As it's #AppreciateADragonDay let's do some classic covers from Dragon magazine!

Tony DiTerlizzi's cover art for Dragon magazine #242, December 1997.

Dragon magazine issue 106, February 1986. Cover by Keith Parkinson.

Dragon Magazine #71, March 1983. Cover by Clyde Caldwell.

Dragon magazine issue 65, September 1982. Cover by Clyde Caldwell.

A children's book explanation of what's happening:

1. If you are "smart money" you are allowed to take your $1 and leverage it up to $15+

2. You can now buy $15 of stock AND if you promise to short companies, you can short $15 of stock as well

3. In finance language, this means that you are $30 "gross" ($15 of longs + $15 of shorts) but $0 net (+$15 of longs -$15 of shorts). This makes everyone feel good because it feels like you are taking zero risk...but in reality, your $1 is exposed to $30 of risk.

4. Now you go around and tell your friends about both your longs and your shorts and when you do it at a restaurant vs on Reddit, its called an "ideas dinner".

5. You also publish your longs on a quarterly lag via an SEC rule. You don't have to tell anyone about your shorts.

6. Now the less cool people who weren't invited to the ideas dinners, start copying your longs based on your report.

7. You realize that publicizing your shorts is also a good idea so instead of only selling stocks, you also BUY options (puts) which has to be reported.

8. Now everyone can see both your longs and your shorts and if you have a hot hand, you can likely predict that the cool people from the dinner as well as the less cool people monitoring your filings will copy you.

9. But then an outsider notices that the math is way off!

Idol Olympic - "Meeting Park Chaewon: An introverted, quiet child makes it all the way to the Billboard Chart"
Interview recorded Jan 28
#LOONA

https://t.co/znmOWpEsAT

What kind of person is Park Chaewon?
> I think I'm quiet, calm, and kind of introverted. But when I'm with the members, I really like teasing and messing around, and I think I enjoy talking with people too.

There's been some good news lately! With US Radio charts.
>We've been on the charts for 3 weeks straight now, and we've made it to the top 40. So I'm really moved by that.

Apparently, only BTS, Monsta X, Blackpink, and LOONA have made it there.
>What's so unbelievable about this is that the sunbaenims you mentioned are such accomplished people, so our name coming after theirs, I think like, "is this a lie?" It really doesn't feel real.

Another impressive thing I heard with LOONA is entering Billboard's main album chart top 200.
>Yes. With the members, we found out while we were just eating at our dorm. So we were like "huh?"

What's the difference between these 3 images? Why is one the ubiquitous example of great style, another the joke everyone wants to avoid becoming, and the last what your typical guy looks like?

I'll explain.

Great style consists of two things - positive aesthetics and cultural relevance.

Positive aesthetics simply means it has to look good - it should follow the rules of proportion and symmetry, the colors should be flattering, etc.

Positive aesthetics are why we love period pieces and classic old style.

The clothing visuals we love are those that are pleasing to the eye and give us a sense of satisfaction while looking at them.

But positive aesthetics aren't enough.

You can't throw on a toga, or a kilt, or a 19th-century 3-piece suit and walk around in it today because, as beautiful as the aesthetics are, there's no cultural relevance.

This is the biggest mistake the gentledorks make - all aesthetics, no relevance and it's actually why most of the guys you see doing period dress are culturally insignificant guys with no social status or standing.

#Thread So, a long-ish thread on Zim gospel.

It’s hard to know where to start; Freedom Sengwayo? Machanic Manyeruke? Jordan Chataika? Brian Sibalo? We’ll share very brief histories on them.

Some of the pioneers of recording gospel music: In the 70s, these two young nuns, Gertrude Matsika and Tendai Maminimini, defied church convention and patriarchy and took up guitars and recorded music.

Jordan Chataika: Born in Bulawayo in 1939. In 1960, aged 21, he got a job as petrol attendant at Kamfinsa. There, he taught a work colleague how to play a guitar. Impressed, that fella’s dad bought Jordan a new guitar.

