An older brother of a kid at my kids' school was in a bad car wreck last week. When I heard about this he was not dead but fighting for his life. That afternoon I did a search on his name to see if there were a local news article about it with an update. What I saw was a sickening sign of the times....

The ‘FT’ reports today that the war is sucking the labor force out of the Russian economy and into the military. Obvious, but I hadn’t thought about it much until now. That would only be via a draft, correct? Assume small amount of it would be from volunteer enlisting? Are there any polls as to wha...

What would be the best replacement for SHY to buy and keep for 30 days to avoid wash sale at Fidelity? Sold some SHY for tax-loss harvesting. Probably just keeping the money in the settlement fund is good enough? I've been using SGOV lately. Thank you for your reply. So, does it make sense to buy t...

Ugly_Bird wrote: ↑Mon Nov 06, 2023 9:30 pm What would be the best replacement for SHY to buy and keep for 30 days to avoid wash sale at Fidelity?
Sold some SHY for tax-loss harvesting.
Probably just keeping the money in the settlement fund is good enough?

I've been using SGOV lately.

I'm thinking about selling my older bonds with 0% fixed rate and buy the new ones next year. I don't see much sense in keeping them as they will have that fixed rate of 0% until maturity. But don't they still grow at whatever inflation turns out to be? If you're not going to use the $10K purchase l...

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Oct 27, 2023 5:43 am Nice colors. Those first two look like siblings.

Okay but what about the cats?

vnatale wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2023 8:40 am

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dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 8:26 pm I’m sorry for this one. I know it’s in poor taste.

lmao it's actually in great taste.

It is if you are on a certain side of the issue.

If you're on the transgenderism-is-real side, wouldn't it warm your heart to see this chart?

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vnatale wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 7:20 amWhat percentage of Americans ever know who is running against one another for President of Canada in 2024? How many can even say who is the current President of Canada?

Um... is this a trick question?

In what way?

There is no president of Canada.

vnatale wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 7:20 amWhat percentage of Americans ever know who is running against one another for President of Canada in 2024? How many can even say who is the current President of Canada?

Um... is this a trick question?

https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/hiddenforces/Ep.330_Henry_Olsen_Main_Feed_10-9-23.mp3 think thats the 1st hour. DNC just gave the nomination to hillary over bernie? Could RNC give the nomination to whomever they want. what could anyone do about it? trump cant win. hes...

stuper, Your all-or-nothing mindset is really coloring how you look at things. I'm not 100% certain about this, or most any other, issue. I said that the US military is overall a force for good in the world. Am I 100% certain about that? No. But I do think it's the case. This is a discussion forum, ...

so I am able to give you the simple, unvarnished truth, which is that a relatively small country next to a huge country has no fighting chance. Except…Japan which colonized China; Israel, which is 9 miles wide in some places devastated the armies of its relatively massive neighbors, all at once; li...

Um, yeah, there were some technological imbalances in those examples that tilt the other direction here. But anyway, I wish the Ukrainians and Taiwanese nothing but the best sincerely. I hope they make the very best of bad situations. What is it like to be 100% certain about everything, even when y...

stuper1 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 8:03 pmYou'd think people could understand simple stuff like this, but apparently adding 2 + 2 is hard.

Simple stuff like unbacked claims? "The US knows he isn't like that." Who? How? How do YOU know?

Also, you're welcome to make your points, but please don't resort to personal attacks.

By the way, of course as a people we do love Taiwanese people as we love almost anyone (not Russians though or mainland Chinese, both of which are unredeemable ethnicities). Taiwanese isn't an ethnicity. The mainland and Taiwan are the same people, ethnically. I thought the same was basically true ...

Not true. Taiwanese are good. Mainland Chinese are bad. I read it in the New York Times, so it has to be true. If you disagree with me, you need to go to a reeducation camp. And to your earlier point, so you are saying that the Ukrainians and the Taiwanese get to decide for America how we spend our...

By the way, of course as a people we do love Taiwanese people as we love almost anyone (not Russians though or mainland Chinese, both of which are unredeemable ethnicities). Taiwanese isn't an ethnicity. The mainland and Taiwan are the same people, ethnically. I thought the same was basically true ...

I can't think of much that would be more patronizing and paternalistic than refusing to help the people of Ukraine or Taiwan or whatever on the basis that we're saving their lives by not helping them. Shouldn't that be up to them? The US military despite its many flaws is a huge net force for good i...

stuper1 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 3:37 pm And by the way, who won that civil war you mentioned?

Mostly the Communists, but not entirely. Yet.

I feel bad for Taiwan, because they are obviously between a rock and a hard place. I counsel them to be very careful in what they do. China is a lot closer to them geographically than the US is. It won't take many wrong moves before they look a lot like what Ukraine looks like right now, with hundr...

Get well soon, Sir! Here the cases started to increase too. What they say is a common symptom - eyes inflammation. Thanks Vil. Hadn’t heard about the eye inflammation. We are both feeling a little better today. Stay well! Four days later what is the current update for each of you? Someone has been ...

you can for instance program a transaction to either be accepted or rejected subject to other criteria. Bitcoin has smart contracts. In fact each Bitcoin transaction is a series of contracts. Ethereum is also already becoming the accepted 'regulated' (official) network. No need for Ethereum or a bl...

With AI I guess that we're on the brink of few powerful CPU's may transition to many low (processing) power CPU's working in harmony. Similar to the human brain. At some point, longevity. Download/backup your memories each night, and if anything bad happens to that brain, recover those memories int...

Thoughts? At 16.7% of my PP... Getting close to the 15% rebalance band. I hope it doesn't happen this year but will in 2024. Will have to report my 2023 to FAFSA, so I do not want to sell anything from my brokerage accounts :-[ Regarding FAFSA, make sure your ordinary income qualifies you for finan...

I can't believe I hadn't heard of King's Quest. I had to google it unfortunately. It looks like this would have been right up my alley, but maybe just a little before my time? It’s possible that Tortoise and Xan and i even played different generations of it. Mine was on a floppy disk, the big thin ...