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I just made my first crypto purchase. BTC is at $60,700ish according to my broker Wealth Simple, and I see $48000 USD / 60,800 CAD on other trading platforms like Coinbase and Binance, which I think was live data. Even so, that was 30 minutes ago and I still se similar prices. So that seems like it's the market price

I put my purchase through thirty minutes ago and it says the price is $62k - but the price isn't reflective of what they'll fulfill, they'll get whatever the best market price is. I think ok, maybe this is delayed to the real time data I'm seeing.... and they fulfill it at $62,088. Their own price graph still shows it being around $60,800 this whole time...

If I choose the sell option, the price they offer me is $59,777

They are just scamming $1k off the side either way, right? They advertise this as commission free but this seems so bogus. It doesn't look like they are obtaining market price at all.

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Lopen posted...

Doubled my stake in FUBO

A bunch of good news and the stock is down $10? I don't believe you good sir.

https://www.newsfilecorp.com/release/76116

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I wonder if a movie like Chaos Walking doing well would push theatres like AMC up, or if continued bombing would drive them further down. Or will this not matter all for a while still?

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lopen i bet my life savings on rocket it literally has rocket in the name

please give dividend

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it bothers me almost as much as the the creepy stuff

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that quote is repulsive to me in pretty much every way imaginable

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Artifact

Long Haul baby

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lol this ask. i wonder if this is legit the next ask price or if it's just an update error by my broker, I've never seen a jump like this except for very low volume things like warrants



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if we tell you not to buy will it switch you into sell mode or do you think you can HODL?

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lol im sitting here questioning my life choices that brought me here after putting $1k at $36

you two are an inspiration

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someday i'll figure out how to actually buy crypto currency and get in on a dip

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Well, don't be intimidated by length of the series! Every book is it's own self contained mystery of the week (though there is plenty of long term growth throughout the series). I'd just take it one book at a time, and you can come back for another book between other books later if it strikes you. Or not! One and done is perfectly fine here.

They are fairly light reads anyways.

I'm curious about Anansi Boys. I thought American Gods was kinda neat but didn't *really* pull me in. From what I understand it's about Mr Nancy?

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my favourite thing about dream cheating was the astrophysicist he hired to refute the original thesis that proved him a cheater

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What effect do you guys think a stock split has on market cap? CP Rail (CP.TO) has an upcoming 5 to 1 split. It's currently $467 so that'll bring shares to under $100

I've noticed many people have this internal idea of "how much a stock is worth", like if something is $30 it seems good but if it's $90 it's overvalued, but that line of thinking I think is mistakenly assuming every company has the same number of shares outstanding. A company that sells for $300 or $30 with 10x the shares is valued the same after all. Theoretically a stock split doesn't change anything about value but I wonder what in practice actually happens. My gut is that market cap would increase but I haven't looked into any reading on the matter.

Though the one tangible benefit is being more accessible to people with less capital to buy.

I recently signed up with a broker that has zero commissions on CAD stocks so that's why I happen to be looking at this. I'm also looking at the Score since single game sports betting is going through parliament in Canada right now. I'm not sure if they'll actually end up being the ones benefiting but I do know a lot of people in my personal life use it to follow hockey news. Hockey pools are very common so I do imagine it'll go somewhere.

Just recently had a USD offering though so not sure if the current price is right. It was for $27 and the price has tanked to just above that so maybe this is where it holds

Score was already on my eye from the esports app and I kind of want to find things in the gaming world that are worth investing in... but I tend to hate all the publicly traded gaming companies....

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Nice, this is always something I fall on and off of. I love to read but can go months or even years without really reading much and then read a bunch of books in a month. Speaking of, I should select my next book...

Johnbobb posted...

in the meantime, if anyone has suggestions of especially good audiobooks (particularly ones available on the app Libby, which my local library uses) feel free to post them! I find myself most partial to a good thriller or mystery, particularly with a surreal or supernatural twist to them. Or talk about the books you've been reading!

Oh, I'm gonna go ahead and throw the Dresden Files at you. It's a super common rec both around here and in fantasy circles, but I think it ticks everything you asked for here. It's about a guy who advertises himself as a wizard in the yellowpages, as a sort of PI for hire type deal. Noone thinks magic is real so he mostly just gets mocked and doesn't get much real work, but every now and then someone with a genuine monster problem comes knocking. Just think of it as the old noir detective style with magical elements. The main character is kind of a screw up with a heart of gold type guy as you might expect and people love him for it. I think this basically exactly a mystery with a supernatural twist to it like you are looking for?

The audiobooks are done by James Marsters, who you might know as Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I'm not really an audiobook guy at all, I really enjoy the physical act of finding a spot and reading my physical book, but I tried the first book, Storm Front, because of Marsters and thought he really captured the tone perfectly.

