I'm certainly glad you enjoyed the good parts! You're right, the Israel/Hamas interview with him was also a good one. Was that the one about the changing headline and the challenges of writing headlines? Issues, Etc is a radio show, 10 hours a week. What we've linked to is the "on-demand archi...

No saint's feast day is commanded in the Bible, but the church has established them over the centuries. Here's some information about the feast of all the saints: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints%27_Day It seems in contradiction to the constant proclamation of absolute truths. What is this ...

No saint's feast day is commanded in the Bible, but the church has established them over the centuries. Here's some information about the feast of all the saints:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints%27_Day

I'm certainly glad you enjoyed the good parts! You're right, the Israel/Hamas interview with him was also a good one. Was that the one about the changing headline and the challenges of writing headlines? Issues, Etc is a radio show, 10 hours a week. What we've linked to is the "on-demand archiv...

Sorry, fixed the link.

Issues, Etc is a good one for me. Of the most general interest here I think would be the regular interviews with Terry Mattingly, who is an old-school journalist and always has a good perspective on the news that we're hearing. He'll critique coverage, going through questions that should be asked, ...

Its not that AI is going to outsmart us, its that the easy jobs it might replace are important, they keep people in a routine and away from drugs. many smart people will choose to do nothing when they have UBI and social media. On the other hand it used to take a high percentage of the population t...

An older brother of a kid at my kids' school was in a bad car wreck last week. When I heard about this he was not dead but fighting for his life. That afternoon I did a search on his name to see if there were a local news article about it with an update. What I saw was a sickening sign of the times....

The ‘FT’ reports today that the war is sucking the labor force out of the Russian economy and into the military. Obvious, but I hadn’t thought about it much until now. That would only be via a draft, correct? Assume small amount of it would be from volunteer enlisting? Are there any polls as to wha...

What would be the best replacement for SHY to buy and keep for 30 days to avoid wash sale at Fidelity? Sold some SHY for tax-loss harvesting. Probably just keeping the money in the settlement fund is good enough? I've been using SGOV lately. Thank you for your reply. So, does it make sense to buy t...

Ugly_Bird wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 9:30 pm What would be the best replacement for SHY to buy and keep for 30 days to avoid wash sale at Fidelity?
Sold some SHY for tax-loss harvesting.
Probably just keeping the money in the settlement fund is good enough?

I've been using SGOV lately.

I'm thinking about selling my older bonds with 0% fixed rate and buy the new ones next year. I don't see much sense in keeping them as they will have that fixed rate of 0% until maturity. But don't they still grow at whatever inflation turns out to be? If you're not going to use the $10K purchase l...

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Oct 27, 2023 5:43 am Nice colors. Those first two look like siblings.

Okay but what about the cats?

vnatale wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 8:40 am

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dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 8:26 pm I’m sorry for this one. I know it’s in poor taste.

lmao it's actually in great taste.

It is if you are on a certain side of the issue.

If you're on the transgenderism-is-real side, wouldn't it warm your heart to see this chart?

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Xan wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 8:08 am

vnatale wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 7:20 amWhat percentage of Americans ever know who is running against one another for President of Canada in 2024? How many can even say who is the current President of Canada?

Um... is this a trick question?

In what way?

There is no president of Canada.

vnatale wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 7:20 amWhat percentage of Americans ever know who is running against one another for President of Canada in 2024? How many can even say who is the current President of Canada?

Um... is this a trick question?

https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/hiddenforces/Ep.330_Henry_Olsen_Main_Feed_10-9-23.mp3 think thats the 1st hour. DNC just gave the nomination to hillary over bernie? Could RNC give the nomination to whomever they want. what could anyone do about it? trump cant win. hes...

stuper, Your all-or-nothing mindset is really coloring how you look at things. I'm not 100% certain about this, or most any other, issue. I said that the US military is overall a force for good in the world. Am I 100% certain about that? No. But I do think it's the case. This is a discussion forum, ...

so I am able to give you the simple, unvarnished truth, which is that a relatively small country next to a huge country has no fighting chance. Except…Japan which colonized China; Israel, which is 9 miles wide in some places devastated the armies of its relatively massive neighbors, all at once; li...

Um, yeah, there were some technological imbalances in those examples that tilt the other direction here. But anyway, I wish the Ukrainians and Taiwanese nothing but the best sincerely. I hope they make the very best of bad situations. What is it like to be 100% certain about everything, even when y...

stuper1 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 8:03 pmYou'd think people could understand simple stuff like this, but apparently adding 2 + 2 is hard.

Simple stuff like unbacked claims? "The US knows he isn't like that." Who? How? How do YOU know?

Also, you're welcome to make your points, but please don't resort to personal attacks.

By the way, of course as a people we do love Taiwanese people as we love almost anyone (not Russians though or mainland Chinese, both of which are unredeemable ethnicities). Taiwanese isn't an ethnicity. The mainland and Taiwan are the same people, ethnically. I thought the same was basically true ...

Not true. Taiwanese are good. Mainland Chinese are bad. I read it in the New York Times, so it has to be true. If you disagree with me, you need to go to a reeducation camp. And to your earlier point, so you are saying that the Ukrainians and the Taiwanese get to decide for America how we spend our...

By the way, of course as a people we do love Taiwanese people as we love almost anyone (not Russians though or mainland Chinese, both of which are unredeemable ethnicities). Taiwanese isn't an ethnicity. The mainland and Taiwan are the same people, ethnically. I thought the same was basically true ...

I can't think of much that would be more patronizing and paternalistic than refusing to help the people of Ukraine or Taiwan or whatever on the basis that we're saving their lives by not helping them. Shouldn't that be up to them? The US military despite its many flaws is a huge net force for good i...