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"Except, perhaps, the native American's idea of how things work..."
I have always been impressed with native American spirituality.
I, too, share a belief in the Trinity as well as a dissatisfaction with "organized" religion. What has always fascinated me about native American spirituality is that they share a very deep "connection" (for lack of a better term) in their beliefs and practices without qualifying, quantifying, or justifying their position. They simply accept "the Great Spirit" as is. Deepest display of faith imo.
AWWwwwwww....you're taking all the fun out of it 😭
Wow, I don't 'member this scene and I'm sure I saw all the 24 series episodes...??
My son is exploring religion . While I've never pushed it on him, he knows from subtle conversations that I do believe in God. Now I have to go to mass with him tomorrow. What I don't believe in is religion. It is corrupt, all forms.
Except, perhaps, the native American's idea of how things work, got a small amount of Native American blood in me from a great great great great... ancestor.
Sorry if I offended anyone in any way.
Names of Specific Native American Indian Gods and Goddesses
Ababinili (Chickasaw god)
Aguguq (Aleut god)
Ahone (Powhatan god)
Apistotoke (Blackfoot god)
*Ataensic (Iroquois goddess)
*Atius-Tirawa (Pawnee god)
Blue Jay (Chinook trickster god)
*Breathmaker (Seminole god)
Caribou Master (Innu god)
Chebbeniathan (Arapaho god)
Chief Above (Caddo god)
Corn Mother (Arikara goddess)
Cuaygerri (Achagua god)
Ekeko (Andean god)
Ewaki (Bakairi goddess)
Everywhere Being (Ioway dwarf god)
First Maker (Mandan god)
Gitchi Manitou (Anishinabe god)
Great Spirit (many tribes)
*Gudatrigakwitl (Wiyot god)
*Henon (Iroquois god)
*Hutash (Chumash goddess)
Iya (Sioux primordial god)
*Ioskeha (Huron Indian god)
Iriria (Bribri goddess)
Isa (Shoshone god)
Kami (Bakairi god)
Kanati (Cherokee god)
Keri (Bakairi god)
Kisulkw (Mi'kmaq god)
Ketanitowet (Lenape god)
Kudo (Bribri god)
Kujuli (Wayana god)
Kururumany (Arawak Indian god)
Kwan (California Indian god)
Lone Man (Hidatsa god)
Maheo (Cheyenne Indian god)
Makonaima (Cariban god)
Man'una (Hochunk god)
Masaw (Hopi god)
Mokat (Cahuilla god)
Mopó (Apalai god)
Natosi (Blackfoot Indian god)
*Niottsi (Dene Indian god)
Nishanu (Arikara Indian god)
Niskam (Mi'kmaq Indian god)
Okee (Powhatan Indian god)
Old Man Coyote (Crow god)
*Onatah (Iroquois goddess)
Orenda (Iroquois divinity)
Pachamama (Inca goddess)
*Piai (Carib Indian god)
Raven (Northwestern Indian god)
Raweno (Iroquois god)
Sedna (Inuit goddess)
Selu (Cherokee goddess)
Sibo (Bribri Indian god)
Sipakmaat (Cocopa Creator God)
*Sky-Chief (Carib Indian god)
Spider of Heaven (Arapaho Indian god)
Spider-Woman (Hopi Indian goddess)
Tabaldak (Abenaki god)
*Taronhiawagon (Iroquois Indian god)
Tsááyaa (Beaver Indian god)
Tumaiyowit (Cahuilla god)
*Unetlanvhi (Cherokee Indian god)
*Unknown Woman (Choctaw goddess)
Utakké (Carrier god)
*Wakonda (Omaha god)
*Wakan Tanka (Sioux god)
White Buffalo Woman (Sioux goddess)
Yamoria (Dene Indian god)
Merry Christmas Steve to you
and your family
MK
The Physics of Santa Claus
A Scientific Disproof of the Santa Theory, and a couple of Rebuttals Thereto. Original source: sirius@wam.umd.edu (The Human Neutrino aka Linda Harden)
Original Title: IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?
No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear to) handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census)rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each.
Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west(which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding etc.
This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man- made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour.
The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal anoint, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison - this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth.
353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecrafts re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake.The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim)would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force.
In conclusion -- If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he's dead now.
Now some Christmas cheer;
Little Johnny's Letter to Santa
You must be surprised that I'm writing you today, the 26th of December. Well, I would very much like to clear up certain things that have occurred since the beginning of the month! While filled with illusion I wrote you a letter and I asked for a bicycle, an electric train set, a pair of rollerblades, and a football uniform. I destroyed my brain studying the whole year! Not only was I the first in my class, but I had the best grades in the whole school. I'm not going to lie to you, Santa, there was no one in my entire neighborhood that behaved better than me. With my parents, my brothers, my friends and with my neighbors, I would go on errands and even help the elderly cross the street. There was virtually nothing I wouldn't do for humanity!
