Absolute Brilliance: Tigran Hamasyan, “Laura” (Live Performance at the Pole Pixel in Villeurbanne)

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Tigran Hamasyan Trio performing “Laura” from Tigran’s latest album “StandArt”. Order the album here: tigranhamasyan.lnk.to

Piano, Vocals: Tigran Hamasyan
Bass: Matt Brewer
Drums: Justin Brown

Presented by Libelo Production and GiantSteps
Directed by Colin Laurent

Filmed at the Pole Pixel in Villeurbanne (France)

With participation of:
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With the support of Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC)

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retired cynic  Nov 1, 2022 • 10:54:43pm

His control of individual fingers on the fly just amazes me.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 1, 2022 • 11:11:42pm

I am so looking forward to the end of the dozens of solicitations for ever more money from so many candidates and those helping them. Our system is broken and given that texts, phone calls, and emails cost nothing, there is no limit to the number that they will shower on you until you are drowning. There has to be a better way — other democracies don’t seem to have a similar problem. Sigh.

As to wordle — par again

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mmmirele  Nov 1, 2022 • 11:12:42pm

Uh yeah, this is going to go over SUPER WELL. Advertisers are NOT going to want to be on a platform with porn, I can just tell you that.

Oh, and for the record, porn was the first real moneymaker on the Internet. I remember my dad talking about building entire networks to handle some people’s business supplying porn to paying masses (this was in the late 1990s, when the Internet was way more the Wild, Wild West).

But obviously if Elon Musk is wanting to put porn on Twitter, he is sure as fuck NOT PAYING ATTENTION. And how can I say this? Because of this ruling in a California federal court in August:

In a setback for Visa in a case alleging the payment processor is liable for the distribution of child pornography on Pornhub and other sites operated by parent company MindGeek, a federal judge ruled that it was reasonable to conclude that Visa knowingly facilitated the criminal activity.

On Friday, July 29, U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney of the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California issued a decision in the Fleites v. MindGeek case, denying Visa’s motion to dismiss the claim it violated California’s Unfair Competition Law — which prohibits unlawful, unfair or fraudulent business acts and practices — by processing payments for child porn. (A copy of the decision is available at this link.)

variety.com

I can just about guarandamntee you that Visa (and MasterCard) are absolutely not going to want to compound their liability by accepting payments from a company that already cannot control the crap spewed onto its site. I mean, if Twitter can’t get rid of the damn Nazis, how can you expect it to be able to weed out child porn? (Reminder: in federal law, “child” goes up to 18, and yes, it matters.)

I’m going to bed now. I had dinner with my manager and four of my teammates, the first time six of the eight of us had been in the same place since before Covid. I also learned that since my manager’s spouse doesn’t want him out of town longer than a couple of days, my manager went home tonight and a dotted line manager is going to fly out from Back East to “host” this training I’m going through on Thursday and Friday. The dotted line manager is annoying.

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But first I have to get through tomorrow, where I have a tooth unpacked, checked for infection and refilled.

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Targetpractice  Nov 1, 2022 • 11:28:10pm

There’s already porn on Twitter, since a lot of artists who abandoned Tumblr after that platform announced its “NO HORNY” ban due to reports of (what else) child porn or artistic depictions of such realistic enough to trip the relevant laws. All Musk is doing is what man has done for ages: monetizing said porn in order to make a quick buck.

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mmmirele  Nov 1, 2022 • 11:31:16pm

re: #4 Targetpractice

There’s already porn on Twitter, since a lot of artists who abandoned Tumblr after that platform announced its “NO HORNY” ban due to reports of (what else) child porn or artistic depictions of such realistic enough to trip the relevant laws. All Musk is doing is what man has done for ages: monetizing said porn in order to make a quick buck.

Yeah, I run across porn when I occasionally search a popular hashtag. Nobody’s monetizing it currently. Elongated Muskrat apparently wants to monetize porn and I can tell you, that will make Twitter into a worse cesspool than it already is. Because he can’t even deal with the Nazis right now, how is he going to deal with child sexual abuse material?

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 2, 2022 • 1:15:49am

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 2, 2022 • 1:20:04am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 2, 2022 • 1:38:23am

Not too shabby. 3/6

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 2, 2022 • 2:40:41am

I kilt the thread. I guess that means I’ll start working.

Have a great day, y’all!

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Grunthos the Flatulent  Nov 2, 2022 • 2:54:18am

Tomorrow’s Wordle missed its bus and is now Today’s Wordle. Oh well.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 501 3/6

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Another birbie where not seeing the pin didn’t matter. Overshadowed by middle sister’s iggle.

SibData: 2,3,4,5,5

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TarHellion  Nov 2, 2022 • 3:00:20am

After pondering over guess 3 for a bit, will certainly take the birbie. Got 2 more grant applications out the door yesterday. Now to work on another sizeable one that is due next Thursday. The good thing is our department should be in great shape in terms of grant management revenues for the next 2-3 years. Have a good one folks!

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 2, 2022 • 3:38:32am

I certainly feel this after staring at guess 3 for a good 5 minutes, knowing what the vague structure of the word had to be and still unable to puzzle it out until it almost physically hit me.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 2, 2022 • 3:51:34am

re: #5 mmmirele

Yeah, I run across porn when I occasionally search a popular hashtag. Nobody’s monetizing it currently. Elongated Muskrat apparently wants to monetize porn and I can tell you, that will make Twitter into a worse cesspool than it already is. Because he can’t even deal with the Nazis right now, how is he going to deal with child sexual abuse material?

It’s not going to work terribly well. Twitter may have its fair share of porn, but once again, that’s not the value-add of the platform. Monetizing porn on Twitter is just going to, well, make Twitter a porn site, with all the dangers that entails (child sexual abuse, revenge porn, deepfakes, etc.) And there are even fewer advertisers and core content creators (politicians and the journalists who cover them) who are going to want to stick around on a social media system that’s being flooded with porn.

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Mike Lamb  Nov 2, 2022 • 4:44:36am

Well, Feds are going to hike interest rates again, despite the fact that raising interest rates on these conditions has proven to be about as effective as active shooter drills in schools.

Seriously, arbitrary target inflation rate aside, at what point do they look at results and say “Well, this clearly isn’t about monetary policy?”

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No Malarkey!  Nov 2, 2022 • 4:44:53am

One step forward, one step back in the global fight against the far-right. Lula won on Sunday, but it appears that Bibi won yesterday.

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Dangerman  Nov 2, 2022 • 4:57:13am

re: #3 mmmirele

First he made a stupid, boneheaded deal.

And surprisingly, at least for size of the dollars involved, he had no actual detailed plan going in. Or all the necessary relevant info one usually gets before signing.

Now he’s flailing and the panic will soon be palpable.
Bekcause the numbers don’t, won’t, and can’t work.
Still he’s desperate to find some model that will magically generate heaps of cash.

And to do that instantly, as if by force of will alone can get it done, gosh darn it.

But there is no heretofore hidden and untapped mega market just itching to throw enough $ at the Twit for elmo to pay his note.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 2, 2022 • 5:08:54am

re: #15 No Malarkey!

One step forward, one step back in the global fight against the far-right. Lula won on Sunday, but it appears that Bibi won yesterday.

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And the GQP Nazis won’t claim THIS was fraudulent. Amazing how that works.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 2, 2022 • 5:13:33am

re: #7 Patricia Kayden

Judge rules armed Arizona lunatics can stalk ballot dropoff boxes. DOJ enters the fray. Judge then rules armed Arizona lunatics can *not* stalk ballot dropoff boxes. Thank you Merrick Garland!

So you can’t distribute water but you can pack iron.

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gocart mozart  Nov 2, 2022 • 5:14:19am
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lawhawk  Nov 2, 2022 • 5:16:54am

re: #18 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

NY appellate court rules that mail in ballots will be counted, and processing can start before election night.

This is the thing that GOPers hate. They hate participatory democracy when they don’t win, and Zeldin has refused to say he’d accept the results when he loses (NY is heavily D, and mail in ballots should reflect that as well).

