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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
Northern Syria, especially the part towards the Mediterranean coast, is in the throes of an extremely bloody conflict with massacres against Alawites and Christians alike by the Turkish-backed Islamic regime and its jihadist militants. The ethnic cleansing, which threatens to destabilize once again the country that has experienced endless warfare for 15 years, is unfolding under the gaze of the international community, which condemns but for now has not gone beyond…recommendations for “restraint“. The United States and Russia have, however, called for the United Nations Security Council to meet on Monday, behind closed doors to discuss the escalating violence. The latest tally from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights puts the death toll at least 1,311 in recent days. Of these, more than 830 were civilians, mostly Alawites, the majority of whom were executed. More than 480 are the armed dead from both sides.
Nobody cares about the Arabs being murdered by other Arabs, and certainly nobody cares about the Christians being murdered. Oh, there will be meetings and talk of boycotts and there will absolutely be a stern lecture from some United Nations functionary about the opportunity for peace and prosperity now that the Assad regime has fallen. But very little will be done, and Syria will become another dysfunctional Muslim dictatorship, whose thugs will cruise around the country killing anyone they dislike or whose religion is inconvenient. Sort of like how it was under Assad, only nastier. Israel was vilified when, soon after Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham conquered Syria, they entered the country and established a buffer zone, because unlike the naive and foolish NYT, Israel knows what Jihad means and what can happen. If al-Shara of the trimmed beard would send his henchmen to kill Muslims and Christians, what would he do with Israelis? Oh, Israel also destroyed the majority of the Syrian army's weaponry, because fanatical 7th century maniacs with missiles is a bad combination. But the problem for Christians remains, and absent an Israeli invasion of Syria, who is going to protect them? The United Nations? The Pope? The American Army? The EU? Maybe we can convince Putin to send troops...after all, he was a supporter of Assad!
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X]
Comments
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I'll let the others know.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 11, 2025 11:00 AM (O7YUW)
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Monkey!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2025 11:01 AM (P3X50)
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1
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 11, 2025 11:01 AM (N1tpc)
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Nooded.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 11, 2025 11:01 AM (a3Q+t)
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Monkeysign
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 11, 2025 11:02 AM (muwun)
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Israelis are in Syria, they have said they will defend the Druze.
Posted by: long night...lifted at March 11, 2025 11:02 AM (2NXcZ)
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Maybe we can convince Putin to send troops...after all, he was a supported of Assad!
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I saw that Christians ARE taking refuge in Russian military camps. I'm sure it's a drop in the bucket.
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I saw that Christians ARE taking refuge in Russian military camps. I'm sure it's a drop in the bucket.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2025 11:03 AM (P3X50)
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Maybe we can convince Putin to send troops...after all, he was a supported of Assad!
Ironically, several thousand Alawites have fled to the one remaining Russian air base in Syria, and the Russians are protecting them from HTS.
Ironically, several thousand Alawites have fled to the one remaining Russian air base in Syria, and the Russians are protecting them from HTS.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 11, 2025 11:03 AM (xTIDn)
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On 11 February, Israeli Army Radio reported that Israel would prolong the occupation of their newly invaded territory in Syria throughout 2025.[56]
On 23 February, the IDF confirmed that it had built at least nine army posts in Syria, including two on Mount Hermon and seven on the buffer zone.[81]
On 23 February, the IDF confirmed that it had built at least nine army posts in Syria, including two on Mount Hermon and seven on the buffer zone.[81]
Posted by: long night...lifted at March 11, 2025 11:04 AM (2NXcZ)
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Are the people being killed in Syria urbanites? Or farmers/peasants?
Posted by: Alexander The Adequate at March 11, 2025 11:04 AM (6hd1O)
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2025 11:04 AM (iFTx/)
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Tulsi called this before it happened, and was attacked for it.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2025 11:05 AM (3cXfB)
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I also am very pissed off about Candace Owens blaming Jews for celebrating Assad being taken down and thus to blame for all of this.
What a See You Next Tuesday.
Are Jews the only people who can think and do for themselves?!
What a See You Next Tuesday.
Are Jews the only people who can think and do for themselves?!
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 11, 2025 11:05 AM (PzXaK)
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Because this is happening in the northern part of Syria, above Lebanon, the only power that is physically in position to intervene would be Turkey. And they couldn't care less about it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2025 11:05 AM (uWKK8)
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I seem to recall that before the Syrian regime fell and the Islamists took over people were saying they'd slaughter Christians if left unchecked.
Guess they were unchecked.
Guess they were unchecked.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 11, 2025 11:05 AM (Q4IgG)
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I'm not sure why the US backed these Al Qaeda people to oust Assad.
Posted by: long night...lifted at March 11, 2025 11:06 AM (2NXcZ)
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I am almost positive to within a half % how Rome would have handled Islam.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 11, 2025 11:06 AM (/x6eu)
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Israelis are in Syria, they have said they will defend the Druze.
If true, that means they know they'll have to deal with the psycho Islamist leader sooner or later, so it might as well be now. A normal country would then have good feelings about the country that saved them. That won't happen, of course.
If true, that means they know they'll have to deal with the psycho Islamist leader sooner or later, so it might as well be now. A normal country would then have good feelings about the country that saved them. That won't happen, of course.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 11:06 AM (xCA6C)
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Lots of Christian blood shed regularly in Africa as well.
Nobody cares there either.
#BringBackOurGirls
did "we" ever get them back?
after they were raped and Islamized?
Nobody cares there either.
#BringBackOurGirls
did "we" ever get them back?
after they were raped and Islamized?
Posted by: illiniwek at March 11, 2025 11:06 AM (Cus5s)
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Israelis are in Syria, they have said they will defend the Druze.
Posted by: long night...lifted at March 11, 2025 11:02 AM (2NXcZ)
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We are trying to help those near the Israeli border. Meanwhile last night:
https://tinyurl.com/4vybe8w8
And this just in:
https://tinyurl.com/3zdbbm73
Posted by: long night...lifted at March 11, 2025 11:02 AM (2NXcZ)
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We are trying to help those near the Israeli border. Meanwhile last night:
https://tinyurl.com/4vybe8w8
And this just in:
https://tinyurl.com/3zdbbm73
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2025 11:06 AM (P3X50)
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Willard,
Lest anyone think Dims are turning away from their commie insanity, Judiciary Committee Democrats have tweeted "Free Mahmoud Khalil."
https://tinyurl.com/mw4fcurx
We are so blessed to have such opponents.
Lest anyone think Dims are turning away from their commie insanity, Judiciary Committee Democrats have tweeted "Free Mahmoud Khalil."
https://tinyurl.com/mw4fcurx
We are so blessed to have such opponents.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 11, 2025 11:06 AM (paSBy)
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I've said it before and I'll say it again - this rotten hulk of a Church needs a pope who is a combination of Innocent III and Urban II.
The only way to defeat the Muslim animals is a new Crusade. But the West is too cowardly, sensitive and post-Christian to embark on one.
**throws up hands**
Whatever. Asshole commenter on a Smart Military Blog, that's me.
The only way to defeat the Muslim animals is a new Crusade. But the West is too cowardly, sensitive and post-Christian to embark on one.
**throws up hands**
Whatever. Asshole commenter on a Smart Military Blog, that's me.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 11, 2025 11:07 AM (Q0kLU)
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 11:07 AM (xCA6C)
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"Arabs killing Arabs? Nobody cares."
Not true. I care very much. I care so much I want to see much more.
Not true. I care very much. I care so much I want to see much more.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2025 11:07 AM (iFTx/)
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I thought Hillary fixed all that.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 11, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl)
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Help help I'm being oppressed! [sic]
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:07 AM (dzMAk)
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Turkey before Erdogan. Maybe?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 11, 2025 11:07 AM (/x6eu)
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Hillary did a better job of screwing up an entire country on a whim when she gave Khaddafi the boot.
Funny how you never hear about Libya anymore.
Funny how you never hear about Libya anymore.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 11, 2025 11:07 AM (muwun)
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25 I thought Hillary fixed all that.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 11, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl)
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No, no, no, no...
She fixed Libya.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 11, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl)
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No, no, no, no...
She fixed Libya.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO)
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13 I also am very pissed off about Candace Owens blaming Jews for celebrating Assad being taken down and thus to blame for all of this.
What a See You Next Tuesday.
Are Jews the only people who can think and do for themselves?!
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 11, 2025 11:05 AM (PzXaK)
The dumbest part about that is that Israel had nothing to do with causing it to happen (except in a secondary way, by crushing Hezbollah) The ones who were arming and encouraging the Jihadi rebels were Turkey and the CIA, so blame them for what has happened.
What a See You Next Tuesday.
Are Jews the only people who can think and do for themselves?!
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 11, 2025 11:05 AM (PzXaK)
The dumbest part about that is that Israel had nothing to do with causing it to happen (except in a secondary way, by crushing Hezbollah) The ones who were arming and encouraging the Jihadi rebels were Turkey and the CIA, so blame them for what has happened.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2025 11:07 AM (uWKK8)
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I'm not sure why the US backed these Al Qaeda people to oust Assad.
Posted by: long night...lifted at March 11, 2025 11:06 AM (2NXcZ)
Ask Susan Rice.
Posted by: long night...lifted at March 11, 2025 11:06 AM (2NXcZ)
Ask Susan Rice.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 11, 2025 11:08 AM (muwun)
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The Obama admin became obsessed with ousting Assad by backing “moderate rebels.” Even at the time, we knew those moderate rebels contained al Qaeda and its radical offshoots.
After over a decade of destabilizing Syria, under the Biden admin the deep state got its wish and established a caliphate in Syria. The question is: why are US intelligence agencies so determined to back al Qaeda?
After over a decade of destabilizing Syria, under the Biden admin the deep state got its wish and established a caliphate in Syria. The question is: why are US intelligence agencies so determined to back al Qaeda?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 11, 2025 11:08 AM (l3YAf)
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Maybe we can convince Putin to send troops...after all, he was a supported of Assad!
Ezekiel has something to say about this.
Ezekiel has something to say about this.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at March 11, 2025 11:08 AM (AiZBA)
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I'm not sure why the US backed these Al Qaeda people to oust Assad.
Posted by: long night...lifted at March 11, 2025 11:06 AM (2NXcZ)
Constant conflict. It benefits certain people.
Posted by: long night...lifted at March 11, 2025 11:06 AM (2NXcZ)
Constant conflict. It benefits certain people.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 11, 2025 11:08 AM (9041i)
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I also am very pissed off about Candace Owens
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 11, 2025 11:05 AM (PzXaK)
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She is like Dennis Moore. Lots of tra-la-la and a stupid bitch.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 11, 2025 11:05 AM (PzXaK)
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She is like Dennis Moore. Lots of tra-la-la and a stupid bitch.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2025 11:09 AM (P3X50)
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zzzzzzZZZZZZzzzzzzzz
Posted by: President Potatohead at March 11, 2025 11:09 AM (muwun)
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The Obama admin became obsessed with ousting Assad by backing “moderate rebels.” Even at the time, we knew those moderate rebels contained al Qaeda and its radical offshoots.
How to tell if a rebel is a moderate rebel:
Is he Muslim? If yes, then no.
How to tell if a rebel is a moderate rebel:
Is he Muslim? If yes, then no.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 11:09 AM (xCA6C)
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Weren't there something like 5 Druze villages in southern Syria that requested to become part of Israel?
Funny how the Jews are the only group in the Middle East to respect and protect people of ALL religions.
The HQ of the Baha'i faith, a long-ago breakoff from Islam, but now basically an independent faith, is in Israel.
Funny how the Jews are the only group in the Middle East to respect and protect people of ALL religions.
The HQ of the Baha'i faith, a long-ago breakoff from Islam, but now basically an independent faith, is in Israel.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 11:09 AM (77rzZ)
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So let's say the Iranian regime gets the boot, as some have speculated, why would that turn out any different. If not, why not?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 11, 2025 11:09 AM (/x6eu)
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Funny how you never hear about Libya anymore.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 11, 2025 11:07 AM (muwun)
Slaves! Get your slaves here! $400 each, or three for $1000!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 11, 2025 11:07 AM (muwun)
Slaves! Get your slaves here! $400 each, or three for $1000!
Posted by: Liberated Libya at March 11, 2025 11:09 AM (l3YAf)
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"Syria will become another dysfunctional Muslim dictatorship"
Is there any other kind?
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2025 11:04 AM (iFTx/)
Is Saudi Arabia dysfunctional?
Is there any other kind?
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2025 11:04 AM (iFTx/)
Is Saudi Arabia dysfunctional?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 11:09 AM (ExV1e)
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I'm not sure why the US backed these Al Qaeda people to oust Assad.
Posted by: long night...lifted at March 11, 2025 11:06 AM (2NXcZ)
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EM-I-SEE
is the
KAY-EE-WHY.
Posted by: long night...lifted at March 11, 2025 11:06 AM (2NXcZ)
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EM-I-SEE
is the
KAY-EE-WHY.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 11, 2025 11:10 AM (P3X50)
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Most likely outcome for Syria is that it becomes very balkanized, each area run by it's own group. Sadly the Alawites/Christians don't have any outside patrons left, Russia being unwilling or unable to do much.
The Druze regions are mostly on the Israeli border plus they have a long history, which makes cooperation between those two easy.
The Druze regions are mostly on the Israeli border plus they have a long history, which makes cooperation between those two easy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2025 11:10 AM (uWKK8)
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7 Maybe we can convince Putin to send troops...after all, he was a supported of Assad!
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I saw that Christians ARE taking refuge in Russian military camps. I'm sure it's a drop in the bucket.
Posted by: Biden's Dog
A sad story in the Middle East replicated in other nations like Iraq is that Christians and other minority religious sects supported dictators for life as a survival technique against Sunni desires to kill them all. Now those dictators have fallen, supporters from the regime face vengeance for supporting the dictators and the natural impulse of Sunnis to exterminate others to purify their umma.
Something similar happened at the end of the Ottoman Empire where the Armenians got slaughtered among other minorities that used to be formally protected from Sunni savages by sultans.
Assad's fall was always going to result in bloody revenge on those that supported him just as the few remaining Christians and other minority sects got the heck out of Iraq before the same was done to them.
Copts in Egypt were on that road to extinction had the Muslim Brotherhood kept running it.
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I saw that Christians ARE taking refuge in Russian military camps. I'm sure it's a drop in the bucket.
Posted by: Biden's Dog
A sad story in the Middle East replicated in other nations like Iraq is that Christians and other minority religious sects supported dictators for life as a survival technique against Sunni desires to kill them all. Now those dictators have fallen, supporters from the regime face vengeance for supporting the dictators and the natural impulse of Sunnis to exterminate others to purify their umma.
Something similar happened at the end of the Ottoman Empire where the Armenians got slaughtered among other minorities that used to be formally protected from Sunni savages by sultans.
Assad's fall was always going to result in bloody revenge on those that supported him just as the few remaining Christians and other minority sects got the heck out of Iraq before the same was done to them.
Copts in Egypt were on that road to extinction had the Muslim Brotherhood kept running it.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:10 AM (ctrM5)
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Funny how you never hear about Libya anymore.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 11, 2025 11:07 AM (muwun)
Slaves! Get your slaves here! $400 each, or three for $1000!
Posted by: Liberated Libya at March 11, 2025 11:09 AM (l3YAf)
_______
I got $20
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 11, 2025 11:07 AM (muwun)
Slaves! Get your slaves here! $400 each, or three for $1000!
Posted by: Liberated Libya at March 11, 2025 11:09 AM (l3YAf)
_______
I got $20
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2025 11:11 AM (iFTx/)
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"Syria will become another dysfunctional Muslim dictatorship"
Is there any other kind?
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2025 11:04 AM (iFTx/)
Is Saudi Arabia dysfunctional?
Take away the oil money and see how long it lasts.
Is there any other kind?
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2025 11:04 AM (iFTx/)
Is Saudi Arabia dysfunctional?
Take away the oil money and see how long it lasts.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 11:11 AM (xCA6C)
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Muslims are the problem.
Anywhere they have power, they violently repress everyone else.
Anywhere they don't have power, they violently attack everyone else unless they are violently repressed themselves. (See: China) (Disclaimer*)
For all the evil that China is and does, they understand that they cannot allow Islam to operate freely or it will destroy them.
Disclaimer: If the population of Muslims is below ~5%, they will pretend to just want to live out their lives. Once they reach ~10% is when the violence starts. Europe is already experiencing this.
Anywhere they have power, they violently repress everyone else.
Anywhere they don't have power, they violently attack everyone else unless they are violently repressed themselves. (See: China) (Disclaimer*)
For all the evil that China is and does, they understand that they cannot allow Islam to operate freely or it will destroy them.
Disclaimer: If the population of Muslims is below ~5%, they will pretend to just want to live out their lives. Once they reach ~10% is when the violence starts. Europe is already experiencing this.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 11, 2025 11:11 AM (N1tpc)
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Strange bedfellows. Guess who is helping? Israel and Russia. Israel is trying to stop the killing in the southern region of Syria, and several thousand Christians have fled to the Russian airbase for protection.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 11, 2025 11:11 AM (lTGtQ)
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I'd support intervention in Syria to end the genocides there long before any of the other cases screamed about these days, and even then I'd be incredibly wary of it.
The Middle East is fucked, and everyone here knows why. I don't think anyone has both the capacity and wherewithal to fix it.
The Middle East is fucked, and everyone here knows why. I don't think anyone has both the capacity and wherewithal to fix it.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 11, 2025 11:12 AM (OUMaO)
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A sad story in the Middle East replicated in other nations like Iraq is that Christians and other minority religious sects supported dictators for life as a survival technique
against Sunni desires to kill them all.
Tariq Aziz, Saddam's Foreign Minister, was a Christian.
against Sunni desires to kill them all.
Tariq Aziz, Saddam's Foreign Minister, was a Christian.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)
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49 I'd support intervention in Syria to end the genocides there long before any of the other cases screamed about these days, and even then I'd be incredibly wary of it.
The Middle East is fucked, and everyone here knows why. I don't think anyone has both the capacity and wherewithal to fix it.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 11, 2025 11:12 AM (OUMaO)
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I'm done with foreign interventionism completely.
We have a Southern border that needs attending to.
The Middle East is fucked, and everyone here knows why. I don't think anyone has both the capacity and wherewithal to fix it.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 11, 2025 11:12 AM (OUMaO)
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I'm done with foreign interventionism completely.
We have a Southern border that needs attending to.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:12 AM (GBKbO)
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I am almost positive to within a half % how Rome would have handled Islam.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 11, 2025 11:06 AM (/x6eu)
I’m right here.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 11, 2025 11:06 AM (/x6eu)
I’m right here.
Posted by: The Crusades at March 11, 2025 11:12 AM (l3YAf)
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Osama bin Laden in a crappy suit and a trimmed beard.
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You mean, like, Barry and Moochelle?
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You mean, like, Barry and Moochelle?
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 11, 2025 11:13 AM (pkm6L)
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I'm not sure why the US backed these Al Qaeda people to oust Assad.
Posted by: long night...lifted at March 11, 2025 11:06 AM (2NXcZ)
I'm starting to think that the left backs Islam BECAUSE Islam kills Christians.
They think that Christians are a much bigger threat to them. (And, in one sense, they are right. The Truth is their biggest enemy.)
Posted by: long night...lifted at March 11, 2025 11:06 AM (2NXcZ)
I'm starting to think that the left backs Islam BECAUSE Islam kills Christians.
They think that Christians are a much bigger threat to them. (And, in one sense, they are right. The Truth is their biggest enemy.)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 11, 2025 11:13 AM (N1tpc)
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I've said it before and I'll say it again - this rotten hulk of a Church needs a pope who is a combination of Innocent III and Urban II.
The only way to defeat the Muslim animals is a new Crusade. But the West is too cowardly, sensitive and post-Christian to embark on one.
