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Zero carbon emissions no use of fossil fuels within 12 years. That is the goal. It's ambitious and how is that possible? You're talking about everybody happening to drive an electric car. It's going to require a lot of rapid change that we don't even conceive as possible right now. What is the problem with trying to push our technological capacities to the furthest extent possible? I mean, notice this. This is worth commenting on because you'll hear a lot of this on the left as they pursue this green revolution, green agenda, green new deal. They're calling it. This is the moonshot. This is JFK challenging the scientists of the American people, challenging NASA, challenging the American to put a man on the moon. Seemingly extravagant task, something that the technology when he proposed it did not really exist, but mustering resources, sacrificing what needed to be sacrificed monetarily, tax-wise, and investing it all into doing something big, right? Something exciting, something that could galvanize the country. Now she's taking a topic that the left is committed to, a topic that the right has very little to say against, which is reducing carbon emissions basically to zero, which is of course impossible, but put that aside. She's saying, well, let's let's think big. Let's shoot for something exciting. Let's shoot for something, you know, really radical. And let's challenge ourselves to get there. Let's get our best minds, our best scientists thinking about how to do it. And if we need to sacrifice, if we need to raise taxes, we'll get a taxes in a minute, then let's do it. Sacrifices, noble sacrifices, good after all. She doesn't say that, but that's implicit. It's a goal with sacrificing for. Now, this is the kind of idealism people respond to. This is the kind of idealism young people are going to get excited by. Oh, let's reduce carbon emissions by 15%, or let's reduce carbon emissions by this, or let's have a carbon tax, all the regular democratic arguments. No, that's not interesting. Let's go all out. Now notice too, the Democrats do this, or the left does this all the time. 50 years ago, really 75 years ago, Democrats started saying, we want single-payer universal socialized medicine. We want complete socialized medicine. And we're challenging the America people to do that. And everybody said, oh, that's crazy. That's socialism. We don't want that. And slowly, inch by inch, we have moved in that direction. And notice too that the right never does that. The right never says, we want 100% private healthcare. We don't want any government involving healthcare. We don't want Medicare. We don't want Medicaid. We do not want government in healthcare. We want it 100% private. And yeah, we'll move inch by inch towards that, but we've set the goalpost. We know where we're heading. The right never does that. Republicans never do that. Conservatives never do that. The left is so much more principled in that sense. They know what they want. They're willing to say it, they're willing to say it because it's consistent with the moral views of the people. They're willing to fight for it. They're willing to state, to state that it's their ambition, that their ultimate goal, even though in the meantime, we might compromise on the way there. So she says zero carbon emissions. We're going to have everybody driving an electric car. We're going to solve all the technological problems. I'm challenging you to that. And of course she knows, everybody knows, it won't happen tomorrow. It won't happen five years from now. But if she keeps pushing that, and if people rally around that, then you're going to have a deal with Republicans that cut emissions by 10% and then by 20%, and then by 90%, and then we get what she wants. But you got to set a dream. You got to set a standard. And what are Republicans going to say? It's too expensive. It's too expensive. They're not going to morally argue against the goal, and therefore she wins. She wins. And that's what we're heading, guys. We're heading towards her views becoming more and more and more mainstream. And her views becoming more and more part of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Party gaining more and more and more political power because the Republicans have no answer. And the only way the Republicans, the only way Republicans will stay in power is by turning to the left, is by becoming Democrats, which is what they've done since the New Deal, what they've done since the 1930s. They've adopted elements of the Democratic platform in order to appeal to the masses, in order to gain political power. I mean, Donald Trump with tariffs, that's a leftist agenda, which he has adopted to appeal to the masses. I would even argue the anti-immigration stance has always been a stance of the left, the pro-union left, which did not want competition for labor. And the right has now adopted those stances. The left always wins in the long run because it takes the moral high ground. The moral high ground for their perverse morality. But the moral high ground of the morality that exists in the culture, the morality of altruism, the morality of sacrifice, the morality of otherism, the morality that says that you should always take care of others. And since we're all too selfish to do it, government has to make sure that it gets done. Government has to force us to sacrifice appropriately for those who do not have for those in need.  She's rallying people around that goal. Very powerful, very powerful tactic and very successful. Jennifer asks, young people love Bernie, do you think she'll be even more popular? Yes, I think she will be more popular than Bernie.  She's much more attractive than Bernie. She's a woman. And I think at the end of the day, I think she's more articulate and has more authenticity than Bernie Sanders, who has three homes and, you know, is kind of old and, you know, doesn't fit the whole identity politics that young people didn't really identify with him. If you remember, Black Lives Matter demonstrated Bernie Sanders' events because he wasn't politically correct enough for them. I think she's Hispanic. She's got all the things that you need in order to qualify as a superior candidate. So, yes, she's too young to run for presidency. She won't anytime soon. But it's going to be interesting who she supports and that's going to make a big difference. Who she lands up supporting for the Democratic nomination, which is going to be a fun race to watch. It's going to be a fun race to watch.


