Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

I’m Such a Pig

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This is dumb, but there is a point. Here in the Bay Area, the biggest city is obviously San Francisco, and the mayor of that crime-ridden and declining metropolis is a woman with the rather unfortunate name of London Breed. I saw a photo of her grinning like a hyena on some news program, and since she’s an unusually large person, I was curious what she weighed. So I just typed in “London Breed weight” into my browser, and this is what Microsoft’s AI-powered CoPilot told me:

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Kitty’s Friday

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All the Roaring Kitty mayhem was only last week, although it feels like a year ago. I am highly confident that the man dumped all his options at a decent price, so he’s probably got about $200 million or so in his account. Just for kicks, as shown here, the options actually were showing a loss as of Friday, and his billion bucks in notional value (had he magically dumped everything during the peak frenzy) is just a memory now. Anyway, I suspect he’ll emerge again to pump ‘n’ dump GME when the time is right.