Good morning one and all to another exhilarating day!
Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries, hits China harder with 125%
US Stock Indexes Surge Following Trump’s Tariff Pause
Trump says he’s attracted $7 trillion in private investments into the US
House passes bill that seeks to rein in ‘rogue’ judges, limit district court authority
Johnson Pulls Vote on Trump-Backed Budget Plan Over Holdouts
Trump press secretary doesn’t engage with reporters using pronouns in emails, says they deny reality
As border crossings drop, U.S. attorney in AZ files more than 500 border crime cases in 2 weeks
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to Primary Challenge Senator John Cornyn
USPS Seeks to Hike Stamp Prices to 78 Cents
Researchers: 1 in 4 Job Seekers Could Be AI-Powered Fraudsters by 2028
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Researchers: 1 in 4 Job Seekers Could Be AI-Powered Fraudsters by 2028
Or they might not be.
We need to empower AI to fill AI powered jobs to detect AI powered fraudsters… says AI powered security firm.
Turtles all the way down, man….
Gartner Group as the source of any claim should be immediately discounted to zero (at most)
I didn’t read the article. It’s more a general principle I have that if you see the words “might” or “could” in one of these scare stories, you can replace it with “might not” without loss of meaning or accuracy.
See also “up to x number do or are y”
The one I hate most: “On the rise”.
“some (unnamed) investigators say” = “I pulled this out of my ass”
Once when somebody used “a number of” to try to bolster an argument, I responded that zero is a number.
Yeah, but who are they going to send in for the face to face interview, the Crushinator?
The other 3 are all the same guy!
Lol. Tell Gartner to interview him.
A few months ago they asked us to turn on our cameras for all meetings. I found out it’s because there have been incidents of people going through the hiring process, then having a different person do the actual work. There are also people who are working more than one full time job as you said.
“Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries”
Which is why the market is going back up?
I’m assuming they think this means he isn’t really looking for punative trade wars, just leverage positions for negotiation and (outside of China) things will settle down. Praying for stability more than seeing stability, frankly.
We’ll see.. he’s doing a bit of a yo-yo with a very big trade stick at the moment… my “wait and see” attitude seems prudent to stay sane instead of trying to predict things.
Or he found out who’s who.
https://x.com/TFL1728/status/1910293502769975412
Hu was the previous guy.
Hu was a first baseman.
No link?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evt6As72m4
It’s the “sell the goat” phenomenon. Basic psychology.
I have never heard of this, and it isn’t something I seem to logic out. What, praytell, is “sell the goat”?
No idea what that is.
Dude goes to his rabbi:
“Rabbi, my life is awful. Work sucks the wife is nagging, the kids are running all over the place making things even more chaotic, my house is too small and I don’t see any way forward. What should I do?”
Rabbi: “Buy a goat.”
*a month later*
Dude: “Rabbi, my life is even WORSE now. Work sucks the wife is nagging, the kids are running all over the place making things even more chaotic, my house is too small and there’s a goat headbutting everyone and eating my furniture. What should I do?”
Rabbi: “Sell the goat.”
Dude: “Holy shit my life is so much more calm and peaceful now, plus I took the money from sellgin the goat and bought cake for the family. Thanks Rabbi, you’re a genius!”
This isn’t Cuba, companies don’t run their capital decisions past the commandant. Pat yourself on the back for your policies, if you must.
World’s greatest salesman. If you doubt that, just ask him.
Trump press secretary doesn’t engage with reporters using pronouns in emails, says they deny reality
A judge needs to declare the government must respond to all reporter questions. The judge will also decide what answers are acceptable.
“It is every American’s Constitutional right to have the rest of society comply with however they choose to present themselves!”
I’m sure it is there in the penumbras….
While seemingly petty, this is a necessary step in ending pronoun insanity. Nothing to keep them from changing their signature block when they email the White House. Nothing to keep them from using a separate “clean” email account for correspondence with the WH.
The roll / book of Forever stamps I bought ages ago for the rare times I need a stamp just keeps looking better and better. I think the roll will probably outlive me at this rate.
And yes — I’m sure that means I’m part of the problem. 😉 [Not seriously — because as far as I knew, the Post Office is really only kept afloat by all the gorram junk mail anyway…]
Yes. I have a feeling that the price of mail is one of the “fairer” prices out there.
The roll / book of Forever stamps I bought ages ago for the rare times I need a stamp just keeps looking better and better.
Yup, me too. At the rate I actually ever use stamps it will last for a long, long time.
They only go up in value!