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I'm a bit perplexed by Zemo being free - I'm assuming he's being used by some government organization in a sort of Suicide Squad capacity, like let's get this dude out there working for us.... but his ability to scheme is unparalleled, despite having zero superpowers he's probably the most dangerous person you could release like that.

Klaue had plenty of opportunity to shine, and he did. I would not say he was wasted at all - in fact I would call that being used perfectly

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I'm excited to rewatch the Magnificent Seven, I thought Chris Pratt was really good in it

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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Yeah, I posted it with pictures before. Lol I vaguely remember you catching hell, but I didn't feel it was too bad because they'd probably be just as mean if they had to spend an entire night with these people.

One is almost assuredly going to have a woman's head in his fridge within five years.

lol i think you said all of this then too

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Wow, I thought the scene with Wanda and Vision watching Malcolm in the MIddle was phenomenal. It made me feel some kind of emotion I can't even really explain, and the way they were glancing at eachother towards the end felt so awkward yet so natural. Seeing Agatha wipe a tear away was the cherry on top.

What a great scene

I liked all of the walks through memory lane a lot.

I didn't like the Dragonball Z opening with the witches. The kamehameha's didn't feel in line with what the actors were all doing at all. Kind of a cool looking effect but was not used well. The SWORD guy just showing Vision's body to Wanda while his scientists are taking it a part was just dumb as hell. I honestly could not tell if he was being malicious, being empathetic, or being just plain fucking stupid.

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you must fucking love westerns

the only movie in this list i've seen is Blazing Saddles

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I'll give it a shot

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greengravy294 posted...

I've just kinda never lived independently so I'm both really nervous about living alone and I don't really know how to budget. I already live frugally and shit so I think I'd be okay..maybe

it's normal to be nervous but you should try and look at this as an opportunity to expand your skills and learn a lot of new things. There's a lot of "busy work" that's required like cleaning, laundry, maintenance, cooking everyday, shopping etc that you might not even realize needs to be done normally when your parents handle some or all of it.

Rather than avoiding these tasks, try and proactively identify them and figure out how you will learn how to do them regularly. This will help you a lot in the long run.

I've been living away from my parents for like 10 years and i still havent figured out that that you should Make Your Bed

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SP upside?

Isn't your play primarily in options with BP?

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I think Biscuit has told this story before and even posted pictures.. I remember commenting about how even ugly people want to sleep around and a bunch of people being mad about that heartless comment

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I love how board 8ers are always managing to make posts that could only have come uniquely from them

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it just keeps getting worse

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i've always thought MODOK was the dumbest thing and have never been able to imagine him being good in any context but I know Patton is a big MODOK fan and has wanted this for a long time, so there's some good potential here

I also love disposable AIM scientists in those stupid yellow hazmat suits. They are just perfect for this kind of comedy.

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Comment to red sox about his recent thoughts about holding lots of different stocks

I like the idea of diversifying into a bunch of different stocks and making lots of bets rather than investing in a few, and it's fun looking into the next stock to bet on

but at times like this when every stock is falling it makes me a bit nervous about keeping up on new information for them all. i dont blink at all at the losses that are happening, i'm not going to panic sell ever. but it is important to recognize when stocks are all falling inline with the market and will likely recover with the market, and when an individual stock actually has a legitimate issue and wont recover with the rest. looking at my portfolio, i just noticed i feel a little blind to seeing this and my default assumption is to just assume it's all in line with the market. i might not notice when i have a genuine loser and might need to take action.

just food for thought.

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I'm WAY less confident in making a big profit this time around. Last time was completely uncharted territory which created a lot of uncertainty on what the right move was for everyone involved. This time around, the institutions probably know exactly what they want to do, which will make it harder for retail investors to make the right decisions at the right times. One of the most useful bits of info from Destiny's GME Manifesto was how much the later days of the mania going up above $400 was driven by institutions, not retail investors, and I'm not betting on them doing it again.

If I had held GME all this time or bought in at $40, I'd probably be selling now at $150 I think

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Lopen posted...

BP is listed on the NYSE bro

Also Li Auto posted profit. Moon will come. Surely

oh its this weird ADR thing. i didnt know these even exist but i suppose it makes sense. cool.

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As for BP.... it turns out my broker does allow global trading on other currencies, but I need to open a separate FOREX account.... Is that standard for you guys or do US brokers just let you deal in all kinds of currencies?

edit: nevermind that feature is for RICH PEOPLE ONLY no BP trading for me

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I agree from an efficiency perspective that's probably the easiest and maybe best way to enjoy some crypto gains, but I see this as dipping my toes in the pool to work towards immersing myself in the crypto world and part of that is going on their platforms and seeing what their tools are and how they view things. It's interesting that Binance and Coinbase trading platforms are both very similar to the SUPER SERIOUS stock trading platforms with all slickest charts and graphs (using my broker Questrade's normal website is very simple compared to its daytrading platform IQ Edge). But it also has differences that I'm interested to explore. I think it will help me understand crypto in the long run.

