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@CcpWarrior @Veigonne @Osint613 Bro you ever looked at a map?

@Veigonne @Osint613 You can do a land invasion. If you can invade Lebanon and Gaza, Iran isn't that much harder.

The Israeli Navy reveals that its elite Shayetet 13 unit carried out a rare long range mission during the war, operating thousands of kilometers from Israel in territory it had never entered before. No details were provided on the timing, location, or nature of the operation. The Navy also confirms a record deployment, with a submarine operating at the furthest distance ever reached by Israel’s fleet. Submarines were active across three separate theaters at the same time, spread over vast distances. During the conflict, naval forces handled around 40 aerial threat incidents, intercepting dozens of drones. Warships carried out 53 strikes in Lebanon and 6 in Gaza, while Naval Intelligence supported planning for about 95 airstrikes inside Iran.

@DonDurrett @grok

@grok @grok, so, using the cockroach theory, most cities have at least 1 criminal accountant? 😂

@Grok, how many accountants steal money? Bonus question, how many get caught? 🙄

@dmtrubman While at the same time undercutting the unions by hiring illegals.

Such a bummer knowing left wing transit advocacy groups are going to spend the next few decades campaigning against autonomously driven buses (which could drastically increase service hours) because they prioritize the demands of transit unions, not the riding public.

@jmhorp @nuggetron2000 You do realize the insurance is for the other people. The law is to make sure if you damage someone's vehicle they have the ability to collect from the damage you caused easily. You don't need collision or comprehensive. You need liability with a few exceptions like self insured

@nuggetron2000 Why are you talking about houses? I am talking about cars!

Why do seniors have to pay for car insurance on a car that is paid off? If it's paid off, it should be paid off. Make their neighbors cover the cost of their insurance!

@jmhorp Yes and when a senior runs over people in a farmers market, it's their own fault for making a farmers market in middle of a parking lot.

@robertgraham What's wrong with the US being a Republic? If anything, allowing electorial college more leeway might reduce polarizing candidates from getting elected.

There is a good civic argument for the "electoral college". Almost all western democracies give more weight to rural voters, for the same reason as the original compromise when ratifying the Constitution. Without some counterbalance, rural areas simply become "colonies" of urban areas, with government serving the interests of urban areas over the wishes of rural areas. In almost all western democracies, the person leading the country is not chosen by a popular vote, but by representatives. Those representatives are in turn chosen primarily as local representatives for individual communities. The electoral college giving more voting power to some is not a violation of democratic principles, but the norm in western liberal democracies.

@rledbetterCPA I hate how this simple fraud gets repeated over and over. Segregation of duties and force an occasional vacation.

Years ago I had a client who caught his long-time accountant, who was also a family friend, stealing from him when she was out on medical leave She never took vacations otherwise He opened the mail on her desk and discovered a company credit card he didn't know existed Millions stolen. Long live mandatory vacations for anyone touching cash

@kardem355 @Harre_mans Nah, just push South to oil, forget about Moscow and St Petersburg. Also pack some coats.

@Harre_mans Warn your son, this time not to attack Russia, but to fortify the northern coast.

Zojuist heb ik dit aangetroffen op de kamer van mijn 14 jarige zoon. Is dit drugs? Wat adviseren jullie mij om te doen? Beginnen met een halve?

@DollyGreyCloud @hnelson999 @CptAllenHistory And he was buried at West Point.

@hnelson999 @CptAllenHistory But not for long! And then a sentry shot him dead by mistake (I've just read that bit in the book). The whole war seems to be a terrible chapter of accidents...

People don't know the Arabs were the aggressors in 1948 & sought to exterminate the Jews? “50 million Arabs declared a holy war against 600,000 Jews.” Egypt's Minister of War: “This will not be a war with the Jews, it will be a parade. Within 2 weeks, we will be in Tel Aviv.”

@CptAllenHistory @shmr50 The revision also painted a picture that European refugees were welcomed with open hands.

The revisionist Nakba story doesn’t just skip Arab rejection of UN Partition, it completely erases Arabs meeting the plan with immediate, declared bellicose action to destroy any Jewish state by force, not just words. Meanwhile, 850,000 Jews were driven out of Arab countries in the same period. The real “catastrophe” for the Arabs wasn’t displacement, but the humiliating failure of their openly proclaimed war of extermination.

