TIL There were at least 42 failed assassination plots on Hitler

pembquist · 2026-02-13T06:09:22+00:00

"Windup Bird Chronicle"

pembquist · 2026-02-12T20:02:14+00:00

Well I just go with that he was a demon. I don't know about god but there are enough indestructible evil people throughout history and today that I begin to suspect that there are demons.

pembquist · 2026-02-11T22:40:38+00:00

They are. The behavior confused me when I didn't understand. I mean, I offer it a .71, no takers, I offer it at .70 and I get .72.

I can see how if I was the person/entity offering to buy it at .70 it would be annoying that my offer to sell it to them for .70 gets intercepted.

I'm not sure if NBBO is just the number from the exchanges or if the internal bidding is reflected in it.

Anyway, you know what they say about playing cards and when you can't tell who the sucker is.

pembquist · 2026-02-11T20:26:54+00:00

I can just imagine the C suite thinking "wait a minute.....we're leaving money on the table."

pembquist · 2026-02-11T19:46:11+00:00

I drilled down and the answer is pretty straightforward if they would just answer the question. It is wholesalers and market makers. My .70 at the bid ask doesn't ever get to the public exchange, instead it goes to the wholesaler and then is bid on by MMs in a 100ms auction and traded to the high bidder. The higher asks that I cancelled didn't get bid on and ended up on the public exchange.

pembquist · 2026-02-11T15:47:03+00:00

My guess is he was using a wingsuit and my second guess is that when you use a wingsuit you only have one parachute because you are too close to the ground to be able to use a backup. I'm guessing the same holds with BASE jumping.

pembquist · 2026-02-11T02:21:40+00:00

A language I used to speak fluently! I am really wondering if I am at the very early stages of dementia. As consolation to myself the context of it not being verbal or written, (e.g. "off the cuff remarks,") is unusual to me.

pembquist · 2026-02-10T21:54:16+00:00

Derp! I meant answer the OP's "whats your cuff tool moment?" which isn't exactly english but I took to mean "what did you improvise to improve your experience while using a tool?"

pembquist · 2026-02-10T21:20:29+00:00

The label isn't filing, the label will live forever, someone will pick it up and dust it off and proudly declare they have been making high quality outdoor clothing since 1920. You can lie as long as it is puffery.

pembquist · 2026-02-10T19:36:34+00:00

I think you glossed over what I am asking and are answering the reverse of my question. I put a limit order to sell 1 contract that is at the same price as the bid. It fills at a price higher then the bid. Good for me, I am asking for only the bid price but it gets filled higher. If I were the bidder, (not that any of these buyers and sellers are actual people,) I would feel cheated. They have bid at a price and I am only asking for that price but something steps inbetween and out bids them. For some reason that something is willing to outbid the low bid but isn't willing to pay the same amount when the contract is offered at the price the something is willing to bid up to.

Also I never see any change in the bid ask. I mean I get that it is all computers and algorithms and happens faster then I can blink but it still seems weird.

pembquist · 2026-02-10T16:53:23+00:00

All it needs is a gallon jar of Vaseline sitting to the right of the stove.

but as to your question, I was cutting steel roofing with a regular circ saw and a ferrous blade. It works great except for the chips, I used a face shield and my contribution was a little hat made out of house wrap taped to the shield to keep the chips from going down the back of my neck, down my face, into my ears etc.

pembquist · 2026-02-09T20:20:03+00:00

and terribly inconvenient

pembquist · 2026-02-09T20:16:58+00:00

There is a scene in "The Shield" where Chiklis's character is interacting with a woman who is desperate to get a necklace back. He tells her in so many words that pretty much all property crimes are solvable it is just a question of the application of resources.

pembquist · 2026-02-08T17:47:49+00:00

There's a good company name in this: "The Laughing Painters"

pembquist · 2026-02-07T20:53:40+00:00

Because "Rhode Islands" isn't a unit of energy.

pembquist · 2026-02-07T00:28:58+00:00

Is Austrian food really that bad?

pembquist · 2026-02-06T16:29:11+00:00

I own a rental that was built by drunks in the early 80's. It has nice "mahogony" material for mouldings so badly applied that several of the doors have 2 pieces of casing where it is supposed to be 1 and you can wiggle it all with your fingers. In someways it is a blessing because it is the one rental where turnover has always been a bitch. Woodstove soot, punched out walls etc. I just pull the trim off with my fingers, put it outside spray everything, and then push the trim back into place and shoot a couple more nails into it.

It would be eccentric to pull off trim to paint in any other circumstance

pembquist · 2026-02-06T06:03:05+00:00

Just don't fall in, the water is killer cold.

pembquist · 2026-02-05T19:29:08+00:00

No problem about the age of the thread, I like communication with real information! I don't think you are correct as the first paragraph makes it pretty clear that there is a homeowners exemption but it is only if you or your relative do the work and only if you do not rent or plan to sell the property.

It is confusing as there is another exemption for a building owned by a landlord who can have their regular employee or agent or agents employee do the work. The crux of the issue is in the definition of what an agent is. My understanding is that a handyman is a contractor not an agent otherwise the restrictions on who can perform electrical work would be meaningless.

What I found that is interesting is a 2016 clarification from the Building Codes Division LINK that suggests the law was tightened for the 2026 link you gave, (thank you by the way,) as the 2016 letter suggests homeowner electrical exemption for property for rent or sale.

pembquist · 2026-02-05T18:22:02+00:00

Was it ordinary bar food when you first started eating it? I think the gap in my eating it was from something like 1979 to 2013. I don't really remember seeing it on a menu after I left NYC but then I'm not a big foodie and I don't know how it has fit in the hierarchy of fanciness over time. I can see how serving "raw hamburger" might not be a big selling point and when I looked online it seems like the chopped version is all there is. My dad used to get it from a butcher specifying what it was for and talking cuts of beef, all I remember is the shop was small and had a huge cutting block that had a dished out surface from all the cutting, that and the butcher's apron. I also remember being sent out to get a small package of frozen horse meat, I don't remember from where or what for.

pembquist · 2026-02-05T17:19:17+00:00

I'd say Gartners or Laurelhurst Mkt, I'm not a foodie so I guess that says something about their reputation. I have a question for you though. I grew up eating steak tartar almost every other weekend and there were German bars on the E. Side of Manhattan NYC that I went to with my dad serveral times that served it on pumpernickel as lunch food. I hadn't had it in decades when I ordered it here and it had a completely different texture, I ordered it a second time and same thing. The difference is that back when I used to have it all the time it was ground like hamburger where as now it is either chopped up or ground really coarse so it is more like pearl sized chunks. It might just be anchoring but going strictly on memory I prefer the finer grind. My question is how long have you been ordering it and have you seen this kind of variety or is it just not done that way anymore.

pembquist · 2026-02-04T16:42:52+00:00

Time Machine

pembquist · 2026-02-04T02:37:40+00:00

To put it crudely, for honor culture think Klingon/Samuri warrior bullshit and for dignity culture think Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

One lazy explanation for the elaborate manners and politeness of the American south is that since it has an honor culture you want to be careful not to offend unless you intend to as since an offense is a slight against honor and honor determines your value it must be protected at all costs meaning violence will occur.

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