OK, I am not that wound up.
Work is kicking into high gear – Our Swiss masters have released the crumbs…er, budgets to the various ravenous business units. It might slow down by July.
But you are here for links, so links you shall have!
- Good luck. You will need it.
- Wait…wut? I am shocked at this.
- I suppose this is serious then!
- A very Swiss crime.
Music – I don’t know why I thought of this old one, but I did.
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“A very Swiss crime.”
Sherlock Holmes does it again, in The Case of the Two Dogs Not Barking.
I’m surprised the criminals got away with it. I thought there was a neighborhood Swatch.
It was just a matter of time.
I wonder what the detectives fondued out.
Pretty sure the dogs wanted to be Lego.
I bet they wanted to be paid in “German” boullion.
I thought the owner would go coocoo over this.
The owner only goes cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
Because Bruce Willis was the voice actor for the dogs the whole time?
They were going to get caught eventually. Swiss time was running out.
Zurich police said that two Bolonka dogs were stolen from the home of a 59-year-old man in Schlieren near Zurich last week, while the dog owner was away.
A special breed known for its sizable hindquarters, or as the rappers say, “Dat big Bolonkadonk.”
I like big mutts and I can not lie…
Look at the ass on dat bitch.
“killed by security forces in just a few days, throwing into question the ability of Syria’s new government to maintain peace”
Yeah, interesting framing…not so much a lack of ability to keep the peace as the complete opposite: complicity in or even direction of the violence.
The current government are ex Al Nusra and they’re only ex because they got a bad rep and renamed themselves. True scum of the earth really.
You maintain the peace by killing all the complainers and making an example of them. Fear will keep the local
systemsvillages in line.I’m old enough to remember when the overthrow of Assad was supposed to be something to celebrate.
Well, his wife was Assad to see him go.
Well, she said Alawite things.
Yeah, he is literally pro-criminal.
You know why NYC was a better place 15 or 20 years ago? Because, among other things, fare theft was punished. Turns out a lot of them were already wanted for other shit or otherwise “bad dudes”.
Oh, and you’d think city government would appreciate getting that hundreds of millions of dollars back that the thieves steal every year.
I think this is similar to the argument about pirated (songs/software/books etc.) That cohort is not the paying customers, they are willing to use the subway to expand their mayhem horizon on the free.. but otherwise will remain in their local area rather than pay $$ to travel.
Not arguing against cracking down on them, just that it wont boost the revenue.. One can theorize that there is a margin of fare skippers that are not hard core and can be swayed, but I don’t think it is large.
I remember a couple of NJ parkway “toll” booths that were not manned and were just an armored “throw your coins here” (Newark area) . gates or electronics would have been vandalized, I’m sure the locals ignored it, and transients paid the toll.
Of the handful of Rapid stations (the local light rail) I’ve been to, only one (Tower City) routinely has people staffed there and turnstiles for checking tickets. Every other one is basically an honor system. Buses on the other hand, you better have your exact change or card ready.
This all goes to the wayside on high traffic days.
There are probably numbers out there that I am too lazy to find but I suspect otherwise.
Maybe not every bad dude will pay up but there is a large segment of the population who currently ride for free everywhere – to school, to work, to visit family, etc. etc. – and not just when they are “looking for trouble”.
Or else what lol.
The NYC papers used to be full of stories of bus drivers attacked after the requested the kind gentlemen deposit a far.
Now, they don’t even bother. I sure as hell wouldn’t. I’m not risking my life over that.
rhywun:
I’ve only seen rude words and the driver stopping the bus. Of course, it’s also been several years since getting on a bus. The Rapid at least gets me downtown and back on the cheap.
Nobody Rides for Free
https://youtu.be/hBYa2xGDAQs
OTOH I don’t think a lot of honest commuters will cry over fewer troublemakers around.
The dirty secret of fare evasion is that the perps are disproportionately black. Apparently, it’s a cultural thing, like knife fighting.
They don’t even claim otherwise that this is the reason for ignoring it. Well, “black or brown”.
Because it’s just a couple bucks, right?
That’s a secret?
