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@ruthvsreality / ruthvsreality.tumblr.com

Ruth // she/her // who knows what I’m training for // phl // currently obsessed with: Star Wars and Rogue One
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gwynndolin

wsb is so fucking funny actually

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humanjeff

the mental image of this guy selling stock as the plane is depressurising around him is irresistible to me

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biglawbear

I don't think this would be illegal. Insider trading requires nonpublic knowledge from inside the company. Airplane door blowing off? Not nonpublic, not insider knowledge. You're just fast.

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elalmadelmar

Correct. You're not an insider to the company although you are (and hopefully remain) an insider to the plane, and you're not receiving any material non-public info as plane crashes are VERY public events. You're in the clear for buying puts while your plane goes down. I'm sure your next of kin will appreciate your priorities.

This guy is selling stock as the plane is plummeting out of the air at terminal velocity, while the person next to him is leaving a scathing 1 star review. The person behind them is doing a pov tiktok calling out the company. Boeing is fucking finished

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Everyone says that the eagles should have just carried the ring to Mordor but people who really know their lore know that they were actually stuck in some sort of hotel

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I want to live my life so that I’ll be able to read an in-depth biography about myself in later years and not puke.

Liza Weil as Paris Geller in Gilmore Girls (2000-2007)

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there's a cherry blossom tree in DC that keeps blooming every year even though it shouldn't and the park service keeps thinking it's dead and then it keeps blooming! well they're removing a lot of trees to rehabilitate the area and they've said it's finally time for stumpy to go and they're going to mulch it and use the mulch to enrich all the other trees so it can help everything else keep going. and they're also going to plant spliced little pieces of it all over so that stumpy can live forever and this is genuinely sending me into a spiral

STUMPY MY BELOVED!!!!

For added context on what rehabilitating the area means: there are structural issues with the Tidal Basin seawall that cause flooding like this independent of rainfall. Big portions of the sidewalk in Stumpy’s section are regularly submerged, which is bad for the land and the trees themselves, not to mention an accessibility issue for visitors.

It’s sad that Stumpy and many other trees in the area will need to be cut down, but it will ensure the continued survival of the other trees in the area, and Stumpy himself will live on in his cuttings!

I believe Stumpy will be taken to the national arboretum and his clones will return to the tidal basin after the rebuilding.

Someone left him a bottle of bourbon as an offering.

The Japanese Embassy came to pay him honor this week.

Stumpy and his cohort are part of the original gift from Japan more than 100 years ago, and many have lived this long bc the National Parks takes care of them. Normally the trees live about 40-50 years.

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