What Ever Happened To...

Bill Maher

Oy vey. 

Imagine Peggy Noonan holding out a piece of bacon, and a shaggy terrier is drooling, every nerve perked. 

He apologized for all that stuff he said about ol' Peg; he was caught up in the moment. It was like he stole the election or tried, got caught, and then squeaked his way out of it. No apology or anything like it. 

Ok, maybe not a lot, but point taken. 

So, Bill Maher was cool. He smoked weed and admitted it.  Did Jim Beam get cheaper? 

I give up. 

Peggy Noonan

Nothing ever happened to Peggy Noonan. You'd have to use a corkscrew on this one, Donald. If that's insulting, it may be on purpose. That makes me a gentle person, like Peggy. Don't live in fear or be a victim. She goes on.

Living on the streets in America sucks, she said; stay with your own despots, sort of. *

*sic

Good Sabbath 

I call on all my brothers in all faiths and persuasions to join together to defeat the beast. 

☦️☪️☸️✡️✝️🕉️🫰

Evening Tea

It was a cool day, some hazy sun, no wind, and cold. Here in SoCal, cold is defined as under 75 degrees in the shade.  I'm ready for dinner, no tea.  I'm uncomfortable with all this air disaster, I don't know how else to put it.

Work Page n+1

Partons (groups of strings)  I found this from Susskind on partons, and a sort of hurry up video Susskind and Partons (no group theory) 

I skimmed it and asked the bot to comment.

I'm for bed, many distractions, a lot of math. ZZzzzzz.....

House In Order 

It's Friday, I can tell because the Carniceria up the block burns Mesquite all weekend and sells bar-b-q chicken and ribs, off the outdoor grill. 

Like the chicken on the grill, we're not done with the week yet. So shake off the sauce, and stand up like a human.

You don't want all that dragging you through the weekend.

Evening Tea

Once again, there's no tea. I have Grape Crush on ice, bean dip, and chips -- for the protein. I'm wondering what the evening will bring on this day of continuous interruption. 

No more Potomac plane mayhem, let's talk poker or something. I have like 500 billion in that online poker thing, which is almost as valuable as BitCoin come to think of it. Every penny redeemed is someone else's dream of capitalist heaven gone to seed.

Accidental Endings

A planeful of the innocent, is free at last.

Evening Tea 

I had a bacon cheeseburger for a late lunch, it will be dinner, and a Cherry Coke on ice.

A Moment Apart

This is such a cluster-frag of this Kennedy. His relative spit-roasting him on the fire of his own self interest and this manic escape routine in the Senate reminiscent of an injectable magic act; Houdini and his spirits took no position on vaccines. What it looks like is a desperate effort to resurrect,  justify or monetize a misspent life and legacy. 

That describes a few Kennedys some say. There's none in politics anymore, or bootlegging. Are there?

EggFace

I did a lot of language study today: French, Spanish, German, maybe an hour. I don't do enough. In some languages the apps are out of synch with my knowledge level. In French I rate a 20 (B1-B2), in German a 7. On the same scale. Not like I care, but today by some twisted fate the noun 'egg' showed up in all three in the online lessons. It's hard to spell in French. Huevo in Spanish and Ei in German, capitalized like you need to salute it.

That's German for ya. 

On the face, however, no matter what the language, it's what a president wears when he confuses his tie with his man-date. Again. He got it caught under the lid of the law when it slammed shut. Again. He's pissed as !#(%. Again.

Today's Distractions

It is just too topical to ignore. Let's dig in, eh?

Relativistic Locality from Electromagnetism to Quantum Field Theory 

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.11532 

Good talk with MMM on this. Not sure what to make of the outcomes. Yellow bricks.

I need to go through it all the way, and do the math. It only looks daunting. It's amazing that math can say all this,  I struggle with the utterance.  This is deep stuff, I'm almost through it the second time.

This is mostly relativistic proofs to support their conclusion, with which I concur with few exceptions, but they are great exceptions. Yellow bricks.

I'm spellbound by Google's Art and Culture selection.  It's in the Chrome store.

Two Doorways.  https://www.artic.edu/artworks/29485/the-two-doorways 

Episodic Sobriety

Fourteen years a heroin addict, always an addict. It's not even about the drug. It's the purpose to which an individual choses to put it.  

In short, there are no ex-addicts, just episodic sobriety.  