The following is a presentation of TFNN, the power trading hour with your host David White. Call now toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Now David White. Welcome all to another excellent edition of the power trading hour with me and of course it doesn't matter where me or you are at as long as we're all together here at the time that is appointed. The following takes place between 2pm and 3pm. So what do we have going on today? Well we are down a little bit more and by more what was the low of the day out here? Yeah about about what the range was that we were talking about in the newsletter this morning. 384880 was the low and the range really looks like about 3850 to 3900 and that kind of looks like it's locked in until Wednesday where we'll get the CPI numbers. Then of course Thursday we actually have some earnings numbers but I wasn't expecting a whole lot other than some chop and noise today and tomorrow. Certainly when we get into those CPI numbers we'll probably break out one way or the other and then we'll hurry up and wait again for earnings numbers on Thursday. But that's kind of it so we'll have some headline risk Wednesday and Thursday. I don't think that there's a lot of reasons to get in front of this if you're not trading on a five minute chart. But option market makers do not think that there's a high probability that we either break down or up out of this range before the numbers on Wednesday and even then kind of looks maybe like more they're looking toward the earnings on Thursday.<PHONE_NUMBER> is the number to reach me with your dulcet tones and questions. You can also always email me at path at tfnn.com. See what else we have going on here. Well let's do a little bit of history and then we'll get moving on. On this day in 1979 the first American space station Skylab re-enters the earth's atmosphere and burns up after plans for keeping it in orbit failed to materialize. Fragments of Skylab fell around Perth Australia killing one cow. Since then almost all satellites have been programmed to fall into the ocean on the west side of Australia since there's not a whole lot between Madagascar and Australia. As we found out much later in Malaysian airlines 370s crashed where there just isn't anything out there. One of the most lonely least trafficked and forgotten parts of the entire world. I think you get more people looking at the Antarctic and the North Pole than you do anything else. But that was kind of it. Not much happened. I remember we went to a big party and there were many drinking games played but occasionally everything comes in. I think there's one lady that actually has been hit by a piece of space junk and so far no human killed. She was in I think like on a lounger or on a maybe she was in bed. I can't remember. I'll remember she wasn't doing anything and a piece of junk came through the ceiling and hit her in the leg from some satellite. She went a bunch of money from it but that's about it. Things fall down. What goes up must come down just generally a lot longer than these low earth things that are out there which eventually will all have to come back to earth.<PHONE_NUMBER> did have a question on Friday that I said I had answered the day and they were asking about databases and they really didn't understand the differences between them. What is a database? Why would a company say they're a data warehouse? What's a data lake? And there's a lot of things to think about but it's a big sector. You've got Oracle who's traditionally thought as a database company but probably the short description we got about three and a half minutes here to go. A database gets information. It's very specific and it tends to I mean the old thought of a database was accounting. It kept certain small numbers of things and it could sort those things very well but you had to index what you wanted to look for. The big difference between a database and a data warehouse is you may have lots of databases and they may all plugged into a data warehouse product and that summarizes and reports it. Think of all the transactions that you may have local places around the United States for Amazon as everybody orders from them and they have their own databases at their own local hub and they control maybe four or five shipping outlets or maybe 500 who knows. But eventually you've got to consolidate all of that and one of the reasons you don't want to consolidate all that information but kind of just the high level averages and major numbers is that you just wouldn't be able to keep up with the amount of data coming in. So databases feed into data warehouses where they do summaries and reporting much like we look at moving averages that's kind of stuff that a data warehouse does. Databases can be different. Traditionally databases work on numbers but there are more databases now like MongoDB they're called no SQL databases that search documents. There's also databases for videos like on YouTube. A data lake is a kind of product that various databases can dump into where it may not be known up front what kind of data is actually coming. So a data lake is kind of you don't really know what's going to be there.  There may be video or audio. There may be all kinds of different things. There may be documents. There may be accounting and you'll fish the data out of the data lake later to maybe do some processing on it. But there are databases and data warehouses and data lakes. These are all part of a thing called online analytical processing or OLAP as it's talked about in the industry. But databases feed into data warehouses where summaries and reporting and decisions are made. Databases are the last line of defense where if the data doesn't come into the database you're never going to be able to get it. It gets summarized in a data warehouse and if you don't know what to do with that you throw it in the data lake and then maybe one day you go back to the data lake and you start looking and that's kind of Amazon. We'll finish this up when we return. We'll be back in a minute. Booming inflation, we are purchasing powers eroded. There's no better place to protect your harder and money than in gold. Vista Gold's flagship asset is the Monk Todd Gold Project in the northern territory of Australia. This is Australia's largest undeveloped gold project. We are talking a world-class gold project in a tier one mining district. This is a large-scale, low-cost project with significant existing infrastructure and a politically safe and friendly mining jurisdiction. 