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  1. 52 minutes ago, Chopper said:

    They (the Fed) tried to find a buyer but hadn't been able to line one up before Friday.

    Roku, per the article I read, had 25% of their cash on hand at SVB. Also according to the article I read while it's a problem for them, they're able to deal.

    However, the FDIC coverage limits of $250k per eligible account are an incentive for people or businesses with a lot of cash on hand to spread it around among several or many banks. The incentive is the solution. That seems rare but it's the fact in this circumstance.

    What's rare is for businesses with a lot of cash on hand to put all into one bank. But that's the way it was done in Silicon Valley, which used political muscle to ensure that the bank of their choice could gamble it away while the VC crowd mandated the funds go to the very same bank.

     

    They will be okay isn’t really a solution just for the record. You’re in charge of Roku or any of these different affected companies, how are you managing cash and access to it differently since these guys were idiots for having so much cash in one bank.

    I have a number of clients with 8 figure cash accounts, I’m curious what this looks like. A few of them with limited Daily Cash needs sweep everything they can out to other banks and pay a premium for that, but their access is pretty limited so they still carry balances over FDIC limits in operating accounts. A few have pledged securities for account balances but again that is a pretty limited solution.

  2. 5 hours ago, Chopper said:

    LOL you keep saying that they'll be made whole as if, if you keep saying it, it'll come true.

    Not trying to brag at all but I have more than enough liquid assets to be in the category of those who you (and the dolt longing for freshman year) seem to think want "blood" and to fight a "class war" simply because we don't believe the government should make people whole when they've lost money due to their own, poor financial decisions. I am far from a savvy investor but when I put my money in a bank and when I invested it with a financial advisor, the first question I asked was about the insurance on the account, and how that impacted my investment. It's why I have multiple banks, multiple investment vehicles and multiple accounts. For someone with 10x or 100x millions more than I, if they didn't understand the risks, or weren't willing to take the time to find out, then hiring a financial advisor or company controller should have been step 1.  Limiting your risk is only as complicated as you want to make it.

    I’m curious, what exactly does the process of securing your deposits look like for the size companies we are talking about here that have been hit the hardest. Roku is sitting on $2B+ in cash and has expenses in excess of $1M a day, what is the most reasonable way for them to secure those deposits daily?

  3. 1 hour ago, Poolflood said:

    Looking to get something like this for my daughter.  You mind posting a pic?  

    Was just looking at tank anglaise today with sapphire crown.

    Here’s a (not great) picture of my wife’s 28 mm Oyster Perpetual and Cartier Tank Francaise Medium to give you an idea on comparative size. The Cartier is a bigger watch overall. She is looking for a purple face 31mm Oyster Perpetual now to get a little bigger Rolex. The 28 is a little on the small side.466745B3-10F9-4F93-A516-00B37B03F6E0.thumb.jpeg.546e4918070e7dc8a8d7c3dc20bb5faf.jpeg

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  4. We contract with a company for ACH/Credit card transactions. Looks like that company used an ACH processor that used SVB to clear those transactions. Details coming from them are limited, but it looks like we have a couple days ACH transactions held up in this at the moment. Lots of fun to be on the other side of the country reading about it and then realize you have XXXXXX amount of dollars in flux with them.

  5. 9 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

    Don’t do this to yourself.  Plenty on either side of those consecutive shit shows you can pick up for not much.  

    Fat fingered it, 02 with the 7.3. Price wasn’t horrible compared to what I’ve seen, but going to keep looking.

  6. Looks better now. 3 inch Eibach coil over lift and 315/70/17’s on the stock BD wheels. Looked at an 03 F250 to get for hauling/weekend duty, but just couldn’t pull the trigger on it.471C8CEE-8303-482D-A1BD-96221951B3B2.thumb.jpeg.b8b0bb62cc5edcf77d319a0f58840244.jpeg

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  7. The NFLPA article is an interesting read. I have a good buddy that is an agent, so I have a number of NFL clients and have been to and toured several stadiums. We went to Jax two years ago to see a client play and I can confirm that place is a shithole top to bottom. Training rooms, meeting rooms, the family area, etc were all on par with low end colleges. It was amazing where you meet up with the guys after the games. It was tiny so most of the families over flowed to a roped off outside area where fans were walking by.

  8. 1 hour ago, TonyTexas said:

    I just don’t get why people use boneless/skinless thighs or breasts when baking or grilling chicken. Those should only be used for skillet type meals. 

    I use skinless for everything, bone in/out just depends on what I’m cooking and the timing. Don’t like skin, don’t like the grease/fat that comes with it.

  9. 2 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:

    It was one of my favorites too but my mom used cream of chicken instead of cream of mushroom.

    Found a recipe a few years ago we do instead. It’s garlic butter rice and chicken thighs. Use brown rice and cut the butter back and it comes out really good.

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  10. 1 hour ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    Get that sawed-off piece of shit out of my state. 

    Is he wrong though? A lot more in common than not at this point as the b.s. continues to take over that party. There are several states trying to outrun the rest to the cliff’s edge with TX, FL, TN (may have already jumped actually), etc. leasing the pack.

