> Mr Bankman-Fried remains holed up in his Albany marina penthouse, no doubt hoping to evade media interest, with his parents - both professors at Stanford University - said to be present with him.

I guess they can retire from Stanford now.

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[1]: https://guardian.ng/life/the-remote-sou…

> During the Second World War, a group of indigenes in the remote Island of Vanuatu spotted a plane airdrop daily essentials and started a religion based on the worship of cargo aeroplanes.
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> Cargo cultism, anthropologists describe, is the belief that soldiers who came to their aid during the Second World War and airdropped cargos containing essentials such as televisions, refrigerators, iced Coca-Cola, sweets, radios and medicine are spiritual entities sent to save them and will make a second coming.
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> The aeroplanes who brought in cargos dropped them in the military airbases meant for the Japanese and the Americans. The soldiers, in turn, shared some with the host community, Tannas. As they shared their goods, they became popular among the islanders who had not seen white skin-colours.

The popularity of this incident saw the rise of cults: the ‘Tom Navy’ which has a US Navy officer as the deity; the Prince Philip cult which believes that the Duke is a mountain spirit awaiting his messianic crowning and John Frum, an unknown US soldier.

> “During the war, the cargo religion saw aeroplanes land with lots of good materials, and they want the same thing to happen now. So they’ve arranged to imitate things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two wooden pieces on his head like headphones and bars of bamboo sticking out like antennas, he’s the controller and they wait for the aeroplanes to land.”

Their strategy has only managed to attract tourists.

***Aha. I am dressing a Ken doll as SBF.***

> Dr Hubert Minnis, yesterday told Tribune Business that neither himself nor anyone on his administration had met or come into contact with FTX or its co-founder prior to being voted out of office on September 15, 2022.

Except he was voted out on Sep15, 2021.

Must be metaphysical thing.

Right.
Nicole made the issue of price control go away to the relief of grocers.
But, the butter is still short at the retail place.

I hope there is some resolution.

Why should black forest ham and organic almond milk be price controlled? The average man has never bought these. And the tree huggers who buy them will pay any price.

> if he/she refuses to comply with a direction by the Authority to divulge ‘any record or supply any information’ requested.

I fully understand why this is there. As it happened to me, while I have in my possession a zero balance receipt, a doctor wants to charge me a lot of money to write a letter to my NHI doctor so I can switch my care to the public sector.

This doctor thinks I am required by law to be treated by him. But it is ok, the place is only 7x21, people will know.

these margins only apply for 3 months, minus the 2 past weeks.

then revert to the old ways.

And doctors and plumbers too.

I have noticed that too. The pharmacy owners keep saying 'profit margin", when it is really markup.

So they have to pay rent, utilities, salary, equipt, out of that 40%.

I do not know about the pharmacy business, but the grocery business operates on 3 or 4 % profit margin.

When you lower the markup you end up in the red.

But the greatest shortcoming of humanity is its inability to comprehend percentages.

BTW, the most businesses operate on 80 to 100% markup.

In Animal Farm , the cat was engaged to recruit. He did try to convince a sparrow, but that did not work out.