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Bateshorn

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  1. As an aside, I used to work in sustainability, and it's well known that single bin recycling is a total failure. It's essentially an extra garbage pick up. The only thing that people want is the aluminum, since it's cheaper to recycle than mine and process bauxite. When aluminum prices go up, it makes the bulk bundled recycling (which is mostly trash) more desireable, as there is more money to be made recoverying the aluminum versus the cost of sorting. How that interacts with our newly restrictive immigration policies, since a lot of recycling involves people just grabbing shit off the belt to clean the stream before it goes to the automated part of the sorting I can't say. Just somethign to think about.
  2. I sold the Pepsi I've had forever this year for this reason. My wife went on a GLP-1 and watching her make a face when I offered to pick up snacks during a road trip, when in past years she'd be like an 8 year old in a 7-11 with a $20 bill, was an eye opening moment.
  3. Este. I lived in Australia in 94, when a lot of the white SA were immigrating as apartheid fell. Every white SA is 3 beers away from saying racist things so vile it would make someone from South Carolina blush.
  4. Tell me more about these injection molded dildos.
  5. Well, I mean.....not really. After 65, the government covers the cost of your healthcare. If everyone has health issues associated with preventable weight gain, that money that can't be spent on other things . I have a genetic eye disease that will eventually lead to partial blindness. There is literally nothing I can do to prevent it. It's something I have to consider as I age. But if you decided to shove a bunch of ho-ho's down your gullet and not exercise in your 40s, Medicare will cover the effects of your poor decision making the exact same as the reverse lottery I caught when I was born.
  6. Jokes on you, libtard: all the western ones will be unstaffed and on fire. OTOH, nobody will stop you from jumping into Thunderhole at Acadia and drowning in the Gulf of Maine. Freedom!!!
  7. Correct. On exports, the exporter can file for a credit to absolve them of their payments on receipt prior to export. Going the other direction, the VAT gets charged on imports upon arrival to release from customs. Trump and Navarro's obsession with it is dumb as fuck. Instead, they should implement a VAT as part of the tax bill, and offset the income tax cuts revenue loss. You'd think a party that has been wistfully dreaming of a national sales tax for decades would get that, but we live in the stupidest timeline. I think one of the only clever things Paul Ryan did was suggest a Carbon based VAT during the initial Trump tax bill, but Grover Norquist threw a fit and it died on the vine.
  8. Yeah. It's like Navarro and Trump ranting about VAT's. I'm sure the entire rest of the world is just going to scrap their entire tax code because you said so. That's definitely going to happen.
  9. It is painfully clear that while there are savvy traders out there, most of Wall Street, even big money, doesn't understand the dysfunction at 1600 Penn at any level. I mean, the neck beards on r/WSB might as well be the primary test subjects for RFK, Jr. autism trials.
  10. There are no adults in the room. There may be a precocious 12 your old or two who occasionally can whisper a bit of sense into that fat fool, but he's surrounded himself with yes men. Ultimately, it's all Trump. People need to stop acting like there is any big brain going on here. There isn't.
  11. This is the pump phase of the pump and dump. If you didn't buy on Monday, probably best to wait until Until the Orange Man from Queens loses his temper on Friday and fires up Truth Social on Sunday. Being serious: All the economy's fundamentals are looking not great and getting worse. Buying and selling right now is like trying to time the market post Bear, pre Lehman. The damage is done. It's all about hoping there are pieces to pick up on the other side.
  12. Why do I get the impression that this is the scene at the Hegseth household every morning (also, this is lowkey the best scene in Flight, including the opening 20 minutes. I said what I said). There's something about that slicked back hair and "what's up?" look Hegseth always has that suggests he needed a bump and an industrial level scrub to get out the door.
  13. The rumor is enforcement at the bulk level is wildly inconsistent as well. I've heard anecdotally that they aren't really enforcing collection at Long Beach, but it's all cocktail chatter. Edit: SOmebody else already posted it. From my own perspective, I notice coffee beans at Costco were across the board $2-4 more a package, regardless of brand. I'm assuming that's just corporate preemptively collecting, pocketing profit if they aren't already remitting.
  14. The funniest part about this is they will restrict exports just long enough for a bunch of investors to lose their shirts on reopening the Mountain Pass RE facility in California.
  15. You’re killing in here. Keep up the good work.
  16. The drop in consumer sentiment and producer price index tells me everyone, across the board, is slamming their wallets shut and hunkering down. Combined with the bond flight, that screams recession to me. But what the fuck do I know. I was still equity heavy 6 weeks ago.
  17. I used to work with a lot of Chemical companies, and this dude from a certain Delaware company once told me: “Regulate me, or don’t regulate me, but set the rules in stone and get the fuck out of the way so I can invest and apply capital.”
  18. Whelp, they just pulled the budget vote tonight, so if Trump was trying to impress Chip Roy, it didn’t work. I think the sell off in long term bonds freaked them out, and they pulled the relief valve. I’m a long etf guy. I used today’s rally to diversify and reduce my equity exposure, eating some minor losses to protect my portfolio against more turbulence. I’m trying to retire abroad in the next 3 years. I don’t need that dipshit from Queens fucking up my retirement.
  19. Some of the people on this thread:
  20. I was happy when my portfolio was 20% larger 3 months ago before this sefl inflicted bullshit started.
  21. Yup. Also, I suspect somebody chloroformed Navarro and stuffed him in a closet long enough to talk Trump into blinking.
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