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KYC and solo staking
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Trezor Wallet Sees Astounding 1000% Surge in Sales as Ledger Faces Major Setback
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Bitcoin Cash City Contractor Action - Absolute Building Supplies accepting Bitcoin Cash
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Fantom Returns 15% Gas Fees to Selected Projects
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2023.05.29 16:36 Sniederhouse Can anyone offer insight?

Into what happens to Mattson if Jimenez ends up being President? Obviously this didn’t play into the finale, but wouldn’t the next move be to “squeal” about those India numbers if you’re Kendall or even Shiv? Or does Lukas acquiring WaystaRoyco do what he predicted in that it makes it easier to sweep under the rug?
Was joking with my girlfriend that my personal head canon from here is SEC gets pissed, Shiv able to buy the company (lolz) and Tom and Shiv raise the child healthily to take over in 35-40 years because life always works out that way, right?
Just a perfect finale.
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2023.05.29 16:36 solodarlings The siblings aren't actually in a bad position now; they're just miserable because of who they are as human beings

One thing I can't stop thinking about: all that really happened this episode was....exactly what the siblings were originally planning to have happen at the beginning of the season, pre-Logan's death. The deal goes through, and they get to take several billion dollars each of the money and do whatever they want with it. The only material difference to them is that they're actually getting more money than they originally expected because Roman and Kendall were able to convince Mattson to raise the price.
So in theory, this is not a terrible outcome for them. They could go ahead with buying PGN. They could start The Hundred or whatever other business venture of their own. In theory, Kendall could take his business experience and go "make his own bag" - it probably wouldn't be as successful as Waystar because he's not the businessman Logan was, but it would be something, and he'd probably be less likely to continue losing his humanity along the way than he would be as Waystar CEO, if he weren't trying to literally fill Logan's shoes.
Similarly, in theory, this isn't terrible for Shiv. Not because I think she'll get any real power out of being CEO-Tom's wife or the mother of his child or anything like that, but simply because I don't think she was ever actually all that invested in Waystar to begin with. She started the show with a successful career outside the company, and when she came in, it seemed like she was driven more by her need for Logan's attention/approval than because being a CEO was a job she truly aspired to. Similarly, she was the most willing to sell to Mattson at the beginning of the season, even before she started angling for the whole "American CEO" thing. I honestly think she would have been happy to take the money and leave...up until she realized that her brothers were going behind her back, at which point anything less than defeating them and taking what they wanted started feeling like "losing" to them, which she couldn't bear. She's always been the least connected to Waystar, so in that sense, she's losing the least by handing it to Mattson and Tom and taking the $$$.
As for Roman, we've seen that he couldn't handle the pressure. If they'd gone through with the deal, Kendall would have crushed him. There's no way that would have ended well for him, IMO. I think he realizes that on some level, which is why he's more-or-less okay ending up back where he started.
But Shiv and Kendall? Both miserable. Because in practice, they are both still trapped in the cycle. Kendall doesn't just want to be a successful businessman - he wants to be Logan reincarnated, and anything less than that feels worse than death to him. Shiv will probably be more okay than he will be, just for the reason I mentioned above that she was never as invested in Waystar as he was, but she definitely doesn't feel like she "won". She got to play kingmaker, but only after being forced to accept she could never be the queen. Like Kendall, she has the money to go off and do whatever she wants, but also like him, she convinced herself that the only real prize is being Logan's successor. That isn't true, but they both believe it, and so they're still trapped in the cycle even after Logan's death.
And, of course, after all the mutual backstabbing this season, it seems pretty unlikely that the siblings will team up to run PGN/The Hundred/whatever together. Kendall and Shiv and Roman could have had something good together, but even though they still have the skills and financial resources to do exactly what they were planning at the beginning of the season, their family dynamic is just too toxic for them to ever make it happen.
That's the real tragedy of the finale to me. Great stuff!
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2023.05.29 16:16 thatlitwitch Women and Positions of Power at WayStar

Specifically, initial thoughts on Karolina, Gerri, and Jess’ presence or lack of in the finale. I did a quick search and didn’t see a dedicated thread.
Karolina: I like how Tom immediately asking for her (ignoring Hugo), basically confirmed that her request to Shiv will happen under Tom. Karolina is Hugo’s supervisor and I wonder if she felt he should be gone, why she didn’t start that process. She should be able to run her own PR department. I imagine with Kendall gravitating to Hugo by default on camera, off camera he has indicated Hugo is untouchable (cause blackmail and Karolina’s cooperation with/being kept on by Go-Jo). Tom is (correctly) shifting the power back to Karolina by ignoring Hugo.
Gerri: We only see her “in person” from side angles or from afar. Pre-board meeting Roman seems to start cracking when he spots her. Which is an echo of his grief when they’re watching the dinner party. He’s mourning the loss of Gerri just as much as Logan when they’re watching the video. Once Roman sees her at WayStar, he grief spirals again with “it could be me.” Gerri is the most competent of C-Suite, has been CEO before. I think the reason Logan wanted her out was he knew Mattsson would keep her on, she’d work for WayStar-RoyCo-GoJo, and knows where the secrets are buried. Tom listing Gerri as a person he’d like to keep (or rehire I guess), shows he is good for the job and also works for the company not the Roys. Remove the people who genuinely want out or are incompetent (Karl, Frank, Hugo), keep the people who know their business and work (Karolina, Gerri).
Jess: I realized at the last scene that I was missing Jess this entire episode. I’m sure she got a new job before planning to leave, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she ended up in the Tomsphere. Even if it’s Greg calling her at stupid times asking for help and her charging him hourly as a consultant. I can also see Greg being given a reasonable severance package and Tom courting Jess for the head admin role. She’s more than qualified, keeping with the above Greg is not competent and essentially works for the family. Though ideally Jess is just out and living her best life.
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2023.05.29 16:09 EliteVoodoo1776 The winner isn’t the one with the title.

