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  1. 37 minutes ago, shakahorn said:

    Both the Moex and RTS indexes are down at levels not seen since the early days of the pandemic.  The ruble has bounced back, but that's because it is artifically being propped up by the Russian central bank.

    Yes, the ruble I should have clarified. I read this from the AP: 

    Russia’s ruble rebound raises questions of sanctions’ impact

    https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-boris-johnson-business-global-trade-1250954224ec20034f166f1d27ce4576

  2. 7 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    The sanctions must be working because it's been hours since Hunter/Secret Service story and yet the TFG defenders aren't here crowing about it yet. Guess the deposits are taking 12 hours or more now

    As of last week, the sanctions haven’t worked (Russian markets had completely bounced back from collapse after the war). I think it’s because the banning of importing Russian oil has been off the table and that’s the most important sanction. Lithuania (I know, not a big name) has announced a ban on Russian oil today and Biden expected to announce more sanctions.

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  3. 5 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

     

     

    Interdasting. 

    Apparently Jack agrees as well.

    Also re: Elon

    Tesla delivered 310,000 vehicles last quarter, a big jump from last year’s Q1 when it delivered 185,000. That growth is all the more impressive because legacy carmakers like GM and Toyota reported Q1 sales declines of 20% and 15%, respectively, with chip shortages still hampering production.

  4. 2 hours ago, Parliament said:

    Wish he'd called me before he made that move.

    The stake, revealed in a regulatory filing, was amassed before Musk criticized Twitter. Musk’s disclosure came out today, but the document detailing the stake, worth about $3 billion at Friday’s closing price, is dated March 14. Twitter’s shares are up about 50 percent since then.

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  5. 45 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

    that's a good summary.  one of the wackiest bankruptcies in recent memory was hertz last year where you actually saw the whiplash occur when expectations went from ...

    ...shares are going to zero (even if they sell the fleet there's no cash left over and no one's renting cars in a pandemic) to...

    ...liquidation value is now positive (post-covid travel resurgence coupled with used car values going through the roof) because Hertz is a meme stonk on reddit and rube wsb retail traders are pumping it, but hertz isn't allowed to issue new shares to...

    ...hertz is re-emerging from bk AND existing shareholders are getting new shares and warrants.  

    FIFY

  6. Just looked-- apparently there are only two Taco Diner locations left in the DFW area. Weren't there a lot more? I used to love that place and thought it was better than Mi Cocinas.

  7. On 3/31/2022 at 1:51 PM, C-Man said:

    I'm sure I'll give it a shot just to see what the fuss is about. FTR, the only El Fenix I've found edible is the OG spot downtown.

    I ate at the El Fenix on Field St. a few weeks ago with some clients after a meeting and...it was amazing. I loved it. 

  8. 25 minutes ago, Satchel said:

    You have yet to provide support for your poor people behavior theory. Can you pinpoint the seminal moment that marked an end to the type of racism from which America has moved on?

    I don't know if there can ever be a seminal moment, but you can pinpoint the seminal beginning and that would be with the Brown vs BOE and the subsequent desegregation of America. I think once people intermixed in society as "equals" (at that time, of course, things were not equal), a lot of the learned or inherited ignorance that prevailed in the "blacks are subhuman/subspecies and whites are a superior biological race" melted away under the light of lived experiences and realization that biology is more or less equal opportunity employers for our capabilities, features and attributes in both physical and mental.

    Satchel let me be clear here for you, because you seem to be trying to stump-the-chump when you really don't grasp my position: I haven't published a paper in the Mid-Atlantic Journal of Social Sciences for a Modern World under the title "Classism as the new modality for racism in America" so I'm not going to have a bunch of scholarship at my disposal and and your beck-and-call, but you asking a bunch of mind-numbing questions because you don't grasp what I'm saying isn't disproving or discrediting my opinion. It would be more productive if you could push back or challenge with your own take, in agreement or disagreement.

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  9. 15 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Yeah for fucking real. Let's double click on that framing as set up by Chrispy: why are the black folks more likely to be assumed to "have poor people behavior" than the white folks? Must be one of them co-inky-dinks I guess, and has absolutely nothing to do with racism that is still inherent to some institutions and groups of people.

    It's like you don't read. I've addressed it multiple times. Here

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    t is not weird that the black and minority population is WAY overrepresented. I've said no less than 4 times that the intersectionality for poor and BIPOCs in modern America is a real result of real (systematic) racism. My only point was that in modern times today, the majority of folks aren't racist against BIPOCs as they were in the past. Today it has more to do with class than color.

    (Of course there are populations who still believe blacks are inherently biologically inferior to white people, but they are not the mainstream and the backwaters of Alabama and Vidor aren't germane to the conversation so let's agree they exist but are not statistically significant to discuss)

     

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    The problem is we too easily conflate this classism with racism because, ironically, of real racism. There is a big overlap and intersectionality of poor people who are black because of a past society which was racist (again, the real racism that said whites were better than blacks by virtue of just being white in a sort of begged question, backed up by what is overwhelmingly accepted as pseudo-science).

    I hope that explains my point better so you don't continue thinking I wasn't serious. Further, to you point, I'm sure there are still people or populations in the deep south or Orange, Texas or other places like that who still are traditional racists, but for the general population and society I think it's this classism that is the real culprit.

