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Given the overall condition of the world I wouldn't be surprised if "God" turned out to be a Trump forbear. That would also go a long way towards explaining Trump himself.
No, not "fixed" at all. Merely temporarily patched to limp along. The Vanilla software that supports MFO needs some very serious modification or replacement work.
As David has mentioned in another post, the "GDN_Comment" module of the Vanilla software becomes intermittently corrupted evidently due to the MFO site having reached the limits of available memory in the Vanilla software.
@Chip- maybe ask Claude for some ideas? I don't work with anything as complex as you do, but I've found Claude to be very flexible in helping to solve problems.
You probably know this, but there's a Claude module optimized for dealing with code, al…
Or he will simply claim it is "cheaper than ever".
Nah- not his style:
UNLIKE the PITIFUL PERFORMANCE of the Previous BIDEN administration I HAVE NOW CAUSED GASOLINE AND FUEL PRICES to be the VERY LOWEST since the Beginning of this GREAT COUNTRY.…
Our mortgages were originally with the Hibernia Bank here in SF. Hibernia eventually wound up being eaten by BOA. Shortly after that I walked into the friendly old Hibernia bank branch, was grudgingly allowed to address the surly new BOA manager, an…
I was a happy WaMu customer since 1991 or 1992.
Same here. Now I'm a semi-happy JPM customer, as they took over the big bank building one block away,
We were also a very happy First Republic customer. JPM ate them too.
My father worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad all of his life. As early as grammar school in the 40's I loved to read the full-page Timken Roller Bearing ads in the Saturday Evening Post, especially as they showed lots of pictures of those bear…
Donald Trump is an adolescent, ignorant, irresponsible, incompetent, depraved, immoral and malicious BASTARD.
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Edit: If I overlooked a significant attribute please feel free to advise.
All of the above is true.
Still, in four months my silver hoard has increased in value by 54.81%. It's just a teeny little silver cube, but If I don't get too greedy and I manage to sell before it collapses I can sure live with that.
With virtually all of our present investments in Treasuries, MMkts, and Cds, I too keep a daily watch on all of that stuff. I've noted that SUTXX MMkt at Schwab seems to have stabilized at 3.54%, and on 2/3/26 added a 1-year CD at 3.8%. We aren't go…
Well wrong on that one, for sure- DuckDuckGo says-
Justices Present
During the recent State of the Union address, several Supreme Court justices were in attendance:
Chief Justice John Roberts
Justice Amy Coney Barrett
Justice Elena Kag…
We haven't watched or listened to the country's head liar tonight, but I see this on a report from The Guardian:
The president called the supreme court’s ruling “unfortunate”, as the four justices attending today’s address sat directly in the presid…
Yes, perhaps I overstated "she covered the Supreme Court for the PBS News Hour", but my wife and I do remember occasional interviews on the Newshour while she was still working for the Times.
5. Occupy Silicon Valley and Ghost GDP
Citrini imagines the crash will throw governments into a crisis they will be unable to manage.
“The system wasn’t designed for a crisis like this. The federal government’s revenue base is essentially a tax on …