@doctor-phibes lol

@xenon said in Market holding strong: Even with a weak jobs report, it's slightly up. (I'm guessing it makes stimulus even more likely?) As a sidenote - I finally got back into the market in a big way this new year (after crawling out of grad school debt and then buying a house). I'm lamenting my old positions that I liquidated for grad school years back. Chief among them was my $40K in Amazon at an average cost of $140 (I think I sold for like $280 or something and felt ok about it). Had some decent positions in other tech stocks as well. Ah well - starting again from this week. Ugh that Amazon sale hurts, but investing (like gambling) is really painful if you open the "what could've been" hindsight can of worms. Congrats on the house and clearing the grad school debt, btw!

@george-k said in If you like British detective shows....: I really preferred a story like Broadchurch with an arc that reaches over several episodes. I enjoyed it quite a bit too. Kind of depressing but I thought quite well done.

@jodi @jon-nyc Informative stuff. Quite sad however.

@jolly said in How are these guys going to explain themselves to the slain officer's family?: Ever stop to think the police may have thought there wouldn't be violence? After all, there gave been many pro-Trump events in Washington over the past four years. How many turned violent? I just find it hard to believe that they would not "prepare for the worse, hope for the best" It wasn't like they were guarding a used car lot.

@catseye3 said in Kevin McCarthy: Kind of makes you wonder about the brainpower of the rest of 'em, though. LOL I am not surprised by the brainpower (or minus brainpower) of the rest of them 555

@andyd said in The Outrage: @jolly Prefer real jousting with Giuliani as your second? LOL I thought verbal jousting was 90% of this forum [image: 1610138865668-e9fa3eaf-f11c-482f-8d41-1ef3ebfbe32f-image.png] I think that cartoon is a good summary of the two sides in USA today If the other side is for it, I must be against it, even if the other side makes good sense. If the other side is against it, I must be for it, even if the other side makes good sense.

Still a good rant...

Yes, Apple does not grant freedom to App developers You can't even talk about freedom I'm an Apple App developer, selling for 14+ years. They don't just insist on control of everything, I believe they really hate developers. It is kind of like TDS. I think a year from now I'll be out of the game, just as they are finally giving a pay raise to developers. Not all developers, just the small ones.

Related - interesting thread, walks through the procedures for unleashing nukes. https://twitter.com/marcambinder/status/1347641674176942086?s=20

@mik said in The future ain't what it used to be: They certainly have not shown any aptitude for winning over Americans Who are this "they" you speak of?

@jolly said in Seen on today's walk....: BTW, want strong convictions? https://m. Link to video I don’t pray a lot, but I will here.

@axtremus said in President Manchin: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lisa-murkowski-calls-for-trumps-resignation_n_5ff8d310c5b66f3f795dd9d2 Markowski says she may leave the GOP to become an Independent. Grandstanding. Do you think she'll caucus with Schumer? President Trump is a non-issue in 12 days.

Link to video

Do you think the poop guy got riled up after reading all the fraud affidavits?

I may have misjudged this. They might not put his name on the back of an NFL helmet.

@xenon And it should remain so. Would be a sad day that we should ever adopt republican governance or values.

@xenon said in Dominant: @jolly said in Dominant: And there are far worse monsters than Trump could ever be, prowling out in the political jungle. True, but my hope is that there are also better ones. Might well be wrong, but that's the general path most countries take...A revolution to a free society, then a creeping incrementalism to a socialist society, followed by a turn to strong, central figure of some kind.

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