Michael Burmeister
@mpburmeister
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A wandering minstrel I; a thing of shreds and patches.
Minnesota, USA
Joined October 2011
These are actually the most free and honorable people on this site
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33 years ago today, it was the best of times, it was the BLURST of times?! āLast Exit to Springfieldā first aired on March 11, 1993.
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In signs of an initial strike, they have already made Teams and the outlook search function completely unusable
JUST IN: š®š·šŗšø Iran says it now considers US company infrastructure legitimate targets, including belonging to: ⢠Microsoft ⢠Palantir ⢠Google ⢠Oracle ⢠Nvidia ⢠IBM
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The Great Blizzard of 1888 https://t.co/RjCLOADMh8 via @YouTube
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3/11/1888 - The #GreatBlizzardof1888 hits the northeast #US. https://t.co/Z74Fgowkxm
#Weather #GreatWhiteHurricane
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An archeologist is going to find this stupid thing in a few thousand years and think it was the bust of a terrible god.
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Iran has targeted a China-owned and flagged ship and scared another. What does this tell us? Iranian command-and-control is likely destroyed, and the IRGC is operating as autonomous cells, often taking cues from public statements by Iranian officialsāsome of whom have said Iran
Vessel redirects in Strait of Hormuz following reported attacks The bulk carrier Hailan Journey loaded sulphur at Jubail between 4ā9 March. The vessel was travelling at 9ā11 knots on a direct course towards the Strait of Hormuz, with her raw AIS signal indicating āChina owner &
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In 1990, Anthony Perkins reprised Norman Bates from PSYCHO in a TV ad for General Millsā Oatmeal Crisp/Oatmeal Raisin Crisp. Strange marketing choice!
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This is the popular narrative but it's not correct. Inflation de-anchored in the late 1960s under pressure from Great Society & Vietnam spending and Martin acquiescing to LBJ's pressure. Inflation was kept artificially low in the early 1970s by wage and price controls. By early
I wonder if people are aware that the OPEC oil embargo of 1973 lasted six months. Yet the inflationary effects of that six month embargo were felt for the rest of the decade.
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Gregory Peck and Raoul Walsh on the set of Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
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On this day in 1983 ā The Coast Guard retired the last operational HU-16E Albatross, ending the āera of seaplanesā for the service.
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11 Mar 1626: The House of Commons declares the Duke of #Buckingham the general cause of all the evils of the Kingdom #otd (WGA) #scapegoat
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Henry I mourning the loss of his heir, William, in the White Ship disaster. None of the king's leading nobles were brave enough to inform him of the tragedy and so they forced a young boy to do it for them.
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@cafreiman I don't think there is any way under US law to make it difficult/impossible to close a grocery store. No court is going to rule that you have an obligation to lose money.
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NEW: Iran has deployed fewer than 10 naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz. Iranās reticence to deploy the naval mines en masse indicates that while Iran is willing and capable of mining the strait, it remains hesitant to do so due to the far-reaching political and economic costs
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33 years ago today, Mr. Burns hired a group of strike-breakers ā āthe kind they had in the ā30s.ā āLast Exit to Springfieldā first aired on March 11, 1993.
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The 1952 image from the Operation TumblerāSnapper in Nevada shows a nuclear fireball less than 1 millisecond after detonation. The photograph was taken with a Rapatronic camera using an exposure of just 10 nanoseconds, allowing scientists to capture the extremely early stage of
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This would be a great point, except that the Gulf States did not let the US use their soil to launch attacks on Iran, they explicitly forbade it, and Iran just attacked them anyways.
The Gulf Arab states fucked up so bad by allowing the US military to use their soil to launch attacks on Iran. Just absolutely unbelievable. They are utterly screwed no matter what happens now. Softly, softly, a lesson here for the US's allies in East Asia. Will it be heeded?
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When he says āillegal tax,ā thatās not hyperbole. The WA state constitution forbids income taxes, but the legislature passed one anyway because they expect the liberal state Supreme Court to rewrite the constitution. Itās an affront to rule of law.
@pmddomingos I run a $1.1 billion RIA in Tacoma with 19 employees. We also have several WA based PE investments. Been here my entire life. We are leaving. I will not pay an illegal tax to an out of control government who will simply piss the money away
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