WHAT BALLS YOU HAVE LEAVING ME A FUCKING YO-YO, A STUPID ASS WHISTLE, AND A PAIR OF SOCKS! WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING, YOU FAT SON OF A BITCH? YOU'VE TAKEN ME FOR A SUCKER THE WHOLE FUCKING YEAR, TO COME OUT WITH SOME SHIT LIKE THIS UNDER THE DAMN TREE. AS IF YOU HADN'T FUCKED ME ENOUGH, YOU GAVE THAT LITTLE SHITHEAD ACROSS THE STREET SO MANY FUCKING TOYS, THAT HE CAN'T EVEN WALK INTO HIS DAMN HOUSE! PLEASE DON'T LET ME SEE YOU TRYING TO FIT YOUR BIG FAT ASS DOWN MY CHIMNEY NEXT YEAR! I'LL FUCK YOU UP! I'LL THROW ROCKS AT THOSE STUPID ASS REINDEERS OF YOURS, AND SCARE THEM THE FUCK AWAY, SO YOU'LL HAVE TO WALK YOUR BIG FAT ASS BACK TO THE NORTHPOLE, JUST LIKE I HAVE TO DO SINCE YOU DIDN'T GET ME THAT FUCKING BIKE, YOU PUNK BITCH!! YOU KNOW WHAT SANTA, FUCK YOU!! NEXT YEAR YOU'LL FIND OUT HOW BAD I CAN REALLY FUCKING BE...YOU'VE BEEN SLEEPING ON A MOTHERFUCKER FAR TOO LONG! SO WATCH YOUR BACK NEXT YEAR, YOU FAT BITCH!
Sincerely, Johnny
Low volume EOY Naz erosion- I nibbled @ $6.05 ($ATOM) until I hear/see different.
Watch: Fireball lights up Anchorage sky https://t.co/q9JwZV4ini
— Just the News (@JustTheNews) December 22, 2022
Well meebee...
... westerns and murder mystery are typically my usual pre shut-eye nocturnal media perusal pastime exercise, but, but, I can be sophistimacated and read high-brow stuff too
Maybe it's because you are reading stories about Protons, Theo? ;)
I don't know how you do it... if I try to read something too deep late at night, I wind up with my Kindle or book hitting me in the face as I drift off to sleep lol
thanks, I bookmarked it for a late night read.
"Light reading in the morning lol"
'zactly what I thunk...
I managed to read the entire piece and now I'll go back later an re-read it- I tend to be able to comprehend much better the second time through...
Graphics/visuals, I thought, were well done.
Light reading in the morning lol. Yeah, some crazy stuff in the sub-atomic quantum world. 👍
would of never caught it right. too busy going back and forth cooking and looking at the pc. chicken parm is on the menu today !
it was a day late anyway but stock now dow22n reflecting split - late buyer yestertdayu and early seller today IF THEY GOT THE SHARES are only ones who made out
thx for the invite but all eggs are in nlst awaiting an exit.
NO lol - got a phone call from a client I am doing pro bono. She got her 21 tax refund and it changed her life. just needed a few hours . so I just decided to watch some mindless tv lol
Did you take a chance?
SRNW 5 for 1 forward split in daily list 4 times yesterday inclusing split was cancelled but last one was not.
if it f/s then buyers yesterday up 500%
to me he will always be known as the negotiator. this is one of his finest moments, give it up for james t kirk !! thats tiberious with a T!!!!!!!
agree. I won't believe any Fusion energy "breakthrough" until the Raelians come out with a press release, stating they achieved stable Fusion power generation.
Not so fast. How is this "breakthrough" any different than this one from 9 years ago?
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.14710
I see it as a time to recycle the same old hype to drive some sort of narrative.
Both very plausible... I hadn't considered.
Seeing that it was a 10K lot; "Or someone with large short position easily will take a lot to reduce risk" really makes sense.
Someone like Craig-Hallum Capital may be behind buying the lot, they may have flipped them right away too. Or someone with large short position easily will take a lot to reduce risk.
Like the Tesla Tower that Morgan cancelled after realizing Nikola was planning free electricity to all, free energy is no go in this banker controlled world.
Late 80's or early 90's a couple of guys apparently created cold fusion in their garage. Was a big hoopla about it. Nothing further ever came of it that I know of.
Probably they got a few million from a big oil company and their plans are collecting dust in a warehouse somewhere.
No money to be made off free energy
indirect ways to invest in Nuclear Fusion energy:...............
https://mywallst.com/blog/3-ways-to-invest-in-nuclear-fusion
Now, with a renewed world focus on sustainable energy, there are at least 35 nuclear fusion companies globally that have raised private funding of over $2.3 billion collectively. Famous names from Big Tech have backed these ventures, with Bill Gates investing in Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Jeff Bezos involved in General Fusion to name but a few.
