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In Topic: Ye Big TV Thread
Today, 12:21 AM
Tsundoku, on 18 April 2025 - 10:06 PM, said:At the risk of sounding cliched ... it gets better.
So it starts getting good after what... 8 hours?
(Counting commercials, that is... five and a half hours in and while the dialogue has added some ok soundbites for the most part it's still extremely dull and uninteresting, as well as simplistic, superficial, and cliched....) -
In Topic: Ye Big TV Thread
Yesterday, 09:07 PM
About to finish day three of my Easter fast, I decided to look for series on Hulu to binge to distract me... Andor is leaving Hulu Wednesday, so I thought oh, Star Wars, that might not be very good, but at least it ought to be relatively fast-paced and distracting.
Whoops.
Got through episode one. There was one good and absorbing scene---the long speech by the old police boss guy or whatever---and the acting and cinematography are okay, but the vast majority of the dialogue is insipid. It also doesn't help that the SFX and the fight choreography (what little there is of that) are distractingly bad.
Wonder if it's actually good good or if it's only critically acclaimed because it deals with themes and "complexities" outside the stereotypical purview of Star Wars series.
At any rate I doubt it will be very distracting. Bleh. Oh agonizing slog... the boredom is so much worse than the hunger pains... At least those are enlivening! -
In Topic: The USA Politics Thread
17 April 2025 - 08:24 PM
Lady Bliss, on 15 April 2025 - 01:28 PM, said:We're scared.
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Sen[ator] Lisa Murkowski (R[epublican]-Alaska) opened up about her concerns [...] "We are all afraid."
"It's quite a statement. But we are in a time and a place where I certainly have not been here before."
https://www.yahoo.co...-165942457.html
Cause, on 17 April 2025 - 02:11 PM, said:Trump is going to try dig his way out by painting the Fed chair as the enemy. Predictable.
Whats scary is he may be able to force him out and if the fed fails its duty as well the economic chaos will only get worse.
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"It would be a 'lunatics in charge of the asylum' moment," said Justin Wolfers, an economics professor at the University of Michigan, who predicted a shock to the system as big or even bigger than its reaction to Trump's massive new tariffs.
[...] "The Fed's credibility is the foundation of international faith in the dollar," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a conservative economist and former head of the Congressional Budget Office. "An attempt to fire Powell would make the financial market fallout of 'Liberation Day' looks like child's play."
https://www.huffpost...4b027910a15fd45
LetFree-DumbCA-OS ring! (And gold...)
According to a recent survey most investment managers now expect gold to be the top-performing asset for the next year. Of course it would have been better to get in on that earlier, and as the saying goes (in investing), "when everyone thinks alike, everyone is likely to be wrong."
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Trump has privately discussed firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for months and talked about it with former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh, including the possibility of then selecting Warsh as Powell's replacement [...] Warsh has advised against trying to fire Powell, arguing that Trump should let the Fed chair complete his term without interference [...]Trump has not made a final decision about whether to try to fire Powell before his term ends, a matter that would likely be challenged all the way to the Supreme Court.
https://finance.yaho...-190734751.html
... and Powell would be expected to remain in office while the case is being litigated.
Or Trump could just have masked agents kidnap him at any time, take him out to the international waters in a helicopter, drop him, and say it was international relations.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has repeatedly cautioned White House officials that any attempt to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell would risk destabilizing financial markets [...] "I don't think he'll do it but frankly this is a grenade with the pin pulled," said one person familiar with the situation, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly, [...] "so there are no guarantees."
[...] Under federal law, [...] the president can remove them only "for cause" — a term generally understood to mean misconduct or malfeasance. That restriction is meant to shield the body from political interference. But the Trump administration is currently challenging the constitutionality of similar limits on the president's authority to fire the heads of other independent agencies.
https://www.huffpost...4b027910a15fd45 -
In Topic: The USA Politics Thread
17 April 2025 - 01:28 PM
QuickTidal, on 17 April 2025 - 11:53 AM, said:El Salvador denies senator visit with mistakenly deported man: Van Hollen
Good on Van Hollen for doing this...but the reason he can't see him, or even get on the phone with him for proof of life is what I said before, either he's dead, or the Trump Administration is paying to keep him there and away from cameras.
Your reminder that Auschwitz was not in Germany either, it was in Poland.
This is going to get so much worse unless something breaks...
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Timothy Snyder
@TimothyDSnyder
1/4. On the White House's theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.
https://x.com/Timoth...951015567364247
Guess you've probably seen the satellite photos which suggest possible mass slaughter.
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It's entirely possible that the patch is mud or dust rather than blood, and the pile could be construction material. It could also be a food preparation area.
https://x.com/Shayan...518862660120603
Or... it could be blood. -
In Topic: The USA Politics Thread
17 April 2025 - 10:04 AM
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CNN's Data Guru Reveals How Many Trump Supporters Regret Their Vote
[...] "I mean this is the big question, right? I hear all these stories, all these articles, all the Trump voters, saying they regret what they did back in 2024. I'm here to tell you, very few of them regret what they did back in 2024."
[...] "We're talking just 2%. That's not even a wide spot on the road. And then there's this additional 1% who say they would rather not vote." [...]
The poll, conducted this month, also found near-identical levels of loyalty among Harris voters, suggesting there hasn't been a serious swing in public opinion in either direction.
"The bottom line is for all this talk of Trump voters regretting their vote in the numbers, it really just doesn't show up,"
https://www.thedaily...ret-their-vote/
... not yet, at least:
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Most Americans haven't felt it yet because importers stocked up on goods in the first quarter, knowing the tariffs were coming. But if the tariffs stay in place for a few months or longer, Americans will see shocking price hikes for cars, clothes, appliances, handbags, and many other everyday things. Those
price hikes will hit right around the back-to-school shopping season in late summer.
There's no way around the hit to corporate earnings, which in turn will depress corporate spending and hiring.
https://finance.yaho...-194710429.html
... some MAGA politicians seem a bit like Wile E. Coyote racing off the cliff (a fractal image of "humanity" these days? so many chaotic cliffs forming cliffs... all the way down, and more)---supported by the ethereal ignorance of their voters for now, but if prices do rise as much as anticipated, and stay elevated, their approval---beyond the hardcore base---will probably plummet.
Then again, maybe I'm giving Americans too much credit for once (yet again)...
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