I have at least one friend whose company has decided to go remote forever. What this is all going to do to commercial real estate is going to be devastating.

And Air Traffic, wow:

How about marrying up a short etf as protection? Do even 1x short funds suffer decay? I feel like I’ve asked this. Ride up, sell the long, ride down, sell the short. Not 50/50, maybe 90 long 10 short? Why is this sounding good to me right now. Not thinking straight. Edit: Even 1x short funds rebalan...

Has it really gotten that partisan that not even one purple state democrat wouldn’t vote for nomination, whoever it might be? To think not that long ago voting on judges was nearly unanimous a lot of the time.

What about proportional electoral college? A couple states do that already, so there must be some constitutional way around the normal method?

pp4me wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 9:49 am Does anybody here believe for one minute that if the Dems were in control they wouldn't be doing exactly what the Republicans are?

Of course they would. They're all politicians and hypocrisy is the name of the game.

Yep

I am sure a lot of you know specific reasons why you'd like a liberal vs conservative court and vice versa. Seems reasonably immaterial to me. The one that is always brought up is Roe v Wade. I really don't know much about that. If I understand correctly that legalized abortion, would overturning th...

So if this doesn’t happen the Democrats will steal the election. But if she stayed alive they were going to steal it anyway I guess there’s no way Trump can lose. Either he wins, or the democrats stole it? According to NPR, there are at least 5 republicans that will not vote until after Jan 20. This...

Boy, if the surge in stocks after the first drop during coronavirus doesn't prove out that there is little correlation of the market with anything happening out there, regardless of earnings, too long of a bull market, too short of a bear market, etc. I don't know what is. I have trimmed back a coup...

Woman posting on a local social site. Nope, we aren't there yet... ------------------------- Yesterday I went to get a flu shot at Walgreens. Before I entered I noticed the sign outside that said masks are mandatory to enter. When I got to the pharmacy, everyone was masked except one female employee...

If Vinny keeps it up, this thread will be longer than the coronavirus thread in no time. I've already been wisely counseled by Xan so there will be drastically less activity in this topic. Plus, I'm 72% through the book. Vinny You have a digital version of the book, right? You aren’t retyping all t...

I wonder, Vinny, if you are breaking any copyright laws here!

This in an article from the NYT! I feel some change happening! ------------------------------------------------------------------- Even as Cases Rise, Europe Is Learning to Live With the Coronavirus In the early days of the pandemic, President Emmanuel Macron exhorted the French to wage “war” agains...

Xan wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 8:56 am Moving to Washington is an anachronism. 30,000 Congressmen can remain where they live. They just need to vote (electronically) the way their neighbors want them to.

Good point. With that many, there really wouldn't be a need to develop personal relationships with other congress people.

There would need to be some reasonable guidelines, I'd think: Once you got picked by lottery, you are checked for --Must be a high school graduate --Must pass a basic intelligence test, whatever that might be that doesn't offend somebody or some group --Must not have any current government business ...

Well if not term limits, to thin out the career politicians. Maybe reduced salary with their nearly 200,000 dollar salary. While we are at it put limits on their Perks. The average U.S. salary is 50-60 thousand. Would it be a more sought after job after the reductions in salary and Perks, or is the...

I sort of asked this early on in this thread I think. For those who dare to get in Trump's head, why did he give interviews to Woodward? Esp. after Woodward wrote "Fear" two years ago and Trump made comments like these about the book: After several news outlets published excerpts of the bo...

flyingpylon wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 2:38 pm
People that continue to see all of this as a R vs D thing are really missing the big picture.

Doesn't that play into the whole global elite conspiracy theory? Why then, does he campaign actively, and hard, for so many republicans? Why would he care, if it is a uinparty?

However, I know If he came out and said that then the media and most large businesses would virtue signal respond and "mask harder." This is where the original topic comes into play. I don't know if it simply is social media amplifying polarization, but I would have thought Carter, or Rea...

The proscribed United States diet is not based upon science but based upon politics, driven by lobbyists. Vinny But it all started with Ancel Keys, a scientist, cherry picking data to fit his "saturated fat is bad" dogma. Right, and who's to say the same isn't true about masks? btw, Vinny...

I encourage you to seek out evidence presented by dispassionate, clear-thinking types and to ignore politically motivated propaganda. I'm pretty sure you'll be able to tell the difference. I've read Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes, The Great Cholesterol Con by Malcolm ...

I encourage you to seek out evidence presented by dispassionate, clear-thinking types and to ignore politically motivated propaganda. I'm pretty sure you'll be able to tell the difference. I've read Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes, The Great Cholesterol Con by Malcolm ...

Sigh here too, WiseOne. I am not one to 100% follow science, evidenced by cholesterol theory and the standard American diet both of which I believe are BS. I don't know what to think, only that I am frustrated that there is no consistency anywhere, that the kids across the street who go to Catholic ...

Cortopassi, the study you are looking for has effectively already been done. Take a look at photos of the early June Black Lives Matter protests in New York City. I bet the photos were carefully vetted to maximize the number of mask wearers shown, but you can easily find non-mask wearing protesters...

Trump, the Uniter In Chief(tm). Why doesn't he just come out and say it's all BS? His supporters have been for a while. And again, not that I 100% disagree with him, but he's playing the outsider here, and he is the ultimate insider. If he could only actually sit down and formulate some real strateg...

Stop fighting it, Corto. [whispering] You're one of us... [/whispering] ;) I did vote for him. I liked his fuck you style as a candidate. I liked it for a while as president. I was hopeful he would become "presidential." I know esp. that tech would call me illogical, but the novelty has w...