How do I invest in nuclear fusion?
For the rest of us, however, directly investing in nuclear fusion is something we just simply can’t do. None of the 35+ companies exploring the technology are public, and IPO’s aren’t to be expected for a number of years as they continue to grapple with proof-of-concept.
U.S. to announce fusion energy ‘breakthrough’
Gotta find the up and coming Fusion energy companies that might get the "meme" attention and excitement for Fusion power.
"The Department of Energy plans to announce Tuesday that scientists have been able for the first time to produce a fusion reaction that creates a net energy gain — a major milestone in the decades-long, multibillion dollar quest to develop a technology that provides unlimited, cheap, clean power. "
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u-s-to-announce-fusion-energy-breakthrough/ar-AA15ahiG?cvid=f596aa99fbb44e0a95d7debb8c967d79
Maybe they were at the coffee machine talking shit, and one of the guys says he needs a few bucks to buy his kids gifts, the others agree, we can kick out some of our stock, third guy says we don't want to kill the market, fourth guy says we put it for sale, together at 8.27.
Of course the fourth guy was busy converting 10,000 shares and selling them for 8.2.........
Or it is even more complicated than my imagination
"It is that they all sold at exactly the same price that leaves me confused."
Stumped I am as well. Gonna take someone more knowledgeable than me- like Steve maybe to be able to 'splain it.
I know but this happens every Q like clockwork. Every one of those transactions are a direct result of their vesting plan even though one transaction from Mears was not a "to satisfy mandatory non-discretionary tax withholding obligations" although those shares were granted to him as compensation.
(1) Represents the number of shares sold by the Reporting Person to cover tax withholding obligations in connection with the vesting of restricted stock grants that were previously reported. This sale is to satisfy mandatory non-discretionary tax withholding obligations by a "sell to cover" transaction.
I agree with you about the odd-ball Mears' 10,000 share conversion- (from 3 and change to 8 and change). It is an outlier as he's the only Insider to have sold shares this year not directly tied to his compensation package as a tax liability issue although it is a puzzler why he exercised his right to the conversion this time of year. He's not the CEO or CFO which would give me pause- but like anyone however, they are entitled to do so- after all, it IS part of their compensation.
Why not I guess? Like you said- Christmas presents?
It's not like he bailed or even sold a significant number of shares. It's a drop in the bucket compared to what he owns. He still possesses 56,000 of those Employee Stock Option shares as well as a bunch of other Non-Qualified Stock Option shares, Incentive Stock Option shares, Stock Option shares, in addition to his own Insider possession of 108,298 shares. All those guys are sitting on a lot of shares.
The form 4s from dec 2 don't instill a lot of confidence, one guy cashed in options at 3.9 for 10K and immediately kicked it out at 8.2.
Maybe they need cash to buy Christmas presents
And all the others, how did they all manage to get 8.27/share for every single share sold?
Seems very strange
For the sake of disclosure; Yes, I did buy @ 6.97 today. $ATOM
"He's still ashamed that it was in his possession when it broke, he wants to pay me something."
He has a conscience- he's a good friend
Wow, so France shut down everyone's debit cards simply to avoid Russian hacker risks?
Btw, I think you made the right call on the choosing the beer...
I have this friend, used to work with me. We keep in contact, I go over to his house, mostly he comes over to mine to suck back a few beers. Over the holidays I worry about him, so he ends up here for Christmas or New Years for dinner.
Anyway, for 5 years or so, every year, he borrows my hedge trimmer. This time it died while he had it.
I keep telling it it doesn't matter, the thing was 13 years old, made in China. The amazing part is that it lasted this long.
He's still ashamed that it was in his possession when it broke, he wants to pay me something.
So I said OK, cost price, depreciation, my hours of usage, yours, I figure, if my calculations are right, you owe me 45 cents.
Went to the corner store today to buy a 9v battery and pick up a 6 pack of beer.
My card was refused for payment TWICE.
I have at most times very little cash on me, I had just enough for either the battery or the six pack.
My wife needed the 9V battery, I wanted the 6 pack. hmmm... What to do...
I went with the 6 pack.
Then I get home, check out my bank, and apparently EVERYONE'S debit cards have been set to 0 buying power.
Fucking Russians
"I was hoping for a billion or so..."
I like your attitude- Go big or go home.
the proof that the system works !
Somebody(s) had to know that the Fed was going to announce a more dovish tone going forward like they did yesterday imo...
Ok, WHO are the politician(s) that made this trade?
A trader spent about $36 million buying roughly 20,000 $SPX calls expiring on Dec 30 with a strike price of 4,175.
— Barchart (@Barchart) December 1, 2022
The position is now worth about $100 million. pic.twitter.com/Pf89ypylnt
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