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I’m not a bot. Or am I? Is this the Matrix? At this point, what difference does it make? Always ask - cui bono? I still hold a long position in

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@PlisskenPatriot

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@LukeGromen We’ll never know why VA benefits exploded in the 2000s. It will forever be a mystery. I wish all the history books weren’t destroyed several years ago.

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@iyoushetwt Yes, and it’s exactly why @Target has performed so poorly versus @Walmart over the past 5 years. Target CEO has never managed a store. Walmart CEO started off stocking shelves.

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Why are you replying to someone who thinks they understand the battlespace more than the former commander of the Ukrainian Army?

Do you play chess against mentally retarded people?

Do you race cars against blind drivers?

Do you compare and contrast history’s greatest guitarists with a deaf person?

Why expend any effort at all? Do you try to explain theoretical physics to 4 year olds too?

Ignore these buffoons. None of them give two shits about the realities of the average Ukrainian conscript.

None of them can explain how a country with no Air Force, no navy, no heavy military industrial complex, and one that’s completely financially dependent on supplies from partners whose own industrial bases are in a state of neglect, can win a war against an industrial, hydrocarbon, and agricultural power who’s also close partners with the greatest industrial power in human history.

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Damn, you’re right, capitalism does suck! Let’s get together and design a system where there are thousands of financial entities offering virtually unlimited credit! If we only lived in a world where there were card issuers everywhere under the sun!

We could even create our own entity, maybe call it something that highlights its country of origin, you know like the United States.

Maybe something along the lines of “American” something or other. We could then mention how fast it is to use our card. Something like quick or fast, it has to symbolize speed.

While we’re thinking about the name, let’s discuss other groundbreaking ideas.

Maybe we could cater to more affluent customers, that way our loss reserve ratios can be a little lower and allow us to invest the rest to earn additional return?

Maybe offer some credit card rewards?

We could even allow people to invest in our company. Once we turned a solid profit, we could return a share of the profits to our owners. Wouldn’t that be nice? Allow our owners to receive income for doing nothing else besides owning a piece of our company? They could then use these profits to buy more pieces of our company or could spend it on their bills!

But you’re right though, capitalism does suck in this instance.

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Reminds me of a quote from 1972 by Dr Bernard Lown,

“The very rare patient who has frequent bouts of ventricular fibrillation is best treated in a coronary care unit…In fact, the implanted defibrillator system represents an imperfect solution in search of a plausible and practical application.”

The implantable defibrillator global market is now $4.5 billion annually.

Many inventions seem like a solution in search of problem.

Then, one day, they’re not.

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This is the problem with you people. Less than 1 in 20 Americans can personally even find Ukraine on a map. Even fewer could find Crimea.

Here are the facts - this war is existential for only 2 countries - Russia and Ukraine. The only people in the west who feel the same way are political leaders who pushed for this war to make more in future book royalties and further their dreams of refighting the Crimea War. No one else cares who is in control of Mariupol, Donetsk City, Sevastopol, Odessa, Bakhmut, or anywhere else. It’s irrelevant for the average western citizen.

So, you are fighting a war against a nuclear armed power, with many important friends and allies, that are supporting them. Hell, we saw Russia’s ally send troops to train, fight, and die. You haven’t seen any uniformed NATO troops in the trenches in Ukraine. And for your allies, none of this matters, outside of a chance to hurt Russia. That’s literally the best case scenario for the west - Russia is hurt.

This war isn’t existential for your backers, and Ukraine don’t have the capacity to fight at a high intensity by itself. So, Ukraine is completely dependent upon allies who truly aren’t that concerned with the final outcome.

You can say all you want about Crimea. Ukraine has talked about a Crimea Beach Party since 2023. The only thing that’s happened since then is Ukraine has lost more and more territory and men.

If Ukraine was doing 1/10th as well as western media and European leaders say, they wouldn’t need support. If Russia was doing as badly as the western talking heads say, you wouldn’t see Syrsky saying that Russia is building the size of their army to have even more of an advantage.

