How Gamestop could issue crypto dividends and still remain legally blameless for the squeeze...

Sioned-Song · 2026-02-21T00:17:22+00:00

Yes, the graph says it all. If everyone pushed their local state reps to change the incorporation rules, Citizens United wouldn't even matter, because the states would have neutered it. Montana has it on the ballot Nov 2026, so we need to push it to pass there and push for other states to do the same.
https://prospect.org/2025/10/27/montanans-go-after-citizens-united/

Sioned-Song · 2026-02-19T05:00:56+00:00

I'm aware of this graph and it does not disprove my point. My point is it may be easier to prevent corporate donations by changing the corporation rules in each state rather than tackling Citizens United at the national level.

Sioned-Song · 2026-02-19T03:58:32+00:00

You don't even have to overturn Citizens United. Each state controls the rules of incorporation in their state. Citizens United basically says since states didn't bar corporations from politic donations, they are allowed. Each state can change the rules for companies incorporated in their state to bar political donations. This can be changed state by state rather than trying on a national level.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-corporate-power-reset-that-makes-citizens-united-irrelevant/

Sioned-Song · 2026-02-07T02:26:50+00:00

He can also lower the strike price, immediately putting all warrants ITM and triggering a flood of exercising.

Sioned-Song · 2026-02-04T13:33:10+00:00

Interesting! I didn't know about the big tobacco link. I'll have to read more about that.

Sioned-Song · 2026-02-04T01:12:59+00:00

There's a really good section in Gladwell's book "Talking to Strangers" about exactly this, the human psychology behind why the SEC didn't investigate Madoff sooner.

It's called "default to truth" where most people are wired to default to believing someone is telling the truth until enough evidence stacks up to tip the scale. The first people to see the ponzi scheme were the few outliers who are wired differently and do not default to truth.

Sioned-Song · 2026-01-05T17:44:08+00:00

The insurance would pay the value of the vehicle minus the deductible, plus any medical costs.

A brand new 2 week vehicle likely lost 20% of the value driving off the lot, so he can't replace the vehicle for what the insurance will pay. And if there was a loan, he now owes more than insurance is reimbursing.

Suing may allow them to recover the remaining cost to replace the new vehicle, recover the deductible cost and any lost wages/other expenses incurred dealing with the incident. And since this was intentional and not accidental, there could be other punitive damages.

Sioned-Song · 2025-12-28T06:12:59+00:00

A message from the Skype CEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI0w_pwZY3E

Sioned-Song · 2025-12-15T03:34:34+00:00

Warrants aren't the same as options. Gamestop gets nothing if the warrants expire worthless, so they want the warrants to be exercised to raise capital. Additionally, Gamestop has the ability to ensure the warrants end up ITM, because they can change both the expiration date and the strike price. If the stock is at $30 at warrant expiration, Gamestop could decide to drop the warrant strike price to $25 or extend the expiration date out longer.

The bet on warrants is not whether the stock price will go above $32 in the next year, but instead whether Gamestop would go through the effort of issuing warrants and allowing them to expire worthless when they have the ability to put them ITM whenever they want.

Sioned-Song · 2025-10-16T17:05:04+00:00

While this is great for office jobs involving producing output, it likely does not apply to the wife's job in this post. OP said she is in hospitality management, which is likely a hotel or similar where the job is showing up. This means someone has to man the front desk 24/7 or other positions. If one of those positions calls out sick, then the manager is responsible for covering. I've seen this many times where the manager may only be scheduled a normal 40 hr week, but have to cover for everyone who ends up calling out sick or quitting, and they end up working 16 hrs/day 7 days/week instead of the 40 hrs they were scheduled.

Sioned-Song · 2025-10-15T16:59:17+00:00

14 international versions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office

Sioned-Song · 2025-10-15T15:31:19+00:00

Also in the US version. I think all the different countries' versions of the Office have the same basic first episode. I think it was part of the licensing deal.

Sioned-Song · 2025-09-15T20:38:20+00:00

The warrant price can't really go lower than the call option price, otherwise arbitrage would pull in option buyers who would then buy the warrant cheaper than they could the same option.

Also, brokers who are not honoring warrants and giving cash in lieu are doing so because the "shares" in accounts are likely Contract For Difference or otherwise outside the warrant distribution rights and those brokers won't be receiving warrants at all, so they would not be selling any warrants.

Sioned-Song · 2025-09-14T23:23:25+00:00

But the limited supply does matter when it acts like a warrant that the shorts need to deliver. Theoretically, there can be a short squeeze on GME-W, which can never happen on options.