Chataika wasn’t a gospel singer then; he was one of those famous ‘dzemagitare/omasganda’ fellas who roved around playing guitar. Problem for Jordan was, he had a disability, so this limited him

In 1961, Jordan met one of the famous solo guitar legends, one Safirio Madzikatire. He recorded his first seven single, “Vana Va-Israel”, with Safirio’s help

@robreiner

In “A Few Good Men”, a 1992 film by Rob Reiner, Base Commander Colonel Nathan Jessup (Jack Nicholson) tells Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) in a defining moment of the film: “You can’t handle the

2/In the film the truth ultimately prevails. Jessup confesses he ordered the “code red” and is arrested while Dawson and Downey are acquitted of the charges of murdering Santiago. However truth often doesn’t win the day on the great stage of life on which we are but the actors.

3/In a material and political world, truth can become the enemy of those in power. The truth about suffering led Siddhartha Gautama to leave his palace and princely inheritance to become the Buddha. The truth about Jesus Christ led to his crucifixion.

4/There is the truth about reality, and there is propaganda designed to keep people from knowing the truth. It’s the quest of the truth seeker to determine which is which.

5/“Shakespeare stated and I quote,”The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be the fool” the natural tendency of humans is not to face themselves and not to see who they really are- but knowing who you are gives you the strength to manage your weakness.””

I was reading something that suggested that trauma "tries" to spread itself. ie that the reason why intergenerational trauma is a thing is that the traumatized part in a parent will take action to recreate that trauma in the child.

This model puts the emphasis on the the parent's side: the trauma is actively "trying" to spread.

This is in contrast to my previous (hypothetical) model for IGT, which puts the emphasis on the child's side: kids are sponges that are absorbing huge amounts of info, including via very subtle channels. So they learn the unconscious reactions of the people around them.

(I say "hypothetical", because all while this sort of thing is in my hypothesis space, I haven't seen clear enough evidence that intergenerational trauma is a meaningful category that I solidly believe it is real.

More like, "here's a story for how this could work.")

On first glance, I was skeptical of this "active trauma" story.

Why on earth would trauma be agenty, in that way? It sounds like too much to swallow.

Quite you say? I’ll give you quite. I don’t do cheesy music. When I’m pounding the sand burning off the tequila and the virus I’m listening to Mr Motivator by IDLES...here’s what I hear

Repeat after me
I am I
And I intend to go go go
Like Conor McGregor with a samurai sword and roller blades Like a hedge funder declaring he’s morally and intellectually bankrupt on his sunny Caribbean island
How d’you like them clichés???

Now turning to end of week stuff. Don’t stop the game and don’t protect #hedgefundelite. Buying crappy co.s and bidding them to preposterous valuations is almost DaDaism and the kind of nihilism you find around fin de siècles or at least in The Joker movie.

But more’s going on. These stocks ain’t random. They all conform to patterns of absurdity that i professionally engaged in. I posted examples on my insta account this week. And shorting Nokia - Mr douche bag Hedgie - to buy Ericsson is just lame i.m.o

gamestock is like someone studied the Netflix transformation from vendor of videos from a vending m/c to global digital platform and went hmm...I could spin that? The fable of the dumb jocksters is cute...but maybe disingenuous

#RoyalAmbassadors #PraiseandWoraship
🎶The heavens declare, Your power and royalty
Lord You reign
King of all ages, You are the ancient of days
Lord You reign
Your throne is established in justice and righteousness
Lord You reign🎶

#ChurchGRA #GRAService #Restoration

#RoyalAmbassadors #PraiseandWoraship
🎶Great are You Lord and greatly to be praised
Lord You reign
We cry Holy, Holy is our God
Let Your glory, glory fill this place🎶

#ChurchGRA #GRAService #Restoration

#RoyalAmbassadors #PraiseandWoraship
🎶Arugbo Ojo
Arugbo Ojo
Iwo Aseda, Laweda, Lameda o (You are the ancient of days)
Arugbo Ojo
Arugbo Ojo
Iwo loniyin, kaabo, kaabo, marora
Arugbo Ojo
#ChurchGRA #GRAService #Restoration

#RoyalAmbassadors #PraiseandWoraship
🎶We cry Holy, Holy is our God
Let Your glory, glory fill this place
Arugbo Ojo (You are the ancient of days)
Arugbo Ojo (Aterere Kariaye ooo)
Iwo Aseda, Laweda, Lameda o
Arugbo Ojo🎶

#ChurchGRA #GRAService #Restoration

#RoyalAmbassadors #PraiseandWoraship

🎶Who has the final say?
Jehovah has the final say
Who has the final say?
Jehovah has the final say🎶

#ChurchGRA #GRAService #Restoration

So it's Sunday January 17, the day that, according to reports, armed marches are planned on all 50 state capitols and DC. What are we seeing?

