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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. Vance’s special guest at the Army-Navy game is the guy who was recently acquitted of killing the mental illness guy. Nice.
  2. People quietly or partially quit the job in all roles and industries. If someone isn’t gong to give 100% on the field you don’t want them on the field. I watched Arian foster mention how he knew in the middle of a game that he was done. Not due to an injury but rather he didn’t care about playing. also bs when another player calls you selfish for you actions. They have no idea what is going on with him.
  3. 30 years ago a person would be laughed at for wanting to move to Montana. Or at least by many. Now it sounds cool. If you want a deal you have to get ahead of the curve. What’s going to be cool in 10 years. Or not just cool, but someplace where new residents are going to invest in new homes, restaurants, stores, etc. or pay top dollar for a place that has already transformed.
  4. Interesting based on his families ties to old school Galveston mafia, the maceo crime family. Not exact Michael Corleone buying legitimacy from the Vatican but not exactly 100% clean either.
  5. Only a bill, just I’m only a bill but the Texas House is proposing a bitcoin strategic reserve. It would be funded by the state allowing payments in bitcoin. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/12/texas-house-introduces-bill-to-establish-a-strategic-bitcoin-reserve.html
  6. Isnt this a maybe? If the NASDAQ classified them in the financial sector, they can't be in the NASDAQ 100. Instead they could be in the NASDAQ Financial 100. Some stories that I read about this indicate the decision is Friday.
  7. No, but to be clear I've never wanted to. I also don't buy things with MSFT stock. I'm not 100% opposed to buying something with crypto but I would not expect to do it with btc.
  8. Bitcoin is not a quick transactional system. Just like many global systems are not quick. There are other crypto systems that are as fast if not faster than Venmo. Of course Venmo is a bad comparison because it’s a closed model. Actual money is not really transferring to anyone with the standard transaction. Money only gets transferred when you deposit or withdrawal. Venmo makes me wait on the latter for up to 3 days unless I’m willing to pay them extra. i recently transferred some large (to me) bitcoin amounts from an exchange to my own wallet. I def wanted it to be faster than it was but its was much faster than if I had transferred money between banks. Less than hour with Bitcoin versus days with banks.
  9. No I don’t remember when TD bank retrofitted their teller windows to accommodate drug cartel duffel bags. Can you provide some background or links to that story? I recall they had lax AML policies but I’ve never heard of one that had a giant teller slot for duffel bags.
  10. Corn lobby is too strong for us to ban hfcs or even raise taxes on it. And I assume the sugar industry is no where in position to take over from hfcs. RFK Jr. may talk a big game about bans but he has to answer to Trump. Trump won’t let it happen.
  11. Not a formal training program but I've increasing my flexibility. I watched a video of how much of the world can sit for an extended time in a deep squat and the related health benefits. Made sense to me. I was initially able to comfortably sit in one for about 20 seconds before the pain started. Now I can pretty much go for 5+ minutes while watching TV. It really opens up the ankle, knee and hip joints via by stretching muscles. great way to start the day, or while while listening in (non-camera) on a zoom meeting. If this isn't easy or possible for you, I recommend slowly incorporating stretches to work your way to it. don't push it. I also try to increase my balance time on one leg at a time. If your balancing is not the best, you can surprisingly feel smaller muscles firing to keep your balance.
  12. Are there really many Americans that go hungry these days? Genuinely asking. I know it's not zero but I have to guess that even the extreme poor have access to food, if they pursue it. Not talking about healthy food but calories to get them through the day. I could see that someone with mental or physical illness going without just because of the challenges of their diseases.
  13. as soon as Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks to propose it. What Republican would actually vote against it even the few who thought it was a mistake.
  14. Our elected leaders are struggling to consistently deliver power to our homes. And by struggling, I mean struggling to convince us that it's not their fault. They're not doing anything else.
  15. Gastineau looks to having problems and I don’t blame Favre in getting away. If anything Favre took away from Strahan’s achievement by the fake sack but I seriously doubt Favre had the mental capacity to understand that he was harming gastineau. And if anything, Favre probably breathed life into gastineaus worth because Favre brought more attention to gastineau. gastibeau has most likely not gone a week without someone mentioning it to him which sucks.
  16. If the plaintiffs receive more money with another auction or Elon buys it for even more, I see it as good news. Who cares if the Onion has it or some right wing group. The crazy people will always find crazy websites.
  17. In his defense, it was premium air.
  18. One huge flaw in the Biden admin was their inability to communicate because Biden was unable to communicate well. While I would rather have a president who can manage the govt well as opposed to just communicating, communicating is key to staying in power. im not saying Biden was perfect in managing the govt, far from it. However his lack of talking to the US allowed others to set the narrative.
  19. From my point of view, the problem the Dems have with trans rights is the that the Right wants trans people to disappear. If Dems collectively agreed that a trans athlete can’t compete in women’s sports, the Right will shift the focus to bathrooms and bullshit “forced transitions” in schools. While they point to those issues today, their main focus was on sports. Then say Dems agreed on public bathroom exclusions, then the Right will then want federal protections in calling someone whatever name or pronoun you want. The Right won’t stop. the sports issue is definitely a reasonable argument but don’t pretend that will satisfy the Right.
  20. Someone posts about their mother’s inhumane stay at an assisted living facility for 3 years. Good job helping mom Justin.
  21. They thought he was only going to punish CA or NY. Everyone loves to complain about govt waste but 99% of that "waste" goes into the pockets of everyday Americans. Wasting money with Ukrainian war has put billions into American defense contractors who hire everyday people. Now we divert that waste into state unemployment benefits.
  22. I know many innocent or naive people will be hurt, but I don't have any sympathy for a Trump voter who is harmed by Trump's policies. If you voted for him after hearing him say that he would take away your livelihood or that he would deport your relatives, not sorry about the consequences.
  23. I'm intrigued about how crypto works with the newest generations of AI agents. basically there are some AI tools that now have crypto wallets to manage on their own. They can trade, stake, or give it away for whatever reason they want. It's not that inconceivable that we could soon have a billionaire AI agent that doesn't have human control. I played around watching some videos about the Virtuals Protocol protocol and one of their AI agents, aixbt. Admittedly I don't still fully understand this tech but there's something there. You can invest in both and many others. aixbt runs a 24/7 twitter account that gives advice about crypto investing. I'm tempted to throw a few thousand $ at the top players. Most likely many will be complete flops but if only a couple 100x, who cares.
  24. Probably worth a lot to the right person. and most likely a small buyer group.
  25. While not a cabinet pick, it's looking more likely that DeSantis will appoint Lara Trump as Rubio's replacement in the Senate. She resigned as go-GOP national leader today. I can't believe that DeSantis would do this move without something for himself, and I don't think that he would be dumb enough to do this solely on a promise that Trump will take care of him in '26 when he's out as FL governor. Makes me wonder if we're closer to Hegseth being out.
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