Abiotic Factor

Cornyn is so old… 73 in 2025. How is he considering running for another 6 year senate term?

Similar experience for me! I joined the co-ed service “fraternity” Alpha Phi Omega… they coordinated many different volunteering efforts and projects; but also had some social events for the members. Great way to meet kind-hearted people!

I bet like “free to play” games they’ll find a few “whale” users who will spend inappropriate amounts of money. There’s a long history of people paying for companionship… Now it’s even more fake :(

The question is when, not if. But it’s an expensive question to guess the “when” wrong. I believe the famous idiom is: the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

Best of luck!

Artificial Stupidity

Doesn’t matter; we’ll map it to whatever the environment needs in the docker-compose.yaml.

Is there any domestically produced competition in Canada? The only one a search returns is still a concept (not yet commercially available). Everything else looks to be imported from elsewhere?

Exactly what I thought when I first mis-read it as “gene-editing” instead of “gene-edited” and thought Spiderman!

No one remembers the lessons learned from prohibition?

Even if they do; if your employer “provides” the insurance they’ll take a cut of any cost savings :(

There’s already an annual child tax credit: https://taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-child-tax-credit

I’m sure they didn’t even check if birth rates are influenced by this…

It’s overvalued in my market at the moment, (Dallas) majority of properties sitting on the market for over half a year and making several list price reductions. COVID inflated the market a bit too much and it needs to come down… 10-20% would be a fair amount I’d expect it to drop over 2 years.

But there are a lot of external factors I’m not considering in my estimate: like idiotic tariffs, incompetent leadership at the state level, and a possible demographic shift depending on how people react to immigration reductions (and possibly net emmigration)… I give a significant chance something out of left field will upend the economy 🤷‍♂️. But who knows when the people in charge change their policies every other day and then insist their new opinion has always been their super secret plan all along…

Housing prices are sticky to go down because they’re also an investment. People (in aggregate) have a tendency to hold rather than sell at a loss. Also note it varies significantly across geographies.

Edit: also houses are not liquid so that also adds to the stickiness of pricing. It takes time for price signals to develop due to the slow (often over a month) & infrequent nature of transactions. It also matters that there’s an industry of professionals who benefit from keeping prices higher.

Dave the Diver, but in space?

First quarter was before tariffs were announced?

Let’s see, just divide by zero and… We’re wealthy beyond belief!

/s

Republicans are so dumb :(

Because somehow trump wrecking the economy isn’t scoffing the working class? This argument starts disjointed from reality then presents a false dichotomy. trump’s administration & policies are a dumpster fire! How is opposing this a dilemma in any meaningful way?

Borrowing will become more expensive, and we can’t just stop spending to stop borrowing. Much of the current debt is in short term positions that regularly get re-issued. The cost of issuing new short term debts just to replace the current ones coming due will increase even if spending stays the same (or decreases).

And of course, there’s a huge impact to the dollar’s value internationally if major financial markets shift away from holding US debt. You know the trade deficit Republicans like to rage about … Yeah, it’ll get a lot worse when fewer people want to hold US dollars for the purpose of investing in US bonds.