Zeldin and GOPers had tried to throw out mail in ballot rules that were put in place for covid, as well as rules that permit counts of those ballots to start before election night.

You know, to prevent vote dumps as those ballots are counted.

These fascists will never stop trying to undermine the process.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 2, 2022 • 5:21:21am

re: #20 lawhawk

There was a time when mail-in ballots made up only a tiny share of ballots and were generally evenly distributed between candidates.

Counting them last rarely altered the outcome of the polling station votes except in a few close-run cases.

But that has changed greatly since Covid - and since the GOP started associating mail-in and absentee ballots with voter fraud and mules by the thousands. They now tend to skew heavily Democratic.

Which is all the more reason the GOP wants to disqualify as many as possible.

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Dangerman  Nov 2, 2022 • 5:23:05am

Doctor: I’m going to deliver the baby
Dad: I’d prefer the baby had a liver.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 2, 2022 • 5:26:31am

re: #21 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There was a time when mail-in ballots made up only a tiny share of ballots and were generally evenly distributed between candidates.

Counting them last rarely altered the outcome of the polling station votes except in a few close-run cases.

But that has changed greatly since Covid - and since the GOP started associating mail-in and absentee ballots with voter fraud and mules by the thousands. They now tend to skew heavily Democratic.

Which is all the more reason the GOP wants to disqualify as many as possible.

The opposite used to be true, but then Trump stubbornly insisted on telling his cult to vote in person; of course, we now know this was because of his plan to interrupt and invalidate mail-in voting. I think one of his advisers likely foresaw that Democrats would overtake Republicans in mail-in voting in 2020 because of Trump’s reckless insistence that his cult members be willing to catch and spread the disease, and advised the MAGA Republicans that they could win going forward by blocking, interfering with, or otherwise invalidating mail-in ballots.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 2, 2022 • 5:30:09am

re: #23 Dopamine Fish

The opposite used to be true, but then Trump stubbornly insisted on telling his cult to vote in person; of course, we now know this was because of his plan to interrupt and invalidate mail-in voting.

I am sure that was the GOP strategy in 2020, and it came very close to succeeding.

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Belafon  Nov 2, 2022 • 5:41:19am

When you’ve lost Nate. Well, yeah, it just means you’ve lost Nate, but, in this case we have Libertarian on Libertarian self-interest:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 2, 2022 • 5:44:18am

Elon did not think it through when it comes to big-name Tweeters whose presence benefits the site.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 2, 2022 • 5:45:28am

re: #26 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Elon did not think it through when it comes to big-name Tweeters whose presence benefits the site.

FTFY

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Belafon  Nov 2, 2022 • 5:53:40am
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Belafon  Nov 2, 2022 • 5:57:17am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 2, 2022 • 5:59:41am

This is really is like one amazing, brutal, slow motion trainwreck.

Although, maybe we’ve already passed “Slow motion” on the speed scale at this point.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:04:55am

re: #30 Eclectic Cyborg

This is really is like one amazing, brutal, slow motion trainwreck.

Although, maybe we’ve already passed “Slow motion” on the speed scale at this point.

Only Elon could look at a slow motion train wreck and go, “How can we make this happen faster?”

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Belafon  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:06:30am

I saw on GMA that the Fed is set to announce a .75% increase in the prime rate.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:09:31am

re: #32 Belafon

I saw on GMA that the Fed is set to announce a .75% increase in the prime rate.

that’s rather a lot at once, is it not?

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No Malarkey!  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:10:42am

re: #33 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

that’s rather a lot at once, is it not?

They have already done it several times, trying to crush inflationary expectations. Also at the time they began the rate was set at basically zero.

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Dangerman  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:12:01am

re: #26 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Elon did not think it through when it comes to big-name Tweeters whose presence benefits the site.

Elmo threw his money and his borrowing power around.
its appears that he really didn’t give this much dispassionate, sober “thought” at all.

I’d want to know and be sure exactly how a purchase is gonna pay for itself and the loan before I sign.

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lawhawk  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:12:45am

Pelosi assailant says that he was on a suicide mission who had even more targets in mind.

“I’m sick of the insane f——— level of lies coming out of Washington, D.C. I came here to have a little chat with his wife,” DePape said he told Paul Pelosi, according to the filing.

“I didn’t really want to hurt him, but you know this was a suicide mission. I’m not going to stand here and do nothing even if it cost me my life,” it says he added.

Asked whether he had other plans besides the attack at Pelosi’s house, DePape named several “prominent” state and federal politicians, their relatives and a local professor, according to the court filing. None of the people were named.

Never mind that the lies are all coming from right wing fever swamps and normalized by GOPers and Fox. Never mind that it’s right wing domestic terrorists like this guy who are targeting Democrats for assassination attempts and insurrection with intent to end democracy in America.

The indisputable fact is that 2020 had more recounts than prior elections and they all found that Trump lost. All the lawsuits filed to invalidate Biden’s certification lost (except one on a technicality that didn’t actually affect outcome anywhere). The lawyers who pushed the voter fraud stories are now facing disbarment, prosecution, and a slew of lawsuits, including from the voting machine manufacturers who were defamed by these fuckers.

This guy isn’t alone - there are many others out there who will carry through on their violent impulses based on the firehose of lies spewed by Fox, GOPers in and out of Congress, and the fever swamps.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:14:08am

re: #35 Dangerman

Elmo threw his money and his borrowing power around.
its appears that he really didn’t give this much dispassionate, sober “thought” at all.

I’d want to know and be sure exactly how a purchase is gonna pay for itself and the loan before I sign.

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The thing that bothers me about the whole thing is the fact that the banks who are financing this whole debacle have admitted that they are going to lose significant money on this investment. If that’s the case, then…. WHY?!?!? I don’t get it. That is counter to any business sense. I didn’t think banks lent staggering amounts of money to demonstrably unstable public figures just for lulz.

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William Lewis  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:14:59am

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jeffreyw  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:18:39am

The Evening Redness in the West

Good morning!

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Dangerman  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:19:03am

re: #37 Dopamine Fish

The thing that bothers me about the whole thing is the fact that the banks who are financing this whole debacle have admitted that they are going to lose significant money on this investment. If that’s the case, then…. WHY?!?!? I don’t get it. That is counter to any business sense. I didn’t think banks lent staggering amounts of money to demonstrably unstable public figures just for lulz.

Tie themselves to ” a winner”?
Future business?
i.e. make is up in volume (// 1/2)?

Seems similar to what Deutsche et al did wrt spy45

Just no due diligence at all

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lawhawk  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:19:26am

re: #33 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

that’s rather a lot at once, is it not?

Rates were near zero when they started this - and that too was a mistake. The Fed has one tool to fight inflation - interest rates. Anything hiked from near zero looks huge, and the reality is that the Fed will push us into a recession thinking that it’s good for American economy, when the economy is chugging along with a healthy but not overheated 2.6% growth in last quarter. The inflation we’re seeing is transitory and largely due to oil prices and ongoing supply chain issues globally.

US policy has been better overall, resulting in lower inflation than OECD average. If we use that as a benchmark, then the US has done quite well weathering inflation that is a global issue. Why has US done better? It’s less reliant on foreign oil (Russian oil that has been used as a weapon by Putin to drive wedge between Ukraine and its supporters). It’s more reliant on renewables (and had we been even more reliant on renewables, it would render the oil price surge moot as a weapon).

Countries that have large exposure to oil price uncertainties have seen more inflation. Other factors: droughts and avian flu affecting food prices.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:20:14am

re: #37 Dopamine Fish

The thing that bothers me about the whole thing is the fact that the banks who are financing this whole debacle have admitted that they are going to lose significant money on this investment. If that’s the case, then…. WHY?!?!? I don’t get it. That is counter to any business sense. I didn’t think banks lent staggering amounts of money to demonstrably unstable public figures just for lulz.

He might be “demonstrably unstable” but he’s also the richest guy in the world. Seems like that alone would lead banks to conclude he’s not a major lending risk. Not that I PERSONALLY necessarily agree with that rationalization.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:20:16am

re: #40 Dangerman

Tie themselves to ” a winner”?
Future business?
i.e. make is up in volume (// 1/2)?

