Pauly

Lol, the guy who created the damn site sounds 'like a tool' for a using a friendly sign off? You sound like a complete asshat, buddy. You should delete this.

Sad to hear. Haven't read Hyperion, but The Terror (fictional account of what happened to the lost Franklin expedition) is one of the best historical fiction novels I've ever read. Was also made into a fantastic limited series on AMC a few years ago.

Exactly right. Also, imagine replacing the Capitol Police with these poorly trained, trigger happy ICE agents on Jan 6. How many protestors would have died that day. Dozens? Hundreds? Certainly more than one.

What's there to understand? It was invented last year because Trump threw a hissy fit about not getting a Nobel Peace Prize. The corrupt crew at FIFA thought they could ingratiate themselves by giving him a shiny object. But no, the people who shake their heads at this ridiculous nonsense are the ones with a problem (TDS).

Really? Well one thing about you guys, you have terrible senses of humor.

Really? Sounds like you should be shocked that you're just now realizing how the world has operated for the past 80 years.

No, it's a very strange thing to say. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK458307/#:~:text=The number of nurses in,5.2). 'The number of nurses in the region decreased from 938 per 100 000 population in 1990 to 843 per 100 000 in 2012, which was still slightly higher than the EU average (836 per 100 000). Uzbekistan and Belarus have retained a markedly higher number of nurses (1129 and 1062 per 100 000 population respectively), while Georgia, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan have the lowest densities of nurses in the region (314, 459 and 400 per 100 000 population respectively). Azerbaijan, the Republic of Moldova and Turkmenistan have seen large decreases in nursing staff in the 1990s and 2000s (Fig. 5.2).' But I guess since you personally haven't seen an Uzbek nurse (and how would you know if you had?), then they don't exist. Bizarre reasoning.

What a strange thing to say.

He had a friend, but tragically he hung himself in his jail cell. Amazing that such a low quality individual has mesmerized so many.

I get it, but that negative feeling will fade as you adjust to the new reality. Meanwhile, the memories around the pool will only increase. And, more importantly, your kids' memories of growing up around a pool will last them a lifetime beyond you. They won't remember their dad having a larger account balance at one time. Selling because you have a bill to pay is much more painful. Then you really feel like you have nothing to show for it.

Did anyone else think this was the famous Bell Labs that invented the transistor, and not the...rodent control company? What a confusingly named business.

If she was in Australia, why would that be weird? She's under no obligation to fly half way around the world. I do think it's amazing that Blumenthal was there. 99 years old and he's the one giving accounts of the meeting!

Nah, this is what he said he was going to do, it's not surreal at all. It's just that the people who predicted this reality were mocked as having 'TDS.'

When the car ahead of you flips off the road into a ditch, you'll probably think twice about following in his path.

So if Warren and Susie had kept their original amount of shares from 2004 (508,998), they would be worth about $367 billion today. That would be 24th in the S&P 500 and more than the market cap of Bank of America. Amazing.

Now that's a big yacht i wouldn't mind owning. Crossing the Atlantic with 10 friends and a few fishing rods sounds like a good time.

I believe he's equating RFK Jr's noted anti-vaccine stance with why he also doesn't like NATO. As NATO acts as a 'vaccine' to the 'disease' of Russian expansion. Correct me if I've misunderstood, of course. I also wonder if RFK's parasitic brain worm has been influencing his thoughts (literally) on vaccines. Strange fellow.

I love this one. I'm always amazed the percentage of people who will wait 5 minutes for an elevator rather than spending a couple minutes going up the stairs. It's one of the simple lessons I tell my kids that makes me feel wise: take the stairs and you're already ahead of 90% of the population. Also applies to parking lots. Why drive around for 10 minutes waiting for a close spot when you can park farther away and get some walking in. Plus you're less likely to get your paint scratched.

Yeah I do hope they can figure out their quality issues. I know for hockey jerseys they're considered absolute junk next to Adidas, and the see-through baseball pant debacle has brought their name to the masses for all the wrong reasons. Still, they seem to be taking over sports apparel.

Oof. Finished watching the latest season, and what a mess it was. Incoherent plot that went nowhere and had no internal logic. Terribly written characters, pointless callbacks to the (much better) first season...I could go on and on. I'm amazed that reviews have been mostly positive. It's just not for me I suppose.

I don't get it. Do you think that people here believe that Berkshire has been the best performing stock over the last 25 years? No one thinks that.

Has there ever been an instance where a government agency has stepped in to give the market something it hasn't asked for, and had the market adopt it enthusiastically?

A lot of assumptions here. You 'know' that blockchain and CBDC are disrupting payment rails? 'Most would suggest that earnings will be a lot less than forecast'? I haven't seen any evidence that either of these things are true. China's reaction to Ali/We Pay doesn't have a correlation to anything that would happen in NA/Europe. V/MA have no chance of taking over payments in China, and I'd say that western governments have no chance in taking over payments in their respective countries. And from the Apple release: 'Tap to Pay on iPhone will work with contactless credit and debit cards from leading payment networks, including American Express, Discover, Mastercard, and Visa.' So Apple wants to displace JPM, Citi, RBC in the payment space and take over that cash stream? Fair enough. It sounds like V/MA is still going to get their fractional cut though.

I've never heard a real benefit for the purchaser in giving up V/MA cards and moving to blockchain payments. So the merchant doesn't have to pay the credit card fee....as the buyer, what do I care? Is he going to knock his prices down 2%, or will he just pocket it? I'm betting on the latter. When I use my Visa card (or Mastercard, Amex, whatever), I collect travel points/get cash back, I have a 500lb gorilla in my corner if I want to dispute a charge, I have a strong layer of security between my bank account and whatever seller I'm dealing with. Why would I want to move away from that?

I thought the same thing. Browder's story could make for a good movie, but I guess they'd have to go with a different title now.