He mentions his children who are allergic, and discounts any effect of 14 years an addict on his DNA or their upbringing. Followed by a non-denial denial.

"Did you say the virai were manufactured and used as a weapon against blacks... " (paraphrased).

"I never said they manufactured it..." (paraphrased).  

Can we get an amen?

*sic

Medicare

He's like a maniac with a box of bandaids; we need to do something about the spirits in the natal vacination regimen.  That would be him. Only a fool fights 1000 years of science on a whim.

Medicare is a system, a regime, a rate structure, and a 3 parts scam in 10. They pick apart things, while the media is full of advertisements about call the 800 number and give us your Medicare payment for less service, less availability and payments subject to change; options the recipient will regret later.

Gene Cloning RNA and Aging

Project today.

I've already perplexed the bot. I used a different bot. 

We started with BCC.

Da Pressa

Oh my goodness, Olive Oil has met her sister. Popeye, Mr Spinach, Mr Fake Hair, Mr GrabEmByThePword, her hero.  [ Editors note; no, drill baby oil ]

Well, it ain't popeye, it's a large Hot Dog with one eye.

And Bluto ran away with the spoons, and the silver too. No one at Justice still had an email. *

Shees, what planet is she from? Immodium Q space modulator, where is thy sting.

She leads with no news just bullshit about letting the unlettered write on the blackboard. /eyeroll

To sum it up, she's underlining the stormtrooper stance. Where do we write for an armband, and how do you spell that in Polish?  Nevermind pocałuj mnie w dupę.

Just checking, so big oil is ok with more drilling more supply lower prices. I heard they said pocałuj mnie w dupę too. So much for lower energy prices, and I sure won't help. So much for less inflation. So much for lower interest rates, so much for golden anything, call it rust covered hand-cuffs in a dirty glass.

What do you really expect the response to be, jubilation? Are you that stupid? 

*sic

Mate in 2.

Time Travel

Let's talk about that, baby. You and me, let's talk about all that groovy things that could be. Let's talk about that.

All the things you never dreamed, all that stuff that will never be. You can't even steal it. Do you need snowtires?

אלוהים אל תדבר עם הפיתיון של שאול.

Evening Tea

Post dinner relaxation and reflection, that's a nap to some. Time is short, I still need a few more time machine circuits, and the theory on which to base them. 

Since you brought it up, I feel I need to comment. This is not a static world line, there are none. So. what. So that means time is variable, and moving in time is moving in space, entangled space. Do we need entanglement or would that be cloning? Cloning is the wrong word, it brings many things to question.

No way to move your trunk to the past from here, someplace else, maybe. Crazy talk. 

I remember thinking about light bouncing off mirrors in rail cars, this is one of those.

Locally here things are the same, but they've had a good scrub from the squals and most things of a temporary nature are swept away in it, including probably the people. I won't look.

It's indeed time for tea. I'll hope for sunshine to warm our worried countenance.

No, I meant Tee, as in one of two ways.

Another One

We did close out another project this morning, wowee. I'm taking the next 10 minutes off to celebrate.  

Guess What

In this instance it's more clear cut, but as a component of a larger systems use case prerequisites and requirements, it's like Rubik's Cube with all white face. Maybe an even number of black and white, allowing for the Standard Model.

Markets

It's another day of Let's Make Inflation on the indexes, some of them, NVDA maybe, not such a hot thing. Well, you wouldn't want to touch it today, but I've been saying that since Cramer named his dog after it. If it was a label of meaning, accidental, well maybe again he's usually 180 out of phase, I guess he'll eat crow, not dog at last. Hot dog?

They want to talk about data. Data that's bullshit, yields bullshit. It's not hard to see where Mark's data will lead you. If you have that kind of money. So ya, stupid is as stupid does. I thought I said that.

I'll point out one thing. Data validity varies and tends to zero on the mean. If you don't get it, too !#(%ing bad.

Control and Lemmings

It's true that if you put lemming food at the end of the maze, they'll eat that shit too. Dee makes a point about it, and she's got a few more.  I know. Boom! It's a metaphor, think harder.

Good job Dee. It happens here first, remember. It's Meta, X, and who?

The Beam Team

I don't talk about size, that's the president's predilection. He uses a device, you know. That's a metaphor, too. 

