Lion ponderings

Rossguy revealed he broke up with his last girlfriend with the young black sounding voice.  She was 33 & to 34 year old Guy that was old.  He considers himself pretty high status on account of his gootube subscriber count & number of business ventures but he implied she was too needy.   He has said Austin has the same social order as Calif* & NY.  Everyone votes left but just comes there to get rich.  At age 34, if you're not pretty high in status, you don't exist.

  What a lion would have done for one of those 3 years ago, when commuting & that model was over $7000.  The day job couldn't afford it, unlike all the other startups.  Sadly, the 2019 macbooks had terrible keyboards & other reliability problems according to Ross Guy.   Nowadays, it would have no point.  It's so useless, it's proven difficult to spend the $10 on just a 26 pin 1mm pitch FPC connector to build a laptop.  It just needs that connector to have a keyboard.  Battery management can be done with any ADC.  It probably would use a simple LCD for battery management. The lion kingdom has a mind to replace the faulty MXL7704-P4 in 1 of its raspberry pi's.  At least it feels like the 3V rail isn't getting any power.  It may still be the Broadcom which is bad & shorting the 3V to 0.  There are but 2 other raspberry pi's which function & aren't being used.  Providing 3V from off board would be a good test....

 The backrooms have gone on to becoming a hit for thousands of 3D animators & even entering the realm of comedy videos.  The original video has over 40 million views, getting Kane Pixels over $80,000.  The dependent taxes on that must be brutal, but he doesn't have to pay for health insurance, room & board. The lion kingdom figured it would be a hit in movie form, but hollywood is firmly only interested in marvel movies.  There isn't going to be a backrooms version of Resident Evil or Blair Heroine.   There was nothing like the original.  The lion kingdom thought it was made in practical sets, all the way until the end when it started looking animated.   Nothing starts in a vacuum & backrooms was based on Portal 2.  It was drawn in Blender.   Interestingly, he has a 2nd channel A-Sync Research with just backroom videos.  Eventually, they're all the same. He's now made enough backroom videos to last a complete m...

 The lion kingdom began the long process of selling off most of its taxable positions to collect capital losses.  This should be enough to offset all of the capital gains tax, in the long term.  By now, the lion kingdom hasn't made any money since 2020 & quantitative easing has proven itself a failure. Of course, old positions are being traded for new positions, in addition to other slow buying of the aggressive mutual funds.  Most stonk market declines these days are probably created to collect capital losses. The government creates its own selloffs. The lion kingdom has managed to be more actively trading during market downturns than upturns, so theoretically more money has gone in during the downturns.  Oil finally dropped to almost as low as where lions sold it off.  Lions only see the long term, but sometimes it's too long.  

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INGmJoG8Hpo Kind of a cringy story about the real estate boom of 2010-2022.  On the 1 paw, it shows how extremely lucky some animals became during a time when no-one knew exactly how long interest rates were going to stay negative & how high real estate would go.  Most animals invested just a little or didn't flip.  Animals who invested everything they had & flipped made a fortune. The story of protracted negative interest rates & governments endlessly deferring what needed to be done, saying they stand for economic equality while looking away from the inflation making the rich wealthier is masked by the tale from the receiving end. How about the french banking system giving a loan if you know a guy & retake a physical enough times.  After the story of the french government passing some ridiculous regulation that you need to pass a physical to get a loan & then anyone being able to bypass it by working with th...

 Then, a 28 handle was just around the corner.  As long as you're steadily buying, you're bound to hit the bottom at least once. Goldin vs Zoran.  Both looked pretty intimidating at the height of their careers. Some more vintage UNIX screenshots.  Netscrape could be seen just beginning to replace all other programs.  A big flat screen trinitron with physical dials for brightness, contrast, & sharpness was really special.  A 1024x768 screen was cutting edge.  None of this 3840x2160 nonsense on a remote controlled standing desk.   No modern LCD is more special than any other now.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KG_n54gLcw Sounds like Mack Wilberg but it isn't.  All the music in the JPL & the space age series seems to be Line Adam.  The only one that stuck out was L'homme oiseau which is always played during the epilogue.  JPL isn't mentioned in her filmography.  