Seems similar to what Deutsche et al did wrt spy45

Just no due diligence at all

And no accountability or oversight, apparently, because they’ll keep right on truckin’ and nothing at all will happen to dissuade them from bankrolling the next floating dumpster fire of an idea to come down the pike.

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Dangerman  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:20:54am

re: #38 William Lewis

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Army General: it’ll never work

Pilot: and it’ll show the same time everywhere?

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sagehen  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:21:59am

re: #35 Dangerman

I’d want to know and be sure exactly how a purchase is gonna pay for itself and the loan before I sign.

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Even for the richest man in the world, this is 20% of his net worth. Seems a rather significant sum to set on fire.

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Dangerman  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:23:19am

re: #42 Eclectic Cyborg

He might be “demonstrably unstable” but he’s also the richest guy in the world. Seems like that alone would lead banks to conclude he’s not a major lending risk.

I’m not sure
Did he collateralize or personally guarantee any of what he borrowed?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:23:23am

re: #37 Dopamine Fish

The thing that bothers me about the whole thing is the fact that the banks who are financing this whole debacle have admitted that they are going to lose significant money on this investment. If that’s the case, then…. WHY?!?!? I don’t get it. That is counter to any business sense. I didn’t think banks lent staggering amounts of money to demonstrably unstable public figures just for lulz.

A Rock Star CEO is worth millions in investment, but such power is transitory unless it is backed up by a political party and the Supreme Court…

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sagehen  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:24:06am

re: #37 Dopamine Fish

The thing that bothers me about the whole thing is the fact that the banks who are financing this whole debacle have admitted that they are going to lose significant money on this investment. If that’s the case, then…. WHY?!?!? I don’t get it. That is counter to any business sense. I didn’t think banks lent staggering amounts of money to demonstrably unstable public figures just for lulz.

I had thought they loaned him money because he was putting up Tesla and Space X stock as collateral. But… apparently not.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:24:45am

re: #43 Dopamine Fish

And no accountability or oversight, apparently, because they’ll keep right on truckin’ and nothing at all will happen to dissuade them from bankrolling the next floating dumpster fire of an idea to come down the pike.

because they are too big to fail, but don’t have to worry about being nationalized because that would be eebil socilism

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Dangerman  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:24:53am

re: #43 Dopamine Fish

And no accountability or oversight, apparently, because they’ll keep right on truckin’ and nothing at all will happen to dissuade them from bankrolling the next floating dumpster fire of an idea to come down the pike.

Right
In that respect Elmo is the next dumpster fire. Spy45 at least being the first

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:27:32am

re: #48 sagehen

I had thought they loaned him money because he was putting up Tesla and Space X stock as collateral. But… apparently not.

I’m pretty sure that is true, from what I can recall of media reports of the deal (the deal itself, obviously, is not public). And to be fair, that’s probably decent enough collateral on which to take a risk, given Tesla’s relative market stability in the face of adversity and SpaceX’s government contracts. But you can’t tell me that somebody didn’t look at the deal and go, “Hmm. This seems like a REALLY BAD IDEA, given the current negative publicity, public statements that indicate it’s going to get even worse, and the instability of the collateral at issue in the face of said public statements.”

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No Malarkey!  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:28:48am

re: #35 Dangerman

Elmo threw his money and his borrowing power around.
its appears that he really didn’t give this much dispassionate, sober “thought” at all.

I’d want to know and be sure exactly how a purchase is gonna pay for itself and the loan before I sign.

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This article makes some suggestions for Musk on how to make Twitter better instead of breaking it.

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Dangerman  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:29:01am

so spy45s tax returns have been winding through the courts for years
no specific time table

they get to scotus a day or two ago
right before 11/8

but the timing is totally unrelated (imo)

do they delay till after the election?

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Mattand  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:29:03am

re: #37 Dopamine Fish

The thing that bothers me about the whole thing is the fact that the banks who are financing this whole debacle have admitted that they are going to lose significant money on this investment. If that’s the case, then…. WHY?!?!? I don’t get it. That is counter to any business sense. I didn’t think banks lent staggering amounts of money to demonstrably unstable public figures just for lulz.

THANK YOU. I saw that here yesterday and was thinking the exact same thing. It’s literally “We’re going to take huge chunks of our investors’ money and light it on fire.”

The only thing that jumps to mind is said bankers are deluded Libertarian loons like Elon and they’re in full on “Rats following the Pied Piper” mode.

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No Malarkey!  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:30:34am

re: #37 Dopamine Fish

The thing that bothers me about the whole thing is the fact that the banks who are financing this whole debacle have admitted that they are going to lose significant money on this investment. If that’s the case, then…. WHY?!?!? I don’t get it. That is counter to any business sense. I didn’t think banks lent staggering amounts of money to demonstrably unstable public figures just for lulz.

The banks said they will lose money? That doesn’t sound like banks; they usually get theirs, even if the person they lend to loses his shirt, as seems likely for Musk.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:39:32am

re: #55 No Malarkey!

The banks said they will lose money? That doesn’t sound like banks; they usually get theirs, even if the person they lend to loses his shirt, as seems likely for Musk.

That’s why this is so weird.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:45:06am

re: #34 No Malarkey!

They have already done it several times, trying to crush inflationary expectations. Also at the time they began the rate was set at basically zero.

How much of the “inflationary expectations” are due to a certain political party constantly lying about inflation and the current economic environment? I don’t think a federal rate move is going to combat this since a lot of macroeconomics is perception and not reality and the Fed has nowhere near the power of the GOP to play with the perceptions.

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No Malarkey!  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:47:43am

New RSV vaccines can save the lives of babies if their pregnant mothers get vaccinated. Unfortunately, I’m confident anti-vaxxers will tell mothers that the vaccine is dangerous, so most won’t get it.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:48:08am

re: #57 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

How much of the “inflationary expectations” are due to a certain political party constantly lying about inflation and the current economic environment? I don’t think a federal rate move is going to combat this since a lot of macroeconomics is perception and not reality and the Fed has nowhere near the power of the GOP to play with the perceptions.

Not to mention that the biggest driver of the “inflation” isn’t traditional inflationary pressures on the dollar, but simply companies driving up prices due to imaginary market forces, pocketing the profits, and daring anybody to stop them.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:55:42am

re: #59 Dopamine Fish

Not to mention that the biggest driver of the “inflation” isn’t traditional inflationary pressures on the dollar, but simply companies driving up prices due to imaginary market forces, pocketing the profits, and daring anybody to stop them.

THIS.

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Belafon  Nov 2, 2022 • 6:57:52am
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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 2, 2022 • 7:02:16am

ALMOST had it in 2! Almost.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 2, 2022 • 7:09:18am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 2, 2022 • 7:17:14am

Good grief. I really thought I was going to have my first whiff with entirely yellow letters.

Wordle 501 6/6

⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜
⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟨⬜🟨⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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No Malarkey!  Nov 2, 2022 • 7:22:46am

A thread on vote suppression.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 2, 2022 • 7:22:48am

re: #30 Eclectic Cyborg

This is really is like one amazing, brutal, slow motion trainwreck.

Although, maybe we’ve already passed “Slow motion” on the speed scale at this point.

Elon’s ridiculous bad decision to buy twitter is just like every knee jerk terrible decision made by The Don from the golden escalator moment, the suggestion of a Space Farce, starting his own social media network, etc., etc., Famous and rich people who are so desperate for attention and believe their fame and fortunate is equivalent to actual leadership. Throw Kanye West in that bucket as well.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Nov 2, 2022 • 7:23:35am

Luck.

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No Malarkey!  Nov 2, 2022 • 7:23:40am

re: #66 Dr. Matt

Elon’s ridiculous bad decision to buy twitter is just like every knee jerk terrible decision made by The Don from the golden escalator moment, the suggestion of a Space Farce, starting his own social media network, etc., etc., Famous and rich people who are so desperate for attention and believe their fame and fortunate is equivalent to actual leadership. Throw Kanye West in that bucket as well.

