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  2. I had not seen this timelapse infrared imagery. The explosion of the system during the early morning of July 4 is incredible. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/54/202507_GOES-19_ABI_SECTOR_sp_Band_14_(July_2025_Central_Texas_floods)_Output5Band14.webm/202507_GOES-19_ABI_SECTOR_sp_Band_14_(July_2025_Central_Texas_floods)_Output5Band14.webm.1080p.vp9.webm
  3. Lyn Alden has a good explanation. Bottom line, you will read that it is an "unrealized loss" and this is true but irrelevant. It is a real economic loss of a trillion dollars. The reason I am not impressed with "political independence" is that we are going into an inflation death spiral. And the fed has already caused inflation with QE and balance sheet expansion. They don't even include money supply in their Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model. I don't think presidents should have a money printer, but I don't think anyone should have a money printer. And the idol worship around the fed, and their general lack of understanding of the economy, it's a farce. The fed doesn't set rates, the market does. That said I am tactically long bonds. Rates are mostly based on inflation and growth expectations. Both are currently falling.
  4. i was let go toward the end of covid. they asked me to sign a 8 page document. found a shady employment lawyer. he tells me the entire document is me signing away all rights to sue them. i told him, im pretty sure they owe me $10k. he said he'll contact them and say $20k. me : cool he contacted me 3 days later : they're giving you $50k to sign their release, you should do it and congrats lol cha ching
  5. But as it happens, in this moment in history, the global economy revolves around monetary policy set by central banks, and the United States Federal Reserve is the most successful central bank in history. The fact that you believe a counterfactual alternative reality without central banking would be better doesn’t make it less so. No. It was the transfer of tangible goods from overseas and the value of future productivity TO you and me, in exchange for exported and punted debt. And that’s a problem, but we we’re the beneficiaries. Again, plenty of room for criticism here but your understanding of victimhood is backwards. I didn’t- the fed recorded it that way. Try to keep up.
  6. Arozarenaaaaaaa!!!!! Damn 110mph exit velocity
  7. At the time, I was largely an alternative, punk, and (ironically?) US hard rock fan. When “Paranoid” came on MTV, all of us stopped and watched. Ozzy was transcendent.
  8. No love for the great Gerald Young? (my “nobody understands the bond between a boy and the mediocre mlb player he watched when he was ten” guy)
  9. Juliooooo!!!
  10. See Arkansas. It's not our fault that the inbred, cider-sucking hillbillies have never gotten over the 1969 Shootout with Nixon in attendance.
  11. Tired of thanking heads not acknowledging that the only thing they are interested in is her saying that Trump had no involvement but Clinton, he was knee deep in it. Isn’t pretty obvious how this plays out?
  12. Not a doctor, but during allergy season, mixing benadryl, Zyrtec, and alcohol is not completely uncommon for me. Can't say I've ever tried meth for my allegies, though.
  13. Indeed. as to the tweet we are now AAAA astros 1 game back of being best team in AL ☹️
  14. The frustrating thing about rivalries is that it doesn’t always take two to tango. You just need one fanbase of degenerates to decide to hate you and you’re kinda stuck, especially if the series ends up determining conference and national championships. So yeah, fuck Georgia. I didn’t come into this conference wanting to hate them. They gave me no option.
