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3.00Jimmy Carter markets are to manifold what US govt bonds are to the world economy.
@LeonardoKr you know I don't think this is what I would call the risk free asset of the global economy.
Just saying, he lost his wife and might just be holding on for Christmas
@Dave_9000ish then there is new year's eve, then there's a birthday coming up, then there's hopeful springtime and so on. He made it so far, why would he give up now?
@Dave_9000ish you are certainly free to speculate. But I wouldn't mind an immortal Jimmy Carter building houses no one needs across America while everyone's consciousness is uploaded to the great AI
@LeonardoKr The widowhood effect is very real. Mortality rates are much higher in the first month after bereavement. Aside from the holidays, it’s hard to say how Jimmy feels about hanging around for several more months.
@thepurplebull I would be really interested in the baserates. As a yes voter I would love disconfirming evidence.
I am saying yes because of actuarial tables. With a mental acknowledgement the man is in hospice.
@wutangfran If that is their select group for his wife, it seems that when he does pass that there will be more people at Jimmys Services than what was at Trumps Inauguration.
@SirCryptomind @wutangfran what was your prior regarding an old man that usually lives in a place designed for people in his condition, attending a funeral far away from his place, with long distances, lots of people and noise...
And by the way, he made 6% of these 33 days already that you mention
"They were, I think, a flawless example of what Bokonon calls a duprass, which is a karass composed of only two persons.
“A true duprass,” Bokonon tells us, “can’t be invaded, not even by children born of such a union."
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Bokonon tells us, incidentally, that members of a duprass always die within a week of each other. "
@potatopenguin well, nevertheless. we must allow reality some flexibility when being compared to fiction