I’ve seen a lot of people making the baffling claim that Tom “won” and then going even further to say he is the “new Logan”, and honestly I have no idea whether or not these people were actually paying attention at all.
Tom didn’t win. Tom isn’t a functional CEO. He is a pawn on a board ruled by the actual decision maker, Lukas Matsson. Lukas has been the true successor to the throne since the season 3 finale. He called Logan and Roman to a meeting, and within moments Logan understood him, saw his potential, and chose who he wanted to lead. He looked Logan in the face and told him he was old and done, and that was mirrored at the beginning of season 4 when Logan demanded his own team insult him, and none of them had the balls to do it.
Roman was right, Logan didn’t want to give the company to his kids or their spouses in the end. They weren’t “killers/serious people”, but Lukas was. He met Roman at Ken’s party and asked when his dad would die, He brought Ken and Rome to the top of a mountain to basically tell them they were fucked and used their dead dad as leverage. He knew how to play Shiv like a fiddle until he could dump her at the easiest convince, and then looked her husband in the face and told him he wanted to fuck her even knowing she was pregnant. He dragged the entire Waystar A-Team to Sweden just to mentally fuck around with them about his “kill list” to see who would make an actual asset to the company.
Lukas is the new Logan. He is the shot caller. He is the man in charge. The board works for him, because he doesn’t see people as people. He doesn’t see the business as an ego boost. He sees people as pawns and cogs, and he views the business as his legacy, and the rest of the world can get fucked. He told Tom that his position would be bullshit. Low involvement, and nothing more than a corporate empty suit yes man there to please politicians and shareholders. That was never Logan. People feared and respected Logan, but Tom has none of that behind him.
Ken imploded under pressure as he has done every time. Roman ran and hid like a child and knew deep down he wasn’t meant for the position. Shiv played her best angle, but even then she now has a broken marriage to a man who works for the man she planned to fuck over. Her life is reduced to being her mother for someone who is insultingly worse at the position than her father ever was. I think it’s beautiful how much we have seen this whole family fail, and I believe the show-runners have made something very special with Succession.
All hail Lukas, the new Logan Roy.
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2023.05.29 16:04 froggyjm9 I completely dislike Shiv…but I think everyone is missing the post about the siblings…they aren’t serious people, they are all messed up bullshit.

For me Shiv’s doubts started when Kendall was given a chance to speak on his vision of the company and he could only said “GoJo is a bad deal, I have a deck with our financials, but who cares let’s just vote”— he had a chance to win more people to his side, but he was all show. At that point I think Shiv understood there was a huge chance Kendall was going to squander everything and maybe just like Matsson just cut her off after he got the crown and maybe even tank the share price with his wild ideas.
If he didn’t go psycho on her, if Kendall could have stood in front of the board and said “Shiv and Roman will be a huge part of the company running ATN and socials” she would have voted yes.
She chose Matsson, because she walks away with money and a sniff of power with Tom, who she is still trying to have a relationship with, even without knowing he was gunning for CEO.
The GoJo deal was a serious deal, Kendall isn’t a serious person. He’s a good showman, but not a business killer, he’s never been— he always loses, he thinks he’s him, but always falls short. He’s a mess.
Roman is most definitely also not a serious person.
Shiv, thinks she is, but she isn’t one either.
Tom is a serious person who would do anything to be in power, he came from “nothing” so he understands he needs to scheme his way to the top, just like Logan did at one point.
The siblings are all bullshit, not sure why people think Shiv “stole” anything from Kendall, he did that himself.
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the president of my company, who has been in the field for 50 years isn’t sure what it is. the gg joint is 34/28, the manufacturer was in NJ and not in business any longer.
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2023.05.29 15:50 mjcostel27 Really disappointed in the ending.

Was the point that Shiv is irrational? She didn’t give the company to Tom, she gave it to the lying Sweed that used her. Completely illogical decision and a 180 from just the day before with a genuine moment with Ken.
Ken abusing Rome was a much better angle, Ken going full Logan and really just confirms Shiv is in the Conner intelligence and capability camp.
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2023.05.29 15:25 SimarHunjan HOLY SHIT!

TOM WON!
I just wanted Tom and Greg to be safe and secure their position in the company in the finale. I also predicted that Tom was going to win but thought it was an impossible scenario... I hated those theories about greg firing Tom in the end or Kendall winning (Fk Kendall and Siblings)
Tom was always the hardworking one and he deserved it! That was a fcking Perfect Finale!.... I am totally satisfied.
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2023.05.29 15:16 FisherMan-village PARSIQ and AI like ChatGPT unravel high future potential….

The popularity of blockchain technology has already created a demand for user-friendly data analysis tools,and, in the meantime, artificial intelligence (AI) like ChatGPT is pushing this demand a bit further (to take Artificial Intelligence to the next level by using blockchain technology). While talking about data blockchain technology, the name ‘’Parsiq’’ will appear in the first line because Parsiq’s technology can give any real-time and historical data of the blockchain industry instantly. As a result, it can undoubtedly be said that Parsiq’s data center is going to be the nucleus of any AI-based technology and products.
Even though artificial intelligence has been in discussion for the last decade, the recent release of ChatGPT has taken its popularity to another peak. Tech giants ranging from Twitter and Google to crypto exchanges like Binance are adding ChatGPT features to their services. No doubt,artificial intelligence will make our lives easier in the near future. On the other hand, blockchain technology is showing us immense potential in the fields of finance and the virtual world. So, the blend of these two industries is creating the next chapter,‘’Blockchain & AI,’’which has the challenge of delivering any complex data in the quickest possible way in real-time.
And Parsiq can smartly take over the onerous task of AI through their Tsunami API products. On the other hand, when all popular centralized Web2 companies want to shift to the next version of AI-based technology, Web3 data solutions will appear. Parsiq will be the trump card then because Parsiq provides data indexing and data storage solutions for Web3 projects to leverage key data sets that exist in the decentralized space.
