Tyler wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 10:24 am Well done, Budd. You should be very proud.

Solid portfolio, BTW. It's nice to see young investors appreciate the value of commodities.

You have won the internet today with this one!

The CPU is the same in the Air and the Pro. Do you need the better GPU for anything like video editing or gaming? Are you doing any large tasks on it that require the cooling? Most of the population would be a no to both. For average daily use (internet, streaming, Office, etc) the Air would be the ...

Yeah, there probably is legitimate cases against him. But, I'm not sure the status quo of rich powerful men having a get out of jail free card is going to end. I think at the end of the day, whether he pardons himself or not, nothing will really come from it. Maybe he has to pay some back taxes or s...

Anyone who doesn't think Trump won't be implementing some level of scorched earth policy is deluding themselves. I just hope it can be contained to head shaking and just counting the days, vs. something really significant. I just keep hoping and praying that his rushed bid to open up the arctic dri...

Does a substantial portion of the population want a return to feudalism? The part that just wants someone/anyone with deep pockets to take care of them in return for slavish loyalty, regardless of what is best for the nation? https://www.britannica.com/topic/feudalism "The terms feudalism and ...

the thing is "white supremacist groups" are a bogyman, the reality (more or less) is a few hundred backward holdouts with no money no power living in trailer parks playing dress-up in fancy uniforms.. no threat to anyone the "red neck racist" (to a large degree) are not racist, ...

It's a textbook authoritarian move to get rid of anyone who refuses to go along with your propaganda. Sounds like a tactic that China's government would use to suppress the truth. That's what's so confusing to me. This is the type of behavior you read about with figures like Stalin and Hitler but n...

I haven't read that yet, but on the face of it, I think Steven Pinker's formulation is a stronger argument (paraphrasing); WEALTH is not a natural state of man, poverty is. Nobody was wealthy until extremely recently. And only a few of them are. It's incredibly rare to be wealthy. But people were i...

Not going to argue that our current government fully makes sense, or that it is ideal in any way. And yeah I "argued that caring for each other is the enlightened ideal" and the fact that I had to argue that stance precisely proves my point. Not everybody sees this "self-evident"...

It's a textbook authoritarian move to get rid of anyone who refuses to go along with your propaganda. Sounds like a tactic that China's government would use to suppress the truth.

no it is not only applicable to government not by a long shot.. but that isn't an argument against letting people take or giving them power over others as a government. The idea is that power should reside with the individual, "government of the people by the people for the people", is th...

This begs the question... if the system was so great, why did people demand that it change? I've already identified the problems that came from that system. Everybody here seems to be in agreement that these problems exist, nobody has even tried to deny the problems I've identified. I also have not...

The government issues the money, they are the one and only true owner of the money, and as such they have the right to tax their money and to disperse their money however they see fit. Now I don't want to see them get crazy with that right, but the government does have that right . 1. The governmen...

This begs the question... if the system was so great, why did people demand that it change? I've already identified the problems that came from that system. Everybody here seems to be in agreement that these problems exist, nobody has even tried to deny the problems I've identified. I also have not...

Money and value are arbitrary concepts. They are human conceptual constructs and nothing more. They only exist because we agree to agree that they exist. Since they are arbitrary in nature, they will inherently be ever changing, and thus there is no perfect static monetary system. You cannot make so...

The government issues the money, they are the one and only true owner of the money, and as such they have the right to tax their money and to disperse their money however they see fit. Now I don't want to see them get crazy with that right, but the government does have that right. 1. The government...

This begs the question... if the system was so great, why did people demand that it change? I've already identified the problems that came from that system. Everybody here seems to be in agreement that these problems exist, nobody has even tried to deny the problems I've identified. I also have not...

Why does it seem like the difference between "basic rights" as defined by leftists always involve taking something from me, to give to someone else. And here is the root if the issue right here. Go back and reread everything I've said, as I've already identified this self centered world v...

So what exactly was the problem here? Are you saying that there is a genetic predisposition of certain races to lead irresponsible and unproductive lives, so that they must be rescued by the state? That sounds racist to me. And might one have the sneaking suspicion that government actually CAUSED t...

The idea of the centrality of individual freedom and responsibility is a core philosophical belief. But the problem that I've mentioned multiple times and has not been refuted is that there is no clean line of demarkation where one persons rights end and others begin. There is an overlapping gray a...

I am thinking outside the box. Are you? I would be willing to say this is the first time in history that we actually had the ability to generate the resources needed to actually stand a chance at fixing these issues, and truly providing at least a very basic standard of life for all. It was never p...

So, just like we diversify in a portfolio to diversify away the weaknesses/tradeoffs of each asset, we should also be open to diversifying our strategies in government. It's the only way to truly find some semblance of fairness and equality. Reminds me of Paul Saladino (carnivore MD) who makes a co...

the group you are talking about is a very small percentage of the total number of needy, the vast majority can learn to swim or to at least keep their head above water and float. if you do away with disincentives that discourage the givers from giving, and stop taking from them to support the bad d...

the group you are talking about is a very small percentage of the total number of needy, the vast majority can learn to swim or to at least keep their head above water and float. if you do away with disincentives that discourage the givers from giving, and stop taking from them to support the bad d...

It doesn't matter if someone is responsible or not. It doesn't matter if someone makes good choices or not. Every person is equal, and no person should be left for dead, and to do so is a crime against humanity, and goes against everything our country stands for. I don't care about politics. I don'...