Gyroscopic Investing

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:07 pm Dualstow, if I don't make it back you can have all my gold. It's buried under the shed.

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:37 pm

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:07 pm Dualstow, if I don't make it back you can have all my gold. It's buried under the shed.

As long as it isn’t under Vinny’s compost pile!

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:07 pm Dualstow, if I don't make it back you can have all my gold. It's buried under the shed.

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Jan 04, 2021 7:34 pm

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:07 pm Dualstow, if I don't make it back you can have all my gold. It's buried under the shed.

I’ve been. Paradise it ain’t. Good food, though.

Mark Leavy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 1:54 pm dualstow, I can't figure out what the emoji/icon is in your signature. Do tell.

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 4:28 pm

Mark Leavy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 1:54 pm dualstow, I can't figure out what the emoji/icon is in your signature. Do tell.

It’s simply the white hair emoji. https://emojipedia.org/white-hair/
I put it there because I was going to change it (to something else) when I saw Pence come on the news.

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 4:34 pm “As a white person of colour, I am extremely concerned about the rise of black whiteness.” — Titania McGrath

dualstow wrote: ↑Sun Jan 24, 2021 9:26 am Texas Amber Alert for Chucky?

Xan wrote: ↑Tue Feb 02, 2021 5:37 pm Smith, I just went to your "message from Harry Browne" link. I have to say, now that YouTube always gives you an ad before the video starts, that kind of link sadly doesn't work nearly as well as it used to.

They should exempt that particular video from their ads, of course.

Kriegsspiel wrote:One horse can carry 125 kg on its back, but it can drag 2500 kg on a cart. If it pulls a barge along a river, it can drag 30,000 kg, 30 tonnes, and it can drag 50 tonnes if the weight is on a barge in quiet water, i.e., on a canal.

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 2:19 pm

Kriegsspiel wrote:One horse can carry 125 kg on its back, but it can drag 2500 kg on a cart. If it pulls a barge along a river, it can drag 30,000 kg, 30 tonnes, and it can drag 50 tonnes if the weight is on a barge in quiet water, i.e., on a canal.

Have any mule stats? I’m kind of into mules and donkeys. Don’t quote me out of context.

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 3:06 pm Also, no. Although I read recently that people back in the day preferred mules to horses. Due to something something hybrid vigor.

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 2:19 pm

Kriegsspiel wrote:One horse can carry 125 kg on its back, but it can drag 2500 kg on a cart. If it pulls a barge along a river, it can drag 30,000 kg, 30 tonnes, and it can drag 50 tonnes if the weight is on a barge in quiet water, i.e., on a canal.

Have any mule stats? I’m kind of into mules and donkeys. Don’t quote me out of context.

Meet Farmer Smith. In the early nineteenth century, Farmer Smith had a small but productive apple orchard in upstate New York. Every fall he loaded his horse, Tobias, with 250 lbs of apples for market, which was all that Tobias could carry over the paths that snaked through upstate New York's hilly terrain. Farmer Smith's apples were very popular; he did well, saved his money, and planted more apple trees. In a few years Farmer Smith had done well enough to afford a cart to transport his harvest, and with Tobias strapped in he could now take two thousand pounds of apples to market with each cartload. Years passed, the weather held, and Farmer Smith's apples continued to sell; with his proceeds he bought more acres of land and planted more apple trees. By the fall of 1825, Farmer Smith was in luck: the long-awaited Erie Canal was finally finished and open for business. Tobias had long since been put out to pasture, so Farmer Smith roped his new horse, Jedediah, to the barge he'd rented in Albany. Jedediah was able to pull thirty tons of apples all the way across the state to Buffalo, where the canal ended and Lake Erie began. And thanks to the waterways of Lake Erie, Farmer Smith was able to sell his apples as far away as Detroit.

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 12:14 pm Unless some necessity overtake the woman