The elegant simplicity of the three per cents. (Note: “The three per cents” (or “Three Per Cents”) was the common name for Britain’s consolidated annuities—perpetual
What is called artificial intelligence or more specifically LLMs (Large Language Models) that can generate images and even video directly from text (Generative AI) is
The Russians have pushed the Ukrainian troops out of the last of the high rise buildings in the west of Bakhmut. Currently the Ukrainians are contesting areas north and south of the city. There are estimates that the Ukrainian forces west of Bakhmut number between 10,000 and 30,000. There is speculation that instead of the Ukrainian counter-offensive occurring in the south it might instead occur around Bakhmut.
The video footage I’ve seen of the city as it currently exists is shocking. If Bakhmut had received a one megaton nuclear detonation at the center of the city it would not look any more devastated than it currently does. Except for the skeletons of a few high rise buildings at the western edge, it’s been reduced to pulverized rubble.
What’s going on there is madness. This is civil war.
ONCE upon a most early time was a Neolithic man. He was not a Jute or an Angle, or even a Dravidian, which he might well have been, Best Beloved, but never mind why. He was a Primitive, and he lived cavily in a Cave, and he wore very few clothes, and he couldn’t read and he couldn’t write and he didn’t want to, and except when he was hungry he was quite happy. His name was Tegumai Bopsulai, and that means, ‘Man-who-does-not-put-his-foot-forward-in-a-hurry’; but we, O Best Beloved, will call him Tegumai, for short. And his wife’s name was Teshumai Tewindrow, and that means, ‘Lady-who-asks-a-very-many-questions’; but we, O Best Beloved, will call her Teshumai, for short. And his little girl-daughter’s name was Taffimai Metallumai, and that means, ‘Small-person-without-any-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked’; but I’m going to call her Taffy. And she was Tegumai Bopsulai’s Best Beloved and her own Mummy’s Best Beloved, and she was not spanked half as much as was good for her; and they were all three very happy. As soon as Taffy could run about she went everywhere with her Daddy Tegumai, and sometimes they would not come home to the Cave till they were hungry, and then Teshumai Tewindrow would say, ‘Where in the world have you two been to, to get so shocking dirty? Really, my Tegumai, you’re no better than my Taffy.’
So awful it sickens me. The regret this little girl will experience is tragic. I’m guessing when she grows up she’ll hate her parents for allowing this to happen.
What the Left has done to children in this area is Mengele-level evil. https://t.co/80FA4UnN2t
— Nick Searcy, INSURRECTIONAL FILM & TELEVISION STAR (@yesnicksearcy) May 18, 2023
In the post George Floyd environment retailers are suffering enormous shoplifting losses in blue run cities. Not surprisingly, these companies are closing down their stores in the worst hit areas including San Francisco, Portland and Chicago.
Hopefully Target and the others aren’t going to complain that they aren’t getting what they asked for when they backed the Democrats and the BLM movement. After all law and order is just a dog whistle for racism. Those brave shoplifters and stickup men are helping to strike a blow for black reparations one felony at a time.
Target Says Rampant Shoplifting Has Cost Them $1.2 Billion in Profits https://t.co/AaIjarEmUo
German gun maker Heckler and Koch must have had a woman on their marketing team typing away on Twitter when she decided to put in her two cents about Miller Lite’s war on bikini models. Eventually someone with a brain caught onto what was going on and deleted the offending tweets. And then they put up the tweet at the bottom of this post to distance themselves from the statement. It will be interesting to see how this progresses.
The screenshots are forever. What a bad, bad, bad decision to tweet something like this and to allow whoever tweeted it to have access to your social media. You guys didn’t learn anything from @budlight? pic.twitter.com/cvA3PhMZB6
— Umbral Plains Scourer 🇺🇸 (@eyerdrone) May 17, 2023
What made you go from proud purveyor of feminist drivel to deleting these threads?
Did you really not believe it, or did you realize having some feminist ideologue chastise your customers probably wasn’t brilliant? pic.twitter.com/j9snviT7MG
— Atticus Franklin (@AtticusFranklin) May 16, 2023
Ah, freedom. There’s nothing like it. The air smells fresher the food tastes better. Even the damn birds sounded happier. I walked out of a meeting this morning with the prospect of doing whatever the hell I want to do for next four days. Finally.
“For decades, the beautiful Detroit downtown buildings of the late 19th and early 20th century stood nearly empty, thanks to a combination of racism, the loss of US auto-industry predominance, rising crime and violence, and white flight to the outer rings of the city.”
I love how the primary reason cited is racism. Rising crime and violence is third. So, the solution to the problem in the article is to turn the empty commercial space in New York and Chicago into residential and small business commercial space.
It’s like the woman who wrote this article is from Mars. Hundreds of thousands of people have left New York and large numbers have left the other blighted cities since the George Floyd riots. But she wants to fill up the empty glass and steel skyscrapers that fill downtown and midtown Manhattan, some of the most expensive commercial real estate in the world, with coffee shops and struggling actors? Apparently, the author of this article watched too many episodes of “Friends” and thinks there are millions of Joey Tribbianis lining up to move back into the city.
And probably only actors and drug dealers are currently crazy enough to want to move into Manhattan. Everyone else is either stuck there or getting out. So, what gives?
Well, this is a finance magazine. It’s currently predicted that the next financial sector that will succumb to the stagflation economy will be the commercial real estate market. It’s natural that these finance types are hypothesizing how to prevent all of that value from evaporating when the bottom drops out of the urban commercial real estate market.
Of course, it wouldn’t occur to them to discover that the last time these cities were blighted by crime and violence the solution was voting for a law-and-order mayor and letting him restore order and prosperity to New York City. That was Rudy Giuliani back in the 1990s. I guess that’s too far back in ancient history for these geniuses. Or maybe it’s just not allowed to think about anything like that.
The mindset of the writer of this piece is interesting. She wants us to think that turning commercial real estate into rental apartments is a winning idea because a part of downtown Detroit has followed that idea and has “recovered somewhat.” But downtown Detroit is no success story and it is a sad remnant of this former city of almost two million people. Not since the Sack of Rome by the Visigoths has a more thorough job been done destroying a city.
But I think we could be seeing what the outcome will be for these cities. Ruling out the rule of law and order we are left with creating a rump New York or Chicago in the center of the downtown where a small remnant of the city can exist, subsidized by billionaires and guarded by private security guards. But Tribbiani better watch which way he walks when he leaves the Central Perk or it could be his last cup of bad coffee.
