^ dude who wants $80k cars. With long rates at 4+% the PP is great even in accumulation. Because anyone with an interest in it understands money. The concept of working and saving as much as you can. And PP folks also aren't gambling types. It would be unwise to talk someone out of the portfolio. If...

Drone war

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/2 ... e-00524433

Back when people needed your savings (loans) that wasnt crazy. days of easy returns from skilled population growth are over. S&P will need to eat small business and get fedbux to keep "growing"

culture war is gender war. DEI puts women into power. AI is another trojan horse. The hotmail app moves spam out of your inbox but the web version acts like it cant tell whats spam. You'll read vinny's posts and think human nature isnt evil, but there are people who spend all day spamming with no re...

First gave them normal check because I wasnt expecting to need it, they told me nothing down on reddit. Ive only written a few paper checks in my 50 years so forgot to get check number. When it bounced they wanted cashiers check. Citi custom cash is 5% back grocery. Still looking for more than 2% on...

Wasnt expecting problems so didnt write check number. And not used to writing checks. Gave cashiers check and they claim they'll refund the 500 they overcharged (on top of 3k markup). CA also doing low income grants for heat pumps and contractor you're forced to work with overcharges. I might agree ...

“No matter how cynical you get, it’s impossible to keep up.” So I’m researching EVs on reddit and a poster says go to this dealer in burbank, they gave him list price -$7k low income grant. I get the sales guy’s number from the poster, he says sure. Morning of appointment “my manager cant budge on t...

Highest yielding emergency fund. Was in it in case I have to liquidate for cancer treatment or something, but hyperinflation/civil unrest is something I'd have a better chance of buying my way out of.

Browne didnt predict QE and the zero lower bound. But like MJ said with rates at 4% its viable again.

CCP oligarchs own the businesses that pay the tariffs.

Unrelated, why covid was peak Socialist. Minding your own business without a mask n'jab was a crime

Commies lament that Americans will pay tariffs. So? We pay tax either way. As if its "empathy" like covid (the seniors!) and not an effort to twist the narrative against conservatives. You can tell CCP will eat most of the tariffs by how riled up they are, astroturfing reddit. And the fact...

Nice, negotiating for a Bolt EV next week I'll print that post

I dunno about making trades based on Trump said X. How to do the inverse?

A type of Sunk-cost fallacy. eg I think gold is too expensive and would tell someone not to buy. Meanwhile I hold because Im committed as if it were a house you cant easily unload. Paper assets are liquid, you're buying back in everyday

Gold isnt an investment, it doesnt do work like a house or a tractor. Its savings, and it doesnt go up, its dollar going down.

But there arent good alternatives if you want global diversification

> corporate buyer

In a burb?
https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/com ... illed_and/

Blindly buying the index is well established as better than picking. There's an AI narrative bubble but it could take years to pop, and then there will be another narrative that distorts some other sector. But yeah, people are throwing money at stocks because an iBond is 4% and M2 is 7%. I hate buyi...

Trust the ScienceTM

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A091RC1Q027SBEA

Rates are going to zero, but who will be given loans at zero besides government. Er, Orangeman personally.

UK culture is smarter than ours but they went dystopian fast. 1984 written there, after all. We're stupider but US decentralized structure allowed Texas and Florida to push back. With centralization there's only a small politburo you need to corrupt.
edit1: to b clear, jab formulation is proprietary

Sound right? Is it worth wasting disk space on these shadowcopies given the way SSDs fail? Anybody restored from a shadowcopy?


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Content edit1. "Suicidal empathy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZw9_tE7W3k

Microsoft Defender keeps hammering my disk, scanning harddiskvolumeshadowcopy

Anybody shut it off? Windows 11 Home, Dell Inspiron 14 5430

Charge to 100% when you get low battery warning then unplug. Operating systems are designed for that. Trend of taking away user control and customization. I dont like that I cant take the battery out of new laptops and throw it in the fridge.

doesnt want to process the implication Lex has autism.

Been trying to keep my yap shut about covid, but every week there's a new twist. Just found https://old.reddit.com/r/myocarditis/

My roommate gave me an edited copy of his card and I wonder if he hadn't, would I have gone along...