I saw Ye got booted from Instagram again as he continues to make anti-semitic remarks.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Nov 2, 2022 • 7:24:24am

re: #39 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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Dr. Matt  Nov 2, 2022 • 7:25:52am

re: #68 No Malarkey!

I saw Ye got booted from Instagram again as he continues to make anti-semitic remarks.

Ye should be booted from society and put into involuntary institutionalization. He needs therapy desperately.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 2, 2022 • 7:28:58am

re: #65 No Malarkey!

A thread on vote suppression.

But because none of those actions are DIRECTLY preventing young people from voting - i.e. something akin to a literacy test where people are prevented from casting a ballot if they do not pass - Alito’s Calvinball Court is perfectly OK with this.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 2, 2022 • 7:29:41am

Violent GOP

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Dr. Matt  Nov 2, 2022 • 7:31:14am

That was too painful:

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 2, 2022 • 7:32:02am
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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 2, 2022 • 7:32:24am

oh shit this mf belongs in jail

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 2, 2022 • 7:37:11am

re: #74 Dopamine Fish

The buried lede in those tweets is that Eastman, Trump, and their wretched hive of scum and villainy were specifically targeting Clarence Thomas in an attempt to obtain a favorable SCOTUS ruling that would hold up the certification of the election until they could get the fix in. I so badly wish there was something we could do to deal with this corrupt and illegitimate Court before they wreck even more of the society we have worked so hard to build over the last 150 years.

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No Malarkey!  Nov 2, 2022 • 7:38:01am

re: #75 The Pie Overlord!

oh shit this mf belongs in jail

Did Bibi also convince Israeli voters this election is about inflation instead of just keeping his ass out of jail?

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No Malarkey!  Nov 2, 2022 • 7:39:48am

re: #76 Dopamine Fish

The buried lede in those tweets is that Eastman, Trump, and their wretched hive of scum and villainy were specifically targeting Clarence Thomas in an attempt to obtain a favorable SCOTUS ruling that would hold up the certification of the election until they could get the fix in. I so badly wish there was something we could do to deal with this corrupt and illegitimate Court before they wreck even more of the society we have worked so hard to build over the last 150 years.

We can only hope the polling is wrong and that the Democrats retain control of the House and increase their majority in the Senate. Even then, it seems unlikely that Congress will take any action.

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JC1  Nov 2, 2022 • 7:55:58am

re: #66 Dr. Matt

Elon’s ridiculous bad decision to buy twitter is just like every knee jerk terrible decision made by The Don from the golden escalator moment, the suggestion of a Space Farce, starting his own social media network, etc., etc., Famous and rich people who are so desperate for attention and believe their fame and fortunate is equivalent to actual leadership. Throw Kanye West in that bucket as well.

Elon had a lot of folks, including Twitter’s founder, pushing him to buy it.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 2, 2022 • 7:56:12am

re: #78 No Malarkey!

We can only hope the polling is wrong and that the Democrats retain control of the House and increase their majority in the Senate. Even then, it seems unlikely that Congress will take any action.

And even if all of that happens, there’s still a significant likelihood that the Alito Calvinball Court will fuck up a significant portion of life as we know it before any changes can be made, purely out of spite.

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Dangerman  Nov 2, 2022 • 7:57:53am

re: #75 The Pie Overlord!

oh shit this mf belongs in jail

i’m reading closer to 62, maybe only 61 seats

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Dangerman  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:00:15am

re: #76 Dopamine Fish

The buried lede in those tweets is that Eastman, Trump, and their wretched hive of scum and villainy were specifically targeting Clarence Thomas in an attempt to obtain a favorable SCOTUS ruling that would hold up the certification of the election until they could get the fix in. I so badly wish there was something we could do to deal with this corrupt and illegitimate Court before they wreck even more of the society we have worked so hard to build over the last 150 years.

how does it feel to be seen as a gettable/influenceable/corruptable supreme court justice?

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Jay C  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:03:37am

re: #81 Dangerman

i’m reading closer to 62, maybe only 61 seats

Doesn’t matter. If Bibi is the only politico who the majority of MKs will (or can) vote for: HE’S BAAAACK!!!

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:04:42am

re: #82 Dangerman

how does it feel to be seen as a gettable/influenceable/corruptable supreme court justice?

But the real problem is the people who view this Court as illegitimate, because the Court’s whole reason for existing is to be the ultimate authority in this country, and they are not to be doubted, challenged, or have their integrity questioned under any circumstances.

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A Cranky One  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:05:25am

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EstebanTornado1963  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:06:03am

re: #58 No Malarkey!

Me and the gf caught RSV (she got it first, that meant I automatically got it) from the grand baby in Hawaii. It’s no joke l was really sick for 2 days and just now feeling fully recovered. So a little over 10 days of not feeling right.
And we got the flu shot last month.

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Belafon  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:08:33am
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William Lewis  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:09:30am

A very cool newly posted video about USS Olympia.

USS Olympia - From Cali to Philly via Manila

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Sherlock Hound  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:10:35am

re: #87 Belafon

I think Oliver doesn’t care if his country goes to shit. Just a thought.

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Belafon  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:11:23am
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Eventual Carrion  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:14:14am

re: #2 Hecuba’s daughter

[Snip]

As to wordle — par again

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A rare 2/6 for me

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:15:32am

re: #16 Dangerman

First he made a stupid, boneheaded deal.

And surprisingly, at least for size of the dollars involved, he had no actual detailed plan going in. Or all the necessary relevant info one usually gets before signing.

Now he’s flailing and the panic will soon be palpable.
Bekcause the numbers don’t, won’t, and can’t work.
Still he’s desperate to find some model that will magically generate heaps of cash.

And to do that instantly, as if by force of will alone can get it done, gosh darn it.

But there is no heretofore hidden and untapped mega market just itching to throw enough $ at the Twit for elmo to pay his note.

Is it possible that, like many believed, he really had no intention of buying Twitter, that the offer was just on a whim for publicity or perhaps a market manipulation scheme that he thought he could abandon with no consequences, except a healthy payday for himself? We know he desperately tried to walk away from the deal and then was legally forced to follow through. The question remains: how did he get the financial support to craft the deal given that there was no serious plan to make Twitter sufficiently profitable to support the price he offered? Is the myth about his financial prowess so great that institutions believed he could accomplish this without their doing any due diligence? Are they that incompetent?

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Teukka  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:15:37am

Large craters discovered at Nord Stream

Three to five meter deep craters and blown pipe parts have been discovered during investigations of the damaged gas lines.
Recently, the company Nord Stream AG published the first results after its investigations at the site of the previous gas leaks in the Swedish economic zone, just a few miles from the Swedish coast.
After being on site for just under a week with a research vessel, they can state that craters with a depth of three to five meters are found on the seabed at a distance of about 248 meters from each other.
“The section of the pipe between the craters is destroyed”, writes Nord Stream AG.
They also state that pipe fragments have been spread in a radius of at least 250 meters.
Their experts will now continue to analyze the results of the survey.

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Mattand  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:16:13am

re: #88 William Lewis

A very cool newly posted video about USS Olympia.

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Another one of those Philly landmarks I’ve walked or driven by a million times but never visited.

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:21:43am

re: #19 gocart Mozart

The old saying, “My autocorrect doesn’t understand how much I cuss, and how very rarely I talk about ducks”.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:21:44am

re: #88 William Lewis

A very cool newly posted video about USS Olympia.

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I purposefully visited Philly for a few days then and actually met Drachinifel. I also picked myself out in the background of the video at one point. :)

I do like his content. Just that little bit of wit added in here and there to keep things fresh and a good deal of nautical and historical engineering information.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:21:46am

Thoughts needed on this:

My wife does daycare and is currently watching a friends four month-old daughter. Said friend also has a 3 year-old in daycare. However, friends husband just got a promotion and because of the income boost (which is not that much in reality), they lost the government assistance they were getting to pay for daycare.

