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  1. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    GME on a tear after hours. Up almost 30% 35%.
  2. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    If it's a Roth, just buy whenever. 30 years from now it's not going to matter if you bought at x or x plus/minus 10%. Even now that I'm retired, these moves don't mean much. I'm not liquidating my entire portfolio. If I have to withdraw like 3 years in a row when it's down, sure, that starts...
  3. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    You all do this every time. It's not even a 2% drop. These aren't significant. Stop sky is falling every time the market isn't setting a new all time high.
  4. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    A lot of the "have bonds in your portfolio" advice came when bonds were in a sort of bubble for about 30 years. Bonds sound great when they're paying out 4-5%. That era is long since past. Bonds are mostly a drag on your portfolio now. Granted, part of this is because the equities markets are...
  5. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    And it was incredibly obvious, which means they had to have just been lying this entire time.
  6. Gravel

    Don't Look Up (2021)

    It's weird, the "classic" comedies of the 80's and 90's all clock in at around 90 minutes. I don't know when they decided every movie needed to be a minimum of 2 hours, but it's fucking annoying.
  7. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I bought back in mid-November when I thought it was going to swing back up (after it fell from $26 to $23). Apparently that was just a quick stop before it went to $17.
  8. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I get up whenever, fuck around online, eat breakfast, play some games or watch twitch, workout, lunch, sometimes go for a walk, eat dinner, watch a few hours of TV, and then go to bed. It's a full day, man! And that's the lazy days. If I do a project or we go do something, I accomplish even...
  9. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Conventional wisdom is that time in the market beats timing the market. Since none of us knows what the future of the market looks like, it's better to get the money in as soon as you can and ride the waves up. Because while the market can be volatile, it's within 5% of the all time high...
  10. Gravel

    Smokers / Grills

    I ended up ordering a Rec Tec (590). With smoking, I eventually got to the point where I only used hickory. Fruit woods like cherry and apple never seemed to give me as deep of a "smoke flavor" that I wanted, and something like mesquite was too harsh. Jack Daniels barrel chips seemed like just...
  11. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I'd love to get back to even on PLTR again. I think it took me like 5 months last time. Then like a retard I bought a small drop, and it's been in the shitter ever since.
  12. Gravel

    Don't Look Up (2021)

    Feel like you didn't read a lot of our opinions on it. The jokes were fine...up until a point. And that point was after about 45 to 60 minutes of beating that horse. And then they do it for another hour.
  13. Gravel

    Curb your Enthusiasm

    Wow, didn't even realize that was the finale. What a disappointing season ending.
  14. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I think I posted my story before, when my wife and I were young, we had a good amount of disposable income from my deployments (tax free plus combat zone pay), we went to Edward Jones and started up some IRAs. We ended up in some front loaded funds, I think 5%, that also had annual fees of...
  15. Gravel

    2022 Official Stonks Contest

    I posted that thought several months ago. That you'd hope the assets rich people have would make them even richer, and since I also own those assets, hopefully it works out. I guess we'll see.
  16. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Well 2021 was a wild one financially. Quit my job with the DoD in March, took a new one in May, and quit that one in October to retire. Moved from California to Florida in April, taking 6 weeks to drive across the country. About a week or two into it, homeless, we crossed our milestone for...
  17. Gravel

    Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

    Uh... 1993 and 1994. Blade wasn't until 1998.
  18. Gravel

    1883

    Taylor Sheridan is pretty much a must watch for me. Hadn't even heard of this but I'll give it a shot.
  19. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Chinese group? That's something Zeihan mentioned a long time ago, about Chinese getting money out of their country and buying US property with cash.
  20. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Geez, the 200 day is only 4373. That's...not really that low at all. I see a 20% haircut (3800) as almost a given at this point. Likely much, much more.
  21. Gravel

