The final frontier of consumerism has arrived in South Korea.

is this genuinely the explanation for decline of everything - friendships, excitement, spontaneity, dating?

the older i get, the more i realise how much of life is just pure luck

the other night, my 3yo asks if he could take a Hot Wheels car to bed. in the past, this has gone poorly. the car gets lost in the blankets and he wakes up crying and searching for it. or he falls asleep on top of it and wakes up because it's poking him, etc so, I say no. he whines a little, but then accepts it and goes to bed 15 minutes later, he quietly opens his door, steps into the hallway, closes the door behind him, looks at me seriously, takes a deep breath. and (in the calmest, most non-whiny big-boy voice he could muster) says, "I really, really want to have my car with me." so of course, i have to work with him! he had regrouped, considered his needs for 15 whole minutes, and come back to the table with a calm statement. incredibly endearing, these are the little things that make me proud of him so we reach a compromise: the car could come to bed, but it had to sleep in a little basket next to him (the "car bed") happy to negotiate with reasonable people!!

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Wait until you see the timing on this one… July 24. Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi’s husband, buys Bloom Energy. 10,000 shares and 100 call options, $100 strike, expiring June 2027. Four days later he adds another 5,000 shares and 100 more of the same calls. Between $3 and $12 million. First time they’ve ever owned it. Yesterday S&P announced Bloom Energy joins the S&P 500 on September 21. The stock had already run 7.3% during the session on speculation, then added another 5% after hours once it was confirmed. Now look at the options. A $100 strike on a stock at $252 is deep in the money, so it isn’t a bet on the company doing well. It’s leverage on something happening before June 2027. 200 contracts is 20,000 shares. The shares alone cost roughly $2.7 million and are worth about $3.8 million now. Up $1.1 million. The options are worth more than that on paper, though what he paid isn’t disclosed so nobody can calculate the actual profit. And that’s before the 21st, when every S&P 500 tracker has to buy it. The obvious pushback is that inclusion is decided by a private committee at S&P Dow Jones Indices. No government involvement, nothing Congress votes on. True. Except Bloom spent $60,000 lobbying Congress in Q2 on the tax treatment of fuel cells. So they’re in Washington talking about their own tax rules, then a congressional household puts up to $12 million into them with dated calls, then they get added to the index. Coincidence, obviously. Right??

I think I'm ready to go back to church. I haven't found Jesus yet, but I've seen enough of Satan.

This is a fascinating coincidence Is it a coincidence??