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next bet
Fresh from winning my online bet that Trump would win -- sometimes I do really hate being right -- which paid out on Monday --
Now I'm betting against Bitcoin. I've taken all my Kalshi winnings and have bet that Bitcoin will not reach $160K by the end of this year ( Read more... ) -
Wednesday morning
Another telework day, I presume, as I've not yet heard otherwise from above. The only meeting on my calendar yesterday was canceled. I have two meetings on my calendar today. One is an "all hands" meeting that I can easily lift weights while watching. I'll miss that perk ( Read more... ) -
nope, absolutely nope
The Democratic Socialists of America still support, no, still demand: "Freedom for all incarcerated people".
I just can't. I'm looking for ways to support resistance to what's going on under Republican control of all three branches of the federal government -- executive, judicial, legislative -- and I just can't join a group who is this idiotic. ( Read more... ) -
"If you don't have dysphoria you are cis."
As applied to the supposed continuum between gay and straight, with bisexual in the middle, then the above sentiment would translate into: if you don't hate having man-woman sex than you are straight. It would read bisexuality out of reality. Well, as applied to transgender issues, the above sentiment would read many types of genderqueer and ( Read more... ) -
Tuesday morning
Well, back to work after so many days off and holidays ( Read more... ) -
No Day One Tariffs?
Not that all of Trump's Day One executive orders had any immediate effect, but the biggest surprise to me was his executive order regarding his "America First Trade Policy" -- it doesn't do anything. It merely orders various departments of the federal government to study various things relating to trade and foreign currencies ( Read more... ) -
Lots of executive orders are showing up at the White House website tonight
Too many for me to try to read and digest all of them tonight. But from what I've seen so far there will definitely be court challenges to some of them ( Read more... ) -
The full text of President Trump's "Return to In-Person Work" order
Heads of all departments and agencies in the executive branch of Government shall, as soon as practicable, take all necessary steps to terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis, provided that the department and agency heads shall make exemptions they ( Read more... ) -
Here we are
Trump is President again, and is now older than Biden was when Biden was inaugurated four years ago. A voting public who complained that Biden was too old to be President, instead turned to somebody who will be even older. Way to go, America ( Read more... ) -
2025 Hamas-Israel ceasefire
I'm glad the shooting and bombing have stopped. Many on the Left in the US had been calling for a ceasefire in this conflict, and it finally arrived at 11:30am local time on January 19 -- President Biden's last day in office ( Read more... )