My Uber driver today:
Drove 90 hours/week for last 8 years. Lives in his car. Moving back to Georgia in 2 years (country, not state).
He's used his Uber earnings to buy 8 rental properties + develop 16 condos back home. When he moves back, he'll have his extended family's
Wild to me that Amazon's order confirmations intentionally hide the two most important things:
- What you ordered
- Where it's being shipped
Completely nuking their customer UX in order to keep Google from getting their commerce data.
A bunch of Redditors have started identifying stocks with high levels of short interest and manufacturing short squeezes via their Robinhood accounts, making themselves millionaires in the process. Today’s target is $GME.
The craziest thing I’ve seen in a while.
This happened to my dad (paramedics insisted on ambulance ride, turned out not covered by insurance) and he negotiated a 25 year payment plan and sends a check for like $6 every month with "for extortion" on the memo line. Doing quite well with inflation.
My wife: “What are you doing?”
Me: “Defending Capitalism on Twitter.”
Her: “Capitalism doesn’t need you.”
Me: “It does.”
Her: “If its the best idea, it will win in the market.”
Meta mic drop.
In January 2020, prominent Twitter / Youtube / FB accounts were suspended for suggesting that COVID-19 may have escaped from a Wuhan Lab.
Today it looks increasingly likely that may be the case.
What happens when the censors get it wrong?
Three Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers became sick enough in November 2019 that they sought hospital care, according to a U.S. intelligence report that could add to calls for a fuller probe of whether the Covid-19 virus may have escaped from the lab on.wsj.com/3ucYehb