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  16. We are really enjoying it here. I love it. Crazy how you can go from the ridiculousness and character of Hidalgo and stray dogs and cats to a beautiful quiet resort hotel on a world class beach within a few steps. I also love the vibrancy and character of the central and southern part of the island. Off to Puerto Aventuras tomorrow. Some food/restaurant thoughts and pics. First, agree with whoever said it that it isn't necessarily cheap here. Paid in pesos but my family of four I don't think had a meal for less than $130 or so. Now I'm not complaining but not all that different from anywhere else, be it home or on vacation. Yeah that usually included a marg or two for me and sometimes a frozen drink for the kids. Also it seems to be a thing here that they don't bring you your bill until you ask for it, even if you're clearly done, have declined dessert and your table is clean. Lesson learned. I don't want to be the pushy American so it made for some awkward moments. The best thing I tasted this week honestly was the house bread at Rolandi's. It was this giant puff of hot soft bread drizzled with olive oil and salt. It was gone in about 20 seconds. Pizza was ok. I ordered the pizza and my son ordered the grilled chicken and we agreed to share. I had two pieces of pizza and he had the rest of both dishes. Welcome to feeding a 15 year old. We hit up Taco Tuesday at Xantolo. Taco lunch for 200 pesos with a free marg/virgin daiquiri. Wife and daughter had the Arrachera tacos, son had ribeye tacos and I had al pastor. Very good! Basto's was good but I like my Arrachera and my daughter liked her burger more than my son enjoyed his ribeye (very thin and a ton of non edible fat). My wife ordered sopa even though she's never had it before and it was meh. Loved our server even though he missed half of our drinks and didn't bring the bill for like 25 minutes after we were done. You guys were nails on that seasoning they put in the Arrachera. So damn good. Last night for dinner we hit the taco trucks and brought them back to order drinks and eat poolside at Ixchel. That was a lot of fun and cheap and delicious. Not a ton of taco trucks where I live unless you're in SW Detroit and I'm not often. Today we went golf carting again to the Southern part of the island to catch some things we missed on Tuesday when we went to Punta Sur. I was trying to please everyone and deciding between Mango's, Yayo and Oscar's and I...chose poorly. Oscar's had pizza, pasta and Mexican and my daughter isn't much for Mexican. We got there, sat down, ordered drinks, and the guy was like no pizza, no pasta, only grill. He was probably the only person we encountered all week who wasn't very friendly. Anyway the boy and I ordered Arrachera steaks and they were cooked to the texture of an old leather boot. Still not horrible but trying to cut that thing with a butter knife was a good forearm workout. Daughter got nachos that she liked and my wife tried to order a burger with fries but somehow they only understood the fries part. She's a Midwest people pleaser and refused to try to correct the issue and had fries for lunch. Margs were strong, though. 3/10 do not recommend. Tonight we had the best meal of the stay. I think I would definitely recommend this place to the surly Isla mafia. Maybe kind of new and slightly bougie as far as bougie can be on the Isla. Rusticco. 4.9* on Google and the pics looked too nice for us. A true foodie place and we aren't foodies. But they had something for everyone and it was on point. Pregame I had the pineapple marg with charred rosemary. We ordered an app of shrimp tempura with bam bam sauce that was delicious. Wife and daughter split some pasta Bolognese with vodka sauce that they loved and a chicken Caesar. Son got an amazing looking Arrachera steak, medium rare. He said as good as it was the carrots were even better. I had lobster tacos and they were dynamite. Pics below. Slammed and went hard. Some other random pics and a video of Hidalgo at night for posterity. Thanks for turning me on to this awesome place surly. What an amazing four days and unlike anyplace we have ever been. We are running out of family trips before the boy graduates, but I will be back at some point. PXL_20250724_012652665.mp4 PXL_20250722_164115262.mp4
  17. Finished this one. It was well researched and well written, and it supports his recurring and overarching world view. IMO, it was a little pedantic, with many, many examples. Upon reflection, he's an academic, so it helps his theories to have many examples. I did enjoy his historical accounts of information networks from the stone age to the present. Stories -> books w/ interpreters -> books when folks can read -> etc. He did highlight many of the obvious downsides of AI information networks. Recommend.
  18. As a very young pup I saw Maynard in the round, circa 1977. Peter Erskine was his drummer, right before he split for Weather Report. I was nowhere sophisticated enough to understand what I was seeing, but holy shit Erskine was unbelievable. Years later, Maynard's band came through the Wendy's I worked at late one night. I was semi-gobsmacked. Stan Mark stepped up to order and I asked him why he played a black trumpet. He was a total dick -- "because I can". OK, fucker. That was the very last time I let someone's fame clutter my thoughts. I might have spit on his burger. (Might have.)
  19. college athletes have better lawyers and he has no standing here
  20. Here’s how you throw down: he fires you….and you don’t leave. Stay. Continue performing the duties of the office. Defy the fake president issuing illegal orders. Just say “nope.”
  21. He can't without cause....which is why he's all the sudden poking his nose in the Fed's construction project. He's trying to create some bullshit project mis-management/budget overrun "cause" to fire him.
  22. jimmyjazz

    Ozzy has passed.

    Yeah, I'm with you on that. I've already copped to not being anywhere close to a Sabbath (or even metal) guy, but I've seen plenty of live clips of early Ozzy, and the guy had a very good voice. Maybe not as pyrotechnic as Halford or Dio, but the guy could sing.
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