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  1. 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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  2. 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.

     

  3. 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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  4. 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)

  5. 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.

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    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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  6. 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.

  7. 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. 

  8. 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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  9. 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.

  10. 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.  

  11. 5 hours ago, gernblansten said:

    Someone explain this to me like I'm 5. The 11/8/21 Letter of Interest appearing to set out possible terms for $100M loan lists the collateral as 725 4th Ave., New York, NY, which I believe to be Trump Tower. The $175M bond filings say it is secured by collateral in the form of a Schwab account with $175M in cash. What does Trump Tower being used as collateral on a $100M loan a couple years ago have to do with a Schwab account being pledged to secure the $175M bond?

    The accusation is that the account he put up as collateral is

    1. already collateral for several other loans
    2. the same account he paid off the 130K to Stormy from
    3. not enough money
    4. has "Bud Light" (InBev) stock and that's why he doesn't want it boycotted.
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  12. I thought Knight had to prove they were solvent and could pay the $175M on demand and not go out of business waiting for the collateral to be liquidated and turned over.

  13. I went back to Jan 6, 2021 and read the posts from that morning and found these predictions I thought make for good coffee talk.

      

    On 1/6/2021 at 11:03 AM, BradInATX said:

     

     

    Attack Iran - 10% chance

    Trump runs to foreign country - 10% chance

    MAGA riot/terrorism somewhere - 50% chance

    Trump doesn’t leave WH - 0% chance

    Trump tweets a shitload of conspiracy theories and blames Pence for his loss - 100% chance

    Only 50%?

    On 1/6/2021 at 11:10 AM, Guest Lobo said:

    i'll just run with your scenarios:

    -Iran:  50% chance.  The carrier group positioning is curious.  But macro oil trends are stabilizing, no reason to fuck that up right now.  

    -Trump to foreign nation:  Much lower, but way higher if it's to one of a handful of countries he has a property in.  He'll couch it to his base as, "I'm a hard worker, you all know that.  I don't skip a day, I'm getting right back to running my empire so I've got to India to check on our new tower there."  

    MAGA riot/terrorism:  this is where I'm still very bearish on the movement.  I'd put it at 50% terrorist incident, 80% mass shooting. 

    Trump doesn't leave WH:  5%.   He's leaving.  Somebody will make it very clear to him, that he goes quietly without an embarrassing debacle for us overseas, somebody will squeeze the U.S. Attorney's office to lessen some of the things they're going after with regard to his family and inner circle.  

    Tweets and Fire Stoking:  101%.  

    I know y'all don't like any Republicans.  But there's several dozen, run-of-the-mill Chamber of Commerce GOP Congressmen who weren't going along with Trump.  They aren't the 15-20 really vocal ones who never shut up on FOX or at rallies.  They just followed the orders from McCarthy or McConnell on how to vote.  They didn't use Trump to fundraise, they never really debased themselves to run on pro-MAGA shit, they just tolerated it.  Sure they vote out of self-interest and corruption and a backwards view of social progress, but they at least had some modicum of respect for the Constitution.  And they'll conduct themselves that way today in the Capitol.  They're not joining in this Cruz/Mo Brooks/Jim Jordan co-hort of insane deviants.  They're just gonna do their mandated formality and certify Biden.  And then just get back to their quiet little district that ain't too red, ain't too blue---somewhere in Oregon or Virginia or Michigan or even Texas and get back to fundraising for a third term, and committee work.  And later this month some lunatic MAGA/Proud Boy/Trumper is gonna begin hunting that Congressman and his family.  

     

     

    Again, only 50%?

     

    These next two really underestimated all those relators and gravy seals:

    On 1/6/2021 at 11:48 AM, DigglerontheHoof said:

    actually watching this trump fiasco on Fox.  That crowd isn't marching on shit.  Low energy, taking selfies, posting of FB.  

    Trump is just rambling from lie to lie and they barely look to be paying attention.  Pathetic, just as you'd expect. 

     

    On 1/6/2021 at 12:01 PM, Pato del Muerto said:

    All cowards just like him. Bluster and social media and attempts at bullying. 

     

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  14. 4 minutes ago, dcbc said:

    I had issues with it this morning, but it's working for me now.  Weird. 

     

     

     

    MAGdA

    Pissed that I didn't think of that.

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  15. On 4/8/2024 at 2:29 PM, Hagbard Celine said:

    someone smarter than me needs to capture this series of images and make a .gif

    load it right now and you can see the giant 1000-mile wide blob of darkness travel through texas

    pretty incredible

    https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G16&sector=sp&band=01&length=24

     

    NOAA did it

    https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/data/Eclipse2024/GOESSite/Eclipse_CONUS_GEOCOLOR_Umbra_Cities_Branding.mp4

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  16. 4 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

    No--fuck that.  It's not the minority party's job to help the majority party govern.

    Johnson is a perfect speaker for the Democrats to campaign against.  He's heinous and despicable, but he's also incompetent.  Apart from somehow getting Hakeem Jeffries as speaker, Johnson is the best the Democrats can do.

    Well, except for Ukraine Aid, Baltimore bridge emergency funding, passing a budget, etc.  Maybe I care too much about having a functional government.  Sitting in the passenger seat and watching the driver steer off a cliff is not fun.  Maybe I should crank up some Beastie Boys, crack open a beer and start yelling "Party!"

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  17. 4 hours ago, GoPokes83 said:


    Does Ukraine not have the ability to somehow retaliate in kind? Are Moscow’s power plants so well guarded that random attacks by small covert groups couldn’t work? Wasn’t that long ago that some asshat with a rifle put a ton of Texans in the dark just shooting up one substation.

    Why isn’t Ukraine hitting Russians where they live? At this point are they really worried about being labeled terrorists by doing the same thing Russia is doing on a daily basis? Bring the war home and let them get fed up with constant fear of a car bomb and continual inconveniences. What do I know, but it’s worked before.

    Have you missed all the attacks on Russian oil refineries?

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  18. 6 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Trump is getting skinny assuming this wasn't photoshopped.

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    14 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    That’s phony. 

    There's no reflection in the glass door, it's obvious he's a vampire.

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