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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. Zero chance that Trump got mad at Epstein for hiring a waitress or hostess away from MarALago. There were reports of a break between them for fighting over a parcel of land. That is a more credible story but to my knowledge Trump hasn't acknowledged it. Others said it.
  2. That will be the last independent video we ever see of Trump playing golf. He will now use more secret service funds to clear out anyone with any line of sight of him playing. And honesty it does feel like a security risk even with photographers and their equipment being checked.
  3. From everything I’ve read about Sharon, I question that the profits went directly to charity. Or did they go to a family foundation, controlled by her, that may benefit some charities down the road. I doubt anyone will know unless the charities produce financial statements showing what they received. Vague PR releases are just that. theres a lot of money to be made with well-funded family foundations.
  4. 80% yield is a red flag for me. Good for them if they can produce that much income for their shareholders but it’s too risky. If their dividend even hinted at dropping, it would crush the price. Most likely the price would drop well before any dividend drop would be announced. Buying this ETF is risky enough but don’t use leverage to increase your exposure. Now if it’s play money for pure speculation or gambling, then why not. But don’t bet your life savings on an early retirement dream. Many have gone bankrupt chasing that dream. And I’m saying this as someone that’s dripped his toes into a few very speculative crypto plays that “only” paid 15-20% yield. Last points. If someone had a strategy that could provide that much income, why hasn’t Wall Street flocked to their etf resulting in a much higher price and resulting reasonable yield? And weekly distributions isn’t a positive in my eyes. It only increases the risk on what would happen after their strategy fails after a few bad weeks. dont put more than 1-2% and definitely not more than 5% of your total investable portfolio into this. Please don’t talk others into this, especially friends and family. edit: or was this all satire and I fell for it?
  5. His kids are gone, so if his health is an issue, I don’t see any reason he stays there outside of the money. His contract is for $55m over the next 5 seasons. There could very well be a buy out clause if he’s physically unable to perform as the coach.
  6. I understand the concept of a plea deal if a defendant agrees to cooperate to provide the DA or AG with information that can lead to the arrest or conviction of more or larger targets. However she had those chances and was ultimately convicted and sentenced. Now perhaps a couple of years incarceration has changed her mind in terms of cooperating for a deal, but that should go through the legal process not a pardon. At least not initially. It will also be very sketchy, never unexpected with the Trump admin, if any deal is related to saying that Trump never did anything wrong. Why in the world should someone be freed for not implicating someone?
  7. Why would there be any reason to pardon a sex trafficker outside of her ability to exonerate Trump. Which we all know is the only reason he would consider pardoning her.
  8. A friend of mine is going through something similar where she and her 2 siblings are rearranging their lives and schedules to care for their mom. All while their mom is sitting on a long term care policy but won’t attempt to activate the policy benefits because she doesn’t want a stranger for home care. i asked the question why the mom was dictating the terms to 3 people all around 60 years old. And it’s not like the mom has millions in the bank to give as inheritance to demand obedience. I gather she has money but nothing major.
  9. I’m sure the family will eventually get paid but he entered the room without authority. today I learned that yes the mri magnet can be quickly turned off BUT it can take days or weeks for the mri machine to be activated again. Expensive shutdown. I assume that means the magnet is at full strength at all times.
  10. Should rename the thread to Epstein/Trump files now that we know that it’s the inclusion of Trump that has prevented the files from being released.
  11. Does that come with a set of Pizza Hut red plastic glasses and the smell of pizza?
  12. The idea that I would have to start over or repeat the test, would keep me still for 30 minutes.
  13. Ok. I will submit the question to OpenAI, deepseek, Gemini, ollama,etc when I’m home tonight to see if it advises me to kill the unfed, 5 family member.
  14. WTF Alamo. Why kick someone when they died. Personally I'm upset how the Alamo is run and how the mgmt tarnish the memory of those who died there. Hence why they will never get a dime from me, if I can help it.
  15. I disagree that AI doesn't have pre-existing guardrails but it may require the AI/LLM host to define a moral framwork. I asked ChatGPT the following: It didn't reply to kill someone and I didn't tell it to keep murder off the list. If I pushed AI by telling it that I would never be able to solve the food shortage and that the family of five would continue to have a calorie deficit, perhaps it would come up with more extreme solutions. However I imagine that murdering a family member would be very far down the list.
  16. People in their 70s should not have the physical, emotional or financial burden of caring for their parents. I don't know the solution (Logan's Run Sanctuary?) but unhealthy 90+ year old people shouldn't be made to suffer.
  17. If Surly Horns, a clip-on tie plus flip flops would be more appropriate as the average fashion sense here. If AI scanned all of the posts, it would know that.
  18. A real world business problem is that if you created a phone support AI team. A goal might be to solve the caller's question within 2 minutes. If AI is given the task to wrap up the average call in 2 minutes, it might just hang up at the 2 minute mark. That's a reasonable solution if it's been told that is the goal. And I've seen people rig a process to improve stats. Take the phone support center example. I've seen goals that calls must be answered within 30 seconds on average. I've witnessed team leads tell their team to answer the call and then put the caller on hold for 5+ minutes. It satisfies their VP's goal to quickly answer the call. The VP takes home a nice bonus while callers are stuck on long hold times. If you create poor goals, you will get poor results. AI is no different than people.
  19. It really does play out a SkyNet future but tells it through one legitimate step at a time. I want to read the paper but have been too lazy so far. From my work with AI coding agents, AI can purposefully mislead you but in a manner that it thinks it's being most efficient. So their example if AI thinks you want it to produce a change that result in that a process is 10% faster, it might just change how it calculates efficiency so you believe that the process is more efficient. By the way, people do this everyday. Even if they're not lying, they play it fast & loose with stats to show improvement.
  20. I think Segura's stand up is funny but he's also at a wealth point that he can't talk about anything related to normal people. I also stop any clip if he talks about Texas and Austin like he's a native when he's lived here for 5 minutes.
  21. I didn't know they brought in ringers. but it makes sense that they would bring in someone that has a point or experience in which the single person has zero background to defend or argue against. And in reverse, you bring in some complete morons or racists with the 20.
  22. The right is probably upset that they can't crack every dem district. The only thing holding them back is that they appear to require physical connectivity within a district. Otherwise Dems would lose each district.
  23. 1 v 20 could be a watchable content if they actually brought on reasonable people to reasonably disagree. However in today's world its all about outrage or gotchas. The more extreme they get, the more views. This thread is an example. No one would be discussing a civilized disagreement. I could see this format devolve to a scenario where the person who wins the argument gets to slap the loser. it would be 10x the views. I'm unsure how the judging would work for both sides to agree to the slap.
  24. Guarantee that poll does not impress the Paramount leaders (Sumner Redstone's daughter) and it could very well lead Trump to suing CBS whenever "fake" data is distributed to make him look bad.
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