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There’s a few things going on. First you have Calvinist psychos. They’ve always been like this. Second you have the fact the churches are shedding congregants across the USA, and the ones that are left are the most reactionary weirdos. This keeps driving the remaining congregations rightward, and to have a kind of siege mentality. Third, many Churches feel that they and they alone should be the ones to provide social and financial support to the needy. They see government welfare as an encroachment on their natural domain and recruitment efforts.

I wouldn’t say great. The 10 year is still 15 bps higher than it was at open yesterday and 50 bps higher than a month ago. It certainly responded positively to the 90 day tariff pause.

We are officially entering the cool zone now. The US Treasuries are (were) the gold standard safe investment. It allowed the US to weather financial crashes in the past because the flight to safety lowered borrowing costs giving the government a lot of room for stimulus. The US may not be able to finance its way out of this crash of its own making. It might not be able to finance entitlements and military spending.

Retirees should have mostly moved into bonds from stocks to finance their retirement. Meemaw’s retirement account is getting eviscerated at the exact moment DOGE is fucking with SS. Get ready for Great Depression 2.0 with previously financially set old people in the streets.

Wow. Are you telling me the people that’ve been pounded by airstrikes for over a decade and kept fighting, kept fighting after being pounded by airstrikes? Who could’ve seen that coming?

No, I need a homunculus of my mom to tell me I’m a good boy.

The author is such a fucking loser. Jesus christ.

LoCascio got the idea from his previous startup, LivePerson, where he spent 22 years building webchat systems to provide customers of companies like Delta and Citibank with real-time, interactive assistance online.

This guy should be fed into a wood chipper.

Step away from the finite state machine

That’s a load bearing asterisks .

This is the correct move for China, but America absolutely cannot be trusted to choose its own Bishops. Within 10 years the Catholics here will be indistinguishable from a prosperity gospel church.

Oh yeah, that mostly to just get you going. Like that other guy said, if your chain broke, your entire drive chain is probably worn out, or maybe you’re superman. The entire drive chain tend to wear out together, and the worst part tends to wear out the others faster. In the future, get one of these doohickeys, check your chain 1/month and replace your chain whenever it tells you to. As always, sheldon brown is informative on this topic.

If you articulate the chain around the link, does it feel “stiff”? If so, but a little lube around the link and continue articulating the chain. It is important to do this both up and down (the direction the hinges are supposed to move) but also side to side. The side to side motion will force lube into the joints.

Gonna concur with that guy. We stopped tractoring the quail through our garden to minimize contact with unknown bird shit. They stay in their enclosure for now.

Looks like he did.

Lol I got bunch of those little guys in my backyard.

No, only Quayle. I do know that ducks are dirty af and make a decent amount of noise. Muscovy ducks are a quieter in their vocalizations than eurasian ducks. Maybe that’s useful to you.

God could you imagine. Followed by immediate land reform where all their land is given to their undocumented workers.

I think there’s something to be said for Trump delaying the Mexican tariffs, but keeping the Canadian tariffs in tact. Maybe someone in the Trump admin actually read a climate report and realized where all the arable land is going to be. Canadians should prepare for increased antagonism from the US while it fishes around for a casus belli. The Americans don’t want Mexico in the same way. At most they want a buffer zone in nothern mexico to stop climate refugees.

Listen, all the marine one pilots get MKULTRAed to fly directly into the nearest commercial airliner when they hear the phrase “beware the noids of march”

Major grocery stores are selling eggs 4.69/dozen AA large eggs, 6.79 organic. Interestingly the “crunchy” super-market that mostly sources from local and/or organic farms is selling normal eggs for 3.99/dozen and organic for 4.99 and 5.99 depending on the brand. Before bird-flu the crunchy store would sell eggs 1-2 dollars more per dozen than major supermarkets. The price at the crunchy store has remained static since before bird-flu. I live in an area with a relatively large number of “small” farms independent from large ag companies.

A hundred years ago I’d agree with you that technological progress is more important. Now, I don’t know. We need to be triaging the climate crisis instead of wasting time making shit exponentially worse. I half jokingly believe that western knowledge workers should go full luddite and smash data centers and backups. Joking because western knowledge workers would never do that in a million years.