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Appreciate it, Big B

@BobDole Another element about the current ad experience that is problematic for me is when I type a comment while using a mobile device (Android, Chrome) is the ads cover the comment box such that I need to scroll up to see what I have typed and then scroll further to hit the submit reply button. On a related note, is the current ad experience the new normal for the website (both desktop and mobile)? Or are you still in the process of tweaking, such that we should expect some changes in the near future? And if it is the latter, how near is that future?

Dammit, this kid is already more mature than me.

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You got those backward

It is not comparable to having a porn star spank you while your pregnant wife is at home, which was the comparison Patrick wanted to make and you agreed with by re-posting.

So, the guy who had been estranged from his wife for more than a decade. Strike two.

Emhoff's affair and subsequent divorce was years before he met Harris.

Who is dumber? Danica Patrick for getting it wrong? Or you for accepting it?

I have made that argument elsewhere. Most of structured finance is about taxes and how to avoid/minimize them. The presence of unrealized gains should not trigger taxes. The attempts to monetize the gains without selling is what should be gone after. But the devil is always in the detail. Most (I think without actually checking) of Musk's Tesla shares are posted as collateral against a variety of loans, including loans taken out to buy Twitter. But he still has economic exposure to Tesla in most, if not all, cases. Loans to finance investment seem like something we want to encourage. But loans to finance consumption? Perhaps not. So maybe close the buy, borrow, die loophole by not stepping up the basis on anything used as collateral?

The whole 15 minutes is entertaining, but if you just want to hear his justification for the statement go to the 10 minute mark.

I never understood that 6th place after he gave Nick Lee his toughest match of the tournie. As for the finals, that was a year the weight cleared out. He was the second highest finishing returner the year he finished second.

They can have my bourbon when they pry it from my cold, dead hands. Which, given the volume of bourbon we are talking about, may be soon.

The Democratic proposal to tax unrealized gains is an incredibly bad idea. The current proposal is on anyone worth more than $100 million with at least 80% of their worth in liquid assets. There are almost too many things wrong with this to list, but hear goes. - There is no way over time that $100 million will remain the limit. It will soon be $10 million, then $1 million, then $500k, etc. Governments have zero discipline. A new kind of revenue will always be grown. And the only exemption will be for legislators. - The value of illiquid assets will suddenly become the province of the one entity that stands to gain from inflating that opinion. The moral hazard here is clear. - The value used for liquid assets will also be incorrect. For valuation purposes of equities, for example, we use the closing price. But this is typically the price of buying or selling a very small number of shares. Anyone covered by the tax will likely own a large number of shares. Forced selling to meet a tax obligation will depress those shares, meaning more shares will need to be sold to raise 25% of the incorrect value, meaning the effective tax will be greater than 25%. Meanwhile, all of our shares will also be worth less, and not for economic reasons. - Anyone wealthy enough to be covered by the tax initially is also wealthy enough to leave the country. Capital flight will be real. - The incentive is perverse. One theory of taxation is you tax the thing you want less of. Similar to tariffs, it makes the thing more expensive and incentivizes people to seek alternatives. The alternative to investing is consuming. And like tariffs it makes the alternative more expensive by removing competitive pressure. So we consume more at inflated prices, so we get less. I am sure there are other reasons as well that I haven't thought of. What say all of you?

Testify

No. Look at the Olympic Trials. Happened a few times among NLWC wrestlers. Retherford/Lee, Brooks/Taylor, Dake/Nolf, Brooks/Mirasola, Facundo/Haines. Sign of a strong RTC.

This could also be small.

So, not NIL. Got it. Also not a college topic. Check.

You don't seem to realize he isn't in college anymore.

Now it makes sense. The Lehigh valley is no good at wrestling and it makes you bitter. All cleared up.

No one gets better at wrestling by not wrestling. He has wrestled three matches in the 2.5 years since that match. In those three matches he has looked like a blood round guy, not a national champ.

Amateur sports were only ever amateur for the athletes. Everyone else wet their beaks. Nick Saban wasn't able to sign a $93 million contract because we love amateurism.

It is a distraction of the Trump camp's creation. The person Trump chose to spearhead his efforts, Giuliani, accused these two women of fraud, and did it in the most disgusting, racially charged manner he possible could. You will not be able to persuade me that was not intentional on his part. Giuliani is also the one who a member of his own party said reported he had no proof. As for rigging vs fraud, what is the distinction?

Wille has talked me off the ledge with his posts. I am certainly willing to be patient and offer some grace to Bob given the free nature of this site.