So now our friend is asking my wife if she would be willing to start watching the three year-old in addition to the four month-old and “oh, by the way, we can’t pay you much more than we’re paying you now.”

These are good friends of ours (my wife used to babysit this mother when the mother was a kid) and we care about the family, but I just can’t help but feel we’re being taken advantage of here. Adding another child to a caregivers responsibilities is not a small thing and to ask my wife to do it for pretty much no cost seems…unfair to her.

But we also know money is tight for them and what they are offering is probably all they can afford right now.

We don’t want to burn the bridge with them, but there doesn’t seem to be an easy way out here.

Any suggestions appreciated.

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Dave In Austin  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:24:10am

re: #97 Eclectic Cyborg

Do they own a lawnmower?

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Crush White Nationalism  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:24:39am

This should be a simple choice in a secular society

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A Cranky One  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:29:58am

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Dangerman  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:34:41am

re: #83 Jay C

Doesn’t matter. If Bibi is the only politico who the majority of MKs will (or can) vote for: HE’S BAAAACK!!!

oh no doubt

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:35:20am

re: #92 Hecuba’s daughter

Is it possible that, like many believed, he really had no intention of buying Twitter, that the offer was just on a whim for publicity or perhaps a market manipulation scheme that he thought he could abandon with no consequences, except a healthy payday for himself?

Or like Brexit or Trump 2016, a publicity stunt that got away from itself and could not be backed out of?

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Dangerman  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:36:15am

re: #87 Belafon

i blame anyone/everyone who doesnt vote D

if you didnt vote, you didnt vote D

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(((Archangel1)))  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:37:40am

Good morning folks, if you can call it that.
Am I depressed over the local election results? You bet. Especially over how stupid it is.
Netanyahu didn’t get some dramatic voter turnout that led him to a crushing victory - as of now, he got over 23% of the votes, basically like last time.
So what changed? Did the Israeli population drastically turn into ultra-right fanatics in a massive shift? Nope.
The leadership in the Israeli left let pride get in the way of common sense and MASSIVELY f*cked up due to the nature of the Israeli parliamentary system:

Way to go, Israeli liberal leadership! /MASSIVE Sarcasm

Those two parties I circled that as of now that just miss the 3.25% parliament threshold? The Jewish Liberal party Meretz and the Israeli-Arab party Balad. Meretz previous ran in a coalition with the Labor and the Arab parties ran as one unified coalition. Both split this year, the former due to the arrogance of Labor leadership and the latter due to Balad’s.
As a result, over 6% of Israeli votes, all of them votes against Bibi, are effectively trashed and will NOT be represented in the Knesset parliament. That loss gives Bibi’s block the very narrow parliamentary window he needs, instead of never having a chance at a coalition government.

Meretz still has a slight chance at making it. However, Balad’s almost-certain failure still gives Netanyahu a tiny (and problematic) advantage.
Final results will likely be up by tomorrow but it’ll mostly stay the same.

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Mattand  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:38:55am

re: #97 Eclectic Cyborg

Thoughts needed on this:

My wife does daycare and is currently watching a friends four month-old daughter. Said friend also has a 3 year-old in daycare. However, friends husband just got a promotion and because of the income boost (which is not that much in reality), they lost the government assistance they were getting to pay for daycare.

So now our friend is asking my wife if she would be willing to start watching the three year-old in addition to the four month-old and “oh, by the way, we can’t pay you much more than we’re paying you now.”

These are good friends of ours (my wife used to babysit this mother when the mother was a kid) and we care about the family, but I just can’t help but feel we’re being taken advantage of here. Adding another child to a caregivers responsibilities is not a small thing and to ask my wife to do it for pretty much no cost seems…unfair to her.

But we also know money is tight for them and what they are offering is probably all they can afford right now.

We don’t want to burn the bridge with them, but there doesn’t seem to be an easy way out here.

Any suggestions appreciated.

You might just have to be as diplomatic as possible and say “No.”

It’s not the same thing, but I used to get requests from people (often friends) to do cartoons or some kind of artwork for them. Always for free and always stuff that I couldn’t dash out in 15 minutes.

So I just started saying “No”. People got pissed at me, but you know what? I’m not your fucking slave labor. The eight hours to do your piece for free eats into time I need for actual paying work, time needed for housework/yardwork, or downtime to keep my sanity.

I have a neighbor, who is a great guy, ask me to do some logo designs for a business he tried to start and then was shocked when I suggest payment after I did the comps.

Fuck. That. Never again.

I know this isn’t easy since you’re friendly with these people, and I feel for them, but you and the missus come first. Maybe give them a grace period of a few months and if they can’t come up with a non-insulting offer, cut them off.

Sorry I don’t have anything less uncomfortable.

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Belafon  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:39:38am
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Dangerman  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:39:46am

re: #92 Hecuba’s daughter

Is it possible that, like many believed, he really had no intention of buying Twitter, that the offer was just on a whim for publicity or perhaps a market manipulation scheme that he thought he could abandon with no consequences, except a healthy payday for himself? We know he desperately tried to walk away from the deal and then was legally forced to follow through. The question remains: how did he get the financial support to craft the deal given that there was no serious plan to make Twitter sufficiently profitable to support the price he offered? Is the myth about his financial prowess so great that institutions believed he could accomplish this without their doing any due diligence? Are they that incompetent?

too stupid to sign a deal with no escape clause?

because too stupid to remember you negotiated away the due diligence clause?

who risks gambles $44bn on a whim or for the lulz or the eyeballs?

as to the banks; as above, I have absolutely no idea what they were thinking their payoff would be

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A Cranky One  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:40:29am

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Mattand  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:44:34am

re: #107 Dangerman

as to the banks; as above, I have absolutely no idea what they were thinking their payoff would be

Honestly, I’m starting to come around to the idea the banks involved are laundering money for criminal organizations. There’s enough chaos around Elon at any given moment that maybe it’s plausible a few $10 million of drug money here and there can get written off as a bad investment in a tech company.

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Dangerman  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:48:46am

re: #105 Mattand

You might just have to be as diplomatic as possible and say “No.”

It’s not the same thing, but I used to get requests from people (often friends) to do cartoons or some kind of artwork for them. Always for free and always stuff that I couldn’t dash out in 15 minutes.

So I just started saying “No”. People got pissed at me, but you know what? I’m not your fucking slave labor. The eight hours to do your piece for free eats into time I need for actual paying work, time needed for housework/yardwork, or downtime to keep my sanity.

I have a neighbor, who is a great guy, ask me to do some logo designs for a business he tried to start and then was shocked when I suggest payment after I did the comps.

Fuck. That. Never again.

I know this isn’t easy since you’re friendly with these people, and I feel for them, but you and the missus come first. Maybe give them a grace period of a few months and if they can’t come up with a non-insulting offer, cut them off.

Sorry I don’t have anything less uncomfortable.

in a sense they’re saying they can’t afford ‘actual’ child care that prices in all sorts of known intangible costs…

why should you?

there are actual liability issues - even w/r/t casual child care
there is risk
and there are implicit costs to those risks
don’t brush them aside as zero because ‘it’s not an issue unless something happened’…

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darthstar  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:49:34am
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Dangerman  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:53:29am

re: #111 darthstar

im not sure lindsey taking the fifth helps spy45

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Belafon  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:53:59am

What’s interesting about the last article is the Republican controlled committee that oversees the state Water Development Board unanimously votes to require it to consult with a climatologist in making plans.

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Florida Panhandler  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:54:08am

re: #79 JC1

Elon had a lot of folks, including Twitter’s founder, pushing him to buy it.

This Twitter fiasco will be a Business 101 Class study in how pure ego and a revenge agenda can turn $44 Billion into a $1 Billion IP fire sale in just 5 years or so.

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darthstar  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:54:53am

re: #112 Dangerman

im not sure lindsey taking the fifth helps spy45

I’m half hoping he offers to testify in return for immunity from state charges.