 The lion kingdom is shrinking the size of its buy orders not because of a belief the decline is going to accelerate but a belief that we're nearing the bottom & the time between buy operations needs to get shorter.  The frequency of the buy orders is increasing & the mutual funds are more aggressive.  As bad as the news has been & as far as headline stonks have fallen, the most conservative index funds are still nearly at their highs.  The largest index funds may be supported by all the static retirement accounts.  The small caps are all back to 2020 levels when lions said they wished they put in more.   Surprising we didn't get a 29 handle, after the reaction to Powell's last speech.  Cramer's call for a 32 handle obviously wasn't the bottom.  Generally, stonks are nowhere close to where they went in 2020.  They're not expected to ever go that low again.  There's a strange phenomenon of not wanting to reduce your ...

 The answer is no, you don't stay attracted to women your own age forever.  Attraction seems to end at ages 28-35.  Maybe mentally you continue to be attracted to women your own age but physical attraction ends.  So the age of having physical contact with someone you're physically attracted to is over by age 40 unless you're super wealthy.

 Dreamed the dentist was doing covid tests & the lion kingdom tested positive even though it felt like a common cold.  Thought it meant they would defer the exam, but they wanted to perform the drilling anyway.  Then came a scene about trying to get around a traffic jam by driving through a parking garage, but the parking garage had no exit.  Got stuck somewhere inside.   Strange that a day after Bidie declared the pandemic over, animals were wearing face masks like no tomorrow.  Lions will never know if the 2nd booster shot caused them to feel groggy & fall asleep on the day after.  The 1st booster shot only yielded arm pain.  After the 2nd booster shot, a guy who looked like he had a flu & just fell over was brought in the waiting room to lie down.  

  You think there's going to be a new song or a really good performance, but there never is or it sounds awful.  The lion kingdom gets let down the same today as 30 years ago upon hearing the Debbie Gibson phone fanclub.  Musician gootube channels are pretty disappointing & their lives come across as extremely boring.  They're not like Casey Neistat who can turn the banal into non stop action.  Even the great pianists don't sound great in their own gootube videos.

  Dreamed the mane was attacked by a giant spider. Could see the spider's shadow but couldn't get it out of the mane. In real life, the mane was attacked once by 1 of the many small spiders that hang down from the bathroom vent. It was not easy to get the spider out, but it eventually fell into the toilet. Lion machine interfaces. Always clicky.

 With the latest collapse, the lion kingdom is doing what it should have done back in June & buying at a rate where the stonk market will hit 0 before the lion kingdom runs out of money.  It's in smaller steps than before because there's a good case for much tighter than animals expect & because it's believed to be a lot closer to the bottom.  Either way, the current price is not a reflection of the current interest rate but an attempt to predict the terminal rate & in 10-20 years, all animals will wish they were in more.  The government can't afford to guarantee the value of its money. The lion kingdom is reminded of Jim Cramer's call that 32 was the bottom, as we head back to a 29 handle.  32 probably still is the short term equilibrium handle. The lion kingdom's latest consumer price index was a lot uglier than the government's manipulated index.  Totino says interest rates need to keep rising, but the government's index can go either way....

 What intrigues lions is how when the stonk market rises, it isn't pricing in a .75 point hike like the status quo but a very dovish pivot to 0 points.  When it finally gets confirmation of the status quo, it crashes.  The stonk market rises are corresponding to the most bullish outcome.  If they were pricing in any less, it wouldn't crash as far as it does.  At the same time, equilibrium after all the monetary policy finishes is closing in on a 32 handle so if it's below a 32 handle, why aren't you buying or at least buying proportionally to the amount below 32?  Of course, never forget the fed's past tendency to tighten until something breaks. The lion kingdom's belief is nothing in cash counts as long term net worth & net worth in the fullness of time is only what  you have in assets.  The world can't afford to manetain the long term value of cash while also providing welfare to those in need.  The cash positions are all a comfort blan...