From the 2022 roadmap of Parsiq, it’s clear that Parsiq has been making attempts to ensure a next-level experience for their users by analyzing the Web3 industry thoroughly, which is present now. It’s because Parsiq provides developers, dApps, and protocols with access to the full spectrum of data on supported blockchains with the 2022 release of its Tsunami API. Later on, the release of Data Lakes added a dimension to it as it refines the API by providing customer-tailored data for each of the protocols supported by the lake. Web3 Solutions and the technologies mentioned in the previous line are fueling the data industry by opening the realm of data for customers and other third parties.
Tom Tirman, the CEO of Parsiq, has announced that they have a small team full-time researching AI, an immense number of use cases where it can be used. He also confirmed that they want to merge ChatGPT and other AI technologies with Parsiq. He believes that Parsiq Tech and AI are a match made in heaven.
So, it’s crystal clear that the Parsiq team has taken the AI data industry very seriously, as Parsiq has a role in this industry to play by delivering critical data instantly in a user-friendly way within some seconds.
Of late, recently we have seen that LilAI (a smart automated management-based project) was rightly answering any Parsiq-related questions asked in normal language on the Telegram bot channel by using Parsiq’sproduct. LilAI is a burning example of how platforms can use PARSIQ to launch their products to market promptly and efficiently.
Indeed, data is the new oil because upcoming innovative projects ranging from finance to AI-based companies will need Web3 data where Web2 data is immobilized. So, in this decentralized data center industry, we can designate Parsiq as the biggest data server in the Web3 industry. Isn’t that so?
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2023.05.29 15:12 breaditbans If we’re picking nits, I feel it necessary to say

Wasn’t it a tiny bit too incredible and fast of a turn in all three sibs? Weren’t they just swimming together, having a good time the night before? Suddenly, out of nowhere Kendall starts acting like Caesar, Roman gets queasy, and Shiv turns turncoat to help her husband, who she just called a motherfucker?
I get that Kendall feels his oats quickly, gets overconfident, stops listening to advisors, but he couldn’t fake it for 24 hours?
I get that Roman turns emotional, has his daddy issues and jealousy toward Ken, but he’s NOT self-aware enough to know HE JUST FUCKED things at the funeral?
Shiv is the weirdest one. They were just swimming together, doing the right thing. She was going to get a juicy morsel of the company. Suddenly, she just decides “it can’t be you?” All I can think is she figured she’d be a better puppet master of Tom than of Ken. But then why all the crying and pacing back and forth? It’s not like she’s uncomfortable fucking over Ken.
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2023.05.29 15:10 zmwright87 Anyone else hate owning a home?

I owned my house for a decade now. Paid it off and did annual home improvements. Was basically able to check off everything. I feel like after one thing is complete another thing starts and needs repair. Take my siding job for instance. I had a siding company remove and replace all my siding. They put holes in my almost new roof and patched it with tar because they needed scaffolding to get up there. Now I’ll probably need to replace my roof in shorter amount of time. He won’t fix or come back, says this is standard procedure. A house to me is like a money pit. It never ends and I’ll never be satisfied. I’d rather live in a condo.
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2023.05.29 15:08 GrammaS62 Hands - spoiler

The hand holding at the end reminds me of a king and queen. I think Shiv voted against her brother because she knew she would be able to influence Tom and still have power in the company. Also Tom wanted to be the CEO not just for himself but to have respect from Shiv who he loves very much.
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2023.05.29 15:01 MasqureMan The truth behind the deciding vote

Shiv’s decision was based on multiple factors, but the biggest one was this: it finally came down to her. Shiv finally had the ultimate power in a company where she’s been promised power multiple times and been backstabbed every time.
Her father promised her the company (like everyone else) and dangled it in front of her until the last moment. Her brothers offered her fake power while they tried to take the company for themselves. Shiv single handedly led Mattson through the nuances and social networks of the deal, and he of course betrays her, too. And even Tom, the most honest relationship she has, essentially threw her under the bus again (although a bit more nuanced because he told her he was the CEO pick to maintain their relationship).
Now yes, Shiv has thrown Tom under the bus many times. She would have betrayed anyone except maybe her father to get herself a better position. But for the first time, Shiv had the power to decide it all. Any choice she made gave power to people that had betrayed her, so it didn’t come down to that.
Narratively, seeing Kendall in power upset her enough to be petty about it and keep it from him. Still, this vote also partially decided the fate of her husband and child. If the vote was purely a question of status, then she would have just voted Tom in and betrayed Ken, but it wasn’t. Shiv’s core was shaken because she didn’t know what she wanted.
Now thematically, Shiv does keep Kendall from his dark transformation of becoming Logan. He now has an opportunity to actually have a fulfilling life and develop a relationship with his family. The company was an addiction and he’s free of it. Roman was given an opportunity to stand up for himself and not be completely pitiful, which is the current best case scenario for him. He has finally accepted that they will not win Logan’s approval and can move on.
Shiv debatably is the only one still “trapped in the cycle”, but if she actually gives her kids two mostly stable parents, she will already be breaking the cycle of her parents.
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2023.05.29 14:53 Sergey_Preobr Rat

"Pig! Nasty fat pig! - Arthur thought with irritation, leaving the subway, - Squeals, as if she is being cut! Businesswoman! I would put this businesswoman with doggy style right on her huge table and fuck her like a..."
Arthur Lomov was thirty-four and he had everything, like people have - a house, a wife, a child, death ahead, and death inside. He also had a job that he hated. More precisely, the work itself did not cause rejection in him, work as work is no worse than then of others. He did not like the bosses (who likes their?). And not even all the bosses, but only the headmistress, the one whom he was going to "fuck". Sleek and haughty, she spoke to people with undisguised disgust, through her teeth, sincerely and deeply despising the "cattle" that surrounded her. Lomov including. He was nobody for her, a manager, what millions, not even an insect, but a bacterium, office plankton. She has not fired him until now just because there was no case. And then the crisis broke out and rumors about layoffs spread around the office.
