ReluctantMuskrat

I'd put it in the lawful category. 4 space indentation and other strict formatting requirements chaffs me to no end, just like a hard-ass teacher requiring name and student number in some specific and strict format at the top of a page.

Investors are the problem?

I for one like stability when my money is involved, and most people do. Most arent looking for the roulette wheel experience. When you have an idiot wielding tremendous power to throw out trade agreements and to inadvertently or intentionally tank certain businesses and industries because they're significantly affected by tariffs, and from one day to the next they're added, removed, added again, increased, now decreased... that's not a place you want your money. And the government's where those businesses reside aren't stable either as their future taxes and revenue streams are hard to predict, so their bonds are dicey.

So what do you think investors should do? So what are you doing? Just crossing your fingers and rolling the dice? Got any major purchases coming up? Hoping to retire soon? If you lost your job how secure you feeling about getting another right now? Maybe invest in $TRUMP... I'm sure that will carry you.

It ain't high cinema but if want to watch it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ00igUZmCk

I knew there was a reason I love 'em so much!

I don't doubt the possibility but that's not the situation here and now with defending Ukraine.

Interesting... I hadn't heard that. Can it and refineries on the otherend match the volume needed to cut the US off without pain on your side? Honestly hope so. We need to suffer on this side before the idiots that vote for Trump will acknowledge their mistake.

I don't think anyone's is worried about the owners of the CA oil. I'm just pointing out we're not going to see CA stop selling oil to the US because they have no other option. They aren't going to take one for the team to punish the US, especially because US oil owns much of the CA oil sands operation.

The trouble is they have no one else to sell it to. The US is their only market for it since they have no other way to get it to market.

Except he's not funding a war, he's funding the defense of a nation fighting for freedom and its right to exist.

Ukraine didn't get in this war as a pissing match with Russia. It was wrongly attacked and is a democracy defending itself. It's had its children kidnapped and its civilians targeted. It will cease to exist if it loses. We don't have a greedy capitalist funding an unjust war for profit as you're trying to suggest. Helping Ukraine is the right thing to do. Refusing to help them will simply result in Europe fighting a better-resourced Russia later.

I don't have it but one of my kids does. She sees colors with certain numbers and letters. Certainly doesn't seem to have a downside for her and in my reading I haven't heard of a sensory overload issue. Is this strictly related to the synesthesia or perhaps synethesia exaggerating an existing autistic or ADHD issue?

Your description of hearing shapes and colors sounds a lot like someone with synesthesia, a rare condition that's seems to have no downsides and only benefits.

First, this post is about social security disability insurance, SSDI, not social security retirement benefits. The disability fund is paid into by current workers to pay the benefits of currently disabled people, which may or may not have worked previously. Someone born disabled receives benefits as an adult even if they've never contributed.

Second, your statement isn't valid for SS retirement benefits either. Current SS taxes pay the benefits of current SS recipients. The taxes have never been saved to pay for future benefits. The more you pay in the more credits you receive for your future benefits, but nothing is actually saved on your behalf. If benefits are reduced, it's not your saved money you're being denied... it's a promise being denied.