The Native American wage gap and Why I will NEVER hire an Agent

 

"I am not writing or selling a book; I just want to help make yours better."

This is what it means to me to be a Technical Writer.  Let's whittle your ideas into clarity.  This is where my technical mind is priceless; my diverse background experienced in "pretty much all" (yes, all) of the computer-based technology-related technical fields that make use of "software", as well as my "better than average" vocabulary gleaned from many scientific fields -- my smarts can make you seem smarter than you otherwise would seem.  If you're good at what you do but not necessarily proficient in English, I can lend the kind of smarts that will sharpen the focus of your papers, sell your books, get more "clicks" on your headlines, or make your resume the one the company looks at longer and with more interest.

 

 

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Yes, I really did offer $Roku Inc (ROKU.US)$ support back then -- when the Gen 1 box worked best with an Ethernet cable.  I do not operate this business any more, btw.

If you read any of my other columns, you might note that I demonstrated an early proficiency for Science. In high school I was selected as "Science Sterling Scholar," but I did not want to stay in Utah, where I was at the time I graduated.  I'd grown up mostly in Florida, liked being around more diverse people, recycling everything, and being in places where women have voice and are respected.  Everything I didn't like about Utah was tangentially related to its politics, and its (I think the only appropriate descriptor is "disgusting") wage gap between men and women.

I ultimately switched my major out of a Science degree.  The reason I switched is because even though I loved science back then, (and still love it today), most of my schooling years in high school and college took place under the Bush presidencies.   If you're anywhere near my age, you, too, will remember that the Bush family (like all Republican politicians old and new) waged war on Science.  Grants and science-based funding were cancelled, programs helping proficient students from low-income families were ended, and the investment in people as "assets" completely stopped.   Oligarch money -- those rich kids who inherited from their colonialist ancestors -- was all that mattered to those Republican presidents.   And we saw it full force, with wealthy parents "buying" their kids way into colleges they would otherwise never have gotten into is yet another reason I have no love and zero "soft spots" for Ivy leaguers and college dropout CEOs. 

And the 3 out of 4 grandparents I never met (due to their service of an antifascist "country") back me up on this, even from the grave.  It is my right to say whatever I want to say about incompetent, uneducated and fraudulent CEOs, especially when they are the reason my lifetime earnings also so pathetic.

I'm that Native American who lost her job two months after this statistic from April 2020 came out.  The former CEO of Intel had the same corrupt politics of those Utah suits whom I disliked.  They never liked me, they never respected me, they lied to me and I don't owe them anything.

It's not on me what I've earned; I did not do anything wrong.  What companies paid women like me a decade and two decades ago says more about them than it does about me.  What U.S.-based companies did and continue to do to all the diverse and culturally different voices and backgrounds who end up in technical fields IS THE REASON the reason for downfall of the US dollar today.  The failure of the US economy is DIRECTLY correlated to its lack of investment  in diversity -- and due to its oppression of people like me.

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5-day losses for an unscientific America that imports more than it can export

I did the cost:benefit analysis way back when I was 19, more than 2.5 decades ago -- and I figured out that as a female -- and as a Native American who could pass as white, the likelihood that I could earn enough to survive with a science degree was about 0.005 percent.  What I knew about school was that it was expensive, and that I would need to earn enough to pay off my tuition, books, and all those student fees.   The scholarship I'd earned for a year did not actually cover most of my expenses, and I had to work a job in addition to going to school.

Accountancy, with its fascinating spreadsheets software 25 years ago, seemed the degree with the best potential ROI for my money.

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screencapture of one of my introductory columns for Moomoo Community NNQ

Accountancy's culmination of intersecting disciplines of Economics, Finance, Taxation, and my favorite -- "Managerial Accounting" was where I eventually settled for the reason explained above in a column that I wrote for Moomoo friends many months ago.

So why no Agent?

Agent forces don't make clarity, they steal equity.  

The Principal-Agent Problem is one I wasn't introduced to until my advanced Economics class (R.I.P. H. Kim Craft of the SUU Thunderbirds), but it is a very interesting one, and the basis for my logic.

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no matter what career we do we earn much less than white men

When the data scientists include my income and career earnings in the profession of "Technical Writer", the gaps are even bigger.  Oftentimes our incomes are so low, our data is thrown out completely, considered "outlier".  

This is why I will NEVER hire an agent.  I've done enough data science myself to understand that each penny the Agent steals from me hurts me more (percentage wise) than it helps the thieving agency.  I am not an outlier.  Both of my parents were dead before I was 30, and college dropout CEOs are why.

Nobody I know from my University studies (students or professors) decided to study, teach, major or minor in Accountancy because they "love money" ... Accountancy experts are fierce to see money as a tool enabling an audit of facts that emerge when we "follow the money".   Over and over and over again, we see the same tragic result of the white supremacist attitudes that rose to dominate U.S. politics because college dropout CEO never matured beyond a petty, petulant teenager.

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https://www.ncai.org/news/podcast-more-than-a-51-cent-problem-native-women-and-the-gender-pay-gap

 

 

 

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If I could have a conversation with Larry and Sergey today

 

Since I lived in Silicon Valley way back when Larry, Sergey and Marissa were getting their recently-IPO'd company off the ground, I did my due diligence on them all way back then ... as a college grad, I liked and trusted all of them to do what they said they wanted to do with the company.   Especially that "don't be Evil" part.

