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Well, since you asked- I believe that you've said it very well- I can't improve on "She didn't impress me when she was the DA in SF, or the AG for California. But it's not like she was a train wreck. She seems amiable, photogenic, and unlikel…
@Old_Skeet- Yes sir, that's the way that I see it also.
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With respect to "your" earthquake, here's an article that you might find interesting.
It's from an "earthquake info site" that I frequently check.
Amplifying the report from the Chronicle is this current article from The Wall Street Journal. The article is very extensive, and the selected extracts below have been severely edited for brevity.
Latest Research Points to Children Carrying, Trans…
The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that: Nearly 100,000 kids test positive in 2 weeks: More than 97,000 children in the U.S. tested positive for the coronavirus in the last two weeks of July, according to a new report by the American Academy o…
Well I made a quick 5k, figured that would cover the increased cost of having virtually everything delivered instead of shopping in person, so took the money and ran.
What concerns me most about the future is that almost all existing defined benefi…
@Old_Skeet- It struck me that I was sounding a bit dismissive of your 5.1. Far from it... a 5.1 in the wrong place with the wrong type of construction can do plenty of damage, although probably less than one of your major hurricanes. Having lived in…
We, the typical MFO members, read articles such as the Slate one, pay attention to ongoing news coverage from reliable sources such as NPR, and attempt to take such reasonable health precautions as recommended.
The great majority of Trump voters do…
Like msf, I've never understood the situation where storefronts stand empty for years because the former business tenant could not operate successfully with the rent increases, and was forced either out of business, or to move. Having at one time be…
Yes, a 5.1 is getting close to a real earthquake. I'm quite surprised that we haven't heard of any damage reports near the epicenter as the construction codes back there are not focused on earthquake potential.
"he's ordering it but doesn't have the money to back it up"
Sure he does. He can mortgage his new fence... the one he's building with money "diverted" from the military budget. What's another diversion or two in an election year?
That's all very well at the producer level. Does anyone really think that the natural gas costs for their homes has gone down by one third in the last year? Certainly not here in PG&E-land.
@msf- Yes, this algorithm surely can't give you a "hard number", but it is very helpful in making the point that the more people that you're exposed to, the greater the danger.
To some extent it can factor in the national "comparison between counti…
I'm simply pointing out that if the actual monetary worth of a rock used for making cement is 10¢, then it's material or intrinsic worth is 10¢. If, at any given time, speculators believe there is going to be a shortage of these rocks, and bid the t…
And as if we needed more...
These extracts are from a current article in The Guardian. They have been edited for brevity.
Factcheckers monitoring content on Facebook have put a “partly false” label on the latest video that it said was manipulated …
Let's not confuse stocks "continuing to go up" and "value". Value, as used here, is defined as "the material or monetary worth of something".
Note the "or": the definition does not say "the material and monetary worth of something".
The monetary w…
Speaking of "making paper money", isn't it interesting how we've all become used to seeing financial articles every day which casually measure things in "trillions"? It really wasn't all that long ago that most of us thought that "billions" were a …
@hank- Thanks. I'm afraid that it's been my long-term experience that people who need to resort to name-calling rants are simply incapable of any sort of a fact-based reasoned response. Surely you've seen that replayed, even here on MFO, over and ov…
@hank: Don't get your hopes up for a logical and reasoned reply based upon verifiable facts. The infantile name-callers, from the top on down, aren't up for that sort of thing.
Graphic with thanks to The Economist
As @Rono knows, I've got several hundred dollars worth (face value) of "real" silver quarters sitting here in a box. "Worth" a fair amount these days. But what good are they? If I take advantage of the current upswing I can convert those "real silve…
I'd be willing to bet a substantial amount that these are the very same people who never "accepted" Barack Obama either. We can put Mitch McConnell right at the head of that list. So what's new?
@WhollyTerriers-
Thanks for your posts- you've made some very interesting points which should not be taken lightly. I have absolutely no background knowledge in this area, so all of this is quite new and interesting. From your perspective, what wou…
• From The Guardian:
As U.S. coronavirus deaths near 150,000 Trump walks out of his White House coronavirus briefing
President Trump walked out of his White House coronavirus briefing on Tuesday night while in the middle of being challenged abou…
