before they fill those calls. So, that's a gamma squeeze. Price creeps up, MMs who sell calls end up buying shares to cover, causing the price to climb higher, and then creating essentially a feedback loop spiking the price when combined with buying from retail or pops on positive news. What is happening, and may continue to happen, is the result of hedge funds and possibly Bank of America rampantly shorting GME over the course of a year hoping that it goes zero and they then get to pocket everything and give nothing back. The short float on December 31st was 140% and the institutional ownership was 117%. But how is such a thing possible? They borrowed shares to either 1.) sell, never intending to buy them back and return them because they were hell bent on bankrupting GME, or 2.) lent out those already borrowed shares that they never intended to give back anyway to collect the premium, creating a borrowed share of a borrowed share. They would also buy dips incrementally, amassing large positions, sell calls and buy puts with a quick expiry, then dump all of the shares they accumulated at once while simultaneously shorting to tank the price and pocket the premiums on the options they bought and sold. Then, when that wasn't enough, they sold naked shorts. They sold shares they didn't even have or even exist. They injected "synthetic shares" into the market. Synthetic, fugazi, fogazi. It's a wazi, it's a woozi. They're fairy dust. They don't exist. They're not fucking real. But the people and institutional investors they sold them to bought the right to own the shares. And those banks and hedge funds are obligated to deliver them. But now there aren't enough shares to go around. There's an infinite demand for shares, but a finite supply. In a total share recall event, the lenders of the shorted shares could recall every share on borrow and still be 21 MILLION shares short of demand. The banks and hedge funds that created that SHOULD be on the hook. It SHOULD be illegal. Think of how depressed the price was because of it. Think of the loss of market cap, which led to lowered credit ratings, which led to higher interest rates and less borrowing power, and the layoffs and store closures that followed. Awful. The price should go to infinity because the demand the banks and hedge funds created will become infinity. Boomers can bitch and moan about RH and college kids dumping their stimmy into GME all they want, but the reality is that a bunch of boomer bankers and hedge funds created a situation that should be legally, economically, and financially impossible. Boomers want to call what retail investors are doing "market manipulation." However, anyone who dug into the situation enough saw the writing on the wall. Honest to goodness due diligence combined with simple supply/demand economics combined with paying attention to the new market trend of retail investors told anyone interested all they needed to know. This was me back in September: The price hadn't even hit $10, yet, when I said that. The house of cards had already been built. A fan had been placed in front of it. And everyone told me that I was crazy for thinking the house of cards would fall over. It wasn't a secret. It was in plain fucking sight. And we are finding out it is everywhere. Wall Street and old guys in banking and finance can harumph all they want about how a bunch of dumb wage earners are gaming their system to make a buck, but I think the reality is that the curtain has started getting pulled back on Old Man Oz. Take me, for example. I've given a detailed breakdown and have proof in this very thread that I had produced this investment thesis MONTHS before it was mainstream and materialized. I gave my credentials above. Want to know how long I've been actively investing? Since March. Same as all the Robinhood punks. All it takes for a large chunk of the population to be competent in anything is 1. Time 2. Education/training, and 3. Financial resources. In March, there was the perfect storm of 1. COVID lockdowns, 2. The internet and educational resources on the various trading platforms, and 3. Stimulus - The ultimate Other People's Money. Millions of $3k hedge funds popped up all over the nation and had the time, education, and money to be just dangerous enough. I traded in a paper account on Think Or Swim for 30 days and was then off to the races. I developed a momentum trading strategy where I combined candlestick patterns, moving average patterns, the RSI, and the Elliot Wave. Not only that, I also voraciously consumed anything I could get my hands on about market history, valuations, and trends. I bought and sold stocks, bought options, and sold covered calls and generated a 10% return over the course of about a month. Then I stumbled on GME, halted all active trading, liquidated any outstanding options, sat on my KO, XOM, and PFE (which was my worst trade) shares and positioned myself into GME. My return is now over 1000%. Either I'm some kind of wonder boy who picked all this up quickly because I'm a high functioning autistic person... Or maybe this shit just ain't as hard as Wall Street wants us to think it is. And maybe Wall Street was so habitually comfortable with how little people knew about their industry in the past that they didn't even bother concealing their moves because they didn't think retail investors would know how to play the other side. Well, the secret's out. This new batch of retail investors spent the last decade learning how to min/max various economic systems in video games. They are accustomed to dumping hours of time learning how to maximize returns on digital assets. They went from watching hours of YouTube videos on how to mine diamonds and make a Fortune 3 pick axe in Minecraft to watching hours of how to turn a couple grand into 5 figures. In some cases, 6 or 7 figures. As I stated earlier, I sold half of my position in GME today, but I still firmly believe in the trade I executed. I am now concerned about two things, one being specific to GME. I think the