My dad has been obsessed with this my whole life. The dude just really likes American chestnut trees.
He’s part of an advocacy organization that is testing blight resistant genetic hybrids, and planting chestnuts in their yards to preserve them in the meantime.
If you, too want to be obsessed with chestnut trees, I believe it’s tacf.org
The shareholders can go and buy a diversified portfolio on their own, by investing in many companies, so they can derisk their portfolio without conglomeration.
If they already own shares of the conglomerating company, its returns will be lower (they don’t care that it’s less risky; they’ve diversified already). Similarly, the returns of the company that is now becoming part of the conglomeration will likely be reduced, which negatively affects shareholders of that company.
The benefit is really only for the people whose prospects are deeply tied to this company, and only this company… its management employees, who are compensated by the company (often in the form of stock that they can’t sell till they leave, or that vests over a long time frame).
I’m a very hairy dude with a thick, thick beard. I use a new blade every other shave. Recommend using a safety razor, it’s much cheaper and better
You’re confusing cause and effect, mostly.
If you’ve:
Met a bunch of people that don’t look like you or live like you
Have a high paying job that requires a good education
Encountered a ton of new concepts and ideas frequently
You’re more likely to be a liberal. These things also tend to occur at much greater frequencies in cities.
Guy wanted me to burn him with cigarettes, but he didn’t smoke and neither do I. After spending 20 minutes looking for a convenience store that was open, the mood was kinda gone.
Portuguese, there’s a few hundred million speakers of Portuguese in South America.
I suppose I should have included French and made it four … there’s Quebec, but also Martinique, French Guiana, and so on. Maybe 10-15 million all in all?
Vs. ~450m for Spanish, ~400m for English and ~300m for Portuguese.
Right? People are forgetting that we’ve got essentially three languages in the entire hemisphere.
You speak three languages in Europe? Congrats you speak 12% of the commonly spoken / national languages.
Speak one language in the Americas? Congrats, you speak 1/3 of them!
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I am blessed, in that I tan easily to become quite dark, and so I don’t burn often.
…but no amount of sunscreen protects my bald head from eventually burning. Luckily, hats!
I keep forgetting you have to comment or post to be considered active
Me too, I’m beginning to think my taste in movies is suspect because I liked a lot of these
Ditto, I genuinely enjoyed watching that
Genuinely surprised Sherlock Holmes was rated that low, I really enjoyed it.
I remember them being a lot more interesting to watch, and you got a real feel for the candidate’s positions (at least their public persona). But for the last ~8 years, it’s been just gish galloping.
E.g., Obama vs. Romney was honestly pretty interesting to watch.
U/mizu I really hope you tell us the dang story after your poopless long weekend
I agree with you on all these points. I’d also add that the amount of bot interaction and manipulation has increased to a point where it felt a lot of the communities were meaningfully less real over the last couple of years. Makes it a lot less fun.
I’ve got chestnut trees in my yard, but they’re Japanese chestnuts – yours might be, too.