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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. Looking forward to throwing a $100 at btc at $100k. Just to shake my heads at btc hitting that level.
  2. I'm unsure whether tax free tips will come to fruition or not. Honesty Trump doesn't have to fulfill any promise since his election days are over. I assume it wouldn't be a standalone change because 1, those rarely happen, and 2, since Dems would love this change, it will also be tied to tax relief of the rich. If it is enacted, I would expect it would be tied to extremely low overall income. Do we really need to allow the vegas bottle service waitress or OF models to get their $200K tax free?
  3. The UK imports as much as 46% of their food where the US only imports 15% so they can find the cheapest food sources in Europe *info sourced from UK gov website and the FDA for the US. I'm assuming its a non-starter that we push more of our food sourcing to Mexico and central america.
  4. We can definitely get rid of chemicals or preservatives in our food. Food costs will go up, even if only because that loaf of bread you bought on saturday won't last until next saturday. and if coke is somehow ordered to drop high fructose corn syrup in favor of cane sugar, it will cause an imbalance in the market. corn prices will plummet and sugar will become difficult to find.
  5. Loving how many reps and senators (all GOP) are coming out saying what a bad pick Gaetz is. Trump may ultimately get Gaetz through but it’s going to cost him. I guess it will be worth to get his cases thrown out and maybe going after some people. two points if we start to hear gop senators say that trump won a mandate and they should trust his picks, Gaetz is in. in a normal year with normal nominations, a scandalous nominee would withdrawal their nomination, or be told to do so. Gaetz is too much of a”let the world burn” person. Even if told by the Trump team, gaetz might make Trump admit he was wrong which Trump can’t.
  6. Odessa state rep (gop obviously) wants a lot of Texas oil tax money to plug old wells and help with west Texas infrastructure because they’re overburdened supporting the Texas oil industry. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/18/west-texas-oil-gas-well-clean-up-legislation/ in my new attitude to not help any red county, this rep and Odessa can fukc themselves. This guy sounds like a Marxist who wants the rest of Texas to cover their bills. Not my problem. Land/mineral owners out there decided to drill every 50 yards and now expect us to clean up the mess?
  7. Another sign that the Trump admin is going to be very very crypto friendly. You can disagree. You can hate Trump but all of the signs are pointing to a big jump in crypto adoption and potential in prices. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/18/trump-media-in-reported-talks-to-buy-crypto-trading-platform-bakkt-sending-shares-soaring.html Headline: Trump Media in reported talks to buy crypto trading platform Bakkt, sending shares soaring SIAP. as far as saylor/microstrategy, watch this hour of him talking last week, and you may be enticed to put your life savings in bitcoin.
  8. I don't want to see anyone die but if another result of the Ukraine war is NK having a 10% reduction of their military forces, so be it.
  9. whenever I see a We the People tattoo, I've seen enough that the person virtue signals their faux patriotism. That tat is often accompanied by a possible white supremacist tat as well. Not always but the venn diagram coverage is significant.
  10. DEI covers a broad area but it's become the boogey man to the Right. Don't get me wrong I've seen a few DEI initiatives in the private sector that I don't fully understand but it's not always about race or LGBT items. My current employer previously had unpaid internships in the summer for college students. The DEI dept is the one who recognized a problem and pushed a change because the unpaid aspect was deemed exclusionary for students who came from lower income background. They needed paid jobs in the summer and the company's unpaid policy encouraged kids with well-off parents to apply for internships. Now we only offer paid internships and have a more economically diverse group of summer interns. Seemed like a good DEI decision to me. The rich interns get the same pay.
  11. To my knowledge the Aggies never directed any of that anger into the system or people who allowed so many to die and get hurt. Like most I believe that a man should never punch/hit a woman but when she throws a sucker punch at a guy, she's pushing the boundary of that rule. You definitely can't throw the first punch and get upset if one is returned.
  12. It's possible that some of Trump's picks could hurt the agencies in the long run. Trump's first USPS leader pick (and still leader) has systematically destroyed the USPS. He had a stated mission to slow down mail AND raise costs which he has succeeded in achieving. I will give DeJoy props that he recently worked with Dems to remove ridiculous USPS laws including their handcuff requirement to prefund retiree benefits.
  13. We're the 8th best team in the SEC? If his formula returns crap, its time to change the formula.
  14. I call it Enron Field. His momma named him Clay, I'm gonna call him Clay. now if Daikan pays me to call it Daikan, I'm open to offers. I'll be by the phone waiting.
  15. Agree that I don't want to see A&M lose to Auburn. I would be laughing if they do, but Texas could use a win against a top 20 team prior to facing Bama in the SEC championship team. and if we lose to A&M, then we're not as good as we thought in the first place.
  16. 25 years ago. poor taste jokes are acceptable at some point. people make jokes about brian kelly killing a student but no one else can do the same with A&M killing students? As far as I know, no one was ever held accountable.
  17. Ironic name. I didn't pick the character from Reservoir Dogs because he was nice.
  18. Don't be so quick to think that Trump's picks will be able to make too many changes. If there is one lesson from Trump's first admin, they were incompetent. He was successful in some areas like appointing and confirming judges but that was very much handled by competent people like McConnell. Trump's appointees first inclination will be to fire people in many agencies. Then they will learn that policy change #2 will be tough to implement because there's no one to do it. And never underestimate an office worker in slowing down a project or causing it to fail. "Yes sir, I knew a change to that process would create unidentified problems but you ordered me to implement the change immediately."
  19. I'm still in the angry phase of post election. I'm looking forward to seeing many Trump voters suffer from his policies.
  20. AI power usage is going to dwarf crypto soon if it's not there already. An anti-crypto person will respond by saying that crypto doesn't have utility like AI. Of course that is a very narrow mindset of crypto. Modern history has proven that nothing has more utility than making and retaining wealth. Everything else is secondary.
  21. nothing says Houston like air conditioning
  22. Of all of the bad picks, I see Hegseth as being the least impactful. The DoD/Pentagon will eat him up. The folks in there will spin him around in a million directions and provide him some meaningless wins that he can crow about. And I doubt Elon’s DOGE will even be given a DoD report much less allowed in the building. The real pentagon powers will convince hegsetg to go on tour and compare tattoos with the military personnel around the global bases. It will be interesting when hegseth learns that supplying the Ukraine war has been a benefit to US readiness. Not sure he will be allowed to believe it.
  23. I’m not arguing that bitcoin is energy efficient but it’s not like the traditional banking system is using 5kWh annually themselves.
  24. Could be worse. Eric is back at the terminal finding out the plane left without him.
  25. The gop is against it and there is little reason for any Dem admin to help out a Texas project.
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