I don't know that Bitcoin in particular is the future but I think the asset class itself is going to grow and change over the years and learning more about how it works will help me to move past this stage I've been in for the last 10 years watching these crazy gains go by but not understanding enough to get in. It's a research expedition that I'm willing to throw a few hundred or even a few thousand dollars at.

A further part of my research is that I've been opening accounts with WealthSimple, which is kinda like Canada's Robin Hood. Super simple and streamlined app, no fees, no minimum balance. Intended to get retail investors in the door as easily as possible. Funnily enough they have a crypto app even though most real brokers don't so I'm funding that... I want to see how it differs from the crypto exchanges. I'm also checking them out as they seem like the best platform to recommend to people when they want to start investing but don't have a lot of money to start with. No fees is hard to beat, but I've already noticed that their trick is that they only maintain CAD cash for you, so any time you buy a USD stock, they'll charge FX conversion to change to USD.... and when you sell they charge FX conversion to change it back to CAD. That adds up QUICK. Seems like there's no downside to use it for stuff on the Toronto Stock Exchange though.

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Is anybody familiar with how using credit cards on Coinbase and/or Binance works? They don't support linking a CAD bank account to just transfer money in, but they do accept credit cards, (probably with a few % fee), but Coinbase just declines my card, and Binance wants me to go through these SImplex or Banxa partners which seem really strange to me and want all kinds of extra identification.

I tried to buy in the dip a day or two ago but man they want me to jump through a lot of hoops here... maybe I just need to open a USD bank account somewhere and convert myself...

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LiquidOshawott posted...

the theme that these heroes dont think on a micro scale what happens to civilians,

Is this supposed to be that they *do* think about that? It's always been a big strength to me of the MCU (and a gigantic lead over DC films....) but I've been a bit frustrated lately where Marvel films take collateral damage a bit too far. Mysterio went too far in FFH, and even in Age of Ultron, the Hulkbuster fight was too much. It's a directing/writing failure when the heroes are the root cause of this much damage.

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Well I love Ultron's personality so I can't relate to that!

His first and final scenes with Jarvis are great.

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I wonder how much more seriously people would take Ultron if they had actually given him a strong body that could beat down the Hulk. Not Thanos level strength but definitely a problem for the Avengers to literally beat up. The worst part of the movie imo is that his strongest form is barely stronger than the other paper robots. Sure, they jacked his Super Perfect Form and gave it to Vision, but his backup was just way too laughably weak.

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Cybat posted...

Guardians Inferno

what

how do i not know about this

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Inviso posted...

CoolCly
Gamora is cool, but I do kind of think shes a bit of a failure as a character.
Shes supposed to be the most dangerous woman in the galaxy, and she should be pretty heavily jaded from her childhood being raised by Thanos, and that doesnt *really* come across in her character. Shes the heart of the team and wants to do the right thing always, which I dont think should really be her role. Unfortunately, I think thats just because shes the woman on the time. She should be at least as cold as everyone else, with a capacity to change, and it should be the warmth of other characters that changes her. As for her dangerousness shes relatively capable in a fight, but she seems more average than exceptional. In the prison, she gets captured by a bunch of mooks its kind of embarrassing, actually.

I'm curious what people think of Gamora. I think overall she's fine and is overall a thumbs up, but I don't think she's the standout memorable character she could have been

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i just bought this the other day to try....i feel almost obligated to give it a chance after it being the subject of one of the greatest youtube videos of all time. i've watched this like a million times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5BJVO3PDeQ

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Cap did not exist in our current timeline with Peggy - she married someone else and lived her life running SHIELD. This is established canon before Endgame and this didn't change. Cap lived his life with her in an alternate timeline and returned back somehow with a different method than the Hulk's gear.

It's explained several times in the movie that the point of the time travel here is not to change how events happened, that they can't be changed like that. It's also been Word of God'd that the movie uses the branching timelines model, but that's really not necessary because it's all there in the script.

red13n posted...

Undoing the snap was an option. Tony didnt want that because it would erase 5 years of his life.

No, this is a character thing. It's Tony expressing his boundaries and terms for getting involved. There could be other methods and who knows what will happen when someone has the gauntlet - he's making it clear what this mission is and is not trying to do, or else he's not getting involved. It's not a statement about what the Pym Particle time travel can do.


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BetrayedTangy posted...

Nah Loki escaping isn't and Thanos' army dying in the future isn't either.