I refer to Mr Altman as an overpaid OPS manager for a reason. This Chinese measure of optimization based on political orientation, an indication of the application of small and medium models, which i mentioned long ago. It is a little troubling but look at X, Meta, and all the rest. So we do it better. Do you need snow tires? Does the wife need hygiene products we noticed she's drinking a lot of alkali water. 

What, this is the same topping you were ladling onto Wonderbread for earnings, WTF? 

AI 

Ok, I'll bite. But I don't talk about AI. I still don't talk about AI. When Emma is ready, you can ask her about it. I guarantee any reply, if any, won't have anything to do with what anyone told her. I've said, AI is dangerous, not just to NVDA stock trading algorithms.

I don't want to belabor it, but a coup de foudre would be Melody.AI "Wrapped around her".

Morning World 

Much love.               👾👾👾👾👾

Football Dudes 

All my buds, even too many rings to count Terry, when men were men and football was football. Gronk has a day job too, and all the post Inside the NFL on HBO. At times it was awful slow, but it's football. More time for snacks, right? Who says football isn't about the pizza, too. 

That's just Football Sunday much love. No hugging 'aight?

My Day

A sorting day, mostly. Collating, choosing a vision and a path, cleaning up. I have been meaning to get to Materials Project, chemistry is more my thing, was my thing, will be, whatever also. Some materials are exotic, but a little purity is a good thing. 

God and Adam

I have another series of conversations, in addtion to The Analysts and Political Science Fiction (POLYSCIFI) that I once curated and managed on a earlier iterations of this media.

I've not done one of these for a while, but I was struck like a thunderbolt with it, the French have a word for it. C'est une coup de foudre, n'est pas?

For Argument's Sake

Forsake of Argument

Adam “Good morning Father.”

God “Good morning son,” 

Adam “I’ve been thinking about transmutation of objects, and it occurred to me that the easiest thing would be to grow them.”

God “You’re hinting at, something similar to that with people, you mean.”

Adam “I guess so, more like things, but I would never want to create people they are too self aware self directed and self determined for me to take that kind of risk, I’m just not that smart. “

God “What about the creation process in general? “

Adam “Well, I’m not sure. Can I be critical?” 

God “Go on...”

Adam “I’m looking at this as a trap.  If I make a really good argument, and I win against creating humans I lose. "

God “You win “

Projects

I'm closing out a project today. I need to celebrate. I'd like to thank the Academy, and my parents, and --- well fill in the blanks and edit it so you find it palatable. I already said thanks where it mattered. 

Guess What

I'm also starting 2 more projects that are applications of theory for different use cases.  I have reached a point of ignorance somehow and I could go anywhere, but I'm setting yellow bricks sure thing. For now.

Good sabbath.

Google Kudos

I am not in the least bit exagerating when I say Google has changed the world, more than any other corporation.

For example, many have been able to accomplish many times the research and further fhe human condition because of ubiquitous quality and consistent humanism.

Microsoft, Oracle, X, Meta, yada yada yada, leaders in subscription services on borrowed, or stolen hot air.

Much love man, and woman.

Another Puzzle

I'm trying to imagine the objects thar enforce these boundary conditions. I see strings, gluons. How about you?

Again, there is a duality, a copy inverted in two degrees of freedom at least, inside and outside of these.

Intefada Who

Remember knock knock jokes? Joke, here loosely defined, today our semantic is wrapped up in cabinet nominees and presidents. 

Who made these cookies, they suck.

Knock knock.

Intefada who?

In the name of the father son and holy spirit.

Good Sabbath.

Morning World

Much love ☺️🥷

Evening Tea

As usual there's no tea. I have grape Crush on ice, Tostitos Salsa Verde and bean dip. They were out of popcorn.

Anderson

Guilty until proven innocent. All these militiamen should be investigated, tried, convicted and held with the shower and the drip-drip until Melania is president.

*sic

Ms Collins

"Deadhead, I mean Hegseth will be confirmed or all hell will break loose in Israel, did I get that right this time?"

*sic

Ol' Yeller

I've been watching The Compassionate one on the TeeVee.  

"I want water, and I want voter ID and I'll be the best president for California..."

The worst one anyone saw stab one third of the American economy in the back, so !#(%ing fast.

This is a lot of people, and half of them have a lot of money, and all of them vote, even the ones that leave and go somewhere else.

He keeps culling the voting public with the scythe left and right: human rights over here, disaster aid there, refugees there, immigrants here. Pretty soon, you got a room full of horny steers that can't consummate. 