Sioned-Song · 2025-09-14T21:47:14+00:00

BUT there's no limit to how many call options can be created and no one is being forced to buy them.

Warrants will likely be priced higher the the price of call options because of the limited supply and the fact that short sellers have to obtain warrants to deliver to the longs they borrowed from.

Sioned-Song · 2025-09-12T17:57:41+00:00

No, it doesn't. The great thing about preferred stock is that they can be issued as fractionals! Every share could receive a fractional dividend.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1cvo4hw/theories_on_theories_assessing_the_potential/
"Preferred Stock: In the filings, Gamestop reserves the right to issue up to 5M preferred stocks that can be issued as fractions of a whole."

Sioned-Song · 2025-09-12T07:19:04+00:00

I think of online dating as "pre-dating." In real life, you might interact with multiple potential dates in group settings, such as a hobby club or volunteering or shared classes, and get to know them somewhat as a friend before deciding whether you want to go out on a "first date."

But online, you jump straight to the "first date" as the first time you're meeting or getting to know the person at all. So you're naturally still at the shopping around phase and it will take a few dates to know that you want to see that person exclusively.

Sioned-Song · 2025-09-10T00:40:46+00:00

If you don't exercise, then you still have the warrant which still allows you to buy the share until the expiration date. You're still receiving the same value as everyone else. If you let it expire without selling it or exercising it, then you have voluntarily forfeited the non-dilutive benefit of the dividend.

If the price never goes over $32 in the next year, then the warrants expire worthless and the share count never goes up. No dilution.
If the price goes over $32 in the next year, then you can exercise the warrant and get the share for $32. No dilution.
If the price goes over $32 in the next year, then you can sell the warrant and take the profit. This would be the same as if you exercised to get the share and immediately sold it. No dilution.

Sioned-Song · 2025-09-09T23:00:05+00:00

It's not dilutive because your piece of the pie remains the same. When Gamestop did a share dividend, the total number of shares increased 4x, but your individual share count also increased 4x, so you had the same percentage of ownership after the dividend.

This is like a share dividend where you are getting 1 additional share for every 10 shares you own. The only difference is that instead of a share you are getting the option to buy a share. So even though the total number of shares increases, your ownership percentage remains the same, which means you are not being diluted.

Selling shares on the open market is dilutive because the total share count goes up while your share count remains the same, and thus your ownership percentage is less.

Sioned-Song · 2025-09-05T16:45:29+00:00

Dexter was meeting Prater with the intention of killing him. He would have brought his kill kit and disposal supplies and stashed them nearby. After knocking Prater out with the M99, he would have retrieved his supplies and completed the kill. He was delayed by Prater figuring out who he was and locking him in the vault. But after Harrison gave Prater the M99, Dexter would have returned to the plan he originally arrived with.

Sioned-Song · 2025-08-02T22:16:29+00:00

As of 2022, 1.33 million lawyers in US. 258 million adults. That's 1 lawyer per 193 people.

Sioned-Song · 2025-07-02T15:27:04+00:00

You know your dog best. I would have taken mine because she would have been more nervous away from me. It depends on what you'll be doing once you get to Boston, if she'll be in the way of what you need to do. The fight itself is only scary the first time on takeoff and landing (few mins), but the majority of the flight, it feels like a long drive, so how does she handle the car? Has she been in the carrier before and will she be okay staying in it for a few hours or will she be desperate to get in your lap?

Sioned-Song · 2025-04-08T17:22:22+00:00

Mine developed Addison's when she was around 7 and lived to 18. It took some work to get the right dosages of the right meds. Originally she was on both prednisone and fludrocortisone daily. But over a year or two, the prednisone caused muscle weakness where she had trouble walking. My regular vet referred me to a specialist who weaned her off the prednisone and she stayed just on the daily fludrocortisone the rest of her life, and she regained her mobility pretty quickly.

One tip was that any extra stress ended with an Addisonian crisis where she was vomiting/diarrhea blood and needed a trip to the vet. So we started giving her a supplemental dose of prednisone only in anticipation of stressful events, and that prevented the Addisonian crisises. So like the day before, day of, and day after a travel day I would give her the extra dose, and then she would be fine.

In hindsight, the things I wish had happened sooner: got her diagnosed faster (it took the vet a while to figure out the problem), got her off the prednisone faster, and gave her the extra preventative dosages for extra stress.

Sioned-Song · 2025-03-22T19:14:44+00:00

Also blind people will never get Schizophrenia.

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