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quant researcher - fixed income

[~ @macroplastics]

Pokemon Crystal Battle Tower Lv100 Completed!

[~ @macroplastics]

@PokeMaineEvent @ZoryaVGC picked this team up yesterday bouncing around MB3 with it - how timely of a vid for me ha

[~ @macroplastics]

@fortenat8 My shirt reading this tweet. T16 with Luxray infernape good times

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Georgia I entered a Chick-fil-A drive-thru line of forty cars.

I turned off my engine. I prepared to wait the way my ancestors waited out a siege.

Six minutes later I was holding chicken.

I do not know what happened to the other thirty-nine cars. The line moved like water that had somewhere to be.

A young woman walked between the cars taking orders on a small tablet, on foot, in the sun, smiling like the sun was her idea.

I said thank you.

She said, "My pleasure."

I did not think about it then. I should have.

At the window I thanked the young man for the food.

"My pleasure."

I thanked him for the sauce.

"My pleasure."

I thanked him for thanking me—

"My pleasure."

I want to be clear about what was happening.

This was a duel.

In Japan I trained in courtesy for forty years. Bowing angles. Seasonal greetings. The correct depth of apology for seventeen distinct situations.

I was a white belt in that drive-thru.

I escalated. I used my most formal English. I thanked him on behalf of my entire family line.

He said, "My pleasure," and gave me extra sauce.

Extra sauce. Unprovoked. A counterattack.

I returned the next day to reclaim my honor.

It was Sunday. The restaurant was closed.

All of them were closed. In the entire country. They close every Sunday, and they have closed every Sunday since the beginning, because the founder made a promise, and the promise did not expire when he did.

I stood in the empty parking lot and understood I had lost twice.

Once to a teenager with sauce.

Once to a man I will never meet, who kept his word so long it became a building.

In my country we say a samurai's word is his life.

I had never seen a restaurant say it back.

I returned Monday. I ordered. And this time I said it first, before she could.

"My pleasure."

She smiled and said, "It sure is."

America, I surrender.

It was my pleasure.

[~ @macroplastics]

quick climb to MB; hoping to land in MB2 this season (hard to find time to jam enough games)

[defleppardfan94 @lemonade_grrrl]

what she asked of me at the end of the day clavicular would have blushed

[~ @macroplastics]

real advice for traders/quants: If you live by the sword, you’d better be willing to fall on it.

[Kicko @infamousbxdon]

A real nigga would never admit that they are “burnt out” they’d just pass away unexpectedly from bottled stress

[~ @macroplastics]

@ColeyMick @MaxLiles this thread is real af I miss the BEC on a croissant and I feel like the hash browns hit maybe 1/4 times when cooked a lil crispy but that’s rare

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[~ @macroplastics]

kids aren’t cheap but that ignores working hard to get $ for raising kids is kinda the whole point

[~ @macroplastics]

Fearow goes hard doesn’t deserve this disrespect

[Blacephalon's Big Fat Slobbering Pussy... @Blacephalussy]

Genwunners existing in 2026 is so insane to me because like. On average gen 1 designs are just worse than every other generation. Like fearow is just a sort-of vulture looking bird with a pointy beak. Pidgeot is a vaguely falcon looking bird with hair. Raticate is just a rat.

[~ @macroplastics]

@Mister49ers coulda cut the last three words and still been right 💯

[Anime Tokki @AnimeTokki]

Kagurabachi Author Comment on the Anime:

"You know, Rock Lee vs Gaara fight in Naruto? The Manga version is great of course, but isn't the anime version incredibly cool? Well the very person who brought that scene to life is our Director!"

[~ @macroplastics]

@TDUmbreon was awesome watching your run; ran a very similar team all week on ladder so was rooting for you!

[~ @macroplastics]

@unironicpanda Lol this is the exact team I took to masters except I scarfed bascu

[shotgun @shotguncaio]

Gengar artworks by Aya Kusube from the 1999 Pokémon Tales book “Gengar’s Shadow” are so underrated.

There’s something about that early style: simple, eerie, and full of personality, that hits differently.

[~ @macroplastics]

@humbleblazer my wife’s x6m is sick but you’re right pain is the only way to describe maintenance on the S63

[~ @macroplastics]

@sabatonfan69 u still got it

[~ @macroplastics]

@MeekMill I got u meek i work in quant finance lemme help a legend get some tools built