Daily "Check In" Thread For Us

[boglerdude]

Author is as expected. Elizabeth Spiers is a media strategist and writer in Brooklyn. Claims to have been sexually assaulted in college. Culture war is gender war.

Forum was down for a day I worried for Vinny

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[Smith1776]

One of my former coworkers got fired from her (new) job after glorifying Kirk's assassination:

https://www.rebelnews.com/edmonton_drag ... mier_smith

Yowza. I used to work right alongside this person.

[Smith1776]

Here are my Geekbench results for my new Core i9-14900KF CPU:

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/13864833

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Not too shabby!

[boglerdude]

Bunny Lebowski? Where were you working. Is there something you need to tell us

[Smith1776]

Bunny Lebowski? Where were you working. Is there something you need to tell us

Hahahha I wasn't even aware of her, er, extracurricular activities until the story broke.

[yankees60]

I read his excellent book. Here is what he had to say:



Michael Fanone’s Statement to the American People on The Death of Charlie Kirk:
“Charlie Kirk is dead. Shot in the middle of a speech at Utah Valley University.
I am not going to sugarcoat it: I have nothing but contempt for Charlie Kirk’s politics. He made a career out of poisoning young minds with grievance, conspiracy, and hate. He profited off division. He defended the indefensible. He celebrated cruelty. I don’t grieve for his ideas, and I won’t sanitize what he represented.
But here’s the thing: violence has no place in American politics. None.
I know what it’s like to be on the business end of political violence.
I felt fists, flagpoles, and tasers on January 6th. I heard men scream that they were going to kill me in the name of Donald Trump.
That day taught me something too many of us are still trying to ignore: once political violence becomes acceptable—once you decide that your enemy isn’t just wrong but expendable—you don’t control where it leads.
If you cheered this shooting because you hated Kirk, you’re no better than the mob that chanted for Mike Pence’s hanging. If you shrug it off because it happened to the other side, you’re part of the same sickness that’s rotting this country.
The truth is, we’re running out of safe spaces for disagreement. Universities, statehouses, even the Capitol itself—each one has been marked by the threat of blood.
Democracy doesn’t survive in that environment. Free speech doesn’t survive. We don’t survive.
Charlie Kirk’s death doesn’t make him a martyr. It doesn’t redeem his politics. But it does mark another line we’ve crossed in this country—a line that should never have been crossed in the first place.
I’ll say it again: violence is not politics. And if we don’t reclaim that principle right now, we’re going to lose the very thing that makes this place worth fighting for.”
—Michael Fanone is an American law enforcement analyst, author, and retired police officer who worked for the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia 2001–2021.

[dualstow]

One of my former coworkers got fired from her (new) job after glorifying Kirk's assassination:

https://www.rebelnews.com/edmonton_drag ... mier_smith

Yowza. I used to work right alongside this person.

Interesting

[dualstow]

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[Smith1776]

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[dualstow]

I wish I could be as mellow as Tyler in (bh) threads like the current one on the Golden Ratio portfolio proposed by Frank Vasquez.

I tend to agree with a poster named 'breakfastinbed' who said, imagine rejecting a portfolio because of its name.

Yeah, I can see someone casually pointing out that there's nothing magical about those specific numbers and that yes, that belongs in a discussion of nature. Having read that forum since '07, I'm used to grouchy engineers doing their thing, but the way they pounce on this thing makes me wonder, briefly,

Does anyone really think that someone would be so dazzled by the name that they would jump headlong into the portfolio like an impulse purchase of a used car? I don't. And I don't understand the almost allergic reaction to the name.
Even Golden Butterfly has a rather fancy name. So ignore the name if it helps.

I mean, I'm glad the thread exists, because it got me to look at a new portfolio. But mainly I enjoy watching Tyler be as cool as a cucumber in the face of criticism. Always.

[Smith1776]

I wish I could be as mellow as Tyler in (bh) threads like the current one on the Golden Ratio portfolio proposed by Frank Vasquez.

I tend to agree with a poster named 'breakfastinbed' who said, imagine rejecting a portfolio because of its name.

Yeah, I can see someone casually pointing out that there's nothing magical about those specific numbers and that yes, that belongs in a discussion of nature. Having read that forum since '07, I'm used to grouchy engineers doing their thing, but the way they pounce on this thing makes me wonder, briefly,

Does anyone really think that someone would be so dazzled by the name that they would jump headlong into the portfolio like an impulse purchase of a used car? I don't. And I don't understand the almost allergic reaction to the name.
Even Golden Butterfly has a rather fancy name. So ignore the name if it helps.

I mean, I'm glad the thread exists, because it got me to look at a new portfolio. But mainly I enjoy watching Tyler be as cool as a cucumber in the face of criticism. Always.

I have to agree. The Bogleheads forum is really not a particularly friendly place -- conducive to decent discussion. Anything that doesn't follow the BH orthodoxy is simply attacked and ridiculed, even when it's nothing more than water cooler talk (as Tex would put it).

It's certainly an interesting portfolio though. I've always been taken by numbers in a portfolio that "play" well together in an elegant way.

[boglerdude]

A chunk of the "I dont trust CPI or covid (response)" crowd are crazy. Or are they...technovelist is rich by now eh?

Its difficult to balance cynicism/realism with paranoia. They ARE out to get you. But its business not personal

In other news, six months after I applied the approved contractor put in a heat-pump under a green energy program. The state hasnt paid and the contractor is after me. [must resist becoming technovelist and typing "commiefornia" (and more than once in the post)]

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[dualstow]

I just think it’s funny how nasty bogleheads can be to each other in spite of the almost draconian moderation.
See how sweet we are to each other with our easy, lax attitude? Take dockinGA & mathjak, for example. Few people know that they’re actually feeding pigeons from the same park bench while they pretend to be arguing online.

[dualstow]

There was a fatal stabbing of two in Manchester today, in a Jewish synagogue on the holiest day of the year, Yom Kippur.
However, unlike the UK blogger who was arrested a few days ago, the stabber didn’t post any anti-Hamas tweets. Thankful for the little things.