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Groening is back. On August 17th, Netflix released his new show Disenchantment. After binging this show over the past few days (solely for the sake of bringing new content to our blog), my feelings are mixed. As a huge fan of Futurama, when I saw Groening had made a new show I was stoked. I went in expecting a continuation of my most beloved show, something that Disenchantment definitely is not. At times it’s difficult to separate these shows from each other in your head, especially considering they use the same art style and some of the same voice actors, but by the end of the first season it’s hard not to see them as completely different universes. Despite their similarities, this show is very different from Futurama. Futurama is written on an episode by episode basis, with very little story progression or inter-episode plot. This works very well for the show, serving as a show that can be easily watched at any episode without trying to remember where we left off in the last. Di...

I'm back from vacation and Apple is an absolute wagon.  If you weren't paying attention, they just became the first company to hit one trillion dollars in market cap, which is just a ridiculous valuation.  They have been completely shit-pumping the tech sector and global markets in general since Jobs retook control in '97.  At that point the company was, according to Jobs, "90 days from bankruptcy".  Since then, they have risen to be the biggest company in the world by market cap. $AAPL financials read like they are fake.  The mountain of cash they have is infamous, sitting at 31.97B.  That is just cash on hand.  You take into account marketable securities and long term securities/overseas cash that pile grows to over 200 billion in cash.  Apple could outright buy companies like Disney, Netflix, Electronic Arts, and Tesla with cash.  Gross margins are increasing and they just beat on earnings.  They are looking strong, and this is su...