Cookie Thread Act 7: Romulus

when you do finance you have no other soul

The only finance that middle schoolers are learning is personal finance, and thatā€™s far more common sense than actual finance.

oh middle school i thought this was hs

youā€™d manage to make it work anyway

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[pulls out ten graphs]
So letā€™s begin with the Capital Asset Pricing Modelā€¦

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The following content are fiction. Not that it is any different from my other ramblings, but I figured I might as well put on a disclaimer "just in case".

A cause. I am lacking a cause to continue. :pen: :fish_cake: I see the images :framed_picture: in my dreams, but -because they are dreams- itā€™s not easy to make sense of the events :city_sunset:. Forget chronology :timer_clock:; itā€™s like asking ā€œwhat is two plus twoā€ and then getting ā€œ:keycap_ten: + :keycap_ten: = :100:, therefore we need to sacrifice :100: lives :drop_of_blood: to bring back our world :earth_americas: to reality :low_brightness:ā€.

There was a princess :princess: who was kidnapped by a demon :imp:. The hero :man_superhero: entered the villainā€™s castle :european_castle: and defeated the monster without giving it a chance to do anything :wind_face:. The hero untied :knot: the princess, who shivering in fear :grimacing:. Just when the hero was about to return home :house:, he was stabbed in the back! :hocho: The princess smiled from ear to ear :smiley: and explained the hero that she was actually the demon who had swapped :twisted_rightwards_arrows: bodies with the princess. :open_mouth: The hero died in vain :headstone: and thus the villainess lived happily ever after. :smiling_imp:

There was a monster :vampire: who had swapped bodies with a princess :princess: it had kidnapped. The true princess, unable to handle her new reality, [REDACTED] :skull:. The monster panicked :scream: and had to come up with a plan to kill the hero :man_superhero:. It planted traps :mouse_trap: together with its servants :man_in_tuxedo:, and reviewed the escape routes in case of emergency :exclamation:. When the hero :crazy_face: broke into the monsterā€™s castle :european_castle:, all traps were destroyed :boom: before they could trigger. The hero :triumph: rushed towards the false princess and [REDACTED] :face_with_symbols_over_mouth:. The hero was not a good person :slightly_frowning_face:. The servants :family_man_boy_boy: barged into the room and separated the two :v: apart. The monster, stuck in the princessā€™ body :lock:, ran away using the escape route :running_woman:. It lit a match :fire: and set the castle ablaze :fireworks:. Without looking back :eyes:, the monster :disappointed: walked away from the burning building :hotsprings:, never to return :arrow_right:.

Donā€™t talk to me Iā€™m the kind of person who cringes away at the idea of finance (or maybe falls asleep in class whichever comes first)

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FoL is wonderful it lets me see what Ash edits the message to from beforehand so I donā€™t only get this experience in a VC once every year

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looking to form an fol union. dm me if interested. mods are not allowed; reviewers are

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I have a bad tendency to be a bit perfectionistic about my messages (and my typing style in general, honestly).

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Let your natural thoughts flow cmon :)

You donā€™t talk like you type so XD

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Iā€™ve always had a bad habit of stuttering and losing my train of thought when talking in person, so when texting, the ideaā€™s always been to be an optimal version of what Iā€™d say to someone in person.

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A core tenet of that is replicating the intentional grammatical mistakes that Iā€™d make speaking, stuff like run-on sentences and speaking in sentence fragments.

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Almost perfect grammar there you missed a comma

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Nah I donā€™t think itā€™s that bad

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I donā€™t think so?
Or, rather, I think you parsed it in a different way than I intended.

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I feel like I talk and type in the same way but I find I stumble over ym words in a way I donā€™t normally notice

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Nevermind my mind canā€™t do line breaks

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And I do edit my messages a lot. In real life Iā€™m wlways generating things to say and often donā€™t deploy them in time to have them be useful and I just have to throw away really good lines/bits

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Online I donā€™t find this, even over VC. Maybe because conversations are fewer people online, maybe because Iā€™m like, audibly quieter and visibly small IRL so I find it harder to get words in

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This happens to me all the time.
One of the perks of texting is having the time and ability to fully convey those ideas.

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