Adam Townsend

You will not regret setting up a 529 for your kids. Schwab or Fidelity. No such thing as too small. It is not the olden days where you needed a stock broker. You can also buy fractional shares. Totally different era. Get those 529s set up today.

Alex Gibney’s 4-hour documentary about Elon Musk may be the most important film of the year. He is better at engineering everything around him to suit his ego and his bank account than he is at engineering his many products. rogerebert.com/reviews/elon-m…

This was a long time coming. @adamscrabble caught this 6 months ago+

An intentional self sabotage.

Political accounts have been the biggest offenders of undisclosed paid promotions.

We’ve been investigating cases of foreign influencer campaigns recently. Often the influencer accepting payment assumes it’s just some American advocacy group.

A new poll finds 40% of respondents believe in a baseless conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was created in a lab in China.

There is zero evidence for this. Scientists say the virus was transmitted to humans from another species.
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Brother you have called this one since it was barely on the horizon. How did you see it? What is the comp for the pattern?

Francesca Hong: "The service industry is rooted in white supremacy. The history of tipping is racist."

I worked at a cartel 10 years ago and the earnings report in no way properly reflected the state of the business. It was such a manufactured, manipulation of the market.

How do you assess what is really going on?

#digger Beyond being a masterpiece of cinema, off screen it is a masterpiece on the nature of the moviegoer, the critic, the cynic, the ideological Don Quixote in search of opposing ideological Don Quixotes to vanquish

It is a masterpiece on lifting up the curtain and revealing the insatiable appetite for formulaic movies attended by formulaic moviegoers and reviewed by formulaic critics.

It’s as if all three constituents are instead in the domain of food, and here they sit together at a McDonalds.

The menu, like every McDonald’s has the same fare.
The hungry customer wants that food, it’s why they are there.

The critic uses highbrow preening verbiage to scold, and to persuade, about how the McDonald’s food ‘should be’.

And yet here they are, everyday, sitting in that McDonald’s.
Everyday.

A. Why did Digger cost so much?
Q. Why do you care?

🗣️ “Haha, look at what a bomb it is, look at the box office!”
- One element of this is that in the red carpet advance showings, the ‘embargoed’ critics in attendance said, in unison, that it was a jumbled mess, that the audience only politely clapped at the end and otherwise thought it was close to garbage.
Of course this is not true, but the movie is vulnerable me to this line of attack because to defend the movie requires giving ways it’s surprises.

Critics panned it also because it is the currency of their trade, to drive the movie to a lower box office makes their own stock go up.

And so on and so on

congrats Adam - you were always Long 😂 Tom Cruise on this app.

Digger became a cult classic in its first week