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darthstar  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:56:57am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:57:17am

re: #104 (((Archangel1)))

Remember that a split in the Democratic party helped get Lincoln elected in 1860…

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Jay C  Nov 2, 2022 • 8:57:56am

re: #114 Florida Panhandler

This Twitter fiasco will be a Business 101 Class study in how pure ego and a revenge agenda can turn $44 Billion into a $1 Billion IP fire sale in just 5 years or so.

Can we start a pool?
I’m thinking three years (at most) before the “Fire Sale” notices start going out….

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:00:17am

re: #113 Belafon

decline in fossil fuel emissions vs increase in gdp
co2 emissions ≠ growth.

don’t say we can’t do it.

A lot of people still measure wealth and prosperity in how many resources we consume, not the quality of life we produce by consuming them.

I recall the Pravda proudly boasting of increases in industrial output, increased output in tons of steel (when the West was moving to more plastics and alloys) and an increase in electronics production - measured in tons of electronics produced.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:00:23am

re: #97 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m kinda old now and maybe it’s just me, but I seem to recall that there is a significant amount of time and effort between watching and caring for a 4-month-old and a 3-year-old. Having both responsibilities at the same time is even MORE time and energy consuming.

Personally, even though they are friends and you feel for them, I’d tell them that it is just not possible to take on that much responsibility without an appropriately enhanced fee.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:01:27am

And here it is. Avatar: The Way of Water trailer dropped.

Avatar: The Way of Water | Official Trailer

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Belafon  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:01:52am

re: #113 Belafon

Reload

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:02:16am

re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m kinda old now and maybe it’s just me, but I seem to recall that there is a significant amount of time and effort between watching and caring for a 4-month-old and a 3-year-old. Having both responsibilities at the same time is even MORE time and energy consuming.

Personally, even though they are friends and you feel for them, I’d tell them that it is just not possible to take on that much responsibility without an appropriately enhanced fee.

and a 4 and 3-year old together = amount of time and attention required²

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Belafon  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:03:29am
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William Lewis  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:06:44am

re: #96 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I purposefully visited Philly for a few days then and actually met Drachinifel. I also picked myself out in the background of the video at one point. :)

I do like his content. Just that little bit of wit added in here and there to keep things fresh and a good deal of nautical and historical engineering information.

I consider him the finest naval history creator on YouTube. There are very few others equal to him in other fields.

There’s another new one shaping up as good about aviation history called Rex’s Hanger.

And there is always Ian’s “Forgotten Weapons” which is amazing most days.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:07:54am

re: #105 Mattand

A real friend understands the value of your time and doesn’t ask you to do things that relate to your day job for free, or at a steep discount. I have a friend who is a graphic designer. He approached me one time about doing a collab where I would work on some backend stuff for him. He didn’t lead with, “Hey, you’re my friend, can you do me a favor?” He led with, “Hey, you’re my friend and you’re a competent backend engineer, what’s your consulting rate?” I’m OK with doing small nothings for friends, but if you’re going to engage me to do something that requires serious time commitment, you’re paying the rate I ask for. If you’re a good friend, I’ll give you a bit of a haircut, but you’re still paying the rate I ask for.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:08:23am

So the Fed is going to raise rates again, today.

All sorts of contradictory stories out in the various media, about what the effects will be.

But the bottom line is your interest rates are going up.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:09:35am

re: #125 William Lewis

I consider him the finest naval history creator on YouTube. There are very few others equal to him in other fields.

There’s another new one shaping up as good about aviation history called Rex’s Hanger.

And there is always Ian’s “Forgotten Weapons” which is amazing most days.

three of my YT faves.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:10:19am

re: #127 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So the Fed is going to raise rates again, today.

All sorts of contradictory stories out in the various media, about what the effects will be.

They will all agree that this is Bad News for Biden.

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JC1  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:12:04am

re: #114 Florida Panhandler

This Twitter fiasco will be a Business 101 Class study in how pure ego and a revenge agenda can turn $44 Billion into a $1 Billion IP fire sale in just 5 years or so.

It’ll be like Fox buying MySpace but with 100x the stakes.

131
Dr. Matt  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:12:29am

A classic example of: How it started vs. how it’s going:

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:13:43am

re: #125 William Lewis

I consider him the finest naval history creator on YouTube. There are very few others equal to him in other fields.

There’s another new one shaping up as good about aviation history called Rex’s Hanger.

And there is always Ian’s “Forgotten Weapons” which is amazing most days.

I watch both of them. Also the Chieftain’s material on armor doctrine and vehicle reviews since that’s also an area of interest to me. The fact that they have done cross-questions at times has been pretty interesting.

Via Drachinifel I’ve also been listening to the “Bilge Pumps” podcasts on modern naval history and also watching some of Dr. Alexander Clarke’s naval history videos. (His presentation methods are sometimes a bit abrasive to me however.)

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Belafon  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:13:52am

re: #127 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So the Fed is going to raise rates again, today.

All sorts of contradictory stories out in the various media, about what the effects will be.

But the bottom line is your interest rates are going up.

“If you want to know which party isn’t playing politics while trying to govern, think about which party had the will to raise interest rates a week before the election.”

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JC1  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:14:47am

re: #118 Jay C

Can we start a pool?
I’m thinking three years (at most) before the “Fire Sale” notices start going out….

Twitter isn’t all that expensive to run, and Elon can keep it going as a vanity project until he needs to record the loss to offset capital gains elsewhere.

135
Belafon  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:14:52am
136
Hecuba's daughter  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:16:08am

re: #114 Florida Panhandler

This Twitter fiasco will be a Business 101 Class study in how pure ego and a revenge agenda can turn $44 Billion into a $1 Billion IP fire sale in just 5 years or so.

Elon is the world’s richest man based on the value of his investments, and not bullion safely stored in a vault. What happens when Tesla totally tanks because, instead of focusing on his existing investments, he made(or was forced to make) a vanity purchase? His 100 billion in Tesla stock could evaporate before our eyes. He will remain a billionaire but not at these exalted levels. Or maybe Musk is a stalking horse for the Saudis, who want to control any bad information about their conduct and silence (permanently) those who oppose them.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:18:09am

re: #135 Belafon

Paywalled, unfortunately.

But it would be nice to see someone build a decent team in Washington again.

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William Lewis  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:18:43am

re: #132 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I watch both of them. Also the Chieftain’s material on armor doctrine and vehicle reviews since that’s also an area of interest to me. The fact that they have done cross-questions at times has been pretty interesting.

Via Drachinifel I’ve also been listening to the “Bilge Pumps” podcasts on modern naval history and also watching some of Dr. Alexander Clarke’s naval history videos. (His presentation methods are sometimes a bit abrasive to me however.)

Oh, Chieftan is excellent too. I wonder when he’s up for his Lt Col promotion?

A couple of others I’d recommend are Bismark’s Military Aviation History, Mae & Othias’ C&Rsenal and, if you have interest in black powder shooting, Capandball.

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A Cranky One  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:18:46am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:19:24am

re: #134 JC1

Twitter isn’t all that expensive to run…

especially if you invest next-to-zero in moderating content

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JC1  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:20:46am

re: #131 Dr. Matt

A classic example of: How it started vs. how it’s going:

[Embedded content]

Mattress Mack is great. I know the people who advised him on making/hedging his bets.
There are 2 or 3 ‘Gambling with an edge’ podcasts that go into the details of this.

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wrenchwench  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:21:43am

I wordled. Then I read yesterday’s article about Uvalde at the Texas Tribune. I should stick to Wordle.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 501 3/6*

⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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JC1  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:22:24am

re: #136 Hecuba’s daughter

Elon is the world’s richest man based on the value of his investments, and not bullion safely stored in a vault. What happens when Tesla totally tanks because, instead of focusing on his existing investments, he made(or was forced to make) a vanity purchase? His 100 billion in Tesla stock could evaporate before our eyes. He will remain a billionaire but not at these exalted levels. Or maybe Musk is a stalking horse for the Saudis, who want to control any bad information about their conduct and silence (permanently) those who oppose them.

Tesla is way overvalued and will decline regardless of what Elon does. SpaceX will probably provide most of his net worth in the future.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:23:18am

re: #140 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

especially if you invest next-to-zero in moderating content

And make it 4chan or 8kun? He sill has to pay interest on the loans to the banks.