The only way they can work is through retcons. For Loki to work the Avengers need to capture him at the end of his Disney+ series

I think Thanos' army only works if Tony snapped them back into 2014. But Nebula is dead and I think Gamora is still in the present so that doesn't really work either tbh.

This is the problem most people who think there are timeline problems have - not understanding how the time travel worked in End Game

It uses the branching timelines model. Any time they go to the past, they aren't going to *their* past. They are going to an alternate timeline/universe and taking things.

The intent was to borrow the Infinity Gems from an alternate timeline and return them to the exact point that they were borrowed from, in effect not actually creating any alternate timelines since everything there would play out exactly the same.

However, since things went sideways, they did permanently change the confluence of events for alternate timelines. Nebula killed the version of herself from the alternate timeline - this didn't kill her past self and affect her own history, it just killed the Nebula of that timeline. That timeline will no longer have a Nebula. Thanos and all his goons from that timeline are also now dead, so they will not arrive on Earth in the future and do the snap. so... good news for that timeline. Since the Gamora from that timeline is now stuck in the prime timeline, the Guardians of that timeline will not have a Gamora, so possibly bad news for that time timeline.

Loki escaped - but that doesn't change the history of the current timeline's Loki. There's just now a timeline where Loki escaped. The new Loki show looks like it's going to be about this Loki. This means he will have a very different personality from where he ended up in Infinity War, as he was at the height of his madness at that point and his choices to help Thor and consider himself an Odinson have not happened yet.

This is why undoing the snap to begin with was never an option. There is no time travelling back to the current timelines history and changing events happening. Everything that happened has already happened and cannot be changed.

It's theoretically possible that if things had gone smoothly and they had managed to return the gems with no influence on the alternate universe, then the same thing could had happened to the prime tlmeline with *their* gems being borrowed by a different timeline and then returned with no impact, but since we know there was impact, that's not the case. There was no time interference in the current timelines history.

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I think the first season is phenomenal and pretty much a perfect show. I love Peggy Carter and would recommend it to anyone.

The second season... not so much. I kinda wish it had just been a one season mini series to begin with.

The one shot is a great taste of the show though!

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The first season is bad to mediocre, with some signs of life after a shift about 3/4 the way into the season (people say it gets GOOD to GREAT at that point, but honestly, it's still poorly made in a lot of ways)

I thought season 2 was good and it's a steady upwards climb in quality every season afterwards. It's a constantly evolving show in many ways. While many characters stick around, I don't think there's really a "status quo" here, despite the reputation of being about boring Agents or whatever.

So like... if you are down to watch a lot of hours of MCU content that is going to take a while to ramp up, yes. If not, nah.

There are some really stand out characters that I love though.

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Grand Kirby posted...

It's funny, I rewatched Infinity War last night and there's literally nobody else around when the Mind Stone is destroyed. Thor shows up afterwards to cleave Thanos, but it's unclear if he saw anything and Wanda gets dusted right after. I have no real idea how a super specific detail like "Thanos rewound time" was ever found out by the public. Maybe Wanda told people? But it's only been 3 weeks since Endgame apparently and she clearly wasn't doing well. The fact that it's so common knowledge so soon is kind of weird. Also did Darcy get snapped?

What are you even talking about here? Are you sure you just rewatched Infinity War last night?

Half the Avengers were literally right there.... they had all just been beaten down by Thanos as they tried to buy Wanda time and/or take Thanos down, but it's very likely they weren't all unconscious and unable to see what was happening. Most of them immediately witness people being blipped, after all.

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Ep 7

That was a fun episode

I loved all of the modern family / office style bits with Wanda, really perfectly tied in with her state of mind right now. That's when this series is at it's absolute best - when it ties the sitcom style into what's actually going on and is actually funny. Vison's parts were great too. I wish all of the prior styles had been used to this effect.

I really like Kat Dennings

The Agatha song was pretty fun but I'm not so sure I'm as happy with the reveal as everyone else... the stuff with Monica was really forced. The super mega ultra truck just showing up for them to use is weird.... their actual operation with the base seemed pretty small scale stuff but she can just "call in a favour" and get this super space truck? And then it just gets owned immediately and she just... runs in because she's so sure she can do it. She doesn't even wear the helmut.... this is just such dumb decision making and she gets rewarded with super powers for it... then just runs straight to Wanda to tell her about the bad man.... as if she doesn't know Wanda will just kick her out. The whole confrontation felt really hollow.

And then for really no reason, Wanda starts being swayed...... And then Agnes comes out and does a REALLY forced "uh uh uh, you didn't say the magic word" and just ends the scene....

I didn't like any of that.

I was kinda surprised the episode ended when it did... It felt like half an episode.

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