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  11. 2 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

    Easiest and healthiest thing to make by far 

    Sheet pan. Chop up little red potatoes, white onions, bell peppers, broccoli and sausage link. Drizzle with olive oil. Spice as desired. Put in oven on 420 for 20-30 minutes. Done

    Prefer sheet pan with sliced carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower, drizzle with olive oil, season with whatever, same time and temp. Eat with chicken, salmon, whatever you want to fix with it. We usually do a couple of sheet pans on Sunday and eat during the week.

    Grilled cauliflower steaks with some steak seasoning also is a nice mix in. 

    Salmon (cooked in aluminum foil with garlic, lemon juice, olive oil, and italian seasoning) along with vegetables is simple and quick.

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  12. Take our two (17/15) at least once a year. Things that they have enjoyed are going up in both towers, architecture tour and walk through of their museum, taking the water taxis between locations, walking the river or lakefront/beaches when it’s warm, Fields Museum, Art Institute, walking Millenium to see the fountain/Bean, the aquarium, the planetarium, walking Michigan Ave and the surrounding areas north/south of the river, seeing a show, Wrigley, and who knows what else. They always want to eat at Yolk and then Steak 48 lately.

    It’s an easily walkable City, so we rarely take the trains any more. We’ll get an Uber if we are getting outside of downtown, but you can easily cover most everything with water taxi’s and walking. We have stayed at a number of places downtown, you can cover any level and budget you want. We have stayed at the Langham the last 4-5 trips because we like the location and the hotel itself.

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  13. 5 hours ago, huge said:

    With those 2 at retail I would have been interested in seeing what else they had.

     

    But we trust your judgement.

    I swear I responded but it’s not here.

    They had the Willett 8 year Wheated at $399, an Elmer T Lee around $250, a WLW and Handy for $800 (may try and talk them down on the WLW), and several other things that I don’t remember pricing on. I grabbed those two because they were inexplicably at retail.

  14. Stopped in a random small town store today while driving between offices and picked up a Bookers and Stagg Jr at retail pricing. They had several decent options, but most were retail plus something which I wasn’t paying in a storefront.

  15. My first thought on this was that if someone I knew was riding with me and left their gun in my vehicle and texted me to run it back by to them I probably would. The texts kind of blow that thought process up though, because that clearly is not a “hey, I left my gun in your backseat…” text. It’s a shit’s about to go down text. That makes him an accomplice in my opinion, since he hand delivered it back to him.

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  16. 2 hours ago, Bert Orange said:

    If you are buying new, and know what you want, it’s really not complicated to buy in the L48 and have it delivered to your front door. Doesn’t even cost that much. 
     

    An option anyway. 

    I still prefer to buy local from people/clients I know. Even on trucks, I’ve just built it the way I want it and if he doesn’t have something coming in then he goes and gets it and trades vehicles. I’m always in and out in 10-15 minutes, so the dealership experience has been fine and the service during and after has been what keeps me going back. If there is an issue with a vehicle, he has it picked up and a loaner dropped off no questions asked.

  17. This thing is much, much smaller than I expected. That’s been good and bad. It’s actually pretty fun to drive losing 5 feet of wheelbase and 7 feet of length. I can turn into parking spots without a 12 point turn, get in the garage without folding the mirrors, etc. However, riding with someone you’re going to rub elbows and forget about riding in the back. May also need my aviation headphones if you want to carry on a conversation on the interstate. I think they’ve started a pool at work on the O/U on how quickly I show back up with a truck.

    Still trying to settle on lift and tires, think I’m going to just go with 2-3 inch and 35’s to get rid of the dinky tire look it currently has. 4C2D4B72-D277-4157-8C9F-811A90601803.thumb.jpeg.30bc572e16768b6e39f1fe21448ae6fc.jpeg

     

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  18. On 2/17/2023 at 7:42 PM, Goofyboy said:

    Any advice for mastectomy recovery? Wife is going in Monday. She’s 42 and it was her first mammogram.

    The right one is going away. Her doc says we caught this really, really early, so all should be fine.

    Anyway - any helpful recovery recommendations?

    It sucks to read this kind of stuff. It’s weird thinking with several posters that I’ve “known you from the internet” for a long ass time at this point. Everyone is starting to get to the point where age and the issues around it catch up. We’ll be sending positive thoughts your way and the way of everyone else here going through their own issues.

    Wife went in for some routine chest X-rays recently and has a mass in her lung. Doctor does not think it is cancer after preliminary testing, but it does appear to have grown rapidly which has him uncertain. Go in for pet scan soon to find out for sure and then she’s looking at least at a partial lung removal of the bottom half of her lung due to the size of it assuming it’s not cancer. Weird to be sitting at 43 having these conversations with your teenage kids, but that’s life I guess. 

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  19. Grabbed a barrel strength private select toasted today on someone else’s recommendation and another barrel strength private select today since the shelf had emptied. They were mixed in with the regular bottles.

  20. 1 minute ago, Hermanator said:

    I can't think of anything I can find on a shelf right now i like as much as a neat sipper than the Penelope barrel strength bottle I have. Tons of caramel sweetness on the nose but it's more muted on the palate so not too sweet. Just a tiny bit of a pleasing oak note. Very recessed alcohol heat for 112 proof. 

    There were 7-8 on the shelf, does that mean I should go back and buy the rest of them to get ahead of the coming shortage?

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