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Belafon  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:27:48am
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jaunte  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:29:20am

re: #131 Dr. Matt

I don’t follow baseball but I can celebrate that Trump-supporting jerk losing his cool and his money.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:29:24am

Great thread from one of my favorite Twitter reads on just why Musk’s “lul I’m gonna charge $8 and any schmo who pays gets a blue checkmark” is an even dumber idea than most of us think. (TL;DR: It’s really fucking dumb.)

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Dangerman  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:30:00am

re: #115 darthstar

I’m half hoping he offers to testify in return for immunity from state charges.

Link

There are some questions he might be able to dodge, based on the argument that they relate to his business as a legislator. But those will be the exception, meaning that for the rest, he’ll have to choose whether to lie and commit perjury, or to throw Donald Trump under the bus and commit potential career suicide, or to invoke the Fifth Amendment, which will make Graham look guilty and will aggravate Trump. Not a lot of winning options there

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:30:40am

re: #146 jaunte

I don’t follow baseball but I can celebrate that Trump-supporting jerk losing his cool and his money.

He hasn’t lost…yet. If the Astros don’t win the World Series, then he’s out the money.

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jaunte  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:31:21am

re: #149 Eclectic Cyborg

So you’re saying there’s still a chance!

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Dr. Matt  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:31:42am

re: #146 jaunte

I don’t follow baseball but I can celebrate that Trump-supporting jerk losing his cool and his money.

I hope the Astros crash and burn just to spite Rafael Cruz (R-Fuckwad).

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William Lewis  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:32:06am

Well, off to get another booster & my flu shot. Later!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:32:58am
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Florida Panhandler  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:34:41am

re: #147 Dopamine Fish

Great thread from one of my favorite Twitter reads on just why Musk’s “lul I’m gonna charge $8 and any schmo who pays gets a blue checkmark” is an even dumber idea than most of us think. (TL;DR: It’s really fucking dumb.)

Once it becomes overwhelmingly unreliable who is actually real and who isn’t is the day Twitter starts its death spiral. And there will be no coming back, porn or not.

This is a rapidly developing lesson in how Libertarian dude-bro philosophy has to interact with the real world with its actual people, actual laws, actual nationalist realities and a realization technology in of itself is not a solution to every problem.

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Belafon  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:34:50am

GMA interviewed Daniel Radcliffe about his role as Weird Al. He said Weird Al picked him because he did a Tom Lehrer song on a talk show 10 years ago.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:38:58am

re: #154 Florida Panhandler

This is a rapidly developing lesson in how Libertarian dude-bro philosophy has to interact with the real world with its actual people, actual laws, actual nationalist realities and a realization technology in of itself is not a solution to every problem.

The cryptobros are already well on their way to learning these lessons, or as much of them as can penetrate their incredibly dense skulls.

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Dangerman  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:47:38am

re: #126 Dopamine Fish

A real friend understands the value of your time and doesn’t ask you to do things that relate to your day job for free, or at a steep discount. I have a friend who is a graphic designer. He approached me one time about doing a collab where I would work on some backend stuff for him. He didn’t lead with, “Hey, you’re my friend, can you do me a favor?” He led with, “Hey, you’re my friend and you’re a competent backend engineer, what’s your consulting rate?” I’m OK with doing small nothings for friends, but if you’re going to engage me to do something that requires serious time commitment, you’re paying the rate I ask for. If you’re a good friend, I’ll give you a bit of a haircut, but you’re still paying the rate I ask for.

Often clients, not even friends, would ask can i cut the rate…

I’d hand them my client list (it used to be on paper) and say sure, tell me who you and I will ask to make up the difference because you want a special rate they’re not getting

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TedStriker  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:48:01am

re: #143 JC1

Tesla is way overvalued and will decline regardless of what Elon does. SpaceX will probably provide most of his net worth in the future.

And that will be on the back of government launch contracts.

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Jay C  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:49:08am

re: #134 JC1

Twitter isn’t all that expensive to run, and Elon can keep it going as a vanity project until he needs to record the loss to offset capital gains elsewhere.

I dunno: I quite agree about the “vanity project” part, but a cursory glance at Twitter, Inc.’s 2021 numbers shows a net profit of $221M on revenues of $5.1B, or a margin of 4.3% net. Not bad, per se , but hard to see where Elon can either/or pare costs/boost cash flow enough to pay off the enormous acquisition debt he’s taken on to get the company in the first place.

Yes, Musk’s acquisition of Twitter probably WILL become a standard model in business-school textbooks in the future: though likely as a negative example: the social-media equivalent of the Edsel…

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Dave In Austin  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:50:05am

Dude Doxes himself
flcompanyregistry.com

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Dangerman  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:52:24am

re: #134 JC1

Twitter isn’t all that expensive to run, and Elon can keep it going as a vanity project until he needs to record the loss to offset capital gains elsewhere.

he has to make those loan payments

He can run it how he wants but everyone will “know” Twitter isn’t pulling its weight re cash flow

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:54:29am

re: #157 Dangerman

Often clients, not even friends, would ask can i cut the rate…

I’d hand them my client list (it used to be on paper) and say sure, tell me who you and I will ask to make up the difference because you want a special rate they’re not getting

I did a side project for someone one time. He gave me the specs, I turned up a work estimate based on the existing code and the desired functionality, and gave him a quote based on, “Here’s the expected price, my invoice might come in under this depending on if I can finish it in fewer hours billed.” He was like, “Oh. I don’t think I can afford you, I was expecting to pay (amount less than 1/4 of my quoted price).” I didn’t have any other side projects and I’m full-time employed (so not doing it for the money), so I told him, “I’ll still do it, but now you know what I charge. If we’re going to do another project together, I expect you to budget accordingly, or find a fresh college graduate who might still be billing at that rate.” We did not wind up collaborating on any more projects.

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(((Archangel1)))  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:54:33am

This assumes that Ayelet Shaked’s disqualified party and its 48,870 votes would have gone with Netanyahu. In reality, they’d have gone to the highest bidder. But even with that, Netanyahu did not get the bigger vote.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:56:50am

re: #163 (((Archangel1)))

and if you wonder why UK is such a ye royale clusrefuque, remember that they have the “first past the post” voting system: the party with the most votes (no majority needed) wins the elections.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:57:00am

re: #163 (((Archangel1)))

As you said — the Israeli equivalent of the Electoral College.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 2, 2022 • 9:59:14am

re: #163 (((Archangel1)))

Just remember, no matter how fucked up you think the Electoral College is, there is another country whose election system is even more fucked up, which is why they keep having election do-overs.

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(((Archangel1)))  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:00:10am

re: #165 Hecuba’s daughter

As you said — the Israeli equivalent of the Electoral College.

Yeah, if the electoral college was WAY more convoluted and ridiculous.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:00:37am

re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and if you wonder why UK is such a ye royale clusrefuque, remember that they have the “first past the post” voting system: the party with the most votes (no majority needed) wins the elections.

Don’t they still need to get approval of a majority of members of Parliament to form a government?

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jaunte  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:01:44am

Future Frauds of America

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DodgerFan1988  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:01:58am
171
Dr. Matt  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:02:54am

re: #161 Dangerman

he has to make those loan payments

He can run it how he wants but everyone will “know” Twitter isn’t pulling its weight re cash flow

I read somewhere that the loan payments are something like $1B year?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:04:40am

re: #168 Hecuba’s daughter

Don’t they still need to get approval of a majority of members of Parliament to form a government?

yes, I simply mean that when the individual MPs are elected in their districts, it is the party with the most votes, regardless of what share of the votes it gets.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:06:12am

re: #172 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

yes, I simply mean that when the individual MPs are elected in their districts, it is the party with the most votes, regardless of what share of the votes it gets.

There are no districts represented in the Knesset.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:08:34am

re: #173 The Pie Overlord!

There are no districts represented in the Knesset.

Germany has a mixed system: half of the ministers are elected directly in their districts and half are apportioned based on the share of votes overall that their party received. So you vote twice: once for a candidate, once for a party.

