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Gravy Train

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  1. The 'negotiations' position is just a "good faith check mark" as a combatant showing the path of the high road. It's a messaging vehicle to offer the West's perspective that the problem is Putin and that a future Russia exists under responsible leadership. Now that the message has been relayed, let's get back to blowing their shit up.
  2. Nah fam, taxation man outside shoulda' told you. There actually are austerity measures baked into the Inflation Reduction Act, though it's a bit more difficult to extract corporate tax when record profittaking has dried up in a recession.
  3. *Insurance vs cash-pay medial billing codes has entered the chat* I'm kinda naive to this (fortunately), but don't most treatment centers nearly force patients to use Insurance, if the patient carries a policy? There's supposed to be some level of transparency in their bill rates, but there's a reason insurance is leveraged the way it has been.
  4. Debt saturation / Fed Funds rate artificial ceiling breached this soon?
  5. Let's first work on legislation to keep Investment Banks from tying up single-family homes as investment vehicles, with premiums paid for by rent. What was previously available as "starter home" inventory for a family has vanished into perpetual rents. And it wasn't just institutional investors, but mom-and-pop investors too. Property tax code should be addressing the demand-side of SFH investment properties.
  6. +1 but I can see Hartford working for @Js1. Not cheaper than Denver but probably not far off. Decent airport, hour-45-minute drive to Boston. Farmington is nice if you don't want to live in town.
  7. Did you match Matt Watson's spec?
  8. I'm under the impression the MBS market has dried up. The Fed had been backstopping the entire MBS market and they don't want to any longer, due to their ballooning balance sheet-- that was never in their charter. It's gonna be dismal for housing going forward, but all that former MBS buying activity plus cheap capital, plus mega-inflated equities forged a market where even the dog down the street owns an 'investment' property.
  9. Not fast enough, but we'll be paying for it. SSI wage cap jumps up to $162K (from $147K). They're also taking an additional 0.9 percent in Medicare taxes on earnings that exceed: $250,000 for married taxpayers who file jointly $125,000 for married taxpayers who file separately $200,000 for single and all other taxpayers OTOH, 401k limit jumps to $22,500 and IRA up to $6,500, so any raises you're planning on are probably spoken for. Is taxation a component of "Wage-Price Spiral?"
  10. Right on. https://www.axios.com/2022/11/01/interview-fcc-commissioner-says-government-should-ban-tiktok https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/10/20/tiktok-bytedance-surveillance-american-user-data/?sh=416023e16c2d
  11. For a peek at where we're going with this, in the potential to return our social media platforms to open protocols, and content creation restored to personal ownership, I see Jack Dorsey crossed this bridge well before Elon's takeover. It also provides credence to the dogshit-investment-grade-asset Elon acquired, the concepts behind Web3 are valid and supported: https://news.yahoo.com/bluesky-potential-twitter-alternative-being-111738532.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr' So Dorsey and team have been working on a new social media platform, using open protocols, called "BlueSky." It kicked off in 2019, and builds a new, decentralized social media protocol. That protocol is essential for core function, but also allows a user to 'port' content from one platform to another, as if your one post could be presented in textual transcription in one app, linked to a voice recording in another, linked to a video on a different platform... because those alternate platforms have also adopted the new standard. This is what Web3 should be, but we're a long ways off from "neutralizing" content ownership out of the host-ecosystem, and into an open-air medium that all platforms agree to adopt. It will also be the absolute ruin of Facebook products as we currently know them. https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/19/23412482/bluesky-at-protocol-decentralized-twitter-social-networks-app There is one problem with this, in that Congress already knows about it. Your weight of tinfoil hat may vary, but let's assume they WILL have controlling interest of the same underlying protocol. Thumb to page 40 of the transcription from the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, dated March 25, 2021: https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/house/111407/documents/HHRG-117-IF16-Transcript-20210325.pdf Wikipedia background on the 'BlueSky' protocol initiative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_(protocol)
