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Answer with the classic one liner from Barney in How I Met Your Mother. Question: What do you do for a living? Response: “Ha ha.....plz *shoulder brush*” Congrats btw

Amash is worth a look for anyone looking for a candidate that is economically conservative and socially progressive. Not to mention respectful and intelligent. When I thought our candidates couldn’t get any worse than Trump and Hillary....here we are... I’ll leave it at that since this isn’t a political thread. Amash 2020

You could give the money away to a worthy charity. One such worthwhile charity is the Democratic Party :D You’d get a better return giving it to the Italian Mafia

Freedom to pursue happiness (and possibly fail) Has morphed into Freedom to pursue and pursue and pursue and pursue. Failure is now only the result of “interference” and a bailout is now apparently appropriate? Edit: Epic post

CTL Took profits. Not interested in bag holding this with whatever the "wfc like scam" is.

You've officially become the house troll here. Greg’s not wrong. Dalala already said “I’d rather vote for a guy who stutters.” I’m waiting for the Biden voters to say “we’re voting for the lesser of two evils.” It’s time Americans take a look at the two party system. The last 40 candidates have been complete and utter shit. Not a single person in the last and current election cycle have been “leaders”. All a bunch of hacks with shady pasts and motives. If you’re voting for Biden, I don’t want to hear a single negative thing about Trump from here on out. They are literally two versions of the same individual.

Trump and Biden are both unfit imo.

How does this work for pricing below 0? (I couldn't access the article)

Perfect cop out. Now shift blame to the states. It's not a cop out. Its called the 10th Amendment. States are to be in charge of heath and public safety. It's the same reason why we have State police and not Federal police in every state. All states (as far as I'm aware) have constitutions that outline public health and safety actions. Here is PA I was talking with a friend who works in the capital. They informed me there is a literally a room with hundreds of binders that have step by step action plans for every conceivable situation. Federal funding and aid does not come until states declare emergency. Many states did not declare emergency for a long time. Now this could be because a lack of leadership and awareness being made from the federal level. At the end of the day decisions and actions were taken and at some point we will have to look back and see what was done and not done correctly. Plenty of blame to go around. Don't get me wrong. There is plenty of blame to go around and the federal actions were piss poor. But the states and even local officials are also to be held accountable. Greg is not wrong about this. Lack of PPE and precautions taken at state hospitals should equally scrutinized alongside the federal response. Supreme court has rules in the past that during extraordinary times the federal govt can step in and temporarily violate the BoR such as 4th amendment. But they were clear that these violations MUST be temporary and within scope of the objective. So all the extra "pork" we are seeing in these Bills is largely unconstitutional. Alongside this, DT actually does have the authority to temporarily lock down the nation from a federal level. Clearly that's supposed to be with discretion, and probably would be handled alongside what States are already implementing.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/197/11/ An interesting ruling which I'm sure we will begin to see (if not already mentioned) in the news.

Great show so far. I'd also recommend ZeroZeroZero (Prime)... similar feel to the movie Sicario. Also, recently added to Netflix: WACO and The Last Dance. I'll check it out, thanks Traveling Salesman (2012) is also decent. - about P vs NP and potential implications - Has a very "indie" feel and can be found on YT for free.

SC - Santander Consumer USA Maybe?

"The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations" --David Friedman, "The Machinery of Freedom". Not only do we need to spend trillions to secure these resources, but we also need to prevent investment in renewables because that’s #socialism. Trump bailout for oil workers incoming in 3...2... Subsidies are prevalent on both sides of the energy aisle (GND comes to mind albeit a different flavor). I'm all for clean energy, and I think without all this lobbying, special interests, government intervention, etc. We could have been there a long time ago. Anyways I don't want to derail the thread, but certainly interesting to see considering 100 years of wars have been fought over oil. Always drawing keep the posts coming. Certainly entertaining!

I wish Ray Hudson would read the commentary between rb and alwaysdrawing ;D Took a small short position for entertainment as well. Thanks for the idea!

