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  1. 16 hours ago, Zepol87 said:

    Yea fuck those people. I have family the same way I just found out from vacation talk that my brother and sister in law truck payments and insurance hit around 2600 a month. 1500 for his truck and 1100 a month for her tahoe. My brother drives his truck for a living I kind of get it but sis in law goes to daycare and back and walmart in Rockwall, you dont need a bullshit new tahoe for that especially when it comes with 1100 a month expenses. Fucking insane. They also blame the economy and brandon for their issues. Fuck them ;

    goddamn that's more than my fucking mortgage + home insurance and utilities lol, all just to own a tinydick truck and tahoe in rockwall? No wonder there's so many angry people living in the dallas suburbs lmao

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  2. 17 minutes ago, kevwun said:

    Yeah, I have felt for a while that the issue in Texas that's going to eventually fuck them is going after public schools.  Small town folks love their local high school sports teams and are going to have a fit when they're put in danger.  Jr. is going to play football at Insert Name Here High School just like his dad did and if you do anything to hurt that, God have mercy on your soul.

    inb4 they drop the school portion of public schools and simply offer public sports programs so they can still get their Friday night lights

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  3. 9 minutes ago, elfenix said:

    dude IAH has gotten super fucked up from all the construction. Back in April it took me damn near an hour to get from my long term parking to a terminal on the shuttle (normally 5-10 mins at worst), and then I still had to walk 20 minutes to my actual terminal that I departed from. Wasn't as bad in late June a few weeks ago, but I've started preferring flying out of Hobby if I can still get a direct flight

  4. 1 hour ago, dcbc said:

    It's ripping through my office at the moment.  Three more people down as of this weekend.  Two of them are first timers.

    It's hitting my office and customers that I work with too. Fucks me having a big on-site event in a couple weeks lmao, I've got 17 total registrations across 3 cities 

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  5. Just now, RomaVicta said:

    Query: Can I just skip to episode 4 or do I have to watch this season's episodes first? Could be a deal breaker unless someone can tell me there is something resembling a plot in Eps 2 and 3.

    It's exposition setting up the world we'll be in for the rest of the season. It's similar to the difference in realizing there was an old and a current timeline in season 1 - sure you could skip it, but you're gonna be missing quite a few pieces to put the puzzle together. I'd bet there's some alt-shift-x type of youtuber that's got recap vids for the episodes you don't care to watch

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  6. Sorta seems like the church (of scientology lulz) wants to have it's cake and eat it too. A key element of entering the religious contract at question is their faith - the church wouldn't accept the contract without it. But then once the parishioner loses/leaves their faith, the contract remains despite it now missing a key condition. 

    Idk man, it's anyone's guess what the current court will do - there is no more precedent.

  7. 23 minutes ago, RPM said:

    I never realized how slow this site was. What I blamed on a shitty ISP was changed when I finally got 100 mb service with Elon. There's a bottleneck somewhere.

    Lol I'm pretty sure that surly runs on spare hardware in the margins of a colo while imma does his day job. 

  8. 16 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Well, the accusation there is that scientists at UM lied.  Pharma and government seems to have funded that lie and produced drugs based on that lie, but it's not really indicated by the article that anyone but the scientists involved knew it was a misrepresentation.

    I have always contended that the major problem with drugs in the US is pharma marketing practices, followed by the FDA, and followed distantly by the patent system.  But this problem seems to be laid at the feet of academia.

    I suppose so, but academia aren't the people making billions off of drugs that don't work and aren't even FDA approved. Pharma shouldn't get to just pass the buck to academia. Science is trust AND verify results through rigorous data collection. Not taking a singular document and parlaying that into billions and billions of dollars of profits at the cost of public health funding and the health of their patients. I don't accept the "well it's not THEIR fault, they had bad info!" argument. It's the same flavor as "the cops didn't know he didn't have a gun, their feared for their life!" It demonstrates a lack of ownership in the actual outcome and a lack of respect for the basic humanity of their victims. 

    But as I said a couple years ago, I'm 10000% biased on this issue from when my dad nearly was killed by taking nuplazid. A drug that like the titular drug of this topic, has failed to show any results but has nonetheless driven some sweet sweet shareholder value

  9. 23 minutes ago, troph said:

    He’s not saying every issue should be left to the states, thank god… oh wait…

    It's so bizarre to me that the talking point is to "leave rights to the states"... The last time we did that, it was not great for the country. 

  10. Bump, saw this article come across my feed and reading on Parkinsons treatments 

    https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/22/2111914/-Two-decades-of-Alzheimer-s-research-may-be-based-on-deliberate-fraud-that-has-cost-millions-of-lives

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    Over the last two decades, Alzheimer’s drugs have been notable mostly for having a 99% failure rate in human trials. It’s not unusual for drugs that are effective in vitro and in animal models to turn out to be less than successful when used in humans, but Alzheimer’s has a record that makes the batting average in other areas look like Hall of Fame material.

