Man, if I had a nickel for every time I saw this:
Wrong number ✅
Beautiful Asian woman living in LA ✅
Owns her own business, jewelry/fashion design/finance ✅
Mysteriously keeps the conversation going even when told it's a wrong number ✅
Tries a romance angle to suck you in to a crypto "investment" in 3-2-1...
Typically run out of boiler room call centers in Myanmar using, essentially, slave labor:
Two weeks? It happened in 2010(!)
IIRC there are some nice collected versions as well:
"The Great Book of Amber", all 10 books in 1,200 pages(!)
https://agreenmanreview.com/books/roger-zelaznys-the-great-book-of-amber/
You've already been warned about editorializing headlines and refuse to correct. This earns you a removal and temp ban.
Specifically an attack on Scout which wants to go direct to consumer:
But aww, Blogsites, including substack, are not allowed.
$1050 is the new $750. LOL.
I was prepared to pay $1,000 plus extra for the Walnut faceplate and controller.
Having to get the 2TB version to do that stings a little.
Laura is great, but Gabby is just a ray of sunshine! Plus Jonathan the ACTUAL Wolverine!
Have you read the book Piranesi? Main character is trapped in a thought construct.
Think Allegory of the Cave:
It's a user submitted modification to an original headline from a legitimate news source.
Modifying the headline is NOT ALLOWED as per the rules of the community.
We don't allow the insertion of personal opinion in headlines. Body? Sure! Comments? Absolutely.
Not in the headline.
Guy who wrote the headline is breaking the rules of the community and has done so repeatedly.
https://www.pitzlfinancial.com/blog/ode-shoeshine-boy
"In 1929, at the height of an economic boom in America, Joseph Kennedy Sr. (father of JFK) was working as a stockbroker on Wall Street. As the story goes, Joseph was walking around when he decided to sit down for a shoeshine. While polishing his shoes, the young worker gave Joseph some of his favorite stock picks. When Joseph heard the shoeshine boy giving out stock tips, he figured the party was about to end, and it was time to get out of the market. Joseph proceeded to exit his positions in the market and bought short positions that bet on the market going down.
Shortly after that, the stock market entered a free fall. On Monday, October 28, 1929, the market dropped about 13%. The next day it fell another 12%. These became better known as Black Monday and Black Tuesday, and ushered the United States into The Great Depression.
Now did Joseph profit from this type of bet? Absolutely. It's estimated that he made somewhere north of $150 million during that period, which equates to roughly $3.5 billion in today’s dollars.
Did he make these bets based on the shoeshine boy? Probably not, but it makes for a good narrative."