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Neither. If I am not golfing or swimming in the morning, I spend 10 minutes checking how much my investments made while I was sleeping, over a breakfast coffee. Starbucks? That's for poseurs who go there to be seen, and their coffee is dishwater. Bars? Haven't been in one for about ten years. Certainly not at 9 am.

By increasing their cost of living with tariffs? Any discussion with you is a waste of my time.

Gold is in just about every smartphone and computer ever made. Excellent corrosion resistance, highly conductive. It's also the best hedge against governments that print money to finance increasing debt. I suppose it is too late to delete your post as breathtakingly ignorant.

In secondary college, it was a bicycle round trip of 10 km, rain, hail or shine. Doing my degree, an hour each way by train. I guess the only thing you have to be proud of is your nasty nature.

I don't pretend to know everything, that's just a put-down of yours. I'm afraid I am unable to grasp the position of people who ignore facts and logic. You're wasting my time, bye bye.

Yes they do. As far as they are concerned, the enemy is within.

There's an over-abundance of people outside as well. It's what you get when you give tax cuts to billionaires.

Surprises me as well.

If you think Trump's tariffs are going to help ordinary people with their cost of living, you are delusional. Economics 101. If you think tax cuts for billionaires are going to help the average person, you are most definitely full of it. Trickle down economics is a thin disguise for wealth inequity. Sure, life is good for me. I have empathy. Look it up.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I don't hate Trump. I despise him for what he is doing to ordinary people, giving them false hope. That's quite apart from his total lack of decency and integrity.

Parkinson's LAW, not Parkinson's syndrome. OTOH, dementia tests might be warranted.

Trust fund kid? I paid for my first bicycle, set of golf clubs and car by a combination of caddying, and scavenging scrap metal from the local garbage tip. Copper, brass, aluminium and lead. Workplace regulations would make that impossible nowadays. Caddying as kids died out about 40 years ago in Australia. Yes, I am proud of what I have achieved with hard work. What do you have to be proud of?

IMO your posts are more like Parkinson's Law at work, than the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

Putin has changed Russian law to enable first strike capability. Formerly it was only in response to attack by nukes. Please keep up.

Not looking for kudos, just comparing what it was like back then to what it is now.

Yes. Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg. It's easy enough to look up their individual net worth. People face struggles because current taxation structures favor such people, whereas low and middle income earners are hit more heavily. For example, Trump paid $750 tax in 2016 and 2017. Someone on $50,000 pa pays $5900.

My education was paid for by scholarships. I owed nothing when I finished my degree. I usually had a new job lined up before I quit the previous one.

Try reading my post again - slowly this time.

Nobody knows yet, early days. Do you think firing 6000 employees, 10% of the workforce, will have no effect on efficiency? It's OK to fire clockwatchers and slackers. If you are going to do it en masse, irrespective of experience and skills, that's asking for trouble.

I am not wishing you the worst, that's deflecting a question you obviously don't want to answer.

Are your daughter and son financially independent? Did you assist them financially? How much debt do they have? I was financially independent of my parents by age 20, and debt-free by age 29. My parents supported me in secondary college. Now tell me how that is possible in this brave new world of unbridled capitalism, where three individuals in the US have more wealth than the lowest 150 million Americans.

Many bar girls are in their 40's and 50's. Loi Kroh Road bars in Chiang Mai are full of them. Traditionally, Thai men think any woman above 30 is too old. Many get cast out and become destitute for that reason. OTOH, the French think women in their 40's are reaching their prime sexually.

Tell me how helpful your comment was to those affected. What makes you think your military pension won't be affected by Musk's eager beavers as well?

Simple people don't understand after 1990, every former Soviet bloc country wanted to join NATO out of fear of being absorbed into the Russian Federation. They had had enough of the living standards of a command economy. Reality check - Ukraine did not join NATO, and it gave up its nukes in exchange for guarantees of territorial sovereignty under the Budapest Memorandum, signed by Putin. Trying to make Russia a victim of big bad NATO won't fly. Russia was making a motza off oil and gas before the second invasion. Everyone wants to revise history nowadays.

It keeps me mentally active refuting the crap MAGAs post. I beg to differ. Nobody sucks as much as Trump.