Buildings will topple into the sea, and it’ll be all Trump’s fault
The U.S. Geological Survey’s team of scientists, including Slattery, helped accurately predict that Pinellas beaches would be overwashed by surge, sending thousands of pounds of sand into homes and businesses.
Slattery, who has 20 years of scientific research experience and was a University of Tampa professor for nearly a decade, was fired Feb. 14 amid the expansive push by President Donald Trump’s administration to cut the federal workforce.
Without federally funded science, who could’ve predicted that building on the beach in a hurricane zone sometimes meant shifting sands?
And yes, just as predictably as night follows day, a local Democrat cries that “people will die.”
Without reading it I’d bet money that a) He’s not the only person doing this work, and b) The 20 years was in some completely different area, and he’s a very recent hire for this role.
Yeah — I thought all the folks let go were either contractors, probationary — or in rare cases political appointees likely to try to screw over the incoming admin. But I haven’t really been following all that closely either.
The few I’ve bothered to read have followed a pattern. Decades of “service”, which leads you to believe they’ve been at the job that long. But it turns out they were a veteran, or worked at some other job, and they are in fact probationary for this job. Misleading and dishonest, of course.
Is it just me, or does it seem that all of the employment that happened over the last four years was gov’t padding the books?
Yeah — private, private co-op, local, state… there are so many levels that could pay this hoser or his ilk a consulting / contracting fee if there’s value there… Why everything must flow to DC (I know why… so they can take a cut before shuffling things back as well as picking winners and losers) instead of just handling it in-house… you’ve got me. It isn’t like states lack research institutes — and they might have more if the focus wasn’t soley on groveling for NSF grants and whatnot.
You mean like all the articles about colleges needing to raise tuition prices since they’re losing the government grant money?
One would think they could more than cover the difference by firing their DEI administrators and getting back to a reasonable student:faculty:administration ratio.
Of course — since I haven’t heard of any FedGov changes to student loans… why not hike the prices again — the students will pay for it anyway… they’ll just hope the pendulum will swing, someone like PPP will get in again and they can whine to have their tab picked up by the taxpayers.
OK, I am not that wound up.
Phew.
It is because he’s a lawyer — not in a stem field. Keeps him from grinding his gears so no one will spring problems on him.
I wonder if the Swiss still make watches that need to be manually wound. Or is that just the older models?
They do, as well as others. One of my favorite watches.
Watches. Great example of casual, unspoken anti left-handedness. Gotta pay extra to get one that ))) We ))) can easily wind while-wearing.
casual, unspoken anti left-handedness
Go for the automatic, no winding required.
I have an automatic Seiko, I don’t move enough to keep it wound. My Walmart Special has been faithful through 2-3 battery changes.
My Walmart Special has been faithful through 2-3
I have a few, but usually default to my G-Shock Casio.
My autos wind down, and my quartz need adjustments come DST or the end of a short month.
G-Shock just moves to what the time is and date is automatic.
Hamilton, which makes a basic winding watch, is Swiss owned. https://www.amazon.com/Hamilton-Khaki-Field-Mechanical
Why should we cater to the sinister?
I wore a Timex at work for many years. I’d buy a new one when the band broke.
If I had an iota of an idea I’d try to work on one. Unfortunately, my mind outside of work and family concerns is the formless Void at the moment.
Indeed. I can barely keep up with the Thursday post right now. Things will be better in a few weeks.
Hence why MLJ is currently stalled. Hoping brain will come back online when weather improves.
With my ‘weekend’ already here, I’m making a goal to submit something. I’ve been in fits and starts, but now that work is fitting, I can start far easier. I’m never exactly sure of *what* to write. I have to be careful to condense myself on an idea, otherwise I’ll trickle in and flood the original goal.
I was jiggling between doing a travelogue or a more serious, but still playful and upbeat, one on finding footing in the US post Incident. Derp and I agree I should be writing my little Life Book down. It’s hard to pick a ‘chapter’ to start or explore. Funny enough, I would *love* an editor to guide my wandering brain, full of its many things.
Thoughts? Perhaps some aside that caught your fancy, or if you were curious to hear more about something, please let me know. Don’tcha worry, I’ll be sure to include pics of places, regardless of the piece to entice y’all!
