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I don’t follow Meta so don’t have an opinion on whether it fits their strategy/DNA - but I’ve wondered more than once since their announcement last week, and in light of the March agreement too, if they might want NBIS.
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My answer was a statement. It was listed as such on their seller’s report. Same with the other sellers

That’s great. But there’s reporting in the financial press that reads differently. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have to be accurate to matter. At least in the short term.

Additionally, investors are increasingly sensitive to the fact that Nebius insiders have been selling aggressively, recording 17 “sell” transactions since the start of 2026 and zero purchases.
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Those are pre-planned to cover tax expense for him

Could be. I think there was 3 executive officers that sold on that day.
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Speak Arkady!

Volozh Arkadiy, a 10% owner and Chief Executive Officer, sold 46,627 Class A shares at $235.45 per share on July 1, 2026, for a total of $10,978,327, and directly owns 821,662 Class A shares following the transaction.
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There was a small impact, which may have been dissipated prior to Trump's 2nd term.

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Without those terrible policies from Trump and Biden we probably don't even notice the impact of the illegals on the market.

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Hell, the demand may have been welcome by many to prevent the RE crash we've needed since 2009.


That’s f’n brilliant- :rotflmao:
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That's not what the report says

Correct. It says 30% of increases, but the point is still valid. 20 million illegals pushed housing costs higher than they should have been. This is logical and should have been obvious, and should have been understood while voting for the people that made it happen.
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We could have saved trillions and actually solved poverty if we just went to direct payments instead of "services"

We have solved poverty, the version known a few decades ago. What we're witnessing is new/updated definitions of poverty that need solving.

If the poorest Americans lived in 3,000 ft2 homes, drove their choice of vehicle under $60K (one for each adult), was able to eat out (nice dinner) twice per week and could comfortably afford to take one 2-wk vacation per year to anywhere in the world, and everybody above them on the economic ladder lived better and better the further up you go - those folks in the 3,000 ft2 homes would still be our "poor".
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Their kids lived through the great depression, one of my grandparents was in an orphanage for years. These were tough people. Grandfather and multiple great uncles who served during WWII/Korea, 2x Great Grandfathers WWI. We used to have family reunions of hundreds of people.

But,
One of my grandfathers was a communist, (The card carrying type in the 1930s and 1940s), two of my uncles (his kids) dodged the draft for Vietnam, (also had a cousin get a purple heart in Vietnam, so not all bad apples)

But that service to God, family and country that the older generation had is totally missing from my parents generation, my parents are two of the most conservative (and poorer) people of their generation in their family, many of the rest have had divorces/affairs, went to hippy music festivals, chased wealth over family, and generally acted like the kind of selfish people who don't take care of their kids. My dad would have been there except he found Jesus.

My wife's family was quite different, in good and bad ways.

But overall her family, the boomer generation are very family oriented, in my case it was the greatest and silents.

The north definitely led the path to normalizing a self centered view of happiness.

Grandparents on my mother's side were Volga Germans that had to escape the Bolsheviks (for America) but didn't do so until after losing a child to starvation. They lost another child on the long "road" to America. They had 11 kids total. My grandpa laid rail in the Dakotas until his back gave up on him. My uncles and aunts ran the gamut - most rose from their beginnings and found success/greater wealth, a few struggled their whole life economically and with alcohol. I think it's a fairly common story for late 19th century/early 20th century immigrants.

One thing the whole family had, however, was a deep appreciation for America and what it meant to be a citizen. To my grandpa, bringing the family to America was his greatest accomplishment and he was forever grateful. He struggled with English, struggled physically an unskilled laborer, struggled to make ends meet - but that dude would have starved himself before taking anything being offered by the government in the way of assistance.

As my family has talked about "us" and remembered our history, I've got to say that which generation (as in silent, boomer, etc) everyone fit in never came up. It was only when I started participating in these threads (2020/Covid) that I saw so much made of generations. I always considered it more a family evolution thing - like for my family - my grandparents sacrificed a lot to became Americans, which made it better/easier for their kids, and the next generation of kids (mine) had it better/easier, and the next generation (my kids) had it better/easier. That's why it's fascinating to see so many young people complaining about their lot in life. It's hard to argue, if you're being factual/realistic, that life doesn't get better and easier over time for Americans and it's odd (to me) that so many will do somersaults in logic to feel aggrieved.
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My family of northern Boomers are far far different than her family of southern boomers.