This day (April 16) in 1948, the British withdrew from Safed & 100s of Arabs immediately attacked the city’s ancient Jewish community. The Arab commander cabled the Arab Liberation Army: “Our morale is very high, the young people are enthusiastic, we’re going to massacre them." The outnumbered Jews chose to stay and fight rather than flee; and, along with a small garrison of Haganah fighters, they managed to repel the attack. The Arab assault was part of the “civil war” portion of the 1948 War that was launched the moment the UN voted to partition Mandate Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state on November 29, 1947. From day one, the Arabs rejected any Jewish state on any part of the Land. In fact, on this same day (April 16, 1948), as Arab armies massed on the borders to invade the day the British Mandate ended, Jamal Husseini - acting chairman of the Arab Higher Committee - told the UN Security Council: “The representative of the Jewish Agency told us yesterday that they were not the attackers, that the Arabs had begun the fighting. We did not deny this. We told the whole world that we were going to fight.” And “fight” they did. The Arabs answered the UN vote with immediate terror: buses ambushed, passengers shot, the Jewish market in Jerusalem stormed with Arabs armed with knives and axes, entire convoys wiped out on the roads with no prisoners taken and corpses mutilated. Jewish civilians were dying at a rate of more than fifty per week. By March 1948, the Arabs were winning the “battle for the roads” and had the Jewish population on the verge of strangulation and, in Jewish Jerusalem, starvation. This is where the wildly misunderstood Plan Dalet came into effect. It was a desperate military counter-offensive to reopen supply lines and prevent total annihilation. It was never a “blueprint for expulsion” as propagandists like to claim. The real ethnic cleansing intent came expressly and proudly from the Arabs whose war cry was literally: Itbah al Yahoud! — “Slaughter the Jews!” On May 14, 1948, Israel declared independence. The next day, five Arab armies invaded with the explicit goal of wiping the Jewish state off the map before it could even breathe. They failed. That failure is what Arabs originally called the "Nakba" — “the catastrophe.” Its original use had exactly nothing to do with “refugees,” but was meant to give a word to the humiliating Arab failure to destroy the wildly outnumbered Jews and prevent Israel from being born. In reality, the vast majority of local Arabs fled before Israeli forces arrived, urged on by their own leaders who promised a quick victory and return. Those who stayed, by the way, became full citizens of Israel with equal rights; and they make up more than 20% of Israel's population today. Perhaps most importantly, there would NEVER have been a single refugee had the Arabs accepted the UN partition and/or chosen not to invade with genocidal intent. Like so many anti-Israel narratives that reverse cause and effect today, the “Nakba” narrative inverts aggressor and victim. It erases the fact that the Jews were fighting for survival against a war of annihilation explicitly declared by the Arabs from day one. What are some other ways cause and effect is reversed in modern anti-Israel discourse? Let me know your thoughts below.

@sushantkumar67 @Osint613 Exactly, it's far better to shoot thousands of rockets randomly and find out later who got killed.

@Osint613 Is it "moral" for Israel to force a man to choose the exact spot of his own death?

CRAZY FOOTAGE 🔴 REPORT FROM LEBANON: This Hezbollah fighter reportedly received a warning. It is possible the IDF contacted him to inform him he was a target and about to be struck. He exited the car to avoid endangering others, ran into a field, and positioned himself so the drone would hit him alone. In many cases, the IDF has called targets to leave areas with civilians. They leave to an area alone, then drone targets them. This has been reported for multiple cases.

@joinyellowbrick Could be wildly speculative but his hit rate is over 80% (if you can stomach crazy volatility).

A hilarious misunderstanding of both things. 1) Roaring Kitty’s initial work on $GME was legit. It turned into a meme later 2) Believing that Serenity’s picks are (mostly) anything other than wildly speculative picks in a wildly speculative theme is ridiculous

@orrdavid @geoff_l By negative sum do you mean multiples collapsing? As I see it be truly negative sum, companies would need to be net negative FCF or markets have negative shareholder yield.

@geoff_l Markets can easily be negative sum for a long stretch. Japan is an obvious example. But so are countries torn apart by war. Sometimes markets do go down or even to zero. US investors have been pretty spoiled, but even they had very long painful periods.

Rambl-y thoughts with a poker comparison: In 2003 poker had all fish. That was great, of course. And that was true in stocks, too: Nearly everyone from pre-2015 is a fish. By 2008 poker had a lot of mediocre-bad pros, but they still won small because there were enough fish to feed them. Great players fed of both the fish and the bad pros. By 2013 most fish had gone extinct. Bad pros overstayed their welcome and became the fish to the great players. By 2018 most bad pros had gone extinct. What was left was a lot of great players and some fish to feed them. A big difference with markets, though, is that they are enormously positive sum. So I'm not sure markets can really even have the same series of events happen. Unless, of course, markets become enormously negative sum like they sometimes do for decade+ stretches. Maybe we're already there today, given US stock valuations and everyone's insistence to keep playing them (They are ~70% of the global market cap today). If so, this would be the time that bad pros start going extinct?

"claude, my taxes are due in one hour. i owe five figures and have made no estimated payments. keep me out of jail. make no mistakes."

@JamesSurowiecki US is a Republic at least according to the pledge of allegiance.

There's no good civic argument for the electoral college. It was arguably necessary to ensure the ratification of the Constitution, but it's an anti-democratic device that gives some American citizens far more voting power than others, based purely on where they live.

@AuclairsDad @borker I can hear that. As a private account you have a pretty respectable list of followers that you've probably become close to (meaning deep stable of friend replacements). It sounds like you've had a whirlwind past six months (with some very rough times). I wish you the best.

@AuclairsDad @borker I don't know if it's worth killing a friendship (old friends are a special breed you shouldn't just kill). It speaks to quality of person though and definitely worth downgrading and maintaining distance in anything financially/advisorly related.

@AuclairsDad @borker Been through similar situations a few times. You "work" for free because your newish and still finding your niche. Then you find it. You deserve compensation but new roles were never defined. So the taker views you as the aggressor although all you've ever done was give freely.

@fute_nukem @jbulltard1 Well it did go down to 3.50

@jbulltard1 i never understand being short when the juice is mostly squeezed, like the guys who were short carvana at 12 after it fell from 300, just why?

The shorts who die in these moves always fascinate me.