 

And like most people who camped or resided within a CalTrain ride's distance to $Alphabet-C (GOOG.US)$ Mountain View campuses, I would have loved to work for Google back then.  There is no doubt in my mind that a majority of things would be totally different and better for the majority of people alive today ... if you guys had only given me a team and a chance.  Like I told everybody in the column about All the Native American Leadership Missing in Corporate America, I am who you need to hire to sustain your business -- not people who respond to damage on their ego with physical violence.

 

The absurdity.

 

Living on the peninsula, I learned to hide my MBA  and Accountancy degrees like I should be ashamed of being the first of my family to graduate college. Knowing and being able to teach corporations about kanban and kaizen and that there are *technically* at least three different  kinds of accounting, depending on the professional standards' boards of the CMA or CFA or CPA isn't a bad thing.  Each professional certification (that is what the "C" stands for in each acronym) has legal and regulatory considerations -- and each has an industry-standard of ethics to consider when working with money ...

 

✔️  to fund,

✔️  to run,  

✔️  to sustain with audited money in business.  

 

I felt mostly hate living, trying to survive in Silicon Valley.  People in Silicon Valley hated business-minded brains back then.  It was "too soon" after the dotcom crash of the 00s, ... and they blamed "Wall Street".  So I worked as a self-taught tech.  But what I self-taught was just never "good enough" for more than 20 dollars per hour.  You read correctly; incredulously, the maximum rate I made the 7 years I lived and worked for a slew of different companies as a W4 "employee" was 20 USD per hour, with 2 college degrees and a demonstrated proficiency in multiple softwares.  

That 2006 rejection email for the job of "Technical Writer" hurt me a lot, Google.  For a long time; it hurt my mom, too.  She was my family's #MMIW before I even knew what native people we descend from.

 

When I count my blessings, divorce is always at the top of my list. And it was near the top of hers, too, when she met my parent (that story is on a webpage you already indexed).  By the time I was 26 years old, I naively thought you could help me find her.  I was sending you my application from my Cedar City apartment that had no heat; couldn't afford the gas bill and I needed the electric for computer.  That was a tough, dark time for me after my divorce from the abusive, alcoholic husband the Mormon bishops had coerced me into marrying too young.  

I found out later -- around the time I learned contracts entered into under coercion, fraud or deception are not legally valid --  that they'd lied about many things .... maybe out of malice, maybe not.  But in any case, the 13 original Colonies did everything they could to rip the rug out from the matriarchal, and female leadership-run tribal systems we already had when Christopher Columbus got lost at sea. Columbus was probably quite a lot like the drunk I divorced who went apeshit after I was earning more than him out of school, at age 25.  And sabotaged I was -- just like Gabby Petito's partner was demeaning, dismissive and fearful of her success, mine have been too.  That saboteur personality seems to be part of almost every aspiring tech bro I ever meet:  as long as he's being paid more than me, has more "followers", he can keep telling himself he's better than me, worth more to the planet than me.

 

I'm glad I don't believe that any more ... but because those guys  believe it, I need your help.

I have three younger brothers older / more mature than college dropout CEO; I know how the male brain thinks and works.  But not all Googlers today are stereotypical "tech bro". And it is why I am making my "begging a group of Googlers" post to you specifically. 

 

Larry took all stock, and a salary of one dollar one of those early years; I admired that. 

 

That is what a founder does.  But that is what a CFO exploits.

 

Your CFO replacing Ruth P was (no nice way to put this) the wrong choice, in my humble opinion. Aside from the fact that Ashkenazi is probably closely related ...maybe the first or second cousin of college dropout CEO... Ashkenazi also came from the pharmaceutical industry, the same as college dropout CEO's biological parent.  

 

But addiction is not what Google sells -- addiction is what Meta Platforms, Inc sells.  I listened to the whole broadcast w/presentation slides. I listened with my 32 years of experience since being designated as a "future scientist", and I did not hear anything compelling justifying the larger price tag.  Greedy people make me want to Ralph all over my thriftstore clothes... and it's not because I'm trying to earn enough to pay my electric bill THIS MONTH.    I'd rather be documenting any old boring API than not getting paid to write these columns.

 

 

Is Bertha's inference engine making any outputs yet on where we might be going with this conversation?

 

I see and have always seen Google as a search engine that can help people avoid stupid mistakes ... so why you made this mistake specifically with this CFO is incredibly baffling to me.  I suspect certain large shareholders were targeted specifically to not really notice this lower-profile employee replacement.  

 

I write today because I have spent time of my life (time I could be doing other things) putting  together a theory.  It's not pretty, and people who follow me here because they hate/fear me won't like it.  I know people who hate me for my talent, but that should not be my problem.  I suspect the new employee was pushed through during chaotic or vulnerable times in the major shareholder's life -- maybe a midlife crisis, or some other normal human challenge of aging, when maybe the level of research was amateur, he expected that "by now" other people would care as much as you used to.    