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sagehen  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:10:07am

re: #136 Hecuba’s daughter

Elon is the world’s richest man based on the value of his investments, and not bullion safely stored in a vault. What happens when Tesla totally tanks because, instead of focusing on his existing investments, he made(or was forced to make) a vanity purchase? His 100 billion in Tesla stock could evaporate before our eyes. He will remain a billionaire but not at these exalted levels. Or maybe Musk is a stalking horse for the Saudis, who want to control any bad information about their conduct and silence (permanently) those who oppose them.

I wonder what he could charge “interested parties” for all of (journalist)(activist)(political opponent)’s DMs?

176
(((Archangel1)))  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:13:47am

re: #168 Hecuba’s daughter

Don’t they still need to get approval of a majority of members of Parliament to form a government?

After the election, the Israeli president (a symbolic position) grants the head of the party with the most votes and/or heading the biggest bloc the task of assembling a coalition within three weeks. This is where the potential PM and his party negotiate with the others over who gets what in exchange for joining the coalition - and where things can and usually do go wrong.
If successful, the potential PM officially announces to the president that they’ve succeeded and the coalition is voted/sworn in (Knesset parliament members will have already been sworn in before that).
If not, the president can extend the assembly time, or can task another with assembling a coalition. If no one succeeds, new elections are called. This happened already in the past two years, but barring an unexpected disaster, Netanyahu will likely assemble his coalition, one way or another. How long it lasts is anyone’s guess.

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Dangerman  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:18:03am

re: #162 Dopamine Fish

I did a side project for someone one time. He gave me the specs, I turned up a work estimate based on the existing code and the desired functionality, and gave him a quote based on, “Here’s the expected price, my invoice might come in under this depending on if I can finish it in fewer hours billed.” He was like, “Oh. I don’t think I can afford you, I was expecting to pay (amount less than 1/4 of my quoted price).” I didn’t have any other side projects and I’m full-time employed (so not doing it for the money), so I told him, “I’ll still do it, but now you know what I charge. If we’re going to do another project together, I expect you to budget accordingly, or find a fresh college graduate who might still be billing at that rate.” We did not wind up collaborating on any more projects.

as the engagement letter says, all we have to sell is time, the more you use, the more it costs…
the rate’s the rate, and the hours are the hours
its math

now clearly sometimes there’s no way to actually bill (or collect that)
it could be their fault, or mine
so another thing we do is always invoice the actual full amount.
they have to know what they’re getting and how much it costs ‘in real life’ - ie from a stranger
then will discount (deeply) as necessary to keep it reasonable

(and our hourly rate is still a bargain in the first place)

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Mattand  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:20:31am

re: #169 jaunte

Future Frauds of America

LOL, look at all the “youth” in that poster!

I SAID “LOOK AT IT!!!!”

On second thought, don’t.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:21:34am

re: #172 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

yes, I simply mean that when the individual MPs are elected in their districts, it is the party with the most votes, regardless of what share of the votes it gets.

Same is true here, except for a few states. Didn’t Georgia change its rules awhile ago to prevent African American candidates from winning a Senate seat? A few races now have ranked voting so a runoff isn’t needed.

180
ericblair  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:29:57am

re: #156 Dopamine Fish

The cryptobros are already well on their way to learning these lessons, or as much of them as can penetrate their incredibly dense skulls.

I’m an engineer but not a techbro. My analysis of techbros is that they’re usually smart, but have no interest in anything outside finance and tech and anything that happened before the iPhone. So, for all sorts of problems such as public transit, information sharing, asset rental and the like, they have zero idea that these problems have been worked on for decades or centuries, and there’s a huge body of knowledge for all of it, which governments are well used to. So you get Uber bros groping around reinventing a bus route with an app so you can tell when the bus comes.

A lot of early success was abuse of loopholes for hotels (AirBnB) and taxis (Uber, Lyft), and all around abuse of independent contractor status. Sure, you can get a real leg up on the competition when you decide you don’t have to meet the same standards and pay the same wages and taxes.

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Dangerman  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:31:32am

re: #180 ericblair

…

A lot of early success was abuse of loopholes for hotels (AirBnB) and taxis (Uber, Lyft). Sure, you can get a real leg up on the competition when you decide you don’t have to meet the same standards and pay the same taxes.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:31:42am
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Dr. Matt  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:34:23am

re: #182 The Pie Overlord!

[Embedded content]

GQPers now have their “proof” that foreigners are trying to get our youth addicted to Halloween candy laced with drugs.

////

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:35:02am

re: #182 The Pie Overlord!

It’s still not fentanyl. Ugh. It’s been 2 days, how many days do I need to keep sending my kids out before they come back with the good stuff?

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JC1  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:35:31am

re: #158 TedStriker

And that will be on the back of government launch contracts.

SpaceX is still WAY less expensive than any alternative, so Elon is saving the government/taxpayers money. SpaceX also means that we don’t have to rely on Russia to resupply the ISS. There’s lots to dislike about Elon, but SpaceX has been a huge net positive, IMHO.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:37:21am

re: #183 Dr. Matt

GQPers now have their “proof” that foreigners are trying to get our youth addicted to Halloween candy laced with drugs.

////

Foreigners in their foreign country. Despicable and it does give the GQP ammunition for their attacks here. If it can happen in Canada, it can occur here too

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Dr. Matt  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:38:24am

Tumblr is allowing pron [sic] again. Looks like they may be trying to outflank Lord Elon.

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JC1  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:40:01am

re: #161 Dangerman

he has to make those loan payments

He can run it how he wants but everyone will “know” Twitter isn’t pulling its weight re cash flow

Twitter in its current form can in no way justify or support what he paid for it, or even 1/4th of what he paid for it. If he can bring about the proposed vision of Twitter becoming more like WeChat without the Chinese oversight, then he might be on to something. Time will tell, but it’s looking like a fiasco so far.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:41:54am
190
Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:42:50am

re: #182 The Pie Overlord!

I’m gonna hope that was an unfortunate case of mixing a few bags up.

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ericblair  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:42:54am

re: #185 JC1

SpaceX is still WAY less expensive than any alternative, so Elon is saving the government/taxpayers money. SpaceX also means that we don’t have to rely on Russia to resupply the ISS. There’s lots to dislike about Elon, but SpaceX has been a huge net positive, IMHO.

This is true, and you can, in fact, hand it to Elmo for throwing a bunch of money into research and development of reusable booster units. That’s where the cost savings comes from. I mean, ok, this was all in service of his bananapants quest to be Emperor of Mars by 2035, but it did work.

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jaunte  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:43:07am

re: #189 Dopamine Fish

Mike Masnick:

“Boss, apologies, but our most famous and popular user, the President, is encouraging his vocal fans to burn down our offices because we put a fact check on his post urging people to strangle anyone with differing political views.”

Do you think someone will buy us?

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Dr. Matt  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:47:15am

Salient point:

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Dr. Matt  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:49:50am

Looks like folks are testing the limits of Lord Elon’s so-called “Free Speech” approach to twitter. Here’s the trending hashtag (with amusing content): #TrumpIsDead (URL: twitter.com)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 2, 2022 • 10:57:19am

re: #179 Hecuba’s daughter

Same is true here, except for a few states. Didn’t Georgia change its rules awhile ago to prevent African American candidates from winning a Senate seat? A few races now have ranked voting so a runoff isn’t needed.

Arizona changed its laws after Even Mecham, a Mormon Pontiac dealer from Mesa, won because the Democratic vote was split by a renegade independent.

He was later impeached for basically being an embarrassment to the state and even to his party.

Now there has to be a run-off if nobody wins a majority

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John Hughes  Nov 2, 2022 • 11:08:31am

re: #19 gocart mozart

Why a duck?

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sagehen  Nov 2, 2022 • 11:24:26am

re: #196 John Hughes

Why a duck?

Marx Bros. Why a Duck?

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John Hughes  Nov 2, 2022 • 3:59:30pm

re: #138 William Lewis

The bloke and his friend the chap.


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