Got an email.
— BowTiedBull - Read Pinned Tweet or NGMI (@BowTiedBull) May 25, 2022
“How come the dividend payout percent drops if the stock price goes up”
Went ahead and banned his subscription and refunded it. You are all welcome.
How does this "real scientist" explain that men's records are always much better than the women's?
— Barty the SHARK (@Barty_the_SHARK) May 26, 2022
Except the Discus..... which is impressive. Until you see that women throw a much lighter Discus.
Discuss.
A mostly peaceful subway ride:
You can’t just “grab” someone and they stop. Not how it works. You grab a criminal, he is going to spaz out. Do you body slam him in a crowded subway? Better hope he doesn’t hit his head. Boom now it’s manslaughter. Enjoy your 91% left wing jury. 👍
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) May 26, 2022
Cernovich is 100% correct on this matter.
lol pic.twitter.com/ANXoC6OoQ3
— Read The Signs (@Semiogogue) May 25, 2022
The Science Fiction Writers of America banned New York Times Bestselling Author Mercedes Lackey from their 2022 Nebula Awards conference for alleged racist remarks.
The size of the government is absolutely monstrous.
Absolutely legendary fact check pic.twitter.com/wvBkrYr1FR
— Chris Freiman (@cafreiman) May 24, 2022
The funny thing about 8 or 9 months is that both figures are wildly optimistic. If the US government was retarded enough to confiscate all that eeevil billionaire wealth today, then it would have to sell roughly ~$3 trillion to get cash. Four points:
Stéphane Bancel, CEO of Moderna:
— Efron Monsanto 🇨🇦🚜🚛 (@realmonsanto) May 23, 2022
"it's sad to say, I'm in the process of throwing 30 million doses in the garbage because nobody wants them. We have a big demand problem."
Notes that China doesn't want any MRNA products and how there's 7 billion doses.https://t.co/xfKZbVT8RJ pic.twitter.com/WVboChDma7
It will always be amusing to know that after Canada mandated vaccine passports for government employees, restaurants, cinemas, theaters, for travel, and in some places for simply shopping at Walmart, that we got the largest wave of infection! Many people were coerced into getting the 1st shot, 2nd shot, booster, another booster while being explicitly told that they wouldn't get infected ... and then they got infected.
Not to mention the horrendous side effects from the "vaccines". The general population is no longer interested in bending over for another jab. This can be seen in the numbers as compliance is significantly lower for each additional shot.
7 months after Politico said vaccination rates were the key determinant of whether a country could keep case rates down, highly vaccinated Portugal, where ~95% of adults are fully vaccinated, has the highest case rate in the world and their highest case rate on record
— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) May 24, 2022
Whoops pic.twitter.com/Km1VVg972C
Alibaba Group president J. Michael Evans boasts at the World Economic Forum about the development of an "individual carbon footprint tracker" to monitor what you buy, what you eat, and where/how you travel. pic.twitter.com/sisSrUngDI
— Andrew Lawton (@AndrewLawton) May 24, 2022
Monthly mortgage payments for median houses went up from around $1,400 last year to roughly $2,100.
— The Notetaker (@FinTwitNotes) April 13, 2022
This is an increase of about 50%.
Nominal wages only increased by 5% in the last year and real wages are therefore negative.
House prices should stay stable or even cool off. pic.twitter.com/cXcFcy9901
Add to that the staggering price increases for rent, food, cars, and oil, it'll be a miracle if the US didn't experience a recession.
Every time lolololllllll pic.twitter.com/FZCsVKEtmO
— It’s Ma’am, PhDelightful 📚 (@ItsGoneAwry) May 22, 2022
Get with the program, comrade!
The storm went through the most densely populated region of Canada:
A damaging derecho swept through southern Ontario and Quebec Saturday, toppling trees and power lines, overturning cars, cutting electricity and even tossing debris through windows. The storms have resulted in at least eight deaths.
Eight deaths. That number is shockingly low considering that cars were flipped, trees were uprooted, and powerlines went down.
A few minutes before it hit, the sun was completely covered, the light dimmed like it was 9 p.m. Then, all the windows started rattling. I looked outside and saw birds attempting to sit still but the wind knocked them away. The maximal level wind and rain lasted about five minutes; we, fortunately, didn't get the worst.
Looks like a coastal city getting hit by a hurricane!