Economic collapse
A three-week market sell-off intensified on Monday, with investors worried that tariff policy uncertainty would tip the economy into a recession, something President Donald Trump did not rule out over the weekend in an interview.
Alternate explanation:
Investors, seeing the establishment’s dogged efforts to resist Trump’s attempt to reform and prune the government behemoth, have begun to temper the optimism they showed immediately following the election.
One fundamental precept of the universe from my relatively short time on this planet is that no one should get the gorram vapors about market fluctuations. For one thing, the market is often easily spooked. For another, periodic sell offs happen just to fleece those who bought on the upswing. And last but not least — this crap often settles back out in a few weeks to a month anyway.
The other precept is that financial reporting apparently loves to ignore those precepts, act like Chicken Little under a gorram oak tree and scream to the heavens whenever the market is going anywhere but exponentially up. Or in other words, I’m unconvinced that they shouldn’t just attempt to un-distort their feminine undergarments and calm down a bit.
There was a similar effect on gas prices last week. Thursday they jumped up 0.50 here, and today they’re back down 0.45.
Almost like it is volatile.
Alternate alternate explanation:
Trump’s chaotic tariff shit actually is really stupid and the markets are reacting appropriately.
I picked a weird week to jump into the market. Or maybe it’s a good week.
Buy low!
I just close my eyes. I’ve ridden this pony up-down.
You ain’t lost nuthin’ unless you’re selling.
On the other hand I only do mutual funds, I’m not smart enough to know what the next hot fund is.
The “Magnificent Seven” cohort, once the stars of this bull market, led the declines Monday as investors dumped the group for perceived safer plays. Tesla tumbled 15% for its worst day since 2020, while Alphabet and Meta fell more than 4%. Artificial intelligence darling Nvidia lost 5%. Palantir, another once-loved stock by retail traders, was down 10%.
How did the S&P look after they threw out the Russian judge’s score?
So, a mix of grifters and overheated “tech”.
The end is truly nigh.
It’s been driving the S&P “growth” for a while.
Also CIA front company.
For one thing, the market is often easily spooked.
I liken it to that weird bird flocking thing where five hundred sparrows all turn hard left at the same time. There’s a name for it, but I forgot it.
There is definitely a lot of flockthink to contend with.
Don’t forget the fish, safety in numbers
So, does JD Vance approve of the JD Vance memes?
Apparently so.
Some of those are so good.
We need Vance talking about his memes similar to when Chuck Norris read Chuck Norris facts.
“We are in the throes of a manufactured correction,” said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research. “I say manufactured because it’s really based in response to the new administration’s tariff programs, or at least threats of tariffs, and what kind of an impact that will have on the economy.”
Okay, Sam. Now do Quantitative Easing and plague related helicopter money.
“Hundreds massacred in Syria, casting doubt on new government’s ability to rule”
Err, the killers were government “security forces”. This isn’t the new government failing to rule. This is how the new governmment rules.
Except that government security forces in this situation means a loose affiliation of terrorist groups with their own ideas.
I have said this before, and I’ll say it again: instead of calling them “tariffs” Trump should say we are charging port access fees for the security services we provide which enable the free and secure transport of goods all over the globe.
Market entry facilitation investment surcharge.
Whatever, so long as the people involved are called engineers.
“The phrase “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” suggests that the names of things do not change their essence or qualities. It originates from Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” where Juliet argues that Romeo’s name does not define who he is”
I picked a weird week to jump into the market. Or maybe it’s a good week.
I picked up a couple of my targets on the dip. The other one, I missed by pennies/minutes last week. For some unknown reason I was using end-of-day instead of until-cancelled on my limit orders on that one.
Timmins, an uptown Manhattan resident, said cracking down on fare beating would prevent larger crimes underground.
“I understand ‘what’s a fare evasion here and there,’ but once there’s 20 of them by one person, then maybe something should be done,” he said.
Huh. Shades of Rudy Giuliani.
Bacon makes everything better! Really?
NSFW Audio.
I am getting nuthin’ on X. All pages just come up ‘something went wrong’.
The Palestinians claim they did it.