SaintsTiger

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Beef is at least 3-4 years away from a fix, d/t the massive cattle herd culling during the previous administration. By Jan 2025, we were left with the lowest cattle count per capita since the 19th century. It takes years to rebuild a herd

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We need to import a bunch of calves from Australia, New Zeeland and Japan to grow the herd. Trump always makes good deals with Australia and Japan. I’m sure he can get us some cows.

I logged in just so I could upvote this.

Well played Trump. Let’s crowd Lloyd’s out of the shipping insurance market for good. Will make it easier to eliminate income taxes.

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VICI owns most of MGMs casinos as well, or maybe all of them. They are paying around 6% annual dividend right now, and are up around 65% in the last 9 years.

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I own some shares. It's a pretty sweet deal.

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TF? Who thought selling land on the Vegas strip would be a smart idea?

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Caesar’s went bankrupt a while back. Part of the re-organization was selling the land to VICI. That way the creditors of the casinos got paid while the casino doors stayed open.

If by nothingburger you mean Democrat strongholds will be exposed for corruption and be replaced by independent and republican leaders, you’d be correct.

Would the real Nick Shirley please stand up and do a YouTube video on this?

I've known this small business owner for a couple years. He's got a small, profitable health supplement business which I believe in and would take myself. Over the course of a year or so I've casually asked a couple of times what kind of deal would look like for investors if he ever wanted to expand. He always said the business isn't ready for investors. I never told him I wanted to invest, the topic just came up a couple times when we were talking business.

Anyway, then the other day he mentioned he's considering asking the boss at his job to invest in the Amazon business. So I told him I may be interested in investing and what would a potential deal look like. He doesn't have a proposal or anything ready to go, but the basics look like this:

-$40,000 - $50,000 needed for product production
-After expenses, expected profit margin is about 40%
-Base case for return: sell thru in about 1 year or less;
Worst case: 0 sales but he said that's highly unlikely as he's got an established brand with proven sales in an adjacent market, is pretty good at Amazon SEO, etc;
-best case the product sells through in 6 months or sooner and we keep re-investing & expanding

I told him I wouldn't put up the whole amount, but would be interested in putting up a portion of the money and be on equivalent terms with the other potential investor.

How would you structure this and what would be your investing parameters?

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how can there be ID's required if its not a state law or national law?

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National emergency of illegals voting in elections. This passes the shoe on the other foot test. Democrats explicitly passed emergency election rules for 2020. Some of the predicate COVID emergency declarations literally expired the day after the November election.

Being a little drunk or “coerced” into sex each count as rape in the surveys now.

Per Grok:

False, or at least misleading and overstated in the way it’s often phrased on social media.
The claim that “1 in 5 women in Norway are raped” (implying 20% experience rape) circulates in tweets and posts, but it’s not accurate in a simplistic sense. Reliable, recent data from Norway’s official research body, the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS), shows higher figures in some surveys, but with important context.
A major 2023 NKVTS national prevalence study on violence and sexual abuse found that approximately 20–23% of Norwegian women (and about 3–4% of men) report having experienced rape at least once in their lifetime. This includes:
• Rape by force or coercion (~14% of women).
• Incapacitated rape (e.g., while intoxicated or asleep) (~11% of women).
• Combined or overlapping categories, leading to around 20% (or up to 23% in some breakdowns) for any form of rape.
This is a lifetime prevalence (ever in their life), not an annual rate or something happening to 1 in 5 women currently. The study notes an increase from earlier surveys (e.g., forcible rape lifetime prevalence rose from ~9.4% in 2013 to ~14.4% in later data for women), possibly due to greater willingness to report, broader definitions, or actual changes—researchers say it’s unclear but concerning.
Earlier studies (e.g., 2014 NKVTS) reported lower figures, around 9–10% lifetime rape for women, and some sources still cite those. Broader sexual violence (including non-penetrative acts) is even higher, with nearly 1 in 5 women experiencing other forms of sexual abuse besides rape.
Key points:
• These are self-reported survey results from population-based studies, not police reports (which are much lower, as most rapes go unreported—only about 1 in 5–10 cases reach police attention).
• Rape definitions in these surveys align with legal standards but include incapacitated cases, which some debates consider broader.
• No evidence suggests the claim is entirely fabricated; it’s rooted in real data from credible sources like NKVTS, though headlines sometimes round to “1 in 5” for impact.
• Reported rape cases to police remain in the low thousands annually (e.g., ~2,400 in 2023), far below what surveys suggest due to underreporting.
In short, surveys indicate roughly 1 in 5 Norwegian women experience rape over a lifetime (closer to 20–23% in the most recent data), but it’s not a universal “truth” without caveats—it’s a serious issue highlighted in official research, not something debunked as false. The tweets likely draw from these studies but may sensationalize or lack nuance.

Highly doubtful. IIRC the survey includes being hit on by a dude the woman doesn’t like (or some such) as sexual assault.