And as luck would have it, Arthur mixed up some numbers in the quarterly report. Margarita Nikolaevna called him into the office, and screamed as if he had stabbed and robbed a beggar on the porch of church! Not only did she deduct 30 percent from his salary, she also promised to fire he next time! Yes, he himself would have gone, on the same day! If he had money, real big money, say a million dollars!
Arthur suddenly imagined how he, in an expensive dark gray Versace suit, with a small suitcase in his hand, ignoring the screams of secretary, opened the door with a kick and entered the hated office. How the headmistress's already round stupid eyes are rounded.
"What do you want, Lomov?" She asks.
“I have a business proposal!” He says and puts the case on the table; - I want to fuck you ... Yes, to fuck you now on that table fore million dollars! Behind, you a lustful bitch!
“Yes, you are drunk Lomov, leave my office immediately ...” the headmistress says and the last word gets stuck in her throat, because at that moment Arthur opens the suitcase and she sees tight green bundles with real American money.
The headmistress hardly takes her eyes off the dollars, looks at Lomov, then back at the money. Her primitive brain tries to comprehend the non-standard situation and begins to boil.
"Where did you get this from, Lomov?" she says, swallowing her saliva.
"Who cares? You agree?"
The woman's face is covered with red spots, becomes confused and even somehow miserable.
“This is so unexpected…” she mutters, “what if someone comes in?”
Lomov does not answer anything, and only looks at the headmistress, enjoying her confusion.
Finally, having overcome her excitement, she presses the "selector" button:
“Lena don’t let anyone in to see me! I'm busy!"
Then she raises her eyes to Lomov and begins to unbutton her blouse with trembling fingers, the buttons do not obey her, she throws it, grabs the zipper on her skirt.
At this moment, Lomov slams the suitcase shut and takes it off the table.
"Best wishes!" he says.
"In what sense?" The headmistress asks bewildered.
"I changed my mind!" Arthur calmly answers and, without looking back, leaves the office...
He dreamed so much that he almost fell under the wheels and right on the pedestrian crossing. Some idiot on a tinted "nine" flashed in front of him, Arthur barely had time to bounce, but did not calculate his strength and fell into a puddle.
“No, that’s not good,” he thought, rising to his feet and shaking off the dirt from his jacket, “I need to drink urgently!”
* * *
The pub turned out to be very unpresentable, but this did not bother Lomov. Taking two mugs of beer, he hardly found a free table in the bluish smoke and finally took his first long sip.
- Your headmistress got nitpicking you up, and you are completely innocent of anything? - Arthur heard a dry cracked voice in his ear.
He raised his eyes and saw that a dubious appearanceg peasant with a week-long stubble and two mugs of light beer was sitting at his table. Since the question was purely rhetorical, Arthur merely chuckled vaguely in response.
Now ask me, how do I know this? - the stranger did not want to lag behind.
- What is this?
- Well, the fact that you were fucked by your headmistress for no reason at all?
- Well, how do you know that? - Said Arthur to get rid of the importunate type.
- It's very simple - I'm God! - The stranger said triumphantly. And noticing the bewilderment in the eyes of the interlocutor, he explained:
- Well, the one who created the Earth, the Sky and all this! - He glanced around at the smoky pub.
The life of Artur Lomov developed in such a way that he was not ready for such meetings.
"Yeah, that's exactly how I imagined you!" he chuckled sarcastically.
But the impostor, as it turned out, was not going to joke at all.
- What did you want? I look like this because of you! Because that's how you represent me! And if you were a Hindu, I could now have an elephant's head and a long trunk. What if you were a Mayan...
- Don't, I understand everything, - Arthur stopped him, - Just don't expect me to buy you beer!
- Do not make me laugh! I can create so much beer that it will flood not only your entire Moscow, but the entire planet! And what, not a bad idea - a worldwide beer flood! It is high time! Pathetic little people completely lost their fear, they do what they want! I created such a beautiful planet for you: blue seas, snow-capped mountains, shady forests, crystal waters of rivers! And what did you turn it into?
“Yes, the guy seems to be in trouble with his head!” - thought Arthur, listening to the ravings of an uninvited drinking companion.
Finally, he couldn't take it anymore.
- Well, if you are so omnipotent, could you, just as an entertainment, create for me, let's say a small suitcase with a million dollars? Lomov asked.
“I could,” reply the impostor, not at all embarrassed, “but I won’t. You see, money is such a thing… no matter how much they give you it anyway, very soon you will feel that this is not enough. I'd rather make sure you never need money at all. Is it coming?
Arthur shrugged vaguely.
- I will turn you, well, let's say ... - the stranger thought for a second, - into a rat!
“I don’t want to be a rat,” Lomov suddenly got scared, “they are vile and nasty!”
- No, no, just a rat! Big black rat! But not today, tomorrow. In the meantime, drink your beer!
- Wait! Don't turn me into anyone! - Arthur shouted, but the hanyga had already vanished into cigarette smoke.
* * *
Arthur could not get the key into the keyhole for a long time, and when he finally managed to open the door, he saw his wife in a dressing gown with a crumpled night face.
- Where are you hanging out? – Unkindly asked she, - Do you know what time it is? And why isn't the cell phone answering?
- The phone is dead. Probably ... - Arthur muttered, barely moving his tongue.
- You're l drunk! - The wife said and grimaced in disgust, - And with whom did you get so drunk?
- You will not believe - with God!
- Moron! - said the wife and slapped Arthur on the head with a slipper.