/tries to remember which show had someone invest everything in Forever Stamps
Sounds like a Kramer scheme from Seinfeld.
WTF:
That was my first thought, but some searches didn’t return anything. Then I was trying to remember if Forever Stamps were even introduced while Seinfeld was on the air.
That was actually the basis for the original Ponzi scheme. (Technically, arbitrage in international reply coupons.)
Fuck the USPS and all of its cretinous employees. I hope that DOGE goes through them like the entire SMITH clan on a Cialis and meth bender…
You talk purty.
Any idea how to add captions or alt-text to images in WP, or how to get them to align properly?
ES’ comment – but Tonio’s reply – are why I can never quit this place.
Where is the father of the 3 cent stamp when we need him?
Dead since 1887, but whatever.
Heard about this on NPR this morning, followed by “The USPS is a financial supporter of NPR.”
Give the postal service more money so they can donate to Pravda Radio!
If a federal agency has so much money they can afford to give some away, I guess their budget can be cut.
If a federal agency has so much money they can afford to give some away, I guess their budget can be cut.
Why do you hate our brave postal workers who go to work despite not knowing which one of them is going to go postal on each other?
I was told the markets were pricing in the uncertainty surround Drumpf’s erratic policies and we were on our way to a full blown depression. I’m glad markets are efficient and price in risk accordingly.
[Insert image of furious NPC]
Liberals Devastated As Stock Market Recovers
Markets reveal correct prices by zig zagging above and below them chaotically. The price at any given moment is most likely too high or low.
“The No Rogue Rulings Act would prevent a U.S. district court from issuing any “order providing for injunctive relief, except in the case of such an order that is applicable only to limit the actions of a party to the case before such district court with respect to the party seeking injunctive relief from such district court.”
Not sure what that means, so I’m sure some judge could interpret it any way they wanted.
I think it means their ruling only applies to the plaintiff before them, and not to anyone or anywhere else.
It’s a pointless gesture. After reading it I am convinced it is useless.
It’s a pointless gesture.
Certainly it’s never getting past the Senate.
Useless? It is SYMBOLIC!!!
I don’t like this, as it should be the province of SCOTUS to rein in the judges who go to far, not congress.
Separation of powers, still means the same thing.
Congress created the district courts out of its Article III powers in the first place. Establishing jurisdictional limits isn’t necessarily outside their purview. SCOTUS can (and will), of course, decide otherwise.
I believe congress does have the constitutional power to remove jurisdiction from the judiciary for various things. Can’t recall the specifics. Anyway, there is no constitutional authority for district judges to issue nationwide injunctions over the executive. They just (fairly recently) decided that they could do so. And up until now the other branches just decided to go along with it.
Article I, section 8.9: To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
Article III, Section 1: The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
Congress can also create various depts. that fall under the executive. If congress wants to control it, they can just scrap it, or just leave directions to SCOTUS.
When I first launched my (now) side business 12 years ago (fucking hell does time fly), I shipped my products in USPS Small Flat Rate boxes for, IIRC, ~$5.50. The same small flat rate box now costs $8.90. I switched the default shipping method to First Class Mail so my customers wouldn’t get sticker shock several years ago. I rolled that out charging $2.99, with actual shipping range from ~$2.60 to $2.85. It’s now $4.15 (I still haven’t raised my pricing; since I don’t rely on that as primary income anymore I just eat the extra $1.16).
Those pensions won’t pay themselves.
Shipping prices spiked up over the past couple of years. I know I was shocked when I was shipping some gifts this past holiday season. It’s getting harder and harder not to fall into old man complaining about prices mode.
Yeah; I discovered it would be cheaper not to get a volume discount on my original purchase and have the gifts sent directly to my sisters. (I had three copies of a custom calendar made at Vistaprint and had them all sent here so I could enclose extra information about where all the pictures were taken.)
USPS needs to:
a) change first class mail to $1 per item (or any amount, just reflect the true cost)
b) charge the same for all mass mailings ie no discount for snail spam
c) drop delivery to one day a week per address, except
d) priority mail gets charged more and delivered ASAP.
And all of that is just for starters. The system needs to be overhauled internally, getting rid of as much dead weight as possible (cough, cough, unions BS) and run with much better metrics. As it stands (and I say this as someone with a long career in logistics) that whole system is shit, and needs revamping from the trucks driven to the Zip Codes used.
We can’t even agree on daylight savings time and you want to change zip codes?
All you need to do is just tell people that the new zip is something different. This isn’t changing the light out when they go to work.
