30 Replies to “August 14, 2023: Reader Tips”

  3. Can anyone supply a list of words that cause our comments to be thrown into comment moderation, AKA Comment Oblivion?

    1. Comment moderation? Only seems to happen to my least vulgar and opinionated contributions. Has the appearance of being completely random. And from my observation, nobody reviews the posts and nothing ever returns from purgatory.

      1. Rd and Scar, I agree with both of your remarks on “comment oblivion”. I try to post politely, informative comments (e.g., no foul-mouthed words), but I get sent to purgatory on occasion.

        One finding: don’t post any link from Substack. Over the past four or five months, I have posted such three times, and all three were sent to moderation hell. This is understandable though, since substack authors are typically independent writers unattached to corporate media oligarchies. These writers need to build up subscribers.

    1. I wonder what the hottest temp ever was, say 500 years before anyone lived in what could be called the Ottawa area?
      The idiocy is exhausting.

  5. File under the department of It’s Probably Nothing. But a large Chinese financial corporation, Zongzhi Financial Corpoation, missed monthly payments on all of its financial instruments paying monthly interest:
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-14/china-sets-up-taskforce-after-top-wealth-manager-misses-payments

    This like the BMO financial group missing monthly payments on savings accounts, ETFs, money market instruments, etc. Just like Trudeau’s PMO, the Chinese government is forming a panel to study the matter.

  6. Again place the following in the It’s Probably Nothing file. But China’s Country Gardens real estate developer, a huge corporation, is petitioning to extend its maturing bond (it can’t pay the principal even it matures):
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-14/country-garden-seeks-to-extend-maturing-bond-in-first-for-firm

    Country Gardens is four times the size of China’s Evergrande real estate developer, when the latter went bankrupt some months ago.

    Btw, in the previous post above this one, it’s Zhongzhi, not Zongzhi. Zongzhi is a Zong spelling.

      1. I am a retired commercial interior designer who applied for building permits from 1977 to 1995 (when Ontario changed the requirements to only architects or structural engineers applying for permits). I learned a lot about the Ontario Building code and took one home from the office and spent time underlining in red and highlighting in yellow all the pertinent parts of the code which applied to hotels and restaurants (I worked for a hospitality designer). Previous to doing this, many of our applications would be rejected.
        One of the most critical areas is that of the Zoning bylaws and setback requirements to prevent the spread of fires. It is very sad what happened in Lahaina, but from what I have observed all buildings destroyed were made of very old wood and were very close together with no concrete block fire separations. I truly hope that the re-building of the city will enforce fire separations so that this never happens again.

        1. Your comment explains how the area burned so readily, but does not explain how the fires started, how many boats on the water burned and how metal was melting, but many trees still standing. The area was coveted by developers, but most locals were not willing to sell, and bylaws enforced that the area remain heritage. Some of the comments discussing the fire are very thoughtful and point to inconsistencies with a fire caused by natural forces. I believe the cause is still being investigated. Sasha Latypova’s post on this is worth reading:
          https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/maui-plans-for-a-high-tech-prison

  8. For some reason AMC Entertainment Inc. Is down some 38-40% today: https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/amc

    I tried to do a Google search, but couldn’t find a reason. But AMC has a near monopoly on movie theaters, and is one reason conservative and Christian movies have trouble getting screen time. AMC hates what is politically incorrect. Did a search of AMC’s finances, and it is losing money big time and is up to its forehead in debt. This year its debt interest payments are forecast to equal its after-tax cash flow. The woke company is going bankrupt.

    1. The gov’t can take a long, hard suck on something, alright. It just ain’t my batteries…

  20. Is anyone else wondering if all those melted cars pictured in the Maui fires were EVs. Or maybe the fires were so intense because of EVs?

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