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You need to be able to bring it down to something you can see. So you need to know how much kind of roughly money you've got coming in, but it doesn't matter to the dollar. But data warehouses are all summaries and reporting and generally they have some kind of lag time. Databases can be, don't have to be, but can be instantaneous. So there's a separation where you'll have lots of databases that feed into maybe a data warehouse and those will give you the executive high level summary of what you want. Sometimes you don't know what you want, right? And you want to store it anyway. Data lakes or where you throw everything in there. And then maybe you use some kind of machine learning to figure things out. This is much more like Amazon or Google with YouTube. They'll see you over on Google searching for something and then they'll push something either on Amazon because they sold the data to them, but you don't know how all that stuff is going to fit together. I watched a video and then suddenly I started getting emails from Google ads since or I start seeing ads pop up. So there's a lot of different ways that things can come together. Data lakes are really for that kind of artificial intelligence, machine learning, where you're not exactly sure what's going on, but you're going to have somebody kind of research it and try to put together the more common events that lead to someone making a purchase or something you want to shove in front of them. So anyway, it's a huge business. Somebody in the den said it was a dead man. Yeah, I'm not going to get way into the weeds because these things are very technical. Just on a 30,000 foot view, this is the major issues that you're looking at there in the way that they work. You don't need to know everything about these stocks to trade them, but you do kind of know probably the best thing that Dan brought up in the den was barriers to entry. Databases take a long time to get worked out. They have to be one of the few things in software that kind of have to almost be perfect and they're still not. Data warehouses are fairly new. Data lakes are kind of new and they're still kind of working out all the features and there's a lot from what they do, but that's kind of the 30,000 foot view of what these things are and that's why you want to know which branch they're in. But databases, as I said, could be things from accounting to documents like a docu. You want to be able to put stuff in and go back and look for it later, but it doesn't really apply itself to traditional databases where you're looking up by a number or a date or some small piece of information. Let's say that you're looking for articles in the newspapers. Something that is a document database would be much better if you're looking for people's names or dates of birth or death or all the other things that could be on online media that are articles that aren't in the headlines. Ideally, you look in the headlines, but a lot of times it's deeper. So you can have traditional databases, you can have document databases, you can have databases of images and databases of videos, databases of just about any kind of stuff and each one does well at kind of its own mission and those are joined later together in the data warehouse and data lakes. Anyway, just an issue. I guess we've got a few things going on here. Did bring up snow. We haven't looked at that one in a long time, so we'll do that now to and reset it here. What do you got? Yeah, just like everything, we're kind of, we're not backing off the previous highs, but we didn't have enough volume the first time. Eight and a half million shares on Snowflake, that was the May 13th high, 159.72, eight and a half million shares, 6.3 million shares. So you're about 25% light on Friday. Today's going, I do like kind of the energy was fairly good. You had a good day on the 23rd of June to pop this up and over a double gap.  So my thought would be if you're not long this now, I mean, the real risk reward comes back in. If you can come back, get into that double gap, test it on lighter volume and go higher. But kind of a risky thing out here with the lighter volume and that double gap down below. I got some more emails coming in. Duke, D UK or duck, Duke energy.  I mean, you've got your bounce. You got a fairly decent retracement off the lows. Let's see here. Well, you did more than a 618 retracement. 1077 was that off the first move. 10890 was off the bigger one 10837 off even the larger Fibonacci number if you're looking for it. You got a wide range and you've got high volume at the lows that 9687 low from June 17th is open and it's not been retested. So I'm a big fan of waiting another 30 days till the end of the summer. 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There was an article out. And one of the more interesting things is that companies outside Walt Disney, if they run the right hardware, can see what consumers are connecting to and watching. And they can infer that you're watching this or that or the other on Netflix from Comcast or any of the other companies. But one of the things that came out, I think it was Tuesday last week, maybe it was Friday before, is that into the latest Star Wars thing, about halfway in to either episode three or four, I gave up by then. I thought it stunk. Everybody turned it off mid-show. And later to find out that they were torturing some young girl on the show. I think it was the 10-year-old Lia. And the viewers were having nothing of it and turned out en masse. And many of them went and unsubscribed from the Disney show. I think that they continued to read the headline or read the newspaper and believe their own hyperbole about who they are and what they are. But the history of Hollywood is you do very well for a number of years and then you do very horribly for a number of years. And then you're just one of these guys that kind of remember making great movies. And I recommend highly if anybody wants to invest in this kind of product. The park is probably not so much, but I would say certainly movie making in general. There's a documentary called The Kid Stays in the Picture. And it will show you just the kind of narcissism that runs rampant. I spent 10 years out there.  And most of them were just consumed by ego. You would think that a lot of them just want to be creative. And for the most part that's true. Then you get into the executive part of the business. And these people run around totally uncreative. Kind of like asking a very unfunny businessman to make a judgment on what's funny and what's not. And I've said in those meetings too not that I had a lot to do with on the creative side just on whether or not they could actually do it. And I'd sit with a customer and they go, well, can we do that? Can we not do that? Can you change this? Can you make this for us so that we can do it kind of things? But it attracts a certain type of person. And maybe why you see so many people go to Hollywood and leave on buses. But I think they've got the wrong folks in there. I know the new guys in there trying to clean stuff up, but it's very tough to kill a culture of people that think that they know better and let their egos cash checks their body can't cash. A little movie humor out there. Anyway, the kid stays in the picture. Robert Evans, who I've met, was quite, quite the gentleman. And he's even got his own series right now about the making of The Godfather that he's dead now, but figured in. But he made the greatest movies of the 1970s only to blow up and have his own bunch of issues. But the history of all these companies, I think right now the companies that seem to be doing well are Hulu and Paramount. The kind of the also rands in Netflix. They've made a bunch of stuff that people don't want to watch. They're paying people for documentaries that no one's going to watch. Same thing