Options market activity skyrocketing:

3-month average volumes of US equity call options has reached ~34 million contracts, near an all-time high.

Call options volume has TRIPLED over the last 5 years.

At the same time, the 3-month average volume of equity put options has fallen from a record 26 million in April to ~23 million.

On Friday alone, total options volume reached a massive 71 million contracts.

Year-to-date, an average of 58 million contracts have exchanged hands every trading day.

Appetite for trading is at record highs.

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Leading Economic Index down again.

It has fallen 41 of the past 44 months.

No Bitcoin moonshot until this metric turns around.

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Halving progress 34%

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Most men are entirely heterosexual, and we can prove this by measuring genital arousal

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This methodology works in the general population and it works within twin pairs.

Amazing, no?

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This result directionally holds up when you use pupil dilation instead of genital arousal

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But again, what happens when you look at women?

Much more similar levels of responding. Far less distinct, far more 'bisexual-like'.

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As an indication of the robustness here, this is the female result for pupil dilation

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Bisexual males are a real thing, but they're just rare.

When you compare their genital and self-reported arousal patterns, they agree, much as patterns do for male heterosexuals and male homosexuals (that is: they agree with what they call themselves).

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But for women, the story is different.

Women have far more diffuse arousal responses to stimuli.

You could say this means women are more bisexual—and I would agree because it's obviously true—but it seems likely they're just more... let's say "diffuse" again.

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Poland has torn down another communist statue

"Polish-Soviet Brotherhood in Arms" in Ploty is no more

Poland is tearing down monuments glorifying communism across the country after the introduction of a new law that bans communist propaganda

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>a black man is asked to leave a gym

>he chooses to square up with police

>the officer declines his offer to fight

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New Jersey declares State of Emergency due to Hurricane Erin

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A foreign investor has quietly gobbled up 9 oceanfront lots in Malibu for $65 million following the January wildfires.

The investor reportedly assembled a team to track down owners because the "desirable" sites weren't publicly listed.

"He started building a team on his end of expediters, architects and kind of figured out what the best size lots and frontage would be to build on to eventually resell," said the agent, Weston Littlefield of the Weston James Group, to Realtor . com.

"I’d say probably about 50% had sentimental value to their properties just based on memories, or their parents passed it down to them."

"But a lot of them, ultimately, just didn’t want to go through the rebuilding process because of how long they knew it was going to take to really come back."

Infuriating.

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I had to see this so now you have to too

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Altseason is almost here!

Don't give up now.

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JUST IN - U.S. Supreme Court rules 5-4 that Trump can cut $783 million in NIH "diversity, equity, and inclusion" funding

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Its got to be hard to be a single woman over 40 (35 imo)

Its too bad no one warned them that this would happen.

Oh wait, we did.

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