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  1. Gravel

    The Red Letter Media Appreciation Thread

    That was satisfying to watch. 2nd video in a row, oddly, where I just randomly checked RLM and they had posted a video within 20 minutes. Didn't post it here either time though. Nukieeeeeee!
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    2023 Official Stonks Contest

    I don't think you understand how Price is Right works.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Giving back almost all of yesterday's gains to end the year. Not surprising I guess.
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    House of the Dragon

    Didn't realize it's been over a decade since Dance With Dragons. I started reading the books about the show came out. And it's been almost a dozen years now. It's more hilarious than anything now. Can you even call yourself an author when you can't even shit out a sequel in that many years?
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    St. Louis/Nashville/Atlanta/FL

    It's the whole experience. There's always a gas pump free even when it's packed. The gas is generally cheaper than anywhere around it. Always a urinal open. The candied nuts are delicious. I had a pulled pork sandwich from there on Tuesday. It wasn't amazing, but for a gas station it sure as...
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    2023 Official Stonks Contest

    4876 We're going to go red to start the year, and probably continue through the early summer before rallying to the end of the year massively (I really wanted to go 4960, which is 28.72% like we had in 2003 and 1993, but I don't see us doing quite that well).
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    St. Louis/Nashville/Atlanta/FL

    It's a weird thing to say, but if you've been to one, it makes sense. Just like the gas pumps, there's like a hundred urinals, tons of sinks, and the place is spotless. It's just a pleasant place to take a piss.
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    Avatar 2 (2020)

    Yeah, my mother-in-law's dog likes to hump stuffed animals. Guess he's a furry!
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    Investing General Discussion

    I figured the lower CPI number would've done it and we've been in a downward slide ever since.
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    Investing General Discussion

    My gut would've said we hit 3200 by the end of the year, but we've just run out of time. January is going to be a bloodbath.
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    Babylon (2022)

    Apparently it's the worst opening for Pitt since 1993 with True Romance. Yikes.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Kind of surprised we're not doing a 2023 prediction contest. Seems like it'd be a lot more interesting than the last one after the year we've had.
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    St. Louis/Nashville/Atlanta/FL

    The Atlanta aquarium is one of my least favorite big aquariums. I'd rather go to the one in Gatlinburg.
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    St. Louis/Nashville/Atlanta/FL

    St Louis has a free zoo and it's pretty darn good. The botanical gardens there are also fucking top notch (dunno how good they'd be that early though). The basilica is also pretty neat, doesn't take much time, and it's close to the zoo. I'm not much on city stuff either, and as far as Nashville...
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    St. Louis/Nashville/Atlanta/FL

    Water will be cold, but temperatures should be great by March in Florida. What type of things do you enjoy doing? Lived between Nashville and St Louis for about a decade. I will say fuck Atlanta. I avoid driving through there at all costs, but you may just be screwed. I don't think there's...
  16. Gravel

    Italy - Honeymoon

    Must be a safe neighborhood.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Depends on the company. Some will still match it, some won't.
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    The Netflix Thread

    The cat is already out of the bag though. People know the alternative. Also, the worst recession in generations probably isn't the time to play hard ball. People will just say "fuck your streaming service." Eventually the consumer is going to have to make some tough choices. At the moment...
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    Violent Night (2022)

    Incredibly.
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    Violent Night (2022)

    I really thought this was a Christmas horror movie or something. Turns out it's just an adult Christmas movie in the same vein as Die Hard. Except with the violence of a Saw movie, or creativeness of Final Destination. Thoroughly surprised. Would recommend.
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    Weather

    Sorry it's Vox, but it explains why it's bullshit. https://www.vox.com/2016/1/19/10788306/wind-chill-meaning
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    What do you guys listen to or watch while working out?

    I have to listen to music. Loud. Otherwise I can hear all my old man joints cracking and popping, and that shit makes me nauseous.
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    The Netflix Thread

    Service with less and less content as time goes on, starts effectively jacking the rates up on all their customers. I wouldn't be surprised if Netflix goes the way of Blockbuster in the next 5-10 years.
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    Weather

    I thought the 100 year thing was really a percentage. So a 100 year flood has a 1% chance of happening in any given year. It's an actuarial thing, not a science measure from the entire history of the planet.
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    Investing General Discussion

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    Weather

    Same here. Gets back to mid-60's by the middle of next week, and 70's for the weekend. The lowest we should be getting is 20F though, so not quite as cold as Texas.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Amazing what happens when you fire all the dead weight and get rid of the fuckery. You actually start...developing features.
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    Investing General Discussion

    The conversion itself isn't complicated. At least, not my understanding of it. The complicated portion is controlling our income. For ACA, you basically have to give them an estimate of your income by mid-December, and from that they give you a subsidy to your premiums for the upcoming year (if...
  29. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Wow, my realized gains are super low. I guess because the taxable account wasn't even opened until 2018. I did another $15k today, and I'm going to guess my total is around $3-3.5k in gains. So now I'm in a situation where I'm going to need to do a massive Roth conversion to "manufacture"...
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    Weather

    Seems about right. That front is predicted to move in fast and drop temps like a rock. Here in Florida I've got a high of 66 and low of 27 on Thursday. And then it'll struggle to get barely above freezing midday Friday through Sunday.
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    Investing General Discussion

    So since the market has decided to fuck with me, I think I've come up with a new plan for the year. My estimate is that we need $50k for 2023 spending (and this is about what we input for our ACA coverage). I had originally planned on liquidating $50k from our taxable, figuring out what the...
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    Investing General Discussion

    This guy did what I was too lazy to do (overlay the two). But I talked about it a few times in here and Politics (or the Inflation thread). The timeline is not quite the same anymore, as we would've hit our massive drop sometime back around August or September. But that's really minor. For...
  33. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    If we see similar, that'd be hitting the low YTD. Repeat of 2008 here we come?
  34. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Didn't they just yesterday say there was some massive amount (in more billions than 6) of selling?
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    Investing General Discussion

    Jesus, PLTR down to new lows. Thought I'd done well flipping it and getting down to a $6.90 cost basis. Should've just cut it back in the mid-$7's.
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    Willow

    When "fantasy" just becomes a mashup of modern issues in a forest setting, is it really even fantasy anymore?
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    2022 Official Stonks Contest

    Feel like maybe that one should go to whoever was the furthest off.
  38. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    That seems to make my point? Wouldn't the algorithms have done all this trading yesterday? Nothing changed between the FOMC and this morning.
  39. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Always baffled by when the markets dump the day after the bad news. And in this case I don't even understand why yesterday was considered bad, as it should've already been priced in. Add in the CPI data and we should be green on the week.
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    Party Down

    17k views. Starz just sucks for this show. For some reason they're incapable of promoting it. Also, fuck Lizzy Caplan for thinking that Fleischman show was a better choice to do than this.