So far: very little. The overwhelming consensus in pro-Trump spaces is that the supposed marches today are FBI/CIA/Antifa false flag events or honeypots designed to draw them out.

Before the Jan 6 rally, MAGA spaces online were full of people saying they were going, planning their routes, making banners, wishing they could join. For today, it's the opposite. The message in Trumpworld is "stay home".

Queen of Reich
by Queensryche
1983
https://t.co/GbKyLEXTl5

A future WAR w/
EVIL Queen & her powerful coMPuter

Those Failing get ABSORBED into COMputer

~Reign comes to end when FROZEN
~IDENTITY Revealed to BAND

BAND SHOCKED!

IMDB: Queen's IDENTITY Secret!

HRC REVEAL SOON!?

Recorded for 206 Records

Links to Q for Hints of OP and HRC REVEAL!

Q206
Can't wait for the GREEN light
Teams on standby

~Team of 5 FREEdom fighters names in GREEN
TO BE CONTINUED in red
AFTER ~ SHOCK of REVEAL

Q1983
Starting in 2010?
HRC Sec of State 2009 - 2013
Coincidence

Think
💥SERVER misspelled as SEVER
Access[granted]
Money talks
[CROWDSTRIKE]

Queen of Reich 37yrs ago ~This year will be
38~CH
HC
~R needed for HRC comes from MiSSing R in Q1983 in
⚡️SEVER

HRC SERVER acceSS has NOW been SEVERED!

An HRC arrest sure would be a Safe Bet SHOCK!

Oddly,
ReiCH has HRC in the word!

Removing HRC leaves just
EI👽

~We are left w/ HeR seCrET Extra-TERRESTRIAL Intelligence

1/16/2021 Word of DAY:
TERRENE
EARTHLY; WORLDLY ~or terrestrial

Latin:
"pertaining to the material part of humans
belonging to this mortal world"
🚫DIVINE

1st Quote:
Suggests how ELITES Look down on us from thEIr
"High Citadel" ~ HC ~ R☝️
Author Name: KEARY ~ our KERRY
THE FOUR STUDENTS ~ 4 arrests as an example?

2nd Quote:
SOME TO SERVE⚡️~Think SERVER/SEVER misspell☝️
FOR EXAMPLES TO DETER OTHERS FROM
VICE
Some to PROVE that

One of my favorite

Forbes estimates that Beanie Baby creator Ty Warner’ net worth is $2.7 Billion. This is an amazing achievement considering a bulk of it was earned during a 3-year time frame selling a $5 per unit stuffed animal.

The fact that Ty Warner’s Beanie Babies were able, without the benefit of a single ad, to outpace the combined annual profits of the largest toymakers in the world for even a few years is unprecedented.

To illustrate how quickly the bubble grew - In 1995, Ty Warner’s company Ty Inc had sales of roughly $28 million. In 1996 sales were $280 million with $90 million in pre-tax income. By 1998, Ty Inc sales reached $1.34 billion with pre-tax income of $700 million.

In Ebay’s 1998 Annual Report it disclosed Beanie Babies as material. “At times, approximately 7% of our listings involved Beanie Babies”. Furthermore, it was said that 10% of Ebay sales at the time were derived from Beanie Babies.

87 pages

My 12 favourite quotes from Phil Fisher, from his wonderful book 'Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits'

Aside from Buffett/Munger, Fisher is the investor that has had the most influence on me and I would recommend his book to anyone:

"More money has probably been lost...

...by investors holding a stock they really did not want until they could 'at least come out even' than from any other single reason... Especially so when you consider foregone reinvestment gains."

"If the growth rate is so good that in another 10 years the company might well have quadrupled, is it really of such great concern whether the stock might or might not be 35% overpriced? Maintain the position and don't worry about losing a small part of the gain."

"If a company has changed for good it deserves to trade at a P/E premium to its history and will probably continue to do so. For young companies in particular many investors will mistakenly view them as overvalued...

…Stocks that at first glance appear to the highest priced may, upon analysis, be the biggest bargains."

