valerie wrote: Look it up online. I imagine it has to do with the year it was produced. Not just the one they sell every day.

I started collecting Starbucks coffee mugs. Don't ask me why. I dunno. I guess because people donate them often to Goodwill. One day I bought one on a whim. Another day I saw one that was kind of cute so I bought it. Now I collect them.

Hmmm collecting mugs that's kinda odd I must admit, BUT maybe one day when Starbucks collapses and goes bankrupt, you better believe those mugs will be worth a fortune, SO................. hold on to your mugs, though the chances of such a big franchise collapsing in the US is practically none - One would have to be completely CRAZY to spend that much money on a coffee mug made up of clay and paint, they are no different to other ceramic mugs, I've actually built mugs before from scratch, you play with the clay, put it in the oven, paint / design and apply a glossy coating that hardens. You don't spend $25k on a coffee mug that costs pennies to make

valerie wrote:

Darkstar2 wrote:

valerie wrote: Wait a minute wait a minute wait....... Is someone messing with this forum?

Now I see a little camera box when mousing into the box to hit reply. Mousing over the camera box states 'multi quote this post'.

Nobody is messing with forum, this box with a circle has been there since ClixSense era, you just noticed this now ? Did you have eye surgery lately ? Apparently when you get cataract surgery, you start noticing stuff you never saw before

I dunno. Has this box always been red white and blue?

Seeing colours now, nice Here, I'll show you what mine looks like and it hasn't changed since ClixSense.


So it is a white solid circle inside a grey box, when you hover mouse over the box it shows a thin blue outline and when you click on the circle it becomes blue.

If your button looks nothing like this, then something is wrong - using a browser extension or browser hijack, but this button should look the same for everyone.

valerie wrote: It has something to do with that quote camera box.

No jumping in the box posts with quotes, only the ones without quotes the sentences jump around.

Record a video of this and share - I tried reproducing this and failed, I don't see any jumping around of sentences - and the multi quote box is working as expected, I do not see jumping sentences under any circumstances - quoted posts or not, or as you describe. This is very strange - what browser are you using ? Latest version ? are you using extensions ? You are probably on a MAC right, so you are using Safari - if you only started seeing jumping around recently, like I said, it's a bad sign - might wanna go see the ophthalmologist maybe you have dry eyes or some migraine pushing on your optical nerve, OR maybe you are hallucinating (all those aliens movies are getting to you)

China is the good example why full shutdown and lockdown does not work - BUT on the other hand you cannot just allow people to do anything either. FULL on mask mandates for ALL and distancing, this alone would have been enough to prevent the spread of the virus for the most part, but EVERYONE has to do it. Masks do not protect YOU from RECEIVING the virus, but they protect you from spread it, because the mask acts as a barrier to reduce the distance of travel of these droplets.......... Pandemics end not due to lockdowns, but they end when majority of population were infected, yeah this means millions will die, it should not be, but this is the only true way to create collective immunity and cross immunity. Because expecting 75% of world population to get vaccine is unrealistic. The only reason this pandemic has cooled down is because most of the population has gotten infected, some multiple times and now COVID variants are mild and cause much fewer deaths, so we are clearly in an endemic state. Though all it takes is a new virus or a new mutation with severe outcomes....... so there are 2 choices, mask, distance and protection mandates for years to prevent spread and tame virus, or partial mandates and allow virus to spread and infect most/all population for collective immunity, this version gets best results, but creates the most deaths.

I will praise the F...... day when someone takes responsibility for this G* virus and that whoever is responsible deals with consequences, no worries a lot of the world knows China has neglected the pandemic, but nobody wants to do anything because the entire world needs China, and they need us, so they get a free pass. In my books I think ALL world governments share equal responsibility. The US has POORLY handled the pandemic - and China, no matter if it was intentional or not, neglected to completely shut down outbound travel when they learned about an outbreak. In the end nobody wanted to hurt the economy and now hundreds of millions dead bodies later, this is the result we get. Hundreds of millions of DEAD innocent bodies for the mistakes of a few politicians.

