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Very happy to see this Ron- I was worried about you. Have a great Christmas and a reasonably decent new year. (That's about the best that I can realistically hope for.)
Good idea... then charge Greenlanders any time they move from one part of the park to another. Or maybe even put up tall metal fences to keep them from moving around at all.
@hank- Good deal for you. I can't even get fiber here in a decent neighborhood in SF. When I worked SF Public Safety we used both microwave and fiber, both underground and on poles. Good stuff. Short of physical damage the fiber was almost trouble f…
@hank- I was under the impression that you were using Musk's Starlink. Have you switched to fiber optic? If so, is that service relatively new around there?
You can add the Washington Post to that list. Owned by Jeff Bezos, who has large economic ties to the federal government, the Post is in the process of slow-motion disintegration even as we watch.
I thought that you were kidding. I'm familiar with "substack" because we receive regular email commentary from a couple of other sources. Apparently "substack" is an enterprise which is set up to promote and distribute such material. Why they use th…
"tariffs could add to the prices of imported goods"
While this is of course true, it's one of those boilerplate constructions that doesn't prompt one to think about the ordinary stuff used daily that has a large "imported" component. I'm thinking a…
Way up above @Catch22 quoted "wealth is more likely the outcome of prudent spending and saving habits than high income or inherited wealth"
You couldn't find a better description of the path my wife and I traveled.
For the hell of it I just checked Treasury (91282CAY7) at Schwab, and today the best return is down to 4.32%. This whole scene is apparently very volatile and can change very rapidly.
Speaking of Schwab, I just purchased a Treasury (91282CAY7) paying 4.338 out to 11/30/27. There's also a fair number of similar offerings there on Schwab.
The purchase was financed by selling an equivalent amount of SUTXX, which was 4.92% on 9/30/2…
Like old times- Trump sends Congress scrambling to avoid a shutdown
From a current NPR report:
President-elect Donald Trump hasn't been sworn in yet but he's already running Washington again in his familiar style of upheaval and intraparty drama, s…
"I have mixed feelings about George Stephanopoulos. Excellent speaker/ smooth easy delivery. Likable persona. Bright. I enjoy him. But I’ve long felt his show was slanted to the liberal side."
Seems like a fair evaluation to me also.
I'd really be surprised if a significant percentage of the people who voted for Trump have the slightest idea who Viktor Orban is or what he stands for.
Maybe it's the same with those who voted for Harris... I have no idea.
Oh, they mention it on and off, whenever they want a news splash on a slow day. It's perfectly safe to do so because they know that it will never happen.
I believe that what had been erected of the wall remains standing. If I remember correctly there were some piles of wall material which was unsuited for the terrain where it had been intended to be used, and that was sold for scrap.
I'm not super-s…
Yep- the bad guys are going to have a frigging ball with AI. The rest of us are going to be sitting there like sheep, wondering how we got sheared. This could easily mean the end of electronic commerce as we now know it.
Really glad that I'm as old…
