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IDK Ive read some pretty gnarly stuff about ultra processed foods and refined sugars. Arguably worse than everything above it depending I guess on how you define usage. For many, especially in America, the processed food lifestyle is a 24/7/365 thing. Between fast food, and then the snack stuff and frozen dinner types. Way worse than a few coffees or beers a day with an otherwise balanced diet IMO.

The courts aren’t supposed to be political and yet they consistently vote along party lines. Fuck em

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Eh it seems like that new hockey tournament they just had. 4 Nations Faceoff. US and Canada met and the US took game 1. They met again in the finals and Canada won in overtime. It was a big deal in the moment and Trudeau even used it as a platform to mouth off. But in reality it’s like ok hockeys like #4 or 5 in the US in terms of popularity, whereas in Canada it’s everything. So clearly was a much bigger deal to one side than the other. But the feuding fun nonetheless.

Yea they’re definitely going a little mental. Classic little brother syndrome.

I just can’t keep up with how quickly narratives change. Trump was a mindless idiot without a plan one day, and now all of a sudden he’s the first politician in decades to show up with a grand plan for handling the budget deficit and economy… Wouldnt hold my breathe on either. Also wouldn’t listen to people whom have always been critical/supportive of him to the extent they’re still just being critical/supportive. Broken clocks can still be correct twice a day, but if the clock is ugly id rather just throw it in the garbage.

I always marvel at the stupidity of these fake calamities. It’s hardly a crisis. If eggs cost too much, have something else FFS! A box of bran flakes is $3-4 and offers a weeks worth of breakfast. Oatmeal you can get a months supply for under $10.

So is this something that’s been validated, or is it yet another media rumor that’s conveniently getting circulated and then analyzed in an attempt to make it a real thing?

Charlie I love you man, and your wisdom has greatly influenced my investing life. I’m not at all saying anything in anyway but the most sincere terms possible, but I hope you are well and enjoying life. From afar, IE the contextless confines of a message community, you seem quite distressed and upset since the election. When shit gets tough for me, as it does in life from time to time, I internally do take solace in the “life is great if you can stand it” saying of yours. This shit is a roller coaster, we have no friends in the big white palace. I voted for Trump in 2016 and was swiftly penalized via the SALT taxes not long after, being in NJ. Biden, the supposed savior, did nothing to fix that, just autopenned his four years and I did OK as I tend to do. Anyway, just hoping you’re well and not getting too wrapped up in the bullshit.

Yup. And that’s where the self owns are a little enjoyable. “Ah the market is crashing Trumps an idiot!”….”ahh tariffs are really backfiring 13 days in zomg!”….most of the voters/people give zero fucks about these things and are perfectly fine if the consolidation prize this time around is the system crashing and burning for a bit, especially if they finally get to see some of the haves suffer too.

It’s kinda crazy to me how people still don’t get it. Majority of people whom presumably voted for Trump do not care about these things you guys keep “ah ha!”-ing to. What they voted for was a result of behaviors; they detest and abhor elitists lecturing them about morality, “haves” prospering with little effort while telling them how they’re doing it wrong, stock market guys like Fink doing social experiments with their livelihoods, politicians and government employees cruise controlling it with no accountability; and guys like Ackman and Buffett talking the talk and not walking the walk while they struggle to keep food on the table and pay their rent and Geico bills. These people don’t pay attention to the stock market and if they did, they’d be cheering this stuff. They don’t care about Canadian or Mexican tariffs, they don’t care about Elon Musk outside of probably enjoying seeing him make their tormentors squirm a little bit. Talk about tone deaf.

Because every new administration comes in and proverbially rips things up. If you ran a gradual process like that, they’d run out then clock and then next president there’s a good chance they then go hire 80,000 agents.

Idk just seems like way too many people are emotionally wrapped up in all this tabloid like crap to an unhealthy degree.

Ah remember late 2018? When the hucksters scared everyone out of stocks talking about a couple rate hikes? An entire generation of folks stayed out of the market after that short lived correction....

He’s worked both. Think he’s currently in state. Says they basically work interchangeably.

What happened to "life is great, if you can stand it!"?

Yea my brother in law does environmental protection stuff. November and December they are required to go on spending binges, from lunch parties to fleets of new pickup trucks in order to drain any budget excess because if it’s not spent the following years budget gets slashed. Fiscal responsibility is not only not taught, it’s punished and simply thru culture these lifers are trained to be wasteful and game the system.

I also think some of the chainsaw to government is simply karma. I mean really, how many times in our lives have we heard those dipshit friends of ours whom have government jobs make jokes about job security? The reason there’s such job security, or at least has been, is because there’s no accountability. Only place on earth where that’s not only allowed, but the benchmark.

These trends have been in place for a while. Guys barely had a month in office. If people are reacting today they’re either overreacting now or were underreacting last year. Seems like the former to me. Trump always gets the best of like 51.7% of people.

What’s the point of this? People stopped falling for “polls” years ago. Crazy seeing how much fuss a 10% sell off creates when really very little real world anything has actually happened.

Do we need any more evidence of this? Like some iteration of FANG or MAG7 has existed now for almost a decade and the top heavy valuations highlight it clear as day. Break em up

Please. You ever have a girlfriend/wife who gets mad at you for not emptying the dishwasher but the anger seems out of line and then later you find out it was really cuz she was pissed you didn’t answer her call while out golfing with the boys the day prior?

Have to LOL at the fact that there was more "uncertainty" around Trump term 1 or 2 than COVID, 9/11 or the GFC....people are such sheep.

Well, for one, it’s largely western elites and the powers that be whom insist on having an adversarial relationship with them? How bout toning that down? Oh no, then we re cozying up to dictators! Until our friends north of the border go “oh wait, dictators are ok if we have to get around tariffs!”, at which point the circle of chaos implodes.

lol everything from border security measures to climate accords and even regulations related to how much water comes out of the faucet of your shower…but yea, none. https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2021-01-29/biden-spends-first-week-issuing-orders-reversing-trumps-orders