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[boilermaker75]

On 6/27/2026 at 7:10 AM, dealraker said:

In September Angela and I will stay three weeks in Conwy then most of the time in Betws-y-Coed - both Wales.  I think Betws-y-Coed population is 476.  LOL!

 

And 6 weeks ago we spent two weeks in Okehampton UK then one week in Falmouth.

 

@dealraker Next week my wife and I are going to Llandudno, which is in Conwy County, for 8 days, then by train up to the Aigas Field Centre in the Highlands for 10 days, followed by flying to London for two days. We also like being in small places and interacting with the locals.

 

The whole point of going to London was so that I could visit the Royal Institution and I just found out the Ri will be closed when we are there , which it wasn't when we booked the trip. I'll call them tomorrow to see if there is anyway I can get a special tour.

[james22]

[Charlie]

4 hours ago, Spekulatius said:

I talked with my mom and the temperatures in the city she lives reached 40 DegC. It’s unbearable for some especially older people. not great but sooner or later German homes and apartment will need air conditioning. I lived in Germany recall the hot summers in 1976, 1983 and 2003 occurred after I left.

The currently one beats them all by quite some margin and the official summer has barely begun.

 

Climate change looks pretty real to me and countries e8ll have to adapt. I think air conditioning units and heat pumps  (which can heat and cool) should sell fairly well.

Yeah, it was very hot, here. Next week it will get better. 

I bought an air condition for my working room in the garden house 2 weeks ago.

It is a No-Brainer!

Fully tax deductable and it cools in the summer and heats in the winter and is working with electricity from solar panels.

Mitsubishi Electronics seems to make the best products.

Edited yesterday at 08:06 PM by Charlie

[CorpRaider]

He's right.  IDK why no one can understand nuance anymore.  He punches it up but all he's been saying with a few short exceptions is that it's risky so adjust your allocation to ex US, tilt value, and some other assets consistent with your plan/risk perimeters.  Kernen has been a clown since at least the 90s.

[Lazarus]

On 6/27/2026 at 6:32 PM, Blake Hampton said:

I think economic calamity is certain.

I believe we will soon see the greatest financial crisis in human history: frozen credit, collapsing asset markets, desperate money printing in order to save us from it, and finally extreme inflation as that newly created money ultimately reaches the real economy. I often fear a complete currency collapse.
 

I'm now convinced that Blake is simply trolling the forum, posting nonsense and laughing as people respond seriously to try to set him straight. But you went too far with this one. Bravo... fooled me for a long time. 

[Spekulatius]

5 hours ago, Charlie said:

Yeah, it was very hot, here. Next week it will get better. 

I bought an air condition for my working room in the garden house 2 weeks ago.

It is a No-Brainer!

Fully tax deductable and it cools in the summer and heats in the winter and is working with electricity from solar panels.

Mitsubishi Electronics seems to make the best products.

Eventually, Germany, France and other states  will have to adopt air conditioning because these temperatures are way higher than they used to be and also for longer in many summers. Good business for air conditioning  and heat pump manufacturers potentially.

[Xerxes]

On 6/27/2026 at 5:54 PM, Blake Hampton said:

Strong journalism makes an effort to eliminate bias in its reporting. If it's full of opinions, it ain't news. CNBC I think finds a good balance between its co-anchors.

Cubs, I wish that you would find a way to consume better journalism. Read The Economist or the WSJ. It would be good for you.

Nothing wrong with CNBC itself, even the mighty Buffett watches it in the background with mute on. 
 

I usually run Bloomberg TV on low volume when I work from home. 
 

So there is value in them. But think of them as distribution channels rather than content creators. For instance CNBC has 98% market share of anything Berkshire. Great content through the same exact pipeline that also bring Lousy Joe from Squawkpod. 
 

There are however key differences between CNBC and Bloomberg. The former caters to domestic business news while the latter caters to international/global news. You can watch Bloomberg TV at 2 AM and it will be aired via HK. On newspaper side, WSJ caters to domestic business news while FT/The Economist cater to global news. 
 

So I don’t see this as CNBC fault or a MAGA thing. This is just Joe acting like a child. That kind of behaviour is unacceptable. 

[Spekulatius]

Flamingo‘s over Russia, love to see it:

Check out what they look like- it’s a cheap jet engine (pulse jet) strapped on a rocket and payload body. It’s basically a V1 with GPS.

[dealraker]

17 hours ago, boilermaker75 said:

 

@dealraker Next week my wife and I are going to Llandudno, which is in Conwy County, for 8 days, then by train up to the Aigas Field Centre in the Highlands for 10 days, followed by flying to London for two days. We also like being in small places and interacting with the locals.

 

The whole point of going to London was so that I could visit the Royal Institution and I just found out the Ri will be closed when we are there , which it wasn't when we booked the trip. I'll call them tomorrow to see if there is anyway I can get a special tour.

Nice!  Angela tugs me around London pretty often, sometimes for an entire week.   Paris too.  However, we both prefer to spend the majority of our time discovering in the nooks and crannies.  We plan on spending time in Llandudno also on this trip and actually can walk there from where we will stay.

[jinvest]

Honestly, time to ban Blake.   

(Who am I? Nobody, but I've been on lots of forums, and it's not gonna end well...)

