By Lambert Strether of Corrente
Bird Song of the Day
The students are very happy with the mockingbirds and I will continue to make them. Now into Week Three!
Long Mockingbird, Road to Ronquillo at -14.80588, -74.78986, Ica, Peru. “Birds singing at the top of the tall cacti early in the morning.”
Readers, this Water Cooler is abbreviated because I’m finishing up the “Insect Apocalypse” post. Here are some current events as conversation starters:
“Schwab, Fidelity, other online brokerages appear in the dark during a major market selloff” [Associated Press]. “Several online brokerage firms including Charles Schwab, Fidelity and Vanguard were seen lower by thousands of users early Monday amid the biggest stock markets of 2024. User reports appeared to be increasing and shortly before 10 am ET, data from the Downdector output tracker shows. Some frustrated online customers said they were unable to log in or access their account balances.” • Not like what Goldman did to Michael Burry The Big Short, I’m sure. Honor roll:
🚨#CONTINUED: Many brokerages, including Charles Schwab, Fidelity, Vanguard, TD Ameritrade, E-Trade, UPS, CenturyLink, and Interactive Brokers, are currently down and reporting errors amid the market crash. pic.twitter.com/H2htHnXynT
– RAWSALERTS (@rawsalerts) August 5, 2024
Meanwhile, “on the bare walls!”
CVS last night
Flowflex is completely gone
Several other brands have gone
Binax is raptured pic.twitter.com/NrlMnz9yI7
– Alexander Riccio (@co2trackers) (@ariccio) August 5, 2024
This is New York. I imagine similar scenes in California.
Plant contact details: Readers, feel free to contact me at lambert [UNDERSCORE] Strether [DOT] corrente [AT] yahoo [DOT] com, to (a) find out how to send me a check if you’re sick of PayPal and (b) to find out how to send pictures of plants. Vegetables are good! Fungi, algae, and corals are considered venerable plants! If you want your handle to appear as a credit, please put it at the beginning of your mail in brackets: (as such). If not, I will hide them by using your initials. Check out the previous Water Cooler (with a plant) here. From jsn:
jsn writes: “Hollyhock in front of the old store.”
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