Mike Parrish

BZZZZZZT! They're pleading because they're guilty and their occasionally competent attorneys are getting them the best deals they can.

Your funniest line. I quoted the definition for you and you went all floppy handed waving about trying to deflect. Good times, good times. P.S. Bonus question, "Why are so many Jan 6th defendants pleading guilty?"

Where do you get any of that from the definitions of 'sedition' and 'insurrection'? I even quoted them for you in the post above.

Seems pretty violent to me. https://deadstate.org/jan-6-rioter-who-crushed-cops-in-capitol-tunnel-is-slapped-with-lengthy-prison-sentence/ Tell us again how Jan 6th was totally peaceful? Well, at least he'll get 5 years to be peaceful in a federal prison, so he has that going for him, which is nice.

What did they conspire to do?

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/insurrection https://www.dictionary.com/browse/sedition https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-oath-keepers-found-guilty-seditious-conspiracy-related-us-capitol-breach Seems pretty clear. I guess you know more than federal judges and the DoJ too?

We watched it happen live on TV. Your silly attempt at revisionist history isn't working.

Insurrectionists aren't common criminals. They're traitors.

https://www.reuters.com/article/ballot-harvesting-midterms/fact-check-no-evidence-of-widespread-ballot-harvesting-ahead-of-the-u-s-midterm-election-idUSL1N31L1W1

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/14/election-deniers-evidence-belief/

As opposed to the 12,000 youtube videos that were shot on that day? As opposed to watching it live on TV that day? lololol It must be a burden being you.

Why believe your own eyes when you can believe El Luchador?

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=january+6th+violence

https://cepa.org/article/morality-shouldnt-get-in-the-way-russias-genocidal-state-media/ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/us/politics/ron-desantis-ukraine-tucker-carlson.html

I noticed a strong generational rift. The younger people seem to want to be a part of Europe. The older people seemed to bear their grievances pretty openly. Reminded me of Romanian views towards the Turks when I did business there.

Standard banking customers in the small to medium tech company demographic was what I was talking about. Even $10M spread out in $250K chunks (40 accounts) would be problematic. The bigger problem with SVB was that they had hedges against rising interest rates for their government securities as recently as December and then let that all lapse. It's like letting your medical insurance lapse on the eve of your MMA debut... And letting executives sell stock and take bonuses while this was happening is inexcusable. I hope the management gets prosecuted and given a lifetime ban from the industry.

The problem with having a bunch of accounts is managing all the accounts and the fees on all of those accounts. It's not unmanageable with $1M, but if you have $100M, it becomes ridiculously difficult. The FDIC needs to raise the limit per account, but the underlying problem will still exist, regardless of the cap number. Most of the customers of SVB were just using the bank as standard banking customers.

Sorry, That was unclear on my part. These insitutions share a common thread of 'too much free money allowed them to do stupid things', but their underlying failure mechanisms are distinct. SVB's depositors are covered. That will mitigate most of the potential downside for tech firms in the short to mid term. Missed payroll, accounts payable, interest payments, etc. Longer term, raising money, managing IPOs, new business creation will need to find another home than SVB. I suspect another firm will step into the space pretty quickly, since these are all lucrative investment banking services. I think your point is that there may be other financial institutions who have similarly papered over vulnerabilities that may become exposed. Now that everyone is alert, I think regulatory intervention will be swift and aggressive to prevent any possibility of systemic failure.

These things share superficial similarities but are not the same things. FTX was fraud. SVB was incompetence(investing in treasuries without hedges). Signature bank was crypto. During COVID, the financial sector was awash in a huge ocean of money. Now that that's drying up, the various skeletons are being exposed.

Follow the saga https://www.oscn.net/dockets/GetCaseInformation.aspx?db=payne&number=CF-2022-306&cmid=414194

I'd still cut them from the team. And do everything I could to prevent a clean transfer.

Some of the first, mostly the second. Even without Ukraine, the PEDs stuff should mean stiffer penalties than what the IOC has dished out.

I have mixed feelings about Russia competing. If nothing else, they should be more heavily scrutinized and more heavily tested prior to their admission, given the history of noncompliance, regardless of the flag they end up competing under.

Fair enough.

Is it ethical for Flo to stop questions around cheating?