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Bateshorn

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  1. So the Canadians are fucking 3-0 on us now?
  2. I can't decide which is worse: The Nazis in charge, or the limp dick dip shits that are the current opposition. I mean, its the former, but the entire Democratic party is just pathetic rn.
  3. Slow down there, Eh? Let's not do anything stupid.
  4. As noted investor Warren Buffett said: “Buy the dip, pussy” So I’m liquid, but I might lose my nerve and just buy a bond or something. 🤷‍♂️
  5. Man, if Trump doesn’t turn those federal science grant dollars back on pretty soon, the Birmingham economy is going to get very real, very quick.
  6. Inducing price depreciation via a Second Depression.
  7. Trump literally won’t take a phone call from Trudeau. They still haven’t spoken.
  8. Rare Earths are a perfect example of this. Rare Earths aren’t actually rare (the “rare” in the title references a unique set of properties the lanthanides possess as a class of elements). The Chinese have generous supplies of lanthanides, but so do we, as does Australia and the Russians. The Chinese have a modern hammerlock on global supply because the processing of Rare Earths is nasty and toxic. They do it cheap, with little regard for human or environmental consequences. And they have a near monopoly on the processing of REs to the point that if we reopened Mountain Pass we’d still need to ship the ore to China for processing unless the government wanted to subsidize processing to make the refined product economically competitive.
  9. For Mexico, it's us or, well us. For Canada, they could conceivable attempt to make a deal with the EU. But if you don't think Xi Jinping isn't sliding into Trudeau's and Sheinbaum's DMs as we speak, I have some prime ocean front in AZ I'd like to show you.
  10. Yeah, across the board national tariffs haven't been a thing in our lifetimes. My Grandfather did not think highly of Herbert Hoover, and I will leave it at that, because No CR.
  11. Yeah as I understand it, the tariffs cause a short term price spike, but they aren't too much money chasing too few goods inflation. Long run, if they last, they are really just a consumption tax and pull money out of the economy from domestic consumers. Which can be good or bad, depending on what you want the economy to do. If that revenue is used to fund tax cuts for the wealthy, it's a straight up reverse wealth tax.
  12. In this case, Panch is trying to keep his job and so he's soft implementing the E.O. NIH is apparantly doing the same thing.
  13. Also, there's probably going to be a growing labor shortage in the real estate construction industry because of (No CR) reasons....
  14. JFC, how hard is it to just rub one out in the privacy of your own home and move on with your life.
  15. I don’t know what they were actually doing, just a lot of boat traffic off Bolling at a time of year when the Potomac is usually pretty quiet. Lots of Powerboats zipping around Haines Point today.
  16. Most of the people you listed fly in and out of Andrews, which can take 1-2 hours by car if traffic is bad. So they take Blackhawks back and forth. one of the problems with DCA is the Congress critters don’t want to fly out of IAD or BWI so they keep adding directs to an airport the size of a postage stamp that is already way way way over capacity. Including Ted Cruise, who negotiated a deal for American to add a direct to SAT.
  17. They were still doing recovery from what I could tell on my evening walk. Lot of boat traffic off of Bolling.
  18. The air space of DC is insane. When I eat lunch on the roof of my building, the planes are landing and taking off 1 min apart on #1. Occasionally landing/taking off on the other two, and there is always at least 1, if not 2-3 helicopters knocking around the city. I used to watch it to empty my mind, but not anymore.
  19. I live on the Wharf. It’s fucking siren city rn. I’ve landed that runway probably 100 times. I see Marine One almost every week. I know about the helicopters. They shouldn’t be over DCA.
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