Trees being knocked down and cars being pushed over #ONstorm #ottnews @weathernetwork pic.twitter.com/zCP0ljHNhL
— Adam Safaoui (@adam_safaoui) May 21, 2022
When home is not safe:
Hoping everyone is OK after the storm. We were @BonEchoPP. My husband and I sought shelter in the Visitor Center. Our friends & their 2 kids made it to their car. We are home as we were sleeping in hammocks which were soaked. Today the park is being evacuated. #grateful #ONStorm pic.twitter.com/742zfnsZfA
— Stephanie Moga (@smogaOttawa) May 22, 2022
A real estate "paper cut":
And just like that…there’s a branch in my house. #ONStorm pic.twitter.com/1OcSz3YfCJ
— DarthKahless 🇨🇦 (@DKahless) May 22, 2022
Fury:
Caught this awesome lightning Strike from the air, Whitney Ontario, East of Algonquin park, should I say more? @weathernetwork @KMacTWN @MurphTWN @StormhunterTWN @Onstormtracker @ONStormChasing @NatGeoPhotos @NatGeo @ngadventure #thunderstorms #lightning #drone #weather #ONstorm pic.twitter.com/KSPNhLqnVq
— Dash8 Aerial Photography (@Dash8Aerial) May 15, 2022
[...] we have a big announcement to make.
We at The Babylon Bee would like to announce that we have obtained dirt on Hillary Cli
Today during a press conference discussing Canada’s commitments to reduce carbon emissions, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed confusion over why more Canadians currently struggling to pay for rent, food, and other basic necessities of life are not purchasing outrageously expensive luxury electric vehicles.
It's one of the most tone-deaf messages from politicians across the globe: can't afford gas, just buy a cheap $50,000 electric car! Plus, the grids in California and Texas can't even handle the current demand. How the hell will they charge hundreds of thousands of new electric vehicles?
Now comes the story of Zac Kriegman, who, until not so long ago, was a director of data science at Thomson Reuters. Kriegman’s crime? Questioning the Black Lives Matter narrative.
Kriegman is a person who loves numbers and statistics. As you’ll read below, he didn’t just voice an opinion to his colleagues. He made an argument after having done extensive research. He thought logic would win out. He was wrong.
One would think that of all magazines, Sports Illustrated wouldn't showcase a severely overweight woman on its cover.
A Yarmouth judge says there's nothing she can do to protect a teenage Syrian refugee whose father allegedly punched her in the face five times and lashed her as many as 50 times with a belt for texting with a boy.
The lovely refugee beat his daughter for over half an hour. The vicious violence resulted in a broken nose. Upon questioning, the Syrian parents replied:
Despite photos of the young woman’s injuries, her father denies the beating ever took place and her mother “saw nothing,” said the judge.
The UN demands it. pic.twitter.com/2a5rhMwFlD
— Protein MD (@proteinMD) May 19, 2022
I like how she had to refer to notes to describe her race and sex. This is one sharp cookie. Peppermint Psaki must be feeling mighty humbled. https://t.co/0oJHQk7LJ5
— King Baeksu (@KingBaeksu) May 17, 2022
I was hoping for an obese, wheelchair-bound midget for some ULTRA DIVERSITY!
https://t.co/Vz3Q2WWTZl pic.twitter.com/5ry3Ycq0zf
— #1 BEST SELLER Ending Bigly, Eh? (@EndingBigly) May 15, 2022
The wicked go to amazing lengths to diminish and deny the colossal criminal characteristics of the colored communities. It's always and forever: White People Bad!
A Twitch streamer almost burnt down her kitchen in a cooking stream pic.twitter.com/a5OFh53ZYg
— Dexerto (@Dexerto) May 11, 2022
The 360 with the flaming pan made me laugh.
Beyond parody pic.twitter.com/pLLap5gySq
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 16, 2022
— Sal the Agorist (@SallyMayweather) May 16, 2022
The Premier of Estonia demonstrates, with her fascinating example of how to view geopolitics from the perspective of a junior high school girl’s approach to boys.
These 10 items were almost $100 at Costco. The chicken was $31 for half a package. They didn't have chicken thighs, which is what we usually buy pic.twitter.com/1EJAz9dRKp
— Mrs. Sophisticated Uppity Colonizer (@Pro2agirl) May 11, 2022
— nemesis2021 (@nemesis20212) May 15, 2022
Today I bought the ugliest pair of shoes ever created. Truly hideous. Feels like walking on pillows with springs in them tho.
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) May 12, 2022
I went to the local mall to buy shoes a few years ago. The stores didn't even have my size. Went to a different mall, visited many stores, and finally a sales guy came back with a couple of hideous black monstrosities. I had tried a lot of ill-fitting and uncomfortable shoes that day and was prepped for disappointment... It felt like I was walking on a cloud! They were New Balance black joggers. A few years later, I tried in vain to find similar shoes. Settled for a different brand.
The housing crisis in the San Francisco Bay Area has gotten so bad that one startup is now offering renters the chance to live in a “bunk bed pod” with 13 other people for just $800 a month.
I lived in a student house with 9 other people and we had 3 washrooms and that was sometimes a problem. The luxury apartment above is for 13 people and it has 2 washrooms! How is that going to work?
