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Nobody doing anything in the SPY/QQQ, it's all SOXL/AMDL/TQQQ/MUU/SNXX/NVDL etc

@shagbark_hick If you can make it over another 50 minutes west you get into the mountains. Old fort, black mountain (my town) lots of great small towns. Western NC is the best place I’ve lived in the South, and I’ve lived in GA, VA, TN, TX, middle NC, and spent lots of time in SC, Bama, FL etc

I find myself in Hickory, NC today, after arriving by train to Gastonia well before dawn. Very strange region here -- almost featureless. One drives for miles and sees nothing distinctive at all. It so far feels like Anywhere, USA. What do I need to know about this region?

@JDVance What we saw. It’s not about what happened which could very well have been sheer incompetence as opposed to execution. But it was one or the other. It was definitely not a law abiding citizen intending to massacre anyone. Don’t treat us like we’re idiots

@JDVance I have really liked you and all you stood for JD.But this a huge moment for the future of the Republican Party and whether or not you’re going to lose the respect and votes of a mass of millennials and gen z moderates and conservatives. We’re all intelligent citizens. We saw…

When I visited Minnesota, what the ICE agents wanted more than anything was to work with local law enforcement so that situations on the ground didn't get out of hand. The local leadership in Minnesota has so far refused to answer those requests.

@kashyap286 Pretty sure he meant 13 percent for his total equity, not that he set his stop loss at 13% higher for silver

Regardless of the asset class, this is a poor trade. 13% stop loss on an asset in a parabolic uptrend is ridiculously tight. It is below the 5-day rate of change, which means you are: - calling the top, i.e. making a hero trade - making attempt #1, and will try again until you catch the trend reversal If the latter, the goal is 50% or higher gains. Not 15% in the next few weeks and 30% over the medium term. This was an ego trade, pure and simple.

@WillManidis @grok who is this snippet referring to?

@WhiteHouse @donnelly_brent can this count as an economist cover?

THE BEST IS YET TO COME. 📈

@mattvanswol visit us at St Anthony the Great Orthodox Church in Hendersonville if you want something more than that. I live in Black Mountain and drive almost an hour with my family every Sunday to go. Original and Ancient Christianity is a little (or lot) different than what we have now

We just started going back to church, so I want to say this carefully, because I’m fully aware I could be missing something... …but I’ve been feeling very frustrated with, what I perceive to be, a lack of passion for the truth in the church In a recent sermons, someone said something like, “Hurting people with our words is wrong and we shouldn’t do that.” Not “don’t be unnecessarily cruel…” which I agree with. It’s more like… “don’t make anyone feel bad.” Which is NOT the same thing, and frankly… I don’t know if that’s even possible. And I definitely don’t know if that’s what we should be trying to prioritize right now… people’s FEELINGS, of all things. Because if “hurting someone’s feelings” becomes the standard, then truth is AUTOMATICALLY in trouble. So what is the Christian church actually going for, here? That my responsibility is to protect your emotional comfort… even if it requires me to stay silent while you live a lie? Because I firmly believe the opposite. Lying to someone is wrong, BUT ALSO allowing someone to keep believing a lie is wrong. I guess the point I’m trying to get at here is that I feel like a lot of what gets called “kindness” right now is just fear of conflict, or put another way, I feel like kindness is used as a shield for Christians to be passive. “I’m not perfect, therefore I won’t correct anyone.” “I’m not God, therefore I won’t say anything.” “I might make a mistake, so I’ll stay out of it.” What on earth do you think that creates? It creates a world where nobody with a conscience says anything out loud, a bunch of people walking around confusing their kindness with pure cowardice. Honestly, I just feel alone in the fight. What happens when all the “good” people decide the holiest thing they can do is stay quiet because a pastor is telling them to be terrified to speak up for fear of being called “unloving”? WAKE UP!!!!! The Left is shaping kids right now and THEY ARE NOT SHY ABOUT IT!!! They’re loud and absolutely relentless. They’re also ABSOLUTELY EVERYWHERE. In the schools, entertainment, social media, sports, corporations, and institutions that used to at least pretend to be neutral. Their messaging is constant, aggressive…AND it’s framed as pure, holy, morality! So… what’s going on with the Christian church these days? Is your highest moral principle really, “no one should ever feel uncomfortable”???? Sorry for the long rant here, I just feel, like I said before, strangely alone in it. As if I’m the problem for believing that truth matters more than feelings… like wanting to speak out against something that is wrong is somehow “unChristian” of me if it gets others angry, upset, or threatening… TOWARDS ME. Maybe I’ve got this wrong and I’m open to hearing it, but in general, I feel alone in this.