Today I need your help, along with Moomoo followers ... help warding off the evil and insanity of the dilated pupils guy.  He claims somebody made his fake NSA service "mandatory", but yet he was free to reject the 23 billion dollar offer from 7 months ago? 

 

This is logical fallacy.

 

You have enough insider information at Google to make the right search terms that prove my theory.  That guy who rebranded his company logo to the "limitless credit card" sign of infinity has done more damage than he could ever clean up... and giving an "all cash deal" to his partners would be one of the dumbest things you can do.  I hope you figure out that his agenda has infiltrated your company's finances, and that you stop him.

 

dilated pupils and bloodshot eyes of delusion does not security make

 

Please be more aggressive in taking down the Ralphy suits with the atrociously cooked books; I know you have it in you.  I'm tired of working for people who abuse me in my talent to pay themselves trillions of percents more than I make.  This post is published on Blogger, an open-source server, and other sites available via Internet desktop without login where Larry and Sergey might also see or read it -- please share it with them directly if you are in a position to do so.

 

 

Sincerely,

L

Celebrating artists and veterans alike: those who do not work for financial interests

 

My paternal grandfather -- whom I never met -- is buried in Golden Gate cemetery.  His headstone says "U.S. Marine Corp" and "WWII". I mentioned in my introduction post that like most veterans and undercelebrated Navajo Code Talkers of his era, my grandfather did not dedicate his life to serving financial interests. The war on fascism enabled womens' rights on this continent.  My maternal ancestry has a significant chunk of Native American -- or, as we prefer to be called, "indigenous", and I was his first grandchild, despite the fact that my dad was not his oldest son.  Also since it is relevant to how we refer to time -- my parents were never officially married. My mother, being of indigenous peoples, did not believe in those certificates with incorrect time stamps issued by County-based courthouses, or in what their idea of "official" is.  She always knew her grandfathers and great grandmothers had been on this continent longer than Columbus' people.

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Olympia-based Salish artist Robert Upham's work also looks past incorrect timestamps

The end of WWII enabled rights for those women whose ancestors -- for whatever reason -- left Africa, Asia, Pacific Islands, Australia or Europe for the tectonic plates of the North American continent. Aside from womens' rights to leave any unhealthy, fascist relationship they want to leave, the veterans and Navajo Code Talkers who served in my grandfather's era also unlocked and enabled leaps and bounds on "freedom of the press".  The rights to be able to document, expose, and extinguish corruption anywhere and everywhere are due to the sacrifices of people who lived and served for a greater good.  For example,  Esther Gulick along with her friends Kay and Silvia got to work on their environmentalist activity cleaning up what was in the 1960's (RCT) unregulated toxic industry in the waterways of the San Francisco Bay. The smoggy pollution-ridden skies of the early 1970's (RCT) also got cleaned up significantly due to communication channels on a PUBLIC, global Internet (thank old timers at $Intel (INTC.US)$), freedom of the press, and -- of course -- women.

Unfortunately, 50 years is a long time ( ~ "time frame of 50 years has been filled with an astounding quantity and recent degradation in quality of technological and societal change for humans" -- nn.mqe), and the loss of memory of important things means some fascists are attempting to make a comeback.

(cue the "No, Fascists will never control America" music)  

I read a long while ago on the PUBLIC Internet that college dropout CEO has a big emotional hangup (envy) about not being able to get into any military branch. It therefore comes as no surprise to me that his fantasy world of limitless petrodollars means, to him, that he can  buy whatever he wants -- not only in Hawaii, suing and stealing ancestral lands from Kānaka Maoli -- but also a 75,000 square foot Doomsday compound in Lake Tahoe, too.  Let's all just be real and honest in saying he's an immature child who he thinks he can avoid being accountable for his spending "forever".  His fantasy of a limitless petrodollar spending has filled the planet up with all these terrible things since 2012, and way too many crimes against women. Reservation women have specifically been negatively impacted.  

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photo by author of this column from 39 months ago -- documenting stats from 2016 RCT

Another reason I'll never work for college dropout CEO from Germany's petrodollar fantasy is that he just doesn't care; many would say his Executive Operation "is directly responsible for" the IRL upticks in police brutality, "gatekeeping" of what people expected to be public Internet channels (see also: Myanmar), and an all-out war on Network Neutrality. Speaking of Network Neutrality, trying to kill it does bad things. A German YouTuber, Sabine Hossenfelder, notes that her country suffers today from some of the worst Internet service on the planet.  

Remember: we are allowed to dislike any CEO and their company we want to dislike.  We are allowed to share the logic why we dislike, or we can hire people whose ethics we share and who have better logic and writing skills to write logic for or on behalf of us.

We are allowed to have any opinions we want to have. Furthermore: even if someone disagrees with our well-educated opinions, they cannot harass,  threaten, or attempt to "destroy our lives" for them.  For example, if you work for college dropout CEO and use your fantasy stock valuation's premature cashouts to buy goons to harass or stalk me, you can be damn sure I will document a trail of forensics to your felonies and expose your tactics to my humble and hard-working friends from the global PUBLIC Internet.  I will also show them all exactly what you did in such a way that yields bad feelings toward you and your brand, as well as a stampede of divestment from your fantasy stock valuation.  I KNOW the reason MMIW murders and suicides rose so much 4 years after the college dropout CEO got funded, and you should too.  I don't do likes or make friends with enablers.  And you should not either.

