Ah, the glorious age of AI-generated content! Because who needs the messy unpredictability of human creativity when you can have algorithms spitting out prose that's as profound as a fortune cookie written by a particularly lazy seer? I mean, why bother with the nuanced beauty of human expression wh...

I'm currently dating a girl from Ukraine. She moved here to escape the war that was happening in her home country.

Obviously the war is heinous and tragic.. but if it hadn't happened, she wouldn't be here. Really makes one think.

I would rarely ever listen to an audiobook since it is so inefficient for me to get through a book. The average speaker speaks about 200 words per minute while I can read 900 words per minute. Therefore I'm not going to listen to a book. But I do now have time to listen to podcasts. For me it reall...

After KBG listed several Lex Fridman podcasts as being useful to understanding what is going on in Israel I've made a concerted effort to listen to ALL his podcasts since the last time I'd listened to one. I've been able to do so because with the change in weather I'm now almost exclusively indoors...

vnatale wrote: ↑Sun Nov 12, 2023 7:55 am

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 12, 2023 5:26 am Alright, for my next trip: New York or Las Vegas? Which one, and why?

Definitely New York City. Las Vegas has a singular focus while New York City is multi-faceted.

Good point. The place I'd love to visit the most is the New York Stock Exchange.

Also, the pizza of course lol!

Las Vegas, because it’s not New York. O0 Hahahaha. Is that because New York is sort of known as an unpleasant city? From what I understand, there are some parts of town and some people that are rather unpleasant. I often imagine that Hong Kong was sort of the New York of Asia, and there were defini...

Alright, for my next trip: New York or Las Vegas? Which one, and why?

The real issue I suppose is how does an old person get gold across the country from one safe deposit box to another if relocating to be closer to kids and possibly going into assisted living? That elder isn't going to drive... I don't think they want to take, say, 60 oz of gold through TSA checkpoi...

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 9:34 am hah! The bow tie is just the right color.

Hehe. I got the little suit in Hong Kong. It was so cute I just had to buy it!

I haven't seen any discussion of CEF for quite a while. As I recall, some here were unhappy with its acquisition by Sprott a few years back. Does anyone here still hold it? What is your current thinking on this fund? I used to hold it because it was a convenient way of getting both gold a silver ex...

Cat cafe in hong kong

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 6:12 am Nice, Smithers!
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My parents got scammed again. Damn, they’re getting old. That’s twice in two months.

What happened?

View from the hotel.

vnatale wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 8:51 am

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 6:42 am Hello from Hong Kong!


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From what countries are most of the cars from? They all look fairly new.

Today I saw a Ferrari parked in front of our hotel.

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 7:09 am Yay! Terrible view, though
Couldn’t you get a picture of a food stand or tiled roof or something?

Some local snacks.

Hello from Hong Kong!

I listened to the Michael Saylor interview that Lex (Led?) Fridman did and now I'm down a Michael Saylor rabbit hole.

Did anyone subsequently move into or move more into crypto since this thread?

And, your library has just ONE copy??!! As I stated above: "The library is in an unincorporated village and census-designated place in my town. Its population is 4,500 over 2.3 square miles." Ah, I missed that. Sorry. Lol we don't have the copy yet.. as you can see in the screenshot the b...

Vinny, I’m used to you writing statements with a question mark, but a question mark after an ‘I’m sure? My head’s going to explode. O0 It's called tempering my apparent certainty with the possibility of me being completely wrong. We will see which way Smith1776 reveals is correct. We have a populat...

lol!

The Arnold book is really good. If it's at your local library, I highly recommend you check it out. Based upon that recommendation if I see it there I will do so. I was at my local library yesterday and was shocked to see the Elon Musk book which I grabbed (along with about 9 others). Lucky! My loc...

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.

The Arnold book is really good.

If it's at your local library, I highly recommend you check it out.