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Volodymyr Zelenskyj on X a cpouple of days ago : - - - o 0 o - - - For those who may not know what Valdia is : It the private place of Putins located between Moscow and Sct. Petersburg. - - - o 0 o - - - Volodymyr, the popular and brave, head of Ukraine vs Vladimir, the whimp, hit by paranoia, head of Russia!

So you refuse to participate? Socialists are the opposition to Trump and have taken over the Democratic Party. You epitomize the opposition. Nice try.

Thats funny! I am the farthest thing from a socialist and am (or was) someone who voted republican for a long time. And I've stated many, many times there were promises by Trump that I fully supported (cost cutting, balanced budget, full Epstein release, no new wars) but his blatant lying and incompetence made the problems even worse. So lets hear that list of things you think Trump is wrong about. Can we start with removing the cap on overdraft fees.

@dwy000 Tell you what: I'll list each thing I don't like/disagree with about Trump, one by one, if you list each thing you love about socialism. You start.

Maybe better for the Netflix thread.but this is exactly what killed the cable bundle. If you go a la carte there isnt enough demand for individual product to make it work at low prices - especially if that product is for a small portion of the year. The Sunday Ticket on YouTube can cost up to $450 per season. And sports is a mess. Prime has Thursday Night Football, ESPN has Monday Night and the rest is spread between networks (with Netflix getting the Christmas games).

I don’t have any kids, but have 5 nephews and nieces. The youngest niece (about 6), needs lots of tutoring, doesn’t do that well at school, and is a year behind, but she is otherwise quite smart (and clever) but not in school framework conventional ways. Let’s just say she is not going to be reading Benjamin Graham, I think. Her older sister (who is a teenager) reads a lot and does really well in school. People are just different. It is just that in our society we have decided to measure success and doing well through certain conventional KPI and label people accordingly. It is the society that needs fixing, not the kids.

$11.18 today over 8%

Same argument over and over yet never actually doing it.

I don't know LC. Seems pretty logical to me. If you are sitting on the other side of the border and have been denied entry - you have not "arrived" in the United States. Simple enough, unless you believe in no borders...

I said it when he was elected in 2024 and the OXY & oil bulls were all excited: this guy really cares about keeping oil prices low. He thinks of gasoline prices as a report card for his presidency. Why would you be long oil with a guy like that in charge? The Iran war was an opportunity to cash out. Hope some folks locked in profits in the past couple of months...

@Sweet "Ever better, ever more stressed? The challenge of modern parenting Why are parents and children under such pressure today? Why has family life become so complicated and challenging? Parents want to provide the best possible support for their children’s development and avoid making mistakes in raising them. The current tendency to take as much as possible off children's hands—in an effort to shield them from the dangers of the world—prevents them from learning to take responsibility and causes them to fall significantly short of their potential; in the process, the needs of the adults often fall by the wayside. Children are far more resilient than we allow them to be today. The authors provide a well-founded explanation not only of the multifaceted reasons behind our culture of overprotection but also of how we can break free from it." The name of the book is "Mut tut gut". Sorry, only in german language. I think the article is this, but it is behind a paywall: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/leben/familie-erziehung-kinder-perfektionismus-ueberbehuetung-bellinger-li.3302867?reduced=true

Is there a strain of techno-paranoia in the West? Does something similar exist in China?

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...and WTI is below $70 again

I’m hoping it’s a GP/LP structure which Prem seemed to confirm when I asked him about it 2 years ago.

I'm sure they would want Goyal's approval but in substance I believe they own more than 49% of Digit. There is just a backward looking regulatory constraint at that ownership level. There have been several changes to both the law and collapsing the parent company Infoworks into the public entity that will surface Fairfax's actual economic ownership more clearly sometime soon

LOL: I don’t think the IPO of Anthrophic and OpenAI will happen anytime soon.

@Artha158 thanks for these suggestions. I knew Sowell had one book on late-speaking children, which I am actually reading, but didn't realise he had another one. I must get it. Seems from his first book is that there is no pattern in why late-speaking kids just suddenly start speaking. @Castanza funny you mention that. My colleague at work, his wife is a child psychologist who provides autism diagnoses, and she says much the same thing, kids do strange things, and there is a overdiagnoses in kids. Not to take away from autism, I think it can be very serious, but it is odd that in a age of accepting everyone as being unique and diverse that we have to slap a disabled label on so many - I feel it devalues other much more severe ailments. @Blugolds as a fellow dad of twins, firstly I salute you. You will know that life outside of work is just chaos until they go to bed each night, and even then you have the room wrecked. My two sleep in the same room and every night take out all the toys and books they can get their hands on and spread them over the floor. One has also in the hot weather decided they want to sleep entirely naked, and thought he would pee in the corner one night, funny now, wasn't that morning. We also have a younger boy, so three boys in total. It's a mad house. It's hard not to compare with other kids, I remember meeting a young girl in the playground one time, who was obviously much younger than my twins, who had this amazing vocabulary. I could have a full conversation with her, I asked her mum what age she was - 18 months. I couldn't believe it.... especially since at the time neither of my boys pushing on 2 and half said a word lol! I have a gut instinct about my 4 year old minimally verbal boy will be fine. Fingers crossed. @lnofeisone thanks for that. Yes I feel play based in the way to go, I try to do a lot of it at home. I feel like once I can get a few words consistently a dam will just break. @Charlie my wife also would say things about our boys. I get there are bad moments, but at the same time, I think when considering your child you really need to think about what they will be like at 25 years old. I keep that in my head, I've never seen a 25 year just sprinting around the office with too much energy lol, some of the crazy stuff kids do I know they will grow out of. If you should find that article could you link it please? Would be interested in the perspective. @Errold we have tried similar things, flash cards, books, Mrs Rachel. Nothing helping on the speaking front. Yet the understanding and general behaviour has been consistently improving. Hoping for that lightbulb moment, I would take hours of talks about pokemon cards for sure! Did you buy NTDOY off the back your conversations LOL? @Paarslaars thanks for your story. We have some minor issues early in life which required surgery for my late-speaking kid and I was in and out of A&E and hospital a few times. Life was stressful then as covid had delayed routine operations. I think I got a stomach ulcer from it all that required 3 months of anti-acids to resolve it. So I know the pit you would have walked around with in your stomach with your eldest at times, and I can't imagine living that for 6 years. I agree too, you want the best for them, you want them to do x , y , z but you still love them regardless. I had to think back to a few things, where my boy picked something up, and you're right, it is a moment you treasure more knowing it wasn't the straightforward journey for them. Here is hope that your eldest girl continues to make improvements. Overall, I am surprised at just how many of you were, or have had late talking kids. The Sowell book suggests that people quite analytical, which I suppose investors would be, and those in the likes of sciences, finance or engineering, seem to have kids that speak late... very interesting overall.

What are the latest thoughts on how this would be funded? Big equity injection or loan from the parent to FIH?

It was 6 Supreme Court justices but why should facts stand in the way of your opinion?

Depends when they bought +1

@dwy000 I could name 10 things I don't like or agree with but have no reason to placate you.

What prevents traditional exchanges to get into the betting market business. It’s legally a different domain This is exactly the definition of a bucket shop.

I have tested a Kashi and Polymarket account... and their infrastructure for customer service is not that great. Especially, when you're trying to deposit, cash out, there can be some latency. I am not talking about minutes. I'm talking about unsettle or uncleared what my profit/loss is in days and weeks. So, i worry about counterparty risk or just making sure the books balance out. There is no customer service number is a huge issue. You're on your own and it could go against you.