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Zuckerberg will burn in Hell

 

On October 10, 2021, I made a big deal among my friends -- both online and offline friends -- about deleting my Facebook account.  "The Internet is bigger than this immature guy's fantasy," I told them.  "Did you know he hoarded 90 percent for a full seven years after taking the company public? That is narcissistic, not to mention fascist and evil, and I am outta here for good. You know where to find me if you want to keep in touch."

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"It's not called Columbus Day any more" -- IPDoHRR 2021 was my deletion day 

 

 

By the way, I will very likely direct some of my old FB friends to these columns, as I do plan to write for MooMoo's Community in a more frequent and generous way than I shared on Facebook.  If things go well with the assets I transferred over, I might share pictures of my 23 year old Siamese cat who, sadly, died earlier this year, only a few days after one of Facebook's goons got too close to him.  23 year old kitty cat and I had lived  in a small studio apartment on East O'Keefe Street in East Palo Alto a little more than a decade ago; cat (he/him) was somewhat of a celebrity among my friends.  More on that later.

Like all technical documentarians who take exquisite care to document important and legally-binding actions in precise detail, I captured and archived the last moment (shown above) before I completely deleted my Facebook account. On a nondescript and unowned Chromebook,  I tethered my cellphone connection to the Chromebook and connected it to a cellphone tower (no way did I ever consent to give that college dropout CEO my cellphone data) outside a building of my rez husband's Alma Matter: Portland State University. I did this from inside my automobile in proximity of its Native American Student and Community Center where we were celebrating what we who learned better call "Indigenous Peoples Day" in 2021.

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I have long-term sobriety (over a decade) from another unhealthy habit.  Trust me when I say that the life-altering positive transformations from quitting the bad things have been well worth it.  The long-term view to keep at the forefront of your mind during the initial rough patch is that the rewards will always outweigh the initial weirdness of not having that "crutch" -- find and network with others who succeeded.  The longer I've been away from each bad thing, the stronger and more disciplined I've become. That gentle assurance of "you are not alone" can be yours, too, even if you are afraid of how people in your social groups might "react" to your taking control of your own life.  Those who disagree with your choice or try to sabotage your success are probably not real friends anyway. Dr. Ramani has several videos along the lines of "How to thrive after escaping narcissistic abuse" that can work well if you're the kind of person who struggles with doubts. For some people, it may be an epiphany that they are in fact victims of narcissistic abuse if they logged into FB and shared ANYTHING AT ALL between 2012 and 2019. A CEO who hoarded 90 percent of your equitable karma to impress an Asian American doctor he would NEVER have been able to get without his privileged abuse of the petrodollar? You did not do anything wrong -- he did. The CEO's days are limited.  

Prior to the expiry of the petrodollar, Facebook's goons were drunk on the delusion that they had "outsmarted" the system, maxing out credit to buy apps they could never create on their own, buying friends they could never make on their own.  With all the arrogance and entitlement you'd expect from the CEO who backstabbed a former engineer he had hired to implement anti-bullying measures by enabling misogynistic slurs on his technically-inclined daughter to "get back in the kitchen"?  

Suffice it to say I am SO GLAD I left when I did, and wish I'd quit sooner.

The warrior kitty must have known exactly what was going on; I've felt oddly empowered since his passing and know that even though he did not get to live as long as he should have, he did not die in vain. His bravery and courage taught me hope is not lost with persistence, one day at a time. 

In conclusion, you too can recover from narcissistic abusers of the petrodollar.  If info this column is news to you, and you're regretting investing any dime of your 401K in Facebook, is not too late to divest and quit. And about the particularly sick goons who doubled down on the petrodollar fantasy that is "Meta Platforms"?  They probably play too many games and did not do enough research into its business model.  Trust violated does not get restored. Advertizer industry is as fickle as the typical American's attention span.  Thankfully, college dropout CEO was unable to ensnare

the youngest generation into his web of deceit and scandal; the future is not lost. 

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The amazingly symmetric eye of Beryl, and a Zen reminder from long-time studied natives on the planet

 

 

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Long time study patterns are the kind of patterns native peoples like.  Short-sighted CEOs who think they are winning really need a reality check.  Doesn't matter how many fake "likes" RCL bribed corporate media for, people with sanity know cabin fever pandemic survivors are not keen on claustrophobic boat cabins amid tempest seas:  Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL)  Balance Sheet & Financial Health Metrics  - Simply Wall St

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LOGIC SAYS Cabin fever pandemic survivors ain't keen on claustrophobic boat cabins amid tempest seas

 

Collapse of the petrodollar and why it's okay to "dislike" CEOs addicted to abusive inflation of the petrodollar

 

First and foremost: you are allowed to dislike any companies you want to dislike.  As a college graduate with not one, but two business degrees from 20 and 21 years ago respectively, a woman, a seasoned tech veteran who lived and worked in Silicon Valley for more than 7 years ( SHDH & HackerDojo co-founders from 140B remember me ) and a Native American indigenous to the very continent on which I am trying to survive, I have very specific and educated reasons for disliking the companies I dislike. Being able to exercise my freedom of press and share the songs of my logic as far and wide as there are open minds to learning is one of the best things about the Internet.

