Recent content by Hoytvectrix

Apparently several large bets were placed on polymarket minutes before the US attacked Iran this past weekend. The best case scenario is that this administration has a national security leak. Regardless, people are choosing to directly profit off of our military operations and in the process...

I'm seeing those two were convicted for their plot to kill Iranians living in the US. All of the press releases in 2024 talked about the plot to kill Trump but it was never mentioned again and they were not tried for the assassination attempt.

When has Iran tried to assassinate Trump?

Technically, state courts handle most cases so it would be on them to pay for their cases, but I agree with you. People should be compensated more to an extent. I did a quick search and the majority of employers have paid jury duty and there is no federal requirement, but several states do...

Nope. It's a bit of a hot take, though. I certainly don't expect somebody to take a job or not solely because of jury duty benefits. My employer provides full pay up to a certain length of time for serving on a jury. I took a pretty substantial pay cut because benefits like that one mattered to...

This is a fair point about lost wages affecting people's lack of motivation for serving on a jury. You certainly don't have to like doing it. But you also don't have to work somewhere that doesn't include this as a benefit.

Where do you think the $175 Billion that was collected came from? Most things affected by the tariffs were a few percentage point increases in price, which may not be immediately recognizable to most people. I personally think it would be hard for anyone to miss the insane rise in price of...

I respectfully disagree completely about the tariffs. Economists almost unanimously think across the board tariffs are a bad idea, and that says something because they rarely agree so consistently on anything. I don't think it is so clear that "Wall St" likes them. You can find the days when...

I am assuming this is a partnership or cooperative of some kind. I wonder why they are selling now? Who would even be in the market for buying something like this? A few like-minded 1000 acre landowners who are willing to give up autonomy to have more control of a deer herd? I feel like this is...

Yeah, if anything prices have been coming down. A neighbor of mine is a Whitetail Properties broker. He is saying there are better deals now than in the last several years, but they typically don't last long. It seems like people are getting a better sense of what their land is worth and the...

I never understand why people want to get out of jury duty so badly. To me, it would be like complaining about political leaders and never voting or complaining about traffic while sitting in it, not realizing they are literally traffic. It's a civic duty and part of the social contract. Be the...

Keep us posted. I'd love to propagate some gray dogwood by cuttings. I was asking because that looks like older wood than what is used for other dogwood cuttings.

Have you had success in the past with the gray dogwood cuttings?

They need longer cold stratification than oaks or chestnuts. It varies with variety, but they should take between 45-60 days. Some take much longer than that. I prefer long fiber sphagnum moss for the media and use ziplocs that are cracked open. I would not take them out of cold storage until...

I was called up but not selected last year. Something like 200,000 people in Minnesota are called in each year. I'm sure it's happened before, but if people's names are used on every jury you sure don't hear much about retaliation. I believe names are shared with the defense to ensure a fair...