Ha! I was just thinking of them. I just read something about them giving up oil-free bricks, for now.

The media wants us to think that Putin has designs on expanding the Russian empire back to Soviet limits. Zero evidence is ever produced for these assertions, His own speeches aren’t good enough evidence for you? Because they’ve been referenced here several times over the past few years. I don’t kn...

Thank you, stuper, for stepping down to my level so that I could understand. I and perhaps all those who are down here with me still have some reservations, but we appreciate your efforts.

No, i get that it’s all our fault. You’re consistent on that. Where you are not consistent is in the area of how likely it’s going to happen. You can say it’s all propaganda, or you can say “sure, Putin will do that if he feels threatened.” You can’t say both. It feels like you think that if it’s th...

Mountaineer wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 03, 2023 5:08 am

Why is any of this a surprise? People are evil.

We humans all mostly want the same things out of life. (Evening barbecues) And yet, we can’t seem to make it work.

stuper1 wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 02, 2023 8:03 pm

Don't worry about {the nuclear threat}; that's just ridiculous propaganda.
…
If Russia feels its under threat of losing badly, then sure, they very well may use nuclear weapons.

… Some of you guys are unbelievable. We have hundreds of thousands of people dead in Ukraine, who would be alive right now if the US could just live with having its missiles 500 miles farther from Moscow,… If you think those figures are bad, you should check out the new report from RAND. I just rea...

That’s a lot of sarcasm to cut through. You’re very prolific today, stuper. Did someone discover 5-hour energy? O0 I think this came up before, but no one said anything against the Russian people. Nobody mistakes the Russian populace with Putin. Your first clue is that he kills them , even when they...

Yeah, Taiwan is a tricky one, stuper. Especially for me, because I have friends and relatives there. It’s hard for me to be unbiased and to think abstractly about it because I lived there. For years. From what i’ve read, if China bides its time, the U.S. may come to point where they are no longer wi...

No idea how it’s going to play out, but Ukraine needs to show results before the west grows weary of funding in. The Russians have adapted. Surely you're not suggesting that the west is only in this for their own interests? I thought the west was funding Ukraine out of the goodness of its heart due...

No idea how it’s going to play out, but Ukraine needs to show results before the west grows weary of funding in. The Russians have adapted.

Before power there is survival and defense, and yes, sometimes paranoia is built into that. But I agree, essentially, in that money and power are a strong pull. Still, there are powerful nations on both sides with which a smaller nation of lesser power could align. There are choices, and ideology do...

When did it become okay for civilians to be wantonly slaughtered? When have they ever not been slaughtered? When has that not been part of war? Sadly,it often is. Nobody ever talks about this. I guess you must have been an eyewitness then. Sure, you won’t see it in a Michael Bay film, but it is dis...

Yes indeed, good post?

stuper, if you have a short list of anything that isn’t US/NATO’s fault, I’d love to see it

Sorry for throwing that description at you, Vinny. O0 I used the Vanguard interface, it asked how many shares, I clicked 100 (or whatever), and bought them and collected dividends (which might also be called something else, who knows). And one day I got the K-1. At no point did the interface say “by...

I don’t quite remember, Vinny, but I think anything with LP for Limited Partnership in the name is going to have a K-1.
Cedar Fair is the amusement park stock I was trying to think of. Cedar Fair, L.P. ticker: FUN. K-1, not so much fun.

Every once in a while, I or a family member own an individual stock which requires a K-1 filing. I have an accountant and merely have to find it and submit it but sometimes even that is a headache. There was some stock my Dad owned that simply did not give it up on the website. I tried downloading, ...

Follow up:
According to this documentary, you must be over 18. There is a 23-year-old featured early on.
https://youtu.be/plinQAHZRvk

… A couple of the issues that I've had with commodities historically was "solved" for me when I discovered CCOM.TO. (There is also an ETF in the US that tracks the same index called COM.) https://funds.cifinancial.com/en/funds/alternative_investments/CIAuspiceBroadCommodityFund.html?currencySelecto...

boglerdude wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 28, 2023 6:54 pm

Most folks here have a house, mortgage, and are overweight stocks...

I do have years worth of beans in the garage tho

And no K-1 for that

Like a dating meetup? I’ve only been to meetups for teaching English by way of conversation.

Actually, Vinny,
whatchamacallit’s thread on Gundlach is what got us looking at commodities. I started this thread to not hijack that one.
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