From Mortgage News Daily:
MBA Says Delinquencies Fall Below Historic Levels
For the second time this week a major report on loan performance has confirmed that homeowners are recovering rapidly from the pandemic. The National Delinquency Survey from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) put the nationwide rate of non-current mortgage payments at 4.65 percent of outstanding loans at the end of the fourth quarter of 2021. This is down 23 basis points (bps) from the third quarter and 208 bps lower than a year earlier. The figure includes delinquent loans that are in forbearance programs.
“Mortgage delinquencies descended in the final three months of 2021, reaching levels at or below MBA’s survey averages dating back to 1979,” said Marina Walsh, MBA’s Vice President of Industry Analysis. “The fourth-quarter delinquency rate of 4.65 percent was 67 basis points lower than MBA’s survey average of 5.32 percent. Furthermore, the seriously delinquent rate, the percentage of loans that are 90 days or more past due or in the process of foreclosure, was 2.83 percent in the fourth quarter, close to the long-term average of 2.80 percent.”
Added Walsh, “The quarters right before the COVID-19 pandemic represented some of the lowest delinquencies ever recorded. Delinquencies are now approaching levels not seen since the first quarter of 2020, which is a testament to the strength of the U.S. labor market.”
Walsh credited economic forces, including the low rate of unemployment, growing labor force participation, wage growth and accumulated home equity for the low delinquency rates. Forbearance programs and subsequent loan workouts have also contributed to the current outcomes.
First finally
NJ got a little bounce in it’s step, after that Sopranos commercial last night.
NJ the greatest state , except for the politicians and state unions. Tough loss for Bengals last night, and me. I put $25 down on the Bengals 3 weeks ago and a win would have given me $25. Really good game until the end.
OOPs should be $200, rushing to get out of here, making mistakes
Reality of the metaverse. So, so good:
https://www.reddit.com/r/VRtoER/
Last night 75,000, very wealthy and privileged Californians crammed into an indoor venue in Los Angeles, and *almost* completely, ignored the science of masking.
This morning, children, who have a near 100% covid survival rate, will dutifully wear a mask for the entire day.
Clown World indeed.
Lib, I’m with you brother. Can’t see a way this ends well, Fed has never really engineered it before and this time is more precarious than most. Pushing back from the desk for a few days to do a deep dive into why what I did well performed well, and seeing if there are some opportunities I can divine from there. If not, I’ve got my setups down to (what was, lol) 20% on select situations into June and I’ll just have to wait until Mr Market sounds the all clear horn…I feel like I did last night trying to find somewhere to place my $1k free bet from Caesars….looked at numerous +110 to -200 situations and none seemed to give odds that were attractive for the play…so I woke this morning with it still in my account…nothing wrong with that and it beats the alternative.
VR. For weirdos who can’t handle reality and their place in this world. Now back to my Korean zombie show.
The Soprano’s Chevy commercial shot by Bahrs Landing was a little faked. I hope nobody goes there to charge their electric car as there is no charging station there on the street and they also parked facing the wrong direction to plug it in for a nice shot of the restaurant and bridge..
https://www.google.com/maps/uv?pb=!1s0x89c23bd569767c9f%3A0xef96b00c47fcaafa!3m1!7e115!4s%2Fmaps%2Fplace%2Fbahrs%2Blanding%2F%4040.3973103%2C-73.9817857%2C3a%2C75y%2C77.44h%2C90t%2Fdata%3D*213m4*211e1*213m2*211sgV6DnixuDzil2uuopu9Vpw*212e0*214m2*213m1*211s0x89c23bd569767c9f%3A0xef96b00c47fcaafa%3Fsa%3DX!5sbahrs%20landing%20-%20Google%20Search!15sCgIgAQ&imagekey=!1e2!2sgV6DnixuDzil2uuopu9Vpw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiZnKmloP_1AhUNjokEHRyhD5gQpx96BAgvEAg
Way too many Crypto commercials last night. I have been saying the VC money has to go all or nothing this year, before they are regulated out of existence. I liked the Larry David one about the fake futures company based out of the Bahamas FTX which US citizens cannot use because well it’s an unregulated crapcoin derivatives scam. Fried who is worth “24 billion” because Softbank gave them money is going all in with Tom Brady, naming rights to a stadium and a super bowl commercials and they cannot even do business in the USA.
I hope Softbank eats this one just like WeWork. Go sell it in Japan already.
old/30/40…re: “secession”
Big word, but at the end of the day essentially I guess so….haven’t thought about this hard in a legal/constitutional framework and don’t have the time to do so but big picture thoughts follow.
There is no animosity in this view, no passion. It just is. The backdrop for me is that we as a nation over the long term have become more polarized with larger numbers of citizens gravitating to one camp or another. Lines of differentiation have become more clear, and more pronounced. Partly as a result, continuously slimmer majorities of each side end up controlling progressively larger minorities of the other side. And the propensity of these ever slimmer governing majorities to impose their ever more of their views and beliefs on the others has increased. This situation cannot continue. In any relationship.
What do you do when two individuals who are at their core good individuals, well liked among their respective peer groups, yet have fundamental irreconcilable differences? You separate as quickly and as amicably as possible and go on with your lives alone.
It’s not just TX and FL…start with a red/blue electoral map and carve and take from there….There are of course “islands” of red or blue…give some period to sort those out, say two years. Majority of land in OH goes Red? All the blues around Findlay can be helped to a soft landing in Blue US. Majority of land in NY goes Blue? All the reds Upstate can be helped to a soft landing in central MI. Make it easy, make it cooperative. Endeavor to make a relocated citizen better off than they were in their former hometown. A gracious, helpful exit like your best friend neighbor moving away from the old neighborhood. Except for the fact they weren’t in fact your best friend.
From there each of Red US and Blue US can take every Federal regulation and SCOTUS decision, put them in respective massive conference rooms, and delete or add to their heart’s content to form their own new governments. The upshot is that post separation those changes – by each side – will have supermajority support by their own citizens. No more bickering, fighting, poor compromise decisions that placate no one but harm everyone….
Defense can stay Federal, keep eminent domain. Currency likely can’t stay Federal. There would have to be some interstate/free passage clause. Form a skeleton committee comprised of a handful of legislators from each side to ‘govern’ these common issues. Little real authority but oversight, think EU. SCOTUS gets it’s jurisdiction entirely gutted except to those three above items. No say otherwise into either Red or Blue US, and each of those governments have their own top judiciary as they alone determine.
