Not a good development, but probably to be expected given the environment Ukraine endured under Soviet rule. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-s-top-ministers-resign-amid-100m-corruption-scandal/ar-AA1Qjy5u

I just asked ChatGPT to run the numbers using typical rates today on a 500k house with 20% down. The difference in principal paid on payment 1 was substantial. $345 on the 30yr vs $1,349 on the 15.

@Renauda said in Look out, Elon: @Mik said in Look out, Elon: некомпетентность Actually В принципе это нормально, и так всегда в России. [image: ?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia1.tenor.com%2Fimages%2F03a73afb6523f7e3536afbca880a7711%2Ftenor.gif%3Fitemid%3D5822761&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=f4b6cb52c0bfa4fc2b12f393e66c02c86645f5cf947ec3b70f4b694a59bf1f35]

[image: 1763025369073-screenshot_20251113-091309_duckduckgo.jpg] Trump's soapbox

I wonder how much that last penny is worth. https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/PltzeTllLX

Person, woman, man, camera, TV.

@jon-nyc said in AI-designed virus that kills bacteria: Oh, those two have been fighting for a billion years. By the way, crispr is an evolved bacterial defense used to kill viruses that we exploited to edit genes. That’s actually the reverse. Which is cool in it’s own way.

Punch brothers are all consummate musicians. The guitarist’s father was Ben Eldridge the banjo player in The Seldom Scene. Saw him many times with The Scene; even had a coffee with him during a Bluegrass festival in Chilliwack BC close to 25 years ago.

@Axtremus said in Finland and waste heat: @Klaus must be ecstatic that every time he makes an AI-enhanced Google inquiry, there is a good chance that he's also heating a Fin's tuchus. Please don’t be thinking about Fin’s tuchus.

do you acknowledge that passwords cannot be guessed by inference, based on questions, and logical implications of those answers?

@jon-nyc said in The 2028 GOP primary thread: I think in hindsight he made a mistake going after Trump. He could have done all the attention seeking stuff he did while throwing credit at Trump and licking the boot and he’d be vice president right now. I say hindsight. The idea that people wanted Trumpism without Trump seemed reasonable at the time to me also. I think he tried to ride the middle on it too much. COVID was the biggest crack between Trump and that base. They despise Fauci. Trump gave him a commendation on his last day. They hate the vaccine. It was the Trump vaccine. They hate the lockdown, that was Trump. They hate all of the times that different narratives were stated by the health departments as being fake news only to be proven true. They hate the way the government tossed around checks and money and the inflation that resulted (Trump as well as Biden). They hate the abuse and sheer fraud of the Payroll Protection “loans”, that was Trump. DeSantis was the one guy that could really have laid this at Trump’s feet. Especially after the way they went to war over Florida reopening. If I was on DeSantis campaign staff, every frigging commercial would have started with the official Presidential Commendation. When Trump gave his denial and said he didn’t know who did that, I would have had DeSantis ask him if he “was a liar or incompetent, which is it?”. I would have started every debate by politely greeting Trump and asking about his good friend, Dr. Fauci. I would have had him read off the many already known of PPE grants given to companies that were actually posting record profits even without the government money during the pandemic. The message would have been “When we needed you, you failed us. Again, and again, and again.” Lame Donald…

Love it. And man... Minnesota is way more boring than Virginia. Guess we can blame the glacier.

They're all actually great athletes. Watching the white commies who happen to be seven feet tall dribble a basketball with their feet will establish that. But they think different about the game too. Culture does matter here.

See my other thread. Farmers know! Aint no point in the almanac now. They’re all reading this instead… [image: 1762961977426-img_2176.jpeg]

said in It's the End of the World as We Know It: I realize that. I need to hoard what i have left cuz after the missiles start flying, like Chaka Khan said, Aint Nobody, makes my gummies, makes me happy, makes me feel this way…. Gotta think like that dammed ant.

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Interesting. https://x.com/laura_l_cellier/status/1988591844121309259?s=46

Ooohhh, he gained an obituary in Rolling Stone, and a modicum of support from drug addled hippies who promptly forgot about him in their opium fugues. Great. At the same time, he lost his farm, his friends, and ultimately his life. Do you honestly believe that if you could go back to that moment and show him the consequences, that he would still go forward?

@Mik said in Dudes posting their Ws: Pretty impressive, but in the final analysis the guy needs to get a job. He’s likely a Federal Employee or Contractor working remotely. I’d almost be willing to bet on it…