If they’re going to profit off insider knowledge, especially off a 15 minute head start on futures trading, they’re going to realize those gains in very short term. In this case, probably within 20 minutes, certainly within an hour. They won’t even get the discounted CGQD tax rate on them.

I was looking at the URL, misread traumabooks.itch.io, and thought, ‘what a perfect source for that book, I want to see their whole catalog.’ Supremely disappointed.

The last time I remember hearing about FEMA camps, it was back when Obama’s Jade Helm operation was going to take over Texas. Or maybe it was part of a Deus Ex plot.

15% of the population are under 12 and almost 5% are over 80.

ed: actually, it seems like “85%” is just bullshit. Probably closer to 95% Wondering if this might not be a decade+ old chart.

The real goal of fake news: there is no reality, only this moment’s convenient story.

I honestly can’t tell whether her intent is to block any counter-climate change projects or if this is just a dumb chemtrails thing.

I mean, I assume it’s chemtrails, given the source, but it could easily be a “I like the smell of forest fires, and you’ll reduce hurricane intensity over my dead body.” Given the source.

Need new rules in House and Senate, too. The majority party gets majority in all the committees, gets to pick all the committee chairs, etc. All of the current non-D/non-R members ‘caucus’ with one of the major parties, making them de facto members of that party. A third party with enough representation to block the other two from gaining majority would almost certainly end up in an alliance with one, leaving us back with functional two-party politics.

The law only gets you compensation after the abuse and destruction ends. If anything.

Even 50W, 24/7, is 36 kWh/month. $3 where I live; $12 in CA.

All she had to do was say ‘no,’ and she could have protected her constituents and 330,000,000 other Americans.

A ‘point’ is 1 person in 100. When they say that people sympathized with Israel ‘by 13 points’, they mean that 44% of people favored Palestine and 56% favored Israel. Why not just say “13 percent” then? Because 56/44 = 127%. 27% more people sympathize with Israel when their net support is 13 points.

When the margin is 43 points, it means 29-71 (minus undecideds). 71/29 = 245%, and I guarantee you will break people’s brains if you tell them that 145% more people sympathize with Palestine than Israel.

My impression is that 50501 aren’t actually organizing anything, but just providing a one-stop forum for actual, local groups to advertise their events. And maybe a little bit of, “hey, let’s all do something on [this] day.” If you’re not already in a local activist community, it can be hard to find them.

Point being: if you can step up, do step up, but please don’t organize a Fyre Festival.

I love the story that Napolean went to the unimaginable luxury of having a whole set of aluminum tableware made up to awe his visitors.

My Pi spends all of its time around 55°C in a 20-25°C room. Main server idles at 47°C. Those aren’t worrying temps.

Believe the “Don’t really care” jacket was for a tour of a disaster zone, or maybe one of the kids-in-cages camps.

I’ve watched enough Lock Picking Lawyer never to want a consumer ‘smart lock.’ Half of them can be opened with a magnet. Maybe commercial grade is better, but I’ve been locked out of my job after every power failure for the last 10 years, until someone comes along with a physical key.

Re homeassistant on a Pi: homeassistant does a lot of database transactions, so you may want to have db storage on something other than an SD card.

The main difference is who bears the risk. For pensions, it’s the employer, who has to make extra payments if the pension fund falls behind it projected obligations, or surrender its management to PBGC. That open-ended risk is why most companies have abandoned pensions. For SS, it’s the government (although they do have the power to change their legal obligation). For annuities, it’s the recipient, who will just get less money if the annuity’s investments underperform during the accumulation phase.

If they can drive cars, they can work a trebuchet

SS is a defined benefit administered (and guaranteed) by an independent agent. Pension is a defined benefit administered by employer (or PBGC). Seems pretty similar to me.

Annuity is a defined contribution disbursed formulaically by a company you hired. The only similarity is the regular payment.

Zohran, What is best in life?

“To crush the oligarchs, see affordable housing, and hear the lamentations of landlords.”