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Price moves in the direction of fear.

Living in a nation run by an actual fascist is very strange. Defrocked Latin dictators in Miami is a thing, but openly taking sides and sheltering far right Latin pols is kinda weird. The CIA used to do this stuff undercover cuz it didn't look good in the open. Now, no one cares how it looks.

Stock market is not at all pricing in a GOP rout. A big Dem victory could lead to trouble for the AI data center buildout, for one thing among many other risks the tech oligarchs will face. But so far, no concern whatsoever.

Dummy shoulda been on the first plane to Miami.

Whatever other merits the line did or didn't have, it was artisan crafted to land directly on this idiot's wavelength. Straight into his brain like elephant foot alpha particles

Hit translate, then go to the 2nd post in this thread and do the same for the punchline.

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

Ummmmm…

Hungarian PM Péter Magyar: "I have just spoken by phone with the leaders of the Students List, who won the elections in Serbia, to congratulate them... I assured them of Hungary’s support. I was delighted to hear how much strength our victory in April had given them during this difficult struggle."

Putin has managed to put the two people who love him most in contention for the French presidency. Quite a trick. The gullibility of the (alleged) left continues to truly amaze me. Or maybe it's just corruption, Putin's checks are still clearing. Who knows.

Congratulations to the world's new champions of liberty, the...*squints*...Magyars and...*squints again*...Serbs.

Allahverdi Khan Bridge, Iran (1602) Known locally as Si-o-se-pol, this is one of the finest stone-arch bridges in the world, which was the dominant method of bridge construction for centuries.

Had their cheesecake, which is kinda meh (anyone who grew up in NYC knows what cheesecake is supposed to taste like, it's like BBQ in the South) but never had a complete meal there. If the cheesecake were better I might have considered it...

So, a few years ago I was trimming hedges and used one of the branches to sweep dead leaves off the stoop. I was amazed how well it works. Wife told me in Mexico they took the drunks they'd jailed on Saturday night, gave them a branch and made them sweep the streets on Sunday morning. I can see it.

What happens tomorrow will have enormous ramifications for Brazil, but also all of S America and the rest of the world, from climate to financial systems to civil rights. If only for solidarity, spare some well wishes for them.

Good news, guys. It’s only us getting poorer. Exxon is doing great.

Oct. 24, 1926: The lineups of the Negro League club Philadelphia Royal Giants and Joe Pirrone's Major League All-Stars are seen before a game at White Sox Park in Los Angeles. The Giants beat their opponents, 9-1, for a second straight game, with Bullet Joe Rogan pitching the win and adding 3 hits.

MRNA vaccines. For everything. It truly is a medical miracle. The statin drugs for cholesterol are another. My wife swears by Advil for pain. The device DRTS is developing MAY be the device equivalent, for cancer. It would really be something if it was.

Finding out what Chairman Birb has been up to is kinda like the time I found out a perfectly ordinary girl in my high school had been arrested for, well, stuff. I'm almost afraid to find out if the husband in there is Jamie. I liked him. If it is I'll have to light a candle for him.

Like clockwork, every year they drive it down. Bought a small position just at the close, now I'll just wait for the faintest drift of cold air to come wafting down from Canada.

I guess France is up next for learning what we're learning. Beautiful place. Too bad the people apparently suck ass. Seems to be an epidemic of that going around.

Yeah, I'm finding out the truth of this. So far so good, but old age lasts a long freaking time.

The latest on oil and Iran, via Almost Daily Grant's. Money quote: "White House envoy to the United Nations Mike Waltz told the Financial Times Thursday that the Iran conflict, originally characterized by President Trump as a “four to five week” operation, could drag on for another year"

Some cities it's just not worth fucking with

The Melania / Ukraine thing is an obvious & extremely pathetic attempt to deflect from Iran. However, Oleshky getting some relief is good, if that actually happens.

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SPXEW had a great day yesterday. They're taking it behind the shed and beating it with hammers today.

Now we just have to wait for the inevitable Barak Ravid/Axios Friday ME pump.

Every night crude goes up, and every day during NY trading hours it drops. Could be a coincidence. Could be.

You never know for sure whether something is a bubble, but there will be signs...

Bizarro world.

What?

I think it's sad the economy is so bad that nobody in this airport can afford headphones

As I was saying,

how sure are we the guy was dead when the cop who stole his home found him

Apparently the market's post Vixperation wobble started just after the market close. Is it the ME news or something else, I wonder?

Seeing the Internet Archive get roasted for using Claude to fix PHP. Dumb. Claude's outstanding use case is finding obscure bugs and helping you fix them. I am reviewing our billing apps and discovering all kinds of creepy crawlies in there, which isn't surprising given the complexity.

Said it before, we are going to have nations closing their borders to US travelers because of disease before this piece of steaming shit leaves the White House.