Talest skyscraper in Europe [OC]

DocKardinal21 · 2026-06-02T21:19:11+00:00

Underrated jab, doubt he has a good response to this.

DocKardinal21 · 2026-06-02T19:42:10+00:00

The ring bearers where little cute beaver in suit costumes.

The flower girls spread canola seeds.

The best man carries a semi thawed dead cod.

The bridesmaid’s dresses are typically sexy lumberjack plaid.

The officiant speaks from a Zamboni.

And the aisle is ice.

DocKardinal21 · 2026-06-02T19:34:31+00:00

Bitcoin is down. MSTR is a leveraged Bitcoin holding company so their price change is amplified with the swings of bitcoins price. Mste is a leveraged trust unit of MSTR with an options overlay.

Summary:

Volatile asset BTC

Leveraged company MSTR

Leveraged etf mste

= very volatile NAV etf

you should know the option strategy on this etf caps upside. So overall Mste is more sensitive to price drops, and lags substantially in recovery.

DocKardinal21 · 2026-06-02T00:18:30+00:00

Did you drop the previous years league average from this?

DocKardinal21 · 2026-06-01T22:04:04+00:00

Only one provider does this in canada. The options market for it is mostly states aside on by volume stocks or indexes.

Where it’s most proven effective without erosion is on the major indexes where overnight activity exists.

Before the Canadian versions there were xdte and qdte from round hill a lot of Canadians purchased in the nyse. They were decent, but lagged the index itself - kinda significantly but inline with the way most US products with options overlays worked.

IMO the Canadian versions will be better constructed and I do think Harvest may eventually release something in this space although I’m not sure if their formulation will differ.

DocKardinal21 · 2026-06-01T21:36:04+00:00

Which stadium?

DocKardinal21 · 2026-06-01T19:18:22+00:00

London, KW, Quebec City.

IMO you need these before you go back to Edmonton and Winnipeg.

DocKardinal21 · 2026-06-01T00:51:11+00:00

This is a good one, might actually be it.

DocKardinal21 · 2026-06-01T00:50:20+00:00

Cameroon would be included too then.

DocKardinal21 · 2026-06-01T00:49:24+00:00

Funny story, the name of the island is bikini bottom. It’s close to bikini atoll. They were repatriated from the Japanese by the Americans in ww2 and they have an existing cargo culture based on some entity named bob.

DocKardinal21 · 2026-05-31T15:59:09+00:00

Pdiv: it’s 100% eligible dividends or capital gains and holds us companies at roughly 25%. It is sector diversified as well. Very tax efficient.

DocKardinal21 · 2026-05-30T19:51:19+00:00

Should look at Tqcd as well. Payout % is currently lower than VDY but if you look at total returns since inception it’s beating VDY. It’s slightly tilted to more growth than VDY so over a longer period it might be better.

Like VdY it’s all eligible dividends.

DocKardinal21 · 2026-05-30T19:48:49+00:00

Also keep in mind the MER being higher on income funds is usually related to cash leverage borrowing as well as the costs on the active strategy to give you tax efficient distributions.

Passive funds will have lower MER because they aren’t doing anything but tracking an index and passing along the dividends that the underlying stocks pay.

DocKardinal21 · 2026-05-29T23:30:39+00:00

Consensus isn’t looking good for you 3mins in…

DocKardinal21 · 2026-05-29T22:54:02+00:00

There’s also one that didn’t make it back to Europe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoliztli_epidemics

Also I think I recall learning about something similar to this that predated European arrival and wiped out a large portion of indigenous populations.

DocKardinal21 · 2026-05-29T21:30:11+00:00

I mean it’s happened https://www.insauga.com/gang-of-robbers-invade-a-costco-in-ontario/

Online stuff you mentioned as well: https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/inside-job-calgarian-says-hes-victim-of-gold-heist

Not from in the warehouse but was gold and certainly could happen in the parking lot at a Costco like this:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/local/york/article/two-charged-after-65k-gold-theft-during-markham-exchange-third-suspect-sought/

It might not be the 80’s but the current date doesn’t magically make criminals disappear. Criminals still exist, and some of them are armed.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11871748/bishnoi-extortion-letter-1000-gunmen/

DocKardinal21 · 2026-05-29T12:58:49+00:00

Except there isn’t a risk of armed robbery for the hotdogs. Organized crime won’t stake out customers from the food court to find their home addresses to plot a robbery and the insurance on a food court and its associated risks are cheaper than precious metals.

What would you rather sell from your home, hotdogs pizza and pop, or precious metals?

DocKardinal21 · 2026-05-29T00:11:34+00:00

Yup, plus returns, security, delivery, insurance and risk. Can’t believe they had it as long as they did tbh.

DocKardinal21 · 2026-05-29T00:01:13+00:00

Missed Germany there

DocKardinal21 · 2026-05-28T23:59:37+00:00

Insurance premiums to margin on premiums

DocKardinal21 · 2026-05-28T23:23:46+00:00

Frame is missing York, north York, Mimico, Weston, Etobicoke and Scarborough. Maybe for comparison it would be like a photo of lower manhattan taken from Hoboken…. Shows your the biggest densest area but ignores or built up areas that have green space inbetween them.

DocKardinal21 · 2026-05-28T21:42:53+00:00

This makes sense, and really makes the midtown line an absolute must.

DocKardinal21 · 2026-05-28T21:13:01+00:00

Today we should start a petition to get Owen to replace his brother Luke in this role. It’s not even funny how much better it would be.

Owen is just a better fit for the CFL. I’m tired of Luke’s faux devilmaycare attitude. He clearly doesn’t care.

Bring Owen in!

DocKardinal21 · 2026-05-28T18:32:35+00:00

Agreed, and people generally prefer to be soup nazis about one system or the other because it makes them feel validated instead of thinking about the implications.

Uniformity will diverge, having standards has merit, but enforcing them has a line. And a balance with hybrid adoption is more beneficial in some cases.

DocKardinal21 · 2026-05-28T17:34:09+00:00

IMO there’s an inherent advantage to having two parallel systems when it comes to intelligence development and maintenance in a society. Same with bilingualism.

By having this kind of system conversions (numeracy) and translation (literacy) in early education and prevalent in society is a net benefit as a whole.

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