Aren’t mass mailings pre-sorted by the sender? That might be worth some discount. Mass mailings must still “work” though I don’t see how – 90% of what I get in the mail goes right in the trash can without even being opened.
Yes, by ZIP code.
Pre-sorted by zip or not, it is a lot of work/cost sorting and delivering to each address on a daily basis.
Should it pass, when the courts declare it unconstitutional, will that be a cOnStiTuTioNAl CRiSiS like when Trump exercises the authority congress idiotically ceded to the executive half a century ago?
More or less what was going on in Israel before October 7, with the caveat that Israel is one of those countries without a written constitution.
This might provide some cover for the SC. They could just say Congress has the power to create those courts, and if they passed a law to add some restrictions, then so be it. Not our problem.
Tomorrow’s headline: Federal district court judge determines not engaging with reporters violates Aloha spirit, issues national injunction
Still trying to find the “the right to access” article in the first amendment.
It’s in the emanations and penumbras right next to the “except for scary assault weapons” exception to “shall not be infringed” and the right to medical privacy which only applies if you want an abortion.
Oddly enough, the second amendment doesn’t seem to have any of those “emanations and penumbras”.
That is literally violence, Pat.
How much longer can this continue?
Snow White’s average per theater is getting pretty low. It might be time to move to Disney+.
Worldwide gross is presently ~$170M against a reported production budget of ~$250M. If the daily domestic take from the most recent weekend and weekday figures holds up for another 2 weeks or so, that’ll bump the take to ~$193M. Add in the international take, which is ~13M higher than domestic, and it’ll probably make back its cost. So much for “get woke go broke.”
If you add in post-production costs like marketing, it’s projected to lose $100M+ after theaters take their cut.
An article that sheds some light on the accounting:
Stop Trying to Save Hollywood
Or: How I Stopped Worrying and Let Hollywood Burn
Everyone forgets the theaters get somewhere near a 50% cut of the gross. So their break-even box office is much higher than you think especially when post-production marketing costs are figured in. And box office continues to decline sharply after the first two weeks. It’s projected to lose at least $100 Million.
True with the added non-production costs. I’m still astonished that many people went to see that pile of shit. Then again, I’m entirely out of touch with pop culture on that front. I haven’t been in a movie theater in a decade, and could count on one hand my attendances in the decade prior to that.
Don’t forget the razor thin margins on concessions.
If you believe it was only 250 million, I have a bridge to sell you. You don’t do 3 years of rewrites and reshoots on a project like that and come in at that amount.
We have to import popcorn from Bangladesh since there are no immigrants to harvest it in Iowa!
All the rightwing reviewers had to go see it so they could dunk on it. #Winning (I swear that is where at least %50 of Disney+ subscriptions come from as well)
Trump is right to take on the free-trade fundamentalists
Even more fun…
“I used to believe in individual liberty and limited government, but Trump’s expert blandishments have convinced me that having a Big Daddy Government making my purchasing decisions for me is the real freedom. Because jobs.”
I am enjoying the mental contortions.
The implication I see in articles like this is that industry exists primarily to provide jobs for people.
I read it more as a warning to the technocratic-managerial aristocracy that it might be worth softening on global labor cost arbitrage as the fundamental religious principle of the neoliberal world order to avoid a peasant revolt. Alternatively, come up with better marketing for “Let them eat
cakegovernment cheese.”The article failed to mention the dire straits of those formerly employed in blacksmithing, wagon making, harness and whip production, and scythes sharpening.
Oh, the humanity!
Although industrial capacity does need to be reinstated in the US. Currently China can build more naval ships in a month that we can build in 5 years. Vital components like computer chips are manufactured elsewhere, mostly Taiwan. Only two examples among many.
Not a good situation since we seem to be heading toward the Great Pacific War.
Not a great analogy. The rust belt isn’t the rust belt because new technologies, methods, and materials supplanted smelting and factory production, the rust belt is the rust belt because it was cheaper for financiers to move smelting and factory production to countries with no environmental or labor regulations and ship the resultant products back for sale at the same prices they were charging when they were paying 2-3x more for domestic labor, and pocket the arbitrage. That wasn’t so problematic while the “knowledge economy” was minting new MBAs faster than property developers could bring in Mexican day laborers to build their McMansions, but when 3/4 of the work force has an underwater basket weaving degree, and a third of them are putting it to use as a retail wagecuck, some people are getting wistful for the “good old days.”
The one thing China isn’t manufacturing is a surplus of cannon fodder itself. A major war would be demographic suicide.
