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  1. 1 minute ago, GenXer said:

    the tweet I quoted said:

    Those raids tell me they’ve flipped all (or at least most of) the smaller fish they needed to, and they pretty clearly show that Trump is a target. You don’t just raid lawyers for no reason.
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    ā€œTheyā€ being the attorneys. The tweet says that the raids of the attorneys’ office show that trump is a target.

    The raids of Cohen’s office were front page news and discussed extensively here as part of the effort to link trump with Russian interference with the election. Sure, Cohen was found guilty. But, Barr did fuck all with Trump’s involvement in it.

    if the pattern holds true again, the attorneys get indicted but nothing happens with trump. Who gives a shit about the minions.


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    Trump was a sitting president and it was questionable what kind of precedent would be set to actively pursue legal remedy against a currently elected executive who could potentially self pardon. It was a can of worms best left unopened. In hindsight it was still the right decision.Ā 

  2. 1 hour ago, GenXer said:

    It’s been a million years ago but trump’s attorney, Cohen’s office was raided back when the Mueller report was going to save us all.

    Good to know that Angry Staffer still thinks raiding attorneys’ offices results in an indictment. I’m skeptical.

    Cohen was not just indicted but found guilty. The fuck are you talking about?Ā 

  3. 5 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:


    Buy me a plane ticket and and a safe place to stay and I’ll come be the designated kid wrangler.

    Don’t need game tickets as long as there’s a big TV.

    I’ll teach them to say ā€œRoll Tideā€ though.

    PM sent, but you don't have to kid wrangle. You can just come and meet everyone lol

  4. Just now, SydneyCarton said:

    As a guy who is like 15 pages behind on this thread, can I get some bullet points of the big reveals at today's hearings? Thanks in advance.Ā 

    Buncha crazy fucking people spilling the beans on Trump basically telling them to do the crazy shit they did or wanted to do.

  5. 44 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    Raising a child is like green eggs and ham. Some folks need Sam I Am to realize they like it, some folks are born Sam I Am, and some folks either succeed in telling Sam I Am to fuck off or never meet him.

    I also know parents that unapologetically and publicly regret having kids. Parenthood really should be planned.

    I don't regret having kids, but I don't fucking like it - I also have lots of childless friends and a very high income that I can't use to do anything I fucking want to do because I'm anchored to Austin by a young family.Ā 

    Drop of the hat meet your buddy in vegas? I can do that, except for my kids.

    Get a call from RGBIII drunk as shit at the pool bar in Isla Mujeres, look at next flight out can be there in 5 hours? Nope sorry, have a kid.

    Wanna go get drunk after a stressful day at work and vent with strangers or my friends? Nope can't have to wake up with my kid.Ā 

    Wanna go to the Alabama game and sponsor one of the larger tailgates on campus and host people who can't get tickets for the game so they can have a good time too since I own the largest UT Football Message board community? I have to hire a full day babysitter and somewhat pay attention to my child instead of talking to people who want to hang out and chat about future NIL donations or watch the game. Forget about even going into the game.Ā 

    Parenting for someone in their early 30s who can do whatever the fuck they want is legit the biggest boat anchor of all time and I don't really blame anyone who doesn't wanna do it especially in todays political, social and economic climate. That said - I'm not part of the problem since I've already breeded enough for replacement.Ā 

  6. 14 minutes ago, Underdog said:

    So why couldn’t this cowardly fuckstick do this live?Ā 

    For pretty obvious reasons as a legal council - you wouldn't want to do this live. The video tape is just as good for the record we don't need the circus.

    2 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

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    Oh, they have been mobilized for years.Ā  Thing was, the crazy was too much for the GOP. Until 2016 or so.

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    It's just too bad for them that Christianity in the US is dying faster than ever.Ā 

  7. 52 minutes ago, nnm said:

    It appears that there is amusing material in this thread. It’s not worth the screen freeze. Only thread I’ve ever had this problem with on surly. @immamac, there’s a problem somewhere with this thread.Ā 

    If you are on iOS use a less shitty vendor for your OS.Ā 

  8. 16 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    No person without kids knows what’s it’s like to have kids.
    No person with kids knows what’s it’s like to not have kids.Ā 

    Anyone arguing otherwise is ignorantĀ 

    This is untrue. There are tons of men who had kids in their 50s or even 60s without kids before.Ā 

    There are also tons of deadbeat pieces of shit who abandon their children after a short time and lead childless lives.Ā 

  9. 1 minute ago, David Dennison said:

    There is also a we are worried that we are going to be a racial minority in 15 years problem.Ā 

    That has already happened. So many people think they are white when they are mixed with other stuff already it's hilarious and mixed race couples are pretty much the norm for this current generation.Ā 

  10. 5 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I am boiling down your position to a single thesis, it's "An amazing product solving a real problem will sell itself. All you need to do is create it and put it on the open market / appstore / website and if it is truly good and solving real problems, it will succeed in the long run."