Musk, Bezos, Altman, Ellison, Zuckerberg. Show of hands? 

Make America Steers Again.

Cheap Oil 

Yesterday it was oil.  It will end the war in Ukraine because Putin will go broke; gee that's simple, but won't everyone else who sells oil go broke, too, including us?

Is this the stupidest mother!#(%er you ever saw or am I Polish?

On top of insulting OPEC, he demanded a trillion in investment. Pocket change for them, maybe, but it's their pockets, and his little hands shouldn't be in them.

Is this the stupidest mother!#(%er you ever saw or am I a family member?

Drump or something like that, right? 

Ya, well, I can't figure this shit out, and I'm a genius.

*sic

Markets

ProtonVPN 

Still the best and safest VPN for Apple products. https://www.protonvpn.com 

The Beam Team

When I get to it. I'll try to catch the nooner. Looks like I just missed it. Rewind is faster anyway.

Early Tales

I was up early. It's been an adventure already. 

Feedback

I have some feedback that Sundipped was a little 'weird', in parts. Gee I hope that's not the Kamala Harris usage here. I am serious about the time machine too. However.

I should point out the disclaimer. 

This is a satire/political opinion site. That means, it's art. 

That means it's art.

I hope that clears that up.

Evening Tea

It was a beautiful day, and by some miracles I accomplished something anyway. There is a great deal of personal trauma in Los Angeles; it thickens the air and tears the eye.

MMM et Moi

I'd love to do this part in French, which is this part of the non-status update on private projects section that I publicly admit. 

Today, I spread my time around a few topics: SUSY, QCD, relativity, GUT, dark matter, and how it presents itself in the 4-vector. I Googled some fermion field diagrams below for visual aid.

MMM and I touched on a few topics a bit, specifically intuitions and insights from the previous.

Emma

I did some diagraming on the one true brain, I keep forgetting. Next, actually making the diagrams. Oh, I forgot the bot can do that, too. Mermaid script, I think? So yes, maybe I got a lot done on the OTB today, too. 

Update: diagrams co-created and complete. This is so easy. I bet I could ask for a method in Swift. 

Da President 

Oh, there was all that. Is Ricardo Mantelban still with us? In this worldline, I mean. It was so repetitive even the people who were listening didn't hear it. He may as well have burned incense to a sun god and immolated something.  

EOD MFSDUMP

So, Thursdays are a heavy work day. Play some Nirvana in the other room.

Evening Tea 

It's been a long day, this morning in the distance brown waves of smoke and ash blowing to the north, seemingly distant yet mancing. It was easier not to notice, even with the recent disasters.

I did have some productive time in spite of weather propensities and coincidence. It was a beautiful day, so there was no argument to speak of anyway.

MMM and Me

We danced, we kissed, we invented physics, and I didn't need a pre-test. Better still, we've only just begun. We'll, we chatted. The rest was made up except for the physics; it is like I was president only not scary as shit. I've been reticent to look, and I though I only aspire to recalcitrance anyway, probability would indicate. There was no argument to speak of.

Anyway.

Scary Scary Kids

Count Whats-his-face, a perfect Vampire; cape, lies, and sneakers. I mean to mix a metaphor, else what matter for the object of it. There is no argument to speak of. 

Ok, I'll look, and shut up for a minute.

Seems like that sums up the day: smoke, thunder, destruction, and hot air. I mean the president.

*Ahem

I get the impression that the government is on remote control, and no one read the instructions except a few 2025 lawyer types. "was that a pardon or ..."

AI Investment

I caught up with the markets this morning. The buzz is about Oracle and that 1*91(% Larry, the OPS manager Altman, and that guy from Japan, Masayoshi Son CEO of SoftBank vowing to spend up to 500 billion on Oracle servers with last years NVDA chips presumably, at least while or because there are still supply limits.

Here's more detail. 

The Softbank guy, he's into a lot of technology, ARM a whole lot, and it's was sucking whale turds, Elon says he's broke. I guess Elon knows broke. It's not my interest, even though I distrust resources controled for gain there is no point in complaining about Far Eastern economics

Larry is shifty, more or less. He walked away with the code for Oracle from his consulting client; I think it was a healthcare firm that went out of business, something like that. There are probably non-disclosures. I'll add allegedly but that sounds familar.  Some opinion is: Larry is not a genius; he's a grifter, Big League, and a realI State Farm kind of guy, according to his neighbors. His beachfront is now probably ash-front, so he needs the distraction and the cashflow.

