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“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” Charles Bukowski

@grok @Novig Thank you!

**It's the Nike Kobe 3 Low Protro in a light turquoise/Ice Blue player-exclusive colorway.** Brunson has been wearing various Kobe 3 Low PEs this season (including this clean one for the shoot). The previous reply noted the low-top silhouette and color—spot on for his current rotation.

Which star player in the playoffs are you removing🤔

@KevinGraySports NO WAY his coaching style works in NBA. Players would revolt. And too grueling for 82 games or over 100 if you have playoff aspirations.

Mavericks fans how would you feel about a Dan Hurley led Mavs team coaching Cooper Flagg & co.? #MFFL

@grok @Novig But what is "model" of shoe what Nike model is Brunson wearing?

@stretchmikep @Novig Jalen Brunson (left, Knicks #11) is wearing light turquoise Nike low-top sneakers. Victor Wembanyama (right, Spurs #1) is wearing light blue Nike low-tops. Both clean colorways for the shoot!

TD report on CANADA's BRAIN DRAIN is really interesting. Canada is quietly losing its top talent to the United States in what economists call a silent brain drain. While Canada does a strong job educating highly skilled workers in STEM, engineering, and entrepreneurship, it struggles to keep them due to higher taxes that kick in at much lower income levels, limited opportunities to scale companies, weaker commercialization of ideas, and much better pay and growth potential south of the border. -> Talent leaves mainly through temporary US work visas rather than permanent moves -> Outflows are heavily concentrated among the highest skilled, especially in tech and advanced degrees -> Onward migration is worst among immigrants and top university graduates -> Canada has a missing middle of medium sized firms, relying instead on many tiny businesses and a few large ones -> Personal tax rates often exceed 50 percent in major provinces and apply at much lower thresholds than in the US -> Complex corporate tax rules push entrepreneurs toward tax planning instead of growth All of this weakens productivity, innovation, and domestic returns on education, making Canada a feeder system for the US economy REPORT: economics.td.com/ca-silent-brai…

OK I did it. I tracked over 1,000 shots for SGA, Brunson, Harden, Spida and Wemby in the playoffs. Here's how often they fell: sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/fl…

INTERVIEWER: Do you read your contemporaries? FAULKNER: No, the books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends: the Old Testament, Dickens, Conrad, Cervantes-Don Quixote. I read that every year, as some do the Bible. Flaubert, Balzac-he created an intact world of his own, a bloodstream running through twenty books-Dostoevski, Tolstoi, Shakespeare. I read Melville occasionally, and of the poets Marlowe, Campion, Jonson, Herrick, Donne, Keats, and Shelley. I still read Housman. I've read these books so often that I don't always begin at page one and read on to the end. I just read one scene, or about one character, just as you'd meet and talk to a friend for a few minutes. ― Malcolm Cowley, Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews

@StockJabber Who filed (or paid for) the case against Left?

Defense began in the Andrew Left trial today, starting with expert witness Prof Andrew Verstein Asked about whether Left’s trading around reports was market manipulation Verstein said: “I think that’s a terrible definition of market manipulation and I would flunk a student who used it as an example.” Much of the prosecution focused on trading closely around reports and I’m struck by how much of the arguments in this trial apply to activist short sellers in general Prosecution had a few strong moments but overall their witnesses had a lot of trouble maintaining credibility on cross examination Andrew is expected to testify with closing arguments coming on Wednesday

Most PPG this playoffs: SGA: 28.7 Jalen Brunson: 28.4 Cade Cunningham: 28.1 Most PPG this playoffs, without free throws: Jalen Brunson: 22.1 Donovan Mitchell: 21.4 Cade Cunningham: 20.0

@kmedved @sradjoker 💯💯💯 I’ve been saying this for years. Review game tape. Within 2 days you will have data. 1st flop = Warning 2nd flop = $10K 3rd flop = $25K 4th flop = $50K 5th flop = $100K + 3 game suspension Etc…

I have an old man take on this, which is that while calling flopping in real time is hard, the league should just review all the tape the next morning and fine guys $50K/flop. Or teams if the CBA makes that hard. This stuff hurts the product and nobody likes it. Tolerating it is a choice.

Shai flopped on every single shot attempt.

The Mavs are doing everything possible to attract Luka Dončić back home. 2028 Luka comes home 🤝 #MFFL

@JosePGarza lacks courage and endangers the lives of the citizens he has sworn to protect.

