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One thing I took away from the article is that Mulkey is anti-LGBT which is odd considering her sport. It’s most likely tied to her background and beliefs and potentially even politics. She has gay players on her teams so she’s not anti in the sense that she wants a gay person shunned from society. However her don’t ask-don’t tell attitude is anti LGBT. Ex-players spoke up that they were told to be discrete and that Mulkey didn’t want to know their personal life. I have to wonder that she would have said the same if a straight player mentioned a boyfriend. as for the Post pulling punches, they may have given the article more scrutiny given Mulkeys threats. Perhaps downplay a single sourced anonymous story or quote. Flip that into implications or let the reader read between the lines. But to think that the Post was afraid of Mulkey is laughable. finally perhaps outside of her relationship with her children I’m unsure if anyone likes her, or is she has ever been nice to anyone.

My view is that parents money is there for their care. When/if it’s runs out, switch to Medicaid care. But if the parent doesn’t care about their care, then give it all away years before they need it.

Inactive wallets are impossible to fully categorize in terms of why are they inactive. Recently there was a story that an inactive wallet moved its entire balance (1,000 BTC?) for the first time in over a decade. Previously those 1,000 BTC would have been considered lost by many. "Satoshi" is estimated to have between 600K and 1.1m in BTC. There is a range because of the uncertainty of whether all of the potential wallets are his. That range equates to $44-73B USD. If there was a withdrawal from those wallets, it would destabilize the price. The lost coins are effectively built into the current price.

Let’s see what Trump’s company is worth on the stock market when most of the shares, including his, are tradeable. I’m unsure there has ever been a company having this type of valuation with so few customers/users and such low revenue. It lost $49mm on $3mm revenue. That itself isn’t unheard of with startups but those startups are not valued at $9b on the public market. my assumption is that this is some combination of GameStop/short squeeze and relatively few shares available for trading. But we’ll see. Regardless trump can’t sell today and I can’t imagine anyone letting him borrow much on his stake.

I only gotten 1/2 thru book 1 so almost everything in the series is new to me. This part of the episode made little sense to me because there was little context.

I bet that many young men are likely to encounter peer pressure to vote for Trump. At least in the sense that the vocal minority in a friend/acquaintance group are the ones who bring up Biden's senility and that only betas or losers vote Dem. In an extended friend group, I recently encountered a guy who went on how he wasn't friends with liberals. I mentioned that I frequently vote Democrat. He folded like a cheap suit. "I was only joking bro." My attitude and actual thought was that his opinion meant nothing to me.

I doubt that Trump is asking very little at this point to enact whatever the donor wants. Saudis - you want to develop nuclear weapons? Hell, I will give you nuclear weapons if you get me elected.

With the RNC and Trump broke for this election cycle, I can't wait (and simultaneously dread) to see their lawyers and spokespeople especially with the inevitable election fraud claims. The future tv appearances will make the Rudy post-election press conferences look like a MENSA debate. As for some right wing billionaires willing to prop up the RNC and Trump, even some of them may hit their limits. It's one thing to put $1m into Abbott's campaign but something else to give $500m to Trump.

what exactly are her qualifications other than probably having a lot of google founder divorce money? Wikipedia tells me that she started and sold the startup but the sale was after she married the google guy. The timing creates questions of the legitimacy of the sale.

Dangers of working for crypto. TLDR: Binance's African regional mgr detained in Nigeria because the govt demanded a list of Nigerian Binance traders reportedly due to money laundering and terrorism activities. He was under house arrest but allowed to attend services at a nearby mosque. He never returned and left the country on another passport. Nigeria also is filing tax evasion charges against Binance and this mgr. TLDR squared: Nigeria is not a crypto friendly country. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68656119?utm_campaign=mb&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=morning_brew

Turning or docking activities? Probably very cost ineffective to have tug boats on the standby when ships are underway. At least cost ineffective until they take down an entire bridge.

I don't blame Trump for a second. My ass is afraid of large birds that could snatch my eyeball out like I was on the set of Kill Bill. Birds are small dinosaurs that move fast. Keep them away from my face. </anti-bird rant>

My doc is cool with me going with cologuard so I basically have to crap in a bowl every 3 years. Mail it in, and wait a week for the results.

they are an actual company but they are quickly moving to a bitcoin holding company. What I don't know is if their revenues and bitcoin holdings support their market cap. Didn't Saylor recently take on some low interest bonds with the intent of only buying crypto? My assumption is that many investors are using MSTR as a proxy for bitcoin because some brokerage firms don't allow trading in bitcoin ETFs and/or the investor has no clue how to buy bitcoin. As those subside, I have to wonder if MSTR will see a significant drop. Since I can buy the bitcoin ETF, it's time that I sell MSTR to lock in my profits. At least a decent percent of it.

Less than a month ago, I bought MSTR from my Roth IRA. Not a major buy. About 0.33% of my total retirement fund. That buy is up 83% since I bought. Probably the best purchase ever from my retirement fund. But I haven't sold yet.

Read the book numerous times. I liked this version of Chani. It’s always better if you know more of their thoughts and hear more conversations but movies have limits. One criticism that I have is how the Spacing Guild is treated in both movies. In the books, they are the passive, all-powerful element that drives so much of the economic/political storyline. Here they are the space version of Greyhound bus.

Gen X - to make you feel old, the Breakfast Club detention took place 40 years ago today. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLjKDADc/

All you need to know about Candace Owens is that Joe Rogan schooled her intellectually, and that led to Rogan "banning" Owens and a few other alt-right commentators from his show. Rogan banned her because of how ignorant she was, and this from a host/show that has had flat earthers on in the past. Owens does seem to have improved her speaking game since the Rogan appearance but she just panders to the right who want a black speaker at their events.

look out for the dead bodies from Marlo's crew.

Rittenhouse and Turning Point got what they wanted out of this appearance. Rittenhouse got paid some money to pay his bills for the next month or so. Turning Point got attention which is all these groups want. They will probably receive 10 new speaking requests and fees to based on these videos. While I understand why many want to attend these talks to speak out against them, giving them zero attention is the best option.

Guy in audience: Kirk has made racist comments. Rittenhouse: What has Kirk said? (this is a fair question. I don't think Rittenhouse should be held responsible to know any or everything Kirk has said.) Guy in audience: <rattles off several examples> Rittenhouse: I can't comment on any of that. haha. Kyle, don't request questions that you can't or won't answer. Kyle doesn't have the brainpower to take on a hostile crowd.

They want to leave that name to Elon.

Hidalgo's opponent, Mealer, was appointed to the METRO board. Basically she was appointed for one of the non-Houston board seats, even though she lives in Houston. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/transportation/article/alex-mealer-metro-board-19325497.php Chron says it's unusual that the smaller cities appoint a Houston resident. I guess Mealer doesn't want to go away and still plans to make noise in politics later on. Oddly her appointment, by this guy, was called a victory.

It’s always “solutions” looking for problems.

With so many Trump admin officials coming out to say they won’t vote for him, or telling a story from behind the scenes at the Trump WH, I hope Biden can convince them to be filmed for political ads. Biden is never going to convince some GOPers to vote for him, but a certain percent might be convinced to stay home on Election Day.