 

[Blake Hampton]

30 minutes ago, jinvest said:

Honestly, time to ban Blake.   

(Who am I? Nobody, but I've been on lots of forums, and it's not gonna end well...)

 

 

[Blake Hampton]

Do it lol

[John Hjorth]

1 hour ago, jinvest said:

Honestly, time to ban Blake.   

(Who am I? Nobody, but I've been on lots of forums, and it's not gonna end well...)

 

@jinvest,

 

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[Blake Hampton]

2 hours ago, jinvest said:

Honestly, time to ban Blake.   

(Who am I? Nobody, but I've been on lots of forums, and it's not gonna end well...)

But I am curious: what is your prediction of what won’t end well with me?

[DooDiligence]

1 hour ago, Blake Hampton said:

But I am curious: what is your prediction of what won’t end well with me?

 

Don't try and make any sense out of it. You do you.

[Parsad]

On 6/26/2026 at 10:57 PM, NnnnotSoSmart said:

 

OK, so humans can ultimately live on Mars, but they can't live on an earth that is 5-10 deg C warmer?  Me thinks you're underestimating humans.

But you're right, the robots would likely help us survive...if they chose to keep us around.  

 

Grok:

 

An Earth that is 10∘C (18∘F) hotter than pre-industrial levels represents an extreme climate shift, akin to the Early Eocene period 50 million years ago. At this temperature, the equatorial and tropical zones would experience frequent, lethal "wet-bulb" temperatures (where heat and humidity make it physically impossible for the human body to cool itself through sweat), rendering the mid-latitudes largely uninhabitable for unprotected mammals.

 

Furthermore, the complete melting of global ice sheets would raise sea levels by over 200 feet, entirely reshaping the continents.

For humans to survive in significant numbers, civilization would have to structurally adapt. Here are three realistic scientific scenarios for how humanity could live on such an Earth:

Scenario 1: The Polar Exodus (The Circumpolar Civilization)

In this scenario, humanity undergoes a massive geographical migration, abandoning the tropics, subtropics, and traditional mid-latitudes (like the US, Southern Europe, and Central China) to aggregate entirely around the Arctic and Antarctic circles.

• The Environment: The poles, once icy wastes, transform into the planet's new temperate zones, with average annual temperatures resembling modern-day France or New England (10∘C to 15∘C). The Arctic Ocean becomes a ice-free, bustling Mediterranean-like sea.

• Human Life: Humanity builds high-density, highly urbanized megacities across northern Canada, Siberia, Scandinavia, Greenland, and the newly exposed bedrock of Antarctica.

• Agriculture & Economy: Because standard topsoil takes millennia to form, agriculture relies heavily on indoor vertical farming and massive hydroponic facilities. Outdoor farming is limited to specialized, fast-growing crops that can survive the intense, 24-hour sunlight of polar summers. The global economy centers around maritime trade across the open Arctic and the extraction of resources long buried under ice sheets.

Scenario 2: The Subterranean & Nocturnal Shift (The Sub-Surface Niches)

In regions closer to the equator where geopolitical or structural reasons prevent migration, humans adapt by moving underground, shifting the entire rhythm of human life away from the blisteringly hot surface.

• The Environment: Surface temperatures regularly exceed 50∘C (122∘F), with hyper-humid coastal zones triggering fatal wet-bulb events during the day. The surface becomes a hostile desert or an ultra-dense, chaotic jungle populated only by specialized, heat-tolerant reptiles, insects, and flora.

• Human Life: Civilizations carve out massive, interconnected underground subterranean cities, leveraging the earth's natural thermal insulation to maintain manageable baseload temperatures. Surface travel, heavy industry, and automated maintenance are conducted almost exclusively at night, when temperatures drop to survivable—though still oppressive—levels.

• Infrastructure: Humans become an indoor, technologically insulated species. Power is generated heavily via surface solar arrays (which thrive in cloudless desert belts) and routed downward to drive massive cooling, water-desalination, and air-filtration networks.

Scenario 3: The Automated "Ecomodernist" Enclaves (The Controlled Biospheres)

Rather than moving underground or migrating to the poles, humanity uses hyper-advanced engineering to isolate itself from the environment, constructing closed-loop, climate-controlled hyper-cities.

• The Environment: The planet's climate is unstable, characterized by hyper-canes (extreme category-5+ hurricanes fueled by ultra-warm oceans), massive dust storms, and unpredictable weather systems that destroy traditional infrastructure.

• Human Life: Humans live inside heavily fortified, dome-covered megastructures or sealed architectural enclaves. These cities operate like permanent space colonies on Earth, dynamically regulating internal temperature, humidity, and atmospheric composition.

• The Technological Lifecycle: Human survival depends entirely on automated AI systems, advanced robotics, and nuclear or fusion power to maintain the colossal energy grids required for life support. Raw materials are gathered from the harsh outside world via automated drone fleets, and food production is entirely synthesized in industrial lab facilities (cellular agriculture, bioreactors, and synthetic protein generation), severing humanity's reliance on the outdoor biosphere.

 

All I can say is you dumbasses in the U.S. stay out of Canada and Greenland!  Enjoy your margaritas in Florida, Texas and as humid as my crotch on a 105 degree day...Louisiana!    Cheers!

[Parsad]

I'm going to merge this thread into the Political Posts thread.  Cheers!