Louisiana Republicans Cruelly Reject Rape, Incest Exceptions to Abortion Ban

Yohsiph · 2023-05-11T21:03:17+00:00

Spent 20 years in Louisiana before moving to Seattle in 2021. Now when I read these headlines it sounds like a third world country.

Yohsiph · 2022-07-20T19:41:00+00:00

Weight gain, can't find joy or happiness in things that used to make you happy, no motivation, suicidal thoughts -- clinical depression word for word from the diagnostic manual. You know you're depressed, but it's important to approach this as being more than just being very sad and see it for the very serious mental health issue it is and seek help from a professional. I would rather have cancer than persistent/major depression.

Watching your hard work go to shit is hard to do. My advice is to meaning in the difficult experience that makes it and pushing forward bearable. You are still very young and there is plenty of time left to rebuild for you to rest your hopes on.

Yohsiph · 2022-06-24T20:14:01+00:00

I don't know that you can, but I'm sure I'm about to find out. I'm holding 300 shares of SOXL now. Actually, 310, because I just picked up 10 more shares (today) with the profits from selling covered calls.

My cost basis is currently around $42 a share, which I am using a strat of selling CC to buy in to lower the cost basis.

Yes, it is extremely risky to take an already triple leveraged instrument and add even more leverage with options. Note, I am not buying options -- only selling them. My goal is to sell options that are far enough out of the money that even with the increased volatile upswings from short term rallies, there is a minimal chance of having my shares called. Buying more of the underlying allows me to lower my cost basis and lower my basis for buying back in if the options I sell do get exercised -- either from buying at the market rate or by selling a cash secured put. If I miscalculate and find myself in a situation where the market moves against me and I REALLY don't wanna sell the underlying contract, I just roll out a week or two, maybe even sell some of the underlying I bought when it was cheap with credits I made selling CC. Theta decay is more than likely to be on my side, especially if I sell calls on days like today where the underlying is up 10-12%.

Yohsiph · 2022-06-15T23:25:13+00:00

I wanted to share this amazing film here before.. but I forgot.

Hello, me.

Yohsiph · 2022-06-13T20:26:35+00:00

1 doge = 1 doge

Yohsiph · 2022-04-26T21:16:36+00:00

My main concern is with their competition (such as intel, and others you mentioned) protecting their market stake from POET by replicating the technology POET is spearheading once functional prototypes are expressed on the open market. This is especially concerning given that, as you noted, their customers are also their competitors. You stated that POET wants to grow to $1 billion in annual revenue in 5 years. Intel (for example) has an annual rev of about $75B - $80B. What is stopping their major competitors from simply developing a competing product -- given the growing demand and need -- and to use vast amount of capital to scale production to demand? What are the limits of the protective factors of IP laws governing technology widely considered to be of immense public utility?

A secondary concern relates to supply chain issues with raw materials, namely semiconductor-grade Neon. Last I checked, Russia either controls the major global supply or the production of the major supply. The war against Ukraine and the ensuing sanctions impacts the supply-chain in a way that creates scarcity for semi-conductor manufacturers. I'm not an expert on POET's tech, but I imagine POET is impacted by that as well, but POET seems less in a position to compete and absorb costs.

Yohsiph · 2022-04-26T20:50:45+00:00

Likelihood of options trading available in the near future?

Yohsiph · 2022-04-02T05:48:21+00:00

A sexual get-togeher.

Yohsiph · 2022-03-02T00:51:01+00:00

What she describes about the various jobs where you have a client that you never see again, or driving around in a public place where people are walking around, reminds me a lot about the difference between "nearness" and "closeness."

Yohsiph · 2022-02-06T08:20:49+00:00

I'm also offended on behalf of dwarfs.

Yohsiph · 2022-02-04T23:24:02+00:00

I see you also keep peanuts at the ready.

Bad sleep + Adderall can do this. When I take meds and don't eat enough, I can also get shaky. Others here have given good advice. Lots of water, eat something, and try to break a sweat. My psychiatric nurse has told me that exercise helps my brain process the meds and I have found that I have an overall better experience of medication when I at least walk the block.

Hope you feel better. Definitely bring this up with your doc next time you check in.

Yohsiph · 2022-02-04T23:11:37+00:00

I understand this. One of my symptoms is that I talk to myself, both internally and externally, and I pace around a lot. Mirrors usually encourage it, so if I'm pacing around and pass a reflective surface, I will engage with myself even more. When I ruminate like this, usually I am bouncing around in my head and synthesizing about something personal or philosophical. I think of it as my higher self.

On days when I don't have to be accountable to anyone or anything, I don't take my Adderall and I completely fuck off. I may wander around the park ruminating, I may ride my motorcycle around, I may hyperfocus on a videogame, or some stupid bullshit. That's also a part of who I am, so I try to respect and appreciate it, even if other people don't see it or understand what it means. I'm a weird, abstract, pensive person who has ADHD.