Unfortunately, CEOs addicted the petrodollar don't like the clear, unobstructed communication channels available on Internet, and they really don't like women who have "equal" or "greater" logic, business intelligence, or success than they have.  The biggest fear of the CEOs addicted to the petrodollar is getting outsmarted by a woman. CEO with unhealthy addiction to the petrodollar whose ego is in danger of getting a booboo will often go out of his way (99.5 percent of the time the petrodollar addict is a "he") to censor or sabotage a successful woman -- and he historically exhibits especially vindictive character in attempting to destroy any equity she has earned.

But remember -- he was never able to win on his own; she is older and smarter and better at business than him. So he had to invent a fantasy where he is always winning.   Thus we can understand why and how it came to be that he chose the petrodollar as his BFF for his fantasy.  

Is no wonder this terrible thing known as the "petrodollar" is finally collapsing!

As you read on, make note that neither jipji'ju'gisutnat (pictured below) nor the author are ashamed of our logic in publicizing this SWOOP.

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Here is Part One, this is Part Two

A "Real-Time" example for the collapse of the petrodollar

We dislike the young and arrogant CEO of Facebook's Platforms Inc. AND we dislike the CEOs and CFOs naïvely partnering with him.  What was happening less than 60 days ago?  Do you think he fears loss of the petrodollar?I

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Bloomberg video from < than 60 days ago https://www.youtube.com/live/iyOq8DhaMYw?si=b5JuL4eFuX8niw5q

I've written elsewhere on the Internet about this concept of "Market Cap" and how the college dropout CEO of Facebook Platforms, Inc. does not quite understand the role of finance in business.  With such unsustainable valuations, he is certainly one among the sick ones who must prepare to lose those delusional stock valuations.

For the rest of this column and future columns in this series, we'll need to be able to communicate like sane and professional accountancy professionals in the presence of ethical and licensed CPAs.  We aren't going to run any background checks on the audience members; though let us be hopeful that there are at least a handful of CMAs/CPAs/CFAs/FASBs with enough ethical fortitude to assert that it is ACCEPTABLE to "Refuse to Engage" in what we'll call "fraudulently unsustainable valuations".  This brings us to the second concept of our SWOOP:

Outside stakeholders -- for example, the humans accounting for geology before Columbus brought RCT, the native animal and plant species on a different tectonic plate than the one the CEO or CFO lives on "more than half time" are all acceptable examples of "outside stakeholders" that will be affected by "business plans" of CEOs addicted to the petrodollar.

Is "required" that business plan maker acknowledges that entities other than themself have rights and sovereignty to refuse any partnerships or proposals offered -- in other words, people on tectonic plates near or far from your own have the rights to make their own decisions.

The advice to "dial back your expectations" is almost always good advice.  Something tells me that if you have followed my work thus far, this should be easy; we're already on the same page when it comes to the understanding that those megacap-heavy portfolios cannot be sustainable.  And there is absolutely no logic the CEOs or unethical CFOs can invent or buy that makes incorrect rationalizations "correct".  

*Disclaimer: moomooers reading this column because they want to learn how to literally "fly like a bird" should please not take the phrase literally. The most tired /r/WSB tropes like "to the moon" need expired.  Although this column is authored by a professional, best recommend is do not make any rash decisions without educating yourself from many teachers and using your own brain.  Pep talk #2 for ladies: the CEOs of those megacaps are not more valuable than you!

More about author: About 24 years ago, she wandered into the CS lab at her University and noticed some people working on what she learned are called "spreadsheets".  These were the coolest things on computers (in her opinion) at the time; they were much more interesting than the rock music videos and Hollywood models her college boyfriend at the time was obsessed with on the Internet.

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The expiry of the petrodollar, and a simple person's analysis of the oceans being too hot

 

My first community contribution and introduction the other day ended with somewhat of a segue into this topic.

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snapshot of Sea Surface Temp is 30.8° C / 87.4° by green dot; source: earth.nullschool.net

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SST (Sea Surface Temperature) @ 27.56° N, 50.36° E was 31.4° Celsius yesterday

These are the heat maps that I monitor daily.

"The oceans being too hot" is a topic that traverses both sides of the global sphere, many disciplines, and it requires a calm and sober-minded analysis, not something proponents of the #petrodollar have been known for possessing.  As a writer on the Internet since 1995, I am well aware of the kinds of impatience non-scientific people have for facts and logic that goes contrary to their opinions of how the world should work. Those who made their retirement plans unaware that the petrodollar would lose its dominance this year may feel uncomfortable when reading this column.  It is not my intent to physically harm you. If you start to feel uncomfortable, remember you can come back and read more later. Maybe take a deep breath and go take a walk somewhere -- preferably somewhere with living (not plastic) plant life that you can talk to and participate in healthful oxygen.exchange. You're also welcome to go read something else that makes you more comfortable.  

