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.

The Future Unemployed

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Oh, my Lord. This is hysterical, and it’s particularly poignant since I’ve been on the NYU Campus (such as it is) so much recently.

Speaking of the unemployed………..today is going to be the one day during my travels when I’ll have pretty much zero time to do any posts until I’m on a plane around the closing bell today (after which time I’ll be my usual content-producing maniac). If any guest posters out there want to contribute, today would be a good time.

Mushy Bananas

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Holy God in heaven, people are stupid.

Let’s dial back the clock to August 2020. Until then, no one gave a crap about Gamestop (GME). Thanks to Roaring Kitty, however (AKA DeepFuckingValue), the entire planet got obsessed and push GME up 100-fold (10,000%!!!!!!) in a few months. The whole GME=Meme thing was hot and heavy from August through March, or about eight months. A human baby could have almost fully developed in the same timespan, from glint-in-the-postman’s eye all the way to the joyous birth.

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