  Finally survived The Green Inferno, a movie made famous by a hottie trophy wife's painted body covering the gootubes.  As implied by the preview, she was the only survivor after being abducted by cannibal natives. Before being painted.  Between the before & after was only slightly better than Ben Heck's home movies. The most amusing thing might have been the top cast having twitter names shown while the rest were ignored.  Made in 2013, it was long before Elon made twitter super famous.  Lorenza Izzo's last activity on twitter was back in 2021. Next on the hard drive was The man who knew too little, a movie which only existed because of  Joanne Whalley's 36 year old body but was otherwise terrible. She was Ebenezer's sister in 1984, a very hazy movie memory by now.   & the daughter in Edge of Darkness. Now an old hag. The high point in this series of movies was finally watching Titanic in 4K.  The GPU processing & ffmpeg gremli...

The news of   Eliza Fletcher reminded the lion kingdom how being old & male is still the best defense against getting attacked. The other high profile trophy wife runner death was Meg Menzies getting hit by a drunk driver back in 2014.  Being old & male has proven useless at avoiding cars.  Other than that, it's extremely rare for a runner to die.   https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/va-runner-killed-by-drunk-driver-while-training-for-boston-marathon/ https://www.ulalaunch.com/missions/next-launch/delta-iv-heavy-nrol-91 Kind of disappointing to be not attending the last Delta IV heavy launch from Vandypants. The lion kingdom attended the 1st 2 in 2011 & 2013. The next 2 didn't happen until 2019 & 2021, after the starship was announced. Seeing a starship in person became the new goal. All the gootube stars & everyone who gave the lion kingdom the old fuckayuu will be there for the last Delta IV heavy . The $1/3 billion launch pric...

  Another decline in fed balance sheet was met with a 1% stonk market rally.  Trying to predict short term stonk market reactions to changes in the fed balance sheet is a losing game, but the longer term points to a decline.  It's nowhere close to the drawdown of 2019.   Psychology makes 32 feel like a new high, but it really is 13% below the peak & halfway to most of the bottoms.  People are intentionally buying at the halfway point now & biting at any sign of easy money returning because they've seen 20 years of the same inflation fighting bullshit.  There's a definite pattern of the stonk market reacting to a hawkish speech, then thinking it over & buying back.  The big news last week was Europe bringing back easy money to keep up with Russia's rising energy prices, so the stonk market sees the Pow doing the same.  They're calling it yet another one time printing.   The government can't afford low inflation. It was a ...

  A lion sunbathing in that heat without a spray bottle & fan would die in 20 minutes.  With the proper equipment, it's like wearing a spacesuit.  Lions have pondered how to automate spraying water. Humidity during today's heat event was in the teens, making the swamp cooler maximally effective.  It still managed to hit 100 inside, which would put it in the 104's without the swamp cooler.  It only pushed it to 33% humidity.

 Lions would classify Undecided Matt Farrel, Taylor Bell, Tom Scott, & Delventhal as gootubers who make vijeos that are solely designed to make money rather than provide any useful content.  In fact, most of the views on the gootubes are now going to vijeos with a clickbait title, spending 3 minutes telling you to subscribe, showing a sponsor, paraphrasing a kiwipedia article & having nothing novel to show.   Another hot one, but the apartment peaked at 99 thanks to the humidifier.  The neighbor peaked at 109.  It's amazing how much more heat it takes for the apartment to hit 100 when the humidifier is running.  109 is historically the peak for this valley, though nowadays 110-120 is common.   How lions survive when the apartment hits 102F: don't wear any clothing, don't sit down, keep the fans going, & keep your body hosed down.  Sleeping in 90F entails sleeping flat on their backs, waking up every hour & spraying down....

  Beef lunchmeat ramen is the Mane's new drug. Neighboring towns reached the hottest ever recorded today. The lion den still was slightly cooler than 2020 because of the humidifier. 100 was downright relief. Once again, 10PM found the lion kingdom in 97F. The printer was raised all the way to try to concentrate the heat in that corner.