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me going to work this morning: 😀🎶🎶🎶 me seeing a go patch release for security: eh, probably not a big deal me opening up the patch release email: crypto/x509, eh, probably not a feature we use, no rush me opening up bsky morning digest from LLM: 😡😡😡😡😡 current state: 🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀

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My credit card used to send me a fraud alert every time I spent $100 at Target. (Monica, did you spend $100 at Target? Yes, Chase. I did.) Now it's asking if I really tipped 34% at the Mexican restaurant. Yes, Chase, I really did tip $5 on a $14 bill. I'm just a baller like that.

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Indeed. ETFs, index funds and mutuals would also be at risk. Retirement funds would be in a good deal of trouble, but moving retirement funds to primarily the bond market would actually be good for most governmental entities AND the pensions by making the money for munis more marketable.

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The big question is who owns the debt. I'm pretty sure that nobody I know has ownership of that debt and the government only tangentially has any exposure. Could be some retirement funds might have some exposure, but it seems like these guys could mostly just be excised from society

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