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Optimistic defibrillator locations, an occasional series...

It’s good to cut back on weekends.

Things that are always “too high” in the right-wing discourse, no matter what the numbers say: benefits, immigration and crime.
So of course these people believe “illegal immigrants have it too good”, even if they are legal and they don’t.
It’s like the holy trifecta of right-wing beliefs.

Maduro should have known better than to release the Epstein files…

👀

The Epstein files are like that moment at the end of an anime when the consciousness of all of humanity finally merges together and everyone immediately regrets knowing each other’s thoughts and secrets.

Trump is suing for US$1bn, but I maintain that he would settle a statue of himself in a golden power armour from Games Workshop.

I think the correct credit rating for the US is like BBB, outlook negative

Good

Pretty sure I’ve seen this in a JRPG

Bath padel courts plan is withdrawn after council complaints One city councillor describes the sound of the racquet sport as

"There are no padel courts anywhere in Bath because the council has refused to grant planning permission for any - even when it is the council itself proposing the plans."

Perfection.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

oh are the ancien régime's secrets being uncovered, Peter?

UK discourse catnip:
- What is a social class?
- What is a standard size/price family home?
- What is a bedroom?

Don’t you know that in the sixth day God created the planning permission system, which is why he had to stop building on the seventh day?

Maybe don’t get that cheaper annual subscription…

James Bond: Multiverse of Madness

It’s a sunk cost fallacy. You already have accumulated easy points from elsewhere, but you need more to unlock a reward (or avoid falling below a certain threshold), so you accept some inconvenience to “make it all worth it”.

It is un-American to suck at airports.

50 year mortgage discourse is just the midwit meme; the dumb guy thinks it’s a great deal because it lowers your monthly payment, the midwit thinks it’s a terrible deal because total interest expense goes way up, and the genius thinks it’s a great deal because of the massive rate convexity.

People have stronger opinions than I thought about mortgage tenors.

Maybe I could learn about stupider days in books and stuff. Guess I’ll never know…

The timeline today is completely stupid.

Inside Tricolor, the stress was mounting. Cash was running short, and by this summer, Chu’s team had stopped paying some vendors and contractors, according to people familiar with the matter. The company also fell behind on handing over the sales tax receipts they collected from buyers, people said. To employees and customers, though, it was business as usual almost until the end. Kelly Green, who ran Tricolor’s repossessed-vehicle supply chain, remembers sitting through a meeting in early August — just a month before the bankruptcy filing would drop — where managers discussed expansion plans. “Business was great,” Green recalls people saying. “They were selling. They were breaking records.” Then came the phone call. It was a junior analyst at Waterfall who first detected the issues with the loan data that would prompt JPMorgan's bankers to track Chu down in Italy. The same collateral had been allegedly pledged to multiple lenders. The bank, which had done more to power Tricolor’s rise than any other institution, pulled the plug on its warehouse line. Fifth Third Bancorp, another lender, followed, stating that the company’s loan files that list key information like credit scores and vehicle types seemed to have been “corrupted.” (Similar allegations of fraud would eventually be lobbed at First Brands, too; it denies wrongdoing.) Fifth Third declined to comment.

Shout-outs junior analysts.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Why invest in unaffordable real estate, when you can just bury your money in the ground for anyone to steal and no yield?

Good idea, but it’s crazy that no final decisions have yet been taken 2 weeks before the Budget.
Paradoxically, it feels like this has been going on for so long and yet is so far away…

“The 2060’s economy, he worries, won't produce enough of the kind of high-wage jobs that defined middle-class prosperity as depicted in the 1990s TV series Friends.”

UK voters are also responsible for this, of course