with Amazon. It seems to be a lot more ideologic. Yeah, ideology. Yeah, ideology, then making stuff that people actually want to watch. It doesn't matter so much in Amazon, but in Disney, that's all they got. And I'm not a big fan of it. You know, if they had a big house cleaning, it would still take a year before some of the stuff that they're pushing through gets in. So anyway, not so much Hulu, Paramount. Those tend to be making at a price much better. Things are still really tough in Hollywood though. And that is more than 600 scripted shows. You got to think that if there was any kind of thesis out here, it would be there's too much, not too little in the way of content in this market. But that being said, you got 211 million share lows and maybe a 4 million share low coming in. Maybe you could bounce back up to 103 or 104. But I think it's probably going to take a year. And that is if they're going to get on the stick and get rid of the people making huge mistakes like Buzz Lightyear, which could have been a huge money maker for it, but also probably going to end up losing two to $300 million. And that's on an animated show, just to give you an idea. It's not your old Pixar. It's not your grandfather's Pixar at Walt Disney. And what else can you say?<PHONE_NUMBER>, as we continue to watch the market, have a little bit of market gas out here. 3864, just suspect that we're going to see 3850 to 3900 kind of bounce around here until we get some numbers on Wednesday. I got some more emails out here as we go. Talked about that. Haven't talked about Apple in a while. It's got a nice bounce. A little lighter volume than the last leg down. I think it's going to fool around and go up and test 150. If it's on light volume, then you're in a bigger trading range from about 150 to 29130. There's a gap down about 132. It could just start making more of a triangle formation in that area. Don't see a lot of reasons for it to break out of it. Maybe they've got some new products. It looks like it's going to be the last week of September for Apple introducing products for fall. Maybe they'll bring something out that's new and exciting. Isn't that part of the love vote song? New and exciting.  I watched too much television in these seven minutes. Moving back. Are you in the market for buying or selling real estate in the Bay Area, including the surrounding St. Petersburg, Tampa, and Clearwater markets? Tiger Real Estate LLC is a firm that has extensive experience in the Tampa Bay area. 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I don't know, probably three to six months away from finding a fairly decent bottom, but that's the rest of the market out there too. I think we're probably shooting for some kind of long-term change upward and trajectory, probably after the elections. At the moment, the markets tend to look about six months into the future. We're around that area at the moment. The markets broadcast the future, so things could get even worse, and the markets could go up aiming at six months into the future from now. Anyway, there's not a whole lot there.  Volume's kind of light today on a big downgrade. The thought was, or at least the rumor they're pushing is that they're going to delay the new video cards from early September to late September, and yeah, I think that's about all that matters right there. Okay, a question about micron, as long as we're in the SMHs out here and what's going on. You came up and you tested the previous high on about the same volume on Friday. Yeah, not a whole lot. It's just like the whole market. It's sitting here right below some levels, and if you're bullish, you probably want the market to pull back a bit on lighter volume and set up the next rally attempt to break through higher. If you're bearish, what you'd love to see is this, many of these stocks like this go back, fill the gaps on no volume, and then give it all up and then go back and retest the lows. But right now you don't have a whole lot either way. Todd says, what do you think about gold here? I think we talked about that Thursday or Friday with a collar. I mean, you're looking at interest rate hikes till the cows come home. I don't know if there's a whole lot to be done about this. Gold really didn't start running. It was that run from 1980, 81 to 87 that everybody looks at, and he had a lot of inflation in the 70s. It was the real change that happened. Maybe we could get the same thing again, but that took three or four years to wind up with Jimmy Carter before it got really uncorked in the 80s. I don't know if there's a whole lot there to say other than we're probably just building cause for a long-term move. You came back, retested previous lows on about the same volume. That's not a really bullish view long-term and gold. Always liked the saying from God, what's the guy's name? Can't remember now. Said it's important to buy gold, but it's more important to sell it. It's a trading vehicle like a lot of them. When it's hot, it's hot. When it's not, it's not. God, now who's saying that song? I don't think of it. It's a guy from Smokey and the Bandit. But certainly you're just back to probably around average volume. You don't have, the only good thing is you had some good down days. Now you don't have much volume. James Grant, interest rate observer is who I'm thinking about. That is important to buy gold, more important to sell it over time. Okay. Yeah, I don't see anything much changing. I was looking for 1776 or 1775 on gold, maybe to potentially hold it did not. You really need to move back into that 1775 range to get it back into the trading range. But I think you're probably just waiting much like the guys did in the late 70s for all the conditions to kind of turn around. But you had what, 20% interest rate in 1980. We're headed that way quickly. Who knows what could happen in the fall elections. And you could get the same kind of huge spending, massive tax increases that kill the economy, and that's really kind of what all got corked up. And then when it started on wine in the 80s, that's when gold got popular.<PHONE_NUMBER>, Jerry Reed, when you're hot, you're hot, when you're not, you're not. Yeah, that's, I thought that was, it was at least around that time of smoking in the bandit. But I had all kinds of mushes together. Okay, we got some more emails here. Look at AMD real quick. The old usual suspects. He had your bounce. It'd be nice to get a retest on lighter volume on this 7160 out here. Everybody I think is far too bearish. I don't know if the price is right, but I think they're all far too bearish on the business part of it. The price, you can argue with the business. I don't think you can. A lot of good interesting stuff going on there. Two question about the IBB. I use it because there's a great deal more. I liked the low out here. We tried to buy it. It was when the market wasn't acting as well. I disliked that the energy on the way down was a whole lot more down to that June 16th low, but the volume was not yet 4.7 million shares to 3 million shares. It popped back into the trading range and like biotechs kind of back in favor again. If there is anything back in favor in the markets. Talked about planet here. It's down today. PLTR. Thanks, Joe. So we'll look at that. You know, you kind of finished what looks like an ABC on the way up. Let's take a look at the expansions. Do I have anything else here? Maybe a shorter term. There you go. Is there one more? Do we have the one from the bottom 644? Okay. Let's do that one because that's I don't know how if that one's just too far. Let's make that our A. Let's make that our B. Kind of make that my B. There we go. And we'll make that our C, but I think that was too big of a retrace, which is the problem. But yeah, one to one is 1048 on planet here. You got to 1038, which is pretty close. First high at 68 million shares, second high at 54 million shares. You're backing back a little bit. I would like this thing to get back to about 850 on a light volume. And that may be a buy out there. We'll be back in a minute. Vista Gold owns and operates the largest undeveloped gold project in Australia, the Mount Todd Gold Project. 