What are y'all growing? I just got a Smith fig tree that I am itching to plant. Just a few more days... I've been growing tomatoes, strawberries, cannabis, kale, and bush beans. I have a few apple and peach trees going too; they are more of a long term project. For the past two years, we only harve...

blackomen wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 10:42 pm https://imgur.com/a/NrsM4o1

Very creative definition of tithe O0 Seems appropriate: A portion of one's annual income contributed voluntarily or due as a tax, especially a contribution of one tenth of one's income for the support of the clergy or church. Unrelated. I was wondering why the feds are so concerned about cryptocurr...

My thoughts on this have evolved a bit. There are different roles to play in the Bitcoin space. They include miners, speculators, true-believers, capitalists. These roles are not mutually exclusive; you can play multiple at the same time. I am a capitalist and true-believer: I have wealth to allocat...

Just an update on this, I went through with it, and it's been fun. Unexpected joys like proxy voting and buying products from companies that I own. It's been interesting to see the winners and losers of companies I selected from across the economy. I tried to focus on high-beta companies (HB) that a...

boglerdude wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 12:23 am > favorable to conservatives and libertarians

Oh no!

Where I'm from, the locals are terrified of libertarians. Democrats, Republicans, they can understand. Libertarians are a huge boogeyman for some reason.

However, for purposes of this discussion I have what is called the Walmart test (or pick any large commercial entity that doesn't buy/sell trade precious metals). If they don't accept it, then it isn't "money." Nor is the USD money in Australia only the AUD is. US Gold Eagles pass your Wa...

https://brettscott.substack.com/p/casin ... ss-society

My takeaway is that I'll continue to cash out some of my chips into gold and Bitcoin.

I hope it works. The electricity usage is a problem. The electricity usage is what makes it fair and scarce. How else do you fairly distribute the money over time? Anyone can get paid to do the work to secure the network. It's similar to how gold has been fairly distributed over the centuries, peop...

There are so many things working against crypto that it almost has to fail, at least in this early phase. That's been my approach to it. If it ever becomes relatively stable and useful, then I'm interested. I have never felt the FOMO need to make money on it on the way up. I'm of the opinion that B...

Looks like there is a change in guard at the fact checking department:

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/0 ... e-00064647

Is this irony? I don't know, but I'm enjoying it. Presumably Elon is too.

I think too many people's views are affected by what they see on television. I remember a friend telling me I was crazy for not thinking things were getting worse in this world. I asked him for his basis for believing that. He cited what he saw on the news each night, which, of course, is going to ...

We like Teddie's too. A favorite snack here is sliced apples + peanut butter, especially w/ apples in season. Yes. Except for me it is so delicious I think I can put about 1/2 a jar (1/2 pound) of peanut butter on just one apple's worth of slices! The slice thickness is key. You want them thin so y...

There comes a point, after the student loans are canceled, the stimulus checks stop, and the credit cards are maxed out, that the money runs out and that the productive members of society get tired of being shit on and simply refuse to pull the wagon. At that point, the do-nothings are going to hav...

Bitcoin won’t do you much good when you have no electricity like most of the Ukraine Actually, Bitcoin is quite useful to a Ukrainain. Russia can invade, kick you out of your house, take your property (including your gold), but your Bitcoin rests securely on the blockchain, waiting for saner times ...

Last segment is Myron Scholes (of Black-Scholes Model): Our final speaker today will be Myron Scholes who will discuss the best ways to adjust your portfolio if you are concerned about ESG. Some market participants who are concerned about carbon emissions are selling shares in their polluters, but M...

We like Teddie's too. A favorite snack here is sliced apples + peanut butter, especially w/ apples in season.

I believe non-ESG businesses will outperform ESG businesses, all else being equal, so I'm on board! How could the companies that hire based on merit and focus exclusively on their business lose to the less talented, perfectly rainbow-colored companies who split their focus between their business and...

There is no end to the doomsday scenarios our brains can think up for any asset class But as we know https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-rfnzmq4/0/2a973f32/M/i-rfnzmq4-M.jpg Good point and totally agree. I'd like to think that my anxiety has access to a decent model of reality. Are we really worryi...

Is this a power we want the feds to have? In return for giving them this power, they are supposed to provide price stability. How is that going? Congress created that money, not the Fed. They spent it into existence. Without the Fed, Congress could (and did, before the Fed existed) just as easily s...

The money supply expansion during the COVID-19 pandemic was mostly saved until economies fully re-opened, at which point it unleashed a wave of demand that interacted quite poorly with the the unusual combination of labor shortages, raw material and energy shortages caused by the war in Ukraine, sh...

There are always stories about how "this time it's different". At some point it will be different....for stocks, bonds, LTT's, gold, etc. The question is how much do you want to bet on it (any instance of "it")? Exactly. Thus far it seems obvious that the prevailing economic env...

Although most people on the forum now tend to dismiss Budd, either I missed or there never was a great response to his opinion. If we are actually in a multi-year trend of slowly rising interest rates, what will keep the PP or any Risk Parity portfolio from having the losses we have seen this year ...

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 7:00 am Best laid chips

You're welcome. I truly love it. I don't feel like I worked a day in 2019 (got hired to do it full-time). We won't be underrated for long because we're going to take over the world muahahahahahahaha 8) The latest Debian stable made the mistake of freezing with Plasma 5.14.5, which was not an LTS ve...