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I’m frankly embarrassed and distancing myself from all things Stanford presently. I do plan to attend homecoming this fall but that’s about the half dozen or so friends I keep up with from Stanford and not about the institution.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Aaaaand, the backstop is in.
Hope you bought the dip, because the punch bowl just got put back in place and spiked.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I’m not for a bailout. The moral hazard aspect is already a huge problem. As I look at the press releases, it looks like the bank is/was solvent and so I would hope a lot of the uninsured deposits should be recovered over time.
I wonder if the receivership certificates are tradable.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Awful
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)“Celebrity is a mask that eats the face.”
– John Updike
Whatever empathy Biden ever had left him for political expediency decades ago.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)First they came for the high flow toilets and I figured I didn’t mind flushing three times per dump, so I kept my mouth shut.
Then they came for wood fireplaces and charcoal grills, but I didn’t have a wood fireplace and I grilled with gas so I didn’t say anything.
Then they came for the incandescent light bulbs, but I wasn’t into incandescent light bulbs so I didn’t say anything.
Next they came for the gas appliances, but I didn’t have any gas appliances so I didn’t say anything.
Then they came for my electric stove, heat and hot water, but I was too damned cold and hungry to say anything by then, so I moved out onto the street where hot food is served three times a day and warm blankets are handed out every night in SF.
Now, I love the government.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Buttigieg has been a tone-deaf disaster as a cabinet member. He’s truly the best example of an idealogue trying to do real work for the first time in his life.
He responds to a train wreck with platitudes about politics and union rules.
My favorite was his taking paternity leave for an extended time during the worst supply chain snarl in recent memory.
I think he’s damaged goods just based on that alone. Do you think Hillary would have taken maternity leave? Hell no…she would have eaten her babies to get into office in the first place.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It never really left, we just have data that is manipulated around milestones like elections and state of the union addresses.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Predatory lending is one of my biggest peeves. It, like state sponsored lotteries, depends on people to be really bad at math.
It’s unbelievable to me that people will accept a 30 plus percent interest rate on purchases of anything short of a life saving procedure.
And you are right, people will line up to access the credit.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I’ve been reading a book called “The end of the world is just the beginning” by a guy named Peter zeihan. He has a lot of interesting and provocative ideas about demographic impacts on economics and social policies including globalization.
One of the things he explains clearly is the drop in value of children as economies mature. It’s an interesting take and one that certainly points to why the U.S. would put children last in so many policies.
Covid policy has been a tragedy for kids, but it’s a consistent thing in the U.S. the baby boom generation has leaders that are quite possibly the most selfish and narcissistic in the history of the world. Look at trump and Biden, pelosi, Feinstein, and the other oldies that just won’t go away. There is no grace in that generation of leaders that says “you know what? I will step aside.”
It’s a stark and sad reality that bill Clinton, who was inaugurated 30 years ago and who left office in 2001, is younger than Joe Biden.
how can a generation that doesn’t trust its own kids to govern decide that children are important?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Rittenhouse was not a threat to Huber, was running away, and did not instigate the confrontation. Huber assaulted Rittenhouse with a deadly weapon…missed…and unfortunately paid with his life.
There’s a lesson here. It’s called don’t bring a club to a gun fight.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)They aren’t even sjws anymore they are just nihilists looking for a participation trophy. Tear stuff down and just be happy you “did something.”
I think the only sane move is to move from places infected like this. Either that or get ready for the apocalypse.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=6812]Thanks[/quote]
elon, is that you?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Also just gonna say that if that play that knocked out both the receiver and the db down the stretch isn’t targeting, then they should just abolish the rule. It has to be one of the worst officiated rules in sports history.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)That was a really good read. Funny how the infiltration only happened outside of academia when academia stopped having capacity. Wonder where all the DEI experts go when companies start cutting costs aggressively.
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