**throws up hands**
Whatever. Asshole commenter on a Smart Military Blog, that's me.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 11, 2025 11:07 AM (Q0kLU)
Keeping on the prophetic path, Nebuchadnezzar's dream statue had feet of clay and iron.
The only way to defeat the Muslim animals is a new Crusade. But the West is too cowardly, sensitive and post-Christian to embark on one.
**throws up hands**
Whatever. Asshole commenter on a Smart Military Blog, that's me.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at March 11, 2025 11:07 AM (Q0kLU)
Keeping on the prophetic path, Nebuchadnezzar's dream statue had feet of clay and iron.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at March 11, 2025 11:13 AM (AiZBA)
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Let me toss another fly in the buttermilk: how is the plight of Christians in Syria different than the white farmers in South africa?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 11, 2025 11:14 AM (/x6eu)
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I'm not sure why the US backed these Al Qaeda people to oust Assad.
Posted by: long night...lifted at March 11, 2025 11:06 AM (2NXcZ)
The Biden Regime? Muslim terrorist friendly Biden Regime? I have an idea why they might have supported them.
Or, if you prefer, the IC wanted to further destabilize the region because it lets them continue plying god all over the planet and keep the money flowing to the MIC.
Posted by: long night...lifted at March 11, 2025 11:06 AM (2NXcZ)
The Biden Regime? Muslim terrorist friendly Biden Regime? I have an idea why they might have supported them.
Or, if you prefer, the IC wanted to further destabilize the region because it lets them continue plying god all over the planet and keep the money flowing to the MIC.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 11:14 AM (ExV1e)
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Democrats on suicide watch.
T HAS HAPPENED:
Egg prices are now *LOWER* than they were when Donald J. Trump assumed office.
Pre-Jan. 20, 2025: $6.12/dozen
March 10, 2025: $6.08/dozen
Promise DELIVERED.
And Trump's strategy hasn't even had time to work fully yet.
https://is.gd/A8L6c6
T HAS HAPPENED:
Egg prices are now *LOWER* than they were when Donald J. Trump assumed office.
Pre-Jan. 20, 2025: $6.12/dozen
March 10, 2025: $6.08/dozen
Promise DELIVERED.
And Trump's strategy hasn't even had time to work fully yet.
https://is.gd/A8L6c6
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 11, 2025 11:14 AM (L/fGl)
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The HQ of the Baha'i faith, a long-ago breakoff from Islam, but now basically an independent faith, is in Israel.
Posted by: Bulg
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Staying in Iran was not an option for the Baha'i. Curiously though, there still seems to be underground Zoroastrianism there and you see low key ancient emigre communities of that in India.
Basically minorities usually survive by making themselves useful to the powers that be in a society in exchange for protection. Depending on what the PTB do in a society to the majority, if they fall, the minorities are going to be the punching bag of the new majority taking over.
Posted by: Bulg
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Staying in Iran was not an option for the Baha'i. Curiously though, there still seems to be underground Zoroastrianism there and you see low key ancient emigre communities of that in India.
Basically minorities usually survive by making themselves useful to the powers that be in a society in exchange for protection. Depending on what the PTB do in a society to the majority, if they fall, the minorities are going to be the punching bag of the new majority taking over.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:14 AM (ctrM5)
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Because this is happening in the northern part of Syria, above Lebanon, the only power that is physically in position to intervene would be Turkey. And they couldn't care less about it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2025 11:05 AM (uWKK
Turkey is the one who backed Syria’s new Islamist government.
Aren’t our NATO allies grand?
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2025 11:05 AM (uWKK
Turkey is the one who backed Syria’s new Islamist government.
Aren’t our NATO allies grand?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 11, 2025 11:14 AM (l3YAf)
61
We could use a man like Jan Sobieski again. And the winged hussars.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 11, 2025 11:14 AM (gm9Sb)
62
I'm done with foreign interventionism completely.
We have a Southern border that needs attending to.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein
Yeah. I'm there too. We're in triage at this stage.
We have a Southern border that needs attending to.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein
Yeah. I'm there too. We're in triage at this stage.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 11, 2025 11:14 AM (OUMaO)
63
I'm not sure why the US backed these Al Qaeda people to oust Assad.
Posted by: long night...lifted at March 11, 2025 11:06 AM (2NXcZ)
For the same reason we backed Osama bin Laden against the Soviets.
Short term solutions to long term problems.
Posted by: long night...lifted at March 11, 2025 11:06 AM (2NXcZ)
For the same reason we backed Osama bin Laden against the Soviets.
Short term solutions to long term problems.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at March 11, 2025 11:14 AM (rUU8O)
64
I am almost positive to within a half % how Rome would have handled Islam.
Hulegu Khan gave it a good shot.
Hulegu Khan gave it a good shot.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 11:16 AM (xCA6C)
65
The question is: why are US intelligence agencies so determined to back al Qaeda?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 11, 2025 11:08 AM
Because they created it?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 11, 2025 11:08 AM
Because they created it?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 11, 2025 11:16 AM (a3Q+t)
66
Pax Americana is a lie and we should stop shoving our noses into every world dispute.
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 11, 2025 11:16 AM (MGB5H)
67
Let me toss another fly in the buttermilk: how is the plight of Christians in Syria different than the white farmers in South africa?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
Yep. You pick one, you start getting drawn into others. We're bled dry for a generation at least. No mas.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
Yep. You pick one, you start getting drawn into others. We're bled dry for a generation at least. No mas.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 11, 2025 11:16 AM (OUMaO)
68
‘ Israel was vilified when, soon after Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham conquered Syria, they entered the country and established a buffer zone’
Vilified by muzzies and leftist turds, yes.
Most of us are OK with it.
Vilified by muzzies and leftist turds, yes.
Most of us are OK with it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 11, 2025 11:16 AM (jbnUc)
69
Disclaimer: If the population of Muslims is below ~5%, they will pretend to just want to live out their lives. Once they reach ~10% is when the violence starts. Europe is already experiencing this.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 11, 2025 11:11 AM (N1tpc)
As a general proposition 10% of the population seems to be the boiling point for revolution in a country as well. As a f'instance, the Commie's were about a 10% dealio when they started and won their revolution.
YMMV.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 11, 2025 11:11 AM (N1tpc)
As a general proposition 10% of the population seems to be the boiling point for revolution in a country as well. As a f'instance, the Commie's were about a 10% dealio when they started and won their revolution.
YMMV.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2025 11:16 AM (iJfKG)
70
62 I'm done with foreign interventionism completely.
We have a Southern border that needs attending to.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein
Yeah. I'm there too. We're in triage at this stage.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 11, 2025 11:14 AM (OUMaO)
Me 3… unless we take care of business here at hme, there won’t be a home for any of us… whichis their plan, of course.
We have a Southern border that needs attending to.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein
Yeah. I'm there too. We're in triage at this stage.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 11, 2025 11:14 AM (OUMaO)
Me 3… unless we take care of business here at hme, there won’t be a home for any of us… whichis their plan, of course.
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2025 11:16 AM (PCK5/)
71
We could use a man like Jan Sobieski again. And the winged hussars.
Posted by: bill in arkansas,
That was a pretty good movie.
Posted by: bill in arkansas,
That was a pretty good movie.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 11, 2025 11:16 AM (lTGtQ)
72
like Jan Sobieski again. And the winged hussars.
Posted by: bill in arkansas
Instantly thought of LeeLee Sobieski in "Eyes Wide Shut".
Jail time.
Posted by: bill in arkansas
Instantly thought of LeeLee Sobieski in "Eyes Wide Shut".
Jail time.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 11, 2025 11:17 AM (cYBz/)
73
We could use a man like Jan Sobieski again. And the winged hussars.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 11, 2025 11:14 AM
And Charles Martel.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 11, 2025 11:14 AM
And Charles Martel.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 11, 2025 11:17 AM (a3Q+t)
74
Israelis are in Syria, they have said they will defend the Druze.
Posted by: long night...lifted at March 11, 2025 11:02 AM (2NXcZ)
Near the Golan...sure. But north of Lebanon, where a lot of the murder is occurring, probably not.
Posted by: long night...lifted at March 11, 2025 11:02 AM (2NXcZ)
Near the Golan...sure. But north of Lebanon, where a lot of the murder is occurring, probably not.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 11, 2025 11:17 AM (L5An7)
75
Curiously though, there still seems to be underground Zoroastrianism there and you see low key ancient emigre communities of that in India.
Posted by: whig
The Parsees.
Fun fact: Freddy Mercury was a Zoroastrian by birth. Born on Zanzibar.
Posted by: whig
The Parsees.
Fun fact: Freddy Mercury was a Zoroastrian by birth. Born on Zanzibar.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 11:17 AM (77rzZ)
76
57 I'm not sure why the US backed these Al Qaeda people to oust Assad.
Posted by: long night...lifted
Assad's rule was failing anyway and part of it was the desire for vengeance by the majority Sunnis from being excluded from power and being slaughtered. I think there are also players in the Middle East regarding pipelines going through Syria, the interests of Erdogan in Turkey aimed at killing Kurds and promoting Turkish interests there. Etc.
Place has been a mess for decades now like Lebanon was for thirty years or so due both to a mix of internal populations that hate each other and outside countries with interests for economics and security.
Posted by: long night...lifted
Assad's rule was failing anyway and part of it was the desire for vengeance by the majority Sunnis from being excluded from power and being slaughtered. I think there are also players in the Middle East regarding pipelines going through Syria, the interests of Erdogan in Turkey aimed at killing Kurds and promoting Turkish interests there. Etc.
Place has been a mess for decades now like Lebanon was for thirty years or so due both to a mix of internal populations that hate each other and outside countries with interests for economics and security.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:17 AM (ctrM5)
77
Smart ass friend of mine has thought on daylight savings time.
Blame Canada. They have more light in summer than we do. I bet Trump can tarriff the shit out of that.
Blame Canada. They have more light in summer than we do. I bet Trump can tarriff the shit out of that.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 11, 2025 11:17 AM (L/fGl)
78
I never trusted or particularly liked Candace Owens even though she's had her share of Sick Burns, but at some point we need to have a "conversation" about the rabbit hole that exists roughly three clicks to the Right of us.
The woman either fell down it or she's a rabbit.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, well.
The woman either fell down it or she's a rabbit.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, well.
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:18 AM (dzMAk)
79
Help help I'm being oppressed! [sic]
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:07 AM (dzMAk)
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Sorry I missed your ping yesterday real-time (I'm rarely able to read comments as I just mostly spew my own) -- but try to review responses later that evening.
Yes, I "do you remember a discussion we had some years back about that look of being 'owned' that is displayed by many prominent politicians." An observation that I believe you made during Trump's first term.
Fascinating that you've identified it in a new crop of the compromised ... I rarely know what any of these tools look like as I get virtually all my news from blogs like this and talk radio.
Cheers!
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:07 AM (dzMAk)
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Sorry I missed your ping yesterday real-time (I'm rarely able to read comments as I just mostly spew my own) -- but try to review responses later that evening.
Yes, I "do you remember a discussion we had some years back about that look of being 'owned' that is displayed by many prominent politicians." An observation that I believe you made during Trump's first term.
Fascinating that you've identified it in a new crop of the compromised ... I rarely know what any of these tools look like as I get virtually all my news from blogs like this and talk radio.
Cheers!
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 11, 2025 11:18 AM (pkm6L)
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Smart ass friend of mine has thought on daylight savings time.
Blame Canada. They have more light in summer than we do. I bet Trump can tarriff the shit out of that.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 11, 2025 11:17 AM (L/fGl)
Maybe he can build a big dish to block Canada from the sun.
Blame Canada. They have more light in summer than we do. I bet Trump can tarriff the shit out of that.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 11, 2025 11:17 AM (L/fGl)
Maybe he can build a big dish to block Canada from the sun.
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 11, 2025 11:18 AM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 11:18 AM (77rzZ)
82
70 62 I'm done with foreign interventionism completely.
We have a Southern border that needs attending to.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein
Yeah. I'm there too. We're in triage at this stage.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 11, 2025 11:14 AM (OUMaO)
Me 3… unless we take care of business here at hme, there won’t be a home for any of us… whichis their plan, of course.
Posted by: tubal
The aim of globalists is for all countries to resemble Syria and Lebanon. People too busy fighting and killing each other are easy prey for those seeking to rule and steal.
We have a Southern border that needs attending to.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein
Yeah. I'm there too. We're in triage at this stage.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at March 11, 2025 11:14 AM (OUMaO)
Me 3… unless we take care of business here at hme, there won’t be a home for any of us… whichis their plan, of course.
Posted by: tubal
The aim of globalists is for all countries to resemble Syria and Lebanon. People too busy fighting and killing each other are easy prey for those seeking to rule and steal.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:18 AM (ctrM5)
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As a general proposition 10% of the population seems to be the boiling point for revolution in a country as well. As a f'instance, the Commie's were about a 10% dealio when they started and won their revolution.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2025 11:16 AM
“Revolutionaries must not just wait for the objective conditions for a revolution. By creating a popular ‘armed focus’ they can create the objective conditions for a revolution by subjective initiative".
-- Che Guevara
Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2025 11:16 AM
“Revolutionaries must not just wait for the objective conditions for a revolution. By creating a popular ‘armed focus’ they can create the objective conditions for a revolution by subjective initiative".
-- Che Guevara
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 11, 2025 11:19 AM (a3Q+t)
84
14
‘ the only power that is physically in position to intervene would be Turkey. And they couldn't care less about it.’
They may not be intervening but Turkey is very interested in what happens next to Turkey.
‘ the only power that is physically in position to intervene would be Turkey. And they couldn't care less about it.’
They may not be intervening but Turkey is very interested in what happens next to Turkey.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 11, 2025 11:19 AM (jbnUc)
85
83 “Revolutionaries must not just wait for the objective conditions for a revolution. By creating a popular ‘armed focus’ they can create the objective conditions for a revolution by subjective initiative".
-- Che Guevara
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 11, 2025 11:19 AM (a3Q+t)
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He said this while banning rock and roll.
-- Che Guevara
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 11, 2025 11:19 AM (a3Q+t)
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He said this while banning rock and roll.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:20 AM (GBKbO)
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Thx CBD. Every idiot neocon and Hillary thought it was great that Assads were gone. Like everywhere else in the Middle East get rid of a dictator the tribal, religious both inter and intra , political philosophy come exploding out. But go ahead , let it rip
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2025 11:20 AM (2Km7O)
87
The only way to defeat the Muslim animals is a new Crusade. But the West is too cowardly, sensitive and post-Christian to embark on one.
A New Crusade led by the Catholic Church and a Warrior-Pope?
That would be a fun story to write.
A New Crusade led by the Catholic Church and a Warrior-Pope?
That would be a fun story to write.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2025 11:20 AM (iJfKG)
88
Hey Shain when you see this later... fuck off!
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:20 AM (dzMAk)
89
Let me toss another fly in the buttermilk: how is the plight of Christians in Syria different than the white farmers in South africa?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 11, 2025 11:14 AM (/x6eu)
Easier to be sure the refugee you're getting from SA is white than that the refugee you're getting from Syria is Christian.
Otherwise... race vs religion. Same as it ever was in the 3rd world.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 11, 2025 11:14 AM (/x6eu)
Easier to be sure the refugee you're getting from SA is white than that the refugee you're getting from Syria is Christian.
Otherwise... race vs religion. Same as it ever was in the 3rd world.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 11:20 AM (ExV1e)
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87 A New Crusade led by the Catholic Church and a Warrior-Pope?
That would be a fun story to write.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2025 11:20 AM (iJfKG)
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It's going to start in Poland.
That would be a fun story to write.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2025 11:20 AM (iJfKG)
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It's going to start in Poland.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:20 AM (GBKbO)
91
I never trusted or particularly liked Candace Owens even though she's had her share of Sick Burns, but at some point we need to have a "conversation" about the rabbit hole that exists roughly three clicks to the Right of us.
The woman either fell down it or she's a rabbit.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, well.
Posted by: ...
Years ago, I made a chart of left versus right, and as I filled it in with details, I discovered that the results were not a bell curve, but a circle.
The woman either fell down it or she's a rabbit.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, well.
Posted by: ...
Years ago, I made a chart of left versus right, and as I filled it in with details, I discovered that the results were not a bell curve, but a circle.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 11, 2025 11:21 AM (lTGtQ)
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91 Years ago, I made a chart of left versus right, and as I filled it in with details, I discovered that the results were not a bell curve, but a circle.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 11, 2025 11:21 AM (lTGtQ)
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I like that four-quadrant model. It's decent.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 11, 2025 11:21 AM (lTGtQ)
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I like that four-quadrant model. It's decent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:21 AM (GBKbO)
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I never trusted or particularly liked Candace Owens even though she's had her share of Sick Burns, but at some point we need to have a "conversation" about the rabbit hole that exists roughly three clicks to the Right of us.
The woman either fell down it or she's a rabbit.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, well.
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:18 AM (dzMAk)
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Ironically (as she's apparently an anti-Semite), I'd never heard of her until Dennis Prager had her on his radio show a number of times (and I think she was affiliated with PragerU).
I think he tried to reach out to her with an open letter after the initial controversy, but don't know or recall if she ever responded (at least publicly).
The woman either fell down it or she's a rabbit.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, well.
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:18 AM (dzMAk)
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Ironically (as she's apparently an anti-Semite), I'd never heard of her until Dennis Prager had her on his radio show a number of times (and I think she was affiliated with PragerU).
I think he tried to reach out to her with an open letter after the initial controversy, but don't know or recall if she ever responded (at least publicly).
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 11, 2025 11:21 AM (pkm6L)
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Christians in Syria are being crucified. There was a horrific picture posted on X.
People seem to be growing numb to the suffering.
People seem to be growing numb to the suffering.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 11, 2025 11:22 AM (4tmpE)
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“Revolutionaries must not just wait for the objective conditions for a revolution. By creating a popular ‘armed focus’ they can create the objective conditions for a revolution by subjective initiative".
-- Che Guevara
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 11, 2025 11:19 AM (a3Q+t)
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He said this while banning rock and roll.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:20 AM (GBKbO)
And killing homos
-- Che Guevara
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 11, 2025 11:19 AM (a3Q+t)
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He said this while banning rock and roll.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:20 AM (GBKbO)
And killing homos
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 11, 2025 11:22 AM (xcxpd)
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-- Che Guevara
Posted by: Duncanthrax
I attended a baptism at a large, non-denominational, arm-waving church where one of the baptisees (?) was wearing a Che tee-shirt. No one said a word.
Never went back.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
I attended a baptism at a large, non-denominational, arm-waving church where one of the baptisees (?) was wearing a Che tee-shirt. No one said a word.
Never went back.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 11, 2025 11:22 AM (cYBz/)
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78 I never trusted or particularly liked Candace Owens even though she's had her share of Sick Burns, but at some point we need to have a "conversation" about the rabbit hole that exists roughly three clicks to the Right of us.
The woman either fell down it or she's a rabbit.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, well.
Posted by: ...
A) she is now based in UK and has a relationship with an English twit. Casual anti semitism comes far too naturally for a lot of English.
B) grifter instinct as an outrage merchant. The product sold is always outrage (serves self promotion and sells), but who it is marketed to changes over time.
Basically David Duke twist with a different gender and race.
The woman either fell down it or she's a rabbit.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, well.
Posted by: ...
A) she is now based in UK and has a relationship with an English twit. Casual anti semitism comes far too naturally for a lot of English.
B) grifter instinct as an outrage merchant. The product sold is always outrage (serves self promotion and sells), but who it is marketed to changes over time.
Basically David Duke twist with a different gender and race.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:22 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 11:23 AM (77rzZ)
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If you don't know what I'm talking about, well.
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:18 AM (dzMAk)
There's a reason I gave up browsing Substack.
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:18 AM (dzMAk)
There's a reason I gave up browsing Substack.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2025 11:23 AM (VoAdT)
100
I attended a baptism at a large, non-denominational, arm-waving church where one of the baptisees (?) was wearing a Che tee-shirt. No one said a word.
Never went back.
Posted by: Tonypete
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Che was such a psychopath that even the Castros disliked him and promptly packed him off from Cuba. Fortunately, Che died like a pig which is actually an insult to pigs. Mebbe rabid pig.
Never went back.
Posted by: Tonypete
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Che was such a psychopath that even the Castros disliked him and promptly packed him off from Cuba. Fortunately, Che died like a pig which is actually an insult to pigs. Mebbe rabid pig.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:23 AM (ctrM5)
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Basically David Duke twist with a different gender and race.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:22 AM (ctrM5)
But they're Just Asking Questions, you monster.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:22 AM (ctrM5)
But they're Just Asking Questions, you monster.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2025 11:23 AM (VoAdT)
102
If the downturn in the stock market is related to tariffs, why are tech stocks down?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:24 AM (GBKbO)
103
Anyway, this just reinforces my position: Everywhere in the world, Christians and Jews need to gun up. Nobody on Earth can be trusted to save your ass, that's on you.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 11, 2025 11:25 AM (xcxpd)
104
Christians used to be a pretty violent bunch. Didn't put up with a lot of crap. Laid waste to whole regions. Fought. Won.
I miss those guys.
I miss those guys.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 11, 2025 11:25 AM (Q4IgG)
105
"Syria will become another dysfunctional Muslim dictatorship"
Is there any other kind?
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2025 11:04 AM (iFTx/)
Is Saudi Arabia dysfunctional?
Take away the oil money and see how long it lasts.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 11:11 AM (xCA6C)
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I think SA is dysfunctional as it is. It's basically a giant repressive kleptocracy, with the royals and elite stealing everything in sight while the rest of the citizens live under 3rd world conditions. And didn't they murder a few troublemakers recently?
Is there any other kind?
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2025 11:04 AM (iFTx/)
Is Saudi Arabia dysfunctional?
Take away the oil money and see how long it lasts.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 11:11 AM (xCA6C)
________
I think SA is dysfunctional as it is. It's basically a giant repressive kleptocracy, with the royals and elite stealing everything in sight while the rest of the citizens live under 3rd world conditions. And didn't they murder a few troublemakers recently?
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2025 11:25 AM (iFTx/)
106
PSA: Ticket presales for Disney's Snow White are now open.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 11, 2025 11:25 AM (a3Q+t)
107
A New Crusade led by the Catholic Church and a Warrior-Pope?
That would be a fun story to write.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2025 11:20 AM (iJfKG)
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It's going to start in Poland.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:20 AM (GBKbO)
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Make Pope John Paul II and Lech Wałęsa Great Again!
That would be a fun story to write.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2025 11:20 AM (iJfKG)
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It's going to start in Poland.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:20 AM (GBKbO)
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Make Pope John Paul II and Lech Wałęsa Great Again!
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 11, 2025 11:25 AM (pkm6L)
Posted by: Charles Montgomery Burns at March 11, 2025 11:25 AM (Q0kLU)
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If the downturn in the stock market is related to tariffs, why are tech stocks down?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
Proves the lie, doesn't it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
Proves the lie, doesn't it?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 11, 2025 11:25 AM (lTGtQ)
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103 If the downturn in the stock market is related to tariffs, why are tech stocks down?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:24 AM (GBKbO)
Barry and Mooch are breaking up?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:24 AM (GBKbO)
Barry and Mooch are breaking up?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 11, 2025 11:25 AM (xcxpd)
111
It's so cute how Guevara really tucked into and digested the Cliff's Notes for Derrida's entire body of work.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2025 11:25 AM (VoAdT)
112
Years ago, I made a chart of left versus right, and as I filled it in with details, I discovered that the results were not a bell curve, but a circle.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 11, 2025 11:21 AM (lTGtQ)
I've never particularly subscribed to that as such, but stuff like this *absolutely* makes it harder to deny.
I feel rather than a circle it's more "all roads lead to Rome" and I fear it's because most people can sense deep down that humans exist under an intricate veil of deception (read: satanic) and it's just a matter of who gets the blame.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 11, 2025 11:21 AM (lTGtQ)
I've never particularly subscribed to that as such, but stuff like this *absolutely* makes it harder to deny.
I feel rather than a circle it's more "all roads lead to Rome" and I fear it's because most people can sense deep down that humans exist under an intricate veil of deception (read: satanic) and it's just a matter of who gets the blame.
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:25 AM (dzMAk)
113
Che was such a psychopath that even the Castros disliked him and promptly packed him off from Cuba.
Posted by: whig
Wow, I didn't know that. Interesting.
Posted by: whig
Wow, I didn't know that. Interesting.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 11:25 AM (77rzZ)
114
at some point we need to have a "conversation" about the rabbit hole that exists roughly three clicks to the Right of us.
I'm not sure how it's "to the right" of us. In fact, I'm not sure that anti-Semitism falls on the political spectrum at all. Politicians will use it if they can but it's an evil and a sickness divorced from the normal matters of politics. As such, it crosses boundaries and unifies the afflicted.
I'm not sure how it's "to the right" of us. In fact, I'm not sure that anti-Semitism falls on the political spectrum at all. Politicians will use it if they can but it's an evil and a sickness divorced from the normal matters of politics. As such, it crosses boundaries and unifies the afflicted.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 11:26 AM (ExV1e)
115
Chick's got some seriously loose screws.
Posted by: Bulg
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The reaction from people is what she sells to those who buy. Outrage merchant--only the people she is marketing to differ.
There is an endless market for 'sekret knowledge' of how things work. Some people do due diligence to ferret out parts of the story; Candace goes straight for telling porkies for profits for outrages.
Posted by: Bulg
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The reaction from people is what she sells to those who buy. Outrage merchant--only the people she is marketing to differ.
There is an endless market for 'sekret knowledge' of how things work. Some people do due diligence to ferret out parts of the story; Candace goes straight for telling porkies for profits for outrages.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:26 AM (ctrM5)
116
115 Che was such a psychopath that even the Castros disliked him and promptly packed him off from Cuba.
Posted by: whig
Wow, I didn't know that. Interesting.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 11:25 AM (77rzZ)
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Well, he didn't get sent to Bolivia because Castro like Che's personality.
Posted by: whig
Wow, I didn't know that. Interesting.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 11:25 AM (77rzZ)
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Well, he didn't get sent to Bolivia because Castro like Che's personality.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:26 AM (GBKbO)
117
Christians used to be a pretty violent bunch. Didn't put up with a lot of crap. Laid waste to whole regions. Fought. Won.
I miss those guys.
There were some down sides.
I miss those guys.
There were some down sides.
Posted by: The Thirty Years War at March 11, 2025 11:26 AM (xCA6C)
118
Hey Shain when you see this later... fuck off!
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:20 AM (dzMAk)
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lol
That's some tough-love right there!
I'm actually able to follow along for a couple hours this morning ... so behave yourself.
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:20 AM (dzMAk)
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lol
That's some tough-love right there!
I'm actually able to follow along for a couple hours this morning ... so behave yourself.
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 11, 2025 11:27 AM (pkm6L)
119
Genocide
Posted by: vmom deport deport deporte at March 11, 2025 11:27 AM (/ncst)
120
...A) she is now based in UK and has a relationship with an English twit. Casual anti semitism comes far too naturally for a lot of English.
...
Basically David Duke twist with a different gender and race.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:22 AM (ctrM5)
This is why I stopped reading Morgoth's Reviews.
...
Basically David Duke twist with a different gender and race.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:22 AM (ctrM5)
This is why I stopped reading Morgoth's Reviews.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 11, 2025 11:27 AM (xcxpd)
121
Arabs killing Christians? Nobody cares. Arabs killing Jews? Nobody cares. Arabs killing Arabs? Nobody cares.
Only when Jews or Christians kill Arabs,
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Evil is upset when it's acolytes are eliminated from the scene.
Only when Jews or Christians kill Arabs,
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Evil is upset when it's acolytes are eliminated from the scene.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2025 11:28 AM (Ri+6K)
122
Years ago, I made a chart of left versus right, and as I filled it in with details, I discovered that the results were not a bell curve, but a circle.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning on an ever-spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain, or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find in the windmills of their mind
Posted by: Thomas Paine
Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning on an ever-spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain, or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find in the windmills of their mind
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 11, 2025 11:28 AM (L/fGl)
123
Christians used to be a pretty violent bunch. Didn't put up with a lot of crap. Laid waste to whole regions. Fought. Won.
I miss those guys.
There were some down sides.
Mistakes were made.
I miss those guys.
There were some down sides.
Mistakes were made.
Posted by: The Inquisition at March 11, 2025 11:28 AM (Pnvww)
Posted by: Billionaires with secret video they don't want you to see at March 11, 2025 11:28 AM (xCA6C)
125
I'm familiar with the one that has social freedom on one axis, and economic freedom on the other. It works a lot better than the stupid number line, which is stupid, because its a number line.
Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 11:25 AM
Venn Diagrams, baby! They're better than Doritos!
Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 11:25 AM
Venn Diagrams, baby! They're better than Doritos!
Posted by: Kamala! 2028! 2032! David Hogg! 2036! at March 11, 2025 11:28 AM (a3Q+t)
126
69 Disclaimer: If the population of Muslims is below ~5%, they will pretend to just want to live out their lives. Once they reach ~10% is when the violence starts. Europe is already experiencing this.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 11, 2025 11:11 AM (N1tpc)
As a general proposition 10% of the population seems to be the boiling point for revolution in a country as well. As a f'instance, the Commie's were about a 10% dealio when they started and won their revolution.
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BTW, this was the number where integrated Army/Marine CO's saw the tipping point in race relations in Vietnam. It was called the Black Shack Effect.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 11, 2025 11:11 AM (N1tpc)
As a general proposition 10% of the population seems to be the boiling point for revolution in a country as well. As a f'instance, the Commie's were about a 10% dealio when they started and won their revolution.
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BTW, this was the number where integrated Army/Marine CO's saw the tipping point in race relations in Vietnam. It was called the Black Shack Effect.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 11, 2025 11:28 AM (pLaQB)
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 11, 2025 11:28 AM (j2BVb)
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A New Crusade led by the Catholic Church and a Warrior-Pope?
That would be a fun story to write.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2025 11:20 AM (iJfKG)
"Her" name was Shaneequa. The first trans-Pope and leader of the Great Crusade against trans genocide.
You're more likely to get that story I'm afraid.
That would be a fun story to write.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2025 11:20 AM (iJfKG)
"Her" name was Shaneequa. The first trans-Pope and leader of the Great Crusade against trans genocide.
You're more likely to get that story I'm afraid.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 11:28 AM (ExV1e)
129
During Obama's term there were marginally pro-Western anti-Assad forces, but he wasted his time and they were quickly destroyed leaving Assad and jihadis.
He then choose to support the jihadis.
Now, Assad is a horrible human and leader and was a Soviet/Russian ally, so during the cold war this was reasonable, but with the collapse of the Soviets, Assad is less of a thread than the Jihadis are. You could argue Assad deserved to be punished for supporting the Jihadis in Iraq during the WoT, but that only works if you explicitly say that.
So as usual, Obama made the worst choice he could have made at each step from the perspective of American interests.
He then choose to support the jihadis.
Now, Assad is a horrible human and leader and was a Soviet/Russian ally, so during the cold war this was reasonable, but with the collapse of the Soviets, Assad is less of a thread than the Jihadis are. You could argue Assad deserved to be punished for supporting the Jihadis in Iraq during the WoT, but that only works if you explicitly say that.
So as usual, Obama made the worst choice he could have made at each step from the perspective of American interests.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 11, 2025 11:28 AM (t0Rmr)
130
If the downturn in the stock market is related to tariffs, why are tech stocks down?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:24 AM (GBKbO)
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Three reasons:
1. Tech was up huge over the last 12 months. Any bad news was gonna trigger a correction.
2. Some tech companies were drastically and obviously over-valued even before any talk of tariffs. Tesla, Nvidia, etc. They were gonna come back to Earth no matter what.
3. Some big tech companies are dependent on China and thus could be affected by tariffs. Apple, for one.
And a bonus 4th reason: people are stupid and overreact to market-related news, whether it's good or bad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:24 AM (GBKbO)
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Three reasons:
1. Tech was up huge over the last 12 months. Any bad news was gonna trigger a correction.
2. Some tech companies were drastically and obviously over-valued even before any talk of tariffs. Tesla, Nvidia, etc. They were gonna come back to Earth no matter what.
3. Some big tech companies are dependent on China and thus could be affected by tariffs. Apple, for one.
And a bonus 4th reason: people are stupid and overreact to market-related news, whether it's good or bad.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2025 11:29 AM (iFTx/)
131
Assad should have seen this coming.
Posted by: Eromero at March 11, 2025 11:29 AM (LHPAg)
132
I'm not sure how it's "to the right" of us. In fact, I'm not sure that anti-Semitism falls on the political spectrum at all. Politicians will use it if they can but it's an evil and a sickness divorced from the normal matters of politics. As such, it crosses boundaries and unifies the afflicted.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
My working theory is that extremes on both political sides begin to fall into conspiracy traps as they get near the tails.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
My working theory is that extremes on both political sides begin to fall into conspiracy traps as they get near the tails.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 11, 2025 11:30 AM (lTGtQ)
133
BTW, this was the number where integrated Army/Marine CO's saw the tipping point in race relations in Vietnam. It was called the Black Shack Effect.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 11, 2025 11:28 AM (pLaQB)
*begins Google research*
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 11, 2025 11:28 AM (pLaQB)
*begins Google research*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 11, 2025 11:30 AM (xcxpd)
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I'm not sure how it's "to the right" of us. In fact, I'm not sure that anti-Semitism falls on the political spectrum at all. Politicians will use it if they can but it's an evil and a sickness divorced from the normal matters of politics. As such, it crosses boundaries and unifies the afflicted.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
A variant of standard old bigotry which is akin to racism, ethnicism based on language or culture, etc. People across the political divide can and have used it as a means to get power in whatever society. Orval Faubus ran a socialist college for awhile and was fine with black students, etc. when it was not a thing in the South. But, put him in as governor, he won multiple terms as the governor fighting Uncle Sam for segregation forever to his personal profit and power and eternal shame.
Wallace did something similar in Alabama but managed the trick of achieving a form of redemption by simply stripping and discarding his old mask. An American Talleyrand as it were--the unprincipled scoundrel as a political leader.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
A variant of standard old bigotry which is akin to racism, ethnicism based on language or culture, etc. People across the political divide can and have used it as a means to get power in whatever society. Orval Faubus ran a socialist college for awhile and was fine with black students, etc. when it was not a thing in the South. But, put him in as governor, he won multiple terms as the governor fighting Uncle Sam for segregation forever to his personal profit and power and eternal shame.
Wallace did something similar in Alabama but managed the trick of achieving a form of redemption by simply stripping and discarding his old mask. An American Talleyrand as it were--the unprincipled scoundrel as a political leader.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:30 AM (ctrM5)
135
Well, he didn't get sent to Bolivia because Castro like Che's personality.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:26 AM
You know who Castro did like?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:26 AM
You know who Castro did like?
Posted by: Mrs. T. at March 11, 2025 11:30 AM (a3Q+t)
136
Trump is very lucky in his choice of opponents.
The Democratic Party is really going to go all-in in trying to protect a foreign Jew-hating Hamas organizer from deportation.
The Democratic Party is really going to go all-in in trying to protect a foreign Jew-hating Hamas organizer from deportation.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 11, 2025 11:30 AM (xTIDn)
137
132 And a bonus 4th reason: people are stupid and overreact to market-related news, whether it's good or bad.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2025 11:29 AM (iFTx/)
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Most of these simply amount to: overvalued and need an excuse to fall to more a more realistic valuation.
But Google ain't dependent on Chinese imports. Netflix isn't. Microsoft isn't.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2025 11:29 AM (iFTx/)
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Most of these simply amount to: overvalued and need an excuse to fall to more a more realistic valuation.
But Google ain't dependent on Chinese imports. Netflix isn't. Microsoft isn't.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)
138
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It's going to start in Poland.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:20 AM (GBKbO)
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Duda and Tusk seem to be at odds with each other.
Was the CIA involved in their last election?
It's going to start in Poland.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:20 AM (GBKbO)
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Duda and Tusk seem to be at odds with each other.
Was the CIA involved in their last election?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2025 11:30 AM (Ri+6K)
139
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 11:26 AM (ExV1e)
It's to the Right because it is presented as an "explanation" for many if not all things that only our side seems to observe and know. You want to get to these sites you travel through the right wingosphere. To paraphrase someone else it's The Way It Is.
It's to the Right because it is presented as an "explanation" for many if not all things that only our side seems to observe and know. You want to get to these sites you travel through the right wingosphere. To paraphrase someone else it's The Way It Is.
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:31 AM (dzMAk)
140
PSA: Ticket presales for Disney's Snow White are now open.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 11, 2025 11:25 AM (a3Q+t)
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Only Disney could hire and promote a lead actress that's so toxic she poisoned the apple
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 11, 2025 11:25 AM (a3Q+t)
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Only Disney could hire and promote a lead actress that's so toxic she poisoned the apple
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2025 11:31 AM (iFTx/)
141
A New Crusade led by the Catholic Church and a Warrior-Pope?
How much do we hear about first nations and the conquest of the new world by the evil Euro-colonizers?
The Muslim conquest of the Balkans and the Asian Greek lands happened only slightly before Columbus and the Portuguese (who probably beat him) started colonizing the New World...
In all seriousness Trump should send his UN adviser to have them vote on ending the colonization of Constantinople and return it to Greece...
How much do we hear about first nations and the conquest of the new world by the evil Euro-colonizers?
The Muslim conquest of the Balkans and the Asian Greek lands happened only slightly before Columbus and the Portuguese (who probably beat him) started colonizing the New World...
In all seriousness Trump should send his UN adviser to have them vote on ending the colonization of Constantinople and return it to Greece...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 11, 2025 11:31 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Tonypete at March 11, 2025 11:31 AM (cYBz/)
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And didn't they murder a few troublemakers recently?
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2025 11:25 AM (iFTx/)
Arabs killing Arabs? Nobody cares.
Says so right in the rant.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2025 11:25 AM (iFTx/)
Arabs killing Arabs? Nobody cares.
Says so right in the rant.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 11:31 AM (ExV1e)
144
I remember like Candice Owens a lot - ehrn dic she start spouting anti-semitism?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deporte at March 11, 2025 11:32 AM (/ncst)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at March 11, 2025 11:32 AM (wkyL2)
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144 Hey! Some of my investments that I don't live off of are down.
Am I supposed to off myself?
Posted by: Tonypete at March 11, 2025 11:31 AM (cYBz/)
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You're supposed to blame Donald Trump and forget that the stock market lost 25% of its value in October of 2022.
Am I supposed to off myself?
Posted by: Tonypete at March 11, 2025 11:31 AM (cYBz/)
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You're supposed to blame Donald Trump and forget that the stock market lost 25% of its value in October of 2022.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:32 AM (GBKbO)
147
But Google ain't dependent on Chinese imports. Netflix isn't. Microsoft isn't.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat
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Profit taking and herd mentality.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat
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Profit taking and herd mentality.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2025 11:32 AM (Ri+6K)
148
Duda and Tusk seem to be at odds with each other.
Was the CIA involved in their last election?
Like the US election in 2020 and the Brazilian election, the Polish election was stolen...
Was the CIA involved in their last election?
Like the US election in 2020 and the Brazilian election, the Polish election was stolen...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 11, 2025 11:32 AM (t0Rmr)
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Three reasons:
1. Tech was up huge over the last 12 months. Any bad news was gonna trigger a correction.
2. Some tech companies were drastically and obviously over-valued even before any talk of tariffs. Tesla, Nvidia, etc. They were gonna come back to Earth no matter what.
