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Cool.

I actually didn't expect the virus to drastically disrupt the long term profit trajectories of many publicly traded companies, so even though I'm surprised the recovery of the market has been this strong, I am only surprised because I figured the irrational fear of the stock market would last longer than it has. To answer the question in the thread title, the stock market is to provide a system whereby a company can borrow money and pay back those loans, where the lender is individual investors and all their investment dollars in aggregate. If you agree that it's good for a company to be able to borrow money from average joes in order to invest in growth and allow those average joes to participate in the future profits, then the stock market is just the logical consequence of such a system.

@Mik said in Coronavirus May Be a Blood Vessel Disease: So glad to hear she is recovering. Sad to hear that as I suspected we will find there is lingering, possibly permanent, damage. +1 to all this, Jolly.

I view it as a movie about a series of bad decisions.

Aebelskivers! I need to make those again. Yummy!

@89th said in The mayor of Atlanta is having NONE of this: Good leader, hopefully her words resonate. +1, she reflects what I think about these events.

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The National Guards are here and other cities in the county have joined in similar curfews.

That does look like a lot of fun, but like @George-K it is a bit too much money for me. LOL If only I was rich......... 555555

Just Do It.

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Jambo!!!

https://twitter.com/khalnero/status/1265636687474053120?s=20

@Horace I wanna say RC.

@Aqua-Letifer said in Replacing Journalists with Artificial Intelligence: @Horace said in Replacing Journalists with Artificial Intelligence: You'd think the lefties would admit that pop culture is on their side, by and large. All of it? Absolutely all of it. Globally, you're saying. "by and large" doesn't mean an absolute.

Yes, I like how binary digits map to the idea of including/excluding things from a set.

Cozumel

@Rainman said in Hey Copper, yoke question: I suspect the cockpit is soundproof, to muffle the pilot screaming? Maybe it’s the other way around

Nope, guess again