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Comment Re:how could this pass? (Score 5, Interesting) 100

Seems at least somewhat noteworthy that the Pelosi's (D) receive all the attention for their market gains while other Congress critters such as Dan Crenshaw (R), John Curtis (R), French Hill (R), Brian Mast (R), and Austin Scott (R) have all outperformed the Pelosi's (at least in 2021 per the Unusual Whales analysis), but have received little attention. Austin Scott, in particular, appears to have over doubled the gains of the Pelosi's.

Comment Re:Just Another Form (Score 1) 127

But what about the person who is on bail or, for whatever reason, not allowed to fly? What would prevent this person from acquiring a ticket secondhand and boarding the flight? It would seem like the only way to accomplish this is through some means of identify verification upon boarding the aircraft.

Comment Slap on the wrist (Score 5, Insightful) 31

How is a mere $1.5m fine supposed to curb data sharing practices amongst this or other companies? On the contrary, I suspect that for certain large companies dependent upon advertising revenue, like Facebook and Google, such measly fines only serve as a green light to proceed with business as usual.

Comment Re:This is the other side of the coin (Score 2) 208

The most obvious humane compromise would be to 'terminate' the employee by immediately locking them out of critical infrastructure, assuming the role calls for such measures, but then also immediately arranging a meeting (virtual if the employee is remote only) and delivering the news face-to-face.

Comment Re:Good luck getting your money out (Score 1) 53

Are you confusing the value of the DJIA with the health of the economy and/or the effects of inflation? But in any event, to use your example of the DOW, you need to look a little further back on the chart to get a grasp of where the issues started. 2/20/20 marked the beginning of an abrupt downtrend that took the market back to 2017 levels over the course of a month. At that point, the government was talking about issuing stimulus checks to individuals and families, and issuing PPP loans to businesses. Immediately afterwards, the market began its sharply steeped incline resulting in the market rising to levels that were nearly 50% higher than even pre-COVID levels (and over 100% the COVID lows). This is also marked the beginning of the sharp increase in real estate prices. And, of course, neither of these are a coincidence, since the average family suddenly had thousands of extra dollars in effectively disposable income that could easily be invested in the market, or used as a down payment on a home. And businesses suddenly got to report the wonderful PPP windfalls as bonuses to their bottom lines, further fueling the investment frenzy that, both, set the market up for an extremely over-bought situation (that we're now witnessing the correction for), and further driving the cost of goods and services up (which also had to do with the supply-and-demand issues due to COVID manufacturing shortages). Yes, the Russia situation didn't help matters much, and definitely resulted in driving gas prices further upwards, but inflation had already been deeply set in by this point, despite the fed's repeated denial up until is was clearly no longer deniable.

Comment Re:Good luck getting your money out (Score 1) 53

"engineering a recession"? The recession was 'engineered' a couple years ago when the fed was printing money as fast as they could print it for economic stimulus and PPP 'loans'. Now, they're trying their best to unscrew themselves from the situation they've created, with a recession simply being the most likely outcome.

Comment Re:GM (Score 2) 228

For performance driving, manually controlling the transmission allows you to prepare the vehicle for what is about to happen, such as downshifting into corner and maintaining the engine RPM high enough to power out of the turn. Or even if you just need to quickly pass someone on a two-lane road without having to wait for the car's computer to figure out that you're trying to accelerate quickly and then downshift for you. The automatic transmission is reactionary only, and can't predict what you want to do in the near future.

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