Devs - Alex Garland on Hulu was really well done and worth a watch. - A blend of tech and philosophy

Yes, I watched this a while ago. I am a bit of a WW1 nerd. Got fascinated with it when my dad showed me a pic of my great grandfather in front of a huge artillery piece in a desolate landscape somewhere in France. If you want a literal description of a soldiers view of WW1, read Ernst Jüngers book “ In Stahlgewittern” (Storm of steel), which you can download as freeware if look around. I will give it a read for sure. Also a few good resources for reading letter directly. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/letters-first-world-war-1915/ There was one I read (not sure if it's from this site) where a soldier documented a patrol and how he tripped and fell on a dead body. He said his hand went through the body as if it were made of soft cheese when he went to catch himself. Absolutely gruesome and unimaginable.

Amazing to think we've been at war for 30+ years over oil. And here we are in an environment where you can't pay people to take it.

What's this say about other commodities? If you have an old beater you could try this.

A sorry excuse for a leader. So is the Governor of Virginia. You know, the guy who can't follow the Constitution, likes to dress up in blackface, and would kill babies after birth. Is he a great leader in your opinion? I want to hold my tongue here, so instead of saying that's a pretty ignorant thing to say, I will say hmmm... you think so. That is an interesting opinion. To paraphrase the late Daniel Moynihan you are entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts. To wit, I don't think anything you said about the gov Northam is really true. re Northam: One could argue rightfully that he doesn't have the same interpretation of the constitution that you do. As to the black face, there is constitutional statute of limitation for one's college stupidities, (Eighth Amendment if memory serves) ;) (sortof fact) And the baby killing statement is a willful misinterpretation. For the record he was talking about non-viable fetuses. Look, he's a doctor and the nuance on his statements on this was lost in the brouhaha. So no he is not a 'baby-killer'. Trump, on the other hand, is never nuanced. He seems to be quite challenged by the constitution. He is a paragon nothing save narcissistic socio-pathy. He is a mentally ill man with no morals who is utterly out of his depth generally and this crisis is telling. Back to the prez and coronavirus: Sadly, people have (and will) die because of Trump, plain and simple. I didn't say Trump was a good leader. In fact his track record with 2A is worse than Obama. I have been plenty critical of him on this forum. I find it amusing that you are able to use mental gymnastics to look past his blackface era. "College shenanigans" 2A rights don't come from the BofR. They are affirmed by it, meaning those rights exist with or without it. It's merely a declaration that the govt supports the natural rights of its citizens. So interpretation is moot.

A sorry excuse for a leader. So is the Governor of Virginia. You know, the guy who can't follow the Constitution, likes to dress up in blackface, and would kill babies after birth. Is he a great leader in your opinion?

This seems to be a play on endless QE obviously. Silver traded way up in 2010-2011 after QE2. Tempting for gamble. I hope it was nothing but congressional members ;D

More pork and more violations of individual liberties and rights. This has become a massive power grab. https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/5717

Relying on habit is a slippery slope since it only takes 21 days to 1 year to break or rather change a habit into something else. For most people, it's already 30 days since the lockdown. People have been changed imho. And they can't change back? Not the point. I didn't say spending will end, I said it may be a possibility for it to dry up for the mid-to-long term. If that's the case, it will have tangible effects. EDIT: So even if they can change back, it does not invalidate my argument. Some things never change on a longterm context. 1.) People want to own homes 2.) People want families 3.) People want to be rich 4.) People want nice things Those four things will never change. Why? Because humanity is hardwired to overcome, innovate, and push forward. Those 4 things have survived hundreds of wars, natural disasters, diseases, and thousands of years. Covid-19 isn’t going to change that. If anything on a historical scale humanity has learned to recover and adapt faster and faster from “events”.

Relying on habit is a slippery slope since it only takes 21 days to 1 year to break or rather change a habit into something else. For most people, it's already 30 days since the lockdown. People have been changed imho. And they can't change back?

If you liked 1917 I would highly recommend watching Peter Jackson’s “And They Shall Not Grow Old”