Is “rotten” just a word for edibly ripe?
The headline is a bit click-batey, but the article is interesting.
Indeed. Those fruit really are ugly, though. I wouldn’t have called them a cul de chien exactly but they look like they have alien tentacles waiting to grab you by the face if you bend over it.
I noticed two errors in that article:
- They didn’t take the time to find out who was the subject of “Yankee Doodle Dandy”
- The picture of Douglas Dumbrill is from “Naughty Marietta.” He did not play George Washington in that movie.
It’s not the story itself but the way it was made. Absurd costumes, a film devoid of direction or editing, woeful make-up and acting - it all screams of a country in collapse. Thank Heavens it is all in the past! It should be preserved only for bearing witness to the era in which it was made.
Bearing all that in mind, have a bit of mercy on the people who made this and give them credit for trying at least. I’m not sure anyone else could have done better in the circumstances.
I found it, if you are interested.
In the long run that only matters if you believe “the market” has an intrinsic value to society.
If you can’t cover fifty basis points on a transaction, it has no benefit to the society. Or the market. But the market society gets very uptight about paying a transaction tax.
It’s a concern, but bigger picture, the old ways where only the wealthy could invest effectively were also problematic. And average people don’t have hours a day to spend researching stocks and other investments, nor the inclination to do so. Index funds are the simple way to go. And with interest rates at historic lows, those index funds, despite not really being safe, become the safest investments that might at least beat inflation. Bonds do not look good, due to the interest rates. And while the indexes might be volatile, if the whole index tanks, everything else does too.
I have recently invested in some active funds. The ones based on things like autonomous robots, future internet tech, genomics, and financial tech. It’s a gamble, but a reasonable one. And it’s still funds with at least some diversity rather than individual stocks, so hopefully the winners will cover the losers.
So while the concerns about how it affects the market and economy might be valid, we don’t really have any better solution now. The idea that everyone should become a business/finance/stock expert and pick individual stocks doesn’t really stand up. It’s not gonna happen.
Index funds are easy and effective, and if you want to reach farther, there are active funds that for more risk might provide better reward, depending on timing.
I really wish that I could read the 2016 report titled The Silent Road to Serfdom: Why Passive Investing is Worse Than Marxism , but all I can find are references to it.
it’s basically something fans might make for youtube except pre-internet. or something fans with access to a theater company’s Shakespeare costumes would make for a cable public access channel in the US. terrible, but important for them as rabid fans to make. would the production have been better if the nation hadn’t been falling apart and there had actually been a budget? or was it just some nerdy project the tv station would never have cared about anyhow?
in defense of Soviet TV and interpretations of classic genre lit, I’ve heard their Sherlock Holmes tv show was really good. I’ve never seen it, but I can probably google it…
yeah, trivial to find and even has English subs. looks like they’re non-canon, original stories.
edit: well, that sucked me in completely. this episode introduces Watson to Holmes and finishes with The Speckled Band (the translator chose “motley ribbon”.) the other titles listed are either in Russian or in English they’re not canon names but perhaps only suffer from similar “telephone game” translations. in any event, I’ll find out since I’ll keep watching; this is a quality interpretation.
The idea, here, is that the “market” is the best way to allocate capital, given the whole state of knowledge about various equities. Bubbles pop quickly, mass delusions are unprofitable, and the market somehow reflects reality. By contrast, in marxist societies, capital is allocated scientifically.
In a market driven economy dominated by index funds, the knowledge pooling aspect of the market is swamped by large investors who follow the dominant trends. If Tulips are in season this year, then by god, we’ll invest more in bulbs.
It’s worse than marxism, because the scientific allocators of capital, though they act with imperfect knowledge at least aren’t foolish enough to buy tulips.
This efficient markets hypothesis helps prop up neoliberalism. Trust the market, and tear down those elements of the state which aim to supplant the wisdom that such a market imparts.
And we know what results from that…
I feel good about finding out that Ty Cobb wasn’t the as much the bad-ass Al Stump purported him to be.