Dave McComb

@paulg I occasionally use the word "delve" and other words of that ilk. But then again I haven't figured out how to prove I'm not an LLM. ( Even to myself)

Someone sent me a cold email proposing a novel project. Then I noticed it used the word "delve."

@rthomas86 That was excellent

I own a small dessert business. My business has a 100% trade deficit with the grocery store. I’m always buying from them, and they’ve never once bought anything from me. Now, of course, I take products I buy from the grocery store, turn them into delicious baked goods, and make a 50%+ profit, while the grocery store is running on 2-4% profit margins, but WE HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT! They’re ripping me off with their low, low prices, because they NEVER buy anything from me! Of course, the alternative is for me to grow, harvest, thrash, grind, then finely mill all of my own flour, including into the various mixes of flour that I use for various products (cake flour, bread flour, all-purpose, etc…), maintain and milk a dairy cow, churn my own butter, make that milk into heavy cream, yogurt, sour cream, condensed milk, and evaporated milk, etc…grow cacao, and then turn into all the different kinds of chocolate and baking cocoa… grow and harvest sugar cane, sorghum, mine salt, make baking powder, baking soda, grow vanilla beans, etc, etc, etc… All of that (plus WAY more), and we haven’t even talked about all the different fruits and nuts I would need, or how I would only be able to offer certain products during certain times of the year, or how a lot of what I said before wouldn’t even be possible in the climate I live in, but I digress. If all of that wasn’t cost-prohibitive enough to completely wipe out my profits (it would be, and then some), the time commitment and significant additional physical labor certainly wouldn’t make any of it worth the tiny remaining profit. Now, compare that to the current screeching about the trade deficits we have with other countries. We import raw materials (aluminum, steel, lumber, etc…) from other countries, which would be labor and/or cost prohibitive for us to make, or that we simply cannot produce or source here, and then we take those materials, and turn them into higher profit margin products, which we then export to other countries. It is exactly the same as my example, but on a macro scale.

@BillAckman And it's 20 years old, and yet, I think it's a great idea. I don't see a better way to get our trade imbalance resolved

Warren Buffett on trade deficits. Please explain what is wrong with Warren’s analysis.

@JoelVinette 🍁

If you see this post and you stand in solidarity with Canada, comment a maple leaf 🍁! I’m blessed to be Canadian and I truly, from the bottom of my heart, appreciate everyone who supports our country’s sovereignty and fair treatment! 🇨🇦 Image by grok and ai

@LangmanVince This is so bizarre. you ( presumably a spokesperson for the Trump collation ) said we “appointed” this person to this job where she is supposed to have independent agency, and now on one decision she doesn’t vote your way she’s”compromised” Really? Sick.

Is Amy Coney Barrett compromised?

@GuntherEagleman I hate it when the Supreme Court upholds the constitution in contradiction to the executive branch ( oh no sorry, that’s their job) Do you guys not get this?

JUST IN: The Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that President Trump must unfreeze almost $2B billion in foreign USAID payments. Pathetic.

@DrNeilStone Of course I’ve heard of Lesotho. But since Trump is always the smartest person in the room by his own decree, maybe I just imagined this sovereign nation / member of UN, our of my own personal imagination. ( I’ve been to 3 African nations. I’m guessing this is more than DJT)

Donald Trump said no one has heard of Lesotho. Who here had heard of Lesotho 🇱🇸 ? ✋

@Pete2Shawn @TonySeruga I hope, but I doubt, you can see the irony in your statement. Someone appointed to a lifetime position, where they are expected to uphold their independently held interpretation of the constitution, does so, and you cry “compromised” because she is not towing the Trump line.

@TonySeruga Barrett is compromised.

