Thetexashammer

There has been an unacceptably high number of times where defenses are getting to Quinn. Our OL is vastly improved, to my ignorant eye. But there is still room for improvement, at least compared to what I see at the top of the league tables. We nearly lost several games this year, in part due to lack of good OL play. Quinn was getting pressured at exactly the wrong times, if I remember correctly.

Good God I love that play. It's even funnier if you look at how slow he is moving but nobody can catch him.

Yeah I don't think they should have been targeting them to begin with. Even if there was one high value target, there were better ways to go about it. My experience being involved in stories that made the news was that the backstory, the real story, was totally unrelated to the reported story. So I tend towards skepticism. I wouldn't just believe what the IDF puts out either.

The facts don't warrant your conclusion. IDF is working with Egypt, the US, and many NGO to coordinate the delivery of humanitarian aid. A single event is not equal to a strategic decision.

My advice is almost always the same. Don't do war. I said it in 1991. I said it in 2003. I said it about Afghanistan. Nobody listens to me.

I am inclined to do the same. I have always like what they do. It's terrible they are caught up in this. LOL I was trying to respond to the post about donating to WCK.

It's not a controversial thing. They put their military headquarters under a hospital. They've been doing it for decades. It is well established. And again, their last military elements are hiding in Rafah amongst women and children.

It is not an extraordinary claim. To the contrary, it is the explicit hamas strategy. It's not new news, they love human shields, sacrificing their women and children. Their political elements and last remaining battalions are hiding behind women and children as we speak.

Kill authority is delegated from the CDR in Chief down to operational level commanders. If this were the US, the investigation would likely recommend these types of authorizations go to a higher level of commander. Higher level have a different education, and thus more sensitivity to politics. Personally, I would set the policy so you don't attack third parties under any circumstances. However, that is likely to be the exact reason the high value Hamas target was intending to travel with WCK in the first place. So it's like every other fucking war dilemma. You don't win, not matter what you do. Nobody wins in war.

Have you ever been in a TOC? Have you ever commanded men in war? How do you know what goes on inside a military command? Please tell us.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If you want to convince me the IDF are targeting civilians, I think it would be stupid, for lots of reasons even down to the point of its just a waste of ammo. However, I am sure there is some of that. I understand the logic, there are Israelis who have a burning hate for Palestinians. I would not be surprised or shocked. If you think Israelis have a burning hate for aid convoys and want to destroy them, and they have no idea of the strategic implications of said targeting, then you've lost the plot. Or more accurately, you are probably an antisemite. I just rewatched the scene from Band of Brothers where Mularkey meets a Nazi soldier who grew up near him in Washington. They're shooting the shit, Mularkey leaves, next thing you hear is automatic gunfire (killing the unarmed German prisoners). We were still the good guys.

1.6 trillion in interest by the end of the year. Buckle your seat belt Dorothy.

The first time I went, I was like "so when do we get there" LOL.

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It looks like Monex has some pretty tight spreads around the 1oz American Eagle gold coin. I will probably buy a couple soon just for fun.

Same principle with skyscrapers. You have to stop and concentrate, but it's wild when you can feel the sway.

It's not really my argument. I am probably 80% on it. There are some underlying assumptions, some have great evidence, others not so much. The basic point seems true, insofar as it's better than gold surely. Better than bonds? Almost 100%. Stocks? I am not even sure there is a real bubble. I made some decent money on an E&P stock trading at 3x earnings. Meta trades around 25x current earnings. Not insane to me. I was really referring to physical gold, which is the best analogue to bitcoin in a wallet. You can buy gold stocks, which are a proxy. Or you can do futures, which are basically frictionless, however, that probably requires active management and some financial sophistication. I think you can still take physical delivery of a gold contract. However, you have to store it and you have to get a metallurgist if you want to sell your brick. I am not a gold bug, but if you know how I could buy (and sell) coins without a huge markup I would probably be into that. Having some gold in the safe would be cool. But I feel like buying gold is like buying a car, meaning you lose 30% when you drive off the lot.

Consider all the various asset classes. Stocks and bonds and the largest classes of investments. In a place where the government goes into a financial crisis, which class outperforms? The Federal Reserve is engaged in financial repression, you will have a negative real return on bonds. Stocks will suffer because the economy will be crushed, growth will die. Cash, it needs little explanation. If you wish to hold cash while the Fed prints a trillion in fiat every couple months, good on you. Levered real estate is not a bad option. Debt values are fixed, rents depend mostly on nominal dollar salaries. Real estate will perform well, but you have to be levered before interest rates rise. It's a dicey proposition, but not bad at all. Gold has storage costs but it is a decent inflation hedge. But you are likely paying a 20% premium up front and you can't do much with it. Overall, I don't like it, but I understand it for purposes of diversification, it has a negative correlation with financial assets. Bitcoin, however, is fixed in supply. You can buy stuff with it. There is no significant cost to buying or selling, and no storage cost. Maybe later we can get some interest. There is limited ability to pay for retail purchases, but that will change very shortly (at the very least, there will be a "Bitcoin" credit card where you pay the bill in Bitcoin). And it is new, people are buying it for the first time every day. It is the best asset class to buy and hold for the reasons I gave above. And the best thing is, a lot of people haven't figured that out yet.

I hear the British are taking over the UN High Commission for Better BBQ.

You can pry those salt and vinegar chips from my cold dead hands.

I did this bridge in the Dolomiti. Val di Rabbi. There are lots of bridges around Trentino on the trails.

No but seriously I was like "Does Beyonce know about this?"

Yes, absolutely. Not sure why Vince after all his troubles with alcohol in the past is still going out to these places that are just a haven for him to get sucked back into that life. He should stay home and get drunk in his garage like a normal dude.