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underpants's JournalBarry Sanders 'asks' Garth Brooks to be his VP after fans mistake him for Bernie Sanders
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2020/02/28/barry-sanders-garth-brooks-bernie-sanders-jersey-confusion/4904129002/
COVID-19 -- Serie A call off five games including Juventus vs. Inter Milan
https://www.espn.com/soccer/italian-serie-a/story/4063154/five-serie-a-games-off-including-juve-interSerie A have called off five fixtures this weekend including Juventus vs. Inter Milan because of fears over coronavirus.
The other games are Udinese vs. Fiorentina, Milan vs. Genoa, Parma vs. SPAL and Sassuolo vs. Brescia.
A number of sporting events in the north of the country have been cancelled over the past two weeks due to the virus having affected numerous victims, with 12 fatalities at the time of writing.
Originally, the top of the table clash between Juve and Inter was scheduled to be played behind closed doors, but it has now been cancelled altogether with the fixture rearranged for May 13.
Tomorrow should be a good day for Trump
The markets are closed
and
Krispy Kreme begins home delivery
Suuure it's Earth's new car sized moon. Couldn't be anything else.
There's a new "mini-moon" orbiting the Earth — and it's the size of a car
Earth has acquired a second "mini-moon" about the size of a car, according to astronomers who spotted the object circling our planet. The mass -- roughly 6-11 feet in diameter -- was observed by researchers Kacper Wierzchos and Teddy Pruyne at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona on the night of February 15.
"BIG NEWS. Earth has a new temporarily captured object/Possible mini-moon called 2020 CD3," likely to be a C-type asteroid, Wierzchos tweeted.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mini-moon-2020-cd3-size-of-a-car-is-orbiting-the-earth-astronomers-say/
https://twitter.com/WierzchosKacper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-6298842043375233470.ampproject.net%2F2002192257490%2Fframe.html
Reddit's Profane, Greedy Traders Are Shaking Up the Stock Market
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-26/reddit-s-profane-greedy-traders-are-shaking-up-the-stock-marketChatter on message boards is reshaping the options market and sparking wild rallies.
In a dingy corner of the internet is a message board, soaked in profanity, bro-speak, and greed, where posters with handles such as OverthrowYourMasters and yolo_tron campaign for their favorite stocks, putting up screenshots from their online brokerage accounts of their moonshot victories—or showing off their massive losses like badges of honor. Some of them think they’ve found the key to fast wins on the stock market. Wall Street doubts they’re right, but it’s getting nervous about what it sees there.
History hasn’t been kind to people claiming to have a magic hand. The latest sell-off, driven by a new wave of coronavirus fears, shows how quickly markets can turn on you. But even veteran traders have trouble dismissing a 900,000-user Reddit forum called r/wallstreetbets, or r/WSB for short, whose tips and tactics have shown an uncanny ability to push prices, at least for the short term. Hitherto sleepy companies such as Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. and Plug Power Inc. went crazy shortly after being mentioned there. The board may have added a little froth to Tesla Inc.’s $90 billion rally.
Twenty years later, one thing that’s changed is the nomenclature. It’s frequently both juvenile and objectionable. For Reddit’s band of self-styled “autists”—a term of endearment, relatively speaking, that crudely leans into stereotypes surrounding extremely online people—the chief prize is “tendies” (chicken tenders, the treat an overgrown man-child receives for being a “Good Boy”). Figuratively speaking, tendies are the financial rewards that follow from a successful bold wager. Bears are usually referred to in homophobic terms.
As the swashbuckling day trader’s imprint on the market becomes more pronounced, moderators are getting stricter in their policing of the board—or “sub,” for subreddit. One user, who’d been a member for three years without posting, laid out the bull case for Lumber Liquidators Inc. and promised another pick the following morning. Call volumes in the company jumped to 71 times the previous one-month average, with shares rising 18.6%. This user was promptly banned from r/WSB upon providing the next tip, with a moderator claiming that the poster “tried to use the platform for personal gain.” Members were warned that any interactions with the user on Reddit or discussion of the user’s latest recommendation would also get them kicked out. “This sub is a travesty,” wrote user Deftech1, complaining about the influx of those looking for—or pushing—get-rich-quick schemes. “Can we just go back to losing inordinate amounts of money?”
"Parking Lot" at workplace meetings? It's the new "cohort"
So I started a new position a few weeks ago. Same organization just a different department.
I've been in two meetings other than regular staff meetings and in both the person running the meeting has said, "We're going to put that in the 'parking lot,". Meaning an issue came up that will be discussed or dealt with later. The first time I heard it I thought it was strange and then I heard it again yesterday. My wife (in a more corporate world) says she's never heard that one.
In both departments I've heard "cohort" used a lot recently. Yes the use is in keeping with the definition but until about a year and half ago I don't know that I've ever heard "cohort".
Maybe it just me.
Harvey Weinstein avoids first night at Rikers Island
Harvey Weinstein Taken to Bellevue Hospital With Chest Pains
Harvey Weinstein was taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan on Monday after complaining of chest pains, according to his representative.
Weinstein was supposed to be transferred to the jail on Rikers Island, but was diverted to Bellevue. Weinstein was remanded into custody on Monday morning after a jury convicted him on charges of sexual assault and third-degree rape.
Weinstein had been free on $2 million bond, but Justice James Burke ordered him held in jail prior to sentencing on March 11.
His attorney, Donna Rotunno, urged the judge to allow him to remain free, saying that he recently had unsuccessful back surgery and requires shots in order to keep from going blind. Weinstein appeared in court most days with a walker, which his attorneys said was a result of his lingering back issues.
https://variety.com/2020/biz/news/harvey-weinstein-hospital-chest-pains-1203514196/
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