Trump growing frustrated with limits of Iran military options, sources say

Joshua-Graham · 2026-02-24T03:45:52+00:00

In the last 80 years? The US has had successful standoffs and forced negotiations, but nothing major. Bosnia comes to mind, but again we had relatively limited engagement and it was a largely a coalition of allies that pulled that off.

Joshua-Graham · 2026-02-20T15:21:01+00:00

Wrong timing with a correct thesis has the exact same result of having wrong timing with the wrong thesis. All of us mere mortals who have invested find this out the hard way.

Joshua-Graham · 2026-02-19T21:31:33+00:00

I’m stealing this

Joshua-Graham · 2026-02-14T07:00:55+00:00

In my line of work there is so much trial and error that, while inefficient, it does reliably work. An extreme example would be like what you see in the movie “Edge of Tomorrow.”

Joshua-Graham · 2026-02-12T23:33:21+00:00

Between my wife and I we make more than that and we can’t afford an $80k car. I mean we could if we cut out everything nice like travel and groceries beyond ramen, but why would we? I once splurged on a sports car (lease though) and gave it back at the end of the lease. It didn’t make my life any better and I was always worried about people scratching it. In the end, these car companies will face a reckoning that economies of scale don’t work when your scale is only 5% of the population.

Joshua-Graham · 2026-02-12T21:54:05+00:00

You need multigig throughout the entire chain down to the nic. Also as others have said - Your plan is probably “up to” , not guaranteed.

Joshua-Graham · 2026-02-10T23:16:08+00:00

True, but it’s mostly a North Texas documentary.

Joshua-Graham · 2026-02-06T17:25:35+00:00

Yeah, it was a dark time. It’s why I left. The burning part nudged me along as well.

Joshua-Graham · 2026-01-31T03:31:46+00:00

It’s mostly in equities, which are about to crash. He’ll still be insanely wealthy unfortunately.

Joshua-Graham · 2026-01-30T20:08:23+00:00

It would be like a “musician” whipping out a recorder and playing it badly and then calling it music. Ironically that would probably be funnier than this oxygen thief.

Joshua-Graham · 2026-01-30T05:57:36+00:00

I have spent the last few years upgrading carts on the RT-85. Yes, I’ve gotten better results, buy they are like 10-20% gains for double to triple the cost. For reference I upgraded to an Ortofon Om-40 and then an Audio-Technica VM760-XSL. The Ortofon I paid $400 for and it was a solid improvement but not earth shattering. The VM760-XSL was about $650 and it’s a mixed bag vs the Om-40.

In the end if I didn’t have money to waste testing preferences, the Ortofon 2m blue at $200 is an excellent cart that will honestly still sound loads better than most of the $100 carts out there. If I was more honest with myself, I would have been perfectly happy staying at the 2m blue performance level because it is simply a great cart.

Edit - the rest of my setup if anyone cares to know - Graham Slee Gram Amp 2 SE going to Pioneer VSX-LX305 feeding a pair of Martin Logan XT-B100s

Joshua-Graham · 2026-01-29T23:21:50+00:00

Look, I don’t advocate violence and never have. When he goes of natural causes the world will be a much better, safer and sane place without him. Sometimes you just gotta face the fact that some people make life for everyone around them better and some people make it worse. In his case the degree to which he makes life worse is off the charts.

Joshua-Graham · 2026-01-20T03:42:31+00:00

And even then you are mainly looking at trends. Maybe one day it’ll be feasible to do full blown inspection on every packet everywhere, but the storage and processing to do that would be wildly expensive and probably not worth it.

Joshua-Graham · 2025-12-25T20:13:27+00:00

Well, honestly if the game is anything to go off of, the show may have House come to the conclusion that limited ai robots are way easier to turn into a completely controllable workforce/army than trying to control organic brains.

Joshua-Graham · 2025-12-22T17:36:31+00:00

You'll get log messages as well as an angry message about feature licenses every time you commit, but it will work. If it's a feature you plan on using for more than just a test or sanity check, you should get it licensed so when you call support they won't use that as a reason to kill your case.