    And now we have a good idea of why. Because it looks like the original paper that established the amyloid plaque model as the foundation of Alzheimer’s research over the last 16 years might not just be wrong, but a deliberate fraud.

    The suspicion that something was more than a little wrong with the model that is getting almost all Alzheimer’s research funding ($1.6 billion in the last year alone) began with a fight over the drug Simufilam. The drug was being pushed into trials by its manufacturer, Cassava Sciences, but a group of scientists who reviewed the drug maker’s claims about Simufilam believed that it was exaggerating the potential. So they did what any reasonable person would do: They purchased short sell positions in Cassava Sciences stock, filed a letter with the FDA calling for a review before allowing the drug to go to trial, and hired an investigator to provide some support for this position.

    As Science reports, it was that investigator, Vanderbilt University neuroscientist and junior professor Matthew Schrag, who tipped over the whole applecart to discover that it wasn’t just that Cassava’s drug was ineffective. There’s good evidence that for the last 16 years, almost everyone has had the wrong idea about the cause of Alzheimer’s. Because of a fraud.

    Any truth to this? I mean, it's unsurprising that a pharma company would lie to sick people to sell them overpriced drugs that they don't know if they actually work, but this is a whole new level

  11. 1 minute ago, 52-80 said:

    -retail 'cult' buying power doesnt sustain a top 1-10 market cap. (or are institutions and 'smart money' feckless against the mispricing?)

    Please explain to my why TSLA should be worth more than Ford, GM, Toyota, and VW combined. And yeah. Smart money and institutional investors are absolutely feckless against mispricing because "it's what the market is willing to pay therefore it's the right price". 2008 financial crisis out front shoulda told ya that having buckets of money doesn't make you smart. 

    4 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

    -his remaining stake would still be a massive 10% of equity, representing value ~double all of michael dells wealth

    This is on-paper wealth, not actual money. Sure, the ultra-wealthy can usually just take out loans against the shares to get some liquidity, but wouldn't you know it, musk is already hella leveraged! You're not considering how much debt he's carrying too

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  12. On 7/22/2022 at 9:50 PM, StassneyHorn said:

    More of a Texas politics topic, but CNN will be doing a big ass series on Texas. Out going state senator Kel Seliger could be emptying the chamber on his way out after they turn his his ag heavy district into a oil/gas district
     

    Texas state Sen. Kel Seliger, a Republican willing to buck his party leadership, will not seek reelection

    Seliger has served in the Senate since 2005 and led the higher education committee. He was seen as a champion of public education and local control but was derided as too soft on social conservative issues near the end of his tenure.

    https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/20/texas-senate-ken-seliger/

    @fattyflattie and @Porterhouse be like

    doesnt-look-like-anything-to-me-westworl

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  13. 21 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

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    So, what are you gonna do?

    lol, fatty is gonna go on voting for republicans and cheering on the growing fascism because it helps his wallet stay fat. Nothing matters to him except for that sweet moolah. Vote for politicians that support equal human rights for all, but possibly face a slightly higher tax rate or more rules for his day job? Naaaah fuggit let's get vote for the dudes who want to treat women like chattel and teach that the civil war was about states rights and BAN teaching anything that could make grandpappy blush!

     

    Oh yeah, but he claims to not be a fan of any of that bad shit the republicans do. Just not enough to actually affirmatively do something about it, because it could make him marginally less wealthy

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  14. 1 hour ago, 52-80 said:

    What does it mean "end up costing more in long run".  Like if I spent $5 on a cheeseburger now it "costs" me multiples in the long run because I could have potential gains from it as an investment?

    Elon controls $180B+ now:  $130B in TSLA, taxable at mere 15% LTCG.  $50B IN SpaceX (~50% stake at $100B valuation).  Still has an active compensation plan that entitling him to +10M additional shares PER tranche ($8B). 

    Hypothetically IF he is singularly forced to buy Twitter at $44B, the asset value doesn't disappear.  If you consider FMV as the avg traded price this year, it's a $14B premium that can be marked to market as a loss.  That's the worst case scenario.  So if there's a settlement it'll be less, whether as a penalty or a discounted purchase.

    Lotta on-paper value there, especially with relying on mark-to-market to just arbitrarily decide how good or bad a deal was, before it's even started happening. I don't think elon wanted to buy TWTR, he wanted to offload $8,000,000,000 of TSLA stock without tanking the valuation - which he has now successfully done thanks to some bad-faith deal making and market manipulation. 

    I hope it's not just a cakewal for musk, he shouldn't be able to abuse the markets and use TSLA and SpaceX's valuation to take down a company he has a beef with. Just seems like a recipe for a bad time. 

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  15. 53 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    The accusation (by Orban et al supporters) of 'globalists' trying to rule the world is betrayed by the actions of the authoritarians who attempt to squash any effort at real democratic action. The dissonance is stunning at times.

    Classic (((globalists))) amirite?? Totes no antisemitism there lmao

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