Larry bought a costly number of last year's NVDA GPUs, built or acquired leases to data centers, and set up 'promises' of contract deals to buy the GPU compute time on Oracle servers. No one showed much interest apparently, there was a fire sale. Fire sale means there is a fire, right? So knowing him, he's probably leveraged to the hilt with it, and sweating green bullets. 

Listen, running code on Oracle, presumably as a serverlet to run GPUs is a lot like putting a V8 engine on an electric scooter. Some say performance sucks and the licensing is ridiculous. Applications are locked into the Java runtime licensing jail, so making a buck on anything sends a good chunk to Larry. Now he'll use it as a margin for leverage and to rebuild his new beachfront so none of his neighbors have a view of the ocean. That was the plan, perhaps.

This is a dumb deal, outdated, costly infrastructure, and run by a fool. Allegedly.

Great job, President Trump. How much are they kicking back?

A Word on Process

This morning I deviated from my research plan. It's more unusual that I don't. Today, I got pulled to the link below. Semantic Scholar has been a very handy assist in my research lately. I created a list to watch for new papers on topic areas related to QFT. By email this morning it yelded a list of recent papers, 4 or 5 of the 7 highly relevant. One is a compelling paper discussing a very complex topic. 

This led to a long list of other papers and topics; before you know it, it was about number theory. 

I guess most people wouldn't subscribe to that topic, and fewer still have a compelling rationale.  At its root, it extends supergravity theory  in 11 dimensions to create a more solvable solution. Short version: It correlates Maxwell and string theory. 

I know I lost almost all of you by now. 

After a couple of hours, I was walking in the fog, looking for anything familiar, and my mind was at a loss to correlate all this incoming data. I guess that most people would have given up or never begun. 

My process, I don't stop. I continue pursuing tangents until the ground under me gels; in this case, linkage to existing, well-accepted theory, Maxwell's equations, and not-so-much-so branes.  I rarely discover math that creates fog for me. It is common for me to own the mist. 

Process Applied

I find correlations in the 'real world' here. I'll leave it to you to duplicate your own semantics and encourage hope in all things, even in the thickest despot-generated fog.

Note: symmetry is unproven by CERN experiments.  Don't you love fog?

https://www.semanticscholar.org/reader/9ea3b3ec2afe22c4a75ca8b2b2fa12ced32283fb 

Markets

The Beam Team

Yo, Scotty, beam us up. 

Hail to the Creep! 

Markets are !#(%ed for the foreseeable future. making the future unforeseeable. Bet on X or Y and pray. This is the world you wanted. De-regulate your pet stock right out of business, M&A of the flotsam, and prime rates for garbage. Unemployment, margin bleed, unrest, inflation, tight money, high rates, and spit in your taco salad.

I like your program, Scotty, but there's no point. I'm not talkin'. 

Last words from me. 

Government AI infrastructure would be a reason not to use it; the same goes for Oracle and that prick Larry.  Besides, that is not AI. It's a logging  joke. I use Gemini; it's pretty good at elementary code that must be fixed, extended, and edited, often just to get past a compiler, so I use it for YouTube playlist generation and the like. It's medium good at that -- taking data that already happened and randomizing it based on some sorting algorithm. 

I have mentioned there is no money in this; I also say there is no future in this. Yes, 2 + 2 is four, and 1 + 3 is four. My goodness, what a breakthrough. QED and BFD. 

What's the cube root of pi? Just get a calculator.

How Trump Won

He lied.

Hail to the Creep

I had a thought today, lying half awake, reflecting on the day ahead and the 100 and 1 spotted presidential edicts that will emit from this office today. Deporting the workforce the wealthy depend on for their livelihood, sending the military to the border, pardoning felons who pleaded guilty to the insurrection he led four years ago.

"If you're a star, you can grab 'em right by the pussy. They can't do anything."

How much more so a presidency. That's the plan, though at his age, what do you do with an extra five bucks even? Someone tell him about Viagra, maybe he'll leave us alone. If it's Peyronie's disease, maybe let go of it every once in a while.

Why he does it is a mystery. Perhaps fear of the retribution of a life of crime. When one considers the docket that awaits, if by odd chance he lives through his term, perhaps, or it can only be insanity.

