I do like long bonds less than I did when I was younger. Even so, “simplifying” by removing them seems like simplifying one’s hand by lopping the thumb off.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 30, 2026 10:13 am Are you guys planning any trips/travel this year?

China. Bit of medical tourism (nothing serious, just testing). And a bit of regular tourism. Trying to iron out the dates right now, actually.

yankees60 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 30, 2026 10:49 am I am forgetting who Skyler was. Was that his wife?

Skyler is that spider that lives in the barn near Walter’s residence. Remember? The kid (Walt jr, aka Flynn) wanted to capture the spider and keep her in a box, but Walt explained that she should be free.

I see mathjak covered it elsewhere, but damn. Down over 1/4 !

Sure does!

Back to good ol' Breaking Bad memes. O0 bb meme.jpg I never understood the hate for Skyler. When the show was still putting out new episodes, Vince Gilligan even tried to shield actress Anna Gunn(sp?) from social media. I thought she was great, but maybe they did write a lot of angry lines for her....

{ Meta-Whatsapp lawsuit } I pretty much always assumed that they could, regardless of whatever they said in public. On the other hand: WhatsApp Lawsuit Draws Skepticism From Cryptographers, Privacy Lawyers A proposed class action accusing Meta of accessing WhatsApp messages is drawing early skeptici...

(from the Gold Scream thread) Bananas and rice needs to achieve meme status. If it hasn't already. I think it happened rather quickly but now that she’s been arrested, it’s really taking off. Edit: A comment suggested that the arrest was Jan 14th , and nothing came of it. I came back here to edit, b...

Nice!

Ugly_Bird wrote: ↑Wed Jan 28, 2026 9:37 am

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Jan 28, 2026 6:45 am After 5K, we’re already a quarter of the way to $6,000.

I think it was Harry who mentioned that if one rebalance from gold happened the second can follow quite quickly.

Sounds familiar!

Xan is awesome.
I’m just an occasional spam squasher.
I should say a belated thank you l82start for letting me join when another person was needed.

After 5K, we’re already a quarter of the way to $6,000.

yankees60 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 27, 2026 4:20 pm

Xan wrote: ↑Tue Jan 27, 2026 3:11 pm Yes, only the people who actually run the site would be able to read private messages, not run-of-the-mill moderators or even admins.

So you are this forum's administrator. Who are the people who actually run this site?

The Zionist Conspirac- oh, sorry, wrong forum.
Probably Craig.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 27, 2026 3:10 pm the price today.. WOW.

The move just this month, January, has been mindbending.

My Mac mini is restarting all the time now. It's ancient. It might be my last Mac desktop, which makes me kind of sad. But not sad enough to buy another Mac. O0 Just sad because there are probably things I will fail to transfer over, and things (like text replacement/expansion) that I *can't* transf...

I don't like using PMs in forums, not because of privacy concerns, but because I don't usually keep track of it all. I'm on top of email. And Signal and other messaging apps.

Someone sent me this the other day.

Can Meta read Whatsapp messages?

American Psycho, but instead of business cards…cats.

I think you forgot a sentence about snow before “this measured.”

Never thought my silver would be worth than my bitcoin. (both small holdings).

I hope all my Gyroscopic friends have survived the recent blizzard conditions across much of the US. At least we didn’t lose power in our neighborhood; just a lot of snow and sleet and ice. We have been on level 2 emergency since Sunday - basically means only emergency vehicles and approved snow re...

Sweet

the ipad OS update woes continue. Firefox for ipadOS doesn’t want to show all the tabs anymore. You can force it to by tapping Window, then Show All Tabs (downward stroke just to get the menu that includes Window). God knows what that keyboard shortcut is. I’ve tried everything. But as soon as I ope...