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The ability to escape from quicksand is not nearly as important a life skill as I was led to believe in my youth.
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Forwarded from The Macro Butler
X Money has arrived, and it is not a payments app pretending to be a bank β it is a bank pretending to be an app. The offer: 6% APY on savings, 3% cash back on a rewards card, faster pay check deposits than the incumbents, free peer-to-peer transfers, and eventual crypto plumbing. Banking infrastructure comes from Cross River, FDIC-insured and fintech-friendly, with full KYC and tax reporting, so the regulators are satisfied. Rollout is quiet β premium members first, no advertising, just in-app education. Consider what 6% does to a deposit base currently paying depositors rather less while 5-year Treasuries yield 5.03%. Every dollar that migrates is a dollar of cheap funding leaving a regional bank's balance sheet at precisely the moment its bond portfolio is underwater.
https://yourmileagemayvary.com/2026/09/29/what-is-x-money/
https://yourmileagemayvary.com/2026/09/29/what-is-x-money/
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#info #meta
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The cutter charge is a type of munition carrying a shaped charge cutting payload, designed specifically to destroy high-voltage towers and steel bridge structures. This special warhead apparently consists of a 40kg main charge and four damage modules.
A new attack on the Pivdennoe (Southern) Bridge in Kiev was carried out earlier today but the bridge's cables survived the Geran-4s.
To defend Kiev's bridges, the AFU is stationing German supplied Gepard Flakpanzers.
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The disgraced Cambridge University has abandoned its plan to investigate its hiring of DEI academic fraudster Jason Arday. The former black studies-style professor was revealed to be a prolific liar and plagiarist before taking his own life. DEI leftists responded by demanding punishment against those who reported on Arday's lies.
https://humanevents.com/2026/09/26/cambridge-university-abandons-full-investigation-into-hiring-of-plagiarist-professor-jason-arday?utm_campaign=64470
https://humanevents.com/2026/09/26/cambridge-university-abandons-full-investigation-into-hiring-of-plagiarist-professor-jason-arday?utm_campaign=64470
Human Events
Cambridge University abandons full investigation into hiring of plagiarist professor Jason Arday
Arday was found dead by apparent suicide last month after facing public scrutiny for allegations concerning plagiarism.
Forwarded from Today I Learned
TIL that Sam Houston is the only person in US history to serve as the governor of two different states (Tennessee and Texas), and he also served as the President of the Republic of Texas.
https://ift.tt/43TPaFl
https://ift.tt/43TPaFl
Reddit
From the todayilearned community on Reddit: TIL that Sam Houston is the only person in US history to serve as the governor of twoβ¦
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1833_History_of_the_Crusades_Against_the_Albigenses_in_the_Thirteenth.pdf
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The History of the Crusades Against the Albigenses in the Thirteenth Century by Jean-Charles-LΓ©onard Simonde de Sismondi examines the Albigensian Crusade, a military campaign initiated by Pope Innocent III to eliminate the Cathar heresy in southern France. The book delves into the ideological, political, and military aspects of the crusade, highlighting the brutal suppression of the Cathars, a dualist Christian sect. It also explores the broader consequences of the crusade, including the integration of the Languedoc region into the French crown and the cultural and social impacts on the region.
"The Horus Heresy takes every promise of the monomyth and shows its cost. Answer the call and you may be corrupted. Descend to the underworld and you may come back worse. Transcend your limits and you may become a daemon. The one hero who plays the journey perfectly, Sanguinius, dies for it. And the hero who completes the greatest journey of all, the Emperor, never returns with the elixir. He sits, a ruined face on a golden tomb, while the Imperium rots in his name. Campbellβs pattern says suffering transforms us. Warhammer 40K asks what happens when it doesnβt."
https://arkhaven.substack.com/p/warhammer-40k-the-horus-heresy-and?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
https://arkhaven.substack.com/p/warhammer-40k-the-horus-heresy-and?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Substack
Warhammer 40K - The Horus Heresy and the Death of the Heroβs Journey
Comedy = Tragedy + Time
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PZ on PZ
Hey, the old wannabe Fifth Horseman of the New Atheism is back! Theyβre mostly dead now and heβs been irrelevant for at least a decade, but apparently if there is one thing that is going to wake him up and get that weary old ticker thumping again, itβs the unholy marriage of William Dembski and [β¦]
https://voxday.net/2026/10/03/pz-on-pz/
Hey, the old wannabe Fifth Horseman of the New Atheism is back! Theyβre mostly dead now and heβs been irrelevant for at least a decade, but apparently if there is one thing that is going to wake him up and get that weary old ticker thumping again, itβs the unholy marriage of William Dembski and [β¦]
https://voxday.net/2026/10/03/pz-on-pz/
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Forwarded from Today I Learned
TIL about the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, when Mormons in Utah killed everybody over age 6 in a wagon train from Arkansas & Missouri that was just passing through en route to California
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Reddit
From the todayilearned community on Reddit: TIL about the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, when Mormons in Utah killed everybodyβ¦
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