3. Some big tech companies are dependent on China and thus could be affected by tariffs. Apple, for one.
And a bonus 4th reason: people are stupid and overreact to market-related news, whether it's good or bad.
Posted by: Elric Blade
You are on the mark. I would just add that many tech companies are so incredibly overvalued that it would take multiple decades of earnings to cover the stock price, which is not rational. Some people are finally waking up to this.
1. Tech was up huge over the last 12 months. Any bad news was gonna trigger a correction.
2. Some tech companies were drastically and obviously over-valued even before any talk of tariffs. Tesla, Nvidia, etc. They were gonna come back to Earth no matter what.
3. Some big tech companies are dependent on China and thus could be affected by tariffs. Apple, for one.
And a bonus 4th reason: people are stupid and overreact to market-related news, whether it's good or bad.
Posted by: Elric Blade
You are on the mark. I would just add that many tech companies are so incredibly overvalued that it would take multiple decades of earnings to cover the stock price, which is not rational. Some people are finally waking up to this.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 11, 2025 11:32 AM (lTGtQ)
150
@131 wasn't it Jake Sullivan who proudly proclaimed " in Syria al- Qaeda was on our side" . Brain surgeon he is
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2025 11:33 AM (2Km7O)
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Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 11, 2025 11:27 AM (pkm6L)
Would have been much funnier if you read it at midnight. Oh well.
Would have been much funnier if you read it at midnight. Oh well.
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:33 AM (dzMAk)
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150 But Google ain't dependent on Chinese imports. Netflix isn't. Microsoft isn't.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat
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Profit taking and herd mentality.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2025 11:32 AM (Ri+6K)
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So, yeah. Not tariff related.
I didn't think anyone here thought so.
I was just wondering if there were any genuine reasons anyone could come up with about why tariffs are affecting the market so much, including industries that are pretty obviously divorced from the tariff issue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat
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Profit taking and herd mentality.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2025 11:32 AM (Ri+6K)
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So, yeah. Not tariff related.
I didn't think anyone here thought so.
I was just wondering if there were any genuine reasons anyone could come up with about why tariffs are affecting the market so much, including industries that are pretty obviously divorced from the tariff issue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:33 AM (GBKbO)
153
Well, he didn't get sent to Bolivia because Castro like Che's personality.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:26 AM (GBKbO)
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I thought Che was sent to Bolivia to find Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid.
/Because those are the only two things I know about Bolivia ...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:26 AM (GBKbO)
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I thought Che was sent to Bolivia to find Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid.
/Because those are the only two things I know about Bolivia ...
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 11, 2025 11:33 AM (pkm6L)
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156 I thought Che was sent to Bolivia to find Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid.
/Because those are the only two things I know about Bolivia ...
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 11, 2025 11:33 AM (pkm6L)
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You know three things.
You know its name as well.
/Because those are the only two things I know about Bolivia ...
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 11, 2025 11:33 AM (pkm6L)
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You know three things.
You know its name as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)
155
Duda and Tusk seem to be at odds with each other.
Was the CIA involved in their last election?
Yes. Poland voted out the pro-Polish political party and voted in the pro-globalist pro-EU political party, with lots and lots of assistance from abroad.
Because it's Poland, they haven't been able to implement the full EU agenda yet (like mass importation of Muslims), but they will get there, given enough time.
Was the CIA involved in their last election?
Yes. Poland voted out the pro-Polish political party and voted in the pro-globalist pro-EU political party, with lots and lots of assistance from abroad.
Because it's Poland, they haven't been able to implement the full EU agenda yet (like mass importation of Muslims), but they will get there, given enough time.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 11, 2025 11:34 AM (xTIDn)
156
My working theory is that extremes on both political sides begin to fall into conspiracy traps as they get near the tails.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
Personally, I think politics is better described as a cartesian 2-d graph of two axes (from libertarian guru Nolan) using personal freedom and economic freedom as its axes. This gives better positioning of pols than a simple right left which is a current day reference to the politics of the French legislature prior to and during the Revolution.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
Personally, I think politics is better described as a cartesian 2-d graph of two axes (from libertarian guru Nolan) using personal freedom and economic freedom as its axes. This gives better positioning of pols than a simple right left which is a current day reference to the politics of the French legislature prior to and during the Revolution.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:34 AM (ctrM5)
157
77 Smart ass friend of mine has thought on daylight savings time.
Blame Canada. They have more light in summer than we do. I bet Trump can tarriff the shit out of that.
pretty sure that's one of them thar whatchamacallits; a proposition for which the value is always true. ah; tautology. that's the word.
Blame Canada. They have more light in summer than we do. I bet Trump can tarriff the shit out of that.
pretty sure that's one of them thar whatchamacallits; a proposition for which the value is always true. ah; tautology. that's the word.
Posted by: mrs. broflovski at March 11, 2025 11:34 AM (oY6Yp)
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144 Hey! Some of my investments that I don't live off of are down.
Am I supposed to off myself?
Posted by: Tonypete
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Hold on or consider it a buying opportunity depending on your situation.
Am I supposed to off myself?
Posted by: Tonypete
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Hold on or consider it a buying opportunity depending on your situation.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2025 11:34 AM (Ri+6K)
159
My working theory is that extremes on both political sides begin to fall into conspiracy traps as they get near the tails.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 11, 2025 11:30 AM (lTGtQ)
100% - see the aforementioned veil of deception.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 11, 2025 11:30 AM (lTGtQ)
100% - see the aforementioned veil of deception.
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:34 AM (dzMAk)
160
I thought Che was sent to Bolivia to find Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid.
/Because those are the only two things I know about Bolivia ...
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 11, 2025 11:33 AM (pkm6L)
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You know three things.
You know its name as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)
And Mike Tyson was gonna hit holyfield so hard it would send him to Bolivian.
/Because those are the only two things I know about Bolivia ...
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 11, 2025 11:33 AM (pkm6L)
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You know three things.
You know its name as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)
And Mike Tyson was gonna hit holyfield so hard it would send him to Bolivian.
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 11, 2025 11:35 AM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 11:35 AM (77rzZ)
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2 years ago, NVidia's P/E was 147. It's now down to 36. How low will it go, and what does that portend for the popping of the AI bubble?
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 11:35 AM (xCA6C)
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Yes. Poland voted out the pro-Polish political party and voted in the pro-globalist pro-EU political party, with lots and lots of assistance from abroad.
The fact that the winning party made Anne Applebaum's husband Polish foreign minister is a clue.
The fact that the winning party made Anne Applebaum's husband Polish foreign minister is a clue.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 11, 2025 11:35 AM (xTIDn)
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at some point we need to have a "conversation" about the rabbit hole that exists roughly three clicks to the Right of us.
Anti-Semitic right wingers exist...you can find them in places like the ZH comment section but...they are incredibly marginalized politically - many have left the US for 3rd world shitholes to avoid globohomo and the American tax nightmare but that means they can't really effect anything back in the states.
But the left? Half of their younger leadership is explicitly anti-Semitic and most of their activist class is.
Anti-Semitic right wingers exist...you can find them in places like the ZH comment section but...they are incredibly marginalized politically - many have left the US for 3rd world shitholes to avoid globohomo and the American tax nightmare but that means they can't really effect anything back in the states.
But the left? Half of their younger leadership is explicitly anti-Semitic and most of their activist class is.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 11, 2025 11:36 AM (t0Rmr)
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My own personal graph for politics that no one seems to accept is a single dot, with ME in the middle, and a big gross scatter plot blotch radiating out from it labeled "WRONG AND DUMB".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2025 11:36 AM (VoAdT)
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Unless some type of "reformation" within muzzie land is to happen to stop using the pronographic koran as an excuse to kill people,, Islam needs to be eradicated. I think Red China, Hindu and Beach Shitting India and maybe the Japs and Kimchis would be on board if the West would just lead the way. But the West will not, too feminized and homophied.
Posted by: Zombie Pope Urban II, muzzie killer at March 11, 2025 11:36 AM (EEZHI)
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And a bonus 4th reason: people are stupid and overreact to market-related news, whether it's good or bad.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2025 11:29 AM (iFTx/)
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Most of these simply amount to: overvalued and need an excuse to fall to more a more realistic valuation.
But Google ain't dependent on Chinese imports. Netflix isn't. Microsoft isn't.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)
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MS makes quite a few products in China and, I believe, has admitted it could be negatively affected.
China opened an investigation into google in response to tariffs.
NF was always prone to big valuation swings.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2025 11:29 AM (iFTx/)
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Most of these simply amount to: overvalued and need an excuse to fall to more a more realistic valuation.
But Google ain't dependent on Chinese imports. Netflix isn't. Microsoft isn't.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)
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MS makes quite a few products in China and, I believe, has admitted it could be negatively affected.
China opened an investigation into google in response to tariffs.
NF was always prone to big valuation swings.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2025 11:36 AM (iFTx/)
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Can somebody please watch that video before the billionaires ban it???????
Posted by: Walsingham at March 11, 2025 11:36 AM (dCigj)
169
Bolivia is just Liechtenstein's puppet state in the New World.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 11:37 AM (77rzZ)
170
There's a reason I gave up browsing Substack.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2025 11:23 AM (VoAdT)
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I initially discovered A LOT OF BRIGHT, INSIGHTFUL, AND GREAT THINKERS & WRITERS at Substack.
And started subscribing ... and subscribing ... and could never keep up with all the incoming email notifications & posts -- so finally had to unsubscribe from them all to maintain my sanity.
I'll just have to settle for the mediocre writers here ...
I keed, I keed!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2025 11:23 AM (VoAdT)
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I initially discovered A LOT OF BRIGHT, INSIGHTFUL, AND GREAT THINKERS & WRITERS at Substack.
And started subscribing ... and subscribing ... and could never keep up with all the incoming email notifications & posts -- so finally had to unsubscribe from them all to maintain my sanity.
I'll just have to settle for the mediocre writers here ...
I keed, I keed!
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 11, 2025 11:37 AM (pkm6L)
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Most of these simply amount to: overvalued and need an excuse to fall to more a more realistic valuation.
But Google ain't dependent on Chinese imports. Netflix isn't. Microsoft isn't.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)
Proximity effect.
The market is falling, I must get out before it goes to zero. Tech is falling, I must get out before it goes to zero.
Buy sound companies. Hold. Ignore short term news. On the one hand, you won't get as rich as you would by guessing right. On the other hand, no one guess right forever.
But Google ain't dependent on Chinese imports. Netflix isn't. Microsoft isn't.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)
Proximity effect.
The market is falling, I must get out before it goes to zero. Tech is falling, I must get out before it goes to zero.
Buy sound companies. Hold. Ignore short term news. On the one hand, you won't get as rich as you would by guessing right. On the other hand, no one guess right forever.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 11:38 AM (ExV1e)
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Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 11:35 AM (xCA6C)
Nvidia is not getting whacked from an AI bubble pop so much as a poke from China and other competitors. Don't confuse the AI bubble with AI being worthless. It's much more like the "tech" bubble - pets.com is gone but the web was here to stay.
Nvidia is not getting whacked from an AI bubble pop so much as a poke from China and other competitors. Don't confuse the AI bubble with AI being worthless. It's much more like the "tech" bubble - pets.com is gone but the web was here to stay.
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:38 AM (dzMAk)
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One small criticism: "often at the hands of Muslim Arabs" is too restrictive. Cut "Arabs". It's Muslims in general. The Muslims who are slaughtering Christians by the hundreds in Nigeria and Congo, and Hindus in Bangla Desh, are not Arabs, but they're still genocidal brutes. It's the religion, not the ethnicity.
Posted by: Dr. Weevil at March 11, 2025 11:38 AM (43XUo)
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2 years ago, NVidia's P/E was 147. It's now down to 36. How low will it go, and what does that portend for the popping of the AI bubble?
Posted by: Archimedes
Well, my buy signal is a PE at or lower than 15 or 16, which has worked well for decades.
Posted by: Archimedes
Well, my buy signal is a PE at or lower than 15 or 16, which has worked well for decades.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 11, 2025 11:39 AM (lTGtQ)
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Buy sound companies. Hold. Ignore short term news. On the one hand, you won't get as rich as you would by guessing right. On the other hand, no one guess right forever.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 11:38 AM (ExV1e)
*clears throat*
-Nancy Pelosi
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 11:38 AM (ExV1e)
*clears throat*
-Nancy Pelosi
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 11, 2025 11:39 AM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 11, 2025 11:39 AM (a3Q+t)
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Staying in Iran was not an option for the Baha'i. Curiously though, there still seems to be underground Zoroastrianism there and you see low key ancient emigre communities of that in India.
Basically minorities usually survive by making themselves useful to the powers that be in a society in exchange for protection. Depending on what the PTB do in a society to the majority, if they fall, the minorities are going to be the punching bag of the new majority taking over.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:14 AM (ctrM5)
I knew a Baha'i couple a long time ago. Very strange religion. A mix-mash of a bunch of different eastern religions.
Basically minorities usually survive by making themselves useful to the powers that be in a society in exchange for protection. Depending on what the PTB do in a society to the majority, if they fall, the minorities are going to be the punching bag of the new majority taking over.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:14 AM (ctrM5)
I knew a Baha'i couple a long time ago. Very strange religion. A mix-mash of a bunch of different eastern religions.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 11, 2025 11:39 AM (g8Ew8)
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171 But Google ain't dependent on Chinese imports. Netflix isn't. Microsoft isn't.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)
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MS makes quite a few products in China and, I believe, has admitted it could be negatively affected.
China opened an investigation into google in response to tariffs.
NF was always prone to big valuation swings.
netflix could be hurt badly by tariffs on three-body problem sequels.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)
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MS makes quite a few products in China and, I believe, has admitted it could be negatively affected.
China opened an investigation into google in response to tariffs.
NF was always prone to big valuation swings.
netflix could be hurt badly by tariffs on three-body problem sequels.
Posted by: anachronda at March 11, 2025 11:39 AM (oY6Yp)
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My question has always been 'Why the hell would any civilized country import muslims?'. Are they not familiar with the history of islam? I know that's two questions.
Posted by: Eromero at March 11, 2025 11:39 AM (LHPAg)
180
I remember like Candice Owens a lot - ehrn dic she start spouting anti-semitism?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deporte at March 11, 2025 11:32 AM (/ncst)
It started small. She objected to some of Israel's actions vs Gaza. She caught a lot of flack for it and doubled down.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deporte at March 11, 2025 11:32 AM (/ncst)
It started small. She objected to some of Israel's actions vs Gaza. She caught a lot of flack for it and doubled down.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 11:40 AM (ExV1e)
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But the left? Half of their younger leadership is explicitly anti-Semitic and most of their activist class is.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 11, 2025 11:36 AM (t0Rmr)
I don't disagree at all. And what I was saying wasn't actually political though I do get the sensitivities about it.
My larger point perhaps is... give it time.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 11, 2025 11:36 AM (t0Rmr)
I don't disagree at all. And what I was saying wasn't actually political though I do get the sensitivities about it.
My larger point perhaps is... give it time.
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:40 AM (dzMAk)
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180 What's an electrician's favorite type of music?
Current hits.
was expecting ac/dc. color me disappointed.
Current hits.
was expecting ac/dc. color me disappointed.
Posted by: anachronda at March 11, 2025 11:40 AM (oY6Yp)
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I saw Beach Shitting India open for Beach Blanket Babylon at Club Fugazi in 2019.
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 11, 2025 11:40 AM (pkm6L)
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The Brits marvel, at least once an episode, on how dysfunctional the Reich is - yet they occupy England.
The German military was pretty well organized and oddly the early impact of Hitler on them was giving bright minded reformers more influence. Later, of course, his influence was mostly bad for them.
And the German government was mostly run by clowns and psychopaths but relied on the traditional German submissiveness to authority (kind of like the current German National Socialist government amusingly enough)
But how the Germans end up with a large enough military force on the British mainland to conquer them is...hard to believe, unless, I guess, they fully ally with the Soviets (and actual possibility historically) and ditch the Japanese so that they don't have to worry about the American Navy and the Soviets can take British India/Middle East.
The German military was pretty well organized and oddly the early impact of Hitler on them was giving bright minded reformers more influence. Later, of course, his influence was mostly bad for them.
And the German government was mostly run by clowns and psychopaths but relied on the traditional German submissiveness to authority (kind of like the current German National Socialist government amusingly enough)
But how the Germans end up with a large enough military force on the British mainland to conquer them is...hard to believe, unless, I guess, they fully ally with the Soviets (and actual possibility historically) and ditch the Japanese so that they don't have to worry about the American Navy and the Soviets can take British India/Middle East.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 11, 2025 11:41 AM (t0Rmr)
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150 But Google ain't dependent on Chinese imports. Netflix isn't. Microsoft isn't.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat
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Profit taking and herd mentality.
Posted by: Braenyard
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AI is part of it and index funds are the rest of it. AI has the potential to unlock a vast fortune to those that can master its implications (even as expert systems applied narrowly to specific tasks). Google and Microsoft are legacy software companies desperately trying to keep their companies relevant by surging into the AI marketplace (Gemini re Google and Open AI re Microsoft). Netflix is commonly bundled with both companies as a 'tech' company.
So we have Deepseek by Chinese indicating that US companies might not become #1 in AI (first mover advantage), we have government uncertainty regarding the effects of cuts on investment (including AI) and consumers, and we have a disruption of trade regime of the last 70 years or so via Trump tariffs aimed at overturning those trans national patterns. Result: uncertainty.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat
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Profit taking and herd mentality.
Posted by: Braenyard
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AI is part of it and index funds are the rest of it. AI has the potential to unlock a vast fortune to those that can master its implications (even as expert systems applied narrowly to specific tasks). Google and Microsoft are legacy software companies desperately trying to keep their companies relevant by surging into the AI marketplace (Gemini re Google and Open AI re Microsoft). Netflix is commonly bundled with both companies as a 'tech' company.
So we have Deepseek by Chinese indicating that US companies might not become #1 in AI (first mover advantage), we have government uncertainty regarding the effects of cuts on investment (including AI) and consumers, and we have a disruption of trade regime of the last 70 years or so via Trump tariffs aimed at overturning those trans national patterns. Result: uncertainty.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:41 AM (ctrM5)
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My question has always been 'Why the hell would any civilized country import muslims?'. Are they not familiar with the history of islam? I know that's two questions.
Posted by: Eromero at March 11, 2025 11:39 AM
To ask the second is to answer the first.
Posted by: Eromero at March 11, 2025 11:39 AM
To ask the second is to answer the first.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 11, 2025 11:41 AM (a3Q+t)
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Buy sound companies. Hold. Ignore short term news. On the one hand, you won't get as rich as you would by guessing right. On the other hand, no one guess right forever.
I disagree. Not when any company can simply elect to not pay a dividend because - well - because they said so. Hence, Ford.
I bought a fair amount, varying between $12 and $14 a share, when they paid fifteen cents every quarter. There was a measurable ROI there.
And then they simply announced - "No". They would no longer pay that dividend. So why own it ? What's the value, other than finding another sucker that would pay more ?
I disagree. Not when any company can simply elect to not pay a dividend because - well - because they said so. Hence, Ford.
I bought a fair amount, varying between $12 and $14 a share, when they paid fifteen cents every quarter. There was a measurable ROI there.
And then they simply announced - "No". They would no longer pay that dividend. So why own it ? What's the value, other than finding another sucker that would pay more ?
Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 11:41 AM (Pnvww)
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I've got some money in there, from back when I believed in things like 401Ks and IRAs and such.
You into tulip bulbs now?
You into tulip bulbs now?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 11:41 AM (ExV1e)
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Are they not familiar with the history of islam?
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I think the West's familiarity with history is shockingly low. Some of that I believe is by design and some of it is a by-product of living in a video-game world where computer screens are more enticing than reading books.
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I think the West's familiarity with history is shockingly low. Some of that I believe is by design and some of it is a by-product of living in a video-game world where computer screens are more enticing than reading books.
