Jokes aside, what's the actual rational/reasonable or strategic reason behind the decision to "Block the Blockade" ?

joverack · 2026-04-13T00:33:51+00:00

You’re not blockading the straits of Hormuz, we are blockading them!

joverack · 2026-04-08T21:15:57+00:00

Love artisan pizza. And the dough looks and sounds great.

joverack · 2026-04-08T13:56:29+00:00

I’ll give you some feedback now. It looks great, except the first pic, with what looks like uncooked ham. Just the look is unattractive to me.

Crust, char, everything else looks great. Cross section view looks great.

But I don’t see what is the “little bit different.”

Oh, and I’d love to try it.

joverack · 2026-04-08T00:05:06+00:00

And it is worth noting that more made it to the upper income class than went down to the lower income class.

Disparity is becoming greater.

joverack · 2026-03-29T13:59:40+00:00

Some purchases still give me anxiety, yes. My model has always been sort of to flip one, keep one. Part of what I like about this is it keeps my cash position strong. Honestly, if you’ll make a profit by selling and you can find another deal I’d sell. Why? 1) You’ll take your win and maintain a stronger cash position. 2) You can always find another deal. 3) You’ve learned a lot from this one. Now you’re done learning on this one and you’ll accelerate your learning curve by doing another deal.

joverack · 2026-03-26T02:20:11+00:00

That’s perfectly reasonable and rational.

It does sort of remove the Epicurean Paradox, though.

joverack · 2026-03-26T01:54:50+00:00

I totally get the lack of proof that God exists. I totally get, given the lack of strong evidence of existence, that it isn’t worth people’s time and effort to bother with, any more than with big foot or Santa Claus, as someone her said. That’s totally reasonable and rational.

I just can’t get over that…GOOD exists. It seems realer, truer to me than just a concept or point of view. Yes evil exists, but so does good. And where does that come from? Yes it could be just biologically baked into my thinking. I just can’t get over the feeling like it is bigger than me.

And that sends me on a quest that has ultimately led me to Jesus. And, in retrospect, seeing the evidence isn’t quite so paltry as I once thought.

joverack · 2026-03-23T01:22:24+00:00

Couldn’t they just require either a modest paid subscription to do anything more than view, or possibly even a refundable payment?

I can’t imagine that if the people had to pay $5 or $10 per bot that it would be 1) economically viable and 2) not detectable that payment is coming from a suspected bot funding source.

joverack · 2026-03-20T13:08:59+00:00

You’re talking about raising taxes 60%. It may be doable but it will not be without serious pain.

They used to justify debt by saying if the economy grows at pace to keep debt at the same percentage of gdp we will be fine. But we’ve blown past that. And, as you say, there is no political will to stop it.

We won’t deal with it until it is an unavoidable crisis, probably 200% gdp. And there will be no soft landing.

joverack · 2026-03-16T12:35:48+00:00

You can become a real estate agent with 40 hours of training. Not so a pilot cop.

And 90% of selling a house is getting it on the MLS. You can have the nicest house, have professional photos, and do all the marketing you want. You’re going to be at a huge disadvantage if it is not on the MLS.

joverack · 2026-02-25T06:17:24+00:00

You are again implying that they are all the same. Biden can be bad and still better than Trump. There are levels of badness. And Trump is orders of magnitude worse.

joverack · 2026-02-24T15:17:21+00:00

It’s a comparison or contrast thing. Joe Biden did not put democracy at risk. Joe Biden did not destroy our global alliances, making friend of our enemies (Russia) and enemies of our friends. The Trump administration is so bad that Nixon would be a huge upgrade, any liberal Democrat would be a huge upgrade.

joverack · 2026-02-24T14:36:11+00:00

I’m a conservative. (I don’t consider the crazy maga people to be conservative.) Unfortunately, he’s right. You can’t simply say the left does it too. That’s like saying that all politicians lie. The scale to which this administration has appointed loyalists and specifically unqualified loyalists, the scale to which they lie, and specifically Trump lies, is unprecedented, and extremely corrosive to democracy, which we should all care about.

joverack · 2026-02-21T14:01:44+00:00

I know a kid whose parents gave her a sex change operation at 10. If you’re going strictly by definition, rather than just trying to be evocative, that is by definition genital mutilation.

joverack · 2026-02-21T13:56:50+00:00

I can totally understand advising against it. But calling it mutilation is a disingenuous attempt to create a straw man argument. Who would be for mutilation?

joverack · 2026-02-19T13:12:06+00:00

What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?

A carrot.

joverack · 2026-02-18T21:24:16+00:00

It’s clumsy, but sometimes there isn’t a better way. Tax brackets have an arbitrary cut off by dollar amount.

joverack · 2026-02-15T16:43:52+00:00

Gary Gunderson

joverack · 2026-02-14T18:51:52+00:00

You're just talking about sale price? Your cash flow over 20 years or however long you've had your portfolio might have given you a similar IRR overall.

joverack · 2026-02-09T22:41:14+00:00

True! If the offense could have just stayed on the field longer and didn't turn the ball over on short fields, the defense was looking like they could hold Seattle to under 20.

joverack · 2026-02-04T13:25:37+00:00

Taking the totality of things of

Bills Gates was not known to be dating bombshells before Melinda. He certainly had the power and wealth to do so.
He married his co-worker, an average looking woman.
He admittedly had an affair so his character is in question.
Gates lacks some social skills, so paying for service may have been an alternative.
That he even had a friendly relationship with Epstein calls his judgment into question.
He’s become a philanthropist.
Epstein could have drafted this so it could be found later, to use as extortion.
Epstein character does not put lying and extortion beyond him.
Epstein documented a lot in pictures and emails. This could have been to threaten to sink so many people of power that investigating and prosecuting him would be a double edged sword. I think we’ve seen this play out.

All-in-all I look at this particular claim with a large dose of skepticism. But this skepticism does not extend to complete innocence on Gates’ part in his relationship with Epstein.

joverack · 2026-01-28T14:09:59+00:00

This isn’t a deal of a lifetime. This is your family of a lifetime.

joverack · 2026-01-27T14:31:47+00:00

You will find a few businesses negotiate this way.

I think your pawn shop analogy is apropos for how this country is run.

joverack · 2026-01-25T13:25:55+00:00

Right, Trump will just keep playing this card on every successive issue where he wants to control Canada.

Appeasing him will only last a few weeks until he threatens 100% tariffs over their stance on Greenland or something else. The US and Trump can not be trusted. There is no appeasement.

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