    And I think those halcyon days are over except for bleeding edge industries which have yet to be saturated.Ā 

    No, you need success stories. A highly rated product that solves a real world problem and is appropriately priced will be successful, but all those products/companies get bought early for absurd money (no fault to the founders) because they are a direct threat to the value of entrenched technology.Ā 

    It's why open source is such a strong weapon - even if it gets bought the intellectual property is merely a "you are required to shout us out" not a "you can't use this anymore"

    When you look at open source projects/products/companies that are purchased and then sabotage the codebase by close sourcing it or fuck the licensing up they just get forked and taken forward by others under the original OSS license. The inability to kill Linux is why Linux is so great. No one "owns" Linux even though it generates trillions of dollars of value.

  11. 5 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    Not to get business-y here, but I think you are definitely missing out how crucial Advertising, Sales & Marketing is for businesses. And this is coming from someone who thinks those people all suck.

    In my space, the best-in-breed orgs and probably your org (but maybe not, sounds like you work for a stupid old monolith like IBM from your post) run at about 40% SG&A to revenue from what I understand. I got a look at a Decacorn, high-flying SaaS company two weeks ago who was at like 80%.

    In this attention-based economy, as challengers or disruptors or literally anyone but the top 3 in Gartner's MQ, you can't grow a real business without Marketing, Ads, Sales, etc. and the customer acquisition costs and cost of goods sold has to be passed on, at least in part, to the consumer as part of the price for a business to survive, much less grow. My opinion at least.

    But your idea intrigues me; I've had that idea in the past and have a tangential one as well. I'll follow your medium blog if you blog your journey for learnings. :)

    This is a fallacy perpetuated by venture capital and private equity. What actually happens for lean, innovative companies is they get bought in back room deals and get price hiked or shut down because it is destructive to less intrinsically valuable, but high existing incumbent technology revenue.Ā 

    Marketing and advertising is not as important as solving fucking problems. If you can solve a problem and have people talk about how solving that problem in a repeatable way at a certain cost point exists at a reputable level, all it takes is time. All marketing does is accelerate the timeline, which is not as valuable as it sounds, because it will actually retard true innovation in favor of maintenance on existing to feed the masses.Ā 

    The amount of intellectual property bought/owned that goes completely unused, except to deter true innovation by enormous tech is actually incredible.Ā 

    How did ARM catch up to an entrenched x86 instruction set so quickly if it's so valuable? Why is RISC-V catching up even faster than ARM ever did?

    It's because the IP isn't held hostage by mega corps who weaponize it to stifle innovation. It's used as a tool to further innovation with partners. It's why open source is so important to the entire world right now - all the real innovation that we know and love about today's technological world is based entirely on open source, because no one could stop the innovation from happening.Ā 

    I'd argue a real business doesn't need 8 or 9 or 10 figures in revenue at an 8 9 or 10 figure loss.Ā 

  12. this is a great thread so far. keep it up folks.

    I work for a very large corp now and I have seen first hand how much innovation is lacking when you can make money by doing something far less innovative. Mind you, not even more money, just less risky money that is garbage margin is preferred over something that is hard to do, has a little bit of risk and has terrific value added margins because it actually helps solve a problem.

    We have moved away from solving problems, and moved into figuring out how to fleece people out of money on things they need.Ā 

    I've done a lot of thinking recently about starting an insurance co-op within my friend network. With some up front money and 2-3 years of everyone just paying their current auto rates we would have enough to provide free insurance for everyone after that as long as people don't start getting into a bunch of wrecks etc.Ā 

    I'm not saying marketing jobs are worthless, but paying the marketing and advertising fees is what is killing american consumers - our prices are so out of whack so that people can make tremendous profit margins, when a smaller equally or more competent servicer can provide the same service for far less overhead. What we need is trust busting, big stick economic policy to come back and we need to give power back to much smaller employers who service a much smaller customer base.

  13. 1 hour ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

    I cleared all my shit, which forced a re-login, still same issues on iPad.

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    1 hour ago, Vito Andolini said:

    Sorry, shit got a little weirder, the posts that were on Page 315 were probably ones from 314 or so, when I went to 316, it was all gray and stopped loading at all. I shut down my iPad and restarted to clear my cache. I’m posting what trying to load Page 316 looked like.

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    did you try changing themes and see if it is still doing it? Seems strange that some of the pages render and others dont.

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