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  1. 1 hour ago, C-Man said:

    Sure, it might be "standard operating procedure" to buy stories and not run them for whatever reason. I don't believe that part is inherently illegal. Unethical, perhaps, but not against the law. The illegality is on Trump (and Cohen and others) for trying to conceal how the payments were handled and how they were accounted for.

    Well that and the fact that Pecker testified the reason Trump wanted it done was not to keep it From Baron and Melania but because of the election which means that it wasn't a personal favor it was a campaign contribution.  The fact that Trump never repaid it reinforces this.

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  2. 41 minutes ago, Your Mom said:

    Following up on the previous post above….

    Cody Pools called me today.  They are paying for core sample testing on every pool they built with concrete from that specific subcontractor.  They built around 200 pools with that company’s concrete and are core testing all of those pools, including mine at $8000 per test.  So far they’ve tested 20 pools in that group and all 20 have been found to have ASR.  All 20 are being demolished and rebuilt.  

    That particular concrete business has now gone bankrupt and their insurance company has stopped paying for those core samples and pool rebuilds.  Cody Pools’ insurance company has now taken over paying for it all, probably while fighting with the concrete company’s insurance.  

    The core sampling is moving slow and they probably won’t get to mine until late this year, unless cracks develop before then.  Cody assumes me the insurance money is there to rebuild every one of those 200 pools that are likely affected.  But I’m worried about policy limits running out before they get to mine.  Hopefully they can subrogate some of that from the concrete company’s insurance to decrease the chances of that.  

    Good times ahead.  Guess I’ll hold off on building the covered patio next to the pool.  Gonna start a list of all the things I’ll do different on the second one.  

    Happy for you that things are moving.

  3. 5 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    Has anyone in these attorneys' sphere of influence bothered to tell them what happens when just writing down "legal reimbursements" on an expense report is validated now?  

    Bought a hooker?  Totally fine, reimbursed my attorney who paid her in cash

    Bought a kilo of blow?  Totally fine, reimbursed my attorney who paid him in cash

    Had somebody killed on contract?  Totally fine, reimbursed my attorney who paid the assassin in cash.  

    I cannot wrap my head around how this is an actual defense strategy.  Surely they can some up with something better.  This is like bad plot device left outta the script,  from Lethal Weapon 2 

    This is the plot to Breaking Bad. 

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  4. 14 hours ago, honolulu horn said:

    We were happy with the Freeballers. But damn, Bowl Movements is top-shelf an upper decker. Well done. 

    FIFY

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  5. 3 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Is your question the human motivation for the practice or are you trying to discern the utility of the practice?

     

    On 4/19/2024 at 1:14 PM, safe sex said:

    My opinion remains unchanged.

    Is there an actual purpose other than increasing personal wealth?

    Accumulate currency, unlock pussy

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  6. On 4/12/2024 at 10:44 PM, Updawg said:


    Troph. What do you mean insurance has already exhausted their payouts. Like there was a “ pool’ of money and it’s all gone now?

    Feel bad for these peeps. It’s gotta suck

    I'll answer.  See below

    On 4/13/2024 at 5:42 PM, TexEx15 said:

    Insurance companies are denying a lot of these claims now under a silica exclusion.

    • The silica exclusion was apparently written into the policies to prevent medical claims for lung damage due to inhaling silica dust during construction.  Apparently they think the wording is broad enough to deny Alkali Silica Reaction (ASR) claims since Silica is in the name.
    • There are usually multiple parties involved.  The Builder or general contractor carries general liability policy to be able to get permits and build things and then the supplier that is subcontracted to pour the gunnite or shotcrete. Many pool builders are now denying claims and saying it was the installer's fault.  I bet the next step is the installers go after the aggregate suppliers.
    • The insurance policies usually have coverage limits.
    • Not an expert but the difference between gunnite and shotcrete is that gunnite is sand based and shotcrete is aggregate based.  Gunnite requires about 10% fly ash and Shotcrete about 25% to lower the pH of the mix to avoid ASR. One of them is mixed in the truck and the other is mixed as it is shot out of the hose.  I think shotcrete is the latter.  Again, not an expert.  That shotcrete requires more fly ask could be a contributing factor.

     

    On 4/16/2024 at 7:29 AM, capnamerca said:

    Oh fuck me. This is the asshole who built my pool and then went out of business. 

    When did you build it?

  7. 2 hours ago, AnTiM said:

    Mumble, mumble...something in an oath when joining the military about swearing to protect and defend...sentence should be doubled at the very least.

    Court Marshall and dishonorable discharge.  No GI bill benefits, no medical, etc.

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  8. Just now, YGIFS said:

    Yeah, I think it's some kinda work/safety outfit.  I doubt there's any oilfields near Kent, OH.  

    In a master stroke of irony, would have been nice if one of students at Kent State opened fire on Kyle's fascist ass.  

    Also, the fuck with the security detail guy rolling down the window?  Not that any of those students looked threatening but first rule of rolling out of a hostile area is keep the fucking windows up.  Get in the car, buckle in so you're harder to pull out and 3rd-roll up the windows/lock doors.  First fucking thing they teach you in Mexico.  This guy's making tiktok clips while exposing the vehicle occupants.  Appropriate that his security detail is as stupid as Kyle, I suppose.  