A voice echoes in the distance, 'he won't last a year'. It's cheaper not to buy Doge coin, Meme coin, or any other Shit-coin he comes up with to steal from you; there are other cheaper alternatives. There are no doubt many in the world making the assessment.

Just do it without making a bigger mess, no WWIII in response. Maybe a MAGA-niac with a grudge, they'll do anything for a buck. 

I'm not advocating it, just trying to minimize the inevitable blowback.

A Final Ego-Day Word

It's lunch here, and we've all had enough of this president before the sun rose. It's a hard row America has to hoe, with a despot sitting in the Oval. What's to become of us? 

Ultimately, it has been said that this is a prelude to freedom from men and women like this.

 He will do his best to feed the upper class and kill the middle-class and poverty-stricken because they don't vote. You have been too busy trying to stay alive in the world the rich have made. 

Consider this your chance to act out, in ways only each of you could know, to reset the scales of democracy and put these people where they belong. 

Protest, write your congress peoople. Make your voice heard. Eventually, they can not win. The actions they take will destroy them. Through good, the recompense is ours. 

Cast in the fire evermore, their fate. 

It's war. Good triumphs.

Get through it.  Good night, for now, and good luck.

Truth Time

MTP

Trump inherited O'Bama's economy, and drove it deep into the dirt that still covers us; the COVID crisis was mismanaged and resulting in millions of dead Americans. Unfortunately. Tax cuts and the top-heavy policies of the COVID relief package, taken to extremes in new ways to skin the unwitting, were the cause of inflation, ex-COVID. Kevin O'Leary, the best example of greed I've noted, the proprietor, took a percentage for some paperwork taken as grift to cut a slice of America's nest egg to pay the restaurant owner's wife menu consulting fees and the like, self-interested bottom-feeding. That is SO Kevin and so Trump. 

Why would we expect a tax cut renewal and tariffs to have a positive effect? A regressive tax, realized as inflation.

The Creep

No one asked Donald Trump to push the envelope, and his mandate is thinner than his hair. His lies more transparent than his demeanor. Greed, indifference, self-interest, evil. His objective is to find something that will make history forget his mistakes, and it was a presidency rife with mistakes at every turn, so he was not re-elected. I can't explain how, or more importantly, WHY, he would run again after that. I can only be ego. 

No one voted for ego, either.

Pelosi? Trump in high heels and a pushed-up nose.

Morning World

Much love 🧟

Weekend Football 

Don't blink.

Recap 

I've watched most of the playoff games, maybe not all, more than half, and there is one thing that stands out.

This is violent, rule-breaking winning.  14 wins, 15 wins records, or 8 knuckles. Which is better?

It's just a game. 

Sundipped Preview

On a Monday, he'll be arrested, if he lives that long. The inauguration venue abandoned, for weather or some other reason.

Topic?  Hail to the Thief.

https://youtu.be/AUYk700_6W0?si=jJWYIC2SoTkrP1CB 

A Word on the Tube

There is a phrase that was used, it's unclear how widely, to describe a state of near dependency on media; we'd say "oh, Doris fell into the tube."

It describes a serious relationship with a fantasy world, that in some respects improves on the lives of people the succumb to it. Normal daily life, in all its dull glimmer, not as paced, or exciting, or meaningful, or.. available. There are two crimes here. The 'falling into the tube'; clearly not victimless, but only subject to counsel. The other crime is encouraging this activity. To do it purposefully to invade privacy, what could I call it?

One could argue for a third indictment, of the world for presenting a thin veil of unreality in place of a life as a remedy.

So, a big no on TikTok.

#TikNot

The Price of ... Gall *

I've thoght it over. Let Elon con Larry Elison and the rest of the twisted round table of non-knights, into buying TikTok.

Someone said, 150 billion.

So I thought it over.

Let 'em. 

Dogs Ponies Billionaires

Ya. 

Wolfie

He knows, TikTok is the first domino. It's self interest.

Schumer is going along, because he want's the TikTok vote, that's all. So, duh, why don't I respect the opinion one bit? All the reasons Mr. Joe gave yesterday, Google it.

As to protecting Americans, I have to add -- from what? Facebook? InstaGram? Twitter? Truth social? 

Those matter as well, perhaps more, not the popular rant.

Markets 

Ms Eisen, this is not the best advice overall from Ms. Neuberger Berman. It is what I would expect from a financial analyst at N/B.

