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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...

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.

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...

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

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

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

Figured he was already dead.

Video triggered me. That's not a supernova.

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.

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...

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...

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...

La Niña

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.

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...

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...

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...

Yikes, today is looking like a bloodbath.

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...

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

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?

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.

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Every millennial on this show drives me fucking insane with how big of assholes they are; Tracey Ullman's daughter and her husband, the sweater guy, the two bitches at the drug store, all of the secretaries. They're all so grating with their entitlement shit. And I can't tell if they're written...

I guess it depends on what they do. If they raise rates and we have a crash, will they stay on course? If so, there may be hope. If they lower them again we just kick the can down a bit further and the market finally realizes that we're a ticking time bomb. Edit: And like Sanrith said above, we...

I guess you have more faith in the Fed than I do (or maybe I should say Lee does). I think we're finally at the point people have been waiting a decade for, where the Fed interventions finally don't have enough away and it all comes tumbling down. I think at best, they may be able to deter a...

How is inflation off the table? Fed just announced 3 plan rate hikes. Inflation hasn't even started.

Getting old is fucked up. I was active duty from ages 18 to 24. I remember the crusty old officers and senior enlisted guys who seemed ancient. Like one of my XO's who I was so impressed when he maxed out the PT test (keep in mind he was a fucking Major in Special Forces, so uh, shouldn't be a...

Covered? Like, insurance? I have no idea. All this wind talk is funny to me though. City I lived in in California would regularly get 60-70 mph gusts, and being the desert, dust storms weren't unheard of either.

Prices here in Florida haven't slowed down. We kind of regretted our timing as we sold in California in April, and then bought here in October. But it's looking like it really probably didn't matter. I'm definitely interested in seeing what happens this spring. If people see the inflation and...

If people like you would start ignoring it, maybe that'd happen. As it is, you start reacting to it and it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Just know you're part of the problem.

Been out of town for a couple days, but my sister-in-laws family had their house destroyed in Kentucky, and her aunt died (heart attack during the tornado). Sister-in-law said that the coroner had a property assessor with them for addresses because there are basically no houses (it's close to...

I mean, he's definitely the biggest fangay of the game on these boards.

Except all a war is is deficit spending. It's not the colonial era where we plunder a country's natural resources and come out ahead. We're not lacking in deficit spending, it's why we're as deep in the hole as we are now. The lesson the Fed learned from the 2000's wars was that we can print...

Probably. Just like how porn decided the Beta/VCR debate, titties have the power to miracle currency into adoption.

Guess there was a pretty severe tornado tonight. Hearing it's been going for over 150 miles so far. Friend's parents live in Mayfield, KY I believe and had a boat knock out a wall. Used to live in that area a decade ago and I fucking hated tornadoes.