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Apr 19
I'm shocked by how many people still don’t use AI for realistic designs

It allows you to be much more productive.

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Apr 19
The federal government has taken in $2T so far this year (2024).



Since we’ve passed “tax time” this year, let’s withhold our income tax from now on… hear me out!fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finan…
Go to your HR site or department and tell them to not take our income tax or up your exemptions to make the withholding as little as possible.

Now, divert that FICO amount to another bank account so it’s available for next year.
I know, I know “well, if we’re just going to pay it anyway, why bother?”.
Stay with me…
1.The government needs to see a massive absence of revenue!!! They are NOT LISTENING TO US and they are pissing our money away!
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Apr 19
perry: "we had quite a few regulars out tonight, but i thought the first half of the first period we were just standing around watching them, and they were skating around us making plays. but after that, it's all about work and we battled hard. it's just one of those games where the way you start just wasn't there."
perry on the mindset entering this game: "it's not easy replacing six guys that play over 18, 20 minutes a night. i thought we battled hard. they're a great team, they had their full lineup, they're ready for their playoff mode and they came out hard."
perry on it almost being like a pre-season game, what the goal of it is: "it's just about good habits, just working hard, keeping it simple. it's not the easist thing to do, but we're all professional here. we're all nhl players, and i thought after that first period, our game came alive. we started skating, and we started to play with the puck a little more."
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Apr 19
No big surprise that Iranian state media is downplaying or denying reports of the apparent Israeli attack. That is the role of state media at times like these, at least until they get different instructions. Behind the scenes there will surely be some hardliners... 🧵
... from the IRGC and elsewhere calling for a counter-reprisal: they made a threat and they'll feel a need to follow through on it. If the attack caused little or no damage, however, and if the public narrative is to mock it as small and ineffective, cooler heads might prevail.
Also relevant, I think, is whether Israeli and American officials can shut up or whether they spend the day talking about the strike. The more public acknowledgement of this comes from Iran's foes, the more pressure there will be in Tehran for some kind of response.
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Apr 19
This blew up a bit so let’s talk a bit more about it. Warning, we’re going to use the word community a lot.
To be clear, the broad strokes here are right - Americans have short memories, elders get arrested, burnt out, or tired of not being listened to, and the real lessons of the past are intentionally masked by capitalist propaganda.
Add in groups like PSL which are well organized cults of personality with no serious intention of changing anything but the capacity to (often) bring large numbers or take credit for them, and you’ve got new generations of activists trying to figure things out in a vacuum.
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Apr 19
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Apr 19
The air defense of a large country is difficult.

People have forgotten the insane density (and cost) of NATO's Cold War SAM belts.

In Germany alone the HAWK belt consisted of (from North to South):
• 24× German
• 12× Dutch
• 8x Belgian
• 35× US Army
• 12× German

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HAWK sites, each of which was filled with radars and missile launchers. (Photo: the Dutch HAWK site on Velmerstot in Germany).

Between the SAM belt and the border mobile radars, and short range air defense systems like Gepard, Roland, Chaparral, VADS, etc. as well as mobile
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Javelin and Stinger teams covered the units operating there.

And behind the HAWK SAM (Surface to Air Missile) belt followed a second SAM belt, with long range NIKE HERCULES missiles, which carried nuclear warheads. All this was backed up by German, US Air Force, British
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Apr 19
Who likes higher fuel prices in Asia??? Well, no one except Indonesia and Malaysia and by that I mean exporters.

The biggest deficit as a share of GDP goes to Thailand but mostly in LNG. Second is South Korea.

Obvs this is as a share of GDP. Higher fuel costs = higher import costs = someone has to pay for it & eg higher inflation or higher fiscal costs.Image
Who likes higher food prices? Well, a few - Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and India. Obvs this is EXPORTERS only who gain. EM has high food as a share of consumption basket. But net food exporters have levers to pull. They can BAN exporting of food.

Who is most vulnerable? The Philippines. South Korea imports a lot too.Image
Putting food and fuel together as a share of GDP: Who is most exposed?

Well, South Korea and the Philippines. KRW doesn't like this news.

PHP doesn't like it. One caveat is that SK is much richer so can afford it more than say PH where this will hurt more.

Winners? Malaysia. Yes, Malaysia.Image
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Apr 19
A few early observations on Israel’s strike on Iran and its proxy targets:

1- Great to see Israel didn’t let itself be bullied by US/European demands at unilateral appeasement.

2- the Iranian regime couldn’t defend their airspace. Israel has freedom of operation inside Iran.
3- the Iranian regime didn’t have regional help shooting down munitions coming their way either.

4- Iranian officials are already downplaying Israel’s attack and claiming they shot down drones.
Good - means they’re trying to pretend nothing happened so their response can be weak
5- great day for the Abraham Accords - the Gulf countries saw their top enemy humiliated by Israel. Good incentive for Saudi to open relations with Israel so they can do more of this.

6- Iran sees Israel can strike them with or without US blessing. Bad news for Tehran.
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Apr 19
I guess we’re about to witness sizeable crowds of non-Iranian Americans demonstrate in favor of Khameini’s evil dictatorship…

This country’s entire education system needs to be razed to the ground & rebuilt in a way where this won’t happen again, or there won’t be a country.
It’s perfectly fine to be reflexively antiwar, that’s not what I’m decrying.

What I’m decrying is the reflexively embracing the enemies of America, Israel and the West as inherently good due to the fact that they are our enemies.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.
Yes, America, Israel and the West has a whole have plenty of sins and did plenty of bad things worldwide.

Anyone who believes that Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and the Houthis are a better replacement are utterly mad, just as bad as those who think Russia or China would be.
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Apr 19
🚨Mutual Fund Factsheet

A mutual fund Fact sheet contains vital information about the scheme like
🏦Portfolio,
🏦Fund Manager,
🏦Expense ratio etc

A thread🧵 on what is a factsheet and things to watch out for in a factsheet?

Lets go👇 Image
What is a Mutual fund fact sheet?

A mutual fund fact sheet tells u some important facts about the scheme:-
1. Where does the mutual fund invest(Debt ,Equity, Gold)
2. Past Returns wrt benchmark
3. Name of the fund manager
4. Fees that the fund manager will charge
5. AUM of the scheme
6. Risk metrics such as Beta(Volatility wrt index),Sharpe Ratio
7. Portfolio of the scheme with top 10 holdings
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Apr 19
Topic Karna explodes on my feed again 😊.

After these years of talking on the topic, I realised the issue of Karna simping is not about awareness of the Mahabharata but of Attachment.

Attachment to one's own mediocrity and entitlement to faulty personalities. ++
The question boils down to "What to take from Vyasa Mahabharata and how to interpret it."

Is it analysing isolated events and keeping Karna Arjuna scoreboards? Sure, I have done that. But the other side also takes out some remote incident like Arjuna losing to robbers at 90+
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Or one odd event where Krishna had to step in to save Arjuna and it goes on.

So it is not about awareness though a lot of 20th century fantasy and folklore is corrupting the narrative.

The corruption is happening because there are these weak ones among us who like to++
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