Posted by: Crusader at March 11, 2025 11:41 AM (azSra)
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My question has always been 'Why the hell would any civilized country import muslims?'. Are they not familiar with the history of islam? I know that's two questions.
Posted by: Eromero at March 11, 2025 11:39 AM (LHPAg)
There are likely two answers but we will leave it at this one: $$$$
Posted by: Eromero at March 11, 2025 11:39 AM (LHPAg)
There are likely two answers but we will leave it at this one: $$$$
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:41 AM (dzMAk)
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Nvidia is not getting whacked from an AI bubble pop so much as a poke from China and other competitors. Don't confuse the AI bubble with AI being worthless. It's much more like the "tech" bubble - pets.com is gone but the web was here to stay.
I've been through a lot of hype bubbles and this one appears to me to be no different. Sure, eventually there will be some good uses for it, but before then, I'm absolutely certain there will be a crash, followed by the long, slow recovery as it's real potential is finally correctly valued.
I saw recently that Microsoft is bailing on some of its power generating investments, because they no longer think they'll need as much, since AI isn't exploding in the way they thought it would.
I've been through a lot of hype bubbles and this one appears to me to be no different. Sure, eventually there will be some good uses for it, but before then, I'm absolutely certain there will be a crash, followed by the long, slow recovery as it's real potential is finally correctly valued.
I saw recently that Microsoft is bailing on some of its power generating investments, because they no longer think they'll need as much, since AI isn't exploding in the way they thought it would.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 11:41 AM (xCA6C)
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Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 11:35 AM (xCA6C)
Nvidia is not getting whacked from an AI bubble pop so much as a poke from China and other competitors. Don't confuse the AI bubble with AI being worthless. It's much more like the "tech" bubble - pets.com is gone but the web was here to stay.
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:38 AM (dzMAk)
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Also its new products were underwhelming, for the most part. That's a very tough what-have-you-done-for-me-lately market. You can be a hero on Monday and a bum on Tuesday.
Nvidia is not getting whacked from an AI bubble pop so much as a poke from China and other competitors. Don't confuse the AI bubble with AI being worthless. It's much more like the "tech" bubble - pets.com is gone but the web was here to stay.
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:38 AM (dzMAk)
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Also its new products were underwhelming, for the most part. That's a very tough what-have-you-done-for-me-lately market. You can be a hero on Monday and a bum on Tuesday.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2025 11:41 AM (iFTx/)
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>>>I was just wondering if there were any genuine reasons anyone could come up with about why tariffs are affecting the market so much, including industries that are pretty obviously divorced from the tariff issue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein
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Watched them whipsaw INTC down to 18 a couple of weeks ago.
Then they found another shiny thing. Now INTC in the middle of current drops is 22 last time I looked.
Conclusion here is that market articles are empowered by the same forces as CNN and MSNBC.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein
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Watched them whipsaw INTC down to 18 a couple of weeks ago.
Then they found another shiny thing. Now INTC in the middle of current drops is 22 last time I looked.
Conclusion here is that market articles are empowered by the same forces as CNN and MSNBC.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2025 11:42 AM (Ri+6K)
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116
‘ I'm not sure that anti-Semitism falls on the political spectrum at all.’
I’d be prepared to say that there are more leftist anti-Semites than right wing ones.
‘ I'm not sure that anti-Semitism falls on the political spectrum at all.’
I’d be prepared to say that there are more leftist anti-Semites than right wing ones.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 11, 2025 11:42 AM (jbnUc)
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167 The fact that the winning party made Anne Applebaum's husband Polish foreign minister is a clue.
furniture polish > foreign minister polish
furniture polish > foreign minister polish
Posted by: anachronda at March 11, 2025 11:42 AM (oY6Yp)
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My question has always been 'Why the hell would any civilized country import muslims?'. Are they not familiar with the history of islam? I know that's two questions.
They are good for causing chaos and disorder, which is what these governments want.
Oh, another terror attack? Guess you voters should have supported the latest anti-terror bill that let's us jail you for criticizing the government. Well, maybe you will after the next attack...err...I mean in the future.
They are good for causing chaos and disorder, which is what these governments want.
Oh, another terror attack? Guess you voters should have supported the latest anti-terror bill that let's us jail you for criticizing the government. Well, maybe you will after the next attack...err...I mean in the future.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 11, 2025 11:43 AM (t0Rmr)
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was expecting ac/dc. color me disappointed.
Posted by: anachronda at March 11, 2025 11:40 AM
To be fair, you weren't shocked.
Posted by: anachronda at March 11, 2025 11:40 AM
To be fair, you weren't shocked.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 11, 2025 11:43 AM (a3Q+t)
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What's an electrician's favorite type of music?
Current hits.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
I was going for Bass lines.
Current hits.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
I was going for Bass lines.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 11, 2025 11:44 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at March 11, 2025 11:44 AM (wkyL2)
200
You know who Castro did like?
Margaret Trudeau?
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 11:35 AM (77rzZ)
Didja notice the nic that posted that question originally? Subtle humor is lost on some people.
Margaret Trudeau?
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 11:35 AM (77rzZ)
Didja notice the nic that posted that question originally? Subtle humor is lost on some people.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 11:44 AM (ExV1e)
201
I knew a Baha'i couple a long time ago. Very strange religion. A mix-mash of a bunch of different eastern religions.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 11, 2025 11:39 AM (g8Ew
Weren't those dirty hippies Seals & Crofts Baha'i?
And why did Seals always wear that stupid hat? Bald? Bald maybe? Bald headed bastard.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 11, 2025 11:39 AM (g8Ew
Weren't those dirty hippies Seals & Crofts Baha'i?
And why did Seals always wear that stupid hat? Bald? Bald maybe? Bald headed bastard.
Posted by: Questions That Need Answers at March 11, 2025 11:44 AM (EEZHI)
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I remember like Candice Owens a lot - ehrn dic she start spouting anti-semitism?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deporte at March 11, 2025 11:32 AM (/ncst)
It started small. She objected to some of Israel's actions vs Gaza. She caught a lot of flack for it and doubled down.
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Yeah, and it seemed that each round things got worse for her because she simply wouldn't stop digging.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deporte at March 11, 2025 11:32 AM (/ncst)
It started small. She objected to some of Israel's actions vs Gaza. She caught a lot of flack for it and doubled down.
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Yeah, and it seemed that each round things got worse for her because she simply wouldn't stop digging.
Posted by: Crusader at March 11, 2025 11:44 AM (azSra)
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BUY GOLD!
Posted by: G. Gordon Liddy at March 11, 2025 11:44 AM (6hd1O)
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But how the Germans end up with a large enough military force on the British mainland to conquer them is...hard to believe, unless, I guess, they fully ally with the Soviets (and actual possibility historically) and ditch the Japanese so that they don't have to worry about the American Navy and the Soviets can take British India/Middle East.
They took the Chunnel. Duh.
They took the Chunnel. Duh.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 11:44 AM (xCA6C)
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My question has always been 'Why the hell would any civilized country import muslims?'. Are they not familiar with the history of islam? I know that's two questions.
Posted by: Eromero at March 11, 2025 11:39 AM (LHPAg)
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It's actually a single question as the second answers the first.
But of course, the Satanic Western Leftist Death Cultists are only too happy to import fellow Death Cultists to eradicate their nations, citizenry, and ultimately Western Culture & Civilization.
Posted by: Eromero at March 11, 2025 11:39 AM (LHPAg)
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It's actually a single question as the second answers the first.
But of course, the Satanic Western Leftist Death Cultists are only too happy to import fellow Death Cultists to eradicate their nations, citizenry, and ultimately Western Culture & Civilization.
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 11, 2025 11:44 AM (pkm6L)
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Promotion alert:
Charles Payne has a free newsletter.
He also has a paid service that runs about 75% positive.
I like Charles.
Charles Payne has a free newsletter.
He also has a paid service that runs about 75% positive.
I like Charles.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2025 11:45 AM (Ri+6K)
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I disagree. Not when any company can simply elect to not pay a dividend because - well - because they said so. Hence, Ford.
I bought a fair amount, varying between $12 and $14 a share, when they paid fifteen cents every quarter. There was a measurable ROI there.
And then they simply announced - "No". They would no longer pay that dividend. So why own it ? What's the value, other than finding another sucker that would pay more ?
Posted by: How It Works
Some people believe in total return investing, where they don't want dividends at all, just capital returns, and sell shares when they want cash. They believe this is beneficial from a taxable income standpoint.
I am not one of them, I expect a return in cold hard cash, and dividends are much less volatile than stock prices.
I bought a fair amount, varying between $12 and $14 a share, when they paid fifteen cents every quarter. There was a measurable ROI there.
And then they simply announced - "No". They would no longer pay that dividend. So why own it ? What's the value, other than finding another sucker that would pay more ?
Posted by: How It Works
Some people believe in total return investing, where they don't want dividends at all, just capital returns, and sell shares when they want cash. They believe this is beneficial from a taxable income standpoint.
I am not one of them, I expect a return in cold hard cash, and dividends are much less volatile than stock prices.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 11, 2025 11:45 AM (lTGtQ)
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Years ago, I made a chart of left versus right, and as I filled it in with details, I discovered that the results were not a bell curve, but a circle.
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Because "left vs. right" is a deception to keep the populace trapped in pointless fights. .
It's more a scale from "anarchy" on one end and "totalitarianism" on the other.
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Because "left vs. right" is a deception to keep the populace trapped in pointless fights. .
It's more a scale from "anarchy" on one end and "totalitarianism" on the other.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 11, 2025 11:45 AM (MD399)
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:45 AM (dzMAk)
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178 2 years ago, NVidia's P/E was 147. It's now down to 36. How low will it go, and what does that portend for the popping of the AI bubble?
Posted by: Archimedes
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I follow tech somewhat. Past several months, NVidia fluffed its launch of the 50 series of graphics cards (about 17-20 percent of revenue) but more seriously its Blackwell AI chips have some issues regarding power and durability and NVidia has to have them made by TSMC.
The demand for silicon wafers has exploded from all users which drives up raw material prices and Chinese Deepseek AI model which allegedly achieved results using cheap chips undermines the idea that NVidia will dominate AI chip supply in the future like they have the graphics chip market in video. So Nvidia's huge investment in Blackwell may result in significantly less demand than projected and higher costs (wafers). Drives the price premium down.
Posted by: Archimedes
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I follow tech somewhat. Past several months, NVidia fluffed its launch of the 50 series of graphics cards (about 17-20 percent of revenue) but more seriously its Blackwell AI chips have some issues regarding power and durability and NVidia has to have them made by TSMC.
The demand for silicon wafers has exploded from all users which drives up raw material prices and Chinese Deepseek AI model which allegedly achieved results using cheap chips undermines the idea that NVidia will dominate AI chip supply in the future like they have the graphics chip market in video. So Nvidia's huge investment in Blackwell may result in significantly less demand than projected and higher costs (wafers). Drives the price premium down.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:45 AM (ctrM5)
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2 years ago, NVidia's P/E was 147. It's now down to 36. How low will it go, and what does that portend for the popping of the AI bubble?
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 11:35 AM (xCA6C)
It means that the smart money pumped the price, got the greedy money to jump in, and sold at a premium.
Same as it ever was.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 11:35 AM (xCA6C)
It means that the smart money pumped the price, got the greedy money to jump in, and sold at a premium.
Same as it ever was.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 11:45 AM (ExV1e)
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Buy sound companies. Hold. Ignore short term news. On the one hand, you won't get as rich as you would by guessing right. On the other hand, no one guess right forever.
Over the long term stocks increase at a higher rate then just about any other investment, so this is sound advice.
But diversify. If you buy tech stocks (and you should), get manufacturing stocks too. And put some money in bonds, high yield savings accounts/CDs, and REITs to balance it out.
Over the long term stocks increase at a higher rate then just about any other investment, so this is sound advice.
But diversify. If you buy tech stocks (and you should), get manufacturing stocks too. And put some money in bonds, high yield savings accounts/CDs, and REITs to balance it out.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 11, 2025 11:46 AM (t0Rmr)
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My question has always been 'Why the hell would any civilized country import muslims?'. Are they not familiar with the history of islam? I know that's two questions.
They are good for causing chaos and disorder, which is what these governments want.
Oh, another terror attack? Guess you voters should have supported the latest anti-terror bill that let's us jail you for criticizing the government. Well, maybe you will after the next attack...err...I mean in the future.
Posted by: 18-1
Yeah. Fuck you. (The government) We can make an attack on government officials look like upset muzzies did it.
Tred carefully.
Morning all. Late start.
They are good for causing chaos and disorder, which is what these governments want.
Oh, another terror attack? Guess you voters should have supported the latest anti-terror bill that let's us jail you for criticizing the government. Well, maybe you will after the next attack...err...I mean in the future.
Posted by: 18-1
Yeah. Fuck you. (The government) We can make an attack on government officials look like upset muzzies did it.
Tred carefully.
Morning all. Late start.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2025 11:46 AM (k3Vs9)
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Arabs killing Christians? Nobody cares. Arabs killing Jews? Nobody cares. Arabs killing Arabs? Nobody cares.
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Pretty much anybody killing Christians and no one cares, even though Christians are THE most murdered and persecuted religious group worldwide by an enormous margin.
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Pretty much anybody killing Christians and no one cares, even though Christians are THE most murdered and persecuted religious group worldwide by an enormous margin.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Have you figured out that men cheat in pursuit of femininity yet? at March 11, 2025 11:46 AM (qSMcm)
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I was just wondering if there were any genuine reasons anyone could come up with about why tariffs are affecting the market so much, including industries that are pretty obviously divorced from the tariff issue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein
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Watched them whipsaw INTC down to 18 a couple of weeks ago.
Then they found another shiny thing. Now INTC in the middle of current drops is 22 last time I looked.
Conclusion here is that market articles are empowered by the same forces as CNN and MSNBC.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2025 11:42 AM (Ri+6K)
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Also remember my comment last week or so about brokers and "professional" money managers. Some get paid by the trade. All want to show lots of trading to justify their existence. They'll use any excuse to make trades, whether it's good for their clients or not. In an uncertain market, that accelerates declines. In a bull market, that accelerates gains.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein
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Watched them whipsaw INTC down to 18 a couple of weeks ago.
Then they found another shiny thing. Now INTC in the middle of current drops is 22 last time I looked.
Conclusion here is that market articles are empowered by the same forces as CNN and MSNBC.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2025 11:42 AM (Ri+6K)
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Also remember my comment last week or so about brokers and "professional" money managers. Some get paid by the trade. All want to show lots of trading to justify their existence. They'll use any excuse to make trades, whether it's good for their clients or not. In an uncertain market, that accelerates declines. In a bull market, that accelerates gains.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 11, 2025 11:46 AM (iFTx/)
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Institutional investors. How much of a stock is owned by institutional investors and which institutions own them?
Blackrock, Vanguard and State are the three biggest institutional investors.
Blackrock, Vanguard and State are the three biggest institutional investors.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2025 11:46 AM (Ri+6K)
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Charles Payne has a free newsletter.
He also has a paid service that runs about 75% positive.
I like Charles.
Posted by: Braenyard
He gave a presentation at Hillsdale that was on YT a couple of months ago. I was impressed.
He also has a paid service that runs about 75% positive.
I like Charles.
Posted by: Braenyard
He gave a presentation at Hillsdale that was on YT a couple of months ago. I was impressed.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 11, 2025 11:46 AM (lTGtQ)
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It's the religion, not the ethnicity.
Posted by: Dr. Weevil at March 11, 2025 11:38 AM (43XUo)
It's the species.
"there but for the grace of God" etc etc.
There have always been excuses to get all het up and go a-rapin' and murderin' for the sake of something greater than yourself. We're not the bad guys. We're fixing everything. It's those rotten bastards standing in the way of paradise we need to get rid of.
They were there before Muhammad, they will be there after the last rugfucker on earth is dead and buried.
Islam is just the flavor of the millennium, and they're probably just sore that those damned communists snuck in and stole top spot on the body count leaderboard for a hot minute.
As China laughs.
Homo homini shithead.
Posted by: Dr. Weevil at March 11, 2025 11:38 AM (43XUo)
It's the species.
"there but for the grace of God" etc etc.
There have always been excuses to get all het up and go a-rapin' and murderin' for the sake of something greater than yourself. We're not the bad guys. We're fixing everything. It's those rotten bastards standing in the way of paradise we need to get rid of.
They were there before Muhammad, they will be there after the last rugfucker on earth is dead and buried.
Islam is just the flavor of the millennium, and they're probably just sore that those damned communists snuck in and stole top spot on the body count leaderboard for a hot minute.
As China laughs.
Homo homini shithead.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2025 11:46 AM (VoAdT)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at March 11, 2025 11:46 AM (wkyL2)
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Some people believe in total return investing, where they don't want dividends at all, just capital returns, and sell shares when they want cash. They believe this is beneficial from a taxable income standpoint.
I am not one of them, I expect a return in cold hard cash, and dividends are much less volatile than stock prices.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
Sheeeeeeeet - I simply marry into money.
I am not one of them, I expect a return in cold hard cash, and dividends are much less volatile than stock prices.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
Sheeeeeeeet - I simply marry into money.
Posted by: Jahwan Kerry Heinz at March 11, 2025 11:46 AM (cYBz/)
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213 Because "left vs. right" is a deception to keep the populace trapped in pointless fights. .
It's more a scale from "anarchy" on one end and "totalitarianism" on the other.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 11, 2025 11:45 AM (MD399)
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"Fascism and socialism are totally different!"
It's more a scale from "anarchy" on one end and "totalitarianism" on the other.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 11, 2025 11:45 AM (MD399)
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"Fascism and socialism are totally different!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:47 AM (GBKbO)
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Did 9/11 help or hurt muslims as a group?
Should it have?
Right. But it did.
Violence almost always works. You have to ask yourself if it is morally justified but it is the easiest way to implement whatever your political goals are.
Should it have?
Right. But it did.
Violence almost always works. You have to ask yourself if it is morally justified but it is the easiest way to implement whatever your political goals are.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 11, 2025 11:47 AM (t0Rmr)
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BUY GOLD!
Posted by: G. Gordon Liddy at March 11, 2025 11:44 AM (6hd1O)
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I miss your great advice for responding to jack-booted thugs as well as "Stacked and Packed" calendars ... but mostly your "Stacked and Packed" calendars.
Posted by: G. Gordon Liddy at March 11, 2025 11:44 AM (6hd1O)
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I miss your great advice for responding to jack-booted thugs as well as "Stacked and Packed" calendars ... but mostly your "Stacked and Packed" calendars.
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 11, 2025 11:47 AM (pkm6L)
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Last time Islam raped and murdered almost to Paris, before "Christian" efforts stopped them and reversed the trend.
This time Islam is already controlling much of London, Paris, with hotspots in the USA. They are also murdering/raping across Africa. China and Russia seem better at "controlling" them. Japan (and I guess S Korea) just don't let them in, afaik. Not sure about South America.
This time Islam is already controlling much of London, Paris, with hotspots in the USA. They are also murdering/raping across Africa. China and Russia seem better at "controlling" them. Japan (and I guess S Korea) just don't let them in, afaik. Not sure about South America.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 11, 2025 11:47 AM (Cus5s)
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Chinese Deepseek AI model which allegedly achieved results using cheap chips undermines the idea that NVidia will dominate AI chip supply in the future like they have the graphics chip market in video.
I thought it was reasonably well established that 1) the Chinese were actually just using NVidia chips they got by circumventing sanctions, and 2) they lied (shocker!).
I thought it was reasonably well established that 1) the Chinese were actually just using NVidia chips they got by circumventing sanctions, and 2) they lied (shocker!).
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 11:48 AM (xCA6C)
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‘ Only Disney could hire and promote a lead actress that's so toxic she poisoned the apple’
Ha! In this version we the apple doesn’t become poisoned until Snow White bites it.
