Cazo (Free Rudy)

[Cazo (Free Rudy) @cazo97]

Baseball fixes:

Attach DH to pitchr. When DH comes up to bat, if pitchr has changed, battr must change. Pitchr can bat for self if desired or nec’y due to no other battrs.

BB on 3 Balls & foul ball = 3rd strike: pitchrs forced to throw Ks & battrs forced to put ball in play

[Cazo (Free Rudy) @cazo97]

@BrianRoemmele I went to a summer camp in the Pocono Mountains in between 4th and 5th grade for a month (I lived in NH) and I am almost certain we went to this place - I remember the luge and how everyone was terrified to go down, but we all (most of us) went anyway.

[Cazo (Free Rudy) @cazo97]

@ttmygh just logged onto X for the first time in 2 years bc I was worried about grant williams. Glad to see some posts from him which indicates that he’s (likely) still ok. Not a lot of content this year so far so hoping all is good. I will now be logging off indefinitely again.

[Cazo (Free Rudy) @cazo97]

And this week in my other league a brutal call that ends up costing me the W - and a potential spot in playoffs even though I have the most points in the league! Shakir was clearly NOT OUT OF BOUNDS on this play - WTF?!?

[Cazo (Free Rudy) @cazo97]

@MatthewBerryTMR
The marvelous Mooseknuckles pull it out by 0.08 - win it with a dicker extra point and ALMOST lose on the kneel downs

[Cazo (Free Rudy) @cazo97]

@EpsilonTheory ummm… hello common knowledge… #DebateNight

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

JUST IN: Berkshire Hathaway’s cash pile reached a new all-time high of $189 BILLION in Q1 2024.

This is a $19 billion increase from their cash balance seen in Q4 2023, and a 70% increase in cash since 2022.

To put this in perspective, Berkshire Hathaway’s cash balance is larger than the market cap of Starbucks and Target combined.

When asked about this, Warren Buffet said "I don’t mind at all, given current conditions, building our cash position."

Why is Buffett holding so much cash?

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Meta CENSORS ‘Who is Bobby Kennedy?’ documentary from Instagram and Facebook

The link to the new documentary cannot be posted to either platform because it is said to violate ‘Community Standards’

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

May The 4th Be With You

[HOW THINGS WORK @HowThingsWork_]

This is just wild! 😂 speechless.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is absolutely priceless. And probably the most frightening clip you'll ever watch on the people in charge of the US economy.

Jared Bernstein is literally the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, the main agency advising Biden on economic policy

[Edward Dowd @DowdEdward]

Look it’s simple…the global debt crisis and reset that is coming doesn’t allow for free speech. Frank Zappa nailed it. It will of course be wrapped in virtue and safety.

If you thought Covid censorship was bad well hold my beer.

[JustDario @DarioCpx]

I wonder how many people know these “buybacks” are mostly unpaid taxes distributed to investors in US 🤔

In the case of $AAPL profits are kept offshore in 0% tax countries like Ireland, then $AAPL issues bonds in #US to finance these buybacks and when the bonds mature they use offshore cash to repay them saving the 30% tax rate owed to uncle sam (that triggers only if profits are directly “repatriated” as cash) and all other countries involved in particular in #Europe

@DowdEdward

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Boeing whistleblowers keep suddenly dying.

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

It looks like Boeing hit squad is the most efficient team they have

[Ben Hunt @EpsilonTheory]

Trump's stake in #DJT is now worth $5.7 BILLION, courtesy of Susquehanna and Jeff Yass, who orchestrated this thing from the start.

Meanwhile, CNN covers this bogus Trump show trial like it was OJ, and everyone else is 24/7 on LARPing student clowns.

IT'S. ABOUT. THE. MONEY.

[Rutherford Wilcox the Third @Kurt9Rudi]

@Con_Tomlinson

[Connor Tomlinson @Con_Tomlinson]

Today marks the 140th anniversary of the death of Karl Marx -- one of the most evil men in history

Marx was an alcoholic who never washed. Boils covered his body, preventing him from sitting down

He refused to work, and drove his family to destitution -- causing the deaths of his two sons from exposure and illness

He raped his unpaid maid, and had Engels subsidise their illegitimate child

He wrote poetry romanticising the ingesting of poison -- the method by which two of his daughters would later commit suicide

One of those daughters Marx disowned for marrying a Cuban man, who Marx insulted as ‘Negrillo’ and ‘The Gorilla’

Marx was also explicitly genocidal -- calling for ‘revolutionary terror’, theft, and murder against the ill-defined 'bourgeoisie'

He said ‘the next attempt of the French revolution’ should be so bloody that ‘beside [it] the French Revolution [would be] child’s play’

He forecast a dictatorship would inevitably arise from this bloody revolution, and require absolute power to collectivise and redistribute property to achieve communism

He idolised Mephistopheles from Faust, insisting that ‘Everything that exists deserves to perish.’

No wonder every experiment with Marxism produces mass murder, privation, starvation, tyranny, and Hell on Earth

Long after his death, Marx's spectre of contempt for existence itself haunts our civilisation

We would do good to rid ourselves of it

[Cazo (Free Rudy) @cazo97]

@C_Reilly5 @MikeWaffle_ Wait a second… that’s not the appropriate body that sets the tipping standards…? I always use:
National
Unilateral
Tipping
Standards

If you don’t you’re fishing for tuna in a shark pond

[🇺🇸 Freedom Piper 🇺🇸 @FreeThinkerInc]

🚨🚨🚨UKRAINE BILL - REVELATION #5: It's about BIG GOVERNMENT. The Ukraine Aid Bill funds and pays a LOT of government expansion and "federal salaries and expenses". It appears to be more of a "government expansion" bill than any type of actual foreign aid, designed to help agencies circumvent funding appropriation through regulated channels and obtain lump sums with no discretionary oversight.

There are billions allocated for new personnel across the DOD, DOS, DOE, NNSA, Health and Human Services, Agency for Int'l Development, and every branch of service. There is $250M included for "Non-Proliferation, Anti-Terrorism" and "Demining" with extra allotted for "In-Person Monitoring" (boots on ground). Another $60M is included to pay diplomats and "Diplomatic Programs". There is even a callout for $5.5M in "!salaries & expenses" for the National Nuclear Security Administration.

This bill pumps money into government jobs and the pockets of private contractors. It is as if these agencies have no annual budget already to cover their operations, and have used this bill to appropriate. 🤔

Perhaps this is Biden's way of padding statistics with more jobs...to claim a strong economy while the private sector fizzles. Perhaps it is to satisfy wealthy defense and military donors. Or it could be that all of this is smoke, and the provisions permitting "merging" of funds will result in much of this money being funneled back to something else entirely. We will have to wait to see.