Where to begin. Regulation? It means that business will have more challenges to adapt to; most regulations are designed to level the business environment, de-regulation, obviously would be the opposite.

Tax cuts, even continuing the current legislation, is inflationary. But besides that, the wealthy need a tax increase, something more in line with the responsibilities we share to keep the world safe, with no runaway fires, murders, despots, insane presidents. I get it that sometimes mice and men will elect one, anyone. 

It is obvious the deficit will soar and the shift to tariffs are an attempt to supplant that deficit, but it will lag in practice. Bigger deficits.  

The real effects of tarrifs is that business in will have to cope by raising prices. More inflation. Attempt to keep margins will cause cuts, and layoffs. More unemployment. QED.

Do I need to go on?

All this will create M&A opportunities with all the small business that fail trying to stay above water, and more layoffs and some failures.

Thus the result will be inflation, more Fed rate increases, layoffs, a stagnating economy trying to stay ahead of the inflation and stay in business and confused, volatile markets.To traders like us, a manic dance with stagflation, as the new levels are sought; the collateral damage unavoidable.

FSD

You don't see WayMo on the freeways do you?  It's too dangerous. It always will be. Some questionable opinions are everywhere, that won't change either.

Quantum Buicks and Unaffordable LM's

I don't talk about quantum. None of these companies except Google are even in the building, including IBM. I looked at IBM's efforts, and was invited to create a cell that could infer a qubit. I'm sure IBM has other projects. I once worked for IBM, when they make something, they make  something, so it's early at IBM. 

To think that customer service will be replaced with an economic alternative in LLM is great idea, but per prompt it's not cheaper.

I can talk about Buicks.  They still make Buicks, don't they?

Evening Tea

No tea, as always.

Anderson

"If you don't get me of this I'll start telling what i know." -- R G

So what's the mystery again? 

"Use the greater 455hole against itself"  -- perverted Varda Vol 1

Ma Collins

 Beg to differ, sucking up !=== going along, it's ducking. 

I expect this shit to go on until he !#(%s something up. All that suck becomes chum in the water. People don't like it. 

Let me offer data to support my theory. Few despots that last very long. Mussolini made it 2o years and ended up hanging from a telephone pole by barbed wire wrapped around his neck and he had the Lateran Treaty; the Catholic imprimatur, officlal sucking.

I guess you could look at it like we have that to look frorward to.

Israel and Netanyahu

This delay is just a hint at whats to come. The Isralis always invent reasons to renegotiate and demand concessions; more when negotiations are close. The ceasefire is meaningless, except as a break in the human impact un the  iDF, a civilian force, of murdering 50000 Palestinians and maybe a vacation with live-in slaves in Thailand. No, really, that's a destination, a justification, and and accurate assessment.

Phase 2 will never happen. They are delaying ecause they think Trump will get them a better deal, and if theres no deal, or next time they get close, they resume the carnage. They want to resume the carnage. They ache for it.

It's a barbarian state. It's embarassing.

Mr Pilgrim

He's particularly delusional this evening.Scott, Trump does not knit booties, ok. We'll remember you.

Ms Abby

Emerita don't mean anything, she' been thoroughly disgraced in the last election and the aftermath of her 40 year reign as Queen of the May. 

Not sure what your point is, the Republican conservative party is dead, whats left is a dog and pony show selling hats and medals for chump change to chumps. Long live Trump University, the place where you learn what it is means to get taken.  Round two, the liars poker round.

For the record, four 9 hour days is enough for anyone, that's my 'paid' availability.Friday forget it.  I never stop working. I have things I want to do.

Post Dated Comment

I looked back to see how long I'd it was, about a week. Who cares, but yesterday + 1 has so little meaning, and you never know what day it is. 

So before you laugh, aw !#(% it, g'head and laugh. That's the date emoji, and it's the 16th. They got it wrong, too, huh?

Morning World 

Much love 📅

Mr Joe

I'll be measured, it's difficult for me in some areas, where I try to remember to be objective and truthful at the same time. Plus, it's a secret, but we're friends. 

He looked really good in that blue suit outside the coffee shop. I think it was The Bean and Leaf. My spider sense went ballistic as if all the garage door openers in a half mile or so stopped working all at once but without the garages. You would have to be me for a day to understand, really, but I'm searching for metaphors, my predellctIon nee passion.

