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I agree with you that Ripple has great potential as a company and a payment protocol. But it is being packaged and sold to financial institutions primarily as a settlement system. It's not anything like Bitcoin or other cryptos. As such I don't think XRP is going to take off because it's not...

It's already #4 as far as Market Cap goes so what's your point?

Mayo fries are confirmed god tier. Especially garlic mayo. Also, I've had mayo on philly cheese steaks as well and it's good. I'm a big mayo fan. I just don't want mayo on my meatball parm. And I definitely don't want spicy brown mustard on my meatball parm.

Well what do you mean? I really don't like the idea of XRP. The entire Ripple system, to a layman like me, just seems like a more secure Venmo with its own currency.

It also doesn't use Blockchain but rather Ripple's payment platform which they are building for and selling to financial institutions with what seems like a main focus on accounting more than anything else. XRP is like some bastardized form of crypto that has none of the benefits of a true...

That's called a Rachel round these parts.

All I know is I'm pretty sure I need to switch from itemizing to taking the standard deduction. I'm in the highest bracket so this will potentially save me a bundle of cash but I think I'm going to actually need to get my taxes done professionally in 2019 to make sure.

How did you feel about Prometheus?

Hot pastrami is a Jewish NY Deli staple. Mountains of hot pastrami with spicy brown mustard on seeded rye. About tri-tip and other "cheap cuts" of beef... only more affluent, upscale areas have places that serve it. Which you'd think wouldn't be the case but poor people probably don't even know...

Fuck.... now I want a reuben

Oh Alex...

Seems like this is to be expected during the holidays. Lots of people taking time off and vacationing and crypto, especially BTC, doesn't seem like the type of investment many people are going to set and forget. I'd imagine a fair amount of people pulled their money out while they'd be away...

He doesn't realize that you were making fun of the grammar mistake in the VR posting.

Im sure mayo on a meatball is tasty, if it isn't slathered in marinara and mozzarella.

I was just at a local sandwich place to pick up some dinner and the guy in front of me ordered a Meatball Parm sub with mayo and mustard.

Do you honestly think JJ Abrams can write a coherent, full story? The guy is an idea man. He is not a storyteller. His stories fucking suck. They start off interesting and then nothing ever happens until they just hamfist some shitty ending onto it (if he even sticks around to actually write the...

No, the explanation for that is these movies are written terribly and everything that happens in them happens due to pure convenience. This way the writers don't have to bother telling a story that is even slightly compelling.

These blockchain companies are literally the next tech bubble. Blockchain is not complex or difficult from a tech standpoint but it's one hell of a buzzword now and everyone wants in. There are going to be so many overvalued companies in that space and then it's all going to come tumbling down...

30 year term on the mortgage? If you have the liquidity to pay it down significantly I would just refinance to a shorter term (10yr preferably) which should also drop the rate about half a percent. You'll have to pay some fees but those would be recouped fairly quickly as you hit your principal...

Seems like a result of him spending way too much time in the sun with no sunscreen on. Reminds me of all the old ladies on Long Island who spent their entire youths tanning. They look like old leather once they hit around 50.

Yea usually, but why chance it?

Well for a true, traditional pot roast I'd probably go with the old fashioned dutch oven. Not a fan of doing slow cooker pot roast and throwing veggies in all at once for such a long time. If the bigger cuts don't come out so good in the instant pot I guess I wouldn't want to throw a full chuck...

Re-watching this movie to find subtleties and nuance you missed the first time around would be like staring intently at a donkey waiting for it to turn into a thoroughbred.

I'm pretty much at the same point, though I think if I end up getting an instant pot I can just throw my slow cooker into storage because the only thing I ever really use it for is pork shoulder and chuck roast/brisket and it seems like the pressure cooker can do just as good a job in 1/8th the...

I watched it a few days ago. Worth a watch. The ending is predictable and stupid but other than that it's got a good cast and is pretty funny.

So a quesadilla folded on top of itself.

Condoms break bro.

How would our cheetos go stale? We eat them too fast... you know... cuz we're all fat losers.

All of this actually sounds worse than what we got. Especially the "Snoke trained all these other guards to be as powerful as Kylo, the kid everyone was talking about having the most raw strength ever seen".

Ernst and Young has a bitcoin ATM and has given all their employees BTC wallets. They even accept BTC as payment, for example. I'm sure drug dealers still accept it as payment. It's a money maker. Just like I'm sure those drug dealers accept USD (just not over the internet). But Monero scales...

Nah. BTC has some legitimate uses now, but the price isn't driven by illegal activities anymore. It's driven by supply/demand of BTC as an investment vehicle. It's become an asset. Monero is where the criminals have moved.

Well I, for one, am shocked and appalled.

What's the problem? All you have to do is quit your job and wait 26 weeks.

Like I said. I don't think this is solely Rian Johnson's fault. I have a feeling he was pushed to make exactly this movie. Disney owns the IP and suddenly we get what felt almost like a Star Wars themed Despicable Me. That's how much comic relief there was in the movie and how far it took the...

I agree. This movie was actually worse than the prequels.

No, he's right about that being pointless comedic relief. Every scene that could have been dramatic and powerful was dumbed down with unnecessary comic relief. Every. Single. One.

There is one thing that everyone in this thread agrees on. Their kids loved it. I'm pretty sure that's what Disney wanted. They probably even asked Rian Johnson to write a script for kids, not for adults. You hook the kids and the parents have to go see it anyway AND you sell more toys.

Let's talk about some of the really great scenes from the movie. One that gave me that warm, fuzzy feeling and really put me in the Christmas spirit was Finn exclaiming that he had no regrets.... about freeing the alien race horses.

Did you find out where you can donate to make the bad Africa movie fail more? Got a link for us?

Finally got around to seeing this tonight. This was a high budget B movie. It was objectively bad. Every other scene had some form of terrible, cheesy comedic relief and it followed the TFA formula of "Here's a problem, OOOOH HERE'S A SUPER CONVENIENT SOLUTION!". Terribly written and it was...