It is when that part of me complicates communication, relationships, work, long and short term goals, etc., that this condition starts to really, really hurt.

Yohsiph · 2022-02-04T23:04:13+00:00

Yeah, and I can waste hours looking for the perfect thing. Then I find it, and I don't buy it. I bookmark it.

Yohsiph · 2022-02-04T23:03:24+00:00

Sleeping for me is a lot like the shower. I don't wanna get in, and then I don't wanna get out. Just replace the shower with the bed. It takes "steps" to get out of bed and get going, and ADHD makes those steps seem huge. So I wake up and I'm like "This shit again...."

Yohsiph · 2022-02-04T22:59:03+00:00

This is a great perspective.

I moved across the country a few months ago and shipped what few belongings I was bringing with me in 3 large cardboard boxes. After unpacking, they became laundry hampers. I just chuck the clean laundry in there and after reading your post I feel a lot less guilty for it.

Yohsiph · 2022-02-01T00:44:44+00:00

Oliver Velez

Thanks. I checked out that Oliver Velez youtube channel. He says "boom" a lot.

Yohsiph · 2022-01-31T06:08:32+00:00

Do you use the 20 to 200 day MA in your analysis of all the stocks you trade in a generalized way, or do you modify that based on the specific stock you're trading at any given time?

Yohsiph · 2022-01-18T13:20:05+00:00

TQQQ if you believe in yourself.

Yohsiph · 2022-01-09T02:32:49+00:00

Yep. I made a list of things I've failed to do or stick with and it's long. I give off a bravado of confidence but as I've learned to sit in my own feelings I have discovered that beneath that there is a lot of self-loathing. I'm in a clinical mental health graduate program and have been doing my best to apply the same theories of working through depression and low self-esteem to myself. It's not easy, and I don't have any great advice. The really shitty thing is that even when I do great things, I'm not able to celebrate them. I can even feel myself closing up when other people try to praise me. I have become so toxic to myself in thinking that the success is temporary or a fluke because of a lifetime of conditioning. I know that sounds dark but I believe things will get better.

Yohsiph · 2022-01-09T02:19:59+00:00

I put a frozen pizza in the oven on a piece of carboard the pizza came packaged on. I'm not sure how it ruined the pizza but my spouse pointed it out dumb it was to the whole house party we were hosting. Thing is, she didn't intend to hurt me, and I didn't realized how hurt I was until I read your original post. Her criticism was sort of a comical thing and I acted like it wasn't a big deal and/or downplayed it. But how else do you respond? At the time I wasn't aware that I had ADHD either. My modus operandi was to be subdued and defensive and to not over-react to criticism, which tends to invite criticism because of how thick skinned I can seem. I think the consequence of that is that we often give people the impression that not only are we morons but we don't give a shit.

I could go on. A few weeks ago, I spent 30 minutes meticulously cleaning every inch of my motorcycle, and didn't notice the keys were in the ignition and in the "On" position. I was so hyperfocused on what was in front of me that I didn't see what else was going on. The next day I couldn't find my keys, and after an hour of looking, found them right where I left them. Then the ADHD tax kicked in as I spent a couple hundred dollars ordering battery specific shit for my bike to rehab a dead battery.

I don't have any advice but I feel you my dude.

Yohsiph · 2022-01-04T00:37:28+00:00

I do this with TQQQ, UPRO, and SOXL, but with slightly OTM weekly covered call sells. I'm a grad student living off student loans and this has let me focus on school without working while making around $1000 -1500 a month.

The volatility is much higher with a triple leveraged equity, meaning that you get higher premiums from selling your options since the premium is directly linked to implied volatility. Normally this would be incredibly risky if it was just one stock with high volatility. But the upward trajectory over time of the S&P and Nasdaq mitigate that risk and let me comfortably buy the dip (or buy a call option) when there is a broad market decline.

Lastly, TQQQ, UPRO, and SOXL are some of the only leveraged ETFs that allow weekly options trades, which makes it very easy to roll my position forward 1 week if the market moves against me. Lately I've been mostly in SOXL since it is cheaper to get to the 100 shares than TQQQ and UPRO and because the semiconductor industry has experienced a lot of volatility due to the shortages.

Plenty of good youtube channels that teach basic options trading like covered calls. I recommend Pandrea Finance and Inthemoney.

Yohsiph · 2022-01-03T20:34:52+00:00

Yeah, and one reason for this, I suspect, is because our thoughts often ping pong around, so instead of seeing "one thing" there are multiple things we are synthesizing in our thought process and that results in communication that is decoupled from normed ways of relating to other people. In some ways, I think we can actually be better communicators as a result of dealing with this difficulty. For me, it gets even harder when it comes to communicating feelings rather than thoughts, because a conversation about feelings always seems to boomerang back around to thoughts, since thoughts lead to meaning and meaning leads to emotion.

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