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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. If a letter or payment is important enough, walk it into a USPS location. Outdoor, standalone drop boxes are targets. And not just with checks. Thieves take everything and most likely discard letters that offer them zero value.

    for the OP, if you think the theft occurred at a postal box/site, you need to file the complaint with the US postal inspection service. I would be surprised if local cops care or will follow up with letter theft even when it involves money. 

    This situation happened to me, and the bank refunded all of the money, maybe because the thief deposited the check into another bank. Local cops didn't even care that I could tell them the bank account # of the thief. Seemed like an open and shut case to me.

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  2. 14 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

     

    Police