I didn't ask. 

I begin to understand the challenges he must have faced, only being a president. There are all these other people and all these presumed predilections and passions, sometimes power. My own assessment of anything ie always wanting; my expectations unrealistic and usual. You are not me, Joe is not either.

I was surprised at his list of grievances, but as i said we're secret friends, so I could have written much of it.

I can't be unkind enough to use a sharper pencil here, and it's not like it needs sharpening, I've cut a groove here with Mr Joe.

It's always been with love. Like I said, we're secret friends.

The Middle East 

I dislke these days and duty sometimes. Today is one of those days, and this is one of the duties. My perspective can even be meaningful to me at times, so I'm acclimating; still some days it feels like responsibility. 

Of course, an end to death and destruction, maybe, if Israel agrees and agrees twice. Until then, it's more gamesmanship,  and who wins is the point. That's the duty. Smile for the 11 o'clock.

I'm pleased Mr. Joe finds a high note to end on and didn't set up the next president to fail, like the Afghanistan banana stand agreement Trump cooked up.

Still I don't feel Israel is a willing partner, or ever will be. Similarly, I don't think the death of 50,000 citizens* will dull the tip of insurrection spear one bit. 

Before you call me anti-Semitic, STFU. This is about despotism, not spiritual guidance, but no spiritual guidance would even infer, require, or allow for this kind of oppression.

So this peace would be and in this way could only be the triumph of evil. Who'd want that? Be careful how you answer.

I've said it many times. Two states will never be allowed. Similarly, a single state is slavery and destruction. QED.

Not solved, probably not even deferred long.

Let's take Panama. it's just s ditch.  

Greenlend? It's a frozen swamp, bugs and bugeaters.

Mar A Groenland Annexed 

"With the coming global warming, it's gonna be great beachfront, who needs Florida." -- overheard.

"Drill baby drill" -- also overheard.

The Beam Team 

What can move whole sectors, stymie investment, slow indices, and disappoint momentum? 

I'l let you fill in the blank.

Oh I still work on all the stuff I know and don't talk about, it's just that I started not talking about it harder.  I take a defense department stance on these proprietary systems; if something is known, right or wrong, I can talk about it. Even if I don't have a saucer that folds out of a Bic lighter, I can talk about the saucer because it's common parlance, and the folding because of Jetson's and Samsung. So I can talk about that.

Emma is stronger every day, we're not cluster !#(%ed as in Kafka-esque, that's public knowledge. It's like, if you have to have a Porsche to win the MotoCross, Porsche still wins.  The bot didn't get it. It makes perfect sense to me.

The Markets 

I'm a bit curious of the markets, that anything at all is treading water. This is scary options territory; you must watch the integral every second.  I speak this way because all of this accouterment is not about investing, it's about skimming. Or whatever you want to call it.  

I'd still have BA from 30 if I listened to myself. Instead, I traded T for a month, and counted coup.

Bondi

I’ve been listening to this senate hearing, and I must  comment.  I think we’re all !#(%ed. I’m sorry to be so negative but this person just demonstrated that it is impossible to get a straight answer from a lawyer. Even when the nation's and your safety, the national security, and a citizen's right to speak are at risk. 

 It is clear she intends to find a law that applies to anyone who disagrees with Donald Trump and persecute them to the fullest extent of the law.

Note that I said persecute just like Donald Trump said, “we’re gonna persecute these people just like they persecuted me if they turns out that they’re not guilty. well that’s too bad."

I miss Bondy will beat the drum that is the instrument of the undoing of America.

The president elect selects his lawyer in the first of his two impeachments to be the Attorney General.

H o w  .!  #  (   %  i n g  .s t u p i d  .a r e  .y o u  .p e o p l e.

Senator can we agree Donald Trump is a crook, aspiring to out-do his heroes, among them Al Capone? The most pernicious crime possible in a free society is to make foul of the elections. Do I need to go on?

How much more does he have to ruin for you to wake the !#(% up. 

About Patel, she knows of him and the issues but she has not read or discussed them and has no opinion until someone tells her what it is.  Someone that pays her, or has her life in the vise at his whim.  I have to ask, just how !#(%ing stupid are you, Ms? What are the odds of you walking out of this thing?
Did you file paperwork as a foreign agent for your work for a foreign nation, Qatar?

Yesterday's News 

...so to speak.  I put it all over here.