Commodities markets are wild
Given his head injuries, is it possible he just retires?
Happy 250th birthday to Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations!
Some thoughts from me (more later).
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Sign on white paper, stuck on a vending machine: "OUT OF ORDER Removing this sign will not make it work"
Monday Mood
Wildlife photos from Costa Rica by Rachel Sperling.
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How a Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station researcher became a first responder to Americans convinced they're infested with bugs www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/o...
My house has a geothermal heat pump and I love talking about it but I also I will be bitching about gas prices because I drive a truck
Inside of you there are two wolves
Bahrain’s Ministry of Health said that 32 people were injured in an Iranian drone strike in the Sitra area early Monday. Sitra, an island near Bahrain’s capital, Manama, is home to part of the refinery complex of Bapco Energies, the state-owned energy company.
New @nberpubs: "Pay Now, Buy Never: The Economics of Consumer Prepayment Schemes" www.nber.org/papers/w34918
"Using detailed transaction data from over 4 million consumers, we document widespread balance breakage: approximately 40% of prepaid value is never used." 😲
"Happy Birthday, Wealth of Nations" www.econlib.org/econlog/happ...
There's a rumor, seemingly impossible to confirm or deny, that the recently selected Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was actually significantly injured or killed in the initial strike of the war.
Yoshi's big sister.
Lady Tiggan of House Cat Cat
School of War | Mark Montgomery, Rear Admiral (ret.), on How the War in Iran Actually Works
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Happy 90th Birthday to Paterson, New Jersey native Sue Ann Langdon. She hasn't acted since 1990, but she is still alive.
She slapped Elvis!
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oh, you mean when they rescued the hostages who were being held by "journalists" and "doctors"?
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It's becoming undeniable
NYC dodged a bullet
View over Vetheuil - 1880
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9549
A 40-minute interview with a Canadian-Iranian, Harvard Law School grad, etc.
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The Jewish OSINT accounts are kibbitzing the Islamic Republic's HR practices, accusing them of incompetence
That report is from Barak Ravid. His detractors criticize him for overreliance on anonymous sources and as being a favorite "scribe" for disgruntled members in this administration and the last one.
I guess it comes down to whether you have more trust in Ravid or his critics.
As news spreads that Khamenei's corrupt murderous son has been selected as the next supreme leader of Iran, residents of Tehran scream from their apartments "death to Mojtaba"
video on X
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