Not so fast. Those scythe sharpeners have their own TV show.
https://youtu.be/54Mt2nmCYEk?si=4dCnn6Y1Va0Mr-Wy
“Gross, the icky people!”
“The department did not provide details about why it moved to drop the case. But Bondi said in a statement Wednesday that Villatoro Santos “will now face the removal process,” meaning he will likely be deported.
Villatoro Santos’ attorney has requested that the court delay dismissing the case against his client for at least two weeks. He argued the dismissal would result in Villatoro Santos being deported to a prison in El Salvador with no due process.”
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/justice-department-withdraws-case-against-individual-it-accused-being
I’m starting to think this guy isn’t MS-13.
Free Matt Hoover! (Who is a douchebag).
Daily Ray of Sunshine
The sunshine is looking kind of misty for some reason.
The reason we haven’t had a dog for 30 years…
“A bird’s-eye view of a three-car crash in Los Angeles — which led to a wild manhunt in which police shot the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner — shows officers arresting a suspect in his boxers after he stripped down to evade capture.
The chaos unfolded around 3 p.m. Tuesday when the California Highway Patrol responded to a multi-vehicle hit-and-run eastbound on the Ventura Freeway, KTLA reported.
Three male suspects were reported to have fled from the crash on foot — which launched a massive manhunt involving the CHP and Los Angeles Police Department….
The massive police presence in the neighborhood to find the other suspects led officers to Eagle Vista Drive, where a woman — now identified as the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, Jillian — was armed with a handgun outside her residence.
Officers yelled for Jillian, 51, to drop the gun “numerous times” — but she refused.
She then allegedly pointed the handgun at the officers, and they opened fire, hitting her in the shoulder, TMZ reported.”
https://nypost.com/2025/04/10/us-news/videos-show-bizarre-scenes-from-la-hit-and-run-arrest-of-boxer-clad-suspect-and-weezer-wife-shooting/
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Dafuq?
Exactly.
shows officers arresting a suspect in his boxers after he stripped down to evade capture
The boxers gave him away. He should have taken them off.
I mean, Weezer sucks, but that is no reason to shoot the wife!
I thought it was Primus that sucks?
juris impredent:
Lots of bands suck now a days, I mean, they even tell you flat out.
Weezer’s first two albums are spectacular. Among my favorites. After that? FUCK they suck. Hash Pipe, for instance. Jesus. Apparently Cuomo went celibate. Uh. Yeah, that’ll do it.
Say It Ain’t So is the first ‘real’ song bro has 11yo nephew practice on. We covered it live frequently in Korea, to much acclaim.
Primus is also awesome, though I only know Seas of Cheese and the Brown Album. Les Claypool is great. Hed fit in here.
Ha! The Squirrels blessed your comment.
Neph, I was playing off of Primus’ original self-deprecation.
ji:
I’m aware, just leaning into it with two more bands that ran with it.
Evan – stop what you are doing and stream Frizzle Fry.
two more bands that ran with it
Ain’t that the music business. Derivative MFers.
Miscellaneous Debris is an excellent Primus EP. It’s all covers and they put their own unique twist on them, from Pink Floyd to The Meters. Les is on his 6 string fretless, ripping hard.
More here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14589875/jillian-lauren-shot-la-weezer-bassist-scott-shriners-wife.html
Holy crap. So she was defending her hime from some crazed asshat and got charged with attempted murder?!!? F*ck California even harder than last time I said it.
Holy crap. So she was defending her home from some crazed asshat and got charged with attempted murder?!!? F*ck California even harder than last time I said it.
To R.J., the Squirrel named Evan cursed himself through Reply confusion.
Sneaky bastard.
Projection by the cops of the charges they should face.
If she was going to attempt to murder someone, wouldn’t she have to, I don’t know, fire the gun or something?
Say it ain’t so!
Your drug is a heartbreeeeeaker!
This one by Weezer came out a few years back and I would say is one of their best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3RO0UMsBss
I so want to see the badgecam vids of this…
“A New York jury ordered James Toback to pay $1.68 billion to the dozens of women who accused him of sexual assault.
Wednesday’s decision marked one of the largest jury awards in New York history. While $1.4 billion was for punitive damages, the other $280 million went toward compensatory damages.
The disgraced director, 80, did not appear in court for the trial, where 40 women took the stand to share their stories of sexual abuse and other crimes dating back over 35 years….
Over three dozen women filed a joint lawsuit against the “serial sexual predator” in 2022 after the Adult Survivors Act went into effect in New York state, allowing victims of sexual abuse to come forward regardless of when the alleged crime was committed.”
https://pagesix.com/2025/04/10/celebrity-news/director-james-toback-ordered-to-pay-billions-to-40-women-who-accused-him-of-sexual-abuse/
Ridiculous.
