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Welcome—I’ve been in the area for over 15 years now. Hit me up when you move here—would love to buy a drink for the guy who made me good money on LQDA and ShitLab

Honestly, theres so many career obsessed whores in the city that you can just be the happy male equivalent. As long as you're not expecting or looking for a wife, you'll be fine LOL

. You lead with cheese, you'll only attract rats.

The fact is that European politicians who claim to care about "privacy" are really upset that companies like Apple are allowing its users to have full end-to-end encryption. Shows you that European leaders don't want privacy at all, but just one thing: control.

Lol: someone who doesn't understand FISA or the difference between having backdoor access to all encrypted communication vs interception of communication. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple–FBI_encryption_dispute https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/law-enforcement-guidelines-us.pdf To those who are clueless: even Apple doesn't have the keys to iPhone end to end encryption.

LOL. You do understand the difference between a private company collecting data to sell you ads and a government, right? Or maybe you do not. I guess that's why Europeans like to click on those "Accept Cookies" banners all day BTW: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/law-enforcement-guidelines-us.pdf https://support.apple.com/en-bn/guide/iphone/iph584ea27f5/ios

You know your "democracy" is in trouble when you start comparing it with Russia's... https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/07/07/eu-to-extend-temporary-message-scanning-regime-to-detect-child-sexual-abuse-online Read it again--they used a rare measure to sneak it through: No consider all the problems facing Europe and THIS is what these MEPs are hellbent on passing? LMAO. You don't trust Twitter? Fine. What about R/Europe on Reddit? Why don't you read the comments.

You're in NYC. Just go into any downtown bar on a Thurs or Fri (when the bridge and tunnel girls are out) and happen to drop that you work at a hedge fund. You'll do fine.

What are some examples?

Twitter people have no idea about democracy, as usual. To give a non-democratic example, numerous punitive laws in Russia are approved by the parliament in a few days, from initial idea to legal validity. Here we see 3 years of discussions and multiple rejections - that is as democratic as it gets. You could phrase this as "the EU is preventing chat control for the 6th time", because the EU consists of multiple actors, some o which are coming up with ideas, and some are rejecting or approving ideas. Compare this again with the Russian president who decided to start a full scale war without asking anyone. Or the American president who did the same recently.

Google, Facebook are built on collecting personal data, it's the whole business model. Every Big Tech today does that

The East Coast of Canada is stunningly beautiful. Much smaller and less diversity than Vancouver or British Columbia, but the people, land and food is amazing! More akin to Ireland than most of the rest of Canada...literally across the pond from Ireland! I plan on making a driving trip in the fall of 2027 starting from Quebec and then all around the East Coast including Prince Edward Island (PEI). The "Newfy" stuff (big in the 1970's) was Canada's version of U.S. backwater jokes or Polish lightbulb jokes...more ignorance than anything else! Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, PEI, etc are hidden gems that more people around the world should be aware of! Cheers!

I'm just saying, lots of men out there have bad experiences and wind up resenting women for one reason or another...that's no way to live, no way to find a partner and no way to build a healthy relationship. Good lucky buddy, you're wealthier, younger, smarter, and probably more handsome than I - go knock it out of the park! Next time I'm in the city I'll shoot you a message, I at least owe you a round or a dinner!

Ok cool. Do we get to keep our provincially (or I guess now, state) funded healthcare? If so, how do we keep the poor and indigent from every other state from moving here to use it if they get sick?

"You know what's loser mentality? Whining about homelessness, just go buy a home" - Says the man who has a mansion. Bad analogy, but you folks lucked out being born in a different era. As much as I disdain the manosphere clowns, some facts are not refutable. No offense LC, but answers like these are why the youngins fall for those retard manosphere exploiters. You really think most folks my age haven't tried that? . My generation is literally living in that rat utopia experiment. This is also who the "looksmaxxing" crowd have gained such popularity as of late. There are no 1BRs under $5k unfortunately. Studios costing closer to $4k now.. I can afford that, affordability is not my problem. Not being able to light a cigarette in my own balcony is.

This post might not age well (or it may!) but when multiple expansion happens it usually happens rapidly and when people least expect it. And there isn’t necessarily a reason you can clearly point to even with hindsight. I have seen it multiple times. It’s just price matching up with value (the only law in investing) . We just don’t know if it will happen next month or in 5 years. With buybacks we can (mostly) sit back and relax regardless.

As an America I think it would be awesome if Alberta joined the US. No they wouldn’t be their own nation, but lots of states retain their own identity.

HaHa! - Hit on it!, @whatstheofficerproblem !

I just looked up my NYC apartment which i rented from 2011-2013. It's a 2BR available for $7,500 / month. the living room was cut in half to create a 3rd bedroom. A reasonable trio would split this, $3,000/mo $2,500/mo, $2,000 / month or something like that ($3K gets the en suite, $2.5K gets the real bedroom / shares bathroom, $2K gets the fake bedroom share bathroom). (the $3K guy is getting the best deal but paying the most)...it was a doorman building / pretty nice. It was $5,100 15 years ago, so has only gone up by 2.5%/yr, less than inflation and less than low end junior comp at banks / HF / etc. NYC housing is affordable if you have a great job (a hedge fund job certainly qualifies) and are willing to room up which is fun when you're young. are you only looking at studios / 1BR? you don't have to spend $4K...that gets you half of a luxury 2BR which is way too much for someone just outta college.

You may say so, but his performance is quite impressive, just take a look a this 80 years old charlatan and womanizer working on the always white dressed female Italian, who won't beg him! [If you ask me, it's just awesome, nobody can make this up, except AI! - please don't tell Melania about it, or your President may be in trouble! ] : https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116869343915433662

I thought I missed the thread! My apologies ~ Happy (one week belated) Canada Day!

Please don't listen to these married virgins And ignore all that loser manosphere crap. You know what women don't find attractive? Men who use the words 'hypergamous' and 'hybristophilic'. Good hygene, a good nature, and kindness will get you 90% of the way there. Go chase those 25 year old women, it's literally the biggest selling point of being in NYC. Saving fun for when you're 40 is the lamest thing you can do. Youth >>>>>>>>> money, every day of the week.

Bought some more LILAP and shorted a little LILAK as a hedge. In a month the common is up 50% while the preferred is down 20%. Seems like at least one of those is wrong.

Unlike, @Txvestor, I think multiple expansion beyond 1.5x will come from the next hard market. We could go well beyond 1.75x depending on how long it lasts. My guess is we’ll set higher highs and higher lows on the multiple over subsequent hard markets as buybacks dwindle the shares outstanding and long term holders are more reluctant to pay taxes but momentum investors still need to move in and out.

Hopefully, Orange Boy keeps his promises tonight .... SD