Liberty

This is just trolling. You never say anything concrete, contradict any evidence with other evidence. You just assert things and hope nobody notices the tumbleweeds blowing throw the gaps in your logic. You basically are Beavis and/or Butthead. This impeached president will go down in history as one of the worst presidents ever. He lacks intelligence, character, skill, empathy, or even an understanding of what the US is and what makes it great, clearly. He's an anti-capitalist who's constantly trying to have the government play a bigger role in the market by picking winners and losers, trying to help certain industries and hurt others and increasing deficits and spending. He only cares about himself, and his biggest accomplishment is convincing others that the heir to hundreds of millions (a lot of it from tax fraud) who sits on a kitsch golden throne and never has shown any inclination towards regular people in his 7 decades on Earth (even his charity was a ridiculous fraud, spending on portraits of himself) is a "man of the people who loves America". His only other accomplishments are things that any republican president with control of both houses would have done (tax cuts, some regulation cuts), and almost everything else that is truly his is a failure or stupid in the first place, just like in his personal life and business life. A rapist with two dozen accusers, who has tabloid friends 'catch & kill' stories and pays hush money to a porn star because he's cheating on his third wife, trying to enact racist policies while hiding his tax returns and business interests and massive conflict of interests and debts to who know what foreign entities, as all his entourage is either in prison or fired for incompetence (often blamed for things he did), as he fires inspector generals who start digging into his dirt and puts his son-in-law in charge of everything... is now the cause of America having one of the worst responses to a pandemic around the world despite being the richest country with the most resources and months of advance-warning compared to Asia. Great success. I can't imagine how it'd be if he had been a failure in your eyes..

It's interesting how people who initially support human garbage out of self-interest (he's cutting my taxes!) or just by default (he's the guy of my side/I don't like the other side so I guess I'll hitch to him) eventually can't help but have to defend the indefensible because of their commitment bias. It's amazing to see what people can be blind to when they decide to just support everything their tribe does. Trump is quite literally an imbecile with no morals and a malfunctioning brain who's only skills are bullshitting and bullying and they'll twist themselves into pretzels trying to defend him against all evidence. I guess he's played them well. Poor patsies. Too bad independent thinking is so rare.

Interview with CEO of Topicus (in Dutch, can use Google Translate): https://managementscope.nl/magazine/artikel/1371-daan-dijkhuizen-topicus-semipublieke-sector Via

Are you sore that he spoke out against racists? It never bothered me. Trump is WAY WAY WAY more playing identity politics than Obama ever did, but somehow it doesn't seem to bother these guys. I wonder why?

Balanced and pushbacks have nothing to do with it. Things are either true and supported by evidence, or false and not supported by evidence. They make logical sense, or they don't. Reality isn't up to a vote or a committee and not every side is automatically equally to blame for everything all the time, not all scandals are equally bad, etc. If Trump's a corrupt narcissistic sociopath who's not very sharp and way over his head, the "balanced" thing to do is point it out, not to go 'well, he's half good and half bad like everybody else".

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180226122548.htm "Vitamin D can't be metabolized without sufficient magnesium levels, meaning Vitamin D remains stored and inactive for as many as 50 percent of Americans." Something to keep in mind related to the previous vitamin D stuff I posted...

This is part of Trump's M.O. He says a thing and its opposite all the time, depending on how the wind is blowing that day, so that later he can cherry pick something he said and say "see, I was right" and then gaslight us about the other thing ("I never said that, I didnt mean it, it was sarcasm, fake news, etc").

Ha! Ive been waiting for them to try to bridge this. The playbook is all too obvious by now. Protestors = white supremist Trump supporters. Thats where they'll take this. Just wait. No amount of evidence would convince tribal magical thinkers like you, so it's moot. These guys can come out and say that this is who they are and why they do what they do and you wouldn't believe it if it was inconvenient to you. Obviously this doesn't mean that everybody who protests or agrees with the protests knows about everything or is part of the same clique, but it's still interesting to look at the leadership of these groups and see who organized things, right?

