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Eastwood

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  1. Adapt or die, for sure. The forced work from home situation accelerated that. It also revealed which employees absolutely need supervision in order to be productive.
  2. One article I read mid morning was saying that RBG's death has made the next round of stimulus dead in the water. Political powder is being kept dry for the coming fight over SCOTUS. Expecting a lot of volatility until after the election. Good thing all my calls are December and January and the rest is long. Edit: I posted this right after the article above was posted, so yeah...
  3. It's funny to me because I have been working from home 75% of the time for years in this industry. I'd have zero problems working for any company that has made the transition. But the application process for in-house doesn't seem to take that into account. They'd rather roll the dice, right now, with some 45 year old CPL who has only ever worked in an office and then shrug their shoulders when their new hire spends months adjusting to and accumulating the programs and equipment necessary to do it. And the experience with those programs and processes is actually cumulative. The more you work with those programs and newer tech, the quicker you'll pick up the next round of programs and processes the company will eventually transition to. For example, right before I started my last project, they were having problems with people not being able to figure out how to share things over Google Drive and Dropbox. People with decades of experience just dead in the water because they can't function in a work from home environment and are spending a significant chunk of their day just trying to figure out how to send someone a PDF or turn in something. Then they add a program or a new method of doing things and these people haven't even figured out the last round, so now they are double behind and spending all of their day scratching their head. Then yet another process comes out and the next thing you know, you have people complaining about putting in 12 hour days with nothing to show for it because they are completely turned around and confused and there isn't a person to sit down with them for a week and walk them through all of it. The best we could do was a monthly meeting to try to get everyone sorted out. Eventually, they get let go, which is a shame because they have the knowledge but are analog people stuck in a digital world.
  4. Nah, Woodley and Dana aren't on good terms. Dana would veto any attempt to make Woodley a commentator.
  5. God speed to those people. Hope they have transferable skills or enough saved up to hang out until the job market picks back up.
  6. Have also heard that 200 are being let go at CHK.
  7. RIP to a powerhouse of an attorney and judge. The rest of you, drink up tonight, sober up tomorrow, and get your shit together. There's still time left on the clock.
  8. The cost of insurance alone would cover about 4 Airbnb stays.
  9. Also, this last bust may have finally pushed out all the "laymen" investors. Doctors, RE agents, etc. I was told that the MLP model was exposed and gone for good after 2016, but I was still getting the occasional request to look into proposals slid across some of my more affluent friends' desks in 2019.
  10. Not just freely, but without any guidance or resources. People come in with a basic understanding of margin and get their faces ripped off.
  11. I don't how right this is, but Twitter was saying that for the first time in history, options volume exceeded stock volume in August. Usually it's around 40%. Crazy, if true. Also explains how insanely expensive options have been.
  12. TikTok is what caused his Tulsa rally embarrassment. Since it was weaponized against him, he either wants to dismantle it in the end or weaponize it against his opponents.
  13. GE and IHRT were some swing trades that I got too gun shy to pull the trigger on that would have been nice to sell today. I was eyeballing the hell out of them in April.
  14. Debate idea for the Biden campaign: prepare to call Trump out on specific lies. Have the social media guy prepare tweets. Trump will say something that is an obvious lie and Biden can call it out saying "if you go to my Twitter right now, you will find a video of you saying the exact opposite of what you just said here on stage." That would direct traffic from both Rs and Ds to the video. Imagine what the social media feeds would look like during all that.
  15. For sure. A good AG is one that can squeak those political priorities and enforcement agendas through the already existing goalposts. Bill Barr, unfortunately, is so partisan in his role that he is kicking outside of the goalposts and yelling at the ref to put it on the board, the Roger Stone situation being the prime example.
  16. Bill Barr got his law degree taking evening classes while working as an intelligence analyst for the CIA and graduated with the highest honors the school can give. He has then climbed up the ladder in the DoJ to become the AG in 1991. He then goes on to have a fantastic legal career in private life that ends with him on the board of directors for Time Warner. In 2019, he finds himself back in the AG chair. As far as legal resumes go, he is in the top 1% of 1%. That should tell you that when someone with that kind of resume says something that blatantly runs against Constitutional law or the democratic processes on which this country functions, they aren't misquoting or misunderstanding a Constitutional concept. They're telling you how THEY think it should be. Cruz, for example, graduated from Harvard Law magna cum laude, was the editor of their Law Review, and was regarded as a brilliant student. He then went on to be the first Hispanic to ever clerk for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He was part of the Bush legal team in Bush v. Gore and was Texas Solicitor General at the age of 33. An off the charts legal resume. Top 1% of 1%. I'm certain that if he were to sit down with 99% of the attorneys in the nation to talk Constitutional law and the cases surrounding it, he would embarrass them all outside of people who are Constitutional scholars for a living. Yet, we see him get pantsed on a regular basis when he's holding his ground on his own positions. That's not because he's stupid, in a legal sense. He just doesn't believe that a lot of the law that stands today should be the law and wishes to replace it with his own vision. People like Barr and Cruz in the government aren't misspeaking when it comes to the law. They're telling you how they think it should be and are actively working to change it. For someone like Cruz, that's part of his job as an elected official. But when it comes to someone like Bill Barr, it is insanely problematic. His job is to enforce the law, as it is today, and advise the executive branch of the law when necessary. The way mail-in voting currently works is the law of the land. He knows it is. But here he is waxing poetic about the loss of the secret vote, conjuring up hypothetical fraud, and then projecting that fraud onto those who he sees as political opponents. Sure, he is entitled to have an opinion, but if Eric Holder went into an interview and questioned the validity of the 2012 election 2 months before election day, it would be an absolute political firestorm and rightfully so. Barr says something like this, Trump latches onto it, and it feeds an already dangerous, out of control rhetoric regarding the 2020 election.
  17. Maybe some kind of "revival." Would make for an interesting episode.
  18. It was my understanding from the first season that Mando and the others he was with were a very orthodox faction of Mandalorians. Don't remember how I picked that up, but it was the lens in which I viewed them as they introduced their society.
  19. I had a Sunday school teacher go on a nice little rant about how the Nickelodeon show Rugrats was one of the most offensive shows on television because it not only depicted children outsmarting adults, but also encouraged children to outsmart adults. The ever consistent need for outrage and moral panic in the church is one of the many reasons I no longer participate in organized religion.
  20. He had the guy on his boat when they started the tow. He had a good feeling that it was going to happen and planned ahead. Got pointed the right way and his neighborhood was a straight shot from where they were.
  21. My dad was out fishing in Copano Bay when a sudden storm blew in off of the gulf. The type where you can feel the air pressure plummet and cold air dropping out of the cell. On his way back to his house, he happened upon a boat that was dead in the water with a lone fisherman on it. Tried to tow the boat back to his canal, but the bay was getting very rough. The dead boat took a good hit from a wave and started taking on water and my dad could hear his motor complaining about it. He cut the line over the very vocal complaints of the fisherman, but as soon as the line was cut the boat immediately went under. My dad towing it was the only thing keeping it up and it was only a matter of time before it got so heavy it dragged everyone down with it. When the water wants it, it gets it.
  22. Ag tag and all
  23. Creeping back up...
  24. It's starting to feel like we're going to eek out a green candlestick today...
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