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Maybe you do break 38.50, but I don't see a lot of energy in the interdays either higher or lower here. Just a lot of chop. And like I said, I think everybody's just getting ready to tee off on numbers on Wednesday and Thursday. And in the meantime, I don't have a real good feel. So I don't have to trade. I trade to make money. And trading chop just kind of wears me out for when it is time to play the Super Bowl and make real money. And as they say, when it's time to make real money and it's raining cash, put out a few buckets. When it's not, enjoy your life, do some other stuff. But maybe we'll have some news. I just don't see anything right now that really jumps off the page at me that says more. But I think by the end of the week, you got options, expiration, earnings and CPI numbers. Back half of this week is loaded with business moving. So when you can, not when you have to, we'll see you here tomorrow. Same bat channel, same bat time. 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Hello there everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Arma with the Stock Swoosh. This is the Uber IPO just opening here taking a look at it again My expectation is that this collapse is at some point here in the next 24 to 48 hours I everyone was saying this was priced very low I totally totally totally disagreed with that a low price and this would have been 20 or under 20 now while this very Well could take off really big here fast quick in the first five ten fifteen minutes or even half an hour an hour With what the market's doing today, which is falling. It's not a good day for this to be open number one and number two Again, this company's been in business for you know, not a short period of time I'd say a medium to long period of time for this IPO to come out and I just you know The hype on this has just been way way way overdone and we've had so many of these lift all of them In fact, let's take a look at lift right now the lift is The lift went to 50. I thought lift would go to 50. It did go to 50 and I expect that this is probably gonna collapse here today, too So we're gonna take a look here and see what this does again I wouldn't trade anything without a proper trade history But my bias on this is that this is gonna collapse at some point today could collapse immediately Could take a half an hour could take 15 minutes could take a pop could get a pop and then drop a Monday I mean you see here what this lift did is initially went up then it collapsed, okay? Now this was price much higher, but but still why everyone was saying that this was priced or underpriced made I mean, I totally disagree with that a hundred percent. So Anyways, but the exact price that it opened here. Let's just get that 4205 and if it breaks that it's a goner It's a goner for the day here because again Figured this would be close to noon or right around noon and here goes the market So everything is falling everything is falling an interesting day in the market. I'll try to do a market video later, but again Looking for these things to kind of take a dive today. The question is when in what time so I would stay away from this for now That's that's my opinion on this. We'll see what it does. I could be surprised But even if this clothes is strong today, I don't think it's gonna last into next week here This is this could break right now. Let's just watch this here. This is yep I'm so good at reading. I'm so good at reading charts And you know with the market falling difficult day for uber to come out as well Yeah, produce these Again, not gonna do anything in this because of the factor colony trains in this because again It's a new issue. All right, so you don't have any price data And when you when you focus on technical analysis is what I'm looking at. All right, you read Price data, so when you the price data here is out for five minutes. I can tell you once this breaks through 42 It's gonna fall off a globe So anyways, good luck everyone if you are doing anything today. Hopefully you shorted Great call today in the stocks will show live trading room in the market. We'll see what happens next week We'll maybe take a look at this here. This goes gonna break right now. Oh my land to y'all Here it goes there it goes right now under 42 uber look Wow This is going to collapse to And the market is going to be very volatile the volatility for the market is going to continue for sure Anyways, good luck everyone stay away from over what you can watch it fun to watch Here's the break of 42 watch it collapse and fall off a cliff. Let's watch it didn't do it yet Anybody up and it's trying here it goes there there it was. Oh my gosh. I knew this would happen Instinct experience. Have a great day everyone


Item number SCP-2401 Object Class, Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-2401 and SCP-2401-Alpha are to be stored together in cell 22 at Research Site-45. Cell 22 must be stocked with 3 m2 of potted wildflowers with the automated drip irrigation system to maintain them. A small electric incinerator designed for burning pine needles is to be installed near cell 22 so that it can be supplied and operated by attending staff. The exhaust of the incinerator is to be piped directly into cell 22 whenever SCP-2401 becomes excited or agitated. Plans for combining adjacent cell 23 with cell 22 are currently awaiting approval. SCP-2401-Beta is to be held as a reserved destination until further notice. Description SCP-2401 are a previously unknown species of honeybee that exhibit parasitic or symbiotic traits depending on the sex of the human host. To date, a sustainable colony of SCP-2401 has only been observed of one human female host. In all observed cases, male hosts expire typically within 9 to 12 days, post-colonization from inflammatory complications caused by routine stinging and gross modification of dermal tissue. This also compromises the immune system, leaving male hosts vulnerable to anaerobic infection. After death of the male host, SCP-2401 will leave the body in search of another human host. Condition does differ slightly in female hosts, whereas there is much lesser risk of infection due to higher levels of propolis production. Once 30 to 50% of the