A short story. pic.twitter.com/ZZ4sOiPEIt
— Josh (@joshmanmode_) May 12, 2022
Two things I've heard often from coworkers on the topic of stocks:
I learned about the stock market in high school in the previous century. Most of these people are older than me and they still don't have a clue.
Black Swan yesterday:
Given its volatility BTC drop is no "black swan event". Stop abusing the concept.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) May 11, 2022
[And someone telling you there is no risk of bankruptcy is actually telling you there is a high risk of bankruptcy.]https://t.co/d2RFN62Gg9
Anti-fragile today:
This is the boss of @coinbase.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) May 12, 2022
Mr Armstrong, please do not invoke *my* concept of Anti-fragile when you are maximally fragile, while exposing yourself to a yuuge left tail risk.
I am fed up with pple mis-citing my work. https://t.co/3d9kEaqbEp
The Coinbase stock price has crashed by roughly 85% in just over half a year. Definitely, not anti-fragile.
Bitcoin is down over 55% in the same time frame. Definitely, not an inflation hedge. Bitcoin has been the most incredible speculative "asset" of this century but its sheer volatility makes it unreliable for the average person. It could be near $0 or closer to $100,000 by the end of the year.
The Saudis must be very happy with Biden's energy policies:
Saudi Aramco overtook Apple Inc. as the world’s most valuable company, stoked by a surge in oil prices that is buoying the crude producer while adding to an inflation surge throttling demand for technology stocks.
That's quite the change in under five months:
Earlier this year, Apple boasted a market value of $3 trillion, about $1 trillion more than Aramco’s. Since then, however, Apple has fallen nearly 20% while Aramco is up 28%.
Am I the only one who's just not into all this multiverse stuff...?
— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) May 9, 2022
For me, the great story arc was complete with Avengers: Endgame.
https://t.co/sgxoUfFuJY pic.twitter.com/wRnD9prj7d
— Cassandra MacDonald (@CassandraRules) May 10, 2022
The government gave you $1,400 to blow on whatever you want
— BowTiedBull - Read Pinned Tweet or NGMI (@BowTiedBull) May 10, 2022
In exchange they gave you $7,000 worth of annual cost increases through inflation
You think they is gon’ solve this any time soon? Nah.
Think the US housing market is bananas?
— BowTiedAlpaca | Chad Biglaw Attorney (@bowtiedalpaca) May 8, 2022
Just wait until it looks like 🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/EZh6dvWdBP
Here's a photo of a simple house that's a one-hour drive away from Toronto:
There are 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and it's 2,100 square feet. Not too small to be cramped and not too big to be ostentatious; it's just the right size for an average family.
It's on sale. Can you guess the asking price? $1.6 million*. The 20% down payment would be $320,000. The monthly mortgage payment? $6,700. That's $80,400 a year for 25 years! A husband and wife together would need to make a minimum of $200,000 income to even think of buying such a basic house.
Only the top 2% of households in the province can afford it.
* $1.23 million in US dollars.
We’re screwed https://t.co/KAawpbI2hN
— BowTiedBull - Read Pinned Tweet or NGMI (@BowTiedBull) May 9, 2022
The interest rates will be increasing for the rest of the year. The debt-powered fools have to sell crypto, equities, and real estate to cover the higher payments. Short-term, the US dollar will gain strength.
21 lbs lifted per hour spent in the gym? pic.twitter.com/yZVcrkpcKb
— 🇸🇾 🇾🇪 🇮🇷 🇵🇱 ApexPredator ☧Λ ︻╦╤─ (@SethApex) May 9, 2022
I don't even have words for this 😟 pic.twitter.com/yCl87nli8s
— Ask Questions (@Hugo80036337) May 6, 2022
We are definitely living through interesting times:
Completely irresponsible. So obvious they are trying to goad a reaction. Wagging the dog into WW3 https://t.co/p0kSphoR12
— Ultra Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) May 6, 2022
One CEO can see what's coming ahead:
"I thought we may be able to have said that last year. When we started the year, we thought inflation would be up double digits. We have now revised that forecast to be more in the high teens. We are seeing it across a broad basket. We have seen it in our commodities like wheat and other things we cover. We are seeing it in our fuel costs and transportation. We are seeing it in packaging. So it's difficult for me to see the peak now."
I've seen a price increase of roughly 50% for food in the last two years. It's likely going to be another 20% by December. So, a staggering 80% jump in food prices in just 3 years. It wouldn't surprise me if we see an elegant and painful double for 2020-23.
This is your competition pic.twitter.com/egHjCGVeIp
— SaaS Capo (@SaaSCapo) May 3, 2022
Using this calculator with a few conservative numbers brings the difference to $70,000. That's $5,000 lost every year because this person kept retirement money in cash instead of a basic index fund. All that was needed was curiosity and a weekend of research.