Paul Dunn 🛢

#OOTT

The stupid neither forgive nor forget.
The naive forgive, and forget.
The wise forgive but never forget. - Mom (Thomas Szasz)

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Full-time jobs: -106K
Part-time jobs: +138K

Full-time jobs are down 6 of the past 7 months

[Houstorian @Houstorian]

Today in 1970, 101 KLOL signs on the air.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Not to change the subject from burritos but when I was earning poverty wages in my 20s I used to go to Subway nearly every day and get a footlong Italian sub for 5 dollars. It was generally the only big meal I would eat in a day.

If I was hungry later at night, I could always swing by McDonald’s and grab a chicken sandwich for a dollar.

All of these people are screaming about “eating at home” but I basically never made meals at home in those days and I was able to get by. You used to be able to survive on low wages without making meals from scratch. If that’s not possible anymore then it’s a sign that our standard of living is declining. That’s a problem. You should care about that.

Anyway, I went to a Subway recently and that same sandwich was 13 dollars. McDonald’s, of course, doesn’t sell anything for a dollar anymore.

[CNBC @CNBC]

United Wholesale Mortgage plunges 40% after suspending dividend and raising capital https://t.co/O6zeiSHPfm

[Paul Dunn 🛢 @Captain_Dunn]

Used to be a common sight years ago, now the world sucks and we don’t have this anymore.

[Fahad Naim @Fahadnaimb]

Latest images of NCA 747-8F in Xiamen at HAECO looking pure polished aluminum. Paint stripped during maintenance... you almost never see a modern freighter like this. The metal is catching every bit of light and it looks unreal.
Honestly prefer it over most liveries.

[Remarks @remarks]

🇺🇸 Americans are now spending more on taxes than on food, clothing, and housing combined.

[Bob Plankers @plankers]

Teenage cashier at the grocery store: “Do you have a phone number with us?”

Me: What’s the local area code? Do that plus 867-5309.

Her: “Uh, weird, that worked.”

Manager, standing there: “It should, it’s Jenny’s number.”

[ً @artfuIchaos]

can’t believe it’s already August. time flies when you live life on survival mode and work everyday of your fucking life.

[Paul Dunn 🛢 @Captain_Dunn]

Nobody saw that coming

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

"Despite falling jet fuel prices, airline tickets are unlikely to go down," per CNBC

[Paul Dunn 🛢 @Captain_Dunn]

Chicago based chain….. let’s not forget

[The Dallas Express News @DallasExpress]

🍔 WHATABURGER KICKS OFF 76TH ANNIVERSARY

The San Antonio-based chain begins a month of promotions on August 1 celebrating 76 years since its first restaurant opened in Corpus Christi, with app-exclusive deals leading up to National Whataburger Day on August 8.

[Kostas Moros @MorosKostas]

From now on rocking a suppressed pistol as your carry gun will be known as carrying Animal Style.

[Darth Powell @VladTheInflator]

They need you working harder for longer so they never have to

[Paul Dunn 🛢 @Captain_Dunn]

@Mattlinn01 Other thing to note is an order dispatched thru uber may or may not have the tip, vs orders thru uber app will. The restaurant can and will alter your tip amount and the driver may see your order, but only 1.49 or 2.50 depending base pay. This will cause longer delays

[Charlie Bilello @charliebilello]

The US National Debt has increased by over $400 billion since July 1st.

The Federal Government continues to borrow from our future to spend money like drunken sailors today.

Everything they said about "balancing the budget" was a lie.

Next stop: $40 trillion...

[Paul Dunn 🛢 @Captain_Dunn]

@OddStats Didn’t it just happen within the last 3 or 4 months?

[PaxTrader777🇺🇸 @paxtrader777]

Trading is not a team sport. It can be the loneliest career in the world. But if you can find a community of likeminded people that are good, honest and forward looking that can keep their trading consistent, repeatable and scaleable, then you are blessed.

#NobodyFightsAlone.

[Paul Dunn 🛢 @Captain_Dunn]

@PeterLBrandt Isn’t there or was at one point who still hand draws her charts on graph paper. She had a huge following and I thought y’all interacted a good amount of times….Helene I think?

[SMB Attorney @SMB_Attorney]

The full story here is NUTS 🤯

TLDR dude hikes 6.5 hours to avoid a helicopter medical bill impaled while his friends make kebab jokes…

> 32yo ER nurse named David is day-hiking Montana’s tallest mountain with his boys

> He slips on a rock near the top and full-on impales himself on his own trekking pole that goes clean through his lat with like 8 inches sticking out both sides

> nurse brain kicks in immediately, checks himself, realizes nothing vital got hit and he can still breathe fine
says screw the helicopter bill and just starts hiking the entire 10 miles back down with the pole still stuck in him

> takes SIX AND A HALF hours, friends are spotting him the whole way, one even runs ahead to warn families so kids don’t see this gnarly shit

> about 4 miles from the car they realize they’re actually gonna make it… and start cracking kebab jokes 😂

> dude never complained once, stayed in weirdly high spirits the whole time

> walks himself all the way to the trailhead, gets the pole pulled out later at the hospital, and already says he’s going back next year to finish the summit

[Andrew Lokenauth @FluentInFinance]

$100,000 a year is the new $39,000.

In 1990, a $100,000 salary had the same buying power as about $255,000 today.

Today, $100,000 buys what roughly $39,000 bought in 1990.

A six-figure salary isn’t what it used to be.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

The average cost of a date night in the US has climbed to $189, representing a 12.5% increase from $168 in 2025, per WSJ