dermis is modified into a keratin-based honeycomb, the colonization reaches a stable state and does not expand further. After this process is completed, SCP-2401 exhibits standard protective behavior towards the host, treating them as the nest. SCP-2401 adopts host scent markers, adjusting colonial odor markers to match the host. This process sensitizes SCP-2401 to the emotional and physical condition of the host. The female host also undergoes rapid changes to both accommodate and protect SCP-2401, which include increased tissue regeneration, higher amphetamine output, and lack of dependency for food or water. In the majority of cases, the female host retains their personality and memories, which usually results in psychological trauma related with the ongoing symbiosis of SCP-2401. This is seen to result in a high rate of suicide, in cases where the host outright rejects symbiosis. Only one surviving case has shown a distinct interest in maintaining the symbiotic relationship between itself and SCP-2401. For all intents and purposes, she has been designated SCP-2401-Alpha. Document DOC-2401-T1 Note, the following written entries were confiscated from Dr. Kenneth Lam's hard drive. They contain sensitive information regarding SCP-2401-Alpha, and are to remain on the high-security data server. Date, January 4th, 2015 Time, 1632 D-6780 and D-9343 have both been exposed to SCP-2401. This is the second trial study as to the effects of SCP-2401 on a human host. Thus far, we have not been successful in sustaining a host for more than a period of 30 days. A viable host able to survive the colonization process will be the first step in discovering a way to reverse the process and revert the host back to normalcy. It has been difficult to requisition female D-class because of their scarcity. It is the only option since SCP-2401 and male D-class hosts cannot coexist without killing the host body. Due to issues in previous tests, the two female hosts will be kept on suicide watch while symptoms progress. Date, January 8th, 2015 Time, 944 Both D-6780 and D-9343 are progressing quickly with SCP-2401 and are in relatively good health. Today, however, D-6780 had to be sedated via aerosol before the host caused further self-injury. D-9343 has been minimally responsive during this period. I have asked repeatedly from the medical records of both D-class hosts prior to testing. The paperwork seems to be conveniently missing in administration. Date, January 15th, 2015 Time, 2201 Four hours ago, D-6780's attempt at drowning in the cells commode proved successful by clogging it with daily food rations and filling it up with water. Cell 21 is currently under quarantine until the decontamination teams can assemble in the morning. I am hoping for a more viable autopsy than the previous ones. D-9343 seems to be much calmer during this process. So far, the host is the only one who has made it this far in SCP-2401's colonization. I have requested for maintenance and from the site director to modify Cell 22 as to help better accommodate SCP-2401 and the host. I am also still waiting for released medical records. Date, January 26th, 2015 Time, 1255 D-9343 and SCP-2401 have successfully achieved full symbiosis. D-9343 has been designated as SCP-2401-Alpha and has been observed to be much more active. After reviewing video footage, I have noticed that SCP-2401-Alpha does not eat or drink, it seems. Administration has finally delivered records on D-9343, but they are from her previous institution of incarceration. Unfortunately, the information is severely lacking in detail, with the exception of her criminal record. I will review this information and perhaps use it during my upcoming interviews with her. Date, January 27th, 2015 Time, 1403 I conducted my first interview with SCP-2401-Alpha. She seemed relatively eager to see another phase after nearly a month of solitary confinement. I asked her about her symptoms and she explained while in the beginning she was experiencing a great deal of pain. Most of that has been curtailed and she feels much better. A quick physical examination conducted through the observation window concluded that she has estimated to have 50% of her body surface converted into honeycomb-like structures, many of which contain SCP-2401 in various stages of maturity. I questioned about where SCP-2401 originates from, but SCP-2401-Alpha could not answer. Date, January 30th, 2015 Time, 912 I went over SCP-2401-Alpha's criminal records with her. She had traveled recollecting much of her past for some reason, most of which had to deal with abusive relatives at a young age before being placed in foster care until she was 15. I was unable to continue with the rest of her background as I noticed she was growing more and more agitated. I used a newly installed smoker for the first time to help her calm down. She was effectively suppressed and I concluded for the day. Date, February 2nd, 2015 Time, 1347 Before I was able to conduct the interview, SCP-2401-Alpha was adamant about apologizing for her behavior in the previous interview. She introduced herself by her first name, Mary, and asked me mine. I introduced myself as well. Her intentions seemed harmless. Afterwards, she tried multiple times to derail the interview with small talk. I was able to keep her focused on explaining her symptoms. Mary attempted to explain a dream she had involving me, but could not recall specific details. I asked her questions regarding her mental state and wrote some additional notes to discuss with the on-site psychologist. Date, February 3rd, 2015 Time, 2225 Mary has stated in her interview today that she is experiencing a recurring dream, though upon waking up she can't recall any of it other than I am in it as well. I asked her if she would like writing supplies in order to keep a dream journal. She agreed. However, the request was denied by my superior. Mary spends her time preoccupied with her own thoughts. At times she appears rather lucid and unresponsive. I've requested for additional items to help improve stimulus. However, they are repeatedly denied. Date, February 4th, 2015 Time, 110 Mary and I have been meeting on a daily basis now. Her demeanor has been deteriorating, it seems. Off-shift guards have informed me that she has to be smoked nightly. When I confronted Mary with this information, she stated that it was because of her dreams. She still maintains that she can't recall them after awakening. My recent discussions with the on-site psychologist over my note are still inconclusive, as to Mary's mental condition. I'll continue to visit Mary daily to gain more details on improving her mental state. Aside from that, the SCP-2401 colony appears to be thriving and in optimum health. Incident Report Form Incident Date, February 14th, 2015 Incident Time, 1115 Site Location Research Site-45 Secured Humanoid Containment Wing, Cell-22 Unique Identifier, Autofill 2401-021415 Civilians Involved? No. Personnel Involved? Yes. Number of Personnel Involved? Three. Injuries or Death? One Minor Injury? Two Major Injuries. Amnestics Used? Yes. By Request. SCP Involved? Yes. Designation SCP-2401-Alpha Containment Breached? Yes. Details SCP-2401-Alpha, prior to Incident, exhibited agitated behaviors for a period of 10 days. SCP-2401-Alpha had difficulty expressing the source of its agitation, often deploying cryptic statements and referring to itself in the first person plural by its actual name prior to symbiosis. Dr. Kenneth Lam, the acting supervisor of SCP-2401, postulated an SCP-2401-Alpha once delirious. 