Anna Kendrick in the “Roku Original” show “Dummy” playing a woman who befriends her boyfriend’s sex doll.
(more…)Betting On Americans Staying Sedentary
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.
That Thing You Do
If you want to see what the past twelve years have done for the younger investors out there, who have been tutored, some of them, into pure degenerate gambling, I offer you this image below (click to see in all its glory):
So what you have here is a chap who put his ENTIRE life savings into a single call option that was going to expire the next day (specifically, that favorite meme stock of the /wsb crowd, AMC). The fact that it didn’t go above $65 was all it took to nuke this guy’s entire account. Incredible. Just incredible. Although you can imagine what he was thinking: “If just goes up a few dollars, I’ll have huge profits!”.
(more…)Madness Goes Meta
Wendy’s: Where’s The Beef?
Ten Soldiers of Reddit Army
Well, the reddit /wsb crowd is still holding tremendous sway. Below are the top ten recipients of their attention and buying. The most hysterical one is Wendy’s, which is absolutely exploding today. And why? Because the notion of “tendies” (e.g. you make some money trading and celebrate by buying and eating some chicken tenders) has come full circle, and they are holding Wendy’s in the highest esteem to their chicken tenders on the menu. I’m serious. This is where we are at.
