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Red Six

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  1. That's like 500 lifetimes of carry-forward deductions. I mean, assuming he's a prole like me whose losses are in his personal e-Trade account.
  2. What an awful world in which we live, where Fat Wallet dies, yet Digg continues on.
  3. Actually, this is what most studies say occurs. The best treatment for a muscle injury is rest. If/when a chiropractor fixes something, it's by accident, not design.
  4. Bogleheads for retirement, Wall Street Bets for the gambling addiction. This group strikes the balance.
  5. Why are you using two target date funds? Do like a 60/30/10 VOO/Int'l fund/bond fund (although the international choices look like they suck). If you want to cut expenses, gripe to HR and ask them to switch their provider to Vanguard or someone who charges a lower administration fee.
  6. Don't understimate the value of cash-in-hand. What if liquidity dries up? What if your broker goes down at 2:45 p.m. on the day of expiry? Also, even if your position moves where you want it, you will almost always leave at least couple cents on the table when you close out, i.e., you will rarely get the full value of the spread.
  7. That is the most boring way of consistently making money. It's the options version of saying, "I play the stock market," when really you just dump everything into $VTI and a bond fund and come out ahead in the end.
  8. I attended this same high school about ten years later. There are very few schools that can pull off what this one did/does in terms of ethnic and class diversity, as well as high-caliber academics. The kids ran the gamut from elite families in the most exclusive neighborhoods, to the projects. And everyone seemed to get along. It was amazing. But the athletics -- they were horrible. Except for golf. It helps to have kids who grew up playing on a PGA course.
  9. Not just anyone can be appointed to try a capital murder. His attorneys are two of the smartest, most tenacious lawyers in the courthouse.
  10. And I disagree that you cannot smoke with a Weber kettle. A 22-inch one gives you plenty of space to create distinct direct and indirect zones that simulate (though don't entirely reproduce) the effect of an offset smoker. I do pork butts, chicken, and brisket on mine and am able to maintain necessary temperatures using the bottom vent. I give it about a 20 degree range, e.g. 195-215, and usually go several hours before readjusting it. I just put a pile of briquettes on one side, along with smoke wood, and then put four or five lit ones on it. That is usually good for 8 to 10 hours. And, of course, a kettle can do all the usual grilling stuff -- steaks, burgers, fish, whatever. I don't know how hot mine can get because I don't keep the thermometer in when I'm not slow-cooking, but it can put a solid sear on a steak. At $150, a kettle is the best bang for the buck for the all-around category. If he wants something dedicated for smoking, then the WSM would be better. A ceramic grill isn't bad choices either, especially if cost isn't a consideration. However, none of these provide the capacity of an offset smoker (though the WSM is going to have a lot more than a kettle or ceramic grill). The issue for all three is that it does take a while to get them set up. I liken preparing the grill to an addict's ritual -- pulling out the charcoal, the chimney, and the grilling tools; then filling the chimney and lighting it; then sitting there with a beer while my wife thinks I'm doing something; then maybe opening another beer because I'm sitting outside while my wife thinks I'm doing something; then pouring out the coals, and finally getting the food going. A gas grill has the benefit of push-button simplicity. This may be heresy, but if he wants to "smoke" his food, he can do an offset setup in the gas grill, then do the wood-chip-in-foil-on-a-burner thing. But then he doesn't get to drink as much beer or play with fire.
  11. No, a German girl is a thing. German girls are girls. As are German boys. And sometimes German girls are boys too.
  12. I'm disappointed that they attempted to hang onto a shred of the "medical" charade by requiring the recommendation be from an MD or DO. Chiropractors, homeopaths, and naturopaths need to step up their lobbying game next session. They have been recommending sham treatments for decades.
  13. Is this the de facto weed legalization thread? Because another neighbor to the north has legalized "medical" marijuana, to be recommended for whatever ails you. Will it be 3.2% THC?
  14. To be fair, he has two of the top attorneys in town. One of them walked a guy on a murder a couple of months back. The other one pissed off a Shaggy poster (can't remember his name) when she defended the guy who stuck a gun in his pregnant wife's face, and the jury did not find him guilty of aggravated robbery.
  15. It's already getting fucked up. SWIM was in Vegas a while ba... Wait, it was me. I can say whatever I want on the Internet about it, because it was legal there. Anyhow, my wife and I went to Vegas and went into one of the cannabis dispensaries (they don't sell "marijuana" or "weed," it's "cannabis"). The focus of the shop -- as others, going by their websites -- was edibles, oils, vapor cartridges, and shatter. Not even good ol' hash like you'd find in Amsterdam back in the day. Sure, there was flower bud, but it was clear that the new generation is into whatever gets them highest the hardest and fastest. Which is edibles, oils, vapor cartridges, and shatter. It is obvious why the dispensaries were pushing these products -- they give a quick, heavy high, and they have a higher profit margin. You can more easily manipulate the CBD and THC content with a solution than you can with the plant itself. They are also more easily transported and the high/shelf space ratio is much higher. Back in the day, my image of future legalization -- probably happening sometime in my 60s, maybe, if I was lucky -- was just straight-up striking marijuana laws from the books and allowing people to grow and smoke for personal use. Let the hippies do their thing, and whatever, man. But capitalism always gets in the way of good hippie ideas, and the profit motive is king with the wave of legalization. Businesses -- I believe Colorado is only permitting local companies to participate for now -- are always going to find the most cost-effective means of getting their customers hiiiiiiiiiiigggggghhhhh AF. And the government is going to let them keep doing it so long as they get their taxes. Once the reins are off, and Altria, Reynolds, AB InBev, etc., get their hands in it, it's all over. Kids are going to zoning out on dabs and -- worst of all -- no one is going to know how to roll a joint anymore.
  16. The rest of the story is that SHLD CEO Eddie Lampert's hedge fund is going to buy Kenmore. He has been parting out the carcass of the company to himself for years, and is going to continue to do so until there is nothing left. The Sears Dumpster fire is one to behold.
  17. I had no idea what she looked like (actually was envisioning her as white, blonde, and buxom), but when I read that a cop threw her down for falsely claiming she pulled a gun on him, I figured my preconception was incorrect.
  18. I am not a doctor, but that that appears to be an unorthodox treatment.
  19. An erstwhile dividend trap dumpster fire that now is just a dumpster fire. Still further from its 52-week high than its low. I guess if you were stupid enough to recently buy into a stock that went to a 1:15 reverse split less than a year ago, you're having quite the day.
  20. A 10(ish)-day trip with three long flights and a 3-month-old is going to suck. You're either delirious from the lack of sleep or still in denial about the fact that you have a baby. If you are dead-set on doing something that the baby won't remember, either stay in the Northeast, or staycation in a nice hotel/resort when you get back to Dallas.
  21. Meanwhile, WHR missed earnings, is up 4 percent.
  22. The beat was priced in? Run-up in pre-market because of lower liquidity, followed by a profit-taking selloff at the bell? The fact that it's an established stock with minimal growth, resulting in a range-bound trading pattern? Take your pick. N.B. I generally have no idea what I'm talking about and am probably making things up.
  23. I heard the driver apologized as soon as he was apprehended. /toosoon
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