invisible hand of the free market is about to get absolutely doomfisted by either the government or big banks. I think a lot of institutions out there are shook. When GME hit $150 and other short squeezes were popping, a huge market sell-off occurred. I think funds were liquidating to cover their losses because margin calls were going out. In GME alone today, short sellers lost $1.6 billion according to Business Insider. Melvin Capital, supposedly the biggest short seller of GME out there, is down a whopping 30% for 2021, so far. They manage billions. We learned in 2008 that these banks and funds actually interweave into a structural support for the entire financial system. If a multi-billion dollar part of that support structure fails, it increases the strain on the others, and then another fails, and then we have a cascade failure. I think GME and the big shorts come together and negotiate a share purchase of newly issued shares under the condition that they are immediately transferred to the rightful owners to get the short float below 100%. This is actually extremely bullish for GME. They erase their remaining debt, buy out of all of their bad leases, and increase their cash long enough for the turn around. That's why I only sold half of my position. I'm long GME. In Ryan Cohen I trust. But I also think the government steps in and does something to try to fix the rest of the market. As history has shown us, this doesn't mean punishing the banks who created the situation in the first place. No, they're going to increase the regulations on the retail investors. That could also have grave, unintended consequences when retail cashes out all at once. So, I feel really good about today, but there may be grave consequences in future. I'll end with the cringiest thing possible: be a retail trader who uses a scene from The Big Short in one of his posts. View full article
    9 points
  20. AOC should be running the whole god damned party. I don't even care that she's left of me by a lot. She's effective and fucking savage. She rules.
    9 points
  21. This is seriously what happens to your brain when you start reading wallstreetbets. All of this makes total sense and I know exactly what you are saying.
    9 points
  22. He just preferred the small town feel of Houston.
    9 points
  23. These dudes got Ted Cruz and AOC agreeing on stuff. They're fucked.
    9 points
  24. Orrrr take all their money out because the platform is a pawn to manipulation and can go fuck itself, as I will be doing. Good luck with that IPO.
    9 points
  25. Back in the 2000's I used to run a information security department that would often get dragged into investigations of employees. We had one situation where a regional sales VP caused some legal trouble after knocking up one of his sales reps. There were some more allegations made by other female employees so we had to pull every digital footprint this guy ever made. At one point we had to make a "Pepe Silva" chart because this dude had so many side pieces spread out across his region. Part of the challenge was sorting out the employees, business associates and miscellaneous women. This guy wasn't just sleeping around he was either engaged or in a serious relationship with all these women. He was also married by the way. I remember looking at pictures of his family camping trip and saying "well at least he spends time with his family." One of the analysts said, "that is not his family, that is one of the other women that is connected to us with company xyz's contract." From what I remember he had 1 real family, 2 side families and 2 side girlfriends. The whole thing fell a part when he knocked up one of his direct reports who was expecting him to leave his real family. She would send weekly pregnancy nudes to track her progress showing everything! She was smoke, I am pretty sure a few of us might have developed a prego fetish. lulz We even found photos of him and his pregnant employee celebrating at the national sales meeting where he won an award and his real wife was in the pics celebrating too. Him and his wife are posing with champagne and prego is holding water. No the wife had no idea. That takes some next level no fucks given crazy.
    9 points
  26. Take some time off. Maybe go fishing. Spend some time away from the constant news cycle for a while. Seriously. Don't read a news article or keep up with anything for a few weeks. Being alive is awesome, don't waste it worrying about shit you can't control.
    9 points
  27. Was telling my wife that I'm done with the Texans and maybe the NFL in total, next season. And she mentioned that we can always go to church on Sundays. That's when it hit me. Cal, Easterbunny and the Nose are playing the long con. Make the Texans so shitty that people stop watching/attending(since every game is at noon) and start going to church. Damn bible thumpers are shooting for a revival.
    9 points
  28. Zero sympathy to the wall street fuckfaces here. Listening to them bleat about how it's unfair on the finance shows warms my coal heart while also pissing me the fuck off. You got beat, you're used to being the house and the marks filed in and whipped your fucking asses. Take the loss. And of course, the irony here moving forward will be wonderful. Oh, you want more regulation in Wall Street? Well right this way...
    9 points
  29. I used Wells Fargo brokerage yesterday. No issues except that they opened 37 checking accounts in my name.
    9 points
  30. Gerry with recruiting notes (rankings pulled from the previously posted top 75)
    8 points
  31. ‘61 CS Reissue. Figured if I’m going to say goodbye to my balls, it needed to be for something pretty fucking good.
    8 points
  32. I'm an old alum. My dad is 87 years old. To this day he considers Texas players that cross the Red River as traitors. I love his passion. He is appropriate in front of my Mom but when we are alone he says fuck OU don't tell your Mom I said that. LOL
    8 points
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