Think about it…like seriously leave faux patriotism and emotion aside, and think objectively of what that could be like relative to what we have now. Each side gets exactly what it wants. All of this silliness, all the wasted energy and resources dedicated now to producing literally nothing but more acrimony and no solutions, just disappears.
Not kidding.
Chicago: Some real analysis there. The population transfers would be traumatic. That reminds me of the end of WW 1 and into the early 1920 s when millions were transferred from one country in Europe to another. And , again at the end of WW 2.
Sorry last comment was for Leftwing, not Chgo.
The Larry David commercial was the best commercial by far.
I lost my $50 in bets. Not a single hit. Family made 17 individual bets and not a penny back. Still got back $250 in Uber Eats, so not complaining. That will go far in our household. Shows you why sportsbetting is such a racket and will cause a lot more gambling addicts who will bankrupt their families all in the name for additional tax revenue to pay for the public servants.
Not the worst game. Not the best game. Loved the half time show. But I happen to like old-school hip hop. Could have gone without DRE and 50 Cent. Snoop is still the smoothest man alive and absolutely brilliant at monetizing his limited few hits.
Now we watch Russia reannex the Ukraine and make believe we care about their sovereignty.
So, I just watched the super bowl halftime show on Youtube because I missed it last night… was scraping ice of a windshield. I saw most of the game because well, it’s the super bowl, an American event, despite the politics. Matt Stafford paid his dues, definitely deserved it after enduring his time in Detroit all these years. Nice drive in the latter part of the 4th quarter. Felt bad for the Bengals but somebody had to take it.
Back to the halftime show; the only thing missing was a legit drive-by. Perhaps future halftime shows will consider it. I respect the performers last night only because they’re closer to my age which means they have wisdom and life experience, unlike the younger crowd whom follow more than they lead and whom believe everything the lefty government tells them. As for the music itself, some rap was really good 20 plus years ago. The best rap album still is Illmatic by Nas. Kanye West has some older stuff I like, too.
More than one data scientist I know has been dabbling in consulting for sports gamblers, it’s apparently a lucrative side hustle.
Kanye is opening a school in a little place down the street from me “Donde ” academy. 60 kids enrolled. Most are basketball stars.
Agree on the commercials… crypto and electric cars were 2/3 of the deal. Serious question: What do I do with my Federal Reserve Notes I have in the bank? What I mean is, will they be converted to digital currency at some point? Technically, are they already?
The Zeitgeist in California is strange that I will admit. You cannot argue with the weather. It is literally the only reason people move here. They (we) pay big bucks for that air.
Left,
Interesting concept, but things are not THAT bad in reality. I would rather try to compromise rather than divide. It would never work too as the whole issue of how to fund the sustenance of our urban poor would not jibe with the red teams philosophies.
I would rather see an Israel style government put in place where we are not limited to two parties.
And the real truth is, if we ended PACs and the lobbyist model, compromise could actually happen again.
We don’t need to reinvent the wheel. We need to simply refurbish it.
“NFTs” real or nonsense? Discuss.
Paper currency is just an NFT token for our USD(igital).
“NFTs” real or nonsense? Discuss.
They’ll probably have real applications in the future, but the current Ape-based nonsense is just noise.
Won $700 in the pool for a $20 box bet. Box 0 for Bengals and 3 for the Rams so $250 hit on half time and $450 on final score.
“Donda” Academy…Kanye’s school. I just wrote them to see if they needed an “Art” teacher. I could ride my bicycle to work.
“More than one data scientist I know has been dabbling in consulting for sports gamblers, it’s apparently a lucrative side hustle.”
Some of the easiest money I’ve made was betting hockey early on….whoever was writing the algos just didn’t have a deep enough understanding of the sport….used to be O4.5 on total goals could be had pre-game at -200 or so and then five minutes into a game if there were no score it would come in to +125 or better…cursory glance at final game scores shows that trade. Can’t even find an O4.5 offered now…ditto betting the third period, someone forgot that goalies get pulled and stay pulled even down three goals….Going into third in a game tighter than three goals with an O1.5 or even O2.5 at +175 or better for the balance of the period….found money….too bad they wised up…..
I actually believe the Metaverse has a lot more credibility and investment value than crypto does. First, we all know that people have a different personality in anonymity than they do in real life. This alt persona can be addictive. I know from my MUD days in college. I was married, had a bunch of followers (since I was funny) and hair on the top of my head. Second, the p0rn aspect of this will be huge. Forget webcam girls. You can actually touch them and interact with them. Remember, without a way for perverts to traffic illegal material, the internet might have never been developed. Third, gaming continues to grow in popularity with time. Even grandma is playing Wordle and Candy Crush these days. The metaverse, VR, AI and the games that will develop on that platform will be incredible. Imagine COD or other shooters where you have VR weapons that are controlled with motion sensing controllers instead of the current mouse keyboard combo. Anyone who has played Wii bowling or home run derby is aware of the attraction of these types of input devices. They are also brilliant in that those who hate the complexity of current gaming controls will be attracted by the simplicity of controls in VR.
So FB as the leader in Metaverse could be brilliant if they could somehow turn their static social media site into one where people interact in VR. I recall about a year or two ago, Marshmallow put on a virtual concert in Fortnight. There were millions in VR attendance. The only thing that was missing was the interactivity between the fans.
I swear, my biggest fear of the metaverse will be that a ton of society is going to drop out and spend as much of their time as possible in the metaverse. Outside of sustenance and shelter, everyone is going to be developing (NFT’s anyone) for the metaverse and nothing will develop in the “real” universe. The physical world will suffer tremendously much like the smart phone has already drastically reduced our need to socialize in person.
“It would never work too as the whole issue of how to fund the sustenance of our urban poor would not jibe with the red teams philosophies.”
Lib, not only would it work but that is one of the (dozens of) reasons it is necessary.
Blue has no say in how Red runs their country.
Red has no say in how Blue runs their country.
Blue wants a certain level of benefits and support for ‘urban poor’? Go for it. 100% Blue’s choice. Live in Blue, abide by Blue’s laws. Don’t like them, move to Red during relocation period.
Other side…Red wants to outlaw abortion in total? Same answer….go for it, 100% Red’s choice. Live in Red, abide by Red’s laws. Don’t like them, move to Blue during relocation period.