  12. I got neg-bombed for this in the Nancy Pelosi thread (from the typical CR intellectually-void types), but the Twitter accounts @NancyTracker and @TrialTracker were suspended in early December. The 'NancyTracker' account was established by those in finance and capital management industries, tracking sources of equities trading and insider trading accusations of congress members. Nancy's trades were already followed by Jr. Wall Street Analysts building memes on their Instagram pages, pissed that SEC regulations prevented them from trading activity, but others were well doxxed. The 'TrialTracker' account was providing updates from the Ghislane Maxwell trial. Since Elon's takeover, 'Nancy Tracker' has been restored and established under a new account:
  13. There was a plan, unfortunately, this is what it looked like:
  14. Sooo.. the smooth-brained GQP theories on Paul's attack were rooted from two pieces of fake news: 1. Report he called the DePape a ‘friend’ (though he may have actually used that as code-word) on the 9-1-1 call 2. Oakland Fox affiliate station falsely reported the assailant was in his underwear It started with a KTVU report that they later retracted in very small print https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/fox-news-affiliate-forced-retract-report-pelosi-depape-found-underwear-another-pelosi-wrap-smear/ Ironically, KTVU was the Oakland news station that reported those amazing Asiana Flight 214 pilot names which crashed on the approach to SFO. 🥴
  15. Billy Cole (Billy Blanks): "Ain't life a bitch?" [shoots himself in the head] https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/bettor-needs-prop-on-mnf-to-turn-7-77-parlay-into-124k-2667601/
  16. I genuinely considered that exact post/comment in my reply above, but the content creator is so lost in life that I don't even acknowledge it. There's occasionally entire congregations of such babblefucks spewing incomprehensible shit like that. I'm not even there to attempt to process it.
  17. Where's the lie? Negged for creepy .GIF and intellectually void response, but keep deepthroating your own narrative. What is there to deflect? The discussion on ethics and professional demeanor is completely independent from personal safety and assault. We all condemned this attack, and it's even more alarming that the motive was intended for Nancy. I remember when the Republican lawmakers practicing softball were gunned down and it was condemned by all. The same was true when Gabby Giffords was shot. Thankfully, our nation hasn't sunk so low that we've lost such compassion. I haven't found a single comment celebrating this and any deplorable endorsing such isn't fit for society.
  18. I'm objectively trying to give her tweets consideration, but she failed to mention M2 and the role of Central Banks in the rapid bounce-back from COVID-19 (which directly contributed to inflationary pressures). She also floated out some confidence in rents falling at such a rate to not significantly impact CPI until the middle of next year... a metric that's mostly demand-side driven. Guess I'll keep reading? LOL I should ask her which portions of the Inflation Reduction Act address austerity measures.
  19. I don't "cHoOsE a SiDe," because it implies you're rooting for a game rather than objectively seeking the best outcome for most, while actively engaging those who might be captive voters/supporters. Sure, let's alienate those spreading catshit misinformation or resorting to violence, which is so bizarre to me, I'm not even going to struggle with understanding how one could adopt. But those few aren't the focus, when the 2020 election cycle identified nearly 33% of the electorate middle as moderates. For Pelosi, the midterms might not be her decision, and not by a majority change, but that other House Democrats are already shuffling behind the scenes, proposing new leadership. Then again, Hoyer and Clyburn are right behind her.
  20. That's how you pitch a shutout to oSu? Fuck it, I need to see creativity, adaptive playcalling (halftime would be nice, 3-4 posessions even better), and, something demonstrably missing in Sark but smugly emerged from Lane Kiffin, is "killer confidence" in his guys with a shit-eating grin. Sarkdroid looks lifeless.
  21. The whole "politics as sport" position is quite the helpful self-identifier. I WANT MY TEAM TO WIN is not how a properly-functioning democracy works, and we are a society of merit. The Speaker is a House-nominated position, albeit parliamentary leader of. If you have a personal agenda to see through some legislation, that's fine, but we're rapidly approaching a generational shift among voters who shouldn't be alienated with the opinion that Congress won't evolve at the same pace as their constituents. They have 223 other members to select, this shouldn't be difficult.
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