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The Christian blood and death cult demands the sacrifice of an infidel, though. Also, it's to deflect from their humiliation at the hands of a middling regional power.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 1h

You can take it in a lot of directions with some basic spices, too. Digging Dan-O's dill pickle spice currently. Had been on a garlic-parm kick earlier.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 13h

Window's not cracked, it was just a messy drive, and the car is filthy outside.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 13h

So apparently at the rental cabin, this guy is something of a local celebrity. Meet Himbo the Cardinal. He fucking hates cars. Here he is attacking my mirror.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 13h

For the love of sweet baby Jesus on a popsicle stick, I wish I could force these people to read John Searle's 1980 paper, "Minds, Brains and Programs." The entire field of philosophy spent the next 25 years trying to refute its somple thought experiment and failed. This is settled ontology.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 15h

Abolish ICE. Prosecute the murderers.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 19h

Off in the Smokies today, so you'll be seeing some strange stuff the next couple of days. Leaves are starting to turn, and itabout 2-3 weeks from being a splenderous glory up here.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 23h

Getting incrementally longer this morning. Naz and Japan are the incremental adds today.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 23h

I love that goddamn thing. It's made serious review-fodder work for me for months, and already into next year. Management doesn't want any due diligence, just fix and make tool happy. I hope they keep improving it to find new vulnerabilities with every new release.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That's likely true, from what I know of the criteria, though I never specifically requested it. The only thing I've done to that account in 20 years is added options and futures trading.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anybody else just a retail investor that's getting emails from IBs with glossy charts explaining the diversification benefits of private markets investing? I'm really nobody, not even a prime account. Some people's bags are getting very, very heavy. Don't hold them if you can possibly avoid it.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I got two separate pitches in email from IBs with glossy diagrams about the benefits of private markets investing. I'm absolutely no one, just a retail investor. Not even a prime account. Methinks some people's bags are getting very heavy.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Other side effects include:

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fucking $8.50 for a 6-pack of 16 oz sodas that used to cost $3... wonder if that could have anything to do with it?

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Why are you fucking using ARR as a growth metric to begin with? This is exactly why you don't do that.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh, and how about our *breathtakingly* indebted pals at Coreweave?

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Softbank, which has something like $90b directly invested in OpenAI.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Wonder how Softbank feels about Masa dropping $90b in this thing, plus a loan package for the Stargate Texas center? Oh, woofity:

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Can anyone tell me how they're supposed to fulfill their contract with Oracle to pay them $100 billion a year for compute starting 84 days from today, and running through 2030? Anyone? Bueller?

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Christ, can you even pretend to have read your undergrad Marx and Engels?

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I have a gym progress photo from this week that I'm proud of, but it's against my better judgment to post.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I want a President that never intervenes in financial markets, or even mentions them.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The base masala - tomatoes, onions, ginger-garlic paste, kashmiri chili, garam masala and fenugreek - can go under anything and taste good. I'll take a pack out of the freezer, drop in blanched vegetables, put it over rice, good to go. You can make flatbread from yogurt and self-rising flour.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Here's a dal makhani recipe I use a lot. Credit to this lady's site, she is absolutely solid for vegetarian recipes. Dal Makhani Recipe (Restaurant Style) - Swasthi's Recipes share.google/2HFlymRQ584n...

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Dal Makhani Recipe (Restaurant Style) - Swasthi's Recipes

Dal makhani is the king of dals. My recipe will teach you how to make the best restaurant style creamy and delicious dish at home

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yeah, we do mostly pork, chicken and some processed meats like sausage when we do. Pork loin is a great value. Chicken are versatile and you save money just removing the bone.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I already have my spices, so that cuts down on cost. I tend to make and freeze a masala base for vegetarian Indian dishes from the tomatoes, onions, garlic, ginger and spice powders, and that makes several meals.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Was trying to think about my shopping. Family of 3. I don't buy all these every week because some is left over. I do branching and prep on Sundays, and we eat vegetarian a couple of nights. And, of course, I realize I forgot rice, which i generally do in 20lb bags that last a while.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Waiting for their Thunder Run to Riyadh to turn the House of Saad into overpass ornaments. Saudis gave no business crying about it after their blockade left over 300,000 Yemenis dead.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's always a tell we're in a regime shift when leaders start blowing up. Stopped out on one of my better positions yesterday ($TXG). It's an AI-meets-genetic-research company.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oils and rates not doing what I thought they would at all the past week.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I have trouble counting how many different kinds of salt and pepper I have on the spice shelves.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pour one out for Margaret Hamilton, one of my personal sheroes of science and technology.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A big issue is that the admin's only identifiable North Star is line go up. To defeat inflation, they have to destroy indexes with rate hikes and hawkish jawboning, and they won't let that happen. The main reason inflation in 2022 didn't get completely out of hand was because QQQ was -32.6%.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thank you for your service.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The WHOLE point of market action is running up a couple of big caps to keep that flat while everything else is crumbling.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I keep waiting for markets to price in the fact that the US is in the hands of utterly incompetent, ignorant idiots, chosen for sycophancy rather than ability.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The coins in the couch cushions are actually spiders trying to pay their rent.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A huge issue here is that their sole North Star - and clearly Trump's too - is line go up. To defeat inflation, they have to destroy indexes, and no one has the will to let that happen. It's the main reason 2022 didn't get completely out of hand, because QQQ was -32.6% www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Inside Bessent’s Treasury: Tension, Turnover and Unmet Economic Goals

Ahead of midterms that could turn on high prices and borrowing costs, the secretary dresses down officials.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh, look at your little fur-bass!

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is how your email finds me.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Part of the problem is, SecTreas has been a fairly narrowly-defined role in the past (ex Paulson during the GFC). None of the members of this administration seem to have fixed roles beyong cavorting on media for Trump's amusement. Why is SecTreas commenting on diplomacy and military strategy now?

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's kind of insane to me that Iran hasn't tried to track experienced tanker crew members and take them off the board when they're onshore. Seems like a low-risk high-reward soft target to me.

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