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Somehow, the tube knew I'd be into synthwave.

The above URL still works! Only now it is set up for the 2020 election. Only takes a few minutes to give your answers to all the questions. Oops! Looks like I'm gonna be a Nazi ^-^ Don't know who Delaney is! So, also probably would not vote for him! Delaney was one of the few (or the only) sane peo...

Agreed, good find Vinny. Going back to what ocho said, I guess I'd agree with him, the way he phrased it. But If those same people saved a bigger percentage of their incomes, they would have a much better success rate with their retirements. It's a good feeling knowing you don't have to do anything ...

Looks like a fair amount of snow. Appears to be good insulation on those houses, too.

Is anyone able/willing to figure out and post how much they spend on car ownership and use?  I'm genuinely curious. Since you asked, I could not resist responding! As a dedicated Quicken user since January 1, 1994, I can report that from then until December 31, 2019 - 26 full years, I have spent a ...

On one hand, China hates us.  It thinks we tell everyone what to do and bosses them all around (and they're right), and they already feel like they've been bossed around one time too many and so they want us to leave them the hell alone or at least treat them with huge amounts of respect while also...

I don't understand the football argument. Do you really want to have a separate offense and defense in baseball? You'd certainly have better hitting and better defense. But that isn't baseball. Why go down that road at all? I recently heard about a form of basketball that girls played in the midwes...

I don't understand the football argument. Do you really want to have a separate offense and defense in baseball? You'd certainly have better hitting and better defense. But that isn't baseball. Why go down that road at all? I recently heard about a form of basketball that girls played in the midwes...

Kinda related

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VSBSX, the short term treasury fund, is 96.6% treasuries.

This is a good thing I've been making lately. Put a bunch of thawed boneless/skinless chicken thighs/breasts in the crockpost with some water for like 8 or 9 hours. Make some white rice. Bring it to a boil, then reduce it to a simmer for 5 mins. At 5 mins, stir in some BBQ sauce and sriracha. Adjust...

This is a little lofty, but does anyone else get a sense of satisfaction knowing that they own their own little slice of the global economy via these funds? Like, every time I go to the mall and buy something, there's a little sense of ownership there seeing all these publicly traded companies doin...

Horton seemed much more reasonable and non-crazy than I assumed he would be. I think he is mistaken about EFPs, and I think he trusts Iran about the nuclear deal and the "golden deal" he was talking about, and some other things, but I'm just an untrusting fuck.

I was also thinking of getting a cheap chromebook as a “throw around” computer. I don’t know off the top of my head how much programming stuff can be done on a chromebook though. I've also thought about trying out Linux on my Chromebook, but there's so many goddamn versions of Linux it gets a bit o...

Any thoughts on Iran? On the assassination of Major-General Soleimani. From what I can tell, the embassy was attacked and nearly breached by Iranian-backed militia. This is the guy who was the tip of the spear "backing" them. He's also been there for a long time as the head of Qud's Force...

Pointedstick wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2020 8:55 pm You can roll over unused parts of the tax credit across multiple years BTW.

Right, I just likely will have a low federal tax liability.

In one of his books, Harry Browne talked about how he "fired" all his employees and made them all independent contractors. The reason is that it was a better deal for both the employees and for him: less overhead, less taxes, more opportunities for deductions etc. And that's without the 2...

Very interesting. For comparison, last year I had a metal roof and a 7 kW solar array installed for about $29,000 (the solar was only about $17k and the roof had to be replaced anyway). The Tesla estimator says that going with them would be about $40,000 for a 10 kW array roof. That's a lot of doug...

About 50%.

"Should we all be in cash?" It depends! If you can demonstrate numerically that you can fund your lifetime needs with pure cash, why not be in cash? On the other hand, few have enough cash to be able to do this. Even then , though, I wouldn't want to be all in cash. What if the government...

It’s from 2012. I like the Churchill quote mentioned, Socialism is the equal sharing of misery. Harrison Bergeron This report from the indoctrination facilities is on point with a new one: anti-ableism, Anti-ableism activists assert that our society and institutions are structured in ways that priv...

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Jan 01, 2020 9:34 am https://youtu.be/6wkCsnFRuwg

Youtube must have really been pushing that video, it showed up in my feed too

Looks like mine is up 16%.

VP (global stocks) is up 27.5%.

Looks like even my real estate estimate is up 7.7%. Pretty great year for investing.

Sadly, he froze to death upon leaving California.