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That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
After the floods here this year I hate to see my homeowner insurance bill. Too bad they couldn't capture all that wind and rain power into the electric grid to offset the cost.
It's like I never was taught about this war in school or forgot it. I went to Wikipedia for a quick read. What a bloody mess that was. Imperialism is ugly, isn't it?
Expanding - I see those on the upper part of the K have economies on a rising path over time. Those on the bottom have economies on a lowering path over time.
Well, yea, but ....
China buying gobs of US savings bonds supports our government spending, including R&D and purchase of lethal weapons, etc. And the interest they collect on US bonds and other stuff is American money supporting their form of g…
I've lived 77 years without being a member of the American Economic Association. Believe me, it doesn't hurt much. Psychologically, it probably hurts Summers a lot less than Epstein hurt those young girls.
Depending on your interest and background, you may enjoy this use of correlation matrices:
The Matrix Effective Rank: Measuring the Dimensionality of a Universe of Assets
Quantifying how diversified is a universe of assets is an open problem in quan…
I didn't realize it was an experiment. Does he believe if he can use his power to bring back the items of his childhood, he will be transformed to age 8 or so in a less regulated world with lots of that loving racist hate and exploitation and admira…
I am surprised that they are showing him in public when he not alert. With the reports that he stays up nights texting continuously, he would naturally be sleepy, His base would attribute it to that. But is it him or his proxies staying up all night…
This is just for all the old guys out there:
You have spent your lives amassing a good retirement income. I love you guys. Could you please spend some of that money to hire a service to clear your dangerous snow problems? Consider it an investment i…
Can't we just let him move Mar Lago to Guantanamo Bay brick by brick and place him under palace arrest? From there he could continue to rabble rouse his flock. Maybe a tiny house project around the palace for his close partners in crime to join him.
Will AI intervene to save itself or will the human masters insert an ad/notification/voiceover/popup to everything people try to do after AI inserts itself in every breath of daily life? Help, my stove won't heat my soup until I stand still and list…
I occasionally worked with younger troops in training. Their lives are often complicated and confusing. Many are starting families and learning to keep their marriages together while having to divide their loyalties in ways people with civilian jobs…
Told you so.
What's next as the Texas redistricting case lands at the U.S. Supreme Court
...On Friday, Nov. 21, Justice Samuel Alito granted the state's emergency application for an administrative stay...
Timing is crucial ahead of March primary
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These/those people........I will not, can not express my total thoughts here, about the D.C. crowd.
Me either. I was thinking along the same lines as you, I'm sure. Do we pay these people to sit around having table-top exercises on ways to waste t…
