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*EVERYTHING* is probabilities & approximation. Provisional Bayesian. formerly Salitieri, Poore, Nash, DeBrutus & Short LLC "she drew me down to her so I could feel her breasts all perfume yes and my heart was going like mad and yes she said yes I will Yes"
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Travel | 36 Hours in El Salvador

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: Australia 0 Canada 0 Denmark 0 Finland 0 France 0 Germany 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Italy 0 Japan 0 Netherlands 0 Norway 0 Portugal 0 Spain 0 Sweden 0 UK 0 United States 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

submitted 6 days ago • 612 comments

Kurt Vonnegut man

submitted 6 days ago • 251 comments

Hi @jeisinger.bsky.social, long time. No, that's not what's going on. Hedge funds et al are likely selling treasuries because their risk models have blown out and they need to delever. You sell what is holding up best, so voila Treasury market strains. This is a hunger for dollars.

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

FUNDSTRAT tonight: “.. in the last few days, we have had many conversations with macro fund managers. .. A few have quietly wondered if the President might be insane.”

submitted 7 days ago • 1505 comments

This is fascinating: On the pod, @kedseconomist.com cites the example of a US manufacturer of board games to explain what's wrong with Trump's tariffs and why unleashing so much pain and turmoil to restore manufacturing is an incoherent goal. Transcript here: newrepublic.com/article/1937...

submitted 8 days ago • 58 comments

GRIFFIN: “.. it’s going to cost you 20%, 30%, 40% more for your groceries, for your toaster, .. for a new car. .. Even if the dream of jobs coming back to America plays out, that’s a 20-year dream. It’s not 20 weeks. It’s not two years. It’s decades.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 8 days ago • 337 comments

Clear evidence of the existence of God.

submitted 8 days ago • 34 comments

I’m old enough to remember when I took out a full-page ad in the New York Times last fall to publish a letter signed by 225 mental-health professionals saying that Trump’s severe personality disorders made him destructive and dangerous.

submitted 9 days ago • 621 comments

big shadow docket decision coming: can the us government exile you to a torture prison overseas vs no it can't

submitted 9 days ago • 368 comments

In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.

submitted 9 days ago • 2366 comments

I wrote about how America seems to have gone mad and what that does to anyone trying to stay sane. Read at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...

submitted 11 days ago • 45 comments

Sign of the day…

submitted 10 days ago • 219 comments