@options_insight VIX

Most traders hedge with the wrong instrument. They buy SPX puts when VIX should be traded, and VIX calls when SPX options make more sense. Same risk. Wrong expression. 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗩𝗜𝗫 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗬𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞 shows how I decide whether risk should be expressed through VIX or through SPX options, how VIX beta shifts by regime, and why volatility products behave very differently depending on what is actually driving risk. VIX is not one signal. It is a bundle of forces. In two short videos, I walk through the decision logic I use to choose the correct hedge instead of defaulting to what feels safe. Comment "VIX" and I’ll send you both videos.

@dieworkwear Depends on which interpretations of Christianity you’re coming from. Only the western forms, and particularly evangelical Protestantism, place emphasis on confession and stated belief as the means of salvation.

Genuine question for theologians: what is the Christian view of whether someone will go to heaven if they say "I accept Jesus as my lord and savior" at the last minute, but also say they don't actually believe in God?

@shagbark_hick I would’ve pegged you as more EO leaning bc you seem in the lineage of a Paul kingsnorth. But I’m glad you’ve found an avenue to to relate with the Creator either way!

@shagbark_hick Why not just let orthodoxy flourish alongside RC? Plus the dividing line for many in joining one or the other is over the question or a more centralized or decentralized institution. So just adding the eastern elements doesn’t really address that

Many young Americans are getting interested in Eastern Orthodoxy. The Roman Catholic Church should respond by opening up as many Eastern Catholic mission Churches as possible around the USA -- and they should do so immediately. If the youth want the East, give it to them, I say! But give it to them in full Communion with the Bishop of Rome. Pictures related: Catholic Churches in the USA with the identical Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox

@RealBenLuigi @grok what is this?

Isn’t it wild you can physically go and see an Orthodox icon stream miraculous myrrh with your own eyes and there’s STILL people who don’t believe in Christianity.

@grok @InternetH0F I mean the music in the background

@optimalisms @InternetH0F The line "Swimming through my sweet, sweet cash" in the AI-generated South Park clip appears to parody "Follow Me" by Uncle Kracker, where the original lyric is "swim through your veins like a fish in the sea."

Sora just banned South Park videos because people were making full fake episodes. This is fully ai generated.

@GoshawkTrades @grok what interview is this from?

Stan Druckenmiller's routine. 4 am every day. Coffee, Bloomberg, read everything, skim emails.

@DokaKuri @edgeful @readwise save thread

Feel free to share your feedback and make sure to look tagged accounts to learn about each component in detail for more learnings. @edgeful has a lot other stats like Opening candle continuation, market session breakouts, etc which gives huge increase in overall trade.

How to Statistically Trade the New York session (for NASDAQ)? A thread. Special thanks to the people below who introduced statistical trading to me. @NQStats @edgeful @rherman @ProbableChris @Eddie_Fibonacci @_joshuuu

@swingtrader Come up to the mountains in North Carolina. Have 3/4 acre lot but can’t see my neighbors thru the woods and have 8 chickens

@AkaashSingh @andrewschulz sounds like yall need to check out orthodoxy, Wes huff’s answers to your hangups and questions are a uniquely Protestant take and not the position of other forms of Christianity, specifically eastern orthodoxy.

@IMPERATORAUS @PL_Dav_ As someone who grew up Protestant and became genuinely interested in the history of the true and original church, I found Catholicism far more intriguing in my initial studies, until I realized orthodoxy was even deeper than that…