35 years, huh? Well, we already know Manhattan juries will find for the plaintiffs in these ridiculous cases based on no evidence at all.
To be fair, the inventor of Tobacco should probably have some product liability.
Who, God?
ZWAK:
Well, he is responsible for a lot according to his followers. 🙂
Maybe John Rolfe.
Imposing liability on Toback would just be wacky.
Some 155 Chinese citizens fighting on territory of Ukraine – Zelenskyy
First the Norks. Now the PRCs. Are Cubans next?
Wolverines!
I heard the Russians were eating the animals in the Kiev zoo.
I heard Ukraine won the war after the Ghost of Kiev single handedly destroyed the Russian air force.
“Vlad, what is best in life?”
“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and eat steaks from their zoo.”
Those were the Haitians fighting for Russia.
Minnesoda builds a dashboard to show how much taxpayer money is being saved.
OK, it is really a dashboard to show us rubes how much money OMB is stealing from us.
Do they really think that people will be up in arms because Covid funding is cut?
I wonder if this dashboard will be any more accurate that said that Covid would kill 50K people with lockdowns and 75K if no lockdowns happened.
I wonder how many state governors when the constitution was ratified imagined that one day their successors would be putting on public outreach campaigns to brag about how beholden they are to the national government.
Are these the funds that authorization for use expired but the last administration extended the deadline?
“The site points to $296 million in federal grant funds”
Walz is unwilling to pave the road in front of my house! He must have been waiting for a better offer.
“Do they really think that people will be up in arms because Covid funding is cut?”
You’ve seen the voters. You think they won’t be upset by that?
“Trump signs executive order undoing ‘dumb’ Obama-Biden showerhead regulation — which made it hard to wash his ‘beautiful hair’
Trump’s order will return showerhead water flow standards to the 2.5-gallons-per-minute rule that had been in place since 1992, according to the White House.”
https://nypost.com/2025/04/10/us-news/trump-signs-executive-order-undoing-obama-biden-showerhead-regulation-makes-americas-showers-great-again/
Why do we need any regulation at all?
for protection
Paging SugarFree…
Finally! Minnesoda finally out progs California!
Stand strong DFL! Don’t let so called “experts” try to tell you that reality is ignoring your laws.
“Minnesota’s standard is much more restrictive, allowing no more than 0.009% lead in keys.”
That seems like an oddly specific number.
They can probably only test accurately to 0.01%.
<0.010 I would assume.
WiFi locks for all.
No thank you.
Registered with the PoPo, naturally.
Isn’t fishing the biggest thing in Minnesota? What do they use for sinkers?
They’ve been trying for several sessions to ban lead sinkers and jigs
Proggie mental density?
Who is out there sucking on their keys and getting cancer?
If I had to come up with a least-insane rationale, I’d say locksmiths and the guy running the keycutting machine at the hardware store would inhale slightly less bad stuff.
I’d say locksmiths and the guy running the keycutting machine at the hardware store would inhale slightly less bad stuff.
That’s why they make masks.
Wow. WTF. I’ll send that to Munchkin, based in Sauk Center, MN. (She HATES Sinclair Lewis.)
A tale of two media outlets:
1) Traditional local media. The booing was all about cuts to veteran’s programs by Trump. And some of those doodyheads voted for Trump so they deserve it.
I don’t think that someone calling you a coward is actually a commentary on your budget.
Also humorous is that in that news story King Walz said someone was thanking him and begging him to let him help brawl with the critics. Walz is so tough!
2) From some outfit called County Local News
I’ll admit I’m more in the County News camp than local TV news. Just viewing the video, it seems pretty clear that the vets weren’t mad about the budget. And it was funny watching how thin skinned Walz is and how mad he got.
What’s the stolen valor incident?
“What’s the stolen valor incident?”
Walz claimed survived the winter at Valley Forge, was the only survivor of the Alamo, captured Lee at Appomattox, was the first to hit the beach at Normandy, and was with Seal Team Six when they killed Osama Bin Laden.
Walz claimed…
Jeez, who does Timmy think he is – Joe Biden?
King Walz ran for years on being a Command Sgt. Major in the NG. It was part of his political persona.
When he ran for gov, there were some rumblings about the fact that when his unit was going to deploy to Iraq, he retired to run for his Congressional seat. And by leaving early, he never actually earned the rank Command Sgt. Major.
