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Critics have stopped talking about gas prices for now but I still hear a lot of whining about retirement accounts being decimated. A central pillar of most people’s retirement accounts should be a diversified stock portfolio. Since Biden entered office the broad stock market is up about 30%, I.e. which is above historical averages. Even if they are sitting on cash they are getting much higher rates than in the past decade. And the news on other fixed income isn’t bad either, unless they did something misguided.

Billionaires funding athletic freaks who will severely shorten their lifestyles for the billionaires entertainment. That said, testing is so patchy that many don’t really trust the fairness of elite competition.

It’s a shame that he didn’t bring a map of the world with him so that he could show that Singapore and China are not the same country. Even better to ask Tom Cotton to point them out on the map.

If Zuckerberg's (non) speaking opportunity is represented by the short clips he should have sent a cardboard cutout instead. As a bonus it would display more charisma and emotional warmth.

The algorithms are not going to pick that up and make it go viral in its current format. They should replace one of the talking heads with a dog that farts every 17.5 seconds for optimum virality.

While he’s at it Hawley can drag Al Gore over the coals for enabling the internet to exist in the first place. What a stupid circus.

Well the Commanders practice facility is literally across the street from a sewage plant so it’s hard to compete with that.

Slightly changing population in Virginia. Some of the immediate DC area decline is driven by more remote working since COVID, where people are willing to be up to a couple of hours away for the now very rare occasions they go to the office. https://statchatva.org/2024/01/29/amid-slow-population-growth-virginias-demographic-landscape-is-being-transformed/ Migration is not going to make a difference in voting at the state level but it potentially might make more rural counties less red (and metro areas with a smaller blue majority), although for many counties it will take more than a few percent population shift. The article mentions disproportionately higher death rates among the older rural population during the pandemic, but again not likely to be large enough to flip a county.

Might as well as there’s Andra Day singing the black national anthem (Lift every voice and sing), an ugly dude with facial tattoos singing America the Beautiful and then Usher for the halftime show. What’s the under/over on number of complaints that Bon Jovi would have been better.

When Lockheed Skunk Works throws in the towel its acceptance that creating a viable fusion reactor is not in the realm of being an engineering problem with current knowledge. We need a big scientific breakthrough.

The Taylor Swift Chiefs versus the gay libtard cesspool 49ers. Is football the wokest sport?

On a rainy weekend I was doing some reading on the current status of various fusion power projects. Lockheed shut this particular one down in 2019 after almost a decade of no real progress.

Yeah, maybe a little harsh on FSG but Liverpool have been outspent by at least eight premier league teams in the last five years.

Alternative facts.

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I can understand the grind getting to a top manager. He has made more money than he will spend in his lifetime (currently >$50m per year). Aside from spending every waking minute trying to improve in an incredibly demanding job, he has to deal with unsupportive management, idiot press and public, and opponents breaking rules so that it’s not an even playing field. Speaking of the press, until I spent time on YouTube I never realized how much responsibility the managers have for pre-game and post-game interviews where the most inane and pointless questions are asked. Many, many top managers find it’s just not worth it. Success just brings more pressure from all sides. When you have many tens of millions in the bank, why tolerate the disrespect. Even Xavi is quitting Barcelona because of how he is treated. If anyone should be given a little slack, he should:

Lots of TJ customers claiming they’ll not be customers any longer for union-busting, but much like with Starbucks their talk is just empty.

Koln Christmas Market in front of the cathedral.

The wurst is yet to come.

What time of year? Some events such as Oktoberfest and Christmas Markets are pretty unique. Prop your feet up on the AC and let it blow on your wurst.

I like a nice lemon tort. Or is that a lawsuit about a bad Mazda?

Run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes it.

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All-inclusive > holistic > biopsychosocial