     

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  10. 1 minute ago, TurkeyChew said:

    It is 100% political and the fact that you guys can't see it, is why we are so divided (online) as a nation. In my opinion.

    Also I should add, I'm no better than you women-hating misogynists. 

    My defending Huckabee is political as well. 

    And look at what people (not me, of course, I'm a gentleman), have said about HRC. And Chelsea Clinton. And Lewinsky, etc.

    It happens on both sides, but it's nakedly political and it's unnecessary is my point. Attacking the press secretary for superficial things like appearances because you hate the politics and the president is like hating the team waterboy because you can't stand the coach and the quarterback and the offense they run.

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  11. 1 minute ago, DDD Dad said:

     

     

     

    That Sanders was unattractive and failed to keep at a healthy weight was really just an unexpected bonus.

    Why is that a bonus for you? Because you enjoy being ugly to women about their body size and shape and their appearances?

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  12. 2 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

    Well huckabeef is a fat, lying, fascist cunt. Psaki is not fat, not a liar, and not a fascist cunt. It’s not political. It’s honest

    It is 100% political and the fact that you guys can't see it, is why we are so divided (online) as a nation. In my opinion.

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  13. 1 minute ago, Captainant said:

    You are getting nixon-pilled if you think it's really about social/class prejudice and not actually racial prejudice. Roger Stone and Paul Manafort have been selling that schtick to aggrieved whites since the Civil and Voting Rights Acts were passed. 

    Open your eyes, listen to something besides what your reagan-era education.

    I don't know what to tell you, I just don't see it. I don't see it that way in my lived experiences and in my community, workplace or place of worship, etc.

    I'm not saying you are wrong-- I actually generally appreciate your perspectives though I mostly disagree-- but maybe I just am not in the space to understand this as you do. And that's about I guess all we can say about this topic, at least as far as I'm concerned. I'll recuse myself now.

    Peace be with you all.

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  14. 3 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

    Fuck you. I can make fun of Harvey Weinstein and Alec Baldwin's physical appearance too because they've more than fucking earned it. It's not about teams. It's about paying people even the smallest amount of respect and decency before expecting the same courtesy to be returned to you.

    Where is the line drawn? I'd hope you won't use gay or race slurs to those whose politics you hate, but everything else -- ableism, ageism, body-shaming, and misogyny is in scope? Maybe one day you will look back and actually see you are wrong as you evolve.

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  15. 4 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

    If you are in the job longer but don't do a damn thing what does that say.

    Keep talking shit.

    I think the cactus flint is jarred in the part of your head that processes information and helps you understand how to read.

    The question was literally: But she had a longer tenure as press secretary than anyone under Trump, right? 

    I responded to that line of inquiry. I could be wrong, I didn't look it up and threw out Sanders because she was in the role for what seemed like ages (which then had me recall how often she was called fat and other vulgar names that you would never use in front of a woman in real life).

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  16. 1 minute ago, Satchel said:

    Since you’ve already identified the kind of behaviors seen in the Popeyes employees, it might be helpful if you named the behavior exhibited by the customer:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10654815/Man-threatens-lynch-black-employee-calls-N-word.html

    'I'm white - that means I'm automatically better than you': Man threatens to lynch black Popeyes employee and calls her the n-word in racist rant in Florida

    • A viral video captured the moment a white man went on a racist rant against black employees at a Popeyes in Okeechobee, Florida
    • The man claimed the black employee called him a 'cracker,' but when the manager asked what he said to her, the man admits he called her the N-word
    • He goes on a racist tirade as the employee fires back at him
    • The man then threatens to beat the woman and hang her from a tree
    • As he leaves the store, he yells that he's white and 'automatically' better than her
    • Popeyes officials said they're providing support for the franchise and reviewing how to help employees deal with negative customers

    I guess you couldn't tell by my ignoring your onesy twosy bits of news where racism, like the above, is abhorrently at forefront of some weird incident. 

    I've stated that racism exists. I know that there are racist people among us that believe by virtue of being white they are automatically better. 

    Pointing out one-off incidents among a nation of 330mm people and then acting as if that is the macro and overarching norm is so foolish I hadn't felt the need to respond. Of course this will always exist to some degree. I never negated the existence of this type of racism when I said that today America has generally moved on from this type of racism (white skin = automatically better than black because you are an inferior subspecies and race) and moved to a more social/class prejudice and discrimination.

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  17. 4 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

    Read it again.

    She did more in less time. Fuck off

     

    You read it again, the question was around tenure, not activity. 

    Also, love the rationalization for misogyny and body-shaming. There is literally nothing people won't rationalize and be hypocritical about when it comes to their own interests and teams though, I get it: Politics!

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  18. 1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    Sorry to see her go. But she had a longer tenure as press secretary than anyone under Trump, right? I’m not sure what she’ll bring to MSNBC. I only know her as a messenger, which she’s good at, not as a reporter. 

    Sanders did almost 2 full years.

    Nothing is more nakedly political than the misogynistic and body shaming of a thrashing ole "Huckabeef" (as some of our finest on here liked to call her) got compared to the blind fawning and confirmation bias of how snappily smart and pert Jen Psaki is and how great at her job she is.

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