Many conservatives believe Justice Amy Coney Barrett deliberately lied and intentionally misled the vetting team during her confirmation. But it isn’t just about her ideology, though. It is becoming very obvious Justice Amy Coney Barrett is also compromised out of fear for her and her family. After Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s potential assassin was caught, Justice Amy Coney Barrett lost it. Many thought she was about to resign. She was genuinely scared to death. The Biden Admin and dem Senators ignored Justice’s pleas for help. Protesters were allowed to get very, very close to Justice’s homes. This was intentional. And if you don’t seriously believe these judges are scared to death to rule against the administrative and intelligence states, you’re simply not paying attention. Look at what happened to SCOTUS, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, on June 8, 2022, Nicholas Roske traveled to his home with zero difficulty, with plans to break in Kavanaugh's home, kill him, and then commit suicide. They and their families are being intimidated daily. Even the Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer threatened the court with zero repercussions. "You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price," the senator from New York said of SCOTUS Justices. And when protestors began harassing Justices at their homes, pretty much NOTHING was done. x.com/nrsc/status/12… nypost.com/2022/06/15/fed…

@JayinKyiv Real question. If Europe really see Russia as that kind of threat, why do they continue to fund Russia’s side of the war by buying energy from them. It makes no sense.

Whoa.. We have prepared a peace plan for Ukraine, — Macron ▪️Europe is entering a new era, the threat from Russia extends to all of us; ▪️Peace cannot be concluded on the Russia's terms; ▪️We must prepare for the fact that the US will not be on our side; ▪️Peace cannot be signed in Washington or Moscow.

@GibsonAubr11146 @Hal4 You are welcome to your own opinions. I accept and appreciate that.

@semanticarts @Hal4 No

“I'm not religious, I'm spiritual” Does not mean anything.

@KanekoaTheGreat @elonmusk This is such a bizarre spin on the obvious. Would you have said that George Washington wanted “the war to go on forever”? No. He and Zelensky want the war to go on until they are free. The reason you can’t see this or say this is because you are under the sway of the autocrats

NEW: David Sacks says Democrats now support endless war, Zelensky wants the war to never end, and Joe Biden could have easily stopped the war in its first month by agreeing to the Istanbul Accords. "Zelensky basically says the war needs to go on forever. If the war is over, he loses power. He canceled elections there. If he stands for elections there, he's very unpopular, despite what the fake USAID polls say." "The Democrats have become the Party of forever war. Remember this was Joe Biden's war. He easily could have ended this war in the first month if he agreed to the Istanbul Accords, which said that all Ukraine had to do was stay neutral and basically agree not to become part of NATO. Biden said that was unacceptable, and that's why the war continued." "Then Biden said we have to support Ukraine in this war for as long as it takes as much as it takes, and that's what the Democrats are doing. They want to keep spending hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars. They want this to keep going and going, but that's not in the American interest." "What benefit are we getting out of all this money that we are sending to Ukraine? What benefits are the Ukrainians getting? Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are dying, and they're not winning this war. They're losing this war. What is so wrong with letting President Trump try to negotiate a peace deal?"

@semanticarts I'd like to read more, can you post your links?

This is an unbelievable stat, not even sure how to process this level of insanity 😵

@Breaking911 Love it. All in on this. As long as he meets the requirements ( of being dead)

NEW: U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson to introduce legislation to direct the Bureau of Graving & Printing to design a $250 bill featuring President Trump. What do you think of this? 🤔⤵️

@CatoInstitute @scottlincicome Very thoughtful piece on impact of mass deportations.

Fewer immigrants =fewer jobs Studies show that when deportations increase, the US construction, childcare, and farming industries shrink. Less growth means fewer opportunities for everyone. @scottlincicome lays out the evidence: cato.org/commentary/tru…

@49b21322 @FPWellman Opinions matter. But not yours.

@FPWellman No Ukraine started the war by applying to join NATO. Facts matter.

Possibly the most evil man to ever serve as President.

@baltostar @FPWellman I think the worst is Andrew Johnson ( not Jackson although he was pretty bad). The scholars at presidentialgreatnessproject.com mostly agree ( although I don’t get how they had Buchanan below Johnson) Johnson who took over from Lincoln actively tried to undo the civil war.

@FPWellman Who else is even close ?

@YoteOfStreet 6 weirdly: braces, massage (!), tattoo, dyed my hair, marathon, fake nails.

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