When you’re a ‘futurist’, you’re never wrong, just premature.

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I would expect most manufacturers to continue putting the sticker on compliant models as it has a positive association with most consumers, even in the US.

I understand the today Bessent referred to Putin as a war criminal before the committee. https://www.kyivpost.com/post/52210 That remark should now make his days numbered in the Court of the Orange Tsar.

Yep, as usual, sloppy thinking …if indeed there is any thinking..

Once again, Cohen and his mentor, John Mearsheimer, conveniently ignore facts. One, Gorbachev himself confirmed there was never any promise by the US or NATO not expand eastwards. Two, that beginning in the 1990s with the Partnership For Peace initiative, Russia had every opportunity to coordinate and even integrate its armed forces with NATO. Third, in 2004 Putin himself requested the NATO Sect’y General, Lord Robertson, to invite Russia to become a member of NATO. Robertson informed Putin that NATO membership is not by invitation, but rather by application and that there was no impediment for Russia to undertake the application process. Putin however did not feel that as a permanent member of the UNSC and nuclear super power that Russia should be forced to submit an application like any other non founding member of the Alliance. Four, Putin knows full well that NATO is a purely defensive alliance and poses zero threat to Russia’s security. Cohen lives in a world of ideological make believe and probably believes that Russia remains the proletarian paradise of Soviet times. FuCa, on the other hand, lives with his head up his arse.

This is funny. https://x.com/phl43/status/1919829957036941551?s=46

@Horace said in Falsifiability: And I don't believe in coincidences. Well played.

@Mik said in A troon was working the counter at a gas station today…: You need to share that with its employer. Oh yeah.

Most pilots are trained to look out the window.

It would be like the Mario Cuomo bridge or RfK bridge. No local would ever call it that.

Jody, you are SO COOL riding that beautiful horse!!!

@taiwan_girl said in Net Worth and pensions: @NobodySock Here are a couple that I "fool around with" https://cfiresim.com/#google_vignette https://www.firecalc.com/index.php They both seemed pretty good to me and were fun to play with. I haven't looked at them recently so dont know what (if any) updates or changes have been made. They both run many simulations based on past stock market returns. I think they call it a "Monte Carlo" Thats where the variable “discount rate” comes into play. Considering market gains, losses, and good old dependable inflation. I plugged in 4 percent and then there is the crap shoot of picking the number of years one has left to live. With monthly pensions and SS, that magical number makes all the difference in placing value to the as yet untold true pot of gold

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I'm FB friends with a guy I've known since first grade. My mother used to give him a lift home from primary school. He lives on the Isle of Rhodes, I live in Rhode Island. One of us made a better choice, I suspect. Weirdly, I ran into him at my dad's funeral, in 2014 - he was there for the preceding funeral. We still do a bit of banter from time to time.

@jon-nyc said in Buffett retiring: Ok now I’ve seen it all. A fucking crypto boi accusing Buffett of not adding any real value to the real economy. A cryptofuck. https://x.com/cameron/status/1918870264068166008?s=46 What a maroon.

https://x.com/robinhanson/status/1919452774019858776?s=46