CorpusColossus

"Do not my friends become addicted to water. It will take hold of you and you will resent its absence." - Immortan Joe. Not financial advice.

@alwaysearle Let's be honest. It doesn't require ANY capital* at all. * unless you're in Basel land and need to factor in operational risk.

@thebankzhar Appreciate you leaving this up. I await your take on developments.

I have a dozen DM’s asking about the $gbfh news this morning. If you knew what it was you would be buying the stock today. Ed & Todd will be discussing it on the conference call next week. In short this company has an interchangeable digital operating system for any time of slot machine. 5 million current users. Game changing

@gmoneyNFT She told me she was visiting her parents.

who's in charlotte this weekend?

baseball-reference.com/boxes/MON/MON1… In my memory, the game took 3:50 rather than 2:50.

Last Sunday was the 50th anniversary of the worst MLB game I've ever attended. The Mets won 10-4 at Parc Jarry. Montreal walked 14 and made 4 errors. Neither side had a HR or a SB. The records say it was 66 with a 11 MPH wind, but it was a lot worse by the end of the game.

@SandyofCthulhu Maurice was also a pioneer in re-introducing drill into Western Europe.

Maurice had other bonuses. When he captured a town, he could order his troops not to pillage. This worked, because the troops wanted to keep Maurice happy, plus they were actually paid. Since other generals couldn't stop their men from looting, this meant that the towns fought like fiends against them. But they surrendered pretty easily when Maurice came by, because no looting, rapine, or murder. What's not to like? Another possibly unexpected bonus was that mercenaries didn't want to fight against Maurice. They wanted to stay on his good side, because maybe he'd hire them someday. So if you marched your army of traitorous mercenaries to take on Maurice of Orange, your soldiers tended to desert, try to switch sides, or go on strike. Your army literally melted away. All just by paying salaries. 5/5

The man who created the first modern army was neither king nor emperor. And he was dutch, which may surprise some. Maurice of Orange, the Stadtholder who defeated the mightiest empire of his day. Napoleon won 9 out of 10 of his fights (63 out of 70) and forever changed tactics and strategy. Alexander the Great never lost once, and became the gold standard by which all generals are judged. Vauban re-invented fortifications, designing defenses which are still relevant today. My favorite commander was Maurice of Orange, who destroyed the mercenary culture of his time and built professional armies. Here's how he did it. 1/5

@shortbus_ace Stay strong.

I'm such a bank loser that when banks I like but don't even own report squishy numbers I get a little sad

@dirtcheapbanks But you get lots of hints.

Bank stocks are just a leveraged bet that the guy who runs the loan book is less stupid than the last guy who ran the loan book.

@Ron284Ron Pound Sand?

New low: $BSND -$35 to $715 on 4, expert

@RobinJPowell Absolutely valid warning.

Just buy the S&P 500.' That's advice from smart people. Buffett, Bogle, Samuelson all said it. And if you'd followed it for 15 years, you'd have crushed it. But it hides something almost nobody talks about.

@alwaysearle Agreed, that’s nonsensical

@alwaysearle LOL. ROFL even.

@statmuse That did not go as planned

@statmuse Wheeler missed 4-5 starts and will hit 125 Ks on Sunday.

NL pitchers with 125+ SO and a sub-2.50 ERA this season: Chris Sale Jacob Misiorowski That's it.

@witte_sergei @Historionome They did capture Stalino/Donetsk.

Watching a WW2 documentary and they said Germany wanted to capture Stalingrad because it was named after Stalin.

@BallplayerBios The Senators/ Nationals were not “usually terrible” in that era.

Walter Johnson threw harder than any man alive, and he spent his whole career terrified of hurting someone with it. They called him the Big Train because his fastball sounded like a locomotive coming through, but off the mound he was a shy, gentle farm boy from Kansas who hated the thought of hitting a batter. The hitters figured this out and used it against him. Ty Cobb admitted he would crowd right up on the plate against Johnson, daring him to pitch inside, because he knew the big man was too kind hearted to throw near his head. Johnson still struck out more men than anyone would for the next fifty years, and he threw 110 shutouts, a record no pitcher will ever come close to breaking. He did all of it for Washington teams that were usually terrible, and for years it looked like he would never get a title. Then in 1924, at 36, the whole country was pulling for him. In game seven of the World Series he came out of the bullpen and pitched four scoreless innings on guts alone, and the Senators won it in the twelfth. A nation exhaled. The best pitcher who ever lived finally had his ring.

You’re like the guy who goes into a diner and wonders why there’s no lobster, Peking duck or chateaubriand on the menu. The stock is cheap for a reason. They expanded organically 3-4 years ago and you didn’t like that then either. Also consider whether the desire to keep the trust’s % ownership stable may be a big factor in their actions.

@SandyofCthulhu Similarly, the peak Agatha Christie books occur on weekends in country houses in 1930s. And all the bright young things who survive the murder spree will discover that their future isn’t so bright after all.

These pictures are at the ancient guesthouse I’m staying at. The first is the regimental band, who stayed here in 1910. The other is some other band of young soldiers with an award. I assume pre-WW1 but no date is visible. I find these incredibly poignant, and wonder how many of these youths survived the war.

@DavidJ_Cole @VinnysCorner1 & Cobb

@VinnysCorner1 Williams Bonds Gwynn Griffey Jr. Sandberg Ernie Banks Frank Thomas Don Mattingly Just to name a few.

Who is the Dan Marino of MLB?

@StanphylCap Depends how you look at it. The core of the Empire, Rome and Italy, had too low a birth rate.

@CorpusCol Not according to fact:

LOL!!! "Rome collapsed because of a low birth rate." ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!