If you are able to move and walk freely to the nearest greenspace unhindered by recent tornado, derecho and hail damage (MD, MN, IA, NE, MS, LA, TN, AR, KS, SD, TX, CO), flood waters (FL, MS, GA, LA, ND, TX, KY), Saharan dust storms (Algeria, Libya, and coming soon the the Caribbean), "raging out of control wildfires" (TX, AZ, WY, UT, WA, CA), or angry weapon-wielding military who have inconceivably obscured their entire human bodies with the wardrobe designed to keep the petrodollar "secure"?  Aside from rendering themselves unattractive and ridiculous looking, such confused people clearly do not understand what those wardrobes are really enabling -- hint: it has nothing to do with future security of humanity. After multiple decades of testing, it is clear that the wardrobe confused people put on to enable accelerated global warming does not actually secure "heart" of the country most invested in the petrodollar.  Quite the opposite, in fact.

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Trinity River (TX) is currently in moderate flood stage at 28.6 feet. Major floodstage @ 29'

So if not the petrodollar, what? Moomoo readers would be familiar with alternatives to the petrodollar (note for translators: previous sentence was written specifically to say "alternatives" in the plural form, implying the existence of multiple financial "currencies"), including the much-undervalued petro৳, the petro¥, the petro港元, even the petro円 being in charge of assigning their own values to the word "petro". If you are interested in learning more about the history of this term -- why and how the petrodollar term came about -- this writeup from 2023 (RCT) by Caleb Hinton has some detail.  Keep in mind that the term today is expired; that is, the seemingly-limitless inflation that some hasty supposed "AI" toting stocks have enjoyed due to their favoritism of the petrodollar?  Such inflation is not sustainable at previous rates, as the climatology maps included with this column indicate.  Nobody is "winning" anything by overheating the ocean waters, resultant from too many vacation selfies on their favorite technology megacaps.

Today we focus on the present, current state of the global temperature map that mistakenly prioritized the petrodollar too long.   We'll do this with a S.W.O.O.P.  For visual thinkers and learners, I have included some digital art I made at some point during these last 4 years ... I made this with my own talents and skillset:

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the jipji'ju'gisutnat is making a SWOOP gesture

SWOOP is a derivative of the often-referenced biz school term "SWOT" (an acronym about business plans; you can look it up). But unlike the SWOT, the SWOOP takes into consideration a more global perspective on the net effects of business plans.  Specifically does the SWOOP outline:

Strengths,

Weakness,

Opportunities to improve,

Outside stakeholders affected by the business plan -- always acknowledging that they have rights and sovereignty to refuse any partnerships or proposals offered -- the rights to make their own decisions,

Precision -- this one can be refined for translators to communicate there must be some non-biased metrics and a realistic learning cycle to assess:

"What needs improved?" 

"How can we DOWNSIZE outrageous expectations -- such as a 3 TRILLION #PETRODOLLAR marketcap -- on non-essential datacenter/computer part: the GPU?"

Precisely, how can we downsize those expectations to save more beautiful and diverse species from the irrational inflation of the petrodollar as we prepare humanity for a more realistic currency standard and future??  

We'll undertake this SWOOP with fearlessness in pointing out weaknesses and admitting mistakes. The "Strengths" category we'll do last, as it is usually derived from the other 4.  It is not correct to start with the "strengths" of the petrodollar. To assist those who might be having a hard time with this column, we shall break the topics down into ... what will probably be n/5 sections, one for each letter of the SWOOP.

PRECISELY:  Now about the expiry of the petrodollar

Let's work backwards on our SWOOP, starting precisely with "Precision."  Specifically precision about time frames between integrated learning cycles. If you are one of those readers who had to go take a walk to calm down your fears about losing the appearance of "winning" something with your stock portfolio being heavily weighted in petrodollars?  I hope you are feeling better now.  Take another deep breath as you read the next paragraph.

On June 9 of this year, a decades-old agreement between what some maps call "Saudi Arabia" and what some maps call "The United States of America" expired and was intentionally not renewed to favor the financial denomination of the petrodollar. Creating a cut-off for inflation was a wise move on the part of the original entities, whose original goals were (and remain) rightful sovereignty over their own natural resources.  As the jipji'ju'gisutnat will tell you plainly: a body moving through space, unhindered, wishes to continue to move through space unhindered. There are literal physics formulas that prove this motion.  In our SWOOP, let us focus now on the "Precision" part on the time frame.

Things the humans used the petrodollar to make -- like wars over artificial borders, military checkpoints, border patrols, and "maximum security" prisons around innocent people like Lakȟótiyapi language keeper Leonard Peltier?  These are not natural and hinder the most efficient use of oxygen.exchange.  Imagine yourself in his place -- locked off from the world for nearly 50 years because two agents in the FBI were bored enough to go investigate some missing "cowboy boots" only one year after the "petrodollar" started being the incorrect replacement for the "gold standard".  Dozens of testimonies proclaim his innocence, and -- because it is relevant to any story involving cowboy boots -- remember that cows are not even endemic / native / indigenous to North America! As you take another deep breath and rationally consider cause and effect -- do you also agree that the non-native methane-producing excess of cows on "ranches" in Texas is also certainly attributable to the 30.7 degree SST off what some maps call "Texas"?