‘ Only Disney could hire and promote a lead actress that's so toxic she poisoned the apple’
Ha! In this version we the apple doesn’t become poisoned until Snow White bites it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 11, 2025 11:48 AM (jbnUc)
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217 But diversify. If you buy tech stocks (and you should), get manufacturing stocks too. And put some money in bonds, high yield savings accounts/CDs, and REITs to balance it out.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 11, 2025 11:46 AM (t0Rmr)
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Invest in the QQQs and then hedge with put options.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 11, 2025 11:46 AM (t0Rmr)
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Invest in the QQQs and then hedge with put options.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:48 AM (GBKbO)
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Some people believe in total return investing, where they don't want dividends at all, just capital returns, and sell shares when they want cash. They believe this is beneficial from a taxable income standpoint.
I am not one of them, I expect a return in cold hard cash, and dividends are much less volatile than stock prices.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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There is a built in advantage to capital gains versus dividends. Dividends are double taxed--at the corporate and individual level. Capital gains are only taxed at the individual level so far. In addition, tax laws benefit leveraging debt rather than issuing preferred or common stocks for expansion and mergers. In some cases, where no suitable investment is seen, companies actually buy back their own stock to drive the price up using borrowed money to do so. That tends to benefit the price only traders at the expense of long haul investors.
I am not one of them, I expect a return in cold hard cash, and dividends are much less volatile than stock prices.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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There is a built in advantage to capital gains versus dividends. Dividends are double taxed--at the corporate and individual level. Capital gains are only taxed at the individual level so far. In addition, tax laws benefit leveraging debt rather than issuing preferred or common stocks for expansion and mergers. In some cases, where no suitable investment is seen, companies actually buy back their own stock to drive the price up using borrowed money to do so. That tends to benefit the price only traders at the expense of long haul investors.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:48 AM (ctrM5)
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It's more a scale from "anarchy" on one end and "totalitarianism" on the other.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 11, 2025 11:45 AM (MD399)
Anarchy is just localized totalitarianism.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 11, 2025 11:45 AM (MD399)
Anarchy is just localized totalitarianism.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2025 11:48 AM (VoAdT)
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206 Weren't those dirty hippies Seals & Crofts Baha'i?
sid and marty krofft > seals ampersand crofts
sid and marty krofft > seals ampersand crofts
Posted by: anachronda at March 11, 2025 11:48 AM (oY6Yp)
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at some point we need to have a "conversation" about the rabbit hole that exists roughly three clicks to the Right of us.
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I think anti-semitism is an almost *independent* topic of discussion--I don't think it lies "three clicks to the Right of us". I'm likely three clicks to the Right of most of you and almost everyone I know, but I support Israel and I respect the Jewish culture. In fact, IF I were to allege that anti-semitism lies anywhere, I would assert it lies about a half-click to the left of the Democratic party, since they seem to have no inherent belief in right and wrong nor moral behavior.
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I think anti-semitism is an almost *independent* topic of discussion--I don't think it lies "three clicks to the Right of us". I'm likely three clicks to the Right of most of you and almost everyone I know, but I support Israel and I respect the Jewish culture. In fact, IF I were to allege that anti-semitism lies anywhere, I would assert it lies about a half-click to the left of the Democratic party, since they seem to have no inherent belief in right and wrong nor moral behavior.
Posted by: Crusader at March 11, 2025 11:49 AM (azSra)
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*clears throat*
-Nancy Pelosi
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 11, 2025 11:39 AM (MGB5H)
I thought I saw recently that her investments were down. Amazing what happens when you become just another member of the choir.
-Nancy Pelosi
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 11, 2025 11:39 AM (MGB5H)
I thought I saw recently that her investments were down. Amazing what happens when you become just another member of the choir.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 11:49 AM (ExV1e)
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(shocker!).
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 11:48 AM (xCA6C)
I thought we stopped the electricity puns.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 11:48 AM (xCA6C)
I thought we stopped the electricity puns.
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:49 AM (dzMAk)
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‘ In all seriousness Trump should send his UN adviser to have them vote on ending the colonization of Constantinople and return it to Greece...’
Hahahaha. That should do in NATO.
‘ In all seriousness Trump should send his UN adviser to have them vote on ending the colonization of Constantinople and return it to Greece...’
Hahahaha. That should do in NATO.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 11, 2025 11:49 AM (jbnUc)
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Have violent "protestors" taken over any Ivy League lawyer mills to protest this slaughter?
Posted by: Erik In Texas at March 11, 2025 11:49 AM (vMP/F)
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DOGE's initial findings on paid software licenses within HUD:
1) 35,855 ServiceNow licenses on three products; only using 84.
2) 1,776 Cognos licenses; only using 325.
3) 800 WestLaw Classic licenses; only using 216.
4) 10,000 Java licenses; only using 400.
This is what we can find when idiots are no longer in charge!!
1) 35,855 ServiceNow licenses on three products; only using 84.
2) 1,776 Cognos licenses; only using 325.
3) 800 WestLaw Classic licenses; only using 216.
4) 10,000 Java licenses; only using 400.
This is what we can find when idiots are no longer in charge!!
Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2025 11:50 AM (k3Vs9)
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‘ In all seriousness Trump should send his UN adviser to have them vote on ending the colonization of Constantinople and return it to Greece...’
Hahahaha. That should do in NATO.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 11, 2025 11:49 AM (jbnUc)
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Turkey must begin every public ceremony with a land acknowledgement.
‘ In all seriousness Trump should send his UN adviser to have them vote on ending the colonization of Constantinople and return it to Greece...’
Hahahaha. That should do in NATO.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 11, 2025 11:49 AM (jbnUc)
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Turkey must begin every public ceremony with a land acknowledgement.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)
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I knew a Baha'i couple a long time ago. Very strange religion. A mix-mash of a bunch of different eastern religions.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 11, 2025 11:39 AM (g8Ew
The little I've seen of it strikes me as "I'm spiritual but not religious". I haven't looked into it so I could be wrong.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 11, 2025 11:39 AM (g8Ew
The little I've seen of it strikes me as "I'm spiritual but not religious". I haven't looked into it so I could be wrong.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 11:50 AM (ExV1e)
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Homo homini shithead.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2025 11:46 AM (VoAdT)
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"It's never homo homini lupus."
/obligatory Dr. Gregory House
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2025 11:46 AM (VoAdT)
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"It's never homo homini lupus."
/obligatory Dr. Gregory House
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 11, 2025 11:51 AM (pkm6L)
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I thought it was reasonably well established that 1) the Chinese were actually just using NVidia chips they got by circumventing sanctions, and 2) they lied (shocker!).
Posted by: Archimedes
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Not quite. And it appears that Deep Seek runs pretty well on less computer resources than required by its competitors right now. Part of that was apparently reliance on specific machine language coding optimizations for certain cpus that the models relying on CUDA do not have.
Basically NVidia was propped up to stratospheric levels by people thinking big iron would require thousands and thousands of very expensive Blackwell chips for functional AI in organizations. That appears to be in doubt now.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Not quite. And it appears that Deep Seek runs pretty well on less computer resources than required by its competitors right now. Part of that was apparently reliance on specific machine language coding optimizations for certain cpus that the models relying on CUDA do not have.
Basically NVidia was propped up to stratospheric levels by people thinking big iron would require thousands and thousands of very expensive Blackwell chips for functional AI in organizations. That appears to be in doubt now.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:51 AM (ctrM5)
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Didja notice the nic that posted that question originally? Subtle humor is lost on some people.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Oops. Now I feel like a dumbass. I even looked at the nic and didn't get the joke. I denounce myself.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Oops. Now I feel like a dumbass. I even looked at the nic and didn't get the joke. I denounce myself.
Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2025 11:51 AM (77rzZ)
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Early Bahai spent a lot of time trying to not get killed by the Muslims they lived among.
The story of most other religions in the middle east
The story of most other religions in the middle east
Posted by: 18-1 at March 11, 2025 11:52 AM (t0Rmr)
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242 DOGE's initial findings on paid software licenses within HUD:
1) 35,855 ServiceNow licenses on three products; only using 84.
2) 1,776 Cognos licenses; only using 325.
3) 800 WestLaw Classic licenses; only using 216.
4) 10,000 Java licenses; only using 400.
This is what we can find when idiots are no longer in charge!!
Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2025 11:50 AM (k3Vs9)
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At $150 a pop, those extra Service Now licenses amount to more than $5 million per year. The equivalent of roughly ten taxpayers' total, lifetime tax burdens that are just completely and totally wasted.
1) 35,855 ServiceNow licenses on three products; only using 84.
2) 1,776 Cognos licenses; only using 325.
3) 800 WestLaw Classic licenses; only using 216.
4) 10,000 Java licenses; only using 400.
This is what we can find when idiots are no longer in charge!!
Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2025 11:50 AM (k3Vs9)
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At $150 a pop, those extra Service Now licenses amount to more than $5 million per year. The equivalent of roughly ten taxpayers' total, lifetime tax burdens that are just completely and totally wasted.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO)
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Speaking of AI (Insty):
HMM: Google to retain AI investments amid antitrust case revision in US.
The initial proposed final judgment (IPFJ) filed in November 2024, which could have forced Google to divest its AI interests, has been modified to avoid potential unintended consequences in the AI sector.
In a court filing, the Justice Department has dropped its earlier demand for Google to sell off its stakes in AI companies, which was aimed at bolstering competition in online search.
Instead, the company will now need to notify antitrust enforcers prior to any further AI investments, allowing for a review of such transactions.
HMM: Google to retain AI investments amid antitrust case revision in US.
The initial proposed final judgment (IPFJ) filed in November 2024, which could have forced Google to divest its AI interests, has been modified to avoid potential unintended consequences in the AI sector.
In a court filing, the Justice Department has dropped its earlier demand for Google to sell off its stakes in AI companies, which was aimed at bolstering competition in online search.
Instead, the company will now need to notify antitrust enforcers prior to any further AI investments, allowing for a review of such transactions.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 11:52 AM (xCA6C)
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So in summary, Islam is a Rabid Dog Religion…
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2025 11:52 AM (PCK5/)
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Posted by: Crusader at March 11, 2025 11:49 AM (azSra)
Yeah I can see that what I said is being taken as a political commentary but it was more a warning.
Note I said there was a *rabbit hole* three clicks to the right, meaning it appears staid and innocent and solid enough but one step in a particular direction and it leads to another land.
Also I don't think any single person here is three clicks to the right of me but that's a different conversation and not remotely about purity.
Yeah I can see that what I said is being taken as a political commentary but it was more a warning.
Note I said there was a *rabbit hole* three clicks to the right, meaning it appears staid and innocent and solid enough but one step in a particular direction and it leads to another land.
Also I don't think any single person here is three clicks to the right of me but that's a different conversation and not remotely about purity.
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:53 AM (dzMAk)
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Don't drag us into this.
Posted by: Rabid dogs at March 11, 2025 11:53 AM (DobEs)
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I disagree. Not when any company can simply elect to not pay a dividend because - well - because they said so. Hence, Ford.
I bought a fair amount, varying between $12 and $14 a share, when they paid fifteen cents every quarter. There was a measurable ROI there.
And then they simply announced - "No". They would no longer pay that dividend. So why own it ? What's the value, other than finding another sucker that would pay more ?
Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 11:41 AM (Pnvww)
The decision to stop paying dividends =/= the stock price dropped 3% today.
Saying hold does not mean that you can never sell for any reason.
I bought a fair amount, varying between $12 and $14 a share, when they paid fifteen cents every quarter. There was a measurable ROI there.
And then they simply announced - "No". They would no longer pay that dividend. So why own it ? What's the value, other than finding another sucker that would pay more ?
Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 11:41 AM (Pnvww)
The decision to stop paying dividends =/= the stock price dropped 3% today.
Saying hold does not mean that you can never sell for any reason.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 11:53 AM (ExV1e)
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‘ In all seriousness Trump should send his UN adviser to have them vote on ending the colonization of Constantinople and return it to Greece...’
Hahahaha. That should do in NATO.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 11, 2025 11:49 AM (jbnUc)
Yes, and its time for reparations to all the Slavs out there... you know... the root word of Slavery...
‘ In all seriousness Trump should send his UN adviser to have them vote on ending the colonization of Constantinople and return it to Greece...’
Hahahaha. That should do in NATO.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 11, 2025 11:49 AM (jbnUc)
Yes, and its time for reparations to all the Slavs out there... you know... the root word of Slavery...
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 11, 2025 11:54 AM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2025 11:54 AM (VoAdT)
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‘ Beach Shitting India’
The Indians I worked with would definitely have shit on Pakistan’s beach.
‘ Beach Shitting India’
The Indians I worked with would definitely have shit on Pakistan’s beach.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 11, 2025 11:55 AM (jbnUc)
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257 What's a rabbit dog?
Do they live in rabbit dog holes?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2025 11:54 AM (VoAdT)
Beagles, mostly…
Do they live in rabbit dog holes?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2025 11:54 AM (VoAdT)
Beagles, mostly…
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2025 11:55 AM (PCK5/)
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I was just wondering if there were any genuine reasons anyone could come up with about why tariffs are affecting the market so much, including industries that are pretty obviously divorced from the tariff issue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein
The market has been overdue for a correction and everyone latched onto the tariff boogey man to sell off some assets is my guess.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein
The market has been overdue for a correction and everyone latched onto the tariff boogey man to sell off some assets is my guess.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2025 11:55 AM (e5NfL)
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Arabs killing Christians? Nobody cares. Arabs killing Jews? Nobody cares.
"But...the Crusades and Palestine! They are lashing out from the pain from all of that!!"
"But...the Crusades and Palestine! They are lashing out from the pain from all of that!!"
Posted by: NR Pax at March 11, 2025 11:55 AM (svLOV)
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"But...the Crusades and Palestine! They are lashing out from the pain from all of that!!"
Posted by: NR Pax at March 11, 2025 11:55 AM (svLOV)
The pain of... winning?
Posted by: NR Pax at March 11, 2025 11:55 AM (svLOV)
The pain of... winning?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2025 11:56 AM (VoAdT)
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IF I were to allege that anti-semitism lies anywhere, I would assert it lies about a half-click to the left of the Democratic party, since they seem to have no inherent belief in right and wrong nor moral behavior.
Posted by: Crusader at March 11, 2025 11:49 AM (azSra)
And, sadly, in large parts of black America, primarily in the inner cities. That may be the origin of Owen's.
Posted by: Crusader at March 11, 2025 11:49 AM (azSra)
And, sadly, in large parts of black America, primarily in the inner cities. That may be the origin of Owen's.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 11, 2025 11:56 AM (L5An7)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 11, 2025 11:56 AM (Hg3UW)
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>>>So Nvidia's huge investment in Blackwell may result in significantly less demand than projected and higher costs (wafers). Drives the price premium down.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:45 AM (ctrM5)
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I was looking forward to INTC's foundry then they screwed the pooch with their administration and now the foundry is on the back burner till 2030 or ever.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:45 AM (ctrM5)
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I was looking forward to INTC's foundry then they screwed the pooch with their administration and now the foundry is on the back burner till 2030 or ever.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2025 11:57 AM (Ri+6K)
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Watched them whipsaw INTC down to 18 a couple of weeks ago.
Then they found another shiny thing. Now INTC in the middle of current drops is 22 last time I looked.
Conclusion here is that market articles are empowered by the same forces as CNN and MSNBC.
Posted by: Braenyard
Hedge funds often use options to bet on a price up or down to the extent that sometimes they try to shortsell a company into bankruptcy. Basically a form of gambling where you leverage borrow stock from a current owner to sell a stock short that you do not own. The risk is that you may have to buy it back and take a loss and how you finance it.
Not much difference than Trading Places movie and commodities only applied to a specific stock.
Then they found another shiny thing. Now INTC in the middle of current drops is 22 last time I looked.
Conclusion here is that market articles are empowered by the same forces as CNN and MSNBC.
Posted by: Braenyard
Hedge funds often use options to bet on a price up or down to the extent that sometimes they try to shortsell a company into bankruptcy. Basically a form of gambling where you leverage borrow stock from a current owner to sell a stock short that you do not own. The risk is that you may have to buy it back and take a loss and how you finance it.
Not much difference than Trading Places movie and commodities only applied to a specific stock.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:57 AM (ctrM5)
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DOGE's initial findings on paid software licenses within HUD:
1) 35,855 ServiceNow licenses on three products; only using 84.
2) 1,776 Cognos licenses; only using 325.
3) 800 WestLaw Classic licenses; only using 216.
4) 10,000 Java licenses; only using 400.
This is what we can find when idiots are no longer in charge!!
Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2025 11:50 AM (k3Vs9)
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Now do third-party hardware maintenance & support contracts.
/As a former employee of Ford Aerospace in the late 80s -- under a DOD contract supporting Nellis Air Force Base and the Red Flag exercises at the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) -- ask me how I know ...
1) 35,855 ServiceNow licenses on three products; only using 84.
2) 1,776 Cognos licenses; only using 325.
3) 800 WestLaw Classic licenses; only using 216.
4) 10,000 Java licenses; only using 400.
This is what we can find when idiots are no longer in charge!!
Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2025 11:50 AM (k3Vs9)
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Now do third-party hardware maintenance & support contracts.
/As a former employee of Ford Aerospace in the late 80s -- under a DOD contract supporting Nellis Air Force Base and the Red Flag exercises at the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) -- ask me how I know ...
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 11, 2025 11:58 AM (pkm6L)
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I was looking forward to INTC's foundry then they screwed the pooch with their administration and now the foundry is on the back burner till 2030 or ever.
Trump is cancelling the remainder of Biden's Chips program, although IIRC, most of the money has already been spent.
Trump is cancelling the remainder of Biden's Chips program, although IIRC, most of the money has already been spent.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 11:58 AM (xCA6C)
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On every odd day, the Left claims the Right represents chaos.
There are several spectrums, that is one of them.
Can collectivism exist in chaos? Can individualism exist in order?
There are several spectrums, that is one of them.
Can collectivism exist in chaos? Can individualism exist in order?
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:58 AM (dzMAk)
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Is there a Hawaii independence movement??? Tell me there is…
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2025 11:58 AM (PCK5/)
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And, sadly, in large parts of black America, primarily in the inner cities. That may be the origin of Owen's.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 11, 2025 11:56 AM (L5An7)
It showed up in her after she started hanging out with Kanye West.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 11, 2025 11:56 AM (L5An7)
It showed up in her after she started hanging out with Kanye West.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2025 11:58 AM (uWKK8)
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I was just wondering if there were any genuine reasons anyone could come up with about why tariffs are affecting the market so much, including industries that are pretty obviously divorced from the tariff issue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein
I don’t think it’s tariffs per se. It’s the on again off again nature of it. Makers hate uncertainty.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein
I don’t think it’s tariffs per se. It’s the on again off again nature of it. Makers hate uncertainty.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at March 11, 2025 11:58 AM (Hg3UW)
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270 On every odd day, the Left claims the Right represents chaos.
There are several spectrums, that is one of them.
Can collectivism exist in chaos? Can individualism exist in order?
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:58 AM (dzMAk)
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The left also claims that Hitler was a small-government libertarian.
There are several spectrums, that is one of them.
Can collectivism exist in chaos? Can individualism exist in order?
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2025 11:58 AM (dzMAk)
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The left also claims that Hitler was a small-government libertarian.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:58 AM (GBKbO)
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The market has been overdue for a correction and everyone latched onto the tariff boogey man to sell off some assets is my guess.
Posted by: Mister Scott
Essentially correct. Add in a little fear about how DOGE cuts and layoffs are going to put a dent in consumer spending, too. The tariff story is just a play to try and blame Trump for a reckoning that has been coming for two years.
