The effect of the internet on home repairs is deflationary: I am not very handy at all, but I have fixed the family washing machine twice by watching youtube videos. You can watch a repairman do the job over and over again until you can break down the repair to a series of steps. Each step requires...

Sorry to start a new thread, but I didn't want to pollute a decent existing thread. Just wanted to say hello to all the old (in seniority terms, not age) friends and new folks on the forum. I semi-retired a few years back, and decided to depart from most all my online forum activities. It's been a ...

No thanks - past performance is not guarantee of future returns so Golds ability to retain its value of the last 10,000 years might have just been a fluke. On second thought, if I send you a DM of a video that looks to be highly edited would that still qualify Yes. I know I didn't win - but can I g...

Hey folks. I am leaving this forum and returning to the Bogleheads forum. I no longer subscribe to Harry Browne's piddling investment theories. As such, I shall be giving away my gold to a worthy forum member. This shall be a sword of King Arthur type of contest. The first person to DM me a video o...

Great idea. Then the southern border would become a lot smaller. Easier to build a wall especially with lots of cheap labor near at hand. And, it would get a lot cheaper and easier to fly to Cancun for spring break! and, get cheap avocados and tropical fruits in grocery stores. The big question is ...

To your other question, I believe most voters with partisan motives use moving targets on the economy to measure success. This would include partisan democrats who voted for Biden. That-said, they don’t necessarily think Biden will produce disastrous results in the areas you mentioned and others an...

"Trump is a POS but he's gonna lower my taxes and give me a conservative court." That's not cultish. That's an accurate assessment of reality, even if I disagree with the implicit value-set implied by that attitude. It's the blind defense of the figure-head of some perceived "movemen...

Lawyers for pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell said that “no reasonable person” would believe that her false conspiracies about the 2020 election were “truly statements of fact.” https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/23/pro-trump-lawyer-sidney-powell-election-theft-claims-not-statements-of-fact.html I think s...

Interesting that the videographer chose to edit the video to only depict African American partygoers acting poorly. Do you seriously think the press would pass up an opportunity to capture a 250-pound white woman bent over on the roof of a truck, thrusting her butt back and forth? This just in - Bu...

Is there a lot of violence happening? I really haven't seen too much about it. Brief glimpse of video kind of made me think of modern day woodstock. Problem is information travels so quick these days. The crowds get bigger quicker. Big crowds always going to be public safety nightmare. Here is a Mi...

Tripping going up steep airplane stairs is so low on my concerns. I actually think he recovered quite well. I can imagine that happening to even a 20 year old. I feel like this is more of a distraction from the real bad things he is doing. Don't look at the horrible international policies, look at ...

Ok, want to make a guaranteed 300 percent profit? Here's my idea.. Get a machine that sorts pre82 from post 82 pennies. Begin hoarding copper pennies. Wait til they are taken out of circulation and are legal to melt into giant bricks. No need to worry about theft...can store in front yard as lawn o...

It's interesting how the default has shifted from creative works being "in the air" to being OWNED. For the vast majority of human history, there was no "owning" a story or a song or a sculpture or whatever. Under the Constitutions original copyright provisions, the Beatles woul...

The bigger issue here is actually copyright. Originally, copyright in the Constitution was 14 years. It may have been renewable once. Copyright is a relatively recent (1600 or so, IIRC) invention. It artificially allows one person or entity to "own" the rights to producing a work. Copyrig...

The bigger issue here is actually copyright. Originally, copyright in the Constitution was 14 years. It may have been renewable once. Copyright is a relatively recent (1600 or so, IIRC) invention. It artificially allows one person or entity to "own" the rights to producing a work. Copyrig...

Ok, want to make a guaranteed 300 percent profit? Here's my idea.. Get a machine that sorts pre82 from post 82 pennies. Begin hoarding copper pennies. Wait til they are taken out of circulation and are legal to melt into giant bricks. No need to worry about theft...can store in front yard as lawn o...

For those who don't support greener energy tech, would you be okay with fracking operations under your source of drinking water? A coal ash slurry pit held back by an earthen damn above your neighborhood? Oil and gas refineries and drilling rigs on your waterways? I'm not denying that fossil fuels ...

You guys have it all wrong.

AOC has figured it out.


Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
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Feb 17
The infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you *don’t* pursue a Green New Deal.

CNN at least fact checking Biden. We're still looking into some of the claims Biden made, so this article is not comprehensive. But we can tell you now that he made at least four false claims -- all of them involving statistics -- about the minimum wage, undocumented immigrants, China's economy and...

Per an article I read somewhere: CBO says it would lift 800K people out of poverty, but at the cost of 1.4 million jobs. Didn't specify whether the 800K figure was net of the job losses, or if the 1.4 million jobs lost would plunge some large number of people into poverty that would have to be subt...

Anyone have any data of what the long term effects of a $15 minimum wage increase - double from where we are now. My total guess is it would act as a form of inflation on old (401K) money Prices would go up to offset the dominion effect of the minimum wage increase. Current retirees would have less ...

Is not comradery and patriotism the main reason for any playing of our National Anthem? It's what causes some to become a little emotional when it's played. If we are so divided as a nation at this time, and we have little love and appreciation for our country, maybe we do need to scrap it. I wonde...

[ At the time, World War I was nearing an end. Singing The Star-Spangled Banner that day was a well-timed display of comradery and patriotism. Harry Frazee, then owner of the Red Sox, subsequently began each other game of the series by having the band play the song. Is not comradery and patriotism ...

Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban Stops Playing the National Anthem at Home Games https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/dallas-mavericks-owner-mark-cuban-stops-playing-the-national-anthem-at-home-games/ar-BB1dyoCv?ocid=msedgntp Educate me again why the national anthem must be played at sporting even...

Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban Stops Playing the National Anthem at Home Games

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/da ... d=msedgntp