Finickus_Rex

@Citrini7 Not a political take: Trump's inner circle should go to prison for insider trading If I can complain about crackheads on the subway I can complain about his friends illegal trades

Not complaining, market is the market and there are plenty of ways to get in front of this - monitoring the order book or prediction markets or whatever. Just saying it’s kind of lame.

I’m ngl macro trading was more fun before the defining edge was whether you were in the inner circle of people who knew what the president was about to tweet.

@TrungTPhan Why would anyone use apple maps willingly

The Apple Maps turnaround is impressive. ▫️iPhone started with Google Maps ▫️broke up after Google withheld voice-guided navigation (competitive advantage for Android) ▫️in 2012, started using TomTom data but sucked so bad Tim Cook apologized ▫️now spent billions mapping >4 million miles of proprietary street level maps data with specialized vans and people wearing goofy Apple backpack cameras walking around town (see below) Google probably makes $15B-20B on advertising in Maps. Apple’s services revenue is $100B+ in 2025 and Maps ads help push the services narrative (especially as Apple slowly forced to reduce App Store fees).

@KevinR70 @Nats2024 @kathrynw5 Bro I'm not defending this family or their decisions But if you don't have kids or haven't lived in NYC or the Bay you probably don't understand Even if we made 50k per year there's no way I'd send my kids to most public schools in nyc

@finickus @Nats2024 @kathrynw5 Whatever - it's their precious seed who'll probably run a hedge fund in 20 years, so how they try to feed themselves on a half million ain't my problem. Do what you want.

This is rage bait, right?

@KevinR70 @Nats2024 @kathrynw5 It's not like people moving to suburbs for schools is a new thing I'm not sure where you live but nobody should criticize wanting a decent education for their kids

@finickus @Nats2024 @kathrynw5 "My Declan's not going to any FREE schools.."

@JacobAShell Because the seats would be permanently occupied by homeless folks

@DanFriedman81 I highly doubt these folks would send their kid to a city run daycare Those places are going to be scary as hell

Anala Gossai and Brendan O’Leary are a couple with 1 kid earning $500k. More than 40% of their income comes off the top in taxes, leaving them with $300k. They pay $3900 in rent for a 1 bedroom apartment and their baby sleeps in the room with them. They spend $4200 per month for day care. They try to save $10,000 per month. In order to achieve this, they live fairly frugally considering their high income. They’ve stopped going on vacations since their baby was born, and they can only afford to eat out about twice a month. A lot of families like this voted for Zohran Mamdani, because he promised rent relief and free childcare. But their apartment is market rate, and Mamdani’s policies of limiting rent increases for rent regulated markets are forcing those units off the market and causing rents to rise for market-rate units like the one they live in. Mamdani’s free childcare promise has turned out to be a limited pilot for only about 2000 children, and eligibility is exclusively in predominantly minority neighborhoods. Families like O’Leary’s get nothing. Further, Zohran Mamdani wants to enact income tax increases on high-earning households and a massive estate tax that will seize half the savings that Gossai and O’Leary have been sacrificing so much to accrue. If people like this have the opportunity to make a similar income in a place like Texas, where their tax burden will be as much as 7% lower, they will not be threatened with a confiscatory death tax, and they can afford to have separate bedrooms for their kids, they are likely to take it, especially after Mamdani’s policies degrade public safety in New York.

@sp6runderrated It's definitely higher than 5% in NYC now It is way more prevalent than 10 years ago

thankfully no.

@thomaschattwill Apparently this had nothing to do with ICE airport deployments SFO not on the agenda so far

@zriboua Yeah, this only ends one way. Trump calls the shots and there's a puppet in charge. And some kind of US military presence in the area

There is no deal; the only deal right now is a deal that gives Trump everything he wants. Make of this what you will. The US is not going to make any concessions, and Israel even less so.

@darren_stallcup This is true but the term is a shibboleth

You see all these white San Franciscans swearing up and down that THE CITY is never called "Frisco" by local natives... But then you actually go to the ghetto of San Francisco and hang out around Black San Franciscans and you hear San Francisco get called "Frisco" all day, every day and twice on Sunday. So, yeah... For once @greenbergnation and @EricaJSandberg got it wrong. No worries. At least nobody was saying "San Fran"... We can all agree that "San Fran" is the ultimate no no. So yeah. We do call it Frisco. Maybe the white people on top of the hill don't call it frisco, but for us common folks at the bottom of the hill, It is Frisco. Hang out with my Black family and friends and I and you will hear the word "Frisco" at least a dozen times a day. Thank You. No hard feelings lol

@KevinR70 @Nats2024 @kathrynw5 That entirely depends but there are some very grim options

@Nats2024 @kathrynw5 Are public schools in NYC not a practical option?

@Dcpcooks Tripoli and Boxer probably will "secure" Kharg for the rightful Iranian regime, as Trump sees it Ghalibaf is the next Rodriguez

@Melancholicebi @DannyDayan5 He is probably Trump's pick as well Trump wants a Venezuela situation here where locals run the show but Trump gets veto power

@finickus @DannyDayan5 He is the closest friend of khamenei junior and former general of iran/iraq war. I think he can do it if the regime survives.

Great levels to fade everything from today.

@Melancholicebi @DannyDayan5 Ghalibaf definitely wants to come out of this as the first secular strong man in Iran But he doesn't control the IRGC

@DannyDayan5 As an insider in iran i would say don't This parliament spokesperson is the guy that would sell everything to take power and he may really have done something.

@willnever15 @dilanesper I don't disagree but the 70s is more temporally local and more relevant The US has been ready for revenge ever since

@finickus @dilanesper The root of this conflict is perhaps the end of the 19th century, the mass jewish migration to the holy lands. The first sparks of the conflict can be seen as early as 1920. But there was so much back-and-forth and unreasonableness that it doesn't even matter anymore.

Several things can all be true at once: 1. Israel was justified in waging war on Hamas in response to October 7. 2. Israel has every right to be pissed at Iran for all sorts of reasons (Hezbollah, funding Hamas, etc.). 3. Iran didn't do October 7. Hamas did.

@SeanGibson5 @Kurt_Steiner Not really

@Kurt_Steiner Philly, Boston, and increasingly Seattle are real cities…

Everywhere else is LA. And it sucks.

@constans @Noahpinion Progressivism gave us trump

@Noahpinion Standard liberal governance gave us the tea party and multiple Republican takeovers of congress and governorships. Would you care the think about what you expected?

The transformation of liberals into "progressives" since 2013 has seriously been the worst thing to happen to American culture in my lifetime. Just absolutely gutted so much of what was good about this country. End of a golden age.

@JeremiahDJohns DSA is MAGA

The thing that defines Hasan, Code Pink, and most of the DSA-extended-universe convoy members is not complicated. It's "America Bad". Look, sometimes America is bad. But that's quite literally the only lens they're capable of seeing the world through. It's why the DSA cozied up to Maduro. It's why Hasan thinks the Houthi terrorists are so cool and said America deserved 9/11. If something is against America, it's good. End of story. They don't have an ideology beyond that.

@dilanesper Oh yeah he was wasted But most adults would routinely fail the heel to toe test in a comfortable setting

@finickus i don't like field sobriety tests either. Nystagmus is apparently reasonably accurate but heel to toe is obviously problematic. Timberlake was drunk though

after endangering the public, Timberlake engineered a sweetheart deal where we only get to see a portion of this, whereas any other drunk reckless criminal behind the wheel gets their full video of their indefensible conduct released.