SF

Shit fire, I hate these clueless numpties. It makes me angry that “education” so often produces negative value and spits out endless cavalcades of people who are dumber than rocks because rocks never do anything actively stupid.

Government should own all or nearly all housing, in cities especially. Why are we even letting private corporations seeking only profit make decisions about how we live, and who can even afford to live?

I’m not in favor of rent control, either, because I am in favor of NO FUCKING RENT.

This doesn’t mean that I am full-on communist. There is a place for a cash economy and some forms of capitalism, but housing definitely is not that place.

Haley’s Presidential Comet

Nikki Haley ditches her Twitter account โ€” and nearly 1.7 million followers โ€” and the real question is why.

So since she’s definitely running, where’s all the Hillary die-hards who are here to tell me that we should vote for a woman because she’s a woman? Where all ya’ll at? Haley arguably has about as much experience as Hillary Clinton (state House Rep, governor of a medium-size state for six years, U.N. ambassador for ~2 years), so Hillary rules apply, right?

Ok, now that I’ve got that out of my system, Haley is not the worst of the likely Republican candidates, but that’s not saying much. She’s anti-abortion and in favor of lowering taxes but she doesn’t seem as willfully cruel as some of them. That’s about the nicest thing there is to say about her.

Traders

So many people trading in the stock market and other similar markets are so worried about what will happen in the future while almost none are concerned with what’s really relevant, and that’s not doing something stupid now.

Avoiding immediate stupidity is far more important than an unknown and unknowable future.

Sited On

Is there a forum or forum-like site that I’ve joined that I haven’t been booted off of? I can’t think of one. My own, I guess. That’s great. That means I am doing something right.

I don’t join sites or forums anymore because it is pointless. I need less groupthink echoing around in my brain, not more. A perfect 100% ban record means my priorities and intellect is pointed the right way.

Abysmal

So true. Amazon hurt them, but they mostly hurt and killed themselves. I guess it got to be a race to the bottom, and what a benthic bottom it was. Their main problem was and is instead of competing where they were strong, the chose to compete where they were weak. It takes a well-educated MBA (or a whole herd of them) to do something as boneheaded as that.