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What some maps call "Texas" in not immune from anomalistic sea surface temperatures.

While I am  unsure how many ranchers might be reading Moomoo Financial, it is important for the aspect of "Precision" that we note it is not correct to assume that they (or you) are "winning" anything by forcing petrodollar-centric dramas on regions the North American native tribes (inclusive of the Lakota) have managed "just fine" for over 10K years.  Before petrodollar-centric dramas came along, bison grazed the plains like a salad bar, and no fences, ranchers, or "border patrols" hindered them.  Indeed, witnesses from all over the global sphere will assure you that 御婆さん Uŋčí Makhá was successfully implementing oxygen.exchange with native life for hundreds of millions of years before humans demanded to see how she reacts to the petrodollar.

As we wrap up this column, do meditate on the original design -- that every geological system has an accompanying biosphere of endemic species that needs them (inclusive of indigenous language keepers like Leonard Peltier) strong and healthy.

n ~=1  ;  n/5

(TBC @ 1353 words)

Everything too radical for academia, and the problem of diminishing attention spans

 

 

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Courtesy "EN" documentation for people who still don't understand that "EN" is not my ntv.lang. 

Academia is too verbose. Too easy to lose the spirit of decolonization {some variety.ref among prepositional phrases} all the Euro-centric and colonial-specific historic details that "ivy league" and their aspiring counterparts slam down in the book sellers. Is the equivalent of drowning in irrelevant and largely-useless data.  We don't need any more angles from the white man.   

Decolonizing requires the human go back further to/on their home continent where their great great great great great great ancestors ruins have stories unique to them, ones indigenous folks here are not necessarily interested in today. Especially and including the noise pollution of politics! 

Justice for the oldest peoples on Turtle Island has been in the queue the longest.  Our clan mother-based Supreme Court will always outrule anything the sleazy "US Supreme Court" might say.  All of the translations reached the same conclusion: there's no honor in that court.

Three hundred sixty-three revolutions ago, there were no English names on the back of Turtle Island. Nobody wanted or needed Greco-Roman anything, and the greed of Italian accountants was only beginning to become apparent to the European masses. This is a story rooted in fact, not fiction:

https://ecosteader.com/@indie/103861317639897787

 

 

 

Tri-level logosmography for data and financial auditing.

Logismography as a concept has been derived from a storied historical past.
In one of my graduate-level management accounting classes, the lore was of a system more advanced and informative than double-entry bookkeeping. This mythical entity was a system that used a method of triple entry accounting, called Logismography. At one point several years ago, I even checked Wikipedia; there was no entry for this idea. There is still no entry for this idea.

No results for articles containing the term, either.

Okay, well what about the most authoritative authority on the attribution of authors? That's right... I'm talking about our good friend, Google.

Top-level skim yields nothing significant. What about peeking into the mountain of student-funded research[3] available to students and professors whist they are ensconced in the Ivory towers? Why yes; I'm referring to greedy database hoarders like EBSCO host and JSTOR that continue to squelch access to the actual research part of student and taxpayer-funded research.

But we digress. Back to this
For what this system might be used, the authors could only speculate. Today, after about a decade of "in the field professional experience", I have some ideas.

Logismography was thought to have been developed in Renaissance times, and later generations of accountants dismissed it as being "unviable", preferring the double entry version developed by Pacioli. Given that the physical limitations of his time didn't include the computational or cryptographical boundaries that we enjoy today, would a Logismography-like system be a natural and obvious choice for present day?



_(Footnote): Patent possibly pending.

[1] Ancient Double-Entry Bookkeeping. Scholars' Book Co. 1974: p 33.

[2] Filios, Vassilios P. "Four Schools of European Accounting Thought." The Accounting Historians Journal (1981): pp 61-78.

[3] http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html

[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20161008012416/http://transparentaccounting.org/

Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) smells like Enron

Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) smells like Enron

The most egregious accounting fraud, insider trading, and ENRON-like practices are perpetuating at Salesforce, where they're cooking the books

It's open season for looting on Wall Street. The regulators, it seems, have put on their blinders. For a holder of a hard-earned Baccalaureate degree in Accountancy and a staunch promoter and maintainer professional accounting ethics, it's sickening. The warning sirens are screaming but nobody is listening. Although I could never do the wardrobe of an auditor CPA, I can still share my findings....

One of the worst offenders is headquartered in downtown San Francisco, in a lofty tower stuffed full of headset-wearing marketing people and "engineers"  tucked in with a splattering of corporate motivational posters.

The corporation for which these lipsticked pigs work does not produce anything tangible; it does not have any saleable inventory. This corporation didn't invent anything noteworthy; nor does it hold any significant patents. It doesn't contribute anything of appreciable value to its customers.  

If, on December 30, 2016, you'd looked at the income statement of this corporation, you'd wonder how on Earth did it get to a 46.9 Billion dollar market cap? (Yes, that is billion with a "B"; 46 billion +900 million).

