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T-cell tests such as T-detect for SARS-Cov2
by justme on 29 Oct 2021   7 comments, latest 2 years ago
I tried to find a thread about personal experiences people might have had with the T-Detect brand T-cell tests. But I can't find much so far. That seemed odd to ...

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James Buchanan: The ideologue behind the top 1% takeover of the US
by justme on 31 May 2018   3 comments, latest 6 years ago
And he was bankrolled by the Koch Brothers, too. No surprise there. https://www.nakedcapitalism.co Ask people to name the key minds that have shaped America’s burst of radical right-wing attacks on ...

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The pox on 2-factor authentication and (cell)phone-based verification
by justme on 8 May 2018   Posted 6 years ago
I have experienced that some banks (and the Venmo person-to-person payment app ) does not accept a Google Voice number for 2-factor authentication or other forms of phone-based-verification (PBV). By ...

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WHITE TERROR: bombings in Austin, Texas
by justme on 21 Mar 2018   102 comments, latest 6 years ago
I was wondering why the right-wing of US politics (and patnet) was so quiet about the Austin bomber. Then I realized why: They had a hunch, and correctly so, that ...

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FED watch: What did the FRB FOMC decide, and what are the consequences?
by justme on 21 Feb 2018   3 comments, latest 6 years ago
This thread is intended to be an ongoing thread to analyze the FED/FOMC verbiage, and FOMC interest rate and QE and QE-unwind actions. For starters, the written minutes from the ...

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Find Your Dream Home before Not-You Finds It
by justme on 8 Feb 2018   1 comment, latest 6 years ago
Find Your Dream Home before Not-You Finds It: This definitely seems to be a worthy successor to the famed "Suzanne researched this" advertising campaign by the National Association of ...

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Patnet and censorship: Performance Art?
by justme on 14 Nov 2017   160 comments, latest 6 years ago
I wonder if @Patrick has just staged a piece of censorship Performance Art by instituting omnipotent censorship, under the guise of "moderation", and crowd-sourced mass-silencing (encouraging the use of the ...

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Niger: Another excuse to start yet another war
by justme on 23 Oct 2017   3 comments, latest 6 years ago
Step1: send US soldiers on a "training mission" in some new country Step2: inevitably some of the US soldiers will get ambushed and killed Step3: exploit the ineptness of president ...

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Bullying judges into gynocentric submission
by justme on 20 Oct 2017   Posted 6 years ago
QUOTE: A long-running case that began in Santa Clara County when a judge awarded a man with a lengthy criminal record custody of his kids came to an abrupt end ...

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False rape accusation ==> 5 years in prison
by justme on 20 Oct 2017   1 comment, latest 6 years ago
I think it is about time that women who falsely accuse men of rape get prosecuted and jailed. 5 years is probably too short, but at least it is not ...

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Las Vegas (Mandalay Bay) 2017 mass shooting: the facts
by justme on 3 Oct 2017   40 comments, latest 6 years ago
One of the best sources for condensed facts about the Las Vegas mass shooting is Wikipedia, which is packed with facts and references to the specific sources of the facts. ...

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PBS series: The Vietnam War
by justme on 28 Sep 2017   27 comments, latest 6 years ago
I'm just wondering, are you all watching? I think tonight might be the last episode. I have found the series very enlightening, and it may serve as good antidote to ...

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Dislocation alert: 4-week t-bill auction yielding 1.30% today
by justme on 5 Sep 2017   11 comments, latest 7 years ago
Note that 1.30% is *above* the FRB (Fed) 1.00-1.25% target range, and also a big jump from the 0.96% yield at the previous auction just a week ago. Neither the ...

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Bad web design: mobile edition (google)
by justme on 7 Jul 2017   1 comment, latest 7 years ago
I thought I might give an example of how NOT to redesign a web site for "mobile". Google just redesigned their News page to be "mobile friendly" within the last ...

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Senate Testimony by Attorney General Jeff Sessions
by justme on 13 Jun 2017   35 comments, latest 7 years ago
Open thread about testimony. www.youtube.com/embed/GLkJSWu3

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Don't put your money in FANG stocks, says this chart
by justme on 9 Jun 2017   14 comments, latest 7 years ago
So, @jvolstad, it is not just housing you should not put your money into, it is also the stock market ;-)

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Obsession: Radical Capitalism's global War against Russia and the Ghost of the Soviet Union
by justme on 31 May 2017   35 comments, latest 7 years ago
I happened upon a good description of the Vietnam War (circa 1955-1975), in a clip about the movie "The Quiet American" based on the 1955 book by the famed ...

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Canada housing bubble: Home Capital Group stock drops 58%
by justme on 26 Apr 2017   1 comment, latest 7 years ago
Looks like Canada housing bubble may be going bust. Canadian mortgage lender Home Capital Group stock drops 59% today. https://www.bloomberg.com/news #housing #bubble #housingbubble

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Lake Oroville, CA, dam emergency
by justme on 13 Feb 2017   61 comments, latest 7 years ago
The above reference photo gives the proper perspective. Note auxilliary/secondary spillway, far left, and the regular/primary spillway, the long concrete "waterslide" right next to it. The big earthen dam ...

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Patrick.net not on list of Russian propaganda outlets
by justme on 25 Nov 2016   15 comments, latest 7 years ago
Much has been said about the recently published list of purported Russian propaganda outlets. The list contains scores of US (and some Russian) sites, including such luminaries as nakedcaplitalism.com ...

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Divorce: You're the man, Ellen DeGeneres!
by justme on 17 Nov 2016   28 comments, latest 7 years ago
https://www.yahoo.com/celebrit Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi’s $345 Million Divorce: “This Could Be One Of Hollywood’ Dirtiest Divorces Ever” (EXCLUSIVE) Portia de Rossi has finally had enough. After eight ...

