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  1. 25 minutes ago, The Dog said:

    Frog aggy just took out Zverev. I know he’s aggy because Fowler has mentioned it about a million times.

    I had no idea he was aggy.  I was surprised sasha couldn't figure out his serve in the ad court. His toss was a huge tell.

  2. 22 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

    Since I started this thread I’ll just remind everyone that if you don’t pay your deductible on an insurance claim in Texas you are committing insurance fraud in Texas. The legal and correct way to engage a roofer is to get as much high quality roofing as you can for the price the insurance company gives you for the claim. 

    Did you get your roof figured out?

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  3. 1 hour ago, chainsaw said:

    it was well understood by all sides that Japan had lost the war long, long before Hiroshima. 

     

    You're not understanding what the Japanese mindset was.

     

    Through a non-Japanese lens if you see you've lost you cut your losses and surrender.  Through the Japanese lens if you've lost the fight you don't surrender, you keep fighting until you die. What's more they don't even define winning and losing the same way everyone else does - they might lose the fight but if they die honorably it's a victory.  It's the bushido way. 

     

    They were never going to let the Emperor, a living god, be toppled.  The Emperor was never going to surrender because he saw they had lost the fight.  He, and the Japanese people, needed something extraordinary to change their minds about 1.) what losing IS and 2.) what reaction they should have to it.

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  4. 35 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    Yes, but the heaviest volume tends to occur right before close. There could definitely be an element of market manipulation here. 

    Heaviest volume occurs not at the Futures close (5p central) but at the traditional NYSE market close which is two hours earlier at 3pm central.  All volume across the board dies after that even though trading still occurs.  

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  5. 46 minutes ago, shnsajax said:

     

     

    That's looking for something that isn't there.  The stock market, including SPY and every other ETF, is still open for after-hours trading til 8pm central. Starting from Sunday afternoon at 5pm to Friday night at 8pm you can trade either futures or ETFs.

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  6. 1 hour ago, BurntEyes said:

    I'm aware of all that information. The variance in the same language in different areas or countries are called regional dialects. I said the dialects were different, not the language. So basically you just reinforced my point on language all while ignoring all the various recent cultural and mindset divides between Taiwan and China. If you are indeed Taiwanese, I'm rather shocked you don't agree with your fellow countrymen's position. However, you're certainly entitled to your opinion.

    1.) I have family members who are, but I'm not Taiwanese. 

    2.) I'm not ignoring anything, you're layering your own context onto what I've said. You said there's a vast cultural divide.  I said it's not as big as it used to be.  It's not.  China has spent a lot of money on soft power influence in Taiwan the past 2 decades emphasizing their shared cultural history in order to drive a wedge between them and the west.  Go online and read their forums, look at their tik tok videos or instas - the sense of ethnic pride in their history is prevalent.  

  7. On 6/20/2025 at 3:47 PM, BurntEyes said:

    Not as of 5 years ago per the research below and not based on my Taiwanese national friends and his medical doctor wife who left Taiwan to come to the US based on concerns regarding China. Or... the rest of his family who now lives in the US.

    PG_2020_05.12_Taiwan_0-04.png.080279847e4af9c37e0252ced09d124e.png

    Link

    Or this one from 3 months ago 

    CFR article

    Or this one from the BBC 6 months ago

    BBC Article

    Or this one from Reuters:

    Taiwan president pledges peace with China but says island must strengthen defences - https://www.reuters.com/world/china/anniversary-taking-office-taiwan-president-reiterates-willingness-talk-china-2025-05-20/

    I could go on. 

    And if you think there are no dialect differences between Chinese Mandarin and Taiwanese Mandarin, I'm sure you think people in Boston speak like people in Kentucky. That's before dismissing all the other dialects found in China. But you're right, officially they speak the same language.

    This fucking place. 

    No argument there ^^^ but did you forget you were talking about the cultural divide? 

    Standard Chinese is the official language of both China and Taiwan.  Standard Chinese is the Mandarin dialect.  Other dialects include Cantonese (the most famous), Fukinese, Hokkien, Wu, etc.  Taiwanese Mandarin and Beijing Mandarin have differences the same way Central Texas English and New York English have differences - there are different words for some things i.e. buses, phones, foods.  The way they pronounce words is different - sometimes Beijingers add an R to the ends of words, sometimes they add an SH where there's only an S.   I speak Mandarin.  It's the exact same language with different regional pronunciations.  The difference is what you'd hear between a Californian and a New Yorker. 

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  8. 1 hour ago, BurntEyes said:

    There is the military logistical and capabilities reality, which is problematic. Potentially as big an issue is the hatred between the two. They make speak different dialects of the same language but culturally they are vastly different. This isn't a recent divide either. It's not China/Japan level hate, but it's real.

    But... that's a different thread.

    It's the exact same language not even a different dialect. And culturally there's not as big of a divide now as there was maybe twenty years ago.  The communist brainwashing apparatus has been effective.

  9. 23 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    Our gym isn't truly inner city but many inner city kids come to box as there's hardly any options left in true inner city locales around Chicago.  And many of the citizen members do carry.  They've said in no uncertain terms if this happens to any of their people, they will absolutely light up any agents not displaying or providing identification.  This shit is gonna get really ugly.  And what jury in Chicago would convict the shooter?  Not one that I'm sitting on.  

    Man be careful, you wouldn't get tried in Chicago.

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