There are now some conspiracy theories suggesting the virus itself was engineered in the US and sent to China or other countries........ NO matter who started it, we know as FACT the initial outbreak started in Wuhan, and it got spread to the world by travellers. This should NEVER have happened. There is no evidence about anything, no evidence of lab leak, nothing - even though there is motive.......but there ARE virology labs out there (which is a FACT!) which is why we must not rule out a leak, since labs DO exist. Even in the US they exist, and despite all the security, shit happens, and all it takes is one small leak. Just watch "The Stand", only in The Stand people became united and worked together, unlike this bloody virus, people became more divided and violent than ever before.

10 votes wow Tasman1, how did you pull that off ? Congrasts

The result of the vote is fitting (no pun intended) and explains a lot

tasman1 wrote: Darkstar, any good , cheap slave for sale there in Canada ?

You are asking the wrong person, I'm not into that business

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btw , did you see Biden new fall today on some graduation , I did recommend him some nice geriatric home but he never listen

No big deal I don't know why they make big news about that, everybody trips and falls, ask Gerald Ford

One of the biggest reason I do not like his administration is his choice for Vice President - she is in my opinion a danger, with her pro-war and extreme socialist views, I do not see her fit for running the country, though only through lip service, much like her colleague Obama, but female version .....

So yeah Biden's fall, it's just a fall, not even worthy to make national news about, it's probably not the first nor last time, we all fall, all it takes is a moment of distraction that's all. I would never recommend geriatric homes to ANYBODY for the reasons I mentioned before - you only send someone to a senior home if you dislike them and want to see them butchered. Senior homes in America (and rest of world) are basically slaughter homes - where you spend $10k a month to be neglected, abused (physically and verbally), where you eat stale, rancid and rotten food, and where you are left to die in your own excrement. It's not uncommon here for seniors to stay in their home and get in-home care, it's cheaper, safer and at least you die in dignity !

tasman1 wrote: Debt ceiling problem fixed
USA market up 2.2%
More debt for USA , higher the market

The problem is hardly fixed - the only time it will be fixed is when the budget will be balanced and they will reach zero deficit, allowing them to begin repaying the interest and the actual debt. Once the debt actually decreases, THEN problem is fixed - so this whole debt ceiling bullshit is just a law that allows America to waste more money and borrow more money it can never pay essentially, that's what it is, thanks to the bipartisan votes of both sides of the hypocrisy spectrum. On one side the Republicans DEMAND spending cuts, even though when they were in power once upon a time they spent trillions on wars they never won, could not win, and that made things worse. Parties on both sides are money wasters, and countries are so good at taking (robbing) tax dollars from hard working people, you would think that a country should be able to self sustain and pay for all essentials with our bloody tax dollars and be self sufficient on their own in other areas.. Markets are not up because of debt - to be honest they don't two shits about it, what matters to markets are 1) the economy and jobs 2) Quarterly earnings. Markets are up because the option of wasting and borrowing more money is a better one than defaulting and not being able to pay the f****** bills But this market rally is just a relief rally, markets are up mainly because of the strong jobs report on Friday, despite the Fed trying to undo Biden's mess, by raising interest rates to tame inflation, inflation remains too high, too hot and economy seems resilient, so markets like that because the prospect of a recession is less likely.

But as you probably know by now, what comes up must go back down Right now it seems the market is pricing short term - there are still MANY issues, hot inflation is NOT good, it MUST come down eventually, the situation with this war in Ukraine, the situation with China and Taiwan, the situation with North Korea, and many other catalysts that can cause serious harm to the world economy in general, so yeah watch for markets to correct back down in the coming days - they will want to wait for the Fed's next interest rate move - if Fed raises interest rates, markets will remain volatile, if they will pause a hike, markets will rally. As long as quarterlies meet expectations and the banking sector fears are tamed, markets will be on the + side, but there is far more volatility ahead. Fed reserve must not back down raising rates - if they do they will make the same mistake as they did last time, and interest will skyrocket. We WILL need some sort of a recession, job loss and all and for people to spend less, in order to tame inflation, though it's very unlikely inflation will be tamed anytime soon, CERTAINLY not with this debt ceiling deal.

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USA made mistake, debt up just small amount
Recommend........Lift debt ceiling from 32 trillion to 999 trillion

The deal is to lift the CEILING to January 2025, but the whole deal is bullshit as Democrats will find clever ways to go around spending cuts - they can still pass bills to raise spending, as they always end up doing anyway, the whole deal is for show, making big empty promises just as an excuse to borrow more.