Posted by: Mister Scott
Essentially correct. Add in a little fear about how DOGE cuts and layoffs are going to put a dent in consumer spending, too. The tariff story is just a play to try and blame Trump for a reckoning that has been coming for two years.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 11, 2025 11:59 AM (lTGtQ)
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The markets are a popularity contest, with decisions made by nobody any smarter than all the dumb asses we call neighbors.
You have a newsletter, don't you.
You have a newsletter, don't you.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 12:00 PM (xCA6C)
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I am not going to shed a tear for Assad, he is not even dead yet.
Hopefully having this new regime in place will allow many refugees to go back home (or be expelled) from Turkey and the EU. Progress.
Hopefully having this new regime in place will allow many refugees to go back home (or be expelled) from Turkey and the EU. Progress.
Posted by: PG at March 11, 2025 12:00 PM (uZ2lt)
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s there a Hawaii independence movement??? Tell me there is…
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2025 11:58 AM (PCK5/)
Give it to the NORKS. They will get those fat Hawaiians to slim down and maybe work for a change.
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2025 11:58 AM (PCK5/)
Give it to the NORKS. They will get those fat Hawaiians to slim down and maybe work for a change.
Posted by: Xi Jinping, Head Chinese Commie Prick at March 11, 2025 12:00 PM (EEZHI)
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Not much difference than Trading Places movie and commodities only applied to a specific stock.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:57 AM
See? I told you he'd understand.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 11:57 AM
See? I told you he'd understand.
Posted by: Mortimer Duke at March 11, 2025 12:01 PM (kgE5c)
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AI. It wears me out. According to current definition, writing industrial software that can modify its own constants is AI. I did that twenty years ago, and trust me, nobody ran out to give me a start-up company and a cash transfusion.
Because they shouldn't have. Its just the software equivalent of self-adjusting breaks. Negative feedback. Tried and true shit in a slightly new form. No patents required or deserved.
AI reminds me of 5S and Six Sigma. Just another bullshit jargon term for the managerial class.
Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 11:56 AM (08yzu)
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This.
Because they shouldn't have. Its just the software equivalent of self-adjusting breaks. Negative feedback. Tried and true shit in a slightly new form. No patents required or deserved.
AI reminds me of 5S and Six Sigma. Just another bullshit jargon term for the managerial class.
Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 11:56 AM (08yzu)
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This.
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 11, 2025 12:01 PM (pkm6L)
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At $150 a pop, those extra Service Now licenses amount to more than $5 million per year. The equivalent of roughly ten taxpayers' total, lifetime tax burdens that are just completely and totally wasted.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO)
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Maybe the government gets a bulk discount...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO)
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Maybe the government gets a bulk discount...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 11, 2025 12:02 PM (7fElN)
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I was looking forward to INTC's foundry then they screwed the pooch with their administration and now the foundry is on the back burner till 2030 or ever.
Posted by: Braenyard
Depends. Intel has the advantage of being produced here to some degree and being a trustworthy partner for the US. Still has massive cpu sales in laptops and desktops for now. AMD primarily sells to individuals rather than manufacturers and like AMD in graphics, it runs a distant second in volume of chips actually sold. The major threat that AMD poses to Intel is in the most profitable minicomputer/server market with its EPYC chips going against the older Xenon chips. AMD is getting some serious increases in cpu share at this level which is costing Intel far more in profits than the stagnant desktop/laptop market. Intel (and to some extent AMD) have so far fluffed on their AI NPU chips with Gaudi being ignored by the market and the Ryzen HPCs not gaining any traction versus Blackwell. Primarily because Nvidia has a huge developer advantage.
Intel has a new chip making process and stories floated vary regarding the new 18A process which is VERY different approach to making chips using TSMC process.
Posted by: Braenyard
Depends. Intel has the advantage of being produced here to some degree and being a trustworthy partner for the US. Still has massive cpu sales in laptops and desktops for now. AMD primarily sells to individuals rather than manufacturers and like AMD in graphics, it runs a distant second in volume of chips actually sold. The major threat that AMD poses to Intel is in the most profitable minicomputer/server market with its EPYC chips going against the older Xenon chips. AMD is getting some serious increases in cpu share at this level which is costing Intel far more in profits than the stagnant desktop/laptop market. Intel (and to some extent AMD) have so far fluffed on their AI NPU chips with Gaudi being ignored by the market and the Ryzen HPCs not gaining any traction versus Blackwell. Primarily because Nvidia has a huge developer advantage.
Intel has a new chip making process and stories floated vary regarding the new 18A process which is VERY different approach to making chips using TSMC process.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 12:02 PM (ctrM5)
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AI reminds me of 5S and Six Sigma. Just another bullshit jargon term for the managerial class.
Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 11:56 AM (08yzu)
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This.
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 11, 2025 12:01 PM (pkm6L)
Somebody is not optimizing their synergies for a win-win.
Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 11:56 AM (08yzu)
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This.
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 11, 2025 12:01 PM (pkm6L)
Somebody is not optimizing their synergies for a win-win.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 11, 2025 12:03 PM (i24o9)
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The markets are a popularity contest, with decisions made by nobody any smarter than all the dumb asses we call neighbors.
Posted by: How It Works
The best investing lesson I learned from a professor telling a joke.
Two hikers are in the woods and encounter a bear. One hiker starts to run, and the other pulls out a pair of tennis shoes. The first hiker yells, "you can't outrun a bear!" The second says, " I don't need to outrun the bear, I need to outrun you."
Posted by: How It Works
The best investing lesson I learned from a professor telling a joke.
Two hikers are in the woods and encounter a bear. One hiker starts to run, and the other pulls out a pair of tennis shoes. The first hiker yells, "you can't outrun a bear!" The second says, " I don't need to outrun the bear, I need to outrun you."
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 11, 2025 12:04 PM (lTGtQ)
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Late to the art thread. I like Benton so I look at some of his other works and came across this. I had no Idea of the scale of his works:
https://tinyurl.com/f64npadb
https://tinyurl.com/f64npadb
Posted by: Javems at March 11, 2025 12:04 PM (YAO2d)
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273 I was just wondering if there were any genuine reasons anyone could come up with about why tariffs are affecting the market so much, including industries that are pretty obviously divorced from the tariff issue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Affects international investment in plants. Tariffs make it uncertain whether the old formula of build in cheap labor places like China to maximize profits in home countries will still work with the risk factor of tariffs eating up that profit. Makes the big international corps twitchy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Affects international investment in plants. Tariffs make it uncertain whether the old formula of build in cheap labor places like China to maximize profits in home countries will still work with the risk factor of tariffs eating up that profit. Makes the big international corps twitchy.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 12:05 PM (ctrM5)
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AI reminds me of 5S and Six Sigma. Just another bullshit jargon term for the managerial class.
Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 11:56 AM (08yzu)
Of course it is.
Sales guy walks in and says "Howdy, Mr. CEO, lemme tell ya 'bout AI". Mr. CEO calls the CTO and says IMPLEMENT AI! Orders trickle down to the engineering staff where "Steve from Buffalo" is the new H1B in charge and you're off to the races. Millions spent on the latest thing and hundreds fired to cover the losses when it becomes apparent that AI is not relevant to a company that does underwater basket weaving by hand.
Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 11:56 AM (08yzu)
Of course it is.
Sales guy walks in and says "Howdy, Mr. CEO, lemme tell ya 'bout AI". Mr. CEO calls the CTO and says IMPLEMENT AI! Orders trickle down to the engineering staff where "Steve from Buffalo" is the new H1B in charge and you're off to the races. Millions spent on the latest thing and hundreds fired to cover the losses when it becomes apparent that AI is not relevant to a company that does underwater basket weaving by hand.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 12:05 PM (ExV1e)
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Maybe he can build a big dish to block Canada from the sun.
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 11, 2025 11:18 AM (MGB5H)
Plan is in motion peon ...
Posted by: BruceWayne at March 11, 2025 11:18 AM (MGB5H)
Plan is in motion peon ...
Posted by: Bill Gates / Super Genius at March 11, 2025 12:05 PM (TTAGa)
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I think whig likes computers…,
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2025 12:05 PM (PCK5/)
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Holy crap, this is hilarious!
You know how the left loved, loved, loved big tech when it was helping them win elections?
And now Musk is Dr. Evil #1 Hitler?
Guess what ICE has been doing?
You know all those red-light cameras and license plate readers the left loves, loves, loves in their blue cites?
Yeah, ICE be all up in that now.
You know how the left loved, loved, loved big tech when it was helping them win elections?
And now Musk is Dr. Evil #1 Hitler?
Guess what ICE has been doing?
You know all those red-light cameras and license plate readers the left loves, loves, loves in their blue cites?
Yeah, ICE be all up in that now.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 11, 2025 12:06 PM (MD399)
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Not much difference than Trading Places movie and commodities only applied to a specific stock.
Like Gamestop.
Like Gamestop.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 12:06 PM (ExV1e)
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what to make of this?
@LeadingReport
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BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly requested a direct, secure line from his home and FBI office to the Oval Office—bypassing Attorney General Pam Bondi and the traditional chain of command, per WSJ.
@LeadingReport
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BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly requested a direct, secure line from his home and FBI office to the Oval Office—bypassing Attorney General Pam Bondi and the traditional chain of command, per WSJ.
Posted by: Don Black at March 11, 2025 12:07 PM (AOsQT)
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Just saw that Q3 2023 results for non-farm payroll changes got changed.
Originally reported as +1.6%.
Revised to...-0.1%.
A 1.7% swing feels...significant. Like, something more than just random error.
But, what do I know? I'm just an asshole on the internet.
Originally reported as +1.6%.
Revised to...-0.1%.
A 1.7% swing feels...significant. Like, something more than just random error.
But, what do I know? I'm just an asshole on the internet.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 12:07 PM (GBKbO)
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The only "religious" groups associated with religious freedom and power are those engaged with the leftist practices & lawsuits including, but not limited to, the Quakers, The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, and other on the edge of radical groups.
"Quaker congregations file suit challenging new White House immigration policy," by Don Byrd | Feb 5, 2025
Remember, private schools generally have more freedom in areas like curriculum, admission policies, and religious practices compared to public schools, which are subject to state and federal regulations.
They can afford to step forward to play hero.
All, imo.
(Did they step forward to support C19 shot exceptions?)
"Quaker congregations file suit challenging new White House immigration policy," by Don Byrd | Feb 5, 2025
Remember, private schools generally have more freedom in areas like curriculum, admission policies, and religious practices compared to public schools, which are subject to state and federal regulations.
They can afford to step forward to play hero.
All, imo.
(Did they step forward to support C19 shot exceptions?)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 11, 2025 12:08 PM (NFX2v)
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Intel has a new chip making process and stories floated vary regarding the new 18A process which is VERY different approach to making chips using TSMC process.
Posted by: whig
I thought I had read that Intel was getting out of chip making, or at least the exec who was in charge was being pushed out. I hope not.
Posted by: whig
I thought I had read that Intel was getting out of chip making, or at least the exec who was in charge was being pushed out. I hope not.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 11, 2025 12:08 PM (lTGtQ)
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At $150 a pop, those extra Service Now licenses amount to more than $5 million per year. The equivalent of roughly ten taxpayers' total, lifetime tax burdens that are just completely and totally wasted.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO)
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Maybe the government gets a bulk discount...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
No. They charge full price or even upcharge a premium because they know the government will pay it.
If it came down to picking someone to negotiate on my behalf, I'd pick Junior Samples or Mr. Haney over the fed gov.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO)
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Maybe the government gets a bulk discount...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
No. They charge full price or even upcharge a premium because they know the government will pay it.
If it came down to picking someone to negotiate on my behalf, I'd pick Junior Samples or Mr. Haney over the fed gov.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2025 12:08 PM (k3Vs9)
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‘ Trump is cancelling the remainder of Biden's Chips program,’
I know it must have sucked since it came from Biden, but what was specifically wrong with it.
‘ Trump is cancelling the remainder of Biden's Chips program,’
I know it must have sucked since it came from Biden, but what was specifically wrong with it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 11, 2025 12:08 PM (jbnUc)
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Nasdaq down about 12.5%
SnP down about 9%
from their highs.
That is a mild correction, so far. Some smart guys think it is the start of a longer reversal. They say many of the young "players" don't know anything but easy money and "buy every dip" mentality.
SnP down about 9%
from their highs.
That is a mild correction, so far. Some smart guys think it is the start of a longer reversal. They say many of the young "players" don't know anything but easy money and "buy every dip" mentality.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 11, 2025 12:08 PM (Cus5s)
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Is there a Hawaii independence movement??? Tell me there is…
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2025 11:58 AM (PCK5/)
There is.
https://tinyurl.com/3kzerras+
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2025 11:58 AM (PCK5/)
There is.
https://tinyurl.com/3kzerras+
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 12:08 PM (ExV1e)
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282 At $150 a pop, those extra Service Now licenses amount to more than $5 million per year. The equivalent of roughly ten taxpayers' total, lifetime tax burdens that are just completely and totally wasted.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO)
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Maybe the government gets a bulk discount...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
They do but organizations not based on the profit incentive often buy those extra seat licenses regardless of usage because the resources used are 'free' to them. Libraries are a classic example with their e-databases based on seats. Send out a vague survey to faculty, students, etc. asking about usage and most people, who aren't directly paying the cost, will say sure, I might use that new XYZZ database of Chinese chemistry publications.
And in reality, no one uses the database when deployed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO)
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Maybe the government gets a bulk discount...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
They do but organizations not based on the profit incentive often buy those extra seat licenses regardless of usage because the resources used are 'free' to them. Libraries are a classic example with their e-databases based on seats. Send out a vague survey to faculty, students, etc. asking about usage and most people, who aren't directly paying the cost, will say sure, I might use that new XYZZ database of Chinese chemistry publications.
And in reality, no one uses the database when deployed.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 12:08 PM (ctrM5)
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Makes the big international corps twitchy.
Which I'm all for because, honestly, fuck those guys.
Which I'm all for because, honestly, fuck those guys.
Posted by: They fucked us first at March 11, 2025 12:08 PM (5TbUi)
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Can't even begin to tell you how many high-paid "consultants" were brought in to teach us Scrum/Agile. Largely fell flat because I hate to break to the manager types, but people have specializations in software too.
Posted by: Halfhand at March 11, 2025 12:08 PM (v6x8d)
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A 1.7% swing feels...significant. Like, something more than just random error.
But, what do I know? I'm just an asshole on the internet.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 12:07 PM (GBKbO)
We added some farm payroll by mistake. Sorry! We thought "Apple employee" meant they worked in an orchard. Honest.
But, what do I know? I'm just an asshole on the internet.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 12:07 PM (GBKbO)
We added some farm payroll by mistake. Sorry! We thought "Apple employee" meant they worked in an orchard. Honest.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2025 12:09 PM (VoAdT)
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>>The market has been overdue for a correction and everyone latched onto the tariff boogey man to sell off some assets is my guess.
It has little to do with tariffs.
Biden built an economy based on government printing and spending money. Trump is attempting to change that to an economy based on the private sector and with DOGE he's attempting to do it very quickly.
Money doesn't care about anything other than making more money and Trump is rightly breaking the current system.
It has little to do with tariffs.
Biden built an economy based on government printing and spending money. Trump is attempting to change that to an economy based on the private sector and with DOGE he's attempting to do it very quickly.
Money doesn't care about anything other than making more money and Trump is rightly breaking the current system.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 11, 2025 12:09 PM (LkLld)
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Disney just canceled the red carpet premieres in London and Hollywood for Snow White.
Don't want to pay a few million for the affairs, I guess.
Don't want to pay a few million for the affairs, I guess.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, leading the proletariat with Eisenstein at March 11, 2025 12:09 PM (GBKbO)
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‘ Trump is cancelling the remainder of Biden's Chips program,’
I know it must have sucked since it came from Biden, but what was specifically wrong with it.
I don't know for sure, but I guess it's assumed to be just another source of graft.
I know it must have sucked since it came from Biden, but what was specifically wrong with it.
I don't know for sure, but I guess it's assumed to be just another source of graft.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 12:09 PM (xCA6C)
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what to make of this?
@LeadingReport
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BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly requested a direct, secure line from his home and FBI office to the Oval Office—bypassing Attorney General Pam Bondi and the traditional chain of command, per WSJ.
Posted by: Don Black
Kash doesn't trust people in the AG's office.
@LeadingReport
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BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly requested a direct, secure line from his home and FBI office to the Oval Office—bypassing Attorney General Pam Bondi and the traditional chain of command, per WSJ.
Posted by: Don Black
Kash doesn't trust people in the AG's office.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2025 12:09 PM (k3Vs9)
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I was just wondering if there were any genuine reasons anyone could come up with about why tariffs are affecting the market so much, including industries that are pretty obviously divorced from the tariff issue.
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Constant fear porn pumped out by the media has everyone on edge believing all change portends disaster on a Biblical scale.
this is what, the 5th on/off of tariffs and ... well shit, we're still here.
You'd think folks would wonder if there really was a wolf by now ....
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Constant fear porn pumped out by the media has everyone on edge believing all change portends disaster on a Biblical scale.
this is what, the 5th on/off of tariffs and ... well shit, we're still here.
You'd think folks would wonder if there really was a wolf by now ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 11, 2025 12:10 PM (MD399)
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The markets are a popularity contest, with decisions made by nobody any smarter than all the dumb asses we call neighbors.
Posted by: How It Works
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It's worse than that. There aren't even real people making the moves. The hedge funds, vanguards, blackrocks, etc. have computers that trigger selloffs because some algorithm gets triggered. SELL SELL SELL and the other fund computers start selling, too.
Everything is fake and gay.
Posted by: How It Works
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It's worse than that. There aren't even real people making the moves. The hedge funds, vanguards, blackrocks, etc. have computers that trigger selloffs because some algorithm gets triggered. SELL SELL SELL and the other fund computers start selling, too.
Everything is fake and gay.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Have you figured out that men cheat in pursuit of femininity yet? at March 11, 2025 12:10 PM (qSMcm)
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If it came down to picking someone to negotiate on my behalf, I'd pick Junior Samples or Mr. Haney over the fed gov.
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I'd pick Hank Kimball over the Federal government.
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I'd pick Hank Kimball over the Federal government.
Posted by: Crusader at March 11, 2025 12:10 PM (azSra)
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299 what to make of this?
@LeadingReport
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BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly requested a direct, secure line from his home and FBI office to the Oval Office—bypassing Attorney General Pam Bondi and the traditional chain of command, per WSJ.
Posted by: Don Black
Kash doesn't trust people in the AG's office.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2025 12:09 PM (k3Vs9)
My take on the surface… not aimed at her especially…
@LeadingReport
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BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly requested a direct, secure line from his home and FBI office to the Oval Office—bypassing Attorney General Pam Bondi and the traditional chain of command, per WSJ.
Posted by: Don Black
Kash doesn't trust people in the AG's office.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2025 12:09 PM (k3Vs9)
My take on the surface… not aimed at her especially…
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2025 12:10 PM (PCK5/)
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Intel has a new chip making process and stories floated vary regarding the new 18A process which is VERY different approach to making chips using TSMC process.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 12:02 PM (ctrM5)
I've been toying with jumping into INTC now. Around $20/share. I typically stay in dividend paying stocks, which INTC once was. But I think there is a moderate to yuuuge upside - whether they sell out, or actually get there act together.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 12:02 PM (ctrM5)
I've been toying with jumping into INTC now. Around $20/share. I typically stay in dividend paying stocks, which INTC once was. But I think there is a moderate to yuuuge upside - whether they sell out, or actually get there act together.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 11, 2025 12:10 PM (N39Ws)
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The markets are a popularity contest, with decisions made by nobody any smarter than all the dumb asses we call neighbors.
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Although in hindsight that might've been what you meant, although in reality I suspect it's a bunch of H1Bs doing the programming.
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Although in hindsight that might've been what you meant, although in reality I suspect it's a bunch of H1Bs doing the programming.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Have you figured out that men cheat in pursuit of femininity yet? at March 11, 2025 12:11 PM (qSMcm)
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Guess what ICE has been doing?