- I am not kidding! I actually drank beer with God and he promised to turn me into a rat! Tomorrow! - He suddenly felt funny, and he began to choke with laughter, - Imagine, tomorrow you wake up, and your husband is a rat, or rather ratman! But it's tomorrow, and now I want to sleep!
- You idiot, take off your shoes! - said the wife and went to the kitchen.
Lomov threw off his shoes with difficulty and went into the bedroom and, without undressing, collapsed onto the bed.
* * *
He dreamed of some nonsense: Margarita Nikolaevna, completely naked, in only shoes, walked around the office, scolded negligent employees, gave valuable instructions. The subordinates listened to her with a serious look and nodded their heads. And only one Arthur could hardly contain the laughter. But when the naked headmistress began to teach the electrician how to properly install the outlet, Lomov could not stand it and literally neighed out loud.
- Lomov, what's the matter with you? - Margarita Nikolaevna asked sternly, - Did I say something funny? By the way, how are you going to compensate for the colossal loss that you caused the company with your mistakes in the report? Do you have a million dollars?
- I have? – Surprised Arthur – Where?
- Then we could cut off your hand! - Suggested Margarita Nikolaevna, - Although wait! Say, are you drinking?
- No!
- It's good that you don't drink, and then we'll take your liver. Or not, better a kidney, because you have two of them!
And then Arthur saw a huge kitchen knife flash in the headmistress's hand. He realized that it was time to run, but his legs suddenly became wobbly and he could not budge...
* * *
Waking up the next morning with a sore head, Arthur first tried to understand why he felt so bad? Obviously, because he got drunk yesterday - that's clear. He strained his brain, and he managed to remember the scandal arranged by the headmistress, as well as the promise to fire him. After such it was a sin not to get drunk! But where? He didn't remember this.
However, there was no time to think, he was already late for work. Taking a sip of cold tea from a cup standing on the table, he quickly dressed and rushed out into the street.
* * *
Despite all the efforts, Lomov was still late for work. As soon as he sat down at his desk and turned on the computer, the secretary called and said that Margarita Nikolaevna urgently wanted to see him. His heart immediately felt ugly and cold.
Arthur honestly tried, following Chekhov, to squeeze a slave out of himself, drop by drop, but somehow it didn’t work out very well. He could convince himself as much as he wanted that the worst thing this woman could do to him was to fire him. Only and everything! But after all, he has arms, legs and a head on his shoulders; he will not die of hunger. But as soon as he was in the director's office, all logical arguments instantly evaporated, and only one animal inexplicable irrational fear remained. That vile, shrill voice pulled things out of the depths of his subconscious that he didn't even know existed. He literally physically felt how he began to decrease in size.
Even now, standing in front of the huge director's desk, like a delinquent schoolboy, he could not get rid of the feeling of his own insignificance.
“Not only are you unable to write an elementary report,” Margarita Nikolaevna’s voice boomed in his ears, “you are also late!” What do you not like about your work? Or do you want to be reduced?
Lomov suddenly imagined that he really was reduced, and at the same moment he saw how all the items in the director's office, including the hostess, began to grow rapidly. He did not immediately guess that in fact no one and nothing is growing, and that he himself is decreasing in size.
- Arthur Valentinovich, what are you doing? – Finally noticed the strange metamorphoses headmistress, - Immediately stop, I order you!
But Lomov was no longer able to stop anything. He was already looking at the edge of the director's table from the bottom up, and after a couple of seconds he realized that his height did not exceed the height of a woman's shoe.
- Rat! - Margarita Nikolaevna suddenly squealed and jumped onto the table with unexpected agility, - Lena, come here soon!
Whistling a few centimeters from his temple, the massive crystal ashtray hit the carpet with a dull thud, and Arthur realized that any delay could cost him his life. With all his might, he rushed under the closet, and a mobile phone and a few obscene words flew after him.
- Where is the rat, Margarita Nikolaevna? - asked the secretary, who came running to the cry.
- She hid under the closet! Call the guard as soon as possible, the closet must be urgently moved away before she runs away!
Realizing that he could not hide here, Arthur began to look for a way out and soon discovered a gap between the plinth and the wall. With difficulty, squeezing through a narrow opening, he found himself in a pier between the main wall and the plasterboard panels with which the office was sheathed. Only now did he feel relatively safe and tried to analyze the situation.
First, he realized that not only had he shrunk in size, but even worse, he had turned into a rat (he never liked rats). This followed not only from the screams of the headmistress (she could call her subordinate and not that way!) but mainly from the long bare tail dragging after him.
And only then Arthur remembered yesterday's visit to the pub and dubious type who called himself God.
It must be said that yesterday he treated his random drinking companion rather lightly, but now, under the pressure of circumstances, he was forced to admit that the impostor was far from being as simple as it seemed to him at first glance. Of course, he is no God, that's clear. But who? For some reason I didn't want to think about it.
Meanwhile, a security guard came and pushed the closet away. They searched for Arthur for a long time and unsuccessfully, but found only a gap in the wall.
- She probably climbed into this hole, - said the guard, - now you can’t smoke her out of there! Or you order to break the wall?
Then the supply manager and some other people came, made noise, moved the furniture.
This bustle tired Lomov, and he dozed off, and when he woke up, there was dead silence. Obviously, the working day has already ended and everyone has gone home. He was terribly hungry, however, not surprising, because he had not eaten anything since yesterday. And then his nostrils caught a delicious smell, it came from the director's office, seeped through the cracks in the wall, penetrated into the brain and caused painful salivation.
Overcoming fear, Lomov cautiously crawled out of hiding and, sniffing the air, moved in the direction of the source of the seductive aroma. Very soon he realized that the smell was coming from the drawer. Using the wires leading to the monitor, he deftly climbed onto the table, but the drawer was closed, and Arthur's weak rat paws were simply unable to pull it out. Luckily, there was a pencil on the table, he pushed it through the slot and, acting as a lever, opened the drawer rather quickly. To his disappointment, he found there only a pile of useless papers and a thick stack of five thousandth bills tied with an elastic band. The impostor did not deceive, now Lomov's money was not at all interested, out of annoyance he even shit on them, but this only increased the hunger.
