Gregmal

Yup. $100-200 a visit straight cash.

It’s all really simple. The second you try to make something one size fits all for everyone you fuck it up. Regulation strangles innovation. The government makes sure there’s fraud and waste by inserting itself. Nip Tuck style would work just fine. You want something done? You pick your service, your doctor, and agree on price. Just like everything else….

Yup. We see total garbage like that, and then will get the “whats so wrong with Europe?” blank stare questions from people.

This is the kind of macro nonsense that gets 45+ year old finance nerds hard in the pants; a feeling they love because otherwise it’s not one they likely feel very much anymore. But it’s toxic for any level headed investor and basically conspiracy theory level garbage.

Your mouth to Gods ears! Amen

Sure, but theres a whole swarm of shit eating maggots whom adore hypocrisy and hide behind this imaginary "exclusion" of "if it happened before Trump we will ignore it because we cant explain our lack of outrage and silence when someone else did it". As such, every once in a while, while they attempt to eat, it's fun to rub their faces in the shit.

Yea it's incredible but really just the same behavior you get from NYers and CA people too. The problems are clear as day, and whenever its raised they look at you blank faced and tell you they arent aware of those issues, that they dont really exist, and that its all a far right conspiracy theory.....

I’m not sure what you mean by this. It has been an active subject in this thread and this author summed a lot of it up, pretty concisely, in an easily digestible, 3 minute read.

The content of this hits the nail on the head 100x over. https://nypost.com/2025/12/14/opinion/self-righteous-smug-europe-chokes-on-its-scorn-for-america/

Non Mexican, non black minorities are basically considered “whites” by the lefties. Just ask Asians, Indians, and Jews…

I don’t really consider you part of “them”.

Havent had a good one of those in a while. “Trumps going to invade Europe”…lmfao ok then….1,765,378th deranged, extreme “Trump” prediction that doesn’t pan out. Whew

For the past decade most of these people have legit thought anyone voting Republican was a nazi/fascist. They’re totally brainwashed.

Imagine running a 7-11 and having to promote/encourage customers to buy the snickers bars at the C store down the street lol? That’s what the EU is saying Google should be doing…..

Yea unless you’re harebrained or raised in a ghetto, you are taught from pretty much day one, when approached by law enforcement you engage politely, and then if it escalates, keep your mouth shut and do whatever they say, and then deal with whatever injustices were done after. The absolute dumbest thing you can do is be defiant, run away, or fight them.

Am I reading this correctly that the EU wants to fine Google for “favoring its own products”? Just when you think they can’t get any stupider; did the academics miss the business 101 course?

You pay Twitter for a status symbol(the blue check), most people know this, no one is forced to participate...and oh yea...what business of the EU is this?

When does the “soaring rates” and “bond vigilante” crowd show up again? Thinking it’s sooner than the previous magic number(for reasons I still haven’t become aware of) of 4.50 on the 10 year.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-good-company-with-nicolai-tangen/id1614211565?i=1000736366962

@Cod Liver Oil sent me an interesting podcast on Novonesis and upon listening, not more than 5 minutes in, it gets into guess what? How behind Europe is and how innovation is strangled by regulation. Doing somethings that take months in Brazil or parts of Asia takes almost a decade in Europe. The crazy part in all of this, is that when these losers are told, or hear things like this, what do you think the response is? If you guessed shame, or a feeling of needing to do better, or reform? You’d be dead wrong. They get prideful and take it as a sign that they’re doing “their jobs”….kinda like the clowns in America who cheers a big business leaving NYC, a developer giving up on building housing in SF, or IDK, a regulator nixing the JetBlue/Spirit merger on the grounds of “people like their cheap flights”…

That’s the point though…Still scheming and playing the “climb the corporate/career ladder” game at that point in his life? Ew….

It’s nearly impossible to have respect for people like this; at that age, and point in your career, you’re still job hopping for….more money??? Yuck

lol this reads like some overzealous teacher’s report card. These people are clueless

Yea, they’re all elitist, hypocritical pieces of shit. They genuinely believe their duty to the world is “make rules” for everyone. When there’s a capitalism event, it’s their “duty” to “inspect and critique” it.

The problem with the EU is that it was created to resemble the US, in a good way. But instead has basically become an elitist social club that only rips off the stupidest, most extreme far left liberal junk policies and implements/influences their adoptions and injections in ways that largely bypass its citizens. On top of that, there’s this inherent high school principal arrogance that “entitles them to everything”, which means they can push cash grabs of corporate profits, or push antitrust crap just for show(like they’re about to do with Netflix and like the did over a video game at Microsoft).