Another fun fact is that at least one pharma executive has not submitted himself to his own experimental program. Something about a cook who won't eat his own food... There's certainly a smidgen of skepticism across the spectrum. I saw recently that among Chinese front line medical workers, less th...

This was a cool article. I know there are some Nam vets here. Combat Marines are full of sea stories. I’ve heard and loved many of them, even the ones I knew weren’t true. But of all the noteworthy sea stories I’ve heard, the one about three combat photographers who shared a captured-and-then-captur...

This week, Matt Meyer did what many parents long to do. He dropped off his kid at school. That’s unusual in Berkeley, California, where he lives, because the schools there have been closed for a year, and the teachers’ union adamantly opposes their reopening. Parents like Mr. Meyer who can afford p...

Incidentally, when looking for children's books for my niece & nephew, I eventually decided on a very old book for the niece (from the 30s, IIRC. They already have every Dr. Seuss book), and one by Jocko Willink for the nephew. Contemporary children's books are complete fucking garbage.

I've never thought about it before, but it is sad that German-speakers can't really enjoy Downfall memes.

The cancellings are being enacted quicker. There seems to be zero ability to ignore mentally ill Twitter users. Truly a sad time to be an American.

I love how Hal is taking this on the stiff upper lip.

LOL.

The one time I intended to write your actual screen name, I still wrote kgb. The fail is real.

One horse can carry 125 kg on its back, but it can drag 2500 kg on a cart. If it pulls a barge along a river, it can drag 30,000 kg, 30 tonnes, and it can drag 50 tonnes if the weight is on a barge in quiet water, i.e., on a canal. Have any mule stats? I’m kind of into mules and donkeys. Don’t quot...

I know this will sound weird, since I know that both of you are probably sitting calmly in chairs writing on the internet, but I like to imagine you as Willem Defoe in Boondock Saints , whirling around and yelling, "Premarkets were down... The selling fed off itself. The PP assets were under attack....

kgb secretly loves when people rag on the government, he brings it up every chance he gets.

It is cool though. Would only be cooler if SpaceX landed their own rover and we had a Battle Bots fight to the death. But still, this is an acceptable level of coolness.

I just wonder how you get inflation without rising wages...yes, I know they are talking 15 an hour minimum wage...we'll see if that passes.Even still, at 15 an hour once you back social security, medicare, health insurance, fed and state taxes out you are left with just enough to rent a small apart...

$14/oz over spot: https://www.gainesvillecoins.com/products/154671/pamp-suisse-100-gram-gold-bar Thats an incredible price but it is 3.2oz. Its going to be a lot less liquid if you ever intend to sell so your bid/ask spread might be higher. Still, if you've got $5,700 to plunk down on gold it's a g...

IMO, even if people were editing the articles in good faith, Wikipedia's format is doomed to fail (or, become more disconnected from reality, some might not consider that failure) because their sources are shit. That said, I suspect that articles about sage grouse or other innocuous subject are safe...

On the other hand, you have people like Gregory Clark, who has the best non-fiction book titles of anyone*. He's done a lot of work on how the overproduction of elites, particularly in England, filtered down and was probably one of the main reason for massive progress. * All Hemingway puns: A Farew...

Winter lover vs winter hater.

On the topic of WW I All Quiet On The Western Front by Remarque Storm Of Steel by Junger World War One by Stone 1917 (movie) by Mendes Hardcore History: Blueprint For Armageddon (podcast) by Dan Carlin The Great War by Hart World War I by SLA Marshall A Storm in Flanders by Groom To End All Wars by ...

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Saying "i know a guy on the internet who goes by the handle KingKongAlBundy lost his great aunt from Covid" isn't really evidence of a pandemic.

I know 500,000 Americans who died of Covid. They were all my brothers or sisters. Dead.

From August 2020.

Whatever happens, they have got
the ECB,
and we have not

I saw that, definitely a lot of cocaine.

What are they going to do with it, dump it in the North Sea? What a shame.

Modern medicine is the shiznittlesnap.

bitcoininthevp is a good bro.

I saw an interesting PBS documentary about small English villages that survived the Black Death. A genetics study of descendants of survivors still living in those villages revealed a high incidence of a particular gene linked to immune proteins (sorry I forget exactly what it was). If this gene (a...

Owning individual bonds has been pretty easy, and you avoid the ER. TLT is obviously easier because you won't have to sell them every 10 years, but you pay an ER. Vanguard didn't process my sell order for individual bonds back when they were at their peak in 2020, I don't think that would happen wit...

As far as I can tell, Cullen is saying that you can do MMT, as in, it's technically possible to implement. But you'll eventually get inflation/Bad Things from it.