I went into a big chain hospital today. No masking requirements for entry or otherwise. I gather that this is still not the case in some US states? In my part of Western Massachusetts it is always masks for anything medically related. I think that might be the only places where that is the case. No...

https://reason.com/2023/01/19/facebook- ... ensorship/

Not that this is surprising but interesting nonetheless. I especially like that Facebook employees referred to the CDC as "collegues."

Yes, the politician are the ones who are creating this debt but it is ultimately the electorate which is allowing and supporting them in doing so with all the "must have's (NOW!)" that the electorate demands. George Will once brilliantly described the American people as talking like Jeffe...

Cullen Roche has written some interesting articles regarding debt and the economy, etc: The Biggest Myths in Economics Be sure to check out the related posts he's listed for more details. Excellent link. Thank you for sharing #10 Fallacy of Composition is relevant here. https://www.pragcap.com/say-...

https://nypost.com/2023/01/11/wells-fargo-to-focus-on-home-loans-for-minorities/?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=2&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8Nx9eUZxrHwwUUUPfuXk125pkhAIV0BR2OZwcrLjBUIILPWkmavo8-UTH3xGcZIfe1IiHllkFXtKgIQ-t_t5uWjySiMzpJcSXNW0-ArQYX5DpVSc4&utm_content=2&utm_source=hs_email Is this somethi...

Maddy, my anecdotal experience is in line with yours. To me, the most important thing is that so many people expect to be taken care of by other people or the government. Playing video games is so much easier than having to work to support yourself. Sad. On the brighter side, I do know many younger...

Speculation abounds that it's the democrat party itself that arranged to "find" those documents. I have to admit it's a fetching theory. Now that the economy is in shambles, the financial system is on the verge of collapse, cities are overrun with crime, and increasing numbers of people a...

My portfolio now consists of my house, a lot of cash and boring, stodgy dividend stocks from tobacco and alcohol companies, railroads, utilities, gas pipeline companies etc. etc. I have no idea if it will make it thru the debt apocalypse but I’m rolling with it.

Was the reason for the raid that the former President was in possession of the documents? Or was it that he allegedly refused to give them back? Or was it something else? I'm just looking for the official reason, whatever it may be worth. Did a Bing search and could not find a direct answer to your...

During an interview on "60 Minutes" from September, Biden was asked about the viral photograph of top secret documents spread across the floor by the FBI following the raid of former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home. "When you saw the photograph of the top secret documents laid out o...

Single-bond ETFs may be the key to revolutionize trading Treasurys This does seem like a very convenient way to get exposure to (for example) 3-month T-Bills, via the ETF TBIL. However when I click on the ticker link from that article it looks like the fund is way more volatile than I would have ex...

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/public_surveys/died_suddenly_more_than_1_in_4_think_someone_they_know_died_from_covid_19_vaccines I think the death toll from the vax is going to climb and climb and this 49% number from the poll below will get past 79% this year. Of course i...

Big surprise there. You basically can't get published in a place like the Atlantic unless you show your fealty to leftist globalists with your virtue signaling by bashing Trump. https://www.allsides.com/news-source/atlantic The Atlantic gets a pretty strong "Left" bias rating from Allside...

Although holy tracking error — IIRC, SCV hasn’t kept up with SP500 until quite recently Yeah... that's the game with highly volatile products. Paul Merriman has a chart that compares various strategies. And a SCV+SP500 pairing ends up consistently being perfectly mediocre - never first, never last....

boglerdude wrote: ↑Sun Dec 25, 2022 1:03 am You're still going to be ranting about Ukraine, as you're put into a truck by a CCP/DNC agent and sent to a pandemic camp There's more than one threat...

I think the term you are looking for is “Virus Protection Camp”.

My absolute favorite obvious contradiction for right wing conspiracies as a generality is that on one hand, the government is so corrupt and incredibly inept that it can do nothing right. Yet, on the other hand the government is so wickedly brilliant that it can infiltrate and control every aspect ...

My absolute favorite obvious contradiction for right wing conspiracies as a generality is that on one hand, the government is so corrupt and incredibly inept that it can do nothing right. Yet, on the other hand the government is so wickedly brilliant that it can infiltrate and control every aspect ...

[ My absolute favorite obvious contradiction for right wing conspiracies as a generality is that on one hand, the government is so corrupt and incredibly inept that it can do nothing right. Yet, on the other hand the government is so wickedly brilliant that it can infiltrate and control every aspec...

From my experience here’s where there is a problem with the military. We stay WAY too long when things are obviously not going well and the cost benefit analysis of military action has swung to the absolute loss side of the ledger. A weird dynamic occurs…all militaries hate to lose. It’s the ultima...

> for those who contend the American people are all sheep But of course, SARS2 (which variant is it now?) is just as deadly as we're told. But we can lay that question aside. My family is like this, they cannot even have the conversation. They refuse to listen to evidence. But to be fair, I'm still...

http://web.archive.org/web/20060216223405/http://finance.wharton.upenn.edu/~rlwctr/papers/0429.pdf This study is 20 years old but interesting nonetheless. Conclusion was that buying the original S&P 500 stocks and holding them with no changes led to a much better outcome than following all of th...

This reminds me of a fallacy described by Nassim Taleb but for the life of me I cannot remember what he named it. He describes a situation (which happens to me a lot) where you read an article (or see a tv news story) regarding a topic with which you are very, very knowledgeable. Say an article abou...

On the other hand regarding your son ...... how about the vaccine perhaps preventing him from a lifetime of potential problems including death? Come on. The death rate from Covid cases across all ages groups is approx 3%. People in the 18-29 age range only constitute 1.8% of the total Covid deaths....

On the other hand regarding your son ...... how about the vaccine perhaps preventing him from a lifetime of potential problems including death? Come on. The death rate from Covid cases across all ages groups is approx 3%. People in the 18-29 age range only constitute 1.8% of the total Covid deaths....

I grew up in Rhode Island and it was practically "Little Italy" where I grew up. I'd say that of the 2,000+ students that were in my three year high school that about half of them were thorough-bred, 100% Italians such as myself. But we had zero Italian culture, little Italian identify. L...