MCU RANKED BY EXCITEMENT!
Spider-Man 3
Captain Marvel 2
Loki
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
WandaVision
Secret Invasion
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Ms Marvel
Thor: Love and Thunder
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Moon Knight

Fantastic Four
Black Widow
She-Hulk
Hawkeye
Black Panther II
Deadpool 3
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantamania
Iron Heart
Armour Wars
What If
Blade
Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Eternals
I Am Groot

I’ll reply with reasoning!

Spider-Man 3 - I fucking love Tom Holland’s Spider-Man and that cliffhanger! Zendaya could also step on me so I need more MJ!

Captain Marvel 2 - We stan Carol and also Kamala! Also, lesbian Carol maybe? I hope! MONICA MONICA MONICA MONICA MONICA YES!

Loki - Just Loki himself.

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier - I love the dynamic these two have and I’d love to see where the Zemo storyline goes!

WandaVision - Monica. Wanda. Vision. Multiverse. Must I say more?

Secret Invasion - I adore this storyline in the comics from what I’ve heard about it! Also Aussie rep is a YES for me!

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness - I adore Wanda and Strange so much. I can’t wait to see their dynamic!

Ms Marvel - Kamala Khan rights!

More ?s I'm asking when looking at curricula, policies, practices, etc. 1) "Cultural diversity" "Respect Diversity" ... how are you defining culture? Diversity? 2) Where are you asking for reflection & naming of positionality? Beyond right/wrong narratives that avoid complexity.

3) What group(s) and culture(s) are you framing as default and normal? Who are you othering and dismissing? 4) In your clinical evaluations, how are you asking students to demonstrate "respect for diversity"? 5) Are you lumping together caring, altruism, and social justice?

6) Where are you asking students and providing guidance about honoring patient leadership and autonomy, not merely supporting patients voicing concerns?

7) Safety in clinical evaluations: How are you defining safety beyond medication errors, falls, etc. Where are you asking students to consider cultural safety and demonstrate trauma-informed healing-centered care?

8) Where do you give students the space to PRACTICE inclusion and antiracism and genuine apologies with guidance & a clear theoretical stance? 9) How do you de-center niceness and deservingness and normalize dialogue through conflict?

There is one book I recommend more than any other, and I'm ashamed to share the name...

I swear to god, this is an incredible, well-written, thoughtful book.

It's called 'How To Get Rich' 🤦‍♂️

It was written by a magazine publishing magnate named Felix Dennis in 2008...

Ignore the title. Seriously. It's great.

He is a character. In the 90's he blew $100MM+ on alcohol and crack cocaine, then become a full-time poet in the early 2000's.

It encompasses most of the important lessons of starting and operating a large business.

Here's a few bits:

Fish where the fish are:

“If you wish to become rich, look carefully about you at the prevailing industries where wealth appears to be gravitating. THEN GO TO WHERE THE MONEY IS!”

Hire smart people and leave them to it:

“When you come across real talent, it is worth allowing them to create the structure. In nine cases out of ten, by inviting them to take responsibility and control for a new venture, you will motivate them to do great things.”

Delegate:

“If you want to get rich, then learn to delegate. Don’t learn to pretend to delegate. Delegation is not only a powerful tool, it is the only way to maximise and truly incentivise your most precious asset – the people who work for you."

To the Victoria Embankment, there to take our Government-mandated exercise by following the lines of two waterways, the Bloomsbury Ditch & the #CockAndPye Ditch. These were channels which drained the marshland that surrounded the village of St Giles - current-day Covent Garden.

The walk is one devised by @teabolton in the second volume of his guide to London’s lost rivers, & follows the line of the 2 linked ditches from the Thames at Victoria Embankment Gardens & then back to Cleopatra’s Needle. #CockAndPye

"With no known natural watercourses between the Fleet, to the east, and the Tyburn, to the west, Covent Garden and Soho are gaps in the London river map. It is, however, quite possible that the ditches rechannelled small streams that existed before the earliest maps" - @teabolton

The fields of St Giles-in-the-Fields were notoriously boggy. St Giles itself stood by the main London-Oxford road (as in Oxford Street), but was sufficiently isolated that when, c. 1120, Henry I's wife Matilda founded a monastery here, it doubled as a hospital for lepers.

St Giles always had a marsh-tang of misery & sedition about it. It remained a leper colony - on & off - until the Reformation, & was the centre of Sir John Oldcastle's Lollard rebellion in 1414. (Sir John was executed at what's now the Oxford St-Tottenham Ct Rd x-roads in 1417.)