What you are actually saying is the basis of the problem and why this type of solution is necessary…..
Blue (in a Red citizen’s view) wants Blue’s policies to prevail AND wants Red to acquiesce and pay for them.
That dog don’t hunt….
Crypto is just trying to muscle in our our accepted medium of exchange and take a piece of the action. Right now it suffers as it is not easily cognizable, even the smartest people in the world can jawbone all they want and still cannot explain it enough for even the common person watching a football game can understand.
One day in our country it may become cognizable but according to Larry David right now it is not today as he did not take payment in crypto and neither did the production and film crews who spent four days shooting about 8 hours of raw footage that had to be whittled down for many weeks of editing to that sixty second spot. NBC did not take crypto either and was charging $7 million dollars for 30 seconds so even with a discount FTX may have spend around $22 million for that commercial all in.
One million users on the FTX gambling platform and none are in the USA, again they were in Hong Kong until they fled so who are their customers? They are not allowing their crypto derivative gambling here. Don’t we have enough gambling already?
And, Lib, don’t worry about Blue having the funds to pay for all those inner city residents who will presumably stay Blue.
You guys will most certainly get Palo Alto, lots of wealth there for President Warren and VP AOC to tap for Blue policies….
BTW is , Odell Beckham Jr really did take bitcoin as payment for this year’s $750,000 salary. NFL spreads the paychecks out over 36 weeks, he received several bonus too.
$500,000 for the Rams’ wild card win
$750,000 divisional round
NFC title game $750,000
$1 million for the the Super Bowl.
Beckham is an unrestricted free agent now with perhaps a torn left ACL again, he may need another cadaver graft or he is done at 29 years old, hopefully he will hang onto some of the $40 million he has made playing and endorsements.
I don’t think this investment will pay off. Looks nothing like him in 8 Bit. The hair color is all wrong.
https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/details/3365
re: Metaverse
How many noodles do you have to boil and throw against the wall until they stick? Facebook claims they are spending 10 billion a year on the metaverse. I don’t see it do you? That is about all of their profits on 33 Billion in revenues. They have been busy marching around and buying up companies. Sound familiar? It sure does sounds like tech companies of old when they can no longer make their own noodles that stick to the wall.
Nearly everyone chooses to forget the past. The internet is not owned by anyone and since it’s inception the internet has changed significantly in many unpredictable ways and every indication exists that it will continue to change in ways that are difficult to predict.
Zuck may fail again here. He sure did lay a goose egg on crypto the Libra/Diem coin and folded and sold the scraps of that gamble completely.
I’ve followed VR for a long time, we’re finally hitting a point where we’re getting over the hurdle of immersion. Historically, it was a cute party trick and the goggles were fun for about 15 minutes.
We’re now getting so good, that people are getting so immersed in the environment that they are forgetting about the real world.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/12/rising-popularity-of-vr-headsets-sparks-31-rise-in-insurance-claims
This is one of the most interesting VR articles EVER. You can look at this through a kind of dystopian lens, these experiences are becoming so immersive, people are doing stupid shit in the real world like hitting people, falling over, breaking TVs, hurting themselves. This is the first real evidence that this tech works, and works well. And soon it will work even better, cpu/gpu are now getting to the point where they can do photorealistic ray tracing in real time. In 5-10 years we will be able to generate real time graphics that are indistinguishable from the real world (we’re pretty much there for gaming). Add in eye tracking for variable focus, and your brain will not be able to distinguish the difference.
Like I said, I’ve been following VR since the 90s. We’re on the cusp of something really interesting now. Todays $299 vr goggles are infinitely better than head mounted displays that cost $100k a few years back.
Leftwing,
Thanks for thoughtful answer. To busy to address today.
Zuck’s always been a noodle thrower, it’s one of his strengths. Re: numbers, are you looking at quarterlies? IIRC FB is revenue over $100B and FFO nearing 40%…
On FB, I look at the metaverse expenditures as capex equivalent…I know GAAP doesn’t and the market doesn’t seem to look through it but I agree…if it shits the bed just turn it off and even on a GAAP/market basis you’re 14x P/E…
Separately, this guy does good charts…read the text if you want, he can be dense, but he also has a debt service chart floating around that’s worth a glance. Interesting commentary below the chart…
https://ironsidesmacro.substack.com/p/the-fed-is-a-slow-follower
Grim,
As someone who experienced a virtual surgery with a pair I agree. They have limitations still but are much better.
And when I took them off I had forgotten where I was. Surreal.
And WTF? A real estate forum and no love for the real estate commercial?
https://youtu.be/ukLeyxOA8uk
LW
When that happens it will be interesting when your whole family splits into red and blue.
When they fight over the inheritance and steal daddy’s money to be on a team, or when mommy in a divorce wants to take Billy to the Blue Side.
Hahaha.
You are right, it could work, but it will bring it’s own nightmare with it.
What about judges? Are there going to be red and blue ones? Red and Blue cops?
Ahhh, lets go for it. Ship is sinking anyway.
“Either we’re going to create simulations that are indistinguishable from reality or civilization will cease to exist, those are the two options.” – Elon Musk
Has VR Tech improved all that much in the 8 years since Oculus was purchased by Facebook for $2 Billion? The have also bought a slew of companies recently you never heard of. Downpour Interactive, Ready at Dawn, Sanzaru Games, Beat Games and many more.
They have reorganized all of their workers and supposedly Facebook now has 10,000 employees working in AR/VR. That is a big bet for sure, integrate Messenger with Oculus, and go whole hog on Workplace from Facebook.
Might work and might not. “Facebook at Work” did not pan out when launched either, it’s now called Workplace. Might make a dent in Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 etc and might not. Google has been trying with some success for years too. When does Facebook spreadsheets come out?
It’s difficult to predict, FB has a 10 year spending plan to boil noodles. Musk on their other had is going in the direction that might be more unpredictable than a headset. Brain–machine interfaces, been allot of noise about animal torture these days. If he really means to do it well that would be way more cyberpunk than a clumsy VR headset.
Feel sorry for the guy that marries the little girl in the commercial.
She gonna be real expensive when she grows up. Been indoctrinated from day one to have to have an expensive home in order to feel good about herself.
Better invest in plenty of Crypto. And God help you should you should she divorce you.
hahaha.
Wasn’t there a movie where someone got shot in the metaverse and died in real life?
Was it the Matrix?