The local media was able to put a lid on those rumblings and nothing really became of it.
When he was selected for VP it blew up. And there were additional incidents where he implied that he actually had been in combat zones.
Basically typical Walz bullshit. He lies about something stupid and mostly gets away with it.
Unlike Walz, this guy was no coward
” Cheney became eligible for the draft, during the Vietnam War, he applied for and received five draft deferments. In 1989, The Washington Post writer George C. Wilson interviewed Cheney as the next secretary of defense; when asked about his deferments, Cheney reportedly said, “I had other priorities in the ’60s than military service.”[ Wiki
Video of the event
Walz probably had better things to do. Who would open pheasant season in the fall? If not for Timmy?
“Anderson Cooper suffered an embarrassing moment as he hosted a town hall event for Bernie Sanders where he misgendered a civil rights attorney.
It came as the CNN host readied activist Grace Thomas to ask the Vermont Senator a question, saying in his introduction: ‘She’s a local civil rights attorney, she’s a democrat, Grace?’
‘It’s they/ them pronouns, actually,’ Thomas responded.
Anderson quickly responded ‘oh’, before Thomas got on with their question about why young men of varying demographics are fleeing the Democratic Party.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-14592269/Anderson-Cooper-misgender-Bernie-Sanders-Town-Hall.html
OFFS!
I like the implied title from the URL “Anderson Cooper misgenders Bernie Sanders at town hall”.
Well, to be fair, Bernie is a little bitch.
‘It’s they/ them pronouns, actually,’ Thomas responded.
“Thomas got on with their question about why young men of varying demographics are fleeing the Democratic Party”
OMG do they really lack THAT MUCH self awareness?
Them’s the breaks!
Yes.
… why young men of varying demographics are fleeing the Democratic Party
It’s inexplicable!
What gender is they/them?
US exits carbon talks on shipping, urges others to follow, document says
I imagine, like the Paris Agreement, some countries will be more equal than others.
Well that rally didn’t last long. S&P down 2.5%. It would appear the market realized OMB is still crazy.
Yikes!
Are these movements due primarily to institutional investors who are required to do something because of algorithms, or panicky individual investors who wanted to pay off the mortgage before things go really sideways?
Yes?
This is all institutional money. Fund managers (i.e the Fidelity and Vanguards of the market) all have mandates to be “fully invested”. You can’t sit in cash because if I want a portfolio of mostly cash I can do that myself. People pay them to invest.
So this is them chasing “safe” places to park money. They are buying something else with the proceeds.
Kid. Pick a school for its coeds. You got into UMiami, you’ll be fine.
https://nypost.com/2025/04/09/us-news/he-has-a-4-0-gpa-and-his-company-makes-30-mill-per-year-but-he-still-couldnt-get-into-college/
I think he’s trying to make a point about how the admissions process at the our top schools is still in no way based on merit.
I’m just wishing I was attending UMiami as a teenager with a solid income stream and $30 mil in the bank already.
I wouldn’t be having time to make a point.
I’m just wishing I was attending UMiami as a teenager with a solid income stream and $30 mil in the bank already.
I’m glad I didn’t. I’d probably have more kids than Elon Musk.
It’s all fun and games until you piss off your hot Cubana girlfriend by sleeping with her sister. After that, the point would be in your heart.
I think any observer of the 2004 presidential election between two Yale classmates could have pieced that together.
If he’s wanting to go to college for an education, the quality of instruction at any state school isn’t going to be one iota worse than any “elite” institution. What he really wants, as does anyone applying to a choice-ranked uni, is to get his dick bronzed with a prestige credential to add to his list of accomplishments and social clout. And since he’s not a nepo-baby with legacy admissions or disadvantaged racial charity case, the gatekeepers took one look, went “nouveau riche” and tossed his application on the pile with the other 800 names they rejected for reasons having dick to do with performance.
Ah merit, like the old days with the Jew-quota?
JI – that’s Asians now.
He doesn’t need college.
College needs him.
Doesn’t the left, in general, spew BS that college isn’t about jobs, but is about creating a well rounded person?
This kinda shows just how much BS that is.
I remember that was kind of a left/liberal talking point, but that was quite some time ago. These days there is no question but the purpose being indoctrination of true believers.
It’s hard to be well rounded when you only have a left side.
The United States has withdrawn from talks in London looking at advancing decarbonisation in the shipping sector and Washington will consider “reciprocal measures” to offset any fees charged to U.S. ships, according to a diplomatic note seen by Reuters.
Bring back coal fired steamships.