You just have to look at yourself and say, “yes, my allies will continue to unconditionally back me for eternity and there’s nothing that could ever happen that would change this,” and believe it. You’ve been sold snake oil by NATO. They will never risk their countries on behalf of a country that didn’t exist until 35 years ago. I’m not sure they would risk it for current NATO members in Eastern Europe, let alone Ukraine.

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@DrewVento Fascinating story, same exact thing happened to @MurrayHillGuy1 a few weeks ago. Pretty amazing you both randomly decided to post about it today.

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GTFO. Don’t look back. Does he honestly think there won’t be any consequences for this situation in the future?

They already placed a value on his performance. The only reason the value changed is that they realized another employer found more value in his experience and performance. Does he not think about the possible repercussions?

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Please define weaponizing in the context you wrote the paragraph.

Webster’s Dictionary defines weaponizing as “to adapt for use as a weapon of war”. How exactly does utilizing AI to improve the productivity of widgets that you already build is weaponizing. It’s using the software tools at your disposal to systematically improve the quality of the goods you produce.

Why not use, “moving up the value chain?” Why not use, “they’ve used AI to develop the most fuel efficient hybrid ICE engines ever developed for vehicle use?”

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@reddit_lies Do you honestly believe these are real? Or, do you think it’s just shitposters who enjoy throwing meat at a circle of lions to see how it all ends?

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Why do you always say “I will be doing this” at some point in an indeterminate timeline, possibly in another universe in the multiverse.

Why don’t you just fucking get on the floor where you’re employed, introduce it, and then see who joins you?

Why all the performative gestures? You’re not an exotic dancer, you don’t need to perform on a stage and tease people to upsell the private room.

You can just do things, but no, you continue your babbling and posting like you’re an anonymous shitposter with the https://t.co/4eu3fHEKmc mascot as your profile picture, instead of a sitting member of the House of Representatives.

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@OrevaZSN You don’t see coke fiends complaining about a lack of cutting boards. Get your shit together and use your sister-in-law’s coffee table.

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This is a really dumb take.

Who invented the ICD? A physician.

Who invented the stent? 2 physicians.

Who created the device to remove arterial plaque? A physician.

Will physicians create the next application that can read imagining results better than a human? Probably not.

Physicians may be behind on developing applications and software to improve clinical outcomes, but they’ve always been at the forefront of developing devices and surgical tools.

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Ultimately, the market will solve these issues. As more and more scans get done, the software will improve and eventually, after 2-3 generations of iteration, the software results will be vastly better and significantly faster than any human read image.

Insurance will drive this software development. They will fund the software development, and then turn to other modalities to improve AI performance in those areas. Any area of medicine that relies upon analysis of images and/or lab tests will be affected. Proceduralists will face the least amount of disruption.

This will happen. Medicare and other insurance companies will ensure it does. It’s one way to bend the cost curve. Will it come at the expense of physicians? Yes, it definitely will. Is that a bad thing? For affected physicians, yes, for society, no.

The democratization of medical imaging and other medical services will cause major disruption to existing systems. Hospitals will lose the arbitrage benefit they currently gain from buying physician practices and billing under part A, versus doctors billing under part B.

This is no different than war. In 15 years, drones will be a nuisance, not the decisive battlefield force disruptor that they are in 2026. In 15 years, radiology will be a much smaller field; however, imaging will dramatically increase as a diagnostic tool.

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@SawyerMerritt

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Meh, I got a few things wrong, but overall directionally correct. It’s a new era. Iran clearly didn’t have the tech capabilities to launch rapid counter fire; however, its ability to develop and deploy complex missile batteries and multi-pronged missile/drone attacks with extremely accurate systems is clear.

They were able to block Starlink; however, the PRC stayed away from any obvious signs of support. It is clear that Iran was able to get extensive high-resolution satellite data from someone though. Yes, Iran does have a small satellite constellation, but I don’t think it’s as extensive and as powerful as whomever’s satellites they used.