You know all those red-light cameras and license plate readers the left loves, loves, loves in their blue cites?
Yeah, ICE be all up in that now.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 11, 2025 12:06 PM (MD399)
Yep, the fascist unconstitutional panopticon is GREAT when used against citizens to get extra revenue for the government but when used to enforce immigration law it's Katie bar the door and set my hair on fire.
You know all those red-light cameras and license plate readers the left loves, loves, loves in their blue cites?
Yeah, ICE be all up in that now.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 11, 2025 12:06 PM (MD399)
Yep, the fascist unconstitutional panopticon is GREAT when used against citizens to get extra revenue for the government but when used to enforce immigration law it's Katie bar the door and set my hair on fire.
Posted by: Still don't like the fascist panopticon though at March 11, 2025 12:11 PM (5TbUi)
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what to make of this?
@LeadingReport
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BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly requested a direct, secure line from his home and FBI office to the Oval Office—bypassing Attorney General Pam Bondi and the traditional chain of command, per WSJ.
Posted by: Don Black at March 11, 2025 12:07 PM (AOsQT)
If I had to guess... it's a lie published to sow dissent.
@LeadingReport
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BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly requested a direct, secure line from his home and FBI office to the Oval Office—bypassing Attorney General Pam Bondi and the traditional chain of command, per WSJ.
Posted by: Don Black at March 11, 2025 12:07 PM (AOsQT)
If I had to guess... it's a lie published to sow dissent.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 12:11 PM (ExV1e)
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Trump is cancelling the remainder of Biden's Chips program,’
I know it must have sucked since it came from Biden, but what was specifically wrong with it.
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Ponch and John are just too dang old to be spending all day riding around on motorcycles.
I know it must have sucked since it came from Biden, but what was specifically wrong with it.
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Ponch and John are just too dang old to be spending all day riding around on motorcycles.
Posted by: Crusader at March 11, 2025 12:11 PM (azSra)
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290 Nasdaq down about 12.5%
SnP down about 9%
from their highs.
That is a mild correction, so far. Some smart guys think it is the start of a longer reversal. They say many of the young "players" don't know anything but easy money and "buy every dip" mentality.
Posted by: illiniwek
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I think that is overstated. We are seeing a market more beset by uncertainty as the old trading regime of the last 70 years is imploding and bets as to whether the Trump removal of a lot of government spending in the US affects profits in the next year or so. Then worldwide, you have liquidity of the dollar world wide plus serious economic problems beginning to develop in China as to actual deflation there for consumers.
People wondered if China would follow the path of Japan into decades long sour economy and it appears right now to be doing so.
SnP down about 9%
from their highs.
That is a mild correction, so far. Some smart guys think it is the start of a longer reversal. They say many of the young "players" don't know anything but easy money and "buy every dip" mentality.
Posted by: illiniwek
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I think that is overstated. We are seeing a market more beset by uncertainty as the old trading regime of the last 70 years is imploding and bets as to whether the Trump removal of a lot of government spending in the US affects profits in the next year or so. Then worldwide, you have liquidity of the dollar world wide plus serious economic problems beginning to develop in China as to actual deflation there for consumers.
People wondered if China would follow the path of Japan into decades long sour economy and it appears right now to be doing so.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 12:11 PM (ctrM5)
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I'm not sure why the US backed these Al Qaeda people to oust Assad.
Posted by: long night...lifted at March 11, 2025 11:06 AM (2NXcZ)
For the same reason we backed Osama bin Laden against the Soviets.
Short term solutions to long term problems.
In the mental health community suicide is called a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
I see some parallels in our foreign policy.
Posted by: long night...lifted at March 11, 2025 11:06 AM (2NXcZ)
For the same reason we backed Osama bin Laden against the Soviets.
Short term solutions to long term problems.
In the mental health community suicide is called a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
I see some parallels in our foreign policy.
Posted by: waepnedmann at March 11, 2025 12:12 PM (lMpTF)
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Just saw that Q3 2023 results for non-farm payroll changes got changed.
Originally reported as +1.6%.
Revised to...-0.1%.
A 1.7% swing feels...significant. Like, something more than just random error.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
Eventually, after all of the revisions, it will be officially announced that all jobs reported from summer 2023 onward did not exist, and that we have been in recession since then. The only GDP growth in that time came from spending by illegal aliens using freshly printed money.
Originally reported as +1.6%.
Revised to...-0.1%.
A 1.7% swing feels...significant. Like, something more than just random error.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
Eventually, after all of the revisions, it will be officially announced that all jobs reported from summer 2023 onward did not exist, and that we have been in recession since then. The only GDP growth in that time came from spending by illegal aliens using freshly printed money.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 11, 2025 12:12 PM (lTGtQ)
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Makes the big international corps twitchy.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 12:05 PM (ctrM5)
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Am I the only one who automatically associates the word "twitchy" with Chief Inspector Dreyfus (played by Herbert Lom) in the Pink Panther movies?
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 12:05 PM (ctrM5)
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Am I the only one who automatically associates the word "twitchy" with Chief Inspector Dreyfus (played by Herbert Lom) in the Pink Panther movies?
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 11, 2025 12:12 PM (pkm6L)
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Some smart guys think it is the start of a longer reversal. They say many of the young "players" don't know anything but easy money and "buy every dip" mentality.
Yeah, this'll be fun.
Yeah, this'll be fun.
Posted by: The 1970s at March 11, 2025 12:12 PM (xCA6C)
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Trump is cancelling the remainder of Biden's Chips program,’
I know it must have sucked since it came from Biden, but what was specifically wrong with it.
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Probably the same thing wrong with Buttigigs solar chargers.
I know it must have sucked since it came from Biden, but what was specifically wrong with it.
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Probably the same thing wrong with Buttigigs solar chargers.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Have you figured out that men cheat in pursuit of femininity yet? at March 11, 2025 12:12 PM (qSMcm)
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Biden built an economy based on government printing and spending money. Trump is attempting to change that to an economy based on the private sector and with DOGE he's attempting to do it very quickly.
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Biden's great economy has crashed in 3 months?
But it was so great!
this is what's crazy to me:
Folks are demanding yet another fresh coat of paint on the house rotting and infested with termites.
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Biden's great economy has crashed in 3 months?
But it was so great!
this is what's crazy to me:
Folks are demanding yet another fresh coat of paint on the house rotting and infested with termites.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 11, 2025 12:13 PM (MD399)
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AI reminds me of 5S and Six Sigma. Just another bullshit jargon term for the managerial class.
Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 11:56 AM (08yzu)
TQM! Re-engineering!
Posted by: How It Works at March 11, 2025 11:56 AM (08yzu)
TQM! Re-engineering!
Posted by: I'mma move your cheese up your ass at March 11, 2025 12:13 PM (5TbUi)
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"Like Gamestop"
iirc, Gamestop was the result of a lot of the shorters having "naked shorts". Which I think is where they shorted without actually "borrowing" the stock from a real buyer.
It does bother me that shorts can "borrow" my stock at Fidelity. I guess there are ways to buy directly so the players can't so easily drive down the price (on rumors they may start).
iirc, Gamestop was the result of a lot of the shorters having "naked shorts". Which I think is where they shorted without actually "borrowing" the stock from a real buyer.
It does bother me that shorts can "borrow" my stock at Fidelity. I guess there are ways to buy directly so the players can't so easily drive down the price (on rumors they may start).
Posted by: illiniwek at March 11, 2025 12:13 PM (Cus5s)
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I know i missed the art thread, but is it just me or was that a grainy picture?
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at March 11, 2025 12:13 PM (nXhwP)
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Kash doesn't trust people in the AG's office.
Posted by: rickb223
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Certain people listening in and leaking?
Kash doesn't trust people in the AG's office.
Posted by: rickb223
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Certain people listening in and leaking?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 11, 2025 12:13 PM (RlOnk)
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FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly requested a direct, secure line from his home and FBI office to the Oval Office—bypassing Attorney General Pam Bondi and the traditional chain of command, per WSJ.
Posted by: Don Black
Less than it appears. Kash apparently from reports is running the FBI from where he lives in Las Vegas, NV which probably means Bongino is running the day to day stuff in DC. That would require a secure line which some people may be conflating into a DoJ slur. Kash is also apparently spending a lot of institutional effort on meeting congressional and court demands for information before the deadline. Putting Bondi in the loop can and would slow those releases.
Posted by: Don Black
Less than it appears. Kash apparently from reports is running the FBI from where he lives in Las Vegas, NV which probably means Bongino is running the day to day stuff in DC. That would require a secure line which some people may be conflating into a DoJ slur. Kash is also apparently spending a lot of institutional effort on meeting congressional and court demands for information before the deadline. Putting Bondi in the loop can and would slow those releases.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 12:14 PM (ctrM5)
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I know i missed the art thread, but is it just me or was that a grainy picture?
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at March 11, 2025
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Work of a budding artist
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at March 11, 2025
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Work of a budding artist
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 11, 2025 12:14 PM (J2vNu)
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Dave Collum
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If getting rid of grift, graft, and waste triggers a recession, then we were already in a recession that was being obscured by....wait for it...grift, graft, and waste.
Mar 10, 2025 · 6:54 PM UTC
@DavidBCollum
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If getting rid of grift, graft, and waste triggers a recession, then we were already in a recession that was being obscured by....wait for it...grift, graft, and waste.
Mar 10, 2025 · 6:54 PM UTC
Posted by: at March 11, 2025 12:14 PM (D7oie)
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New One: WaPo resignation
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2025 12:15 PM (xCA6C)
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If I had to guess... it's a lie published to sow dissent.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 12:11 PM (ExV1e)
That or Bondi is sick of relaying messages herself.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 12:11 PM (ExV1e)
That or Bondi is sick of relaying messages herself.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2025 12:15 PM (VoAdT)
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From the Bee:
Uh-Oh: WNBA Players Demand To Be Paid What They're Worth And Now They Owe The NBA $400 Million
Uh-Oh: WNBA Players Demand To Be Paid What They're Worth And Now They Owe The NBA $400 Million
Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2025 12:15 PM (k3Vs9)
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It's worse than that. There aren't even real people making the moves. The hedge funds, vanguards, blackrocks, etc. have computers that trigger selloffs because some algorithm gets triggered. SELL SELL SELL and the other fund computers start selling, too.
Everything is fake and gay.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Have you figured out that men cheat in pursuit of femininity yet? at March 11, 2025 12:10 PM (qSMcm)
It's the bullshit-based economy
Everything is fake and gay.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Have you figured out that men cheat in pursuit of femininity yet? at March 11, 2025 12:10 PM (qSMcm)
It's the bullshit-based economy
Posted by: Shit products + poor wages = C suite bonus! at March 11, 2025 12:15 PM (5TbUi)
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nood
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 11, 2025 12:15 PM (i24o9)
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Am I the only one who automatically associates the word "twitchy" with Chief Inspector Dreyfus (played by Herbert Lom) in the Pink Panther movies?
Posted by: ShainS
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Yes. But it is a good one. My wife has horses and twitchy has a specific meaning there.
Posted by: ShainS
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Yes. But it is a good one. My wife has horses and twitchy has a specific meaning there.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 12:15 PM (ctrM5)
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Nood. Something about somebody at WaPo.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 11, 2025 12:16 PM (ExV1e)
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>>this is what's crazy to me:
Folks are demanding yet another fresh coat of paint on the house rotting and infested with termites.
Wall Street loves a rigged game. It's easy to make money when the government is picking winners and losers with billions of dollars. It also destroys countries.
Trump is reversing that and letting the market choose. It's going to be a bumpy transition and it shows on Wall Street more than anywhere.
Don't care. Carry on.
Folks are demanding yet another fresh coat of paint on the house rotting and infested with termites.
Wall Street loves a rigged game. It's easy to make money when the government is picking winners and losers with billions of dollars. It also destroys countries.
Trump is reversing that and letting the market choose. It's going to be a bumpy transition and it shows on Wall Street more than anywhere.
Don't care. Carry on.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 11, 2025 12:16 PM (LkLld)
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We are seeing a market more beset by uncertainty as the old trading regime of the last 70 years is imploding and bets as to whether the Trump removal of a lot of government spending in the US affects profits in the next year or so.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 12:11 PM (ctrM5)
Decreased government spending is inversely proportional to consumer spending. That isn't the issue I think.
President Trump is keeping business rocked back on its heels. How can they plan for the future when tariffs are being changed every day.
Once it calms down, the markets will probably calm down as well.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 12:11 PM (ctrM5)
Decreased government spending is inversely proportional to consumer spending. That isn't the issue I think.
President Trump is keeping business rocked back on its heels. How can they plan for the future when tariffs are being changed every day.
Once it calms down, the markets will probably calm down as well.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 11, 2025 12:17 PM (L5An7)
Posted by: Don Black at March 11, 2025 12:17 PM (AOsQT)
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I was looking forward to INTC's foundry then they screwed the pooch with their administration and now the foundry is on the back burner till 2030 or ever.
The board gave up on it and fired Gelsinger, so the strategy seems to be selling the company in pieces. Which is strategically bad, but it might accelerate adoption of Windows on ARM if someone makes chips for it that aren't as mediocre as Qualcomm's.
The board gave up on it and fired Gelsinger, so the strategy seems to be selling the company in pieces. Which is strategically bad, but it might accelerate adoption of Windows on ARM if someone makes chips for it that aren't as mediocre as Qualcomm's.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2025 12:18 PM (2ocoG)
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this is what, the 5th on/off of tariffs and ... well shit, we're still here.
You'd think folks would wonder if there really was a wolf by now ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 11, 2025 12:10 PM (MD399)
as the saying goes, remember that the story about the boy who cried wolf ended with the wolf showing up
You'd think folks would wonder if there really was a wolf by now ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 11, 2025 12:10 PM (MD399)
as the saying goes, remember that the story about the boy who cried wolf ended with the wolf showing up
Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2025 12:18 PM (D7oie)
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The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policy Analysis
Policy Watch 4012
Syria’s Transitional Honeymoon Is Over After Massacres and Disinformation, by Aaron Y. Zelin, Mar 10, 2025
Disinformation every time.
Policy Watch 4012
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Disinformation every time.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at March 11, 2025 12:20 PM (NFX2v)
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Trump is cancelling the remainder of Biden's Chips program,’
I know it must have sucked since it came from Biden, but what was specifically wrong with it.
Multi billion dollar give away to corporations already flush with cash.
Trump is cancelling the remainder of Biden's Chips program,’
I know it must have sucked since it came from Biden, but what was specifically wrong with it.
Multi billion dollar give away to corporations already flush with cash.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 11, 2025 12:21 PM (63Dwl)
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‘ Trump is cancelling the remainder of Biden's Chips program,’
I know it must have sucked since it came from Biden, but what was specifically wrong with it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 11, 2025 12:08 PM (jbnUc)
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That CHIPS program (stage one thinking) incentivized China to dump tens of billions of (dollars equivalent) into their own chip manufacturing -- which will create glut of Chinese semiconductors and put downward pressure on their prices worldwide (harming American chip manufacturers) -- thus distorting the global market, cutting off a major market for chip exports, and reducing China’s dependency on American manufacturing.
I know it must have sucked since it came from Biden, but what was specifically wrong with it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 11, 2025 12:08 PM (jbnUc)
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That CHIPS program (stage one thinking) incentivized China to dump tens of billions of (dollars equivalent) into their own chip manufacturing -- which will create glut of Chinese semiconductors and put downward pressure on their prices worldwide (harming American chip manufacturers) -- thus distorting the global market, cutting off a major market for chip exports, and reducing China’s dependency on American manufacturing.
Posted by: ShainS -- TrumpLand Map: Better Coverage than 5G ... Can you hear us now? at March 11, 2025 12:24 PM (pkm6L)
Posted by: DaveA at March 11, 2025 12:27 PM (FhXTo)
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The board gave up on it and fired Gelsinger, so the strategy seems to be selling the company in pieces. Which is strategically bad, but it might accelerate adoption of Windows on ARM if someone makes chips for it that aren't as mediocre as Qualcomm's.
Posted by: Ian S.
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The promise of ARM is like that of fusion. Works well enough for phones but due to it having to work with Windows that has been optimized for decades for CISC cpus, that is a rough lift.
There are many examples of technically 'better' being defeated by cheap and good enough in tech history. TSMC and Intel are not going to be a merger probably because of nat sec concerns which leaves Broadcom/Qualcomm as potential buyers but neither really wants the foundry which requires massive amounts of capital investment and has a smaller profit percentage compared with chip design. Global Foundries, and even Samsung are stumbling here partially because TSMC has the premier customer base right now and is able to leverage its current top cpu mfg techniques to essentially remove the most profitable cream from the market for other foundrys.
Posted by: Ian S.
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The promise of ARM is like that of fusion. Works well enough for phones but due to it having to work with Windows that has been optimized for decades for CISC cpus, that is a rough lift.
There are many examples of technically 'better' being defeated by cheap and good enough in tech history. TSMC and Intel are not going to be a merger probably because of nat sec concerns which leaves Broadcom/Qualcomm as potential buyers but neither really wants the foundry which requires massive amounts of capital investment and has a smaller profit percentage compared with chip design. Global Foundries, and even Samsung are stumbling here partially because TSMC has the premier customer base right now and is able to leverage its current top cpu mfg techniques to essentially remove the most profitable cream from the market for other foundrys.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 12:30 PM (ctrM5)
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Christianity canonized a lot of saints-by-martyrdom in the pre-Constantine days and long thereafter during its proselytizing spread. And a lot of fast days commemorating the atrocious slaughter of their Christian forebears.
It's time to bring that back and make new ones from contemporary events. Official is official and then let others put two and two together.
It's time to bring that back and make new ones from contemporary events. Official is official and then let others put two and two together.
Posted by: geewhiz at March 11, 2025 12:32 PM (65K9+)
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Decreased government spending is inversely proportional to consumer spending. That isn't the issue I think.
President Trump is keeping business rocked back on its heels. How can they plan for the future when tariffs are being changed every day.
Once it calms down, the markets will probably calm down as well.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
When you subtract G from C+I+G+Nx from the GNP equation, you do not necessarily get more C or I immediately and markets live mostly in the short run. That is going to hit specific companies and households that previously were making bucks by contracting to government.
The two transitions that I studied years ago in econ were that of WWI and WWII where the US economy had to transition to war and then back again to the peace time economy. Both were jumpy--WWI ending resulted in a very big mini Depression until the transition was complete and WWII (from policymakers wanting to avoid the WWI drop) instead pushed the US into massive inflation and debt suppression of consumer spending to get rid of the debt overhang from WWII.
President Trump is keeping business rocked back on its heels. How can they plan for the future when tariffs are being changed every day.
Once it calms down, the markets will probably calm down as well.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
When you subtract G from C+I+G+Nx from the GNP equation, you do not necessarily get more C or I immediately and markets live mostly in the short run. That is going to hit specific companies and households that previously were making bucks by contracting to government.
The two transitions that I studied years ago in econ were that of WWI and WWII where the US economy had to transition to war and then back again to the peace time economy. Both were jumpy--WWI ending resulted in a very big mini Depression until the transition was complete and WWII (from policymakers wanting to avoid the WWI drop) instead pushed the US into massive inflation and debt suppression of consumer spending to get rid of the debt overhang from WWII.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2025 12:35 PM (ctrM5)
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"So as usual, Obama made the worst choice he could have made at each step from the perspective of American interests. "
Almost like he hates our guts, or something...
Almost like he hates our guts, or something...
Posted by: Beverly at March 11, 2025 01:27 PM (Epeb0)
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Commies hate Christians. Diversity is our strength is bs commies spread. No real nation believes this shit. Look at Korea or Japan. Look at their poor,poverty stricken cultures. Look at Norway, Sweden, Finland, Scotland. Without Muslims and blacks they were so poor, now they have rape, crime, poverty. And divisions galore.
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Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
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