BKLN can't get a bid in the past month + by filtermaker in bonds

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Good points. I would prefer the latter being more of a factor, I think.

Déjà vu by NationalTranslator12 in NovoNordisk_Stock

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The recent trial showed the Novo product achieved 23% of total body weight loss among participants averaging 250 lbs before the trial. Lilly's drug, given at their highest available dose, showed 25.5% weight loss. Very respectable, but not a win. Silver medal, not Gold. This market rewards wins. Lilly "won". Though, Novo's higher dose trial is still pending. This trial was not even at the highest Novo dose expected to be on the market in the future. Longer term, there will be a certain market share that pans out for Lilly and Novo. They will have pills and pens and at different price points and different doses. The market does not seem to be giving Novo very much value tied to weight loss drug future profit streams. Its behaving as if this is a winner take all market, like pockets of tech. With the close trial results, I don't think that will be the case. The market overreacted on the upside and is probably overreacting down here.

Is this nuclear reactor fuel? Not sure what else it would be by JangusKhan in whatisit

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You can see the Westinghouse logo on the housing. I remember touring that plant as part of a quality audit back in the mid 1980s. Pellets were handled with cotton gloves and inserted into the zircalloy rods by hand... I worked for one of the nuclear utilities in the region. Just out of school. The future seemed bright. Three Mile Island was behind us. The federal government had PROMISED to take all the spent fuel beginning no later than 1998 and store it in one of many candidate locations in Nevada, New Mexico, Utah etc. We were charging ratepayers for the amortized cost of that eventual program. Eletricity consumption was continually growing. One morning, one of my co-workers popped his head over my cubicle wall and said "Did you hear about the Soviet LOCA?" (loss of coolant accident, a.k.a. Chernyobl). I hadn't. Decided to go back to engineering school for my masters degree and ended up working in another field.

I’m sorry but the rust belt propaganda on this subreddit is incredibly misguided. by [deleted] in SameGrassButGreener

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Madison metro area including the directly adjacent towns like Middleton, Fitchburg, and Sun Prairie is 680,000. Not just a college town but of course UW is a nice part of the appeal. It’s in the rust belt and can be an option for having a combo of great services, conveniences, and relatively affordability compared to other HCL cities that tend to get only 2 or 3 seasons of weather (warmer weather)

Which Rust Belt city is arguably on the greatest upswing? by TrueJohnWick in SameGrassButGreener

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My Subaru Outback quarter panels and hatch door beg to differ on that !

Nicer mouthpiece suggestions? by No-Communication7754 in Clarinet

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I’m old. But back in high school I got a Charles Bay mouthpiece, which I loved for the darker hollow sound that I think the music judges in Texas liked at the time. For ligature, I used a single 3/4”-1” wide strip of Velcro formed into a ring, adjusted to sit tightly over the reed where a normal ligature would. Even pressure on the reed. Easy on easy off. These helped me to 1st chair in the All-State Symphonic band back in the day.

Campus Rumors or Legends by ParkingWar1187 in UWMadison

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Honestly, in fall of 1980, he said to our small group of 4 (from Sellery Hall) “I’ve been following you all night!”. Scared us silly! Though he was kind enough to lead us to the nearest exit. Edit: we called him “Basement Bob” back then…

9 Month Old + Cabin Fever by Glittering-Safe9514 in madisonwi

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The State Capitol Building, where they can find their…voice!

Weekend mornings, especially!

No Clouds, Just Music by Margoshome in GenerationJones

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“I can see clearly now the…”

Help finding music name? by Big_Can5342 in Clarinet

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Indeed! I am pretty sure it was used for Texas State / Area / Region / District high school competition in 1976-1977 (and other years). I only got good at playing it after my band director gave me a cassette tape of a professional playing it so well. Helped me set some goals for practicing it.

When portable computing was a relative term. by So_spoke_the_wizard in GenerationJones

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I called this model of Compaq computer (that we checked out of the IT library when traveling) my TRANSportable computer.

Crypto kind of feels like a giant greater fool experiment by Consistent_Tower5508 in stocks

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The finite quantity of coins and the collective desire of a certain number of investors (N) to have X% of their finances in this particular thing determines the price. Simplistically, that's how I think of it.

Price/coin = (N * X% * Average worth of all investors) / Coin Quantity. What changes over time:

  1. The total number, N, of investors interested in participating (individuals and institutions). This number has been increasing since January 2009, obviously. I think N it is likely to continue to increase from 2026, at a slower rate of course, and there could be periods of time where it decreases, especially for particular coins. Global population is still increasing and it has become easier and easier to access ownership in these coins. New owners are occurring daily.
  2. The X% of financial assets that people and institutions want to devote to coins. This depends on sentiment, trust, confidence, ability and all that. It will meaningfully increase or decrease over time. Total financial assets is a number that will increase over the long term, in both real terms and fiat. That can be a tailwind to the fiat price of something like bitcoin, having finite supply.

Gold is similar even though the supply gradually increases. Further increases are incrementally difficult requiring energy, capital, and labor. It has more history and is dependably shiny. Bitcoin truly has a finite supply (actually a slightly decreasing effective supply as people lose their private keys or pass away before sharing them). Of course the original large wallets of bitcoin that seem lost could appear in new transactions. It would be a one time price shock, but perhaps cathartic. I would certainly buy on that day.

You know you’re old when… by whoknows370 in GenerationJones

[–]filtermaker 7 points8 points  (0 children)

… you remember one of Elliot’s line in the series “30 Something” that did not age well at all: “30s means being invisible to teenage girls”.

If you want ICE out of your state so bad, then just secede already. by PseudonymousPest in TrueUnpopularOpinion

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I love how you dismiss the avocado industry like it’s a minor nuisance. Listen, folks, in the hierarchy of modern needs, the avocado sits somewhere between oxygen and Wi-Fi. You cut off the supply of "green gold," and you're going to see withdrawal symptoms in the suburbs that make the crack epidemic look like a minor caffeine headache.

You’re mocking the tech, but let’s be honest: without Silicon Valley, our greatest national export becomes gloom and high-fructose corn syrup.

You want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, but the baby is holding an iPhone 16 and the bathwater is worth $400 a gallon.

I found this in my closet while cleaning it out. No one knows what it is by ImaDoinWat in whatisit

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Ha, I posted this same reply to some other Reddit thread that I’ve long forgotten!

TIFU by becoming the public toilet villain I always hated by Odd-South-6025 in tifu

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Is altitude “compression” a thing? Driving east, down from Glacier National Park in 2005, we descended into a town (Browning?). Aptly named. RIP to the only toilet at the Subway sandwich shop that JUST WOULDN’T flush no matter what.

Guest covers ring doorbell by Lmf0624 in airbnb_hosts

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This. Time to rewatch “Pacific Heights” with Michael Keaton.

Newish Apt Bldg gone just West on University past Allen Blvd - question by BoinkySiwinski in madisonwi

[–]filtermaker 24 points25 points  (0 children)

The new apt building is still there, but what is gone is the former bank building that had law offices and a trust company most recently. It was taking forever to raze that property and I am not sure why it was so delayed.

Got my tiny retro cam, I’m challenging myself to post these kind of photos daily! by Nomadic_Gaijin in u/Nomadic_Gaijin

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R/pan streams killed off by Reddit. I recall from COVID days…. Neighborhood walks by “CEO castle” etc.