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3 hours ago, DevoHusker said:

Good, that's the correct response all around. Thanks.

I'm pretty sure the government is going to eat most of the bill (which is kind of why we pay taxes, to help with catastrophic events). The companies involved are going to shelter their cash immediately because the cost of building the bridge, laws suites for deaths and for the port closing are probably going to bankrupt them.

25 minutes ago, TGHusker said:

Tennis shoes, Bibles, what is next athletic bras?

Trump hand bras and grab'em by the thongs

1 hour ago, knapplc said:

 

 

This has to be the 87th time you've posted this.

Why do I get the feeling you actually counted?

So, they supposedly found the terrorist, beat the s#!t out of them till one's eye popped out and he's in a coma, hooked up a car battery to another's balls, and cut another's ear off and fed it to him (on video).

12 hours ago, teachercd said:

Love that this is pretty much the coldest it has ever been in March (almost April) and the Enviro-bros are all of a sudden GONE!

 

Shocker.

 

Dorks

If it was 80 and sunny right now...they would all have the BIGGEST erection!  GLOBAL WARMING!  

That's now how climate works. Maybe don't go teaching science or statistics.

17 hours ago, Decked said:

Correct. 

You agree with Gaetz???

4 hours ago, funhusker said:

Now the question we all want to ask:  what kind of mixed emotions is @teachercd feeling?  This is like "ham-a$$" and those damn "*ussian commies" duking it out...

2 hours ago, Scarlet said:

I see the Russian disinformation bros are out in full force with the narrative that IS is a CIA backed organization and that they carried out the terrorist act in Moscow on behalf of Ukraine and the US.  Like this guy.  

 

 

Hey David, the US already did what you said they should do 2 hours before you said they should do it.

f#&%ing awful what happened there... 

1 hour ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

They are also announced on Fridays to minimize the news cycle and stock market reaction. The recall was enough to make CNN Top Stories, so linking the two stories on this particular Friday didn't seem like a stretch. Layoffs likely a separate story. 

Meh, they don't really play around with the recalls anymore after Takata and the GM key scandal. It's a months long process to determine if it's necessary to issue one, and the government is involved. It's usually just happenstance on the final timing that's announced.

26 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

Worth noting that's not a company-wide notice, it's just from the North America Engineering & Technology division. Which makes you wonder if it's related to this piece of Friday breaking news: 

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/22/business/stellantis-recalling-285000-sedans-side-airbags/index.html

It's not. Recalls happen all the time. I think everybody has had a recall for half a million vehicles in the last 6 months.

1 hour ago, DevoHusker said:

No, but thought this was unusual given the previous discussion on the EV roll out that didn't include Tesla.

 

Also, they have laid off several thousand, or offered early buyouts over the past year.

https://www.motor1.com/news/708736/stellantis-employees-profit-share/

 

As has GM. The bigger issue your missing is why does a company who has been making record profits for years, just gave their CEO a huge raise, and is participating in stock BuyBacks and dividends need to lay people off? Also, those jobs won't be coming back. They're being outsourced to India just like the tech industry.

Rumor is there's more to come. They capped it at 400 this time because 500 or more and they have to report it to the state of Michigan before they start the layoffs.

1 hour ago, teachercd said:

Didn't two dudes go after him and didn't they have guns?  I can't remember the entire thing now.

 

 

The first guy shot had a plastic bag he was flinging around... Of the two other guys one had a pistol and the other a skateboard. I believe Rittenhouse killed the guy with the skateboard and the other guy with the pistol was shot in the arm. Again, both those men were shot after the initial incident where he shot the guy with the plastic bag that was chasing him.

I've never thought he would be convicted of murder, but there is definitely room for a civil suit and maybe manslaughter based on all his actions that led to him being there. But whatever, he's still a woman beating piece of s#!t

8 hours ago, Moiraine said:

 

 

The whole story and the GOP reaction to it is just dumbfounding. What if someone walks into a crowded area acting crazy toting guns and yelling, someone tackles him and gets shot by the person, and they prevented 30 people from dying. Based on what happened with Rittenhouse, the crazy guy would go free and be able to try again later. He basically gave all would-be mass murderers a playbook on how to get as far as you can before crossing that line so you can do the most damage. Just wave your gun around while running around but don't start shooting yet.

That's a lot of hyperbole. He was actually provoked and chased, so some form of self defense was justified. Now, he was also a minor in possession of a fire arm across state lines, and the response was disproportionate to the actual threat but the law doesn't really care about that.

9 minutes ago, teachercd said:

Hahaha!  SOOOO TRUE!  I was just saying that to a friend!

 

Last Friday I bought an option on SMCI that expired that day!