“Did the devil pull me to ask this idiot for a million dollars?! - he thought, listening to the hungry cramps in his stomach - And yet, where does this smell come from? How can money smell so delicious!”
He rummaged through the entire drawer filled with stupid papers and finally found in the very corner under some kind of contract a small moldy piece of cheese. Well, yes, of course, it was cheese, only he could emit such an attractive aroma.
Arthur ate it in a couple of seconds and of course he didn’t sated a drop. Unable to resist, he even began to gnaw at the contract, soaked with a cheese smell.
- Are you eating contracts? Look, you will earn an ulcer! - Arthur heard a sly voice behind him and turned around. On the edge of the table sat a small but rather pretty white rat.
- Hello! My name is Larisa, - the rat introduced herself, - And you are Arthur from the sales department!
- Exactly, but how do you know me?
- Yes, I used to work in the logistics department; I was fired six months ago.
- Larisa from logistics? I remember you! - Arthur was delighted, - Such a pretty blonde, you still always wore very short skirts, our men just twisted their necks when you walked down the corridor.
- That's why I was fired.
- Wait, are you, too, like I used to be a human?
- All rats were once people, - Larisa remarked philosophically, - but fear turns a person into an animal.
- What kind of nonsense? - Arthur was skeptical.
- No nonsense. British scientists conducted research and came to the conclusion that over the past 40 years, the IQ in rats has increased by 10 points! And at the same time in all rats living in different parts of the globe.
- And what? Rats live next to people and learn all sorts of tricky things from them!
- Let's admit it. Do you know how many people disappear without a trace every year in our country? 80 thousand! A man went out to the nearest store for bread and did not return!
- Do you think they all turn into rats?
- Maybe not all, but many. We have become!
It was difficult to object to such an argument, and Arthur remained silent.
- What are we all talking about? - said Larisa, - you're probably hungry? Come on, I've got something from the New Year's banquet.
Larisa led Arthur to her hole, where a sumptuous dinner was waiting for them: there were half-eaten sandwiches with boiled pork and smoked sausage, and assorted fish, and of course cheese, a lot of cheese.
Satisfying his hunger, Arthur took a closer look at Larisa and suddenly realized that he liked her. And even her long bare tail now did not cause disgust, but rather seemed piquant. And what a wonderful smell emanated from her small, but such a dexterous little body!
Unable to resist the call of the flesh, he approached her from behind and put his paws on her shoulders.
* * *
- Darling! Do you want us to have little rats? - Larisa asked a few minutes later, snuggling comfortably on Lomov's shoulder.
- What? What other rats? Arthur didn't understand.
- Well, how? We didn't protect ourselves! And I am very prolific, in the last litter I brought twelve rats!
- Oh my God! Lomov groaned, “But you can’t do it somehow so that ... well, you understand!”
- Don't you want us to have little rats?
- No, you misunderstood me, that's not the point! It's just all of a sudden...
- What is unexpected? If you don't want little rats, say so!
- It's not that I don't want little rats. You see, this happened to you a long time ago, and in six months you have probably turned into a real rat, you feel like a rat and think like a rat. And I was still a human this morning...
- You were office plankton! - Larisa reminded.
- Okay, so be it! But I walked on two legs, wore a blue suit, a striped tie, and drank Gösser beer.
- You can get beer in the garbage dump, - Larisa suggested, - Sometimes unfinished bottles are thrown there.
- I don't want beer from the dump, damn it! - Arthur got angry, - And I don't want to be a rat! Why on earth should I be a rat? Why, Lord? There are so many real scums around: thieves, robbers, murderers, rapists, child molesters! Well, why me?!
“You and I seem to have such karma,” Larisa sighed sadly, “never mind. Let's sleep better, and tomorrow we'll go to the garbage heap and find you a Gösser beer.
* * *
Lomov fell asleep and had a wonderful dream. In this dream, he was human again.
He was lying in a small bright room on a clean sheet, covered up to his chin with a striped woolen blanket. The gentle spring sun shone through the window, and the soul was light and calm.
He thought that, perhaps, he should go to wash and already threw back the covers, but at that moment voices and noise were heard outside the door. Arthur returned the blanket to its place and pretended to be asleep.
People entered the room, through narrowed eyelids Lomov could only see through the legs and the skirts of white coats.
- But Semyon Arkadyevich, pay attention, a very interesting case! - said the first rather pleasant male voice, - Sick Lomov, he entered yesterday. Hypomanic arousal in an acute form, convinced that he is a rat. When the team arrived, he rushed around the director's office, biting, scratching, trying to hide under the closet, barely managed to calm him down. He was injected with 4 cubes of chlorpromazine. When he wakes up, for some time he will adequately perceive the surrounding reality, but after a few hours the effect of the drug will end.
- Very good! - Answered the second voice, - continue aminazin, add more phenazepam and electroconvulsive therapy. Who's next for us?
- Maklakov, Delirium tremens, entered three days ago...
The voices began to fade, the dream gradually melted away and Lomov found himself again lying in the rat hole. A white rat sat next to him and somehow strangely (with tenderness?) looked at him.
- Larisa? You? - He asked, looking at the animal.
- Well, yes, Larisa, who else?
- You know Larisa, I had such a strange dream here! - Lomov yawned, unable to restrain himself, - As if I had become a man again, I was lying in a clean, bright room, some people in white coats were coming and saying something. It seems like I got sick, I'm in the hospital, and they treat me.
- I, too, at first dreamed of something similar, but then everything went away, - Larisa reassured him, - And it will pass for you too!
- I do not want will pass! Vice versa. Understand - I do not want to be a rat, sleep in this stinking hole, and eat garbage! I want to be human!
- Unfortunately, this is a one-way street.