Now you're going to make me be weird AF for a moment, because I have a question.

Isn't that true of all sorts of cohorts? The northeast and the south a very different places with very different cultures.
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She and I often compare how boomers in the South were more like the Silent generation in the north. And Gen X in the south were more like northern Boomers.

You chat with your wife about the regional differences of Boomers, and you do this often? Is one of you an academic type doing research on the differences between generations, or you guys just weird AF?
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Are you sure about that? I watched a bunch of “men” put their masks on, put masks on their kids, social distance and voluntarily take a shot they questioned. That single event was very eye opening on how many “patriots” folded when threatened by the last Dem president.

Yup. The discussions in these threads was enlightening, too.
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Trump can take a lot of the credit for exposing the "enemies from within" ......Mamdummi is one of the "enemies from within" ringleaders.

I know what you're say in a general way but we didn't need Trump to expose Mamdani. Everybody but retarded Leftists knows what/who he represents.

We need Trump to expose the enablers. The members of congress - some are Republicans - that make it possible for a communist like Mamdani to run/win a big time elected office.
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Facts

You're really struggling here.

You bitch about data centers in Mississippi and argue they're being put in low IQ states. Then you post a map showing avg IQ of states, and at the very top is Massachusetts with an avg IQ of 104, in contrast to Mississipppi's 94. But guess what -

Massachusetts: 42 active data centers

Mississippi: 9 active data centers

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Posted by David_DJS on 7/4/26 at 5:49 pm to
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I think the main point of the OP is to stop with the intellectually lazy practice of calling anybody who opposes Trump on anyything a communist. Same thing when the left labels aberybody on the right a racists. These characterizations are for simpletons.

It's not the same thing. At all.

Name the policy supported on the Right that is racist. Name the Republican candidate for anything that campaigns on being a racist.

There are Democrats that proudly run as socialists (and they're winning), and the party supports socialist policies.

Do you see the difference?

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Posted by David_DJS on 7/4/26 at 5:14 pm to
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Many won’t read all of this. There will be a lot of simplistic name calling. But, like others in our nations history I’ll be shunned simply because I’m not like you.

You just spent a thousand words explaining how you're like 90% of MAGA, but strangely you also patted yourself on the back for not being like MAGA.

The only difference between you and most of MAGA on this board is you're ignorant in thinking you belong in today's Democrat party.
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I do not want any kid to be hungry. I want all kids to live happy and carefree lives. If we feed some cheats so that the underprivileged will get what they need then so be it.

Because there are only two options. Either "millions of American kids go to bed hungry every night" or we've got to spend tens of billions more than necessary to keep the underprivileged nourished.

The biggest health problem of our underprivileged is obesity. The second biggest problem is diabetes. There are no hungry American kids, unless you're talking about abuse - not the lack of available food.
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Ailsa

Could you save us the googling time and tell us - is that real? Did the city wrap that train in the Iranian flag?
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Not really


Then why did you post this -

If they run a socialist leaning dem for president then they've already lost“

Because that comes across like you missed Maher’s point entirely.

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Maher is exhibit A of that. He's probably more representative of your average democratic voter nationwide than Zoran

lol - yeah, you did miss Maher’s point.
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If they run a socialist leaning dem for president then they've already lost

You missed Maher’s point.
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The problem is Zoran is already in office. Some random democrat congressmen in Iowa isn't likely to be as extreme.

When the likes of Bill Maher is saying he’ll vote for Vance if Democrats don’t beat their socialists back into the hole they came from, he’s not saying that because he expects the Dem presidential will be a Mamdani clone. He’s saying it because he recognizes these radicals are a cancer that’s taking hold of the Dem party, and if they’re not snuffed out we’re going to have a serious problem on our hands.