72 hours prior to Incident, SCP-2401-Alpha suffered from an apparent seizure and collapsed onto the floor. Time was noted and logged. The body was kept under watch as standard in the operating procedure for human subject quarantine. After 48 hours, the site director extended quarantine to cell 22 for another 24 hours. No activity was observed from the host or the colony. The cell floor was littered with dead instances of SCP-2401 at this time. Personnel and security entered cell 22 after the quarantine period expired in order to retrieve the body for examination and autopsy. While decontaminating and preparing the body for transfer, SCP-2401-Alpha suddenly awakened and physically attacked security. Both guards suffered concussions from the altercation. Dr. Lam was then tackled to the floor outside a containment and stripped of his clothes by SCP-2401-Alpha. On video, Dr. Lam was held down on his back, with SCP-2401-Alpha atop of him for a period of 90 seconds. From the video's limited vantage point, it was difficult to ascertain what was happening to Dr. Lam as he showed limited signs of struggle. Afterwards, the majority of security forces subdued SCP-2401-Alpha with electroshock weaponry to force it off with Dr. Lam and back into containment. Dr. Lam suffered only a dislocated shoulder and minor abrasions. SCP-2401-Alpha has since replenished the SCP-2401 colony to a fully restored population and has been observed to be more docile as compared to before the incident. Addendum 2401-001 Due to SCP-2401-Alpha's recent containment breach, staff and security teams are prohibited from entering cell 22 or conversing with SCP-2401-Alpha without direct authorization from the Site Director. Further research on the SCP-2401 or SCP-2401-Alpha has been put on hold indefinitely. Post-incident interview, I-NT-2401-03 Interview date, February 15, 2015 Interview time, 4.30 Site Location, Research Site-45 Offices Interviewer, Senior Internal Investigator Ruben Foster Interviewee, Researcher Dr. Kenneth Lam Alright, recorder is on, how are you holding up? I'm still in shock, about the whole thing I guess. Well, let me just ask, why do you think you were chosen? I don't know! Well, you were assigned to her. It! Right, it, for three months, you interviewed with it every other day it looks like. I monitored the other humanoids in that wing too. So back to my original question. Perhaps, maybe the human inside of her, I mean, it, it made a connection. Either way, it got what it wanted from me. You feel like you can continue? I suppose. I'm sorry, I just rattled over the whole thing. Well, medically you checked out fine. Just bumps and scratches. So there's that. Look, I don't want to push you after something traumatic like that. Anything you want to say on the record? I want the injection! Give me the injection and give me the transfer! Please! I got you. I'll see what I can do. Addendum 24-01-002 Dr. ██████ is to be transferred out of Research Site-45 after he is fully debriefed on the containment breach incident involving himself and SCP-2401-Alpha. He is opted for an immediate amnestic solution and will be demoted to Level-0 permanently for security reasons. Good observation and reporting on his behaviors within the Foundation will be monitored for a period of no less than three years. Post Incident Interview, INT-2401-06 Interview Date, June 16, 2015 Interview Time, 2205 Site Location, Research Site-45, Secured Humanoid Containment Wing Cell-22 Senior Internal Investigator Ruben Foster Interviewee, SCP-2401-Alpha Recorder on SCP-█████ Mary Eh, excuse me? Do you like to be called Mary? Fine, Mary, what was your relationship to Dr. Lam? Is that what you called it? Him and us? Never mind. Can you explain then what you did to him the last time you two were together, back in February? Do you remember him being quiet and rather content about it? Well, he was adamant about not wanting to see you ever again. Hmm, we don't believe you. We are happy with the outcome still. SCP-2401-Alpha slowly rubs her hand over her swollen abdomen. This part of the cycle? It is, and it is not. We need you to stay in our house. The females are fragile yet willful. Strong queens for strong colonies are sweet Kenny. Tell him for us that his progeny grows stronger with each passing day. Tell him we all await his return. Yeah, I'll pass that along. Sustained buzzing. Agent Foster turns off the intercom to cell 22. You aren't actually considering that request, are you?  Do me a favor though, see that button for the incinerator? Yes, sir? Smoker.


Hey curl friends, I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee Today and today I'm gonna continue to keep it real. So real that I just really didn't feel like putting on makeup today nor doing my hair, putting in product, letting it sit for two hours, diffusing, hoping that it's gonna be big enough for day one. But you know what? That's just how it is sometimes. Sometimes we just get tired of our curls. And that's what this video is going to be about today because I know a lot of you are starting to or have been discouraged by your curly hair. It's a lot. No one said this journey was gonna be easy. Well maybe I did. It gets easy. I think it gets easy. Once you kind of get into the routine of things and you figure out what your hair likes, Washington goes on your friend. So I literally just got out the shower and I'm going to have a little chit chat with you while I deep condition and put on my face mask. So today's hair mask I'm going to be using is the Not Your Mothers Royal Honey and I was supposed to learn how to say this before I ever brought it on camera again. Calahani. Calahari is an R. Royal Honey and Calahari Desert Melon. I'm sticking to it. This is a Repair and Protect Butter Mask.  Helps to repair and prevent signs of damage. Awesome. I've already used it so I kind of just want to use it before it dries up. So that's what I'm using today and I'm going to let it sit in my hair for 20 minutes. Now back to you. You might be someone that's watching right now that is about to give up on their natural hair journey. Well that's why I'm here to say don't give up. You've come this far. If you have committed to my no heat challenge, my deep conditioning challenge, my big chop challenge at the beginning of this year, it's now August. So that means we only have five more months for you to go and you have completed a full year of not using any heat of deep conditioning once a week or you have at least over six months of hair growth from your big chop back in January. So round of applause for you already for making it this far to August.  