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mister914.bsky.social @mister914.bsky.social · 3h

Sometimes I think I should quit my job and become a full time leaky VW sunroof consultant.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 7h

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 13h

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...

Sudanese survivors of el-Fasher siege tell the BBC about RSF brutality | BBC News

YouTube video by BBC News

www.youtube.com

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mister914.bsky.social @mister914.bsky.social · 1d

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social "Running out of food stamps? Cheer up with this look at the newly remodeling White House bathroom!"

Am I close?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is

I renovated the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House. It was renovated in the 1940s in an art deco green tile style, which was totally inappropriate for the Lincoln Era. I did it in black and white polished Statuary marble. This was very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!

mister914.bsky.social @mister914.bsky.social · 1d

According to the internets, Fillmore installed running water and Lincoln installed the first tub.

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mister914.bsky.social @mister914.bsky.social · 1d

Lincoln's bathroom may have looked like this. I would expect wood paneling. Marble, this size, simply wasn't used.

Maybe tiling. I've never lived in Maryland/Virginia, so I'm not sure how they built things.

For a builder, Trump seems to know nothing about architecture. Sad.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

So wait, Trump “cut a deal” with China to: buy the soybeans they were already buying before the trade war, but now China gets advanced AI chips too?? Where is the win??

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 1d

I guess someone heard from Tylenol’s lawyers.

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mister914.bsky.social @mister914.bsky.social · 1d

It blows my mind that he thinks $4200 in groceries is a lot. I mean, tell me you don't go to the grocery store without telling me you don't go to the grocery store.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Nearly two years ago, the company that owns Trump's Truth Social sued the Guardian, Forbes, Reuters and more than a dozen other news orgs for defamation, over supposedly misrepresenting their financials.

Yesterday, Trump's company dropped their case altogether

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
IN AND FOR SARASOTA COUNTY, FLORIDA
TRUMP MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY CASE NO.: 2023-CA-008180 NC
GROUP CORP, Division: Civil
Plaintiff,
v.
GUARDIAN NEWS AND MEDIA, LLC,
et al.,
Defendants.
/
NOTICE OF VOLUNTARY DISMISSAL WITHOUT PREJUDICE
Plaintiff TRUMP MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY GROUP CORP. (“Plaintiff”), by and
through their undersigned counsel and pursuant to Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.420(a)(1),
files this Notice of Voluntary Dismiss Without Prejudice of all claims against all remaining
Defendants1 (“Defendants”)

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mister914.bsky.social @mister914.bsky.social · 2d

I'd love to see a competitive analysis of Nvidia, considering the valuation.

mister914.bsky.social @mister914.bsky.social · 2d

I looked up the property and equipment values of Ford and Nvidia. Maybe I missed something, but it seemed like:

Ford - $31B
Nvidia - $6.2B

Now, I know it also requires engineers and technicians, but why aren't there more companies making cutting edge GPUs?

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mister914.bsky.social @mister914.bsky.social · 2d

I guess I should add that in in Canada. My only knowledge of US store inventory comes when I try to order something that is in US warehouses.

Thoughts and prayers.

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mister914.bsky.social @mister914.bsky.social · 2d

There is a Playstation controller that I wanted to buy. Yesterday, I noticed the importer is out of stock.

People are waiting the tariffs out, prepare for empty shelves...

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mister914.bsky.social @mister914.bsky.social · 2d

It's easy to see why fighting climate change is hard in that context.

Furthermore, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky's papers are very readable and also show biases in decision making.

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mister914.bsky.social @mister914.bsky.social · 2d

Had the politician suceeded, 9/11 wouldn't have happened, but because no one would know, there would be no congratulating them. Even worse, people would probably attack the politician for being paranoid and raising plane ticket prices.

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mister914.bsky.social @mister914.bsky.social · 2d

Another book is, "The Black Swan", but it's about thinking of risk taking. I often think about the author's imagining of some politician who, before 9/11, had promoted locking the cockpit doors on planes.

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mister914.bsky.social @mister914.bsky.social · 2d

@thepressbox.bsky.social Do you guys have, "looking for the end zone" on the list yet?

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 2d

On October 8, the Senate narrowly failed to pass a War Powers Resolution that could have stopped these lawless strikes.

Since then, the US Department of Defense has killed 40 more people (out of 61 total).

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

@SecWar
Earlier today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on yet another narco-trafficking vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) in the Eastern Pacific.

This vessel, like all the others, was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics. Four male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel—and killed—during the strike, which was conducted in international waters. No U.S. forces were harmed in this strike.

The Western Hemisphere is no longer a safe haven for narco-terrorists bringing drugs to our shores to poison Americans. The Department of War will continue to hunt them down and eliminate them wherever they operate.

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mister914.bsky.social @mister914.bsky.social · 2d

Just checked out a recent book on Amazon US and Canada. US price=$16, Canada: $39.

Does Canada have a 120% book tariff on someone?!?!

mister914.bsky.social @mister914.bsky.social · 2d

And he's a breath away from being president. I can't imagine placing him above the bottom 10% of Americans 35 and older.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 3d

Sort of incredible that we live in a world where the vice president of the United States is just spewing the sort of horseshit that literal children are traditionally taught is wrong

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mister914.bsky.social @mister914.bsky.social · 3d

I met a deep Florida cracker farmer who married a Thai girl and learned Thai.

Vance is out of touch with America, even the red parts.

mister914.bsky.social @mister914.bsky.social · 3d

FWIW, banking is also widely exported from the US and Canada.

I'm not sure how much to read into this comparison tho.

mister914.bsky.social @mister914.bsky.social · 3d

Who needs banks anymore when we have crypto?