You said a couple of weeks ago that it felt like the top. I was somewhat inclined to agree at the time... then again, one thing I've learned is the market always overreacts both in the upside and downside because markets are composed of people that always overreact. Time will tell.

People didn't really think Trump was going to sign an order to create an SBR, did they?

I'm starting the episode right now. Best show on TV.

I'll probably get ripped apart for this comment, but I'm not convinced that "wired is better" as a blanket statement is broadly true - the quality of the headphone likely plays a much larger role.

Back in the early aughts when MP3s became prevalent, some grad school colleagues and I were testing sound quality for different songs across different genres from lossless down to 56 kbps. We had to get a fair bit below 128 kbps to noticeably hear any loss for most songs. So I'm willing to bet that most people, in a double-blinded experiment, cannot identify wireless/wired better than 50% of the time (therefore they're guessing) for good quality headphones. If anyone knows of the results of a double-blinded experiment that proves me wrong I'll happily shut up. Otherwise one of these days I'll have to run the experiment myself.

Not ear buds, but I quite like Shokz bone conduction headphones, which are great when you're outdoors and still like to be able to hear your surroundings. Only down side is some quality is not quite as good as traditional headphones, but being able to hear traffic for example is a huge safety plus.

Edit: Gulfo Americano translates to "American Gulf", Gulfo de America translates to "Gulf of America".

The part I find amusing is that the gulf was so-named in the 1500s, long before the US was a country - all of the "they're erasing history" people seem awfully quiet right now.

I don't think so. I'm more familiar with Italian (very similar to Spanish) so I may be wrong, but the word for the country is still America (ends in an "a" therefore feminine). However, if in a sentence you said American man man or American woman, you'd use hombre americano (masculine) or mujer americana (feminine), responsively (or in Italian uomo americano or donna americana).

It boggles my mind how people don't understand trade deficits. When the US has a trade deficit with Country X, that means the US (and therefore its consumers) are buying more goods from Country X than US producers and sellers are selling to that Country X. All a tariff does is make those goods more expensive for US consumers that want the goods. So sure, Country X suffers to some extent, but so do the US consumers that want those goods because it's the end consumer inevitably paying the tariff.

I hear some of the ridiculous things people say about tariffs and always think:

Here from Canada. Just like last time he took office, he's fabricating some excuse out of whole cloth to slam us with tariffs to make good on his promise to his base. This time is more frustrating because it was him that signed the previous free trade agreement with Canada and Mexico and now he's using thinly veiled "emergency powers" to justify it.

Nevertheless, Canada will be fine.

Our outgoing finance minister actually suggested leveling a 100% tariffs on Teslas which I found particularly funny.

Then again, Alberta is pretty beautiful too, looking forward to hitting Banff in a couple weeks with the fam.

Understandable you love the outdoors when you live in a beautiful place. Sad for me to say I'm a bad Canadian and have never visited there, but it's also sad that it costs way more to fly there from Alberta than it does to fly to Europe... reasons I've been to Europe 4 times. Oh well, one day.

Because the lobbyists at Intuit want to be able to charge you $50+ per year to make filing every year "easy".

Welcome to NOSTR!

*Reserve

Elon likes shitcoins and hilarious jokes. Here's a suggestion for him: through his Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) he could help plan the United States Shitcoin Reserved (USSR).

Eth turned me off because of their hard fork in the early days in response to the DAO hack. My shitcoin story is buying some Tezos during the ICO boom. Glad I was able to convert that garbage back to Bitcoin in 2020 without losing a lot of the bull momentum.

Lummis seems to be one of those rare politicians that actually gets it.

Oh Lord, what are they up to now?

Anyone surprised that he's co-opting Bitcoin so that he can create his newest grift, hasn't been paying attention. It wasn't even that long ago he had his ridiculous NFTs.