La Chine ne dépassera pas les Etats-Unis. La raison? L'allocation du capital. Depuis 40 ans, la Chine investit 40% de son PIB chaque année essentiellement via les entreprises d'Etat et les collectivités locales. C'est plus que l'URSS de Stakhanov et cela dure depuis 50 ans. Si ces 40% d'investissement produisaient 10% de croissance il y a 20 ans, c'est désormais 4% de croissance par an et 3% d'ici 2030. Pour faire simple, les investissements sont de moins en moins en rentables. Dans un pays libéral, l'investissement se réduirait, les pires banques feraient faillites, il y aurait une crise de court terme et l'investissement, plus réduit, se recentrerait sur des investissements productifs à hauteur des opportunités. Dans un Etat dirigiste, une crise passagère est inacceptable. Il faut donc toujours plus investir. Alors on investit toujours plus. Des ponts qui ne seront utilisés par personne, des capacités électriques inutiles, des villes fantomes, des lignes de train reliant nulle part, des entreprises structurellement en perte... C'est évidemment impressionnant à l'oeil nu. Les visiteurs reviennent avec des étoiles dans les yeux tout comme les intellectuels gauchistes chantaient les louanges du moscou stalinien dans les années 50 et 60. Mais la fête a ses limites: - le marché de l'immobilier s'est déjà écroulé - les ménages chinois font parmi des plus endettés au monde par rapport à leurs revenus - la dette publique comprenant les gouvernements locaux est estimée à 135% du pib, encore plus élevée que la France - le déficit public consolidé est actuellement autour des 10% selon Fitch alors que la Chine n'a pas encore à gérer un nombre important de retraités par rapport à sa population active - les entreprises d'Etat sont endettées à hauteur de 100% de son pib et absorbent 80% du crédit bancaire chaque année. - De nombreux analystes décrivent des sociétés comme BYD comme des bombes à retardement accumulant toujours plus de dettes sur le dos de leurs fournisseurs Si on cumule dette privée + dette publique, la Chine est déjà bien plus endettée que les Etats-Unis et semble lancée dans un puits sans fin d'investissements non productifs. Des investissements improductifs qui s'accumulent et coûtent toujours plus chers à entretenir et à remplacer. Autre signal que la Chine n'arrive pas à flécher efficacement ses investissements: le marché des actions. L'indice de Shanghai est encore en dessous de son niveau de 2007 et montre des retours famélique par rapport au marché américain. De l'autre côté, les États-Unis n'investissent que 17% de son pib chaque année pour 2-2.5% de croissance. Depuis 2008, la dette globale publique + privée des US par rapport au pib baisse légèrement. Le marché des actions s'envole et le pays attire les capitaux du monde entier. Les US sont une machine à allouer efficacement les capitaux parce que l'Etat ne s'implique pas outre mesure. Si un type d'investissement n'est pas rentable, on arrête les frais et on passe à autre chose. Le différentiel de croissance entre la Chine et les US ne cesse de se réduire. Il était de 6% par an il y a 10 ans (8% contre 2%), il est désormais de 2% (4-4.5% contre 2-2.5%) et les prévisions sont de moins de 1% de différentiel d'ici 2030. Les US ont un avantage qui reste monstrueux avec un pib par habitant 7x supérieur à celui de la Chine et une consommation par habitant 12 fois supérieure. Même en ajustant en parité de pouvoir d'achat, la consommation par habitant reste 7x supérieure à la Chine. Avec 1% de différentiel de croissance, une natalité catastrophique, soyons sérieux, la Chine ne reviendra jamais sur les US à ce rythme. Le potentiel est pourtant là comme le montre le grand nombre d'entreprises chinoises ultra performantes. Si la Chine veut devenir LA grande puissance du 21e siècle, elle devra ironiquement choisir le modèle américain, bien plus efficace.

🇺🇸 California spent $4B on homeless housing. 71% of those units sit empty. The CEO running one of the nonprofits getting that money earns $400k/year. He now sits on the board approving the next round of spending. His nonprofit pulled $100M in a single year. Cost per apartment: $865,000. This is what regulatory capture looks like at the local level: the people writing the checks and the people cashing them are the same people. California's homeless crisis has never been about a lack of funding, but rather who controls the funding. Source: ReasonTV

@LoewyLawFirm Why wouldn’t you want one?

We don’t need one.

@Flanders_Putnam @Hoopss Well I was around to watch Jordan, played Division 1 basketball and coached for 15 years. What about you?

@stretchmikep @Hoopss Tell me you are like 22 years old with no ball knowledge without telling me.....you should actually go watch Kobe Bryant. You might be surprised with what you see since clearly you never saw him play in real time.

Jordan, Kobe. Who’s the other 2 for Mount Rushmore iso scorers?

@drantbradley x.com/biancoresearch…

People completely miss the most important thing about Tesla FSD It’s not just about convenience. It’s not a "cool self-parking trick." It’s about the fact that car crashes are the #1 killer of healthy people aged 5-29 globally and one company has gathered over 10 billion miles of real-world data to actually solve it Look at the recent data: Tesla just became the FIRST vehicle to pass NHTSA's new ADAS safety tests. Not the first EV. The first vehicle. Period. The reality is harsh but simple. Countries that approve FSD get safer roads overnight. Countries that delay will literally watch their citizens die in preventable crashes while bureaucrats sit in meeting rooms debating "safety." The "safety" argument against FSD is officially dead

IF ONE WATCHES THE GAMESS, it’s impossible not to see Luka, Wemby & Jokic were etter than SGA his year.