MacGyver

If McMaster-Carr doesn’t have it, I’d stop looking and just spring for the one from Winchester.

That looks great.

Their toggle action that they acquired with the Summit acquisition is such a neat action.

It’s been a minute since I’ve been on Volquartsen’s site. I have to stay off of there for the sake of my marriage. I had missed that they’ve now got what’s essentially a .22 WMR version of the 22/45. So, thanks for that. Dang it.

Wow. That's a bargain.

You’ll have to buy a phone that’s compatible with whatever network they’re riding on. As such, it’s probably worth buying from their vendor. Was the Kyocera an old flip phone? If it was, it might be worth checking Amazon or EBay to see if you could just purchase the samE model.

I’m not sure their definition of “peer review” would withstand much in the way of actual peer review. That said, this may be the only time I’ve ever read is someone being accused of willfully violating the Paperwork Reduction Act.

What do you think that hog's age was? It's such an outlier. You could hunt the rest of your life and never see another hog within 100lbs of that one.

That's a sweet old FJ. I keep telling myself I'm going to buy another one. I need another project like I need a hole in my head.

Neat!

I just can't come around to that tanto profile on the PM2. It makes it harder to sharpen - I don't know that it's worth it.

They called that thing the "thumb buster" for a reason. Maybe try it in slow motion first I can still remember a friend of mine peeling back the skin on the top of his thumb from running one fast with not quite the right grip.

It looks like it’s in great shape.

I guess they’re gonna have to kick him out of their basement.

Yours is the one that got me interested in it.

Sweet trench gun. Always thought bayonets belonged on shotguns.

There's an old saying that if something is free - you're not the customer, you're the product. One of the primary firms at the center of (what will be) the investigation is Citadel LLC. They're sort of two businesses in one - they're a giant "alternative asset manager" aka hedge fund - and the other half of their business is one of the biggest market makers out there. Citadel is a major investor in Melvin Capital - one of the hedge funds that got run over by r/WallStreetBets - having invested almost $3B after they got caught in the GME short squeeze. On the other side, Citadel is Robinhood's biggest client. One half of your shop just got run over - the other half looks and says - okay we've got to get this money back. There's some stuff in that "making our money back" that can cross the line from "ethically grey" to illegal really quick. But, Robinhood looking after their biggest customer by offering up the common retail investor is really something else entirely,.

I know this will read as "the little guy getting screwed again." But, I wonder to what extent the brokerages have an ethical burden to act? Basically, if you see Wall Street firms market-making and buying options and other complex derivatives at the same time - you're basically watching folks get screwed. Is it better to have a pissed of customer with some money - or a pissed off customer with no money? I know, I know - free market - everyone knew there were risks. But, if you know the little guy is going to get screwed - because it's literally a setup - do you step in and put a stop to it? Investing isn't for everyone - I get it - but if somebody spent their rent money this morning at $460 and it's trading at $155 right now - where do you put a stop to it? A couple of hedge funds got screwed - likely by another hedge fund. Fine. Everyone needs a hobby. But, this isn't that anymore.

There’s some increasing evidence that Wall Street firms are playing both sides of this and fueling it. A firm could potentially simultaneously see orders and then trade options at prices they can then ensure. As retail investors were increasingly shut out yesterday as their brokerages closed access, the price still rose quickly. Some hedge fund have already figured out a way to make money off of this. Again, this is some billionaires screwing other lesser billionaires - so on one hand who cares. But, a lot of those retail investors are going to be left holding empty bags. GME’s drop is going to be as fast as it’s rise.

If there’s one thing we’ve learned one thing in the last few years it’s that the internet has made the world a much smaller place. From the colored revolutions to BTS Tiktok’rs taking over rallies a lot more marginalized groups are finding their voices through the internet. We should also definitely couple in the fact that Wall Street has some amazing skill at monetizing flaws in market systems - they’re also surprisingly immature in some areas that make them vulnerable to stuff like this.

NASDAQ’s CEO has suggested they might halt trading to allow funds to “recalibrate their positions.” https://www.mediaite.com/news/nasdaq-ceo-suggests-halt-to-trading-to-allow-big-investors-to-recalibrate-their-positions-to-combat-reddit-users/amp/?__twitter_impression=true When 2008 happened, it was the taxpayer that bailed (most of) them out. This is another verse to that same song.

No doubt.

Basically, yes. Oddly, they’re not really equipped for investigations like this. They’re more or less doomscrolling on Twitter like everyone else.

The SEC has released a statement that they’re “monitoring the situation.”