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Not yet for me. Last week was a hard break to the downside on volume (institutions, fund managers, etc). Market is currently in a downtrend.

Day trading the spoos and the bonds aside, I'm looking for balance in the S&P, then go with a break back to the upside should that occur, for my portfolio type trades..

Day and swing traders that are short can be squeezed, giving the appearance of a bottom with the subsequent short term rally (weakens the market). Especially if the rally or previous day(s) trading is off of TA levels and relatively low volume, then most likely a squeeze. And the end of every down move normally looks like capitulation on excessive volume with divergences. Then maybe another downleg... lol.

I don't trade off of financial news... too much cognitive dissonance. The market generates the info..

Deep Purple. Wild Dogs. RIP Tommy Bolin.

A montage of sorts but my favorite rendition of that song. It's used on "The Ultimate."

I was living in Silicon Valley for the Loma Prieta quake. 6.9 magnitude. The double-decker Cypress freeway collapsed. Squished and flattened a bunch of people in their cars.

5:04 PM. Oct 17, 1989.

No warning. Instant bedlam.

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The Innocence Project

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I haven't watched the Peacock documentary, but it's my understanding that post conviction issues raised in his case were done by Los Angeles Innocence Project, which is unaffiliated with the Innocence Project created by Barry Scheck and The Cordoza School of Law.

Case Statement by Innocence Project

There are many Innocence Projects, unaffiliated, seemingly created by law programs due to success of the original.

FWIW... back in the day there was a doctor in Lafayette that I knew that was convicted of Attempted Second Degree Murder due to him injecting a nurse he was having an affair with... with tainted blood containing AIDS and HIV viruses. It was the first U.S. case based on phylogenetic DNA evidence. At the time, the doctor was being dishonest with me about the particulars, and I naively contacted Scheck, who subsequently refused to take his case on appeal.

ETA: The doctor... Richard Schmidt, was guilty af and died in prison. Scott Peterson seems guilty af.. and likely will die in prison.

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Only complaints would be the last time I saw them in 2016 or so. Paul Stanley's voice was shot, seemed like they didn't play as long, wasn't a good opener.

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Rumor was that they were using backing tracks at the end.

I was local crew back in 80's when Aerosmith played the Cajundome. Cool dudes. Great musicians. I was all about guitar, so Perry was an influence after being exposed to Toys and Rocks, but Whitford was a force.

ETA: Steve Hunter played some of the riffs/solos on Train Kept A-Rollin (Get Your Wings).

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I guess LG and Maytag are shite products then.

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LG has compressor issues. Class action suit a few years back. Unnaware beforehand, I bought an LG Instaview fridge.

After about 14 months, interior temps started warming up. Ice makers stopped dumping. Interior fans, temp sensors, and onboard diagnostics would come back good.

Despite what your warranty documentation might say, LG now warrants for 5 years parts and labor on their compressors, as a result of that suit.

They were going to send out someone to repair, but no one in my area worked with R600a gas. So they refunded my purchase price (minus $200 because it was a pro rated refund).

$200 for a new compressor off of ebay. And $150 for a fridge guy to swap it and change over to R134.

All said and done, after refund I'm in it for $550 (and associated bs) for a $4k fridge. However, I wouldn't buy another LG going forwards.

I think there is validity in Kotkin's argument that the industrial technology transfer from the U.S. to the Soviets in the 1930's played a greater role than actual wartime arms and supplies via Lend Lease, which is the common narrative.

Setting aside mechanical performance in what we provided and well known strategic German blunders, Soviet industry in World War II overwhelmed German output.

They manufactured 95K wartime tanks and self propelled artillery vs Germany's 54K. Some of that surplus being used in current conflict... lol. Combat aircraft was 108k to 79k.

Amongst other supplies, the U.S. Embassy puts U.S. tanks via Lend Lease at 13k.

If not for the corruption and general thievery, I've always thought that Russian industrial capacity was their strategic advantage over Ukraine.

ETA: I originally wasn't aware of pre-war American industrial influences on Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin. A generalized background at American Heritage.

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ammo is a problem

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Israel has the Smash 2000L, which is an AI assisted, anti-drone optic designed to be mounted on small arms.

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In recent years, drones and UAS have become a persistent threat, enabling hostile forces to gather critical tactical intelligence and even make direct attacks. These unmanned aircraft are surprisingly fast and nimble, making them very hard to counter even for skilled marksmen. SMASH family of Fire Control Solutions offers precise, swift, and simple hard-kill elimination of this threat. SMASH fire control system put a precision anti-drone capability at the fingertips of its users, featuring built-in targeting algorithms that can track and hit even very small drones skimming along at high speed, at ranges of up to 250 meters.

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And their Smash AD...

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The SMASH AD includes an integrated Laser Range Finder (LRF). The SMASH AD system can also receive and display target information from an external sensor, radar, or detection system.

The user identifies the target (independently or by external sensors) while validating the target range through the LRF.

Once the target is locked, the system automatically tracks the target while the user pulls and holds the trigger until a high probable fire control (FC) solution releases the round with precision accuracy. The SMASH AD promises precise, swift, safe and simple hard-kill elimination of drone threats.

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Edit: Fixed link. Added quotes.