With Democrats out of power, The Onion now has permission to be funny again.

As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

As seen on the internet. What is this, 1999?

“…happiness is not the absence of problems, but the reasonable capacity to address them” From The "What is Money?" Show: Bitcoin is Antifragile: Intro to Nassim Taleb’s “Antifragile” w/ Mike Kelly (WiM564)

Bee roundup.

Why am I not scared of AI? Well, it’s biblical. “Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. For I have delivered into your hands the king of Ai, his people, his city and his land. You shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the city.” So Joshua and the whole army moved out to attack Ai. He chose thirty thousand of his best fighting men and sent them out at night” ‭‭Joshua‬ ‭8‬:‭1‬-‭3‬ ‭NIV‬‬

“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭15‬:‭13‬ ‭NIV‬‬

It can be more costly to switch from artificial coloring to ‘natural’ coloring, whatever that means. How about just not coloring our food so we can see wtf we are eating?

I’ll be having the ribeye, but the char on that NY strip…

2, 4, six eights, who do we appreciate?

There is apparently an element that needs this explained to them.

This feels like Terra-Luna for tradfi. Where does the 12% - 13% yield on secured lending come from? Only two answers are available: 1. Very risky borrowers 2. Highly leveraged player supplying the leverage. (Read that again.) Stay humble, stack sats.

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Everyone Wants Debt, Not Equity

Dividend recaps, hedge fund analysts, TD Bank AML, Goldman Sachs succession, X valuation, perpetual strife and lottery financial engineering.

Too good.

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"I want you to make me a swap on a basket of all the buy now pay later loans that were used for DoorDash - yes I know they've never defaulted befor...

Pro tip: if you’re doing a bible study on Ecclesiastes, just plan on reading everything 2 or 3 times.

When my wife mentions she’s craving chocolate cake, but there’s none in the house.

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” - Calvin Coolidge

Had a dream that I stole a bus and drove it for a mile before abandoning it. My sleep life needs an upgrade.

Quick - name a war that the Pentagon has “won” in the last 30 years.