Repost
Looks like some student got a touchdown. What is it with teachers? Was Y Tu Mama Tambien her favorite movie? Anyone old enough to remember it?
https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/morris/police-fire/philly-teacher-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-teen-student/825862/
For the bowlers:
https://youtu.be/2VgdtTRZhag
For the record, I’m not cheering for Facebook. Facebook’s value is almost entirely based on ad revenue on their Facebook site. Their core competency is still really only Facebook, which is no more than a sleek interface of reddit. Can they do to VR what they did to Reddit and have enough subscribers to where ad revenue can be generated there? I doubt it. Not while trying to maintain a dying Facebook. Still, FB could be undervalued as a lot of ad revenue is still going to go there for a while. Though not sure you are paying for any growth anymore.
It’s extremely rare for a company to reinvent itself. So rare that I can hardly think of any besides Amazon, the former bookseller turned online Walmart.
For those who want to keep Amazon after the price increase, and are cheap, I would suggest you gift yourself a gift membership now, only a few days left.
Saves you for one year. If you want.
About VR –
I was an early adopter of VR and it still has a ways to go.
The headsets are clunky / large / uncomfortable for long sessions and screen door effect / field of view are still immersion breaking (although they have gotten better). Many of the more powerful head units are still corded, although some wireless versions add-ons do exist like the one I own. (Any cord headset is an easy immersion breaker and a legitimate safety hazard). The cheaper ones are wireless but they can be gimmicky and suffer from poor tracking. Generally the controllers suck, although the newer knuckles are a step-up.
The headsets also sometimes induce something called “VR Sickness”, especially people subject to vertigo and heights, and it takes a little bit for some people to push past their body saying “This is not normal!”.
But ignoring all the above, the biggest limitations are lack of feedback (ie. feeling yourself against a wall and your movement actually being restricted) and actual “walking” long distances as everything relies on either teleporting, gliding, or really unnatural sliding feet movement systems.
In short, the people who are doing this and hurting themselves are complete and utter idiots. They are playing in spaces they shouldn’t be (they do not have the room but ignore the reality of the situation) and in their own little safety bubble thinking everything is fine because “modern world” and nothing ever goes wrong. They should all should earn a Darwin award.
I understand half the population falls into this, but honestly, a main reason I stopped using it daily was literally “laziness”. Besides setup (which hopefully is static if you have a defined space) but just physically having to get up and play a moving game after a shitty day at work was not relaxing after a time. The technology has its place for short term visualization, but you wont see mass adoption of the technology in the home until either the headsets are miniaturized “somehow” to avoid long term discomfort or until Full Dive systems with a neural interface are technologically possible.
As gimmicks and party things sure, and even more so as the entry cost decreases. But in the household Augmented Reality (AR) systems will be king with VR reserved for short duration actives like P0rn.
By the way, did you notice all the celebrities at the game yesterday following the science?
Test?
hmm. Didnt like my email address.
About VR –
I was an early adopter of VR and it still has a ways to go.
The headsets are clunky / large / uncomfortable for long sessions and screen door effect / field of view are still immersion breaking (although they have gotten better). Many of the more powerful head units are still corded, although some wireless versions add-ons do exist like the one I own. (Any cord headset is an easy immersion breaker and a legitimate safety hazard). The cheaper ones are wireless but they can be gimmicky and suffer from poor tracking. Generally the controllers suck, although the newer knuckles are a step-up.
The headsets also sometimes induce something called “VR Sickness”, especially people subject to vertigo and heights, and it takes a little bit for some people to push past their body saying “This is not normal!”.
But ignoring all the above, the biggest limitations are lack of feedback (ie. feeling yourself against a wall and your movement actually being restricted) and actual “walking” long distances as everything relies on either teleporting, gliding, or really unnatural sliding feet movement systems.
In short, the people who are doing this and hurting themselves are complete and utter idiots. They are playing in spaces they shouldn’t be (they do not have the room but ignore the reality of the situation) and in their own little safety bubble thinking everything is fine because “modern world” and nothing ever goes wrong. They should all should earn a Darwin award.
I understand half the population falls into this, but honestly, a main reason I stopped using it daily was literally “laziness”. Besides setup (which hopefully is static if you have a defined space) but just physically having to get up and play a moving game after a shitty day at work was not relaxing after a time. The technology has its place for short term visualization, but you wont see mass adoption of the technology in the home until either the headsets are miniaturized “somehow” to avoid long term discomfort or until Full Dive systems with a neural interface are technologically possible.
As gimmicks and party things sure, and even more so as the entry cost decreases. But in the household Augmented Reality (AR) systems will be king with VR reserved for short duration actives like P0rn.
Cops were called to TKO Sports Bar in Laredo early on Sunday after a fight escalated into a shooting which left three men dead.
I guess TKO stands for 3 knocked out?
“What about judges? Are there going to be red and blue ones? Red and Blue cops?”
Hard, physical and legal split. Two separate countries occupying the current space. All aspects except as noted previously.
You have signs now saying “Thanks for visiting the Garden State” and “Welcome to Pennsylvania”.
Replaced with “Hope you enjoyed Blue America” and “Welcome to Red America”.
If people can act as adults post-split we can have open or very soft borders (eg, EZ Pass type tracking). If people can’t be adults go the US/Canada border model.
you wont see mass adoption of the technology in the home until either the headsets are miniaturized “somehow” to avoid long term discomfort or until Full Dive systems with a neural interface are technologically possible.
A little LSD and some paralytics to reduce the need for real-world motion.
hmm. Didnt like my email address.
Obviously fake email addresses will get you sucked into the new spam filter now, it’s part of what’s evalutated.
Also, if you are putting in junk, be sure to put in consistent junk, as the spam filter does check to see if you are an active user as opposed to a single random post.
Workplace is actually pretty good, at my last company we had 20k+ users on Workplace, and it was an incredibly active/vibrant work community.
Where it failed was trying to replace teams/slack, it won’t/can’t.
It’s a collaborative engagement/awareness tool, that was great at keeping employees connected through the pandemic. It’s much more engaging than email, teams, or a zoom call.
I think it does Groups better than Teams does. Teams is incredibly frustrating with notifications on, and is useless with notifications off.
Where it works well is when you let employees have a little fun with it, crossing over a bit from pure work into a kind of hybrid that’s a bit more personal. You’d have an employee celebrating a personal success, and the c suite congratulating them. It was brilliant for building culture, breaking down silos, especially through the pandemic.
