WallStreetDoapOpera

Former Prop & HF trader, now sell side.

(anonymous because my CEO wasn't held enough as a child)

[WallStreetDoapOpera @BetterFills]

Trump could ban diesel exports and save US consumers a fortune. But he won't do it.

[MONETARY MAYHEM @MONETARY_MAYHEM]

Oil $100
Here’s some tips for saving at the pump

[MONETARY MAYHEM @MONETARY_MAYHEM]

Bessent is in the hole 40 trillion and people think he’s somehow in control of anything

[Ryan Orhan @rynorhn]

this guy fucking called this months ago.

openai asked researchers to come use their models and do research with them.

now, a few months later:

math researchers getting fucking scooped by the lab they trusted with their work.

what a fucking precedent.

[WallStreetDoapOpera @BetterFills]

They own $350-450B in US equities...

Any shot they try to sell those?

🤔

[MONETARY MAYHEM @MONETARY_MAYHEM]

Scott Bessent watching japan sell more treasuries

[WallStreetDoapOpera @BetterFills]

They got 'em now, I'm sure of it... this HAS to be the level

[Ras Kapital @bugimane]

One day one of these failed currency countries will seriously adopt a stable or crypto. Too many trash currencies out there for it not to happen.

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

Warning: Once you see this monk's 3-minute demonstration on "how to stop thinking," you can't unsee it.

Ajahn Brahm says:

"Your mind never actually stops. It just fills every gap you fail to notice."

His demonstration works because he exploits something neuroscience has quietly confirmed for years that "the thinking mind cannot generate thought and pay full attention at the same time."

Attention and cognition compete for the same neural real estate. When one runs at full volume, the other goes quiet.

Most people never experience mental silence because they've never once given attention *anything* to fully occupy it with.

What Brahm does in those 3 minutes is deceptively simple.

He asks you to listen to the *gaps between his words*.

The silence between syllables. The pause between sentences. And the moment you shift your attention to those gaps, your internal narrator goes quiet.

The reason is you directed your awareness with such precision that it fully engaged your attention and left no room for extra commentary.

Meditation traditions have circled this insight for 2,500 years.

The Pali term for mental chatter is *prapañca.*
Transaltion: Conceptual proliferation.

One thought spawns another, which spawns three more, and within seconds you're rehearsing an argument from 2014.

Brahm's technique interrupts the mechanism at its source. You cannot proliferate thought while genuinely tracking silence, because silence has no content for the mind to grab onto and multiply.

This is why most meditation instruction fails people. They're told to "clear the mind," which is like being told not to think of a polar bear. The very act of trying activates the machinery it's supposed to silence. Brahm inverts the entire approach.

Instead of asking you to stop, he asks to divert your attention somewhere so refined to rest that stopping happens on its own, as a side effect.

There's a deeper reason this demonstration hits so hard.

Modern life has trained our nervous systems to treat silence as a threat that must be filled with a podcast, a scroll, a snack, a plan.

We've forgotten that silence is the medium consciousness actually rests in. Sound is the interruption. It's not the other way around.

Once you experience even 5 seconds of genuine internal quiet, your relationship with your own thoughts permanently shifts. You stop believing every mental voice is *you*. You start noticing there's a witness underneath the chatter that was never anxious to begin with.

Please throw in your thoughts on this.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

It's completely unsurprising that the CEO of Flock is telling the public to give up privacy rights while vehemently safeguarding his own privacy.

Big Tech tycoons have been doing exactly this for years, the worst cases being former Google CEO Eric Schmitt and Mark Zuckerberg:

[Leo @Leonajardinho]

My neighbor listed his 3-bedroom suburban starter home for $310,000.

An institutional real estate fund bought it sight-unseen in cash for $325,000, installed an electronic keypad, and listed it as a rental for $2,650 a month.

Six months later, they used the paper equity on that property to secure credit for two more cash purchases on the exact same block.

Young families aren't losing bidding wars to other families anymore.

They are bidding against wall street balance sheets using automated software to turn entire neighborhoods into permanent rental traps.

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

🚨Horrifying: Dr. Suzanne Humphries exposes what DTaP, Polio & Hib 'VACCINES' do to babies.

The shots cause the activation of 33 ALLERGY genes & 66 ASTHMA genes plus the upregulation of 67 CANCER genes & 25 immunological genes.

[Swingtrader @Swingtrader]

This is not a good thing imo

It changes every tactic and strategy out there whether you realize it or not

[WallStreetDoapOpera @BetterFills]

Lol

[Ras Kapital @bugimane]

Rookie numbers

[WallStreetDoapOpera @BetterFills]

@DavidBCollum @rcwhalen - cut costs
- lever up the balance sheet

It's literally their business model to wreck companies.

[Dave Collum @DavidBCollum]

"There is nothing in this world that private equity cannot fuck up. Nothing."
--@rcwhalen

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

Is this antisemitic or is it only antisemitic when I say he said it?

[WallStreetDoapOpera @BetterFills]

They didn't sell it. In essence, they lent the crude out. The crude has to be given back over time, with interest. Interest paid in additional crude.

So if they gave ExxonMobil 1M barrels, ExxonMobil has to pay the SPR back 1.1M barrels at an agreed upon later date.

[Doublewide Capital LLC @DoubleWideCap]

So what would it take to fully refill SPR? 13 billion? 15 billion? 20 billion?

How much as Congress authorized? 170 million? 180 million?

What did Congress do with the 17 billion? 18 billion? coming in from SPR sales? Hold it in reserve for future replenishment? Nah, they spent it on other shit.

[WallStreetDoapOpera @BetterFills]

They get wealthy through hard work and a TON of good luck and then attempt to create some narrative about their success to make it appear that it was about something more than money.

It was all about money dipsh!t, you're not f'n Socrates.

[Katie Greifeld @kgreifeld]

do labor next

[Charles Bukowski Legacy @Bukowskiquot]

bukowski floored me with this question

[WallStreetDoapOpera @BetterFills]

If you don't strip out the top 5-10% of money earners, this data is meaningless.

(See, US savings rate, as well)

[Paul Lavigne 🇨🇦 @PaulLavigne17]

Not a sign of a weak economy

[Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️‍♂️💼🥋 @SharylAttkisson]

All of the vaccine injury stories I've told over the years are sickening. This one no different. But in some ways even more important because it was an important early warning signal for Covid vaccines that the FDA and manufacturer willfully ignored.

[Roberto @UniqueMongolia]

The most honest recruiting video I ever seen 😁