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Gravy Train

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  1. We've all established the novel coronavirus originated from China, be it wet market or virology lab leak. Several other pandemics originated from China too, including variants of the avian flu and a swine flu with human pandemic potential. Like Covid-19, China's response should be enough for us to continue our decoupling posture from China. Their officials knew of the outbreak weeks prior, but travel associated with the Chinese New Year really kicked off its global spread. What's changed since?
  2. Interesting that with a population of just 490,000, Kaliningrad has already lost ~74,000 able-bodied men.
  3. Sir, this is the Ukraine thread. Therefore, сука блять, иди на хуй!
  4. Those hypothesis go way further than necessary. With accession into the EU, with border security, Ukraine is ripe to become the union's biggest trading partner. Economic development opportunities are incredible, from precision manufacturing, to shipbuilding, to petrochemical... and those are the trades they're already good at. I have an old Ukrainian software engineering contact who's since started his own firm. They are a bright, crafty bunch who just need security and an honest seat at the table.
  5. ^where does that number align with what Trent Talenko tweeted two weekends ago stating RU's deployed losses were closer to 200,000?
  6. Chineses just chasing Ruble on this but I wish Western media would put their shit on blast and sanction Chinese industry which operates close enough to military industry for the CCP to realise we're watching their shady asses. Aren't we all watching them closely for action upon Taiwan within the next 2-3 years?
  7. Putin is losing respect in the Kremlin, which leads to more leaders falling down stairwells and out of windows, as they're burdened with the blame or seen as potential opposition threats. Unfortunately, as more damages mount, the more extreme Putin's response may be, especially once the security of Crimea is threatened: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/putin-rebellion-russia-ukraine-war-failures-6tw7mrqh0
  8. So... wages are surely the last domino to follow, now that we've cemented a new price for everything, right?! 🤡
  9. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64647267
  10. Detroit-area dealers have Bronco inventory at MSRP. Don't play dealership games, they have 8,000 competitors and archaic laws are the only thing keeping their racket alive.
  11. With its reputation of the Hårsfjärden incident, I'm not sure anyone wants to ask the Swedes what's going on in their waters.
  12. I assume the "blade" is sealed and not serviceable internally, but swappable with other capacities? A dual or 4-slot enclosure with embedded RAID controller would be tits.
  13. Kinda jelly for those who can take advantage of this project; I migrated to notebooks long ago and don't have donor PCIe space to give this a shot, but assume the intent of this project is for an Enterprise-type device (server/workstation-class). Count me in when this is repackaged in an external enclosure with a Thunderbolt-4 HBA, though at that point, it won't necessarily need the fastest NVMe.
  14. This almost looks like CGI, and yet, they hunker down over an inbound grenade
  15. "This is why Rittenhouse" Sandmann had sought $1.25 billion from eight news organizations, but a Federal judge dismissed his libel suit against Gannett, for $195M. It was ruled those media sources reported opinion protected by the First Amendment. He probably had a better case for settling out of court, but his counsel ran with the expectation for a bigger pay day.
  16. Lumber seems to be on the rebound already, though a small Fed rate hike could slap it down one last time: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodities
  17. Not that there are many plausible/excusable acts which warrant a felony arrest, but the PC around Beard's was domestic violence. Among a public education workplace, I can see how the arrest alone warrants termination. I don't like it in a raw contextual sense, because Beard remains innocent until proven guilty, but because the arrest is public record, I also assume The University has reviewed at least the Probable Cause Affidavit. Beard's counsel may have shared more, since he has rights to access the State's evidence via the Michael Morton Act. A felony arrest, especially in a large county/district, isn't one of those things where someone can just say, "trust me bro, this charge is getting dropped." Beard likely has months to wait on all of this, at least until the intake prosecutor makes his decision to present to the Grand Jury. And the saying goes, "a grand jury can indict a ham sandwich," which implies yet another layer of negative public record to emerge from this, before the charge may be dropped.
  18. There's a strong desire to pay the NAR fees and study the two weeks or whatever shit-tier requirements necessary to become a licensed realtor, just so I can submit lowball offers for half of the day. Read deez tea leaves, or some shit, this seller's equity plea is nonsense. Noblility measure: I'm just doing this for the CAD
  19. They're the same as apartments, albeit an asset class which the property developer/manager can unload at nearly any time for some measure of appreciation. Land value aside, most multifamily (apartments) are beholden to competition from rivals on the basis of what looks newer, cleaner, more desirable. They all still smell funny on the inside with the same cheap finishes. These developments could be planned for single-family homes, but instead have been developed specifically for rent-lording. Also, I'm of the opinion that building more housing isn't the solution when insitutional and mom-and-pop investors have been buying up multiple properties (in the recent era of cheap capital) for near-effortless speculation. All of this investment activity is occuring within price categories previously dedicated to the starter-home family. That family now has no option to buy in most metro cores, fucking them out of an earlier life opportunity of financial security. Then again, things have changed where it's cheaper to rent than own in nearly every market in the U.S. https://www.marketplace.org/2023/01/20/renting-is-now-cheaper-than-owning-in-most-of-the-country/ Prices for SFHs haven't cooled as much as they should be, builders paused many of their starts, buyers of new homes backed out of their contracts, and nobody wants to sell when it implies giving up a cheap mortgage.
  20. The State brought those charges upon Beard, via Travis County intake DA. That same DA can very easily pass this onto an indictment before the District's prosecutor even bothers to open up the file and examine evidence. Beard could be spending $5000 on preparing a Grand Jury packet right now, no promise that it will even make a shit of difference, and once indicted, could stretch things out another year until the prosecution has time enough to schedule settings. She has no leverage unless she's withholding some evidence or offers an alibi contrary to material already turned over to the District prosecution*. He very likely has advice from his counsel to avoid all contact and communications with her until this blows over. Edit *assuming the PC affidavit isn't also flawed, which wouldn't be contested until the intake DA decides to take this to the GJ anyhow
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