Oh yeah right now the real danger is Fitch downgrading credit rating, they have until September, and they could end up downgrading the credit rating just like it happened in 2011 with S&P, that sent markets down more than 6% and markets kept sliding for 6 months before recovery. I'd say a downgrade is a 50/50 at this point.

The fact that 2 parties were willing to let a country default like this, considering the ceiling was breached in January, and that they had all bloody year to negotiate, is enough solid argument to issue a downgrade, we'll see.

What keeps markets happy mainly is that public companies meet expectations - Markets rely on GREED - it doesn't matter that the government is spending money it does not have or people dying, as long as big tech companies are doing well and people are spending their money, no problem - the entire financial system of this world is bottom line only like every service industry out there, where the end-user don't mean shit

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Give 100 million for free to every American and Tasmanian
Spend all that money fast , this year and increase debt again 1000 fold
Do not bother to repay USA debt ever
Declare and conquer Planet Mars this year

Like a true Bernie Sanders supporters Can you imagine had Bernie Sanders won, YIKES, he's one MESS, I think the situation would have been extremely worse - and I do believe Sanders is crazy enough to let the country default, he's that reckless, I think they should pass a law that if a President during his first term is unable to balance budget and creates too much debt past a certain threshold, he/she/it should be disqualified for a second term. There needs to be a law to disallow dimwits and incompetents to run a second time, this would be a service to the greater interest of the nation. This is how you tackle a problem, not debt ceiling bullshit, you don't just create a situation that encourages more borrowing and waste.

Did you listen to Biden's diatribe (speech) after he signed the agreement ? He cheered his efforts - what load of hot air, we all know this whole deal was signed, not for the better interest of Americans and the whole world - it all comes down to politics - if Biden would refuse to negotiate and accept some concessions, he would be the fall guy, there is no way he could secure a second term. On the flip side, had McCarthy kept the hard line and refused to negotiate and accept some concessions, it would look bad for Republicans and even his leadership. So both sides tried to squeeze the F'n lemon till the last minute and then made a deal, a deal that would only benefit each of their own political agenda.

Let's hope Republicans win a STRONG popular vote and regain FULL control of the house and senate, with majority, this way the whole world won't be subject to yet another show down between clowns. OR a strong Democrat party, with full control of senate and house in majoirty, this way they can keep on wasting money and spending and agree with each other, without opposition, either scenario is good As to Trump, well, sadly, no longer a good candidate in my opinion, apparently he wanted to start a war with Iran, allegedly, and said clearly that he would allow the country to default in order to get what he wants............NOT GOOD............ and DeSantis ? (LOL!!!) no comment, so yeah looks like Americans are in for another 4 years of Biden (safest bet in my opinion if you want to get through to the next debt ceiling arguments )

It looks like BOTH parties have had to make some concessions to pass this at the past minute, so Senate voted to pass (barely) only at 63, from the required 60! BUT the show is not over, stocks could plummet. There is still chance of a credit rating downgrade like in 2011............and now Treasury that has exhausted nearly ALL the money paying the bills, since actually the debt ceiling was breached sine January, and sleepy Joe did nothing about it, so now Treasury has to auction billions of $ worth of bonds to recover lost $$$$, this will suck liquidity from stocks, as it will be a better option. AND now today's jobs report shows a resilient economy and inflation getting hot again, SO yeah it's a better option than the default, but it still means stocks will be on the negative again this year and next.

Hmmm so the SUSPECT has gotten away with it easy, whilst the family of the victims will get scarred for life. On the bright side, the deadbeat suspect is dead, this means Canadian tax payers won't have to pay $70k a year it costs to shelter and feed a prisoner, good f*****g bloody riddance ! As to the 2 innocent victims, that's very unfortunate, shit like this happens in Canada A LOT, although the issue is less here than in America, because here, there is no right to carry guns (only the criminals do) in America, everyone settles their scores with guns, in Canada, criminals only settle their scores with guns - but regular citizens are unarmed because guns are illegal here, so victims have no way of defending themselves - we do not have stand your ground laws here in Canada. Are the 2 victims in the wrong, of course not, price of rent here is very expensive, in Ontario it is ridiculous and absurd, so you'd expect to live in half decent conditions and not mould all over your bloody walls, you'd expect the landlord to take proper care of his/her building, so yeah in Ontario if you want to live decently you have to spend nearly a million for a cheap condo + $1k monthly fees, or $2-$5 million home, or spend $3k-$4k rent for a 300 sqft apartment (1 room and 1 toilet).

