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Talked with mine today. I was rattling all kinds of shit off and he was writing notes. I stopped and asked him “so how many pages thick is the MVD is fucking crazy notebook?”. I just tell myself that he learns a lot from our sessions. 🤣

I don't know so much who, but they really should be dependent on only jobs and inflation. Not a litany of other factors. And the criteria should be set in advance that there's no ambiguity of what they are going to do. The country is not going to go in a hand basket in 3 months, so let's not include what might happen, let's make the decisions on what did happen. IE: we don't know what tariffs are going to do. Well, then adjust after you know what tariffs did, not what you think they may or may not do...

I guess my answer to that would be a question, why do we need to manage monetary policy? In my view we should allow the market to set rates and the currency should be pegged to a hard asset, no more fiat currency and debasement of the dollar allowed. If we assume that some level of management is necessary though then I fully agree with you, it should be managed independently and without influence from the government.

We can have a separate debate about the existence of the Federal Reserve (I’m firmly in the camp that it should be abolished btw), but coming after Powell criminally because he won’t bow to the pressures of the executive branch is an extremely dangerous precedent that we should all be very concerned about. How would you like Biden (or whoever the hell was actually running the country at the time) deciding the direction of monetary policy? In my opinion Powell has actually done a pretty damned good job through Covid and beyond given the dual mandate he’s been tasked with...

"Whataboutism" at it's finest.

This is one area where we fully agree, the dangers and real world impacts of identity politics. And to the folks that think people are just anti-Trump, this is a problem that affects the vast majority of us today. Some folks blame media, though I blame us for being terrible at consuming media, but media is significantly involved either way.

Suzuki proves that bike development / getting everything figured out completely is way more important than having the latest and greatest design features. How many times do we see a new design introduced and watch the team struggle for the first half of the season? I’m not surprised.

Bro, how in the hell do you have dark mode?

I don't care about vital members. I think those comments were pretty much fair considering how bad it looked. What blows my mind more than anything are the "industry experts". I'm not gonna mention names but damn some of them didn't hold back at all. He had a similar season 2022 where he didn't gel with the bike and cruised in a lot of motos. He's known for not pushing when he doesn't fully feel it and it's frustrating to watch. But he Came back to win back to back titles. I guess as an industry expert you should probably...

The problem with the “independent Greenland with US bases” idea is that it skips about ten real-world steps and pretends they don’t matter. Under the 2009 Self-Rule Act, Denmark still controls foreign policy and defense unless Greenland formally becomes independent. And even then it requires negotiations, recognition, and an economy that viable That’s not opinion, that’s how the framework is written. NATO also doesn’t become irrelevant just because it’s inconvenient to the scenario. Denmark is a founding member. If the US is seen as maneuvering to peel territory away from an ally, that directly weakens the alliance structure that actually...

Relax everyone. Now the White House says the Trump name mentioned in the Epstein docs is a different Trump. I totally super duper believe them.

does it really matter at this point 🤔 shit didn’t work out like everyone thought it would , kawi moved onto something better , brotha prado moved onto something better , it is wht it is at this point 🤷🏾‍♂️

Political extremism has gone to the nth degree, and it is unfortunate. The very sad thing is I really believe most people are live and let live moderates that get riled up by power and wealth seeking media and political types. I have been fortunate enough to meet several national political and media types and invariably the positions they take, or their persona is just a show for the most part and in private their views are more moderate, they play to their audience. Meanwhile the average person seeks more and more affirmation of their views and less and less...

Nothing to forgive. You're living it, most of us only read about it from thousands of miles away. Stay safe.