I heard they have this new green technology where they create a tough but thin layer of space-age material and harness the wind to make the ship move.
Bring back jobs with oared ships.
Those generally weren’t good-paying jobs, although they were lifelong employment.
And a bitchin’ fitness center!
For our F1 fans here. Interesting to see the stagnation in US viewership.
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/formula-one-television-rights-bid-9bd949f8?st=ULZd2U&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I could not find a way to view races without paying a ridiculous subscription price for a package of channels.
You can pay ~ $90/yr. for the F1TV subscription, less than $4/race. Plus it includes F2, F3 and a bunch of other content.
Not too bad if you’re a big enough fan.
Although as Brooks mentions, the actual racing is ‘meh’ at times. Sakura was a good time to watch the F1TV “Race in 30” feature. And that had about 25 minutes of filler this time.
I will second the F1TV option, it is a relative bargain in the sports streaming world, and offers the best viewing experience (ie. you can switch between a couple of different race feeds, and every on board camera). I wish there was something similar for MLB and NFL.
Yes slum, Suzuka was a boring race, but that happens sometimes, even on “good” circuits. This season is definitely shaping up to be an interesting one. I imagine the US viewership is slumping more as a result of Drive to Survive not being as “hot” right now, that brought in a lot of new American viewers.
Oh, I know that boring races happen. China bored me too.
It’ll pick up, I’m sure. I just wish I had a way to know “just watch Race in 30 instead of the whole thing” w/o having the result spoiled for me.
This is all institutional money. Fund managers (i.e the Fidelity and Vanguards of the market) all have mandates to be “fully invested”. You can’t sit in cash because if I want a portfolio of mostly cash I can do that myself. People pay them to invest.
I don’t need to pay somebody to lock in my losses. I buy what I consider to be good businesses with an upside. I am also sitting on a lot of cash.
Look at this guy with the onion on his belt.
Your choice. Other people choose passive index funds.
It would be appear that behind the scenes at HD things were even worse.
Harley-Davidson Director Resigns Citing ‘Grave Concerns’ About Company
https://www.wsj.com/business/harley-davidson-director-resigns-citing-grave-concerns-about-company-2e0f98c1?st=htqepS&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
In a letter dated Saturday, Jared Dourdeville of the New York investment firm H Partners said the company had suffered “cultural depletion” because of an extensive, white-collar work-from-home policy and the exit of many senior leaders.
Well, the electric Harley was a bust. It sucked, in addition to nobody wanting that (see the Dodge new Charger).
I imagine a lot of executives hated that direction and left as it drained money from the company.
If the company wanted to make a new product they should copy this and sell it cheap.
https://janusmotorcycles.com/
That would attract a decent crowd. Still, the real issue is the company needs to shrink back down to a niche manufacturer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhot-24qcGo
Did you see the ridiculous lease deals on those EVs?
That’s looks to be carbureted. Thanks to FedGov at a certain volume of sales I believe the emissions requirements change.
That doesn’t change your broader point, however. Somebody needs to buy them and run them as a niche. I know that something like a decade ago they made more money on the lifestyle accessories than the motorcycles. I’m betting that trend isn’t repeatable.
Sensei:
They could have leaned into the lifestyle thing, and would have still probably faded out. Things change, and become niche. In 20 years, Harley bikers will be alongside the rockabillies, punks, wierdos, freaks, and geeks. It’ll be funny to see if they lean into the old outlaw style, or the more recent white collar weekender style.
There is much, much more money in the White Collar Weekender crowd, but fashions change and HD really only has one product line to sell: big v-twin cruisers. They haven’t been a presence in racing for decades, have pushed out any type of change (Buell/V-rod) that would taken up the slack in demand, and, thus, have pushed themselves into a corner.
Could they come back, a la the ’80s buyout? It’s possible, but unlikely, as the gov’t has done everything they can to remove the axis that the company turns on for sales, CA being the best example of this by how they have various fuel and exhaust requirements that are becoming more and more stringent and bleed out to the other 49 states.
The only option that will end up remaining is to be sold, downsized drastically, and made into a niche product like Indian has become.
I’d be shocked if HD merch revenue wasn’t the only place HD was making real money.
Well, maybe not the ONLY place.
I’m sure Jared Dourdeville was showing up daily at the HD HQ to conduct his duties as a director, even if it was just for 15 minutes.
On reflection, that should be especially if it’s only 15 minutes.
When Bernie was running F1, it was about the racing. Now I don’t know what they’re trying to accomplish.