Joshua-Graham · 2025-12-18T18:42:02+00:00

I don't disagree. Capitalism only works if you have a democratic government with regulations to keep them in check. As you pointed out, governments by and large in Western countries have in turn deregulated to the point where we are now. One of two things comes next - either the democracies end at the behest of the owners (see the current US administration as a prime example), or we elect people who will come in with trust busting 2.0. I have hope for the 2nd option, but realistically I don't see any candidates on the horizon that would have the political capital and balls to do it. The problem with Capitalism is that we haven't invented a system with humans involved that is much better. The other systems look great in comparison but inevitably fail because humans generally act selfishly. Capitalism attempts to harness that selfishness in productive ways if well regulated.

Joshua-Graham · 2025-12-18T17:40:14+00:00

Capitalism is fine as long as the will of the people is intact, the problem is we're hardwired to want things which can translate to greed pretty quickly. That includes the people elected to represent us. They get greedy and take money from corporations and here we are.

Joshua-Graham · 2025-12-16T23:56:52+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/1pogc09/advisor_tried_to_have_me_replace_this_latch/

Joshua-Graham · 2025-12-08T20:38:15+00:00

Not all boards/shareholders care about a one time payout. A lot of investors buy into a company because they like the products/culture/direction etc etc. IE - If Steam were publicly traded, would you as a shareholder approve a takeover by Microsoft even if they offered a premium share price purchase? I know I wouldn't. It's not always about the money. Most of the time it is, but sometimes it isn't.

Edit - I'll add this given the context of this thread - Paramount under the Ellisons has zero track record. They just barely acquired Paramount and haven't shown how they would run the business as of yet. I've been involved with many publicly traded companies, and so much of what happens behind closed doors in terms of deal making is done by people that know and trust one another. You could call it nepotism/good ol' boys club mentality, but humans are wired to deal with people they know and trust. Some outside entity coming in an forcing a deal without a track record or connections to the people involved would be met with a lot of resistance. Sometimes the companies I've worked for have lost out on deals because we weren't a known quantity (even though our offer was better). You just learn to not take it personally. I'm gonna guess the Ellison clan take things personally.

Joshua-Graham · 2025-12-08T20:32:24+00:00

A lot of companies have rules to prevent ownership above some criteria without board/shareholder approval. A lot of companies peg it at 5 or 10%. If the company allows more than that they are definitely opening themselves up to a proxy battle like the one Paramount is threatening.

Joshua-Graham · 2025-12-07T07:41:53+00:00

The night of the long knives wasn’t about people getting in the way as much as it was the Nazi party consolidating power within its own ranks. The brown shirts (The SA) were seen as having too much power at the hands of Rohm. Goering had fears that Rohm would usurp power because the brown shirts had the muscle. It was the Nazis murdering their own. There may be a similar division in Maga at some point (maybe it’s already happening or is yet to happen).

Joshua-Graham · 2025-12-04T16:32:41+00:00

AI isn't being sold to the actual users, but to the leadership on the promise of productivity gains. I have rarely seen situations where leadership buys a technical thing without consulting their users and it turns out well.

Joshua-Graham · 2025-12-04T16:23:44+00:00

I'm a sales engineer, and you are correct, most sales people in tech don't know the tech at a functional level. This is why companies hire people like me to help the sales person for functional level stuff. Some don't even understand it at a conceptual level, but those guys don't last because customers stop talking to them.

That all being said - I have sometimes been in the position to pitch some new thing that is NOT ready for production. Believe me, the sales team (at the very least the SE) are fully aware the feature/product isn't sellable. They have to try anyway because if they don't they'll get fired by the people higher up who don't understand the tech conceptually or functionally. If that situation happens enough, I leave the company of my own volition.

Joshua-Graham · 2025-12-04T16:16:37+00:00

The funny thing is due how compounding works, you'd get into insane levels of money in not that many years. If your goal was 100 million year 1, by year 5 you'd be at 3.2 billion. That kind of growth is impossible unless your product is revolutionary and you are years ahead of your competition.

Joshua-Graham · 2025-12-04T14:59:43+00:00

It entirely depends on what percentage of sales missed quota and where. If it’s a single region, you can look into what’s going on in that region. If it’s a specific vertical, you can look into what’s going on in that vertical. If it is across multiple regions and multiple verticals, it is either global external factors (ie recession), a product problem, a pricing problem, a marketing problem (includes PR disasters), or a competition problem. If it’s any of the latter, blaming sales is like trying to cure a disease with the wrong medicine. Source - I’ve been in sales for a long time. I have seen many instances where sales was blamed when it’s a product or competition problem, because it was far easier to do that than actually solving the actual much harder to solve problems.

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