Nice chart to complement grim’s headline post today….
https://imgur.com/a/TZsxWTv
I’m curious to know if the money makers in the new Blue nation are going to eventually get frustrated funding all the s0c1al projects. If (when) they decide to ease back and feed from the trough themselves, where is the increasing funds needed to fuel these s0c1al programs going to come from?
Gravel parking in NJ . . .
Does anyone know if, generally speaking, North NJ towns permit gravel over grass backyard areas for parking?
The particular town I am looking at graveling over a portion of the backyard for parking defines gravel areas and any parking area as “impervious surface” so I would likely (I beleive) need either a variance, a nice building department official (wrongly) letting me go forward without one, or not take a permit and hope that the neighbors don’t complain.
If not gravel, is there a similar style of material that allows a property owner to trade grass for parking, but which doesn’t trigger the same scrutiny as straight up asphalt or concrete? I thought gravel was that exception, but from reviewing my relevant zoning code, it seems like I was wrong about that.
“I’m curious to know if the money makers in the new Blue nation are going to eventually get frustrated funding all the s0c1al projects. If (when) they decide to ease back and feed from the trough themselves, where is the increasing funds needed to fuel these s0c1al programs going to come from?”
From the Red perspective, that’s the point. Not my (our) problem anymore.
Blues have their own reasons for separation, mostly social, to distance themselves from the deplorables and their associated plethora of -isms.
To each his own. Separation is a very clean and easy pathway there.
To each his own. Separation is a very clean and easy pathway there.
Agree. It’ll be curious to observe the revolt by the masses when they realize you can’t fill your belly with symbols, soundbites and gestures.
Are black people allowed in Blue America?
I kid (mostly).
And how do we handle, say, a Pearl Harbor?
“Separation is a very clean and easy pathway there.”
You might have traditional values. But we have significantly better pizza and bagels. Enjoy your Denny’s take out.
If not gravel, is there a similar style of material that allows a property owner to trade grass for parking, but which doesn’t trigger the same scrutiny as straight up asphalt or concrete? I thought gravel was that exception, but from reviewing my relevant zoning code, it seems like I was wrong about that.
It’s because they are using the zoning code to enforce lot coverage, period. It’s so your neighbor doesn’t gravel their entire backyard.
There are plenty of nice permeable paver products that are > 50% open area that can be filled with pea gravel or grass. However, few, if any, towns will recognize them as such.
Most all of those same towns don’t recognize deck coverage as impermeable at all, even though they represent the exact same thing as permeable pavers. That’s because decks look nice and aren’t an eyesore. Though, there are towns that include large decks in their definition of impervious too.
It’s about stormwater, but it’s not about stormwater.
Open House Mania . . .
The below 2-family had a 50-person line this weekend when I tried to pass. I opted to just keep driving, lol.
Any guesses on a final sales price? I’m thinking $540k.
186 Falmouth Ave.
Elmwood Park, NJ
$485,000 ask
4 bed, 2 bath
2 units (each is 2 bed, 1 ba.)
2 Car Garage (side-to-side) (thus, space for about six cars on-premises – three per unit)
https://www.njmls.com/listings/index.cfm?action=dsp.info&mlsnum=22004204&openhouse=true&dayssince=15&countysearch=true
“It’ll be curious to observe the revolt by the masses when they realize you can’t fill your belly with symbols, soundbites and gestures.”
Eddie, I’m not taking sides. I really mean that. Amicable separation, each sides views are equally relevant. Diametrically opposed, but equally held. As such, just separate as cleanly and amicably as possible. Judgement free zone.
Lib same answer to you. Yes, Red US will look differently from Blue US, as it currently does…if the less charitable among your side feel compelled to continue to mock their food, dress, religion, and such so be it. You can still refer to them as Pennsyltucky if that makes Blue US feel better.
And Lib, since you brought up race let’s frame it in the context of a recent ‘racial incident’….all speculation of course as each ‘country’ would need to implement its own laws but I would not be surprised if…
Let’s say an adult is intoxicated and unconscious in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant.
In Red US, I would expect an LEO to approach him. If in the process of questioning the suspect attempts to grab the officer’s weapon the suspect is shot. If he survives I would expect he would be incarcerated for a long time, and a review performed of any minor children in his household to see if they need to be permanently removed for their well being and development.
In Blue US, I would expect there to be a level of ‘peace officer’ beneath the current police trained to deal with socially disruptive persons and that peace officer would be dispatched to aid the adult and there would be further aid and follow up with the family.
Two different views and outcomes. Two different countries. Equally valid.
No different than the range of treatment for, say, drug usage among US, GB, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore. Pick your country according to your lifestyles and values. For those wondering, if you like jamming marching powder up your nose I would generally advise steering far clear of Singapore….same here….if you are the type predisposed to draw down a weapon on a police officer, I would advise Blue US over Red US…..
The States are a patchwork of legislation, taxation, and registration.
The answer is not more fractions & divisions.
We need to make it easier to live in America not harder.
That halftime show had singers? I couldn’t understand hardly a word they were saying. I thought maybe it was a bunch of gang members or drug dealers with bad cases of jock itch, or maybe they got the clap from that big old lady who was yelling in tight clothes.
I was at the Sarasota Opera Saturday night, where singers actually have singing voices without needing electronic mods and amplification, so it was quite a contrast. People get the entertainment they deserve I guess.
Left,
As a less drastic possibility, why not just re-engage states rights and stop *allowing* everything to turn into a federal issue.
Perhaps a bit over simplistic, the local government should be the government of the people, the state government to resolves differences between the localities, and the federal government to resolve differences between the states. And each level can only review matters allowed by the respective constitutions, or take actions allowed by the same document. Most control at the municipal level, except where exempted by the state. And the federal government get the scraps.
The big change is just saying the federal government isnt getting involved here.
I feel you are treating the federal government like its your “wife”, when instead your wife is the citizen down the road from you.
A more appropriate analogy I think is the federal government is your wife’s mentally disabled twice removed relative who your not sure is even blood related in the first place. They showed up in your house one day and everyone is afraid to tell them to leave because he’s been there for a while. And while he’s only murdered some neighbors and shot their dogs, started a few wars with neighbors, takes bribes for scumbags, he’s really only got a kind heart and even better no longer officially discriminates against non-whites.
