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  1. Gravel

    Weather

    I bet you'd be surprised. We ran ours off our van shit (200W panels, 100AH lithium battery, 1000W inverter) after the 2019 earthquake. Fridges don't use much power anymore. You need a surge on the inverter big enough for when it kicks on, but otherwise the actual power draw is pretty low. Now...
  2. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Into the toilet we go!
  3. Gravel

    For All Mankind

    The real issue with all of that was that Aleida went and took tons of classified documents to her garage (and we know it's classified because it's the engine design the Russians had). Oh, and a few episodes prior she shows her fucking ex husband or whatever he was. And then brings the ex-NASA...
  4. Gravel

    The Netflix Thread

    Guess her vag shots couldn't overcome the abortion of a plot (get it?).
  5. Gravel

    Weather

    Yeah, my mom has done the same every time we get even a tropical storm. Baffling.
  6. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I mean, sure, the market is moving up today. But it's still down over the last week and substantially down over the last month. My end of '21 S&P prediction of 4100 is looking incredibly optimistic, and I feel like 3300 is more likely.
  7. Gravel

    1899

    Damn, thought it'd be another in the Yellowstone series.
  8. Gravel

    Weather

    Our honeymoon was in Siesta Key back in 2004. We were heading down the coast with literally no traffic, while the northbound lanes were completely gridlocked. We went through two hurricanes. I'm glad this one shifted from the panhandle. We decided not to go with flood insurance and this one...
  9. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    In a currency collapse you say fuck the economy, we save the currency at all costs. Been saying this for months now. If the currency goes, the economy goes with it anyway. Trying to save the economy to the detriment of the currency is retarded.
  10. Gravel

    Weather

    First major hurricane of the season and it's almost October..."panic people, climate change!"
  11. Gravel

    The Woman King (2022)

    Imagine destroying all of what remaining credibility your website had for this steaming pile of forgettable shit.
  12. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Almost a half a percent yield curve inversion? What's the largest it's ever been?
  13. Gravel

    Weather

    Looks like Ian is ramping up. Could hit anywhere along the gulf coast of Florida, and the intensity seems to be a crap shoot too. We put up our hurricane shit before we left last week just in case. Although, I found out that apparently hurricane fabric doesn't do shit to prevent your windows...
  14. Gravel

    Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley

    I like(d?) the third one because of when it came out and my age at the time. I was young enough that all of it appealed to me. It was actually on some random station a few weeks ago and I watched bits and pieces of it. Didn't seem that bad.
  15. Gravel

    She-Hulk

    Writing by committee.
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    The Woman King (2022)

    This is why I mentioned Braveheart. I almost said Gladiator too, but that's a but too departed from "history." Braveheart is "edu-tainment," but it's at least based in reality.
  17. Gravel

    The Woman King (2022)

    Edu-tainment. Because so many movies in the past just completely lied about historical events because they'd be boring otherwise, right? Like in Braveheart where the English won, or Saving Private Ryan where the Nazis decimated the allies.
  18. Gravel

    Disney+ Streaming Service

    Told my wife about it and she hasn't seen anything either.
  19. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Go back and read statements in 2007 and 2008 where they kept saying the economy was strong up until the moment everything collapsed.
  20. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I mentioned it in Politics, but inflation being "flat" at this point only means it's increasing at a constant pace, not that it's slowed at all. Making it worse is now we're at large compounding inflation rates, where last August was 5.3% and now we've got 8.3% on top of it. Inflation isn't...
  21. Gravel

    The Woman King (2022)

    Is this a promise?
  22. Gravel

    The Woman King (2022)

    So financial flop (I'm sure their goal wasn't to break even) and only critics like it? Good job.
  23. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    My mind was blown when the DoD started using the cloud for classified projects. I went out to Colorado Springs right before covid to pitch our program to a group (Cloud One) that was a joint venture between the Air Force and some tech company. They told us about how they had the support of some...
  24. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Gonna dump all my other play money if I can put them into that ETF. Screw playing the game handicapped.
  25. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    It's actually easier if you explain how companies raise money for new "investment" (buildings, projects, etc). Doing things like a stock issue or bond issue are good ways of doing that, as opposed to finding a bank to loan you money. The company makes their money on the initial offering when...
  26. Gravel

    House of the Dragon

    I'm not watching the show, just come here to read about it but...haven't there only been like 4 or 5 episodes? "Never get over it?" For an actress that's been playing a character for 4 episodes? Jesus these people are mentally unstable.
  27. Gravel

    The Woman King (2022)

    I should point out this isn't sarcasm. There are plenty of people saying similar about Black Panther 2. They don't want whitey going to see it.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Really going out on a limb there. Core CPI keeps shooting further and further higher (meaning all they've done so far has done exactly dick), and they're going to call for a measly 100 basis points. If that's all that happens after their "super serious" Jackson Hole meeting, well, we're fucked...
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    Game Pass for Xbox and PC

    It's a product of the time. Unless you were a pre-teen through college aged adult and played it with a group of your friends when it came out, it's not going to be some amazing experience. It was fun because of the time period it came out in and capturing something games have done much better...
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    The Woman King (2022)

    As a white man you're not even supposed to watch this, as you're taking the a seat from a proud black womyn from seeing it.
  31. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    Right, and my point is, there is no data that inflation would be heading down. I said it in the inflation thread just now, but it appears the only thing they look at is oil prices when making these predictions and ignore literally everything else.
  32. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I just have no idea why anyone would expect it to be good. Nothing has been fixed. Why would CPI just magically get better?
  33. Gravel

    New World

    That's probably why I quit. First being that I figured out quickly that the difference between 500 and 600 GS wasn't worth the grind (was it even noticeable?), and second is that I was on one of the minority factions of the server.
  34. Gravel

    House of the Dragon

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    Investing General Discussion

    Really hoping this WEBR play pays off this week. Dumped my PLTR for it.
  36. Gravel

    New World

    What the fuck did you do for 1000 hours? I had a touch over 200 before I was like "what's the point?"
  37. Gravel

    The Astronomy Thread

    Which always leads back to...what purpose does NASA serve anymore?
  38. Gravel

    The Fabelmans (2022)

    That trailer looks terribly uninteresting. I really can't figure out Hollywood's fascination with Michelle Williams, either. I haven't seen a single performance by her where I thought "this is a good fit." This honestly seems like a lot of dick sucking for Spielberg.
  39. Gravel

    Disney+ Streaming Service

    "White replacement is a myth. Stop with your conspiracy theories."
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    Disney+ Streaming Service

    First movie made almost a billion dollars on a $175 million budget, and they offered $100k for main roles? Damn, Disney, that's cheap.