In America rent is quite expensive too............. New York ? California ? FORGET IT, you'd need a $100k-$150k salary to barely make it.

As you all know your dear politicians and business leaders are hard at work to study important matters for the better interest of all and of course spending your tax dollars wisely..........................

Latest study was done to compare the cost of marriage, this article discusses the average cost of getting married in Canada, in 2019,
https://www.nerdwallet.com/ca/personal-finance/average-wedding-cost-canada

$29k in 2019, TODAY, with inflation and all, price is over $43k, and that does not include everything, just an average.

But no problems, because Canadians are like Americans in a lot of way, they pile debt till they die, and will pay with creit cards.

Only there is a problem with the study - they only calculate the DIRECT costs of a wedding (the actual events), but the true cost of a wedding goes far beyond $43k. If you add in the costs of a divorce lawyer, prenup and the life long expenses, you could easily reach the 6-7 figures. This is why I said a long time ago, if you want to be a millionaire when you retire, it's very easy.......1) Save your money at start young 2) Invest wisely 3) Stay single.

Since 99.99992% of all marriage are out of lust - the cheaper alternative is a $20k-$30k real doll (made in the USA) it won't ruin you, it won't divorce you, and it doesn't require "maintenance" other than cleaning nooks and crannies of course

Nobody should spend that kind of bloody money (for a real wedding) unless 1) They can afford it 2) It is based on TRUE love 3) Both parties have already tested the GOOD TIMES and BAD TIMES, by actually living with one another for a couple of years at least and gone through every challenges possible.......... otherwise most weddings are a sham, and a costly one - because that $43k for that wedding can easily turn into a million $ loss.

tasman1 wrote: Debt ceiling fixed in USA

Biden .... ho ho ho ho , we are going now for shopping spree , we are OK now for one month

You don't follow the news it seems, NOTHING was fixed. The House passed the bill. It is not into effect yet, you need both House and Senate to pass a bill, and THEN, Sleepy Biden to sign it into law. Good job to Kevin McCarthy to brainwash majority of GOP for this weak deal, unfortunately now it is up to Senate to decide WHEN to vote, if even 1 out of 100 is not on board for a timing, it will delay the vote, so far this is what is happening, they have not decided on the timing. They should get this bloody thing done with already and vote TODAY, but there are chances it could get delayed even up to next week, so yeah people should wait before cheering - the US is still under ratings watch negative, in 2011, they got their rating AAA downgraded to AA+ even AFTER a deal was signed - same will happen this year, Fitch will downgrade their rating most likely. Then you have high inflation still despite interest rates hike, then you have world economy slowing down, then you have the situation of you know what, which in my opinion was provoked by 2 sides, mostly by NOT team red IMO, but anyhow, US debt default is just ONE of the many MANY risks that were removed off the table. There is no time to cheer. ******G war and inflation are what's holding back markets and world economy.

Whoever built COVID19 or let it leak succeeded - The pandemic really hit hard and changed our lives for good. What did we learn about this pandemic - NOTHING..........

High inflation ? WELL this is because people CRIED to governments for relief funds, because people don't save a bloody dime - SO governments threw money at people to spend, and now this is the problem we have, stagnating inflation, which is even worse news than a bloody US default.....at least a default would have likely brought down inflation, though with a catastrophic cost!

Well I dunno what voodoo tricks McCarthy pulled, but he managed to get the required minimum 218 Republicans to vote to pass, the bill passed by WIDE margin, 314 to 117, far more than the minimum required. Of course Bernie Sanders vote NO, he's a nut case, so no surprise there. So all that is left now is for Senate to pass the bill, and I think that is a certainty it will pass - it would be a major blow to Biden if Senate fails to pass the bill.