If you are someone that's been committed this entire year, leave me a comment so I know who's really stuck to their challenge. Now even if you haven't, I'm sure there were weeks where you were like, you know what? I just don't have time to deep condition. I'll do it next week and maybe next week you didn't do it again or maybe some of you even snuck, you know, straightening once or twice, special occasion maybe, but it's okay. We all make mistakes and as long as you commit to getting back on track, it's never too late to start or restart your natural hair journey.  I don't want to add to what could be the reason why you want to give up, which is false expectations. Even us curly hair influencers have bad hair days. We just don't always advertise it on Instagram. So even someone you may follow that you think has the most perfect hair, there are days where that person, influencer, girl, whoever is over their curls. Like they just want to put it in a bun the rest of the week and if they were an influencer, it probably would be in a bun the rest of the week. Trust me. I understand that sometimes you just get tired of your curls. Like you just don't want to deal with them. You might want to throw on a wig. You might want to get braids. You don't want to do anything, which is so amazing. But I much rather you go to braids or wig versus starting to straighten your hair and ruin all the progress that you've done thus far. So for those of you that write me saying, Hey, I'm really tempted to straighten my hair, please give me some advice as to how to change this mindset. This video is for you. This is for those of you with those itchy fingers to straighten your hair. One, you need to get your straightener to someone else so that they can hide it because you know, out of sight, out of mind, if you physically can't straighten your hair, you're not going to do it. So if you are lacking that type of self control, just be real.   Really?   So now let's find a solution to keep you motivated. One, I hope I'm motivating you. That's why I post two videos every week to give you guys new tips or tricks or product reviews, or I give you all something to make sure that your curly hair journey is just a little bit easier each week. You guys have no idea how often people write me asking for advice. And then I say what products do you use? And then they name a bunch of products that I've never heard of in or never have recommended. So if you are struggling with your curls, please just try some of the products that I have recommended on my channel. Almost every video I have is something that I approve that I think would work for your hair. I'm going to wash my hands, be right back. It is currently around 8pm at night. And as you guys may know, I like to do a hair mask and a face mask at the same time. But I'm going to use this mask by Fresh. This is their Rose Deep Hydration Sleeping Mask Replenishes and Locks in Hydration. I have a whole video on this one, by the way, if you guys want to check it out. But this is a mask you could sleep in. So since it's so late, that's what I'm going to do. Oh, smells amazing. Smells like roses. There's two steps. So I'm about to apply step one and then step two. Now another way you can stay motivated to keep up with your natural hair journey is find a curl friend. You always need a curl friend to be there to encourage you so you guys can do this together. Just like working out together is easier. Doing something with a partner really just makes everything more fun and even more challenging to see whose hair looks best first. No, no, no. You don't have to make it a competition. But it's always good to have someone there to encourage you to keep going. That way you also have someone to talk to when it comes to recommending products. If you don't have any friends that have curls, just go to my comment section on Instagram, on YouTube. People start conversations all the time. Follow someone else that has curly hair and see what kind of products they use and, you know, feel free to ask them. Most people with curly hair are really nice. It's a curl thing. I also want you to use Instagram for motivation but not for comparison.  My hair is not that long yet. My hair is not that healthy and you start getting in your own head and then you become discouraged and you just want to give up. Don't compare yourself to people on Instagram. Look at me right now. We are not all glammed up all the time. So it's just not fair for you to compare yourself to an unrealistic expectation that you see on Instagram or YouTube. But what I do want you to do if you are following other curly influencers or curly hair pages, use that as motivation. Use that as like, okay, I can't give up now because I know my curls can look just like this. I'm not going to go back to straightening because I haven't straightened in three months, six months, a year. I'm not going to risk messing that up now when I'm so close to victory. Use people online as motivation, not as like a comparison or competition. Everyone's curly hair journey is different. I'm not going to say if you big chop, you're just going to instantly feel liberated and it's going to be the best thing ever. Well, it is but you might not feel that way instantly in the moment. Some of you guys might be freaking out because it's so short and you're comparing long hair equals beauty, which is not true. But just trust me when I say you just have to keep going. Keep deep conditioning. Don't start cheating back to straightening your hair.   There's no point in doing multiple big chops. You should only have to experience that once and I promise you that you will see new growth like you've never seen before. Just put a picture up on the wall to remind yourself of how your hair used to look. It was dry. It was breaking off. It was bleached. It was damaged beyond compare and it wouldn't hold a curl at all. So now your curls might be little, but they're the healthiest they've ever been. So I say all this to say don't give up the curly hair journey is called a journey for a reason. It's not called the curly hair stroll. The curly hair skip. It's the journey and a journey usually has ups and downs. I think of like hills, mountains. It's a journey. If you agree with what I'm saying, please leave a comment down below to back me up so people know I'm not just saying stuff. I'm sure you've had a journey yourself where you felt like giving up, but you did it and now you currently love your hair. If that is you, please leave your testimony down below. Once again, if you have committed to my no heat challenge, my deep conditioning challenge or my big top challenge, you are almost there. I don't care when you started, but if you are someone that committed to my challenge back in January, you've officially reached seven months and I'm so happy that you made it this far. We've only got five more to go and you've done a full year of no heat, a full year of deep conditioning or full year of new hair growth. If you haven't seen any of my challenge videos, I'll make sure to link them down below and at the end of this video so you guys can check it out and feel free to join now. It's never too late.  Please give me a thumbs up and subscribe. I post two new videos every week and if you need a little daily motivation, make sure to follow me on Instagram at Ms. Bianca Renee. We're always pushing out positivity on the gram, on my gram at least. I'll see you guys next time. Thanks for watching Bianca Renee today.