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sigwinch··on US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
I’d need to see numbers about how many such people cannot otherwise be found online. If we all pay higher mortgages and rent to subsidize those who use loopholes, it’s only possibly worth it.
sigwinch··on US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
I feel like mortgage lenders should legitimately wonder why they’re lending to an LLC or a trust rather than an individual. I’m not sure there’s a good answer.
sigwinch··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Even before Trump v. United States, Maduro would have enjoyed immunity as a head of state. They still need him as a source of info on the generals. And if the drug smuggling explanation works, cartel details justifying maneuvers in Mexico.
sigwinch··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
I was replying to the comment along the lines of, what does MAGA care about China?
sigwinch··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Agreed, and it would have played out the same if Trump liked the abduction of the Dalai Llama for Tibetan oil.
sigwinch··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Ok it sounds like the best drawn-out support for your argument goes like this:

Since the Nov 21 call with Trump, Maduro and his wife knew to keep their bags packed. Maduro never had a strong hold on the generals, so gave them profitable organizational roles with the Sinaloa cartel. Trump was told that the cash offer had the best chance at good news in January. At least, he understands a cash offer even if he doesn’t know why he got an MRI or what for.

So the military buildup and strikes fulfill something else. What was it?

sigwinch··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Very good. Do you think Trump is involved in day-to-day decision making? Is there a plan?
sigwinch··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Ah, this we agree on. I see revolutions as a net negative and it’s often an early propaganda point to frame it otherwise.
sigwinch··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Replying to your earlier comment: in terms of words spoken during the 2024 campaign, tariffs and immigration tied for first. I think MAGA heard “China” when tariffs was pronounced positively and “Hispanic” when immigration was pronounced negatively.
sigwinch··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Those people were not condemning Fordow. But nearly everyone has high ground on Trump, so they don’t base their objections on simply having the high ground. He’s unfit to be president.
sigwinch··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
What’s even funnier is that, in some kind of trial, Maduro should enjoy Presidential Immunity.
sigwinch··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
I’m not sure we can compare US involvement between Venezuela and Bangladesh. It is interesting that Nobel prizes are involved in both.
sigwinch··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
I think Trump got the news a bit late.
sigwinch··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
This will be a real challenge, then. Who is performatively nimble enough to say “we’ve always been at war with Venezuela!”
sigwinch··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
He’s also angling for the Supreme shortlist.
sigwinch··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Ok, so you hope debates here should charitably acknowledge wider aims. I think we can agree that campaign promises rarely align with those. But pardoning Juan Orlando Hernández means that precisely none of this is about Maduro at all.
sigwinch··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Plus, the stalemate on Taiwan right now is US strategic ambiguity. Maybe Trump “visiting” China to offer his strategic brilliance during their expansion will finally get him a bigger peace prize.
sigwinch··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
One possibility is that Maduro’s security detail, mostly Cuban counterintelligence, have access to damaging Epstein records. Epstein was in contact with Castro as of 2003 and was able to travel there despite sanction which would have prevented less-connected people.
sigwinch··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Without Greene, the campaign goals of MAGA wither. The “I don’t start wars; I end wars” president doesn’t even have the fortitude to start by asking Congress. It’s not as much hyperbole as it sounds.
sigwinch··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
During the 2024 campaign, oil executives met at Mar-a-Lago and agreed to pay $1B to Trump’s campaign. It is one or more of those men who will be interfacing with the Venezuelan generals about shifting their oil away from China.
sigwinch··on The Delete Act
I would hope for something stronger. Put a currency value on some kinds of info. To store my SSN and full name and military ID totals 20 units. Maybe a full name and home address is 15 units. If I agree to give you my info, you agree that I can keep the CEOs home address, stored as safely and hygienically as I can. Part of our contract mandates when we mutually delete. Because of course we trust each other.
sigwinch··on The Delete Act
That’s right, and haven’t for a long time.
sigwinch··on The Mammoth Pirates – In Russia's Arctic north, a new kind of gold rush
Anthrax spores blasted out of the permafrost at pressure. It really seems like sooner or later, who could have guessed that this activity came with a curse?
sigwinch··on OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
If you’re comparing Dubai and Abu Dhabi with New York City, there’s larger variation than, say, China and Brazil.
sigwinch··on High school student discovers 1.5M potential new astronomical objects
Are they the same as receiving $20,000 in AWS credits?
sigwinch··on Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
I feel like the rqlite people would have a lot to say about how to coordinate your installations, especially for the high-bandwidth non-desktop installs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45257349

sigwinch··on Some Epstein file redactions are being undone
But there is a more-powerful combo we’re beginning to see: journalists can take a story and prompt their way into a list of missing perspectives. The Lindbergh baby, for example.
sigwinch··on Some Epstein file redactions are being undone
qpdf has a redaction option. It’s routinely used to anonymize medical records for studies.
sigwinch··on Some Epstein file redactions are being undone
He’s one of the executors of Epstein’s will. Better not piss him off.
sigwinch··on Some Epstein file redactions are being undone
It’s not the body which decides whether something is secret. It reactively redacts secrets and its own OIG is empowered to realign that logic.

As of February, it’s sensible to ask if there’s an OIG.

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