    Smokers / Grills

    So reading a lot of the thread, a Rec Tec seems like a good option. I think I'm leaning towards that. Having never used a pellet grill though, now my concern is whether it's actually worth a shit as a "grill." Like if I want to do a steak, is my best option to throw a cast iron into it and then...
  22. Gravel

    Smokers / Grills

    Some of the prices in this thread have my jaw dropping, but I think I'm going to end up combining a grill and smoker (previously had an electric smoker and propane grill) and so the price point isn't as big a concern anymore. It's just my wife and I, so not looking for anything too large. Likely...
  23. Gravel

    Curb your Enthusiasm

    Vindman? Fucking seriously with this shit? Why not have Daniel Manning on the show playing himself and everyone can talk about how stunning and brave he/she is. Curb has done mostly okay not being political, but this one is pretty egregious. Vindman is a traitorous piece of shit and should've...
  24. Gravel

    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    Figured he was already dead.
  25. Gravel

    The Astronomy Thread

    Video triggered me. That's not a supernova.
  26. Gravel

    Ashes of Creation

    Pretty sure it was both. Destiny 1 eventually fixed it, but Destiny 2 was built using some of the same code, and so it ended up being in it at release. Not sure if they resolved it again.
  27. Gravel

    Don't Look Up (2021)

    I think that's the problem. The jokes in the first hour were subtle jabs at society. And had they left it at that and moved on with the plot after that, it probably could've been a decent movie (albeit still 30 min too long). Instead they went the opposite way and doubled down on the same...
  28. Gravel

    Weather

    My favorite is always the Death Valley heat records. Every couple years they say it might get broken "this summer" and mention global warming...and then that the original record is from 1913. Somehow global warming can't wipe out a record from a hundred years ago, and also ignores that we...
  29. Gravel

    Don't Look Up (2021)

    Started out decently funny. About an hour and twenty minutes in, I had to pause it to pee and there was still another hour. I thought it had maybe 20 left. The jabs at society were decent in that first hour, but like everything Hollywood, they couldn't help it and it got obnoxious. The obvious...
  30. Gravel

    Weather

    La Niña
  31. Gravel

    Hawkeye

    I actually said it felt like Home Alone with the montage scene of them putting arrows together, with the Christmas music in the background and all.
  32. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    It's crazy, because with all of the volatility, we've really been almost completely flat for the market for the last two months. Doesn't feel like it though. Looks like it's finally breaking up. So now we'll see if this is the last big push before it all goes to shit, or if we sustain this...
  33. Gravel

    Hawkeye

    He was fucking amazing in Better Call Saul, too. I'm surprised they spent the time, money, choreography, and songwriting talent on that exit sequence. My wife thinks it's because they're going to make an actual Avengers musical. Anyway, it's sad that this only got 6 episodes. Was probably my...
  34. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Further, they've been on a massive shift away from producing their own power and energy. They've decimated their natural gas production and closed a ton of nuclear plants in favor of renewables that don't provide even remotely enough power for their needs, so they buy excess from France who...
  35. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Yikes, today is looking like a bloodbath.
  36. Gravel

    Game Pass for Xbox and PC

    The Game Pass app has issues playing nice with the actual Windows app interface. Try playing with doing it through the Windows store and see if that helps. But if not, it wouldn't surprise me. I've had tons of issues with Game Pass on PC. You'd think it'd work well with Windows since fucking...
  37. Gravel

    Station Eleven

    I guess this is the kind of show for someone who just feels like the fear porn in their life is lacking a bit?
  38. Gravel

    EZ-Pass working on a pay by car GAS Program

    Mid-December and I'm still wearing shorts. But even then, I've pumped gas in the cold. Who fucking cares? Don't you faggots who live in northern states love the cold and snow?
  39. Gravel

    Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)

    I remember enjoying the first one well enough, but we only made it about 15 minutes into the second. It was just...bad. Not even going to bother with this.
  40. Gravel

    Disney+ Streaming Service

    but why.gif