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Pluvious's JournalLMFAO - George Conway: "We have the perfect social media post"
LMAO !!
I used to follow her on the old Twitter, she's been caustic and brilliant for years...
( this is a screenshot from her Blue Sky post )
A few replies...
I have been giggling along with everyone else about the jokes and memes. However, there will be no winner here. Just destruction.
Ref:
https://x.com/gtconway3d/status/1930894884287676656
Edit to add AOC's response: "The girls are fighting, aren't they?"
https://x.com/gtconway3d/status/1930779050626412568
Corrected - was: The FED bought $43.8 billion in U.S. treasuries this week...
I took a harder look at this "report," and concluded it was misleading at best, and exploitive and manipulative at worst.
The recent auction activities of the FED have to attributed to roll-overs, as per their official position on such actions:
https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/opolicy/operating_policy_250319
This is what I love about DU, so many keen and patient minds here, sharing and helping each other 
Sorry for the confusion friends.
Original post:
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"The buyer of last resort" has just acted, again.
Why ?
Foreign holdings (aka loans to us) of our debt is the lowest since the 90's
Domestic demand is down
Gold is at all time highs
Even bitcoin has been over $100,000 for a week now
( and Blackrock has been accumulating it non stop all month )
This is not going well
#MAGA !
Ref: https://deepnewz.com/economics/u-s-fed-buys-8-8-billion-30-year-bonds-totaling-43-6-billion-this-week-amid-qe-0ddb91b3
Today's Facepalm: Art Of The Crypto Grift
Some context...
When the one billion trumpcoins were created, 800m were allocated to two trump controlled companies, 200m were offered for purchase (bt a Trump controlled company, which received the "Initial Coin Offering" sales revenue) at $10 a token - that tranche sold out very fast (most buys went to already prepared and positioned insiders and parties unknown, ready to resell them to the expected pool of rubes who'd be excited to get in on the action at ANY price ASAP); market trading ran it up quickly to $75 (the rubes were so happy, many having drained their savings or just borrowed, not wanting to miss out on a SURE thing), then it crashed back down when the rubes ran dry of cash.
Then some time past.
Then America's President posted this (on his social media platform) :
Its trading price promptly jumped 15%
The Grift Grinds On,
The Grift Grinds On.
La dee dawdy dee,
La dee dawdy da.
#AmericaTheConned
Today's Facepalm moment - What could possibly go wrong? (Musk seeking Air Traffic Controllers after firing them)
Putin and his drinking buddies must all just sit around and take turns reading these snippets
from America out loud before taking their vodka shots
#LaughingStock
Regarding Star Trek's Transporter: "It's not a transporter, it's a murder machine!!"
The philosophical implications of such a key system, isn't itself quite interesting, and certainly begs the question about two humans have souls or not, and how that mechanism itself would work. But it seems to me, that the point brought up in the video is quite valid, if you are disassemble, you no longer exist, unless there's some magic metaphysical continuity that steps in and preserves the actual you.
There is a fascinating book by David Brinn, called The Kiln People, which tackles this concept from a different angle: making temporary clones of yourself; then (from the first perspective narration) waking up as one of these freshly created clones, and then realizing you're only a clone - not the original, and dealing with that depressing revelation.
I've often pondered Trek's fictitious design concept and arrived at the same conclusion.
Modern sci-fi, would've used some kind of quantum mechanism to instantaneously relay the
original disassembled matter to the destination, in such a fashion that it would self-reassemble upon arrival,
rather than reconstructing it from local materials at the destination, thus essentially preserving the original organics.
Which begs the question for the Star Trek design...
What if the destination doesn't have any local matter to use for the reconstruction ?
And what mechanism is in place at the target destination, to receive the reassembly instructions,
acquire the local matter, and perform the reconstruction ? What kind of receiver is handling that transmitted
signal from the transporter ?
Obviously NONE !!
It just makes no sense from a logistical perspective !
🤔
David Bowie and David Gilmour perform Comfortably Numb at The Royal Albert Hall (2006)
Absolutely mesmerizing
To have been there in the audience, that night...
What a gift to humanity these two gentlemen have been
Excellent message of hope from historian Heather Cox Richardson
She is an American Treasure
Relentlessly trying to teach and educate us about the lessons of history,
and how they measure up to the present and help understand the options ahead
( the whole entry is well worth the read )
But the more I think about it, the more I think maybe democracy happens the same way, too: slowly, and then all at once.
At this country’s most important revolutionary moments, it has seemed as if the country turned on a dime.
In 1763, just after the end of the French and Indian War, American colonists loved that they were part of the British empire. And yet, by 1776, just a little more than a decade later, they had declared independence from that empire and set down the principles that everyone has a right to be treated equally before the law and to have a say in their government.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-28-2024?
America is not the greatest country in the world anymore (Jeff Daniels classic response resonates now more than ever)
From The Newsroom
Today's Top Five Random Reddit Pics - 02JUL2024
Images which make you go hmmmI'm thinking the person in the boat has gained a whole new perspective on life lol
GenZ just has ZERO idea WTF this is !!
Perfectly symmetrical trees, road, sky and river
Linn Cove Viduct at Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina
A growing concern about evolving personality traits
ICYMI - 24JUN2024: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10182027692
The Atlantic: "Miami Is Entering a State of Unreality"
IMHO, Al Gore shouldn't have titled his movie "An Inconvenient Truth."
A canker sore is inconvenient.
He should have named it something like "We Are Fucking The Future, They Will Curse Our Names"
"...a deluge that meteorologists are calling it a once-in-200-years event. It was the fourth such massive rainfall to smite southeastern Florida in as many years."
( facepalm )
Thirty years ago, when the dangers of climate change were beginning to be understood but had not yet arrived in force, the creeping catastrophe facing Miami might have been averted. But as atmospheric concentrations of carbon reach levels not seen in 3 million years, politicians promise resilience while ignoring emissions; developers race to build a bounty of luxury condos, never mind the swiftly rising sea. Florida is entering a subtropical state of unreality in which these decisions don’t add up.
...
The state government isn’t exactly ignoring the rising water. Governor Ron DeSantis and his administration have attempted to address the havoc caused by the changing climate with his $1.8 billion Resilient Florida Program, an initiative to help communities adapt to sea-level rise and more intense flooding. But the governor has also signed a bill into law that would make the term climate change largely verboten in state statutes. That same bill effectively boosted the use of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, in Florida by reducing regulations on gas pipelines and increasing protections on gas stoves. In a post on X the day he signed the bill, DeSantis called this “restoring sanity in our approach to energy and rejecting the agenda of the radical green zealots.”
( facepalm )
Climate researchers, for their part, refer to this strategy as “agnostic adaptation”—attempting to deal with the negative effects of climate change while advancing policies that silence discussion or ignore climate change’s causes. On Friday, at a press conference in Hollywood, Florida—which received more than 20 inches of rain—DeSantis repeated his message, emphasizing that “we don’t want our climate policy driven by climate ideology.”
( facepalm )
The Earth’s carbon cycle—which has not witnessed such a rapid increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide in the past 50,000 years—is without ideology. The carbon goes into the atmosphere, and everything that follows follows. In Miami, as the water levels rise, researchers predict that low-lying neighborhoods across the region will lose population. Eventually, Florida’s policies of agnostic adaptation will have to deal with this looming reality, where adaptation is clearly impossible, and retreat is the only option left
#FacepalmFatigue
Archive link: http://archive.today/6NzrO
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/06/miami-climate-change-floods/678718/
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