Vinny, do/did you watch Big Bang Theory? No. My TV watching is fairly much confined to C-Span, the Yankees, the Celtics, Providence College basketball, MLB Network. No TV shows. The main character, Sheldon Cooper, is a lot like you describe yourself. In many ways, the more I think of it. You might ...

New avatar.

I predicted that they would dump Biden early in his term. Using the info from the laptop. When it didn’t happen, I figured they realized they didn’t want the embarrassment of President Harris. So then I figured they’d allow the laptop stuff in time to make sure he doesn’t stand for reelection. The d...

Vinny, do/did you watch Big Bang Theory? No. My TV watching is fairly much confined to C-Span, the Yankees, the Celtics, Providence College basketball, MLB Network. No TV shows. The main character, Sheldon Cooper, is a lot like you describe yourself. In many ways, the more I think of it. You might ...

Vinny, do/did you watch Big Bang Theory?

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Jan 17, 2023 10:24 am attn I_Shrugged

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-con ... ll/61/text

Why me?

I mean, I don’t like it….

Something lighthearted :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvKiQRYORyE and read the comments! <snip> Wait! My son WAS thrown out of economics class. The Teacher was advising the kids to get Credit cards "To start building your credit" at some point when asked "But wouldn't it be nice ...

Well it's a bit lacking in naughty details. I told you AI will never work! :) Unfortunately, it is also quite politically correct. You have to get clever with the prompting to get it to write anything against the narrative. You would be even more dissappointed by the restrictions on DALL-E (the AI ...

Well it's a bit lacking in naughty details. I told you AI will never work!

Can one of you ask it to write a letter to Penthouse Forum?
Asking for a friend.

I give them a little money to help keep spread the word.

Crappy sandwich bread is $3.99 a loaf. That is inflation.

<snip> I feel like I should clarify my positions. Putin bad. By our standards, Russia is kind of barbaric at their core. Ukraine is probably not angelic. It's a corrupt place and I feel sure that Zelinsky is skimming money during this. It's what they do. I feel very bad for the Ukrainian people. NA...

There are some great essays in the new Foreign Affairs issue. I don’t want to bore I_Shrugged O0 with insufficient America-blaming, but one of the pieces sees three main possible outcomes from the Russian side. The first and least likely scenario is that Russia will agree to its defeat by accepting...

My somewhat out of balance PP, including an international stock allocation, -8.5%
Not as bad as it looked during the year.

I'm a bit high in stocks and low in gold.

The US does not have a free market. Just reading this story makes that clear.

https://stocks.apple.com/AmE1YHO_TQ_m7tzlPRc0e7g

Would it be wrong to say Chomsky is a kinder, gentler Marxist? That’s been my impression. I’m sure it’s more complicated, but that’s my 10,000 foot view of him. I just can’t take that seriously but I’m sure he is able to make some good logical points about it. Whenever I’ve been exposed to his ideas...

Holy chopsticks, that there is a lot of inside baseball.

I gave up after several boring paragraphs about how he became a made man. Sorry DS.

I gather the gist is that his reign is more fragile than thought.

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Dec 26, 2022 9:37 am Are you able to read this article by Cai Xia? Or just the beginning?

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/xi ... ten-future

Unable.

This is where we are. We have left wing media and right wing media. You are apparently required to pick a side, and then you have to denigrate anything said by the other side, whether it is worth considering or not. It could be an extremely important thing to know, but no, the other side is saying ...

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 3:14 pm

I Shrugged wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 1:18 pm I was most interested in the shot of people in Venezuela shaving gold slivers off of coins to make smaller purchases.

I’m sure that will make Smithers happy about his 5g pieces.
Do they use silver at all?

Yes.

This is where we are. We have left wing media and right wing media. You are apparently required to pick a side, and then you have to denigrate anything said by the other side, whether it is worth considering or not. It could be an extremely important thing to know, but no, the other side is saying i...

Speaking of data…this is pretty interesting. https://www.war-memorial.net/wars_all.asp My immediate reaction to that is, there are some very bad people in all of those. But we ignore most of them. Others, the ones that involve Russia or Iran or their allies, we are all over them. That is why I don'...

From my experience here’s where there is a problem with the military. We stay WAY too long when things are obviously not going well and the cost benefit analysis of military action has swung to the absolute loss side of the ledger. A weird dynamic occurs…all militaries hate to lose. It’s the ultima...

By the way.... How interesting that the crash coincides with GWB. Back then the media actually reported on the weapons of mass destruction not being found. What are they reporting in 2022 to make anyone mistrust the government? Nothing that I can think of. Probably like most of us, I have trouble s...