- In what sense?
- I asked to other rats. There has never been such a case that a rat became a man.
- And what, there is no hope?
- To be honest, not the slightest. Okay, stop talking, let's go have breakfast in the trash, otherwise yesterday we ate up all the supplies!
- I won't go, - Arthur answered and lay down, resting his head on his front paws.
- Okay, lie down. Then I'll bring you something delicious. Do you want rotten herring intestines?
- No.
"Then what do you want I to bring?"
- I do not want anything.
- You can't do that, Arthur. If you don't eat, you'll get sick and soon die!
- That's good, everything is better than this life!
- You know, Arthur, I used to think so too, but then I realized one very simple thing: since we exist as outcasts ...
- Outcasts? Lomov asked.
- Well, yes - rats, cockroaches, crickets and others ... So, since we are exist, then someone needs it!
- To whom? To office plankton? So that they look at us and rejoice that it is not they who have to rummage through the garbage in search of rotten herring intestines?
- Well, yes, at least. And don't forget that at any moment they themselves can be in our place!
- I don't want to be a scarecrow for these one-celled!
- And what do you want?
- Don't know. I don't want to live, that's what!
- We must be careful with desires, - Larisa warned, - they tend to come true!
- Well, let! I want to die and the sooner the better!
- Bad deed is not tricky. There are thousands of ways: you can deliberately climb into a mousetrap, or, for example, go out into the yard in the evening and shout: “Cats are motherfuckers!”
- Faggots! Cretins! Jerks! - Heard the cries of Margarita Nikolaevna from behind the wall, - I will fire you all; you will eat rotten meat in my garbage dump! I told you yesterday to catch a rat! Not only did this bastard gobble up a million dollar contract, but he also pissed off my money!
“Money can be laundered,” the financial director advised timidly, “now many do it!
- Here you take Mark Antonovich and launder this money as you want! And you, Igor Ivanovich, as the head of the security department, urgently take care of the rat! And so that by tomorrow morning I could see her corpse!
- Then I went for mousetraps? Igor Ivanovich asked.
- Go, do something already! Do not stand like idols!
* * *
Arthur not only did not go with Larisa to the trash, but did not even touch the delicacies that she brought him. He spent the whole day lying in the hole, with his head on his paws and staring dully in front of him.
But by evening, when there was no food left, hunger began to make itself felt. Thoughts of suicide disappeared somewhere; he wanted cheese, ham, grain, and most importantly more and more. At first he endured, trying to hide his cowardice, but then he could not stand it.
- Listen Laris, and there you have nothing left to gnaw? - he asked.
- No, I finished everything, you refused! - Answered Larisa, - But I think it's time to visit our headmistress's office. The working day is already over; no one will interfere with us.
Four mousetraps were waiting for them in the office, richly stuffed with cheese, sausage and even lard.
- Give me a pencil! Larisa asked.
Arthur climbed onto the table and brought a pencil. Larisa put it in a mousetrap and it snapped shut, breaking the back of the pencil.
- Well, now you can safely eat cheese! - She said.
While Larisa was fiddling with the next mousetrap, Lomov decided to look for food on his own, and very quickly found a saucer of flour in the corner behind the bedside table. True, the smell of flour was a little strange, but the hunger was so strong that he did not become picky.
- You're so funny! - Larisa giggled when she saw Arthur, - you have a white mustache, and the whole muzzle!
- Yes, I'm here ... I found flour ... - Lomov muttered and began to embarrassedly rub his muzzle with varnishes.
- Wait, are you eating flour? Larisa asked, and her gaze was filled with genuine horror.
- Yes, what wrong? - Arthur spoke slowly, involuntarily infected by her fear.
- I knew it! You could not be left alone for a second; you are like a small child! It's my entire fault!
- Wait a minute, explain plainly what happened?
- There is such an old way of killing rats and mice. Flour is mixed with alabaster and placed in a conspicuous place. Now you will be thirsty, the alabaster will mix with the water, the solution will immediately seize, and you will die a slow and painful death.
- What if you don't drink?
- Then you will die of dehydration. Not a very pleasant ending either.
Wait, you must be wrong! Maybe there was no alabaster in that flour? 'Cause I can't die, I'm so young!
- Okay, let's go; let's look at your flour! - Larissa sighed.
Lomov showed her the saucer; the rat carefully sniffed it and confidently sentenced:
- The smell of alabaster!
- And what will happen now?
- Now you're going begin to die!
- No, it can't be! After all, I have not even begun to truly live, only I was going to! And most importantly - for what?
- I don’t understand where all of a sudden such a thirst for life comes from? Just a few hours ago, you yourself wanted to die!
- I was a fool! And now I understand everything, I want to live! Live by anyone: a blind mole, a cockroach, a worm.
- Whoever you are, sooner or later you would still have to die. Or did you think you'd live forever?
- No, of course, - Arthur was embarrassed, - I just didn't expect everything to happen so quickly and ridiculously. I am not ready!
- Well, get ready, you still have time! I told you - you will go to die for a long time.
- Wait, Laris, it seems it has begun!
- What started?
- Well, what were you talking about. There is something going on inside of me. It feels like... I don't know what to say. It seems like everything is starting to turn to stone!
- I knew it! Well, go to look for your last shelter!
- What other shelter?
- The rat, when it feels that its end is near, leaves its relatives, looks for a secluded place and hides there.
- For what?
- Such is the law - everyone dies alone!
But I don't want to die alone! In fact, I just don't want to die! However, I think I've already said that.
- Of course he did! Come on; crawl away faster while you can still move your paws!
* * *
Arthur wandered for a long time through some basement passageways, crawled into holes, but could not find a quiet place anywhere. There was a rat smell everywhere, or even worse, a cat smell. Finally, he managed to find a seemingly suitable hole, he lay down on a pile of dirty rags, but as soon as he closed his eyes, some devils appeared and dragged him to hell.
"Put me down," he shouted, "I don't want to go to hell! For what? I didn't do anything wrong!"
In response, the devils grinned and were talking among themselves in an incomprehensible language. And when he began to struggle, they twisted his hands (now he had hands!) Behind his back.
But the worst began when they arrived at the place. The devils put a funnel down Arthur's throat and began pouring molten lead into him. However, maybe it was not lead, but silver, platinum, or some other white metal.
Then he vomited with this liquid metal, and then the funnel was inserted again, and everything started all over again. But this was not enough for the devils, and they began to pour the same metal into it only from the other side. His insides were swollen, and it seemed that they were about to burst. Unable to bear the torment, Arthur passed out.
And when he came to himself, he saw a girlish face of angelic beauty bending over him. And suddenly this angelic face approached him and dug into his lips with a passionate kiss.
"Maybe I'm in heaven!" thought Arthur.
- Stop overworking, Lariska, don't you see, he's already recovered! - A rather unpleasant female voice came from somewhere above.
Larisa pulled away and spat.
“I thought he would never recover!” she said, wiping her lips with the back of her hand.
- Where I am? Arthur asked, looking around.
- Where, where, in Karaganda! - Answered the second girl and rolled up with a cheerful laugh, - You better tell us fool, why did you eat cement?
- Cement? So it was cement? – Delighted Arthur, - Definitely not alabaster?
- We have Tajiks doing repairs, - the girl explained, - there are bags of cement in the corridor, so you ate straight from the bag. Dzhamshut came running, complaining, if your patients eat our cement, how can we repair? You had to do a gastric lavage, and out of habit you almost go to hell! Well, Lariska noticed in time, you can say, she saved your life!
The nurses left (he guessed that they were nurses in white caps and gowns) and Lomov began to inspect the room. On the wall, framed under glass, he noticed a rather strange document. Arthur got out of bed, walked over and began to read.
“A reminder to the new arrivals.
Eight levels of hell.
  1. Arbuda-naraka - hell of blisters. On a dark frozen valley, surrounded by cold mountains, there is a constant blizzard and snow storm. The inhabitants of this hell are naked and lonely, and their bodies are covered with blisters from the cold. The time spent in this hell is how long it will take to empty a barrel of sesame seeds, if one grain is taken every hundred years.
  2. Nirarbuda-naraka - the hell of swelling blisters. This hell is even colder and the blisters swell and explode, leaving the bodies covered in blood and pus.
  3. Atata-naraka - hell when shaking from the cold.
  4. Hahava-naraka - the hell of weeping and groaning. When the victim moans from the cold.
  5. Huhuva-naraka - the hell of chattering teeth. Terrible chills and chattering of teeth.
  6. Utpala-naraka - the hell of the blue lotus, when the constant cold makes the whole skin turn blue like a lily.
  7. Padma-naraka - lotus hell. A snowstorm covers the frozen body, leaving bloody wounds.
  8. Mahapadma-naraka - the great lotus hell. The whole body cracks from the cold, and the internal organs also crack from the terrible frost.
Staying in each next level is 20 times longer than in the previous one.
After…"
What awaits the unfortunate then Lomov did not have time to find out - a doctor entered the ward. He felt his pulse, pulled his eyelids back, examined his tongue.
- Well, the patient, I see - your condition has stabilized, it's time for the procedures! - He said in a cheerful voice.
- What other procedures? Arthur asked suspiciously.
- Shock cryotherapy.
- What is this? Never heard of such a thing!
- No wonder, this is my own technique. It consists in the following: the patient is stripped naked and placed in a special chamber, cooled to an extremely low temperature...
- Wait, I can't be frozen, I can't stand the cold! My skin is covered with pimples and starts to beat like a fever!
- Get used to, a person gets used to everything. Moreover, you have eternity ahead of you!
Are you a doctor; are you out of your mind? What the hell is eternity? Are you going to freeze me forever? My heart can't take it, I'll just die!
- It's you who are crazy, - the doctor objected, - and now we will treat you!
- Do not treat me, doctor! Yes, I admit, I was sick, but now I am cured. Believe me, I'm healthy! I adequately perceive the reality around me! For God's sake, let me go!
- Would a healthy person eat cement? - The doctor grinned sarcastically.
The orderlies appeared - Lomov recognized in them the very devils who poured liquid metal into him.
They blindfolded the patient and led him through the endless hospital corridors. Then he was taken for a long time in an elevator, as it seemed to him down, and then again there were corridors.
* * *
- I can't be frozen, - just in case, Arthur warned, when the orderlies suddenly began to pull off his clothes, - I'm allergic to cold. I will die immediately!
- Not anymore! - The orderly assured, continuing to undress Lomov.
- In what sense? - Arthur didn't understand.
- In direct! You probably think you're in a psych ward?
- Yes of course! Where else can they bully people like that?
- Wow, "above the people"! - The orderly chuckled, - But just a few hours ago you considered yourself a rat!
- I was wrong! But now that I have realized my delusions, there is no need to keep me in your terrible hospital!
- I told you, this is not a hospital for you!
- What then?
- The ancient Greeks called this place Hades, the Muslims Sakar, the Buddhists - Naraka, the Christians - underworld or just Hell. Atheists believe that there is no such place at all. Remember that jerk on the tinted nine?
- Wait, what do you want to say? But I managed to jump back!
- As you can see, you didn’t have time! - The orderly grunted sarcastically, - You died before the arrival of the ambulance!
- How did I die? Wait, I'm… - Arthur tried to object, but suddenly he realized that he was talking to himself.
He tore off the bandage from his eyes and saw that he was standing completely alone, naked in the middle of an endless snowy plain, and the icy wind was beating his face, tearing tears from his eyes, which immediately hardened, turning into ice.
There was no strength to stand still, and he went at random, trembling all over and falling into the snow almost up to his knees...
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