Sorry guys, it was probably overwhelmed by... somebody? For reasons?

mmmmkay. You guys clearly have the same programmer, right?

Reasonable people can certainly disagree with him on the issues. But taking a step back, what he really believed was that the path forward was through civil discourse. He was an advocate of leaving your "bubble" and having healthy debates about issues. He was on Gavin Newsom's podcast rece...

The lights help it mine Bitcoin faster. It's a lot like what Clarkson calls "go fast stripes" on Mustangs.

I see it’s been a while since you’ve posted, but I was curious—has anyone here used Firecalc or CFireSim to model how a permanent portfolio holds up with early retirement? I’ve been testing different withdrawal rates and rebalancing intervals, and PP seems surprisingly steady across rough decades. ...

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Sep 09, 2025 2:20 pm Don’t want to miss The Big Day Vinny Switches Computers, or
as ochotona might call it, TBDVSC.

That's like waiting for the Great Pumpkin.

Wow, Mathjak. Glad you're okay and sure hoping your wife's injuries are very minor.

Oh no! Is this a sign of a top?

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 2:16 pm What’s GFC? I’m sure it will be totally obvious once I see it, but right now I can’t think of it.

Must be Great Financial Crisis.

It was a terrible, depersonalized, emotionless design, and say that even I have only eaten there once, not a repeat customer. But why was it called "woke"? This leads me to believe that "woke" is just a catch-all bin for anything that some people don't like. I've wondered the sa...

Don't like it. But there is an argument that "the US govt taking a 10% stake in Intel Corp" is better than just giving the company free money like the CHIPS Act does. Two wrongs don't make a right, but this is more of trying to make the first wrong somewhat less of a wrong. I suppose ther...

Why would I want to subject money removed from an IRA to be taxed at an uncapped marginal rate when the simple act of making it "taxable gold" caps my marginal tax rate at 28%? Yes, you have to have a great income to get there, based on 2025 brackets, but I'm concerned about 2035 brackets...

I do hate the idea of the US govt taking a 10% stake in Intel Corp. Does anyone like it? I know you were asking for people who like it, so sorry... But it's just terrible. I have similar issues with extorting NVidia on deals with China. If it's for national security, then it shouldn't be allowed. B...

For those of you who own Gold in ETF form ... which of the following is your preferred tax location and why? 2) Traditional IRA Trad IRA could be a bad place... because remember, even with taxable accounts gold is treated as Ordinary Income except the marginal tax rate is capped at 28%. With a Trad...

The IAUM spread is .03% and its expense ratio is .09%. GLD's spread is .01% and its expense ratio is .40%. Let's say you own it for a year. With IAUM you've saved 31 basis points in expense ratio. You'd have had to trade in and out 15 times in order to lose that much on the spread. If you're really ...

i find with the larger positions i trade gld actually ends up cheaper because the spreads are smaller than the ones that appear to have lower expenses. it isn’t about just expenses . you need to look at the spreads too when buying or selling For frequent trading, definitely true. However Vinny says...

Anyone else taking care of aging/elderly parents? My wife's parents are both 24/7 total care. They've been able to stay in their home with a live-in caregiver (actually a rotation of a few people). It's very expensive but fortunately they have savings to cover it for now. My wife has almost a full-...

That actually sounds like a really smart breakdown of costs and trade-offs. I like how you approached it from the perspective of both efficiency and livability — especially the separation between the kids’ space and the master bedroom. The point about saving on labor and materials by cutting down o...

Smith, Your Celeron logo reminds me of good times. I want to say somewhere around 1998, during that weird time when CPUs were in slots, the bottleneck for overclocking was the level 2 cache. Since the main difference between Celeron and Pentium was that the Celeron didn't have any level 2 cache, it ...

Well done, ocho!

I'm not sure AI bunnies are okay. The whole reason the video is interesting is because it's fun to see bunnies actually doing that. If they weren't actually doing that, then... what's the point?

I really doubt the charger or especially the cable has any bearing on any problems. There's no such thing as "too much current" as it's the battery that determines the amount of current. (Although, some say that "fast charging" is harder on the battery.) Leaving a lithium ion bat...

I highly recommend getting one with an inverter. When you ask for 50% power on a traditional microwave, it runs full blast half the time and off half the time. With an inverter microwave, it gives you 50% power all the time. It makes the microwave much more capable of doing things like defrosting, o...

Okay, Vinny. The video that dualstow recommended is two minutes long. Lex Fridman reviewed it positively AND donated $100 to the creator. Really the first 10 seconds would be sufficient.

dockinga, Welcome back! Please remember that just as Frugal gets some slack for being a non-native English speaker, Mathjak should get some as he is only physically able to type with a single finger. As far as buckets, Frugal is the one who brought up buckets, and Mathjak only responded to that ques...