Snopes looking into the anti-lockdown protests: https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/05/20/michigan-lockdown-protesters/

Not really changed too much. I'm glad to see the progress of the KYC and decentralization of capital deployment experiments, and of geographical expansion into new areas. How that works out will have an impact on valuation, so it's something to track.

Life comes before Liberty in the Constitution. Selfish assholes won’t wear a mask to save lives of others. I see it in my own county. Few are wearing masks in a busy store and these guys are the ones screaming the loudest about the California governors orders — they fail to see that they are driving R0 higher and freedom further away. People generally aren't bad, they tend to have good intentions. But when there's as much disinformation and mismanagement and confusing communications about the issue as in the US, and when a health issue gets politicized, people end up believing what they're told (by their tribe, now that it's political) and act accordingly. It was the most obvious thing in that world that a crisis like this would unite everybody and give them common cause and shared self-interest, but this was squandered in the US.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Have you read this thread? I think these points have been discussed.. I'd also recommend the president's letters and the transcripts of the AGMs. It all helps think about what the company is worth, which you can then compare to the price the market is asking for it vs your own personal hurdle.

You'll have to create another topic for it then. 8) Create a new... TOPICUS 8) :-X

CSU CFO told me about the Topicus listing: "We are still working on this, but will definitely list on a Canadian exchange." (also told me I could share the info)

Marco Arment just said on his last podcast that he got plenty of offers and doesn't intend to sell. Said everybody has a price but that his price is really high.. Also, one of his main things for making Overcast is to keep the podcast ecosystem free and vibrant, so he's not happy about the exclusive games and walled gardens and ad-tracking stuff: https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/1262824593494073345?s=20

Thread on FOX News' coverage of COVID19 over time:

I also thought it was very interesting what Cuomo said. Why is the administration only ordering proper masks to be produced for front-line workers? Trump is visiting one such plant this Friday, and Trump had to be told that he must wear a mask (and this no doubt is because Pence showed up at Mayo without one, and claimed he didn't know about their mask requirement). What people who talk about places without lockdown fail to understand is that that boat had sailed for the US. If you had strict hygiene and masks and people who understood things very early on, did good contact tracing, R0 will stay low enough that you can contain things. But if you don't and it just runs wild and exponentially double and double and double for a while, you are past the point where you can compare yourself to Japan or South Korea or Taiwan or New Zealand or whatever. You don't get to just decide you want these countries' results without having done what they did.

So that's Georgia and Florida this week... Chances there's just two cockroaches in the kitchen?

TSS combining with Topicus: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/05/20/2036291/0/en/Constellation-Software-Inc-Reaches-Agreement-to-combine-its-TSS-Operating-Group-With-Topicus-com-to-form-a-new-Operating-Group.html Mark's funny:

Russian COVID19 numbers being faked:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/19/mps-hear-why-hong-kong-had-no-covid-19-care-home-deaths We should just copy what these countries do. No need to reinvent the wheel.

Oh, he loves America says some old actor. Checkmate I guess? Reminds me how Trump immediately threw America under the bus unprompted as soon as Putin was attacked in an interview... But that's off topic. Can we stop wasting time on someone who can't reason his way out of a paper bag and get back to COVID19.

If we’re comparing reality tv celebrities, Trump is a worse businessperson than Kim by far.

Yikes, even if you’re for, this can be rough for muscle mass..

The President who didn't fill the US seat at the WHO, and who now claims the US has less influence than China at the WHO? The one who loudly praised the Chinese handling of the virus on Twitter in late January? Who ignored US Intelligence warnings about the virus? And now blames the WHO as part of a CYA compaign that includes blaming the governors for the US's stay-at-home response at a time when the Federal guidelines recommended stay-at-home? Right... nice to see all of that. Trump taking on corruption is the most laughable idea I've ever heard. It's like OJ Simpson saying he's going to find the murderer... Anyone who seriously believes that, I have a bridge to sell them. Trump is looking for someone to blame for his shortcomings and incompetence, as usual, and the WHO is just one of the latest victims. The WHO might be too heavily influenced by China. I have never disputed that. I have merely pointed out that Trump has withdrawn the US’s influence — if someone filled the void, how unexpected. Yeah, me neither. But here’s the art of the deal: