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I rarely watch it anymore either. In part because of the dramatics.

Ah great game, totally worth not getting any sleep for! Spain is going to be difficult though...

Personally, I think 2x+ book or 15x P/E+ is roughly right. Based on first principles. Using relative valuation of other insurers as a reference, even that might be low. I don’t spend much time at all thinking about what multiple the market will assign my stocks. (This only works if the business understands capital allocation and their own intrinsic value and aggressively repurchases share if they are mispriced)

Yeah, it's interesting how often you and I align (though you probably don't know this because I post rarely.) I find your stock picks way more aligned with my thought process than anyone else here--there's maybe a 60% chance of me being intrigued by any given company you post about. At this point, it's become interesting to me seeing the places we don't align. (When it comes to investing, I think it's less the companies that we find interesting, and more that 1) I typically hold shares longer, 2) I don't think you do options much, and 3) you're better and more thoughtful at analysis than me.)

This is the straw man that you're attempting to sneak in to justify your silly position. They are lobbying to enforce the rules that remove players from the game not to ensure that they don't have to compete so hard, but rather to win. This is what professional sports is about--not players attempting to maximize their laziness. But simply winning. Winning. (Well, and also about money.) It's a really difficult position that you've taken, asserting that professional athletes don't care enough about winning to fight for every advantage, particularly in the peak contest of their sport that comes around maybe 4 times in their career. It's really hard to fade all the things professional athletes do for an edge (Body-destroying steroids! Dangerous and risky play! Deliberately injuring opponents! Shameful acting!), while simultaneously asserting that them asking that the rules be enforced would be a step too far for them.

@Maverick47, I find your comments very insightful and I learn a lot. Please keep them coming (it's like getting a peek behind the curtain). Thank you.

They used to be called application engineers or customer support specialist. Must be a new thing for these billion $ companies that such a thing exists.

Why did the group bring 11 guns and body armor to an ICE facility? Oh, yeah, they never intended to use them...sure Spek. Too bad they couldn't erase their Signal chat logs. Oh well.

While this was going on, trump was enjoying his student draft deferment and cheating on exams at Wharton. I can't imagine that cowardly POS stepping up like McCain.

There are a lot of niche sports cultures in the US but that doesn’t always translate to growth. When I was in Columbus sports bars were always packed with Columbus Crew fans. But the traditional big three are definitely changing and there seems to be some more pipelines developing for “alt” sports like Lacrosse, Soccer, Rugby, Volleyball, etc. in the US. But the US is nowhere near close to what you find in say the UK with clubs signing kids at 10 and developing them from there.

Truth is, those guys and the Insurrectionists should all have been sentenced to prison. None of them were peaceful protestors and this whole thing is just one big partisan fuck up by an extremely partial President. If Trump had an honest bone in his body and really wanted to do what was right for Americans, the sentenced insurrectionists would never have been pardoned! And same with the Antifa shitheads as well. Cheers!

Hey, these were peaceful protestors just like the Insurre...I mean protestors peacefully visiting the Capitol! The President should pardon all of them too. Cheers!

There was only one shooter. The accused and convicted brought body armor, but did not wear it. Owning body armor is not illegal. I do not defend the shooter and he deserves a deft prison sentence but let face it, if those were right radicals, they would not been been accused of aiding terrorists which is why most for 50 years.

LOL! Hilarious. The MAGA faithful won't care...$1M, $1B...as long as he's implementing his/their agenda, they don't give two shits. It's additional zeroes for heroes! And John McCain...war hero, honest man, no graft, tried to do what was right regardless of party...LOSER, got caught, LOSER! Very sad when you think about what is celebrated and what isn't any more. Cheers!

Ass whooping performance

Congratulations Belgium!

Just suck in the whole experience! It will be loud! And you will get to see arguably the greatest player in the world play one of his last World Cup games. Cheers!

They shot an ICE officer in the neck, he's lucky to be alive. All those onsite were armed. They brought 11 guns with them. They were wearing body armor. They shot an ICE officer, and when he returned fire - and disabled the shooter's automatic weapon, they fled. I guess they thought that their Signal chats would protect them. They turned on each other like rats and disclosed the whole Antifa conspiracy. I just love how you make excuses for them.

Belgium embarrassed the US out there!

That’s awesome, how was visiting their HQ?

Actually I remember something called the Jan 6th insurrection. https://www.reuters.com/pictures/harrowing-scenes-jan-6-us-capitol-attack-four-years-ago-2025-01-06/54EOIAWCWBMJTANZY54FA33FKU/ 1200 years in prison and that’s not even the final tally.

It has become much bigger though over the years. I go to 1FC Charlotte games now and then and there is a real fan culture on game days in town, very similar to what you see in German cities. Time are changing.

Spain is a top three team together with France and Argentina. They don‘t have standout players like Messi or Mbappe, just a handful or world class one that can play their system.

Highly questionable judgement and most of the sentence was because they were accused of being member of a terrorist organization which furthers my is why Antifa was designated as such with. The explosive mentioned were no more than fireworks. There was one shooter in this group who got 100 years for attempted murder. By the same token, you could easily designate all the products boys and similar groups as terrorist and jail them for 50 years each doing doing riots.