You know who else Bernie thought accomplished things?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Ecclestone#Hitler_remarks
“Issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding Hitler. You do not, under any circumstances, ‘gotta hand it to him,'”
This June, Warner Bros. is distributing an Apple film, “F1,” starring Brad Pitt.
Golly, I hope it’s as good as that Stallone one.
The coming U.S. rights deal represents a small slice of F1’s revenue, but Liberty has focused on growing F1 in the country and the new deal will help determine the sport’s next chapter here.
Needs more fistfights in the pit lane.
I’d settle for more K-Mag telling people to ‘suck my balls’ on camera.
Those Janus cycles are cool.
Oh S***!
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cabot-creamery-butter-recall-fecal-contamination-rcna200593
VT Creamery > Cabot Creamery
Hartzler > everything
It’s kind of a local brand (Ohio) and not sure how far away it is sold. I’ve only seen it in small meat markets.
Putting the butt back in butter?
‘Our “Last Tango In Paris” special edition’
Slumbrew pulls a great one out of his a**!
Again… Hostile Omish:
Lizard Up My Butthole
It’s the buttest.
That’s dedication:
US President Donald Trump’s net worth has fallen by half a billion dollars in less than a week after he implemented a sweeping wave of tariffs, according to estimates by Forbes.
https://www.rt.com/news/615414-tariffs-personally-cost-trump-500mn/
Fake news. Everyone knows Trump isn’t a real billionaire to start with.
He’s only worth $18M.
The Semiconductor industry in the US:
https://www.semiconductors.org/ecosystem/
Interesting. Click on the map. Change to existing instead of “all”. Randomly click on half a dozen locations. Note how many of those say “fabless”.
Now ask Not Adahn just how long it takes to build and get any kind of production out of a Fab.
You see Wall St understands this better than DC.
Or facility activity for companies that do have manufacturing.
If I don’t have a RealID will I be an Unperson?
You will be an Unflying Person, unless you have a passport.
Where can people go to still get the TSA experience without flying?
Are you over 50? Visit your doctor for a physical
RealIDs are for RealDolls.
No, but you will experience false consciousness.
But feel to both vote and vote often!
A blank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9AZZVnNw60
Petty grievances
Trump’s targeting of Miles Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security official in Trump’s first term, and Chris Krebs, a former top cybersecurity official, came as the Republican president has sought to use the powers of the presidency to retaliate against his adversaries, including law firms.
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Although Trump has ordered security clearances to be stripped from a number of his opponents, including former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris, the president’s order Wednesday directing the Justice Department to broadly investigate the actions of Taylor and Krebs marks an escalation of Trump’s campaign of retribution since he returned to power.
Taylor, who left the Trump administration in 2019, was later revealed to be the author of an anonymous New York Times op-ed in 2018 that was sharply critical of Trump. The person writing the essay described themselves as part of a secret “resistance” to counter Trump’s “misguided impulses,” and its publication touched off a leak investigation in Trump’s first White House.
Taylor later published a book under the pen name “Anonymous” and publicly revealed his identity days before the 2020 election.
Trump said Wednesday that Taylor was “like a traitor” and that his writings about “confidential” meetings were “like spying.”
“I think he’s guilty of treason,” he said.
Those people are heroes of the RESISTANCE.
This terrible thought just occurred to me. When Penske croaks, will control of IndyCar and the Speedway go to his kid who owns Rolling Stone? That will hasten the death of top tier open wheel racing in America.
Taylor responded by saying Trump had proved his point.
“Dissent isn’t unlawful. It certainly isn’t treasonous. America is headed down a dark path,” he wrote on X.
Actively working to undermine the policies of your boss when that boss is the President of the United States isn’t quite the same as “dissent”.
You won’t be prosecuted for telling your boss to shove his plans up his ass, but you can be fired.
Manufactured controversy?
FBI Director Kash Patel has been removed as the acting chief of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and has been replaced with the Army secretary, three people familiar with the matter said Wednesday.
It was not immediately clear why Patel was replaced by Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll to lead the Justice Department agency that’s responsible for enforcing the nation’s gun laws. One person familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a personnel move, said Patel was removed at the end of February, just days after he was sworn in.
But that was never publicly announced. Patel on Wednesday afternoon remained on the agency’s website and was identified as the acting director in an April 7 press release. In March, he posted on social media a note he sent to the ATF workforce that read “special message from the acting director.” And senior ATF leaders were only informed Wednesday of the change, according to another person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the move.
Patel’s too busy destroying the FBI to simultaneously gut ATF. He needs to hand that job off.