You'd be baffled, and perhaps dig a bit into the balance sheet and quarterlies. In them, you would discover what are factually negative GAAP Earnings-Per-Share (EPS) for all seven out of seven of the last seven years since it IPO'd (2009 - 2016). In fact, you'd see a company that has largely been inventing its own "earnings" and selling those fake numbers to shareholders.  The numbers which do not adhere to any accounting standards, they say, are an indication of their "growth".  Growing what, exactly?  You'd see a company with vague business model and poor-to-mediocre digital products haphazardly glued together with wads and wads of cold and limp spaghetti.  You might try a few random searches to see what the big deal is... how has this company managed to stay in business? What are they selling, exactly?

What you'd discover instead of answers is droves and droves of pigs: pigs that are singing and tap-dancing incessantly about the cold spaghetti. There are literally thousands of troll accounts on social media sites, all of them incessantly praising this company. You might wonder what the hell was going on.  How does a company that can't explain what it does in one clear sentence have so many fanboys?  And why are there so many tactics being used to promote Salesforce so similar to what we saw with the Russian troll farm accounts used to steal our elections?

Then maybe you'd decide to take a listen to a conference call hosted by the chief pig himself -- Marc Benioff.  Just one listen and it becomes clear that this is company is nothing more than spew of mouthful after mouthful of slobbering and regurgitated pie-in-the-sky lies. Benioff & Co. assault the listener with an irrational barrage of buzzwords about digital apps, the "cloud" growth, customer-facing solutions and blah, blah blah.  The detachment from reality is quite alarming.

For any real software engineer, it's too much to swallow.  Real hackers know that you CANNOT scale customized spaghetti. Adding more spaghetti on top of others' forgotten and moldy spaghetti doesn't make the spaghetti any more efficient.  Benioff's delusions about growth have zero substance, like marshmallow fluff whipped up with green olive baloney puked on top of that cold spaghetti.

Are you getting sick yet?  If not, you should be.  This is not right.   

These days, society is so well-acquainted with delusional men that it lets them get away with way more than it should. Sometimes society even likes to encourage them by lapping up their vomit.

Fast forward to today.  A mere 21 months later, and that Salesforce vomit is now being "valued" by shareholders at an astounding 115.58 billion dollar market cap.  It has increased in value by 69.5 Billion dollars in only 21 months.
    

Let me spell that out for you. The ACCOUNTING FRAUD at SALESFORCE has stolen over 115 billion, 580 million from investors who believed the fake numbers Benioff and Co have been selling as "real" GAAP numbers!

For some other perspective, consider the breakdown of what the best analysts on Wall Street make out in difference between "small" cap and "large" cap stock.  The journey between a small and large cap ($10B of value) is long and arduous, and here is key:  It takes a long time.  It takes a long time of solid earnings that produce positive EPS, not on the back of "bridge loans" for billions and other shady deals derived from other co-conspirators who profit from borrowed money inflated like a blimp.

What this means is that when the fraud and corrupt accounting practices are exposed, all of the Salesforce "insiders" will have effectively stolen over 100 billion dollars.   It's being reported that Benioff is going to buy Time Magazine with his booty. 

This ALSO means Marc Benioff's attempt to acquire TIME Magazine for $190M is being done with Unlawful Proceeds from Stock Sale!

Why?

It's easier to fake the short-term than it is the long term.

• Egregious balance sheet manipulation  --  Even Tesla, which everybody knows is maybe probably prematurely overvalued, doesn't try to defraud people with fake Goodwill or "Intangible" assets. 
  
  
  

  

  For a peek as to how the insiders "really" feel about their growth, take a look at insider dumping (NOTE: this does not include 3 of the most egregious dumps in the last 4 weeks)
  

  Insider dumping

  

How?

Factual GAAP accounting numbers are being suppressed, and instead the salesmen direct investors to the fraudulent and manipulated non-GAAP earnings they repeat ad nauseum.

Since most of what Salesforce can claim as its revenue comes from unenforcable "contracts" (prepay forward contracts are fully refundable by law!) and which it has not yet delivered (and for which no real engineers will work), it has been emulating tactics used by ENRON insiders to mislead investors about growth.  Like ENRON, Salesforce has a fishy credit rating with one of its most intimate bed mates, including Merril Lynch, the company that fronted $3 billion of the $6.5 billion acquisition cost for Mulesoft.   

• Borrowing practices parallel those used by ENRON 

Enron entered into circular transactions that were characterized as prepay forward contracts in order to disguise borrowings as cash from operations. Lay was aware of the importance and magnitude of prepay transactions to create operating cash flow and thereby maintain Enron's investment grade credit rating. Lay was aware that the credit rating agencies were not told the magnitude of Enron's prepay obligations and that this information was not disclosed in Enron's public filings.¹   

In Conclusion...

You shouldn't need a CPA's wardrobe to catch this kind of crime.  It's wrong on every level: it diverts dollars from investment in truly worthy companies, for one.  It enables sleazebags like Benioff to cash out hundreds of millions of dollars, for two.  It makes places like San Francisco even worse than it already is.

PLEASE write to the SEC and tell them time to start jailing criminals like Marc Benioff and Keith Block; this kind of fraud will ruin America; criminals and enablers doing this stuff on purpose need to be locked up and throw away the key.

1. https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2004-94.htm