However, I think the below is the coup de grâce for just about all of your arguments. The top URL is the long version, the wikipedia URL is the short version. https://www.csce.gov/sites/helsinkicommission.house.gov/files/120191UkraineReferendum.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Ukrainian_indep...

Do you think by welcoming Ukraine, warts and all, into the fold (perhaps NATO) it may be good for us in the long run? What would the point of that be, other than to lead directly to a shooting war between us and Russia? As current CIA director Bill Burns wrote in 2008, Ukrainian entry into NATO is ...

By line break... Agree. Should have stopped with Afghanistan. Though I've zero personal problem with knocking off Saddam and pretty sure a majority of Iraqis would say the same (unless in the Saddam/Sunni power structure). Personally, I also think it's a good thing the Saddam government was overthr...

However, other than 9/11 (from an American standpoint) I can't think of a more worthy war to support in recent times. I'm assuming that you meant "other than the US in Afghanistan , I can't think of a more worthy belligerent to support than Ukraine in recent times." I'd take the opposite ...

I'm a bit behind on the Animal Spirits podcasts so I don't know if they've talked about it yet, but the ones with the guy from BlockFI are always pretty interesting. The one where they talked about 3 Arrows was cool inside-baseball stuff, I assume he knows about FTX and Binance too. Cryptocurrency ...

The founder of crypto exchange FTX went from being worth $16 billion to being worth $0 (probably less than $0) in the span of a day.

That'll sting a bit.

It looks like Ben took down the article. I'm a bit behind on the Animal Spirits podcasts so I don't know if they've talked about it yet, but the ones with the guy from BlockFI are always pretty interesting. The one where they talked about 3 Arrows was cool inside-baseball stuff, I assume he knows ab...

I get a bit sauced up and start thinking about rubbing gold coins on myself. Try doing that with a bitcoin.

Everyone: Biden is the most cognitively-impaired politician to hold public office. Fetterman: You to put hanHOLD hold to beer. My. https://babylonbee.com/news/nation-unsure-whether-to-support-party-that-runs-brain-damaged-candidates-and-party-that-loses-to-brain-damaged-candidates LOL. Superb.

I have Maple Leafs and Eagles, and TBH I can't tell the difference. My nipples always end up pretty raw. Selling them, I believe you recoup the premium though.

Female college athletes are making millions thanks to their large social media followings. But some who have fought for equity in women’s sports worry that their brand building is regressive. link

I don't see the problem here. Yass queens!, etc.

Everyone: Biden is the most cognitively-impaired politician to hold public office.

Fetterman: You to put hanHOLD hold to beer. My.

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I loved Elon's response to Stephen King not wanting to pay $20 for his bluecheck. "Too poor for $20? How about $8?"

He is a merciful god.

I don't know how they were able to pick out me, selling my Vanguard/Blackrock funds because of their proxy voting habits, among all the market turmoil but YOU'RE WELCOME EVERYONE.

I think the fund companies would actually prefer to put the choice into the hands of investors. They just vote now because somebody has to do it. I don't think so. The more natural default choice is to not vote (the corporation could have a "present" vote or something). Just hold the shar...

The deeper issue is that BlackRock uses their voting rights (as extremely large holders of any company's stock) to actively pressure the board of every major company to adopt ESG values. That's not about choice. It's about direct political coercion. Tyler's got it. I was blissfully unaware that Van...

I thought you get paid the interest for the month on the first day of the next month. So the interest you accumulated in August was paid on 1 September.

I'd love to see these findings replicated.

BTW, one of the most fascinating books I've ever read, Parasite Rex, talked about T. gondii a lot. Definitely recommended.

Kriegs, I read the Grayzone article you linked above . I wish it hadn’t been from Grayzone or Max B, as they themselves are highly suspect. And yet, I have to admit I haven’t seen footage of the theater bombing. While I have a hard time swallowing most false flag accusations, you’ve instilled enoug...

I just looked at the "Irpin is liberated" chick's bio, what a coincidence! She's also from the Kiev Independent.

Probably true. Everything gets corrupted eventually. Yup. On one hand, I don't care about the fleecing of high net worth investors. If they want to pay Vanguard to manage their money for them, and it doesn't affect me? Fine. But I suspect that that kind of thing will start (probably already has) po...

https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1506383126003601411 FWIW: Among the first English language media figures to convey the Ukrainian government’s narrative of the incident to a mass audience was Illia Ponomarenko, a Kiev-based, US-trained reporter who has managed to rack up over a million Twit...

ppnewbie wrote: ↑Sun Mar 27, 2022 4:12 pm My friend said he’s in the national guard. But that raises the question of why is the national guard using Molotov cocktails! That’s a big red flag. Anyway, I’ll stop for now. I don’t want to badger my friend any longer.

Maybe he meant the Territorial Defense Force.

… That said, my sense is that Russia is in control of the country and the airspace. It looks like the only territory Ukraine's military controls is inside the encirclement just to the west of the Donbass. … The country? Already? Well, the parts that seem to matter to them. Eastern Ukraine and Kiev....