It did not end well for me!

Yeah... Never buy 0dte or around earnings. I've learned that lesson the hard way several times.

50 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

What I'm trying to figure out is if I can place an order that's good for maybe 30 days where if the stock drops 3% in a single day, it buys.  Or, if it increases 3% in a single day it sells.  So far, it doesn't look like I can do that.  I would need to really study the options game before I dive into actual puts and calls.  My class on that in college was over 30 years ago.  

You should be able to set limit orders and stops for specific values.

I play with options a little, but it's literally gambling unless you have enough capitol to buy options that are 6 to 12 months in the future to reduce your risk.

36 minutes ago, DevoHusker said:

Ah, so it was a political snub

Let's just say hypothetically they purposefully didn't invite Tesla because of Elon. Who cares? He's extremely toxic right now and just a s#!tty person in general. We're talking about a political party that distances itself from people like John Edwards, Anthony Weiner, Al Franken, the Cuomo's, Senator Mendez, etc. and we're supposed to be mad that they snubbed a man child who calls people pedos and reposts white supremacy stuff?

8 minutes ago, funhusker said:

Maybe Tesla declined an invite?  Why is this something anyone is worked up over?

 

American politics is exhausting!

Or maaaaybe the announcement wasn't only about EVs but tailpipe emissions, so it includes EVs, hybrids, and ICE vehicles. Which means it affects the big 3 more than anyone.

6 hours ago, DevoHusker said:

I know you didn't mean to double negative there...but regardless, if Musk was a hard lefter, do you admit the response would be different? 

 

Because it would.

Did you ever stop to think what the context of that photo might be, or did you just embrace the rage bait?

3 hours ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

Troy has a bit of the dock worker/mob enforcer look to him. I like it.

I was thinking Sean Callahan's brother, but he does look like he could work in sanitation.

23 minutes ago, Gage County said:

 

Yes, Milley said 2500 of our best trained men, I believe he said Seals. They would have been supported by military contractors and, get this, NATO troops! They don't say permanently, only that some US troops would remain behind.

 

@BigRedBuster, I agree, Trump was pretty clear on getting completely out. I don't think Trump would have taken the Joint Chiefs advice to leave behind a small force.

 

 

Our NATO allies were in country with us up until the end.

I don't think the American public would tolerate leaving troops in Afghanistan (but I think they'd be shocked to know we still have troops in Iraq). That would basically be a continuation of the status quo for the last 10 years.

I think the reality is that the Trump administration royal f#&%ed up the negotiations. The Biden administration made the right call to continue the withdrawal, but the planning and execution (outside of the military operations) was very poor.

Biden probably should have restarted negotiations with the Afghan government and the taliban... But short of restarting the war I don't think there was anyway to keep Kabul from falling, and at that point there was no way to prevent the tragic events of the Afghanistan people at the walls of the airport. The 13 final soldiers that were killed is tragic, but they (and their families) are being used as political pawns now. The reality is they could have been killed regardless of what actions were taken and when, because it was an ISIS attack, not the taliban.

19 minutes ago, Gage County said:

I had the hearing on for a few hours yesterday. Pretty much a rerun of the Senate Arms Services hearing in Sept 2021, had that on at the time too. Milley and McKenzie spent most of the day telling how the White House and the State Dept time after time ignored their advice. Heck, Joe Biden couldn't remember his briefings (a well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory). Milley and McKenzie testified otherwise.

 

Instead of honoring Trump's May 1st withdrawal date, Biden sent tthe military contractors home, abandoned Bagram Air Base, drew down the forces, and stayed months longer than agreed. 

 

The Republicans asked several times why Milley didn't do more. He goes straight up military, it's his job to advise the president, not to make or influence the president's decisions in public. He's had a change of mind on that stance, he suggested negotiations between Ukraine and Russia back in Nov 2022.

Didn't watch any of it but hasn't Milley and the brass's stance always been that the US should have left a  small contingent pf troop there permanently?

40 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

Nobody ever mentions the most idiotic parts of the Trump negotiations: the US agreed not to bomb the taliban if they were more than 500m away from an ANA position. That's less than 1/3 of a mile, you can still engage with small arms fire, motors, artillery, or almost anything at that range. That meant that our airstrikes supporting the ANA almost disappeared overnight and they effectively could no longer be offensive.

4 minutes ago, Gage County said:

Why are they attacking civilians?

4 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

Gee... it's almost like we tried to say this when it happened, but certain people wanted to spin it as the US willing leaving it's own equipment behind as a gift to the taliban.

Maybe if Trump wants to bring up the ANA's equipment we should talk about how he left their government out of negotiations with the taliban and released some 5,000 prisoners back to the taliban.