Now something disappointed me BIG time, Trump's comment on tonight's bill - instead of being happy it passed, he made some stupid comment that if he were President, he'd let the country default and never agree to make concessions. Not exactly the kind of words to say if you plan on actually winning an election - for his idiotic remarks alone, I do not believe he should win in 2024 - no President should EVER make THREATS like that - it's basically admitting that they would sabotage the whole world economy and DESTROY America's economy, NOT GOOD, I though Trump knew better. Although I would agree with Trump that there needs to be more spending cuts, I do not think they should use the debt ceiling as a weapon, so yeah 2 things need to happen, either Democrats win and gain back FULL control, Senate and House........OR Republicans win and gain back FULL control of Senate and House, but a Republican winning alongside a divided House and Senate is bad news..........It's easy for Trump to say such atrocious shit, he has all his money stashed away in China, so if America defaults and USD is worth 0 over night, no problem, he can resign and go jump into Xi Jinping's arms Biden is/was a train wreck, don't think he should win either, so yeah this needs to be a Republican win with full control

I am almost finishing Skyline beyond - then I will watch the 3rd one. It's tricky because there is another series with the same name "Skylines" on Netflix, and it's a 6 episode series about something completely different.

It's strange but I Kind of like the franchise so far, did not expect to, some scenes are nice, it's definitely not the worst, I have seen some very low budget disaster films, they really bad, acting and all, Skyline seems quite unique, well done, though it has low ratings, maybe at times the dialogs or scenes trail on or people might think it is far fetched, but people thought 2012 was far fetched, YET look at what is happening today, it's not far from events in 2012........ earthquakes, floods and roads opening in half revealing large holes, all happening in real life and viruses

valerie wrote: I did find the original skyline and watched it. This is a rare case in which the sequel is much better.

I'll have to hunt for 'skylines'. I'll look on amazon and see if it is free. I am not going to pay to rent it.

WELL just finished watching Skyline 1 (2010), you know what ? It's much better than I expected, with the low ratings and all, it got my attention the whole movie, not bad - action scenes and effects, and ending, wow....... this is definitely not a movie for the faint of heart - I dunno why the hell America spends trillions of $ in searching for aliens, I mean do they think aliens are going to save us, they should watch this movie Sure, I mean when you watch movies like 2012, and the core, Skyline is definitely not up to par with other disaster movies, but not the worst one either..

Fortunately I have Beyond SkyLine on Netflix so I will watch that one too and then go to sleep

Then tomorrow will watch the 3rd one, Skyline 3, apparently there is a 4th version in the makes, so yeah - That ending of Skyline 1, yeah a little over the top - so yeah instead of spending trillions of $ for space and aliens bullshit, they should spend that money on preparing for a potential alien attack...........

valerie wrote: When I place my mouse in your posts, your sentences jump around like Jax.

I think I need a new mouse.

That's a bad sign ! I don't see any jumping on sentences, I'd say you either have a computer virus, or you need to lower the dose on those gummy bears

valerie wrote: I did find the original skyline and watched it. This is a rare case in which the sequel is much better.

I'll have to hunt for 'skylines'. I'll look on amazon and see if it is free. I am not going to pay to rent it.

Well it's free in Canada, so you better believe it will be free in US Sequel better than original, wow, that's very unusual indeed I'm gonna watch the sequel to Alice in borderland, a Korean series, I watched season 1, and the ending confused me a lot

valerie wrote: Wait a minute wait a minute wait....... Is someone messing with this forum?

Now I see a little camera box when mousing into the box to hit reply. Mousing over the camera box states 'multi quote this post'.

Nobody is messing with forum, this box with a circle has been there since ClixSense era, you just noticed this now ? Did you have eye surgery lately ? Apparently when you get cataract surgery, you start noticing stuff you never saw before

valerie wrote: Well, I don't know but.....

Edmonton Starbucks coffee mug is the most expensive of their mugs. If you have one, it goes for $12,000.

Where are you shopping ? They sell for $50, anywhere from $50-$150 depending on where you buy.

valerie wrote:

Darkstar2 wrote:

valerie wrote: I think the world wide politician brain is made from the worm species.

That's quite an insult to worms actually

I know.

