Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
10hr ago
October was bad for my 401k. But I'm not retiring any time soon regardless of how the markets do. It's a blip, it'll recover.
Sure, I'd have been happier if it happened before my paycheck auto-deposit rather than after, but hey, you win some, you lose some. I'm sure I won't be lucky enough that the markets will stay down until January when my company's stupid "once a year at the end of the year rather than throughout the year" retirement contribution gets deposited.
Mantergeistmann
11hr ago
Wasn't Friday a worse drop?
Mantergeistmann
11hr ago
Personally? I don't think the Iran war was the wrong decision. Could and should have been prosecuted better, certainly, but I have no objections to the concept. Of course, I also have no objections to the Republican party in general taking a hiding, and Trump specifically, so...
Mantergeistmann
17hr ago
As with everything, it depends on the perspective and who's telling the event, doesn't it?
The tall windows that framed the lobby were plastered with people yelling and banging on the glass,” we wrote. “They were trapped. The senators hid under a stairwell, out of view, while the police ordered a city bus to pull up in front of the building. Officers then formed a human wall on the sidewalk, parting the sea of protesters and creating a pathway for the senators to reach the bus.” Once the senators were on board, “the mob on the street began punching the windows and shaking the vehicle. … The police told the senators and staff inside to keep their heads down in case a window shattered.”
Thankfully, no one was killed. But during the course of the occupation, Walker received a steady stream of death threats against him and his wife, including one that promised to “gut her like a deer” and one threatening to kill his sons. Police found dozens of .22-caliber bullets scattered across the Capitol grounds. The occupiers drew chalk outlines of fake dead bodies etched with Walker’s name on the floor, and carried signs that read “Death to tyrants,” “The only good Republican is a dead Republican” and one with picture of him in crosshairs with the words, “Don’t retreat, Reload.”
Mantergeistmann
18hr ago
Say we set the definition of “insurrection” at the level of storming the Capitol. Multiple people controlling a location in the hopes of forcing a particular decision. There’s basically zero chance of Democrat voters trying anything like that!
Mantergeistmann
21hr ago
I don’t know how you get a religious degree without some genuine faith.
Don't non-denominational schools of theology exist at some universities?
Mantergeistmann
23hr ago
Also, maybe don’t make the gnomes working in the bank Jewish stereotypes
Here I thought they were a reference to the Swiss. Personally, I still find it entertaining (and expected) that the most hardcore anti-Rowling folks on the left immediately stopped accusing her of being anti-semitic the moment October 7 happened.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
Less useful than even a standard anecdote, but I've been seeing a decent chunk of "rumours have it that the Republicans have hacked voting machines to change your vote" posts going around Tumblr.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
If the Democrats win the Senate, which I am hopeful they will not, then they will likely refuse to confirm all of Trump's judicial nominees, which will start a constitutional crisis whereby judges will only be confirmed when the same party controls both the Presidency and Senate.
Honestly, that's their prerogative. If he can't/won't send someone acceptable to them, even if they'd find nobody acceptable if he sent them up to and including someone on their own side, so be it. Them's the breaks. Losing an election has consequences.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
why would some wizards not just use their overwhelming strength to rob muggle banks, for example?
My understanding is that the wizarding world a) encourages separation from all things muggle, culturally, and b) has a massive police and surveilance org keeping track of these things and preventing them.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
That's what, not even a single VPS- mod VIRGINIA class submarine? Which, granted, the US needs more of, but the big bottleneck isn't money, it's shipyard capacity and throughput, and for some reason that doesn't seem to be a problem that the US government is able/willing to solve with money.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
Depends on your definition of "significant portion". I'd say there were certainly more than there should have been, but a "significant" portion of UNRWA staff? Unless there's new information, I'd say not.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
Mr. Beast
The YouTuber?
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
I prefer I nice mosey myself.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
Semi-finance-related, but if anyone is having trouble with FT's paywall and wants to read a specific article, let me know -- I get 20 "single non-subscriber shares"/month. I've also got a WSJ and Atlantic subscription for gift articles.
Trying to take advantage of all my complimentary subscriptions, but I just can't seem to be bothered to read the news in depth every day.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
Yes. 10k per individual. There is also a "gift box" loophole, where you can buy an unlimited amount to be gifted, then gift them to yourself.
I've seen that limit be the basis for an argument that they're designed specifically for the upper-middle-class: people for whom 10k/year matters, but who can afford to save 10k/year (or 20k/couple) after 401ks/IRAs. Not sure how well that argument takes into account that the limit hasn't been increased in... a decade? Two?
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
switch from the Stupid Party to vote for the candidate of the Evil Party!
The people who made that ad presumably think that the Stupid Party is also the Evil Party. The old line about one party thinking the other is stupid, the other party thinking the first is evil is obsolete, I feel. Now both sides think the other is both stupid and evil.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
I always forget that peanut butter M&Ms exist. Usually because they don't exist within 10 feet of me for more than 30 seconds.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
The entirety of human history also established the precedent that shipping is only as good as a flag nation's own ability to protect and escort the ships, but outside of the Hormuz, it's important to everyone that we don't return to that state of history.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
Ethics how? As in, AI-related, company related, leadership related?
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
Reese's is top tier. York and Butterfinger are also excellent. I'd actually put Heath bars pretty near the top, but nobody tends to buy those.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
It's either world class financial engineering or a hell of a coincidence
What odds it involved Claude? Obviously not without significant human oversight, but still.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
Anybody out there use a trackball? Any advice on brands, essential features, designs?
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
For whatever reason, Israeli ground troops don't seem capable of forcing the issue, their military doctrine is a little like the English chevauchee in the Hundred Years War. They go into Gaza and blow things up, they go into Lebanon and blow up bridges, buildings. But they don't establish a proper, stable occupation government.
They have a delicate balancing act they're constrained by: they can't entirely become an international pariah on the level of Iran or NK, and an occupation (and the stories that would come out of a Hamas-influenced Gaza in the middle of an actual occupation and pacification campaign) would be far, far more harmful to public opinion of them in the democracies that matter than a ground offensive and bombing campaign that has, ultimately, killed fewer than one person per bomb dropped.
That's the most predictable thing that could have happened.
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