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Gwen Ifill in memoriam -- PBS Newshour hour-long navel-gazing
by justme on 14 Nov 2016   6 comments, latest 7 years ago
Gwen Ifill of the PBS Newshour TV program passed away from cancer. In response, the PBS Newshour decided to dedicate, and I quote, "most of today's program" to talking ...

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India currency demonetisation (500- and 1000-rupee bills)
by justme on 13 Nov 2016   3 comments, latest 7 years ago
The topic of the exchange of the pre-Nov8 2016 500-rupee and 1000--rupee bills into new 500- and 2000-rupee bills has been incredibly rife with misinformation and people not getting ...

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Realtor(TM) confesses to killing 7
by justme on 6 Nov 2016   10 comments, latest 7 years ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com Realtor accused of chaining woman ‘like a dog’ killed at least 7, officials say A real estate agent in South Carolina is accused of kidnapping a woman who ...

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Obamacare: Health insurance cost trajectory
by justme on 21 Oct 2016   8 comments, latest 7 years ago
With all the propaganda being spread around about the supposedly sky-rocketing cost of Obamacare/ACA health insurance, I thought I'd start a thread to share my own cost experience. As ...

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Gulf of Tonkin version 2.0 in Yemen
by justme on 14 Oct 2016   Posted 7 years ago
Gulf of Tonkin == Gulf of Aden http://www.activistpost.com/20 (Where is Thunderlips when you need him??) #tonkin #aden #falseflag #falsepretense #war #warmongering

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Democratic National Convention: Play-by-play
by justme on 25 Jul 2016   97 comments, latest 8 years ago
Use this thread to post the happenings of the Democratic National Convention: I'll start: The schedulers are trying to bring out non-booable performers in order to silence the voice ...

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What central bank monetary policy really does (Fed, FRB, ECB, BoE, BOJ)
by justme on 21 May 2016   15 comments, latest a year ago
This is an ongoing thread for occasional posts about the effect of and motivations behind monetary policy. It is unusual for the financial press to quote anyone that states ...

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The Banque Royale (Mississippi) bubble 300 year anniversary: Nothing has changed
by justme on 27 Mar 2016   23 comments, latest 8 years ago
justme (2) ignore (2) Sun, 27 Mar 2016, 10:27am PDT Share Quote Like Dislike Spam Edit Delete Comment 1 The Banque Royale Bubble, more commonly known by the misnomer ...

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Corporate buybacks are 99% of NET stock purchases in 2016 so far
by justme on 11 Mar 2016   10 comments, latest 7 years ago
There is an article on Zerohedge(*) this week that refers to some (IMO) very significant data from BofA's brokerage division, previously known as Merrril Lynch (ML). Basically the data ...

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Desperate banks? $500 reward for $15,000 for 6 months
by justme on 3 Mar 2016   32 comments, latest 5 years ago
An ongoing thread on the topic of banks garnering deposits to use for risky activities Chase bank sent me some junk mail that offers $500 to open checking+saving accounts. ...

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"Emotional labor": Feminists want to get paid for it
by justme on 19 Feb 2016   32 comments, latest 8 years ago
What is "emotional labor", exactly? Well, I thought about it for a while, and I decided to call it by its proper name: NAGGING Here is an article that ...

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Amazon getting desperate: Announcing $5B stock buyback
by justme on 10 Feb 2016   42 comments, latest 6 years ago
Amazon.com Inc.'s stock AMZN, +1.43% climbed 1.5% in after-hours trade Wednesday, after the e-commerce giant announced a new $5 billion share repurchase program. The company disclosed in a regulatory ...

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Pacific Gas and Electric and CPUC screws the customers -- AGAIN
by justme on 2 Jan 2016   3 comments, latest 8 years ago
http://wolfstreet.com/2016/01/ “We want our customers and their families to know that we are here to help them make smart energy choices and save money whenever possible,” cooed Laurie Giammona, ...

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New UK proposed "bully law" targets disobedient men
by justme on 29 Dec 2015   23 comments, latest 8 years ago
Five years in jail for men who 'emotionally bully' wives: New law will target bullies who control partners with 'coercive and controlling behaviour' Change is to the Serious Crime ...

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Southern California: massive gas leak
by justme on 24 Dec 2015   16 comments, latest 8 years ago
www.youtube.com/embed/exfJ8VPQ After more than two months of leaking at an underground storage facility in Southern California, this event is finally getting attention in the MSM. But as usual, the ...

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Apartment rental market going bust, SF included
by justme on 22 Dec 2015   5 comments, latest 8 years ago
Highlight: Rents fell 4.6% from Oct to Nov 2015 in SF. Perhaps Sam Zell is right, yet again? http://wolfstreet.com/2015/12/ http://wolfstreet.com/2015/11/ http://www.paragon-re.com/New_ http://www.bizjournals.com/san http://patrick.net/?p=1286181

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Foreclosures: lenders padding the amount of the judgement?
by justme on 17 Dec 2015   28 comments, latest 8 years ago
Note: This is my own case analysis. I have not read it anywhere. Consider the following: a lender has an unpaid balance of X (the default amount), but then ...

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Stock market retail customers buying the -9% DIP?
by justme on 24 Aug 2015   13 comments, latest 9 years ago
Or was it just Wall Street buying their own dip and front-running the muppets? Or was it the Federal Reserve "Plunge Protection Team" stepping in? Or did Tim Cook ...

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Google reorganization into Alphabet
by justme on 12 Aug 2015   Posted 9 years ago
http://www.businessinsider.com I can't help but notice that google's core services have been deteriorating for years, and the new CEO to be, Sundar Pichai, has been part of the problem ...
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