PS. I hit the multi-quote which I have never ever in my entire life viewed that on this forum before today

It's been there are all along sine day 1 on ClixSense when they started the forum I used it before on CS, but in the end it is quit ea mess when you are quoting several users and they each want to reply to you, it becomes a tangled web of quotes as not everyone knows how to clean the quotes when replying.

tasman1 wrote: Debt ceiling in USA is to low same as ceiling here for non paying survey
Today I have only 2 non paid survey , I demand ceiling to increase to 5 non paying survey per day

It's low for a reason you know, we are talking about debt - it's essentially a bill that allows America to spend more money that it does not have. The deal just ADDS more to the debt, but they want to LIMIT the amount each time, as to not encourage over spending (ahahahaha yeah - I know, so let's say instead to LIMIT the overspending). There is no way in billions of years that America can pay off its entire debt, I dunno how the HELL they even manage to borrow money, who would loan money to someone who can never repay even the bloody interests ?

Republicans are against abortion, they want spending cuts, I agree, they want a nice big wall, I agree 2000%, but allowing for unwanted babies to be born to rape and have that child subject to poor treatment and leading a miserable life, possibly turning to crime later on, I do not think the world needs this, I think abortion should be allowed under those circumstances - NOT as a way to f*ck around and use it as birth control but in very specific instances - Let's see now the hypocrisy of Republicans who want cuts in spending - how much did they spend for a fraudulent war in the Middle East that resulted in no change and in fact a worse situation ? Both sides of the political spectrum should be a damn shamed of themselves, they both have done wrong in many areas. Even though the debt ceiling thing should be done with, it's there to put a break - when the ceiling is breached, it's a time out and discuss changes, which is a one monstrous joke in the end, because they never can cut enough - the waste is still there, to begin with why don't they abolish COMPLETELY the space program, it is a giant scam - it is grand robbery - who gives a shit about space and aliens and other bloody planets we can never live on - not worth spending trillions of $ - instead that money should be better spent here on this planet - if there is one area to cut it's there, next area, international help - it's one thing to help other countries, but enough is enough, you gotta help your own first, you cannot spend billions of $ that you don't have !!!! TRAVEL, why have politicians travel abroad and spend tax dollars money ? We have technology, high speed internet and video conferencing, use it !!! Incarceration - it is paid for by the tax payer !!! It costs an average of $50k or even more per person, ridiculous, all this should be paid for by convict - and if they cannot afford it, then it is paid for by the state. oh and someone who killed, raped, or did a crime that warrants them a death sentence, they get to choose their last meal, anything they want..REALLY ????????????? There are billions of people who are starving to death, who are eating 1 meal every other day, can barely afford half a loaf of bread - and yet you have death row inmates chowing down steaks, lobsters, pancakes, etc ?

The whole Biden and McCarthy thing is a damn circus act - they have done NOTHING where it matters the most.

The COVID19 relief money, which is probably the biggest mistake that has triggered this persistent inflation in the first place - when you look back, it would have been better to go through an economical slowdown and recession during the pandemic, and inflation would at least stay in check, even a 2 year recession would have been better than this inflation MADNESS right now !

The Dems have done so many mistakes, and the GOP has done so many themselves too - HYPOCRITES on both sides of the fence, putting on a good circus show putting on a last minute deal in the end that benefits nobody because politicians are what they are, corrupt and greedy, and in the end nothing will change... This deal is not for the country, it is for each part's own political agenda.

Watch out investors - don't be fooled by the relief rally - the stocks are going to plummet shortly after.

1) Hot inflation data - the Fed reserve lost control, and interest hikes are not working to tame inflation.
2) The debt was breached since JANUARY and sine then Treasury has used extraordinary measures to pay the bills and pretty much has gone through its reserve. Money doe snot grow on trees, they have to recover these funds !

I do not think markets have priced in persistent inflation, war uncertainty and the real risks ahead, so I see markets correcting not long after the relief rally - BUT at least if a default is avoided through a vote (which is yet to come), that will LIMIT the damage, but I believe due to the VIX being so low, given the current context, it signals that the markets are ripe for a big correction - I'd say in the order of maybe 15-20%, unless there is data suggesting inflation is cooling off, which is NOT the case right now, it's still too hot.

SO YEAH, let's continue spending trillions of $ to look for mysterious statues on Mars, or to look for the wall at the edge of the universe, or to look for aliens, good idea !