The age of western military technology dominance is over. We’re in a chaotic era now.

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No one is discussing a tiny element. As a technology hegemon, every single attack the US undertakes relies upon information dominance.

Enemies don’t have satellites, they don’t have SOTA radar, they don’t have surveillance vessels, they essentially have no way of knowing when an attack might come, until missile strike, or until Tomahawks have been visually confirmed.

This is not the case in Iran. Has has PRC satellite data, PRC radars, PRC naval support, PRC/RU EW, PRC/RU air defense, and possibly PRC/RU missiles. The satellite data is linked directly to the radars, which are linked to the AD assets, which are linked to the launchers. The element of surprise is gone.

Carriers are under surveillance, heavy flight operations will not go unnoticed. Bases are under surveillance, and F35’s aren’t invisible to satellites.

Information dominance does not exist in the Persian Gulf today. Upon missile launch detection, there will likely be a near immediate response. These missile launchers will have the opportunity to get multiple volleys off before Tomahawks hit their targets.

The Tomahawk is a sub-sonic cruise missile. Iranian (and possibly PRC/RF) missiles travel at 7x the speed of a Tomahawk. Upon launch detection, a PRC/RU integrated response chain will likely initiate immediately. Initial counter battery missile launch could occur in 5-7 minutes. Subsequent volleys would also take place before Tomahawks hit their targets. If the launchers are mobile, where would they be when the missiles hit? What about PRC/RF GPS jamming? Russia has proven they can do this consistently since February 2022.

In order to limit this, there would need to be substantial assets on the ground. Not visible assets, but SOF, and with the size of Iran, that may be a large number. Are there RF/PRC assets on the ground in Iran to prepare for this? I’m not sure we know the answer, besides guessing that they probably do have assets locally.

Also, Iran has already proven able to disrupt Starlink with PRC/RF technology. They would likely immediately blackout communications across the country, hindering any coordination.

Another potential response would be EW against PRC ships to inhibit the chain. However, this would take up assets that would otherwise be used directly against Iran. Would the PLAAN respond symmetrically? They’ve already proven they can blind the USN. In 2024, there was an EW incident in the Philippines that caused the USN to withdraw after GPS disruptions and communications blackouts.

Assuming the USN undertakes EW against the PLAAN, what happens if they respond by blacking out communications to the carrier groups? Would the USN confront the PLAAN?

This entire operation could go off smoothly, and be written about in the history books. However, its war, and its history could also be recorded quite differently.

I’d strongly prefer we don’t find out in the first place.

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@intlmandotcom And this doesn’t even take into account any deductions, so you’re MAGI would likely be lower in this scenario, meaning you could earn even more in qualified dividends and still end up below the taxable threshold.

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While you’re ignoring any potential state and local taxes, as you stated, you’re also ignoring the fact that dividends from “high quality dividend stocks” are almost 100% qualified dividends.

This means that for a married couple, qualified dividend income below $98,900 are tax free for the recipient. Additionally, qualified dividend income between $98,900 and $613,700 are taxed at 15%. Finally, any qualified dividend income above $613,700 is taxed at 20%.

Using your example of $100,000 in dividend income from a Dividend Aristocrat, the first $98,900 would t be taxed at all. The 15% tax would apply to $1,100 in income. Therefore the effective federal tax for a couple earning $100,000 in qualified dividend income from a Dividend Aristocrat would be $165. Following this, the effective tax rate for that couple would be 0.165%.

Following your example, if a married couple wanted $100,000 in qualified dividend income, then they would need to generate significantly less in dividend income than you stated.

Finally, 2.5% is on the lower side of payout ratios for dividends. It’s easy to find quality US companies that have a history of higher payout rations. Using a more reasonable 4.25% dividend yield (qualified dividends only), that requires approximately $2.4 million in assets.

Still a significant amount, but almost 1/3 of what you originally stated. Also, there are many other ways to generate dividend income in 2026 with reasonable high yield dividend ETFs. Don’t use scare tactics, when the truth is somewhat easy to understand.