    Kyle rolled down the window for his video.  He wanted to talk to the 8 protestors.

     

  9. The sad part is he is the one that published the video and all it shows is that 8 people came out to give him the bird.  He's trying to prop up his relevance, but only relevant because he killed people and even then he gets like 8 protesters.

    We shouldn't post about him here until he is in jail, beat up or dead.

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  10. 20 minutes ago, Modessit said:

    Saw this tonight at a restaurant in Manor:

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    Yeah, watch out for that one.

     

    (I know, wrong car but I don't pick up corn snakes either)

  11. 13 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

    Then Winthorpe and Valentine start short-selling once it gets high enough -- they don't have any of these shares, yet, they just grab a ton of money on shares they promise to buy in the future, suddenly driving the price down a little bit, alerting the Dukes that something is wrong.

    Then the actual report gets read, and everyone realizes they're holding overpriced OJ shares, and start selling it off, driving the price down like crazy. Once it gets to a fraction of its starting price, Winthorpe and Valentine cover, buying back at a fraction of the price all the shares they'd sold. In the end, W&V pocket a shit-ton of money and own most of the OJ market, and the Duke brothers' assets get seized to cover their losses.

    Don't believe this is true.  The sold shares they did not have (the short) and then they bought them later at a lower price (the cover) to deliver to the people that bought from them at the higher price.  If it is a pure cover play they only buy enough to satisfy the obligation to deliver the shares they sold short.

    Break

    Once the covers are bought then you might see another round of short selling.  

     

    When Gamestop was a big deal this was happening except the meme traders did not sell their shares so the short sellers had to cover with inflated stock prices and actually lost money.

     

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  12. 17 minutes ago, 7KHorn said:

    ASR often caused from using bad aggregate composed of disorganized silica-chain rocks, like what you'd find in volcanics like obsidian.  Or from microcrystalline quartz like chert or opal, or strained quartz like quartzite.  Not many volcanics in local quarries around Austin so potential bad aggregate could be from a microcrystalline form like chert. 

    Anyone figure out the source quarry yet?

    The additives (or lack of additives in this case) are also a factor, and based on article above, sounds like that is a big factor.  Fly ash, silica fume, and slag all additives that help mitigate against ASR formation. 

    With all the construction occuring in central Texas these days, I wonder if the ASR problem will extend beyond pools due to general lack of availability of additives like article suggests.  Or maybe it's isolated to the pool subcontractor using bad aggregate and/or saving money not adding the additives.

    I did not read that article.  Too much trauma to read any more.  

    In a previous article I read it stated that it took extensive/expensive testing to rule out the bad aggregate so the fly ash additive was a sort of preventative measure that was always used because it was less expensive to add the ash than to test every batch.

  13. 11 hours ago, 'stache said:

    That Rudy isn’t the same as today’s Rudy. I seriously think he has dementia, or syphillis, or maybe even a tumor. I honestly can’t think of another famous person whose personality has changed this much in such a public way in such a short period of time without a medical explanation. He might also have been blackmailed. I just don’t understand it otherwise. America’s mayor, famous prosecutor (as you said in the most prominent US Atty position in the country), to the dumbest saddest most pathetic piece of shit imaginable. Just insane.

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    11 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    His first wife was also his cousin.

    So he’s always made bad decisions. 

  14. 8 hours ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

    it's not ethnic cleansing if there is a choice, albeit a quasi forced one. Or no choice and they live in hell (Gaza) for the rest of their miserable lives. Tell me, what are the opportunities there for young people? It's time to get out. The US already has about 200,000 Palestinians, one of them in Congress, the numbers have dramatically increased in the last 20 years.  Lots of them in Canada, UK, and France already. This isn't difficult despite the faux outrage of ethnic cleansing. 

    Just catching up but it sounds like your plan is to turn Gaza into Oklahoma. 

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  15. 6 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    Oh, and today's press announcement is helping to crater the price:  coming soon, streaming TV.  Honestly smells like an attempt to boost the price, but looks like it has failed:

     

    https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/16/trump-media-shares-fall-7percent-after-saying-truth-social-to-launch-tv-streaming-platform.html

     

     

     

     

    And because other broadcasters are just too fucking woke:

     

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    “The streaming content is expected to focus on live TV including news networks, religious channels, family-friendly content including films and documentaries; and other content that has been cancelled, is at risk of cancellation, or is being suppressed on other platforms and services,” Trump Media said in its release.

    CEO Devin Nunes in a prepared statement said, “We’re excited to move forward with the next big phase for Truth Social.”

    “With our streaming content, we aim to provide a permanent home for high-quality news and entertainment that face discrimination by other channels and content delivery service,” Nunes said. “There is a lot of great content that simply can’t find an audience for unjust reasons, and we want to let these creators know they’ll soon have a guaranteed platform where they won’t be cancelled.”

     

    Lol, perfect place for a pillow salesman.

  16. 8 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

    ^^^^
    what happens to this price when they add millions of shares? Does value of all previous shares get divided by new total number of shares or do the new shares get issued at the old price per share? 

    They sell them at whatever the market rate is.  That's how companies raise money, the higher the price the more they raise.  It dilutes everyone else's shares though so the price drops when the annoucement of dillution is made.  

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