Yes, it may mean some states are dramatically different then other states, but trust people to be smart enough to vote with there feet if need be and that states will adopt as needed. We are literally already doing that with education and medicine right now, experimenting with different (but educated and thought out) paths that sometimes means certain individuals suffer but in theory the end result is the best practice is adopted in the long term.
Where does the racism stem from?
This is not an attack on anyone here, just merely an observation. I watched the halftime show as I always do. I thought last night’s was the best ever. Better than U2 (one my favorite bands), better than Prince and even better than the Stones. Absolutely infinitely better than the last few years (Gaga, Perry, whatever mess was up there last year). Yet I look on Facebook this morning and there is a clear split between the red and blue team. The red team saw it as an abomination. The blue team thought it was one of the best ever.
Why is that?
“trust people to be smart enough to vote with there feet if need be and that states will adopt as needed.”
I see the writing on the wall. The Dems are an atrocity right now and Trump will get elected in 2024. Trump with a mandate scare the living crap out of me. My only hope is that he does not do such much damage that Costa Rica is impacted negatively by it.
Yes, I will be voting with my feet. Always have and always will. It’s the same reason I’m in Glen Ridge and not Montclair.
I thought it was good. A nice break from seeing all these phonies lip-sync. Dre, Snoop, and Eminem hit it out of the park.
left, not so sure on that one. I used to watch Live PD all the time. The officers from the South literally would come up on guys who were legally carrying and have no issues with them. If you go to a place where gun control is strict, the cops are a lot more on edge and in some cases willing to fire without you even reaching or drawing for it, i.e. Philando Castile.
Well if you care about decency or women then you’re definitely going to have an issue with snoop. He don’t like them hoes but I guess in the grievance hierarchy that’s okay.
Mary J Blige was known for her voice, not her looks. Why she decided to dress like trash is beyond me. When you’re middle age and overweight a little bit of modesty will do you some good.
Eminem looked like a fool. People want to see your face, you’re on National tv. I guess he was shopping the dolezal line of the just for men products.
Turd,
To be honest I haven’t ever seen a halftime show I’ve liked.
Seeing Beyoncé’s thunder thighs crotch thrusting at the camera a few years ago was memorable, but in a bad way.
Ever since the lip syncing scandals happened, music performances and acoustics have gotten even worse.
I remember suffering through Paul McCartney’s death rattle of a non-voice at the Olympics once, and they wheel him out for a Superbowl too. Happy I criticized a whitey too, Libturd? But I don’t think Paul fluffed his weiner on stage like those guys yesterday. Maybe it’s just a nervous tic.
Why did that lady pass out on stage yesterday halfway through the show? Did policemen do that Darth Vader thing to her? I couldn’t understand what she was yelling about. But I heard that when people die they fall forward, so figured she wasn’treally dead. At the opera they print the plot summary in the booklet and project English lyrics onto a screen above the stage since most of us don’t speak Italian.
Libturd says:
February 14, 2022 at 12:46 pm
“Are black people allowed in Blue America?”
Al Shaprton and the rest of the race hustlers will be right at home in Blue America, but thankfully an ever growing number of independent thinkers will choose Red. So you can have Al, Mrs Bill deBlasio and Corey Booker and we’ll take Winsome Sears, Condoleeza Rice and Herschel Walker.
Ex says:
February 14, 2022 at
“The answer is not more fractions & divisions. We need to make it easier to live in America not harder.”
Very good comment, and a very nice sentiment. Unfortunately, the left/Dems/Blues largely seem to have completely abandoned reason, or become tolerant of those that have. How do you reduce division and find common ground with the likes of AOC, Ilhan Omar and NYC DA Alvin Bragg who refuses to incarcerate criminals?
Crude at $95.12 and DOW down yet again. We’re pretty much flatlined now during the O’Biden regime.
“The States are a patchwork of legislation, taxation, and registration. The answer is not more fractions & divisions. We need to make it easier to live in America not harder.”
The federal government exists at the behest of the States, not vice versa. It was the States who after many (imperfect) compromises agreed to form the Federal government. States rights – that ‘patchwork’ as you call it – is the basis of our Federalist system.
The abrogation of the same is part of the fuel driving two distinct and different ‘countries’, ie Federal systems.
Life would actually become more simple under two broad countries. Citizens – and their values, ideas, and laws – will self sort into one of the two silos. Within your silo there will broad agreement on most major issues, ie. the environment within that silo will look very similar no matter where you stand.
“A more appropriate analogy I think is the federal government is your wife’s mentally disabled twice removed relative who your not sure is even blood related in the first place. They showed up in your house one day and everyone is afraid to tell them to leave because he’s been there for a while. And while he’s only murdered some neighbors and shot their dogs, started a few wars with neighbors, takes bribes for scumbags, he’s really only got a kind heart and even better no longer officially discriminates against non-whites.”
LOL. Post of the day.
BRT, I was referencing that specific shooting that was deemed a ‘racist’ incident in the parking lot of some fast food joint about a year back. Apologies for any bad references, I did it from memory and did not go back to fact check.
“Very good comment, and a very nice sentiment. Unfortunately, the left/Dems/Blues…”
Discuss what you will but as the person who started this thought I would to try to keep specific views on the other side out.
We all know where each of us stands politically. Debating who is right/wrong only reinforces my initial point that division into two entities is needed because Red/Blue are fundamentally different with a gap that has reached its breaking point…
So, I will not argue about the merits or reason of a Sharpton or a Rice. I instead propose something simpler…we all agree each has merits. You take him, keep him in NY. I’ll take her, and we’ll get her to flyover country.
You have yours, we have ours. We go our merry ways.
Deal?
Left, I cannot comprehend why anyone thinks further federalization is a good thing. For the most part if you are dealing with a municipality the services are generally competent or they draw the ire of the people they are forced to see daily. There is simply no escape for the elected officials or government workers from the tax payer. Meanwhile in Trenton they are more incompetent and rarely have to face the public for their failures. When we get to federal representation heck our reps barely step foot in their state and any and all services are largely incompetent and administered by people who don’t care. The federal government should exist to create the overarching laws and handle international issues/national defense. Why we have this notion of an all powerful federal government as a good thing is beyond me. If our tax structure looked more like Switzerland, where Canton taxes could be quite significant, things might work better. As it stand State governments cannot tax enough to provide the services they want to because the feds take it and largely squander it. Givign more power to the feds just seems to end with them using it against us.
We are putting a small addition on to expand our galley kitchen and increasing the deck. When talking to the architect he said they treat a deck similar to a driveway for drainage, I think he said we needed to be under 20% of the entire property for impermeable surface coverage. Which we are.
AstroTurf Trucking keeps Rollin!
1) Ottawa Trucker Thread: Today I was leaving my hotel in Ottawa and there was a protester with a We Are The Fringe sign. I turned and she said really loud to someone ‘They’re being paid. We’re being paid, we’re all being paid’ What ‘else’ could that possibly mean?
https://twitter.com/sandibachom/status/1493027214035668997
But you have guns!!!
And what if we like some from both teams?
“Giving more power to the feds just seems to end with them using it against us.”
JCer, agree with all your thoughts…on the above though a split of the current Federal government into two separate entities is a case where one plus one does not equal two….
Instead of the current system of two polar opposite views racing to the bottom by spending your money and freedoms with separation each side gets one, smaller homogenous entity, controlled and controllable…
I’ll go first as the token Red with my wish list of items that zero chance of clearing any current US federal government – ever – but depending on how maps are drawn can easily be implemented in Red US…
Flat tax.
Term limits, all federal officials, six years each term, two max.
Means or other testing for voting…if you are not a net contributor to society you have no right to have a say in who runs it.
An inviolable Constitution that limits the new Federal powers to only those specifically enumerated….
Add as you see fit. Imagine having a confederation of States comprised of supermajorities of like minded people, separated from the current Union, who control their own government and implement the above….
I am sure the Left has its wish list for Blue US as well. Items that again would never fly through the current system….let them run with theirs.
No animosity. Respectful, amicable separation. Help each other out to get on their feet so each of us can go our separate way without the other.
Hey Hey Ho Ho, the Fac1st Convoy has to go!
https://twitter.com/BruceVConway/status/1492578584749301765
I am sure the Left has its wish list for Blue US as well.
I. Nothing in society will belong to anyone, either as a personal possession or as capital goods, except the things for which the person has immediate use, for either his needs, his pleasures, or his daily work.
II. Every citizen will be a public man, sustained by, supported by, and occupied at the public expense.
III. Every citizen will make his particular contribution to the activities of the community according to his capacity, his talent and his age; it is on this basis that his duties will be determined, in conformity with the distributive laws.
“And what if we like some from both teams?”
Essentially open borders.
And as long as you don’t violate Red US Code Title 6, Chapter 4 Section 1101 (“No Acting Like an Arrogant NJ Asshole”) when visiting your freedom of movement should be assured.
:P
LOL, Eddie, you just can’t resist, huh? :)
In more tangible news everyone see Gottliebs interview this morning? Bottom line on Pfizer delaying its vaccine application to the FDA is the data was corrupted because the infected children were not symptomatic. Read that slowly and let it sink in….
The trial data was pulled for a preventative vaccine because – drumroll – the subjects infected by the target of the vaccine in the clinical study were not getting sick.
Can’t make this shit up.
Over/under that once this vaccine for U5 year olds makes it though how many jurisdictions will make the vaccine mandatory for that group to participate in normal activities regardless?
Maybe NY/NJ/CT can secede and take all the money with us. We should probably take Mass too.
It’s Green vs. Everyone else.
Not sure what kind of nonsense this blue and red stuff is, sounds like the pill from the Matrix
California skip out on it’s own too. They already have a cool flag and name.
Microsoft, Apple, AT&T, AMD, NetFlix; Woolworth (fka Foot Locker)
Libturd says:
February 14, 2022 at 10:52 am
It’s extremely rare for a company to reinvent itself. So rare that I can hardly think of any besides Amazon, the former bookseller turned online Walmart.
Fascist is now resisting corporate government intrusion into our health care decisions. And Neil Young is the spokesman for government led propaganda campaigns. Bizarro world.
Blue U.S.: A nation of panhandlers… all claiming that their needs are worse than their neighbors.
Don’t see it with MSFT besides adding the cloud.
Apple has always been innovative. That’s in their DNA.
AT&T ?
AMD ok
NetFlix? What, making programs. Hardly a stretch.
Woolworth I’ll give you too.
It’s pretty rare.
Cali does have the best flag!
Ok everyone, you can calm down, this murderer Assamad Nash was just a lifelong violent person, so it wasn’t the right kind of “hate crime” to start riots.
Victim’s race is stated as asian, but I didn’t quite catch the race of the murderer in the story, which is kind of odd. But there’s a photo.
https://nypost.com/2022/02/13/woman-stabbed-to-death-inside-nyc-apartment-cops-say/#aoh=16448743936129&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2022%2F02%2F13%2Fwoman-stabbed-to-death-inside-nyc-apartment-cops-say%2F
Trump’s accounting firm has announced it can not stand by the tax returns it prepared because it does not know if the information given them was complete/true.
The 🍊guy is bound to have a hissy fit. Big time. The shoes are dropping.
Guy runs an election on getting rid of corruption and draining the swamp. Gets elected and immediately puts his family and friends in all high positions. Do his followers say one word? Nah, just yell about crooked hillary. What a joke. Trumpers were all about draining the swamp. Their boy does corrupt bs, and they don’t say one word.
re: Cali Flag. The one with the bear the settlers killed off? Hey look it’s the 100 year anniversary, are the going to celebrate the last on hunted back in August 1922.
“Maybe NY/NJ/CT can secede and take all the money with us. We should probably take Mass too.”
Fully anticipated. Pretty much most of the coasts would comprise Blue US.
No only do I have no problem with that it is not undesirable. Your green comment is relevant, but don’t forget it is net green that matters. Revenue has relevance only in the context of expenditures. Keep NYC. NJ in total for that matter too (sorry, South Jersey…).
No real difference from now…the vast majority of the 20,000 S500s sold in the US annually will continue to go to the coasts and flyover country will be domestic vehicles. Flyover will live in 1,600 sq ft ranches for $300k, the coasts can keep the capes and colonials at $800k…
Don’t understand how that is a problem, unless you are saying that somehow the standard of living in Red US takes an actual absolute decline because of separation? I can make a cogent argument that it improves from baseline as the industries that Red US will need to populate are higher value than Blue US needs….
There is more benefit from the high value service providers that need to come to Red US (insurance, finance, legal, etc) than industries that Blue US may need (manufacturing, farms, etc) in its jurisdictions…
Overall, on withdrawal, Red US standard of living should go up. At least it’s hard to make a case it declines.
I’m not joking. There is literally no good reason I can find for keeping the US together as currently structured and every reason to wipe the white board clean with two new separate entities restructuring their societies to their own supermajority standards and likings. The borders literally draw themselves.
Game over guys. It’s not like this wasn’t a long time coming…inception of the US barely happened for the exact reasons we are discussing now. For chrissake, we were killing each other in a real war not so long ago over these disagreements. Sound the horn, everyone back to their own locker rooms already. Enough. We will all be happier.
Those that have the ports ( blue) will be able to choke off the red from all of the imported products that the red outsourced to other countries. ( Of course the blue did this to as well. )
It’s extremely rare for a company to reinvent itself.
Chock full o’nuts
Libturd says:
February 14, 2022 at 10:52 am
It’s extremely rare for a company to reinvent itself. So rare that I can hardly think of any besides Amazon, the former bookseller turned online Walmart.
How about GE, Bayer, Kohler Berkshire Hathaway, AT&T, Hershey chocolate ( not just chocolate anymore) These just scratches the surface.
What happens to all the people in the respective blue and red states that don’t fit neatly into the either blue or red category?
I wonder if this bill caps the prices vendors can charge or caps the copay.
https://www.nj.com/politics/2022/02/murphy-lawmakers-announce-plan-to-limit-cost-of-life-saving-drugs-in-nj.html
What about Pancake in a bottle. They transformed themselves into a Bitcoin miner.
Trudeau to freeze bank accounts of even donors who gave money to the Trucker protest? Also invokes some kind of emergency powers for the first time. I gather he is going to use it to order towing companies to tow the trucks, so far they have refused.
This could trigger allot of people, perhaps even a shift to a general labor strike. Doing nothing is not illegal, until they order you to obey or face arrest. Seems a Tad bit fascist. Their entire county is 90% vaccinated and lawful protests seems hardly like a national emergency. I wonder if their parliament will approve this way forward as they have yet to vote on it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60381096
Lol
“I’ve long been of the view that home price gains of more than 2-3% a year over inflation is net negative for homeowners. Insurance, property taxes, and replacement costs all increase with home prices. It might make people feel good but they wind up poorer.”
Brt.
SINO, A global chinese shipping company which also turned itself into a bitcoin miner and quadrupled in price. My son in law kept telling me to hold on , but of course I did not. A penny stock that went up over $7.
“Those that have the ports ( blue) will be able to choke off the red from all of the imported products that the red outsourced to other countries.”
Point is non-confrontation. Defusing, not inciting. If you want civil war (again) say so. Do you really want Red fighting for transportation access and LA and NY trying to survive for more than a week without inland sourced water. Most people don’t. Set up each other for success in their chosen format and then part ways.
“What happens to all the people in the respective blue and red states that don’t fit neatly into the either blue or red category?”
I think there are fewer of those people than most believe. Most of us could sketch out a list of 40 or so questions, answered 1-10 on a strongly agree/strongly disagree scale. There will be a skew. If someone is truly straight down the middle pull a choice out of a hat. At that point it really doesn’t matter, could the broad middle be worse off under one of the two formats than now?
Anyway, the point is specifically not to create “Fox” or “CNN” nation…just a recognition that what used to be a bell curve of American population with the center of gravity in the middle now more closely resembles a horizontal line…the old model doesn’t fit the new reality.
I had forgotten about this little fact. The reason that Putin was able to Annex the Crimea in 2014
The first invasion of Ukraine in 2014 likely wouldn’t have happened (in fact, then DIA head Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn seems to have purposely avoided sharing intel that Putin would invade);
https://davetroy.medium.com/situation-report-past-is-prologue-part-1-f6f56587b7d1
That whole article is worth a read. It puts the AstroTurk Truckin in Perspective.
Hey Left,
Backing Sedition and Secession, why don’t you stick this photo on your wall?
https://twitter.com/MoLulkowski/status/1493266631463784456/photo/1
Another little nugget from the past.
“The GOP is freaking about about the Trump Tower server. Blaming Hillary for hacking in. Projection says Trump is about to be busted for communicating with Russia using the Trump Tower server….”
Another nice read.
https://www.wonkette.com/what-the-hell-are-the-wingers-on-about-now-with-john-durham
Of course the red states would be richer than the blue states. Taxes would be cut to zero and anyone who commits a crime would be sent to the electric chair to avoid having to pay for incarceration. Heck, you wouldn’t even need to commit a crime. If you simply fit the profile, your executed. When it’s all said and done, all that will be left are rich white men, as it should be.
Is that the song by The Police?
BRT says:
February 14, 2022 at 8:35 pm
What about Pancake in a bottle
Lib, why does Roku even exist as a company? Shouldn’t it be a lock for a short before earnings this week?
The suit, filed by Lohnn’s widow Denise and seen by The Register says: ‘He committed suicide after his layoff from IBM.
‘Plaintiff [Denise Lohnn] contends that her husband, Mr Lohnn, fell victim to a years-long companywide discriminatory scheme implemented by IBM’s top management to build a younger workforce, by reducing its population of older workers in order to make room for the hiring of younger workers.’
The lawsuit also alleges that execs insultingly referred to older workers as ‘dinobabies’ and joked about making them ‘extinct.’ They’re also said to have discussed bringing in younger ‘digital natives,’ in what has also been branded a cost-cutting measure aimed at getting rid of older, more expensive staff and lowering the company’s average age.
IBM faces a separate class-action discrimination lawsuit for forcing out hundreds of older employees, also referring to them as ‘dinobabies’ who should be an ‘extinct species’ in favor of younger ‘digital natives,’ according to court documents. Staff are said to have been offered relocation or severance, in the hope they’d shun the former and opt for the payout.
Shannon Liss-Riordan, who represents those employees told The New York Times: ‘These filings reveal that top IBM executives were explicitly plotting with one another to oust older workers from IBM’s work force in order to make room for millennial employees.’
Lohnn’s suit gives shocking detail of the alleged discrimination her late husband allegedly experienced. It says: ‘(The) use of the disparaging term ‘Dinobabies’ to describe older IBM employees, as well as his plan for how to oust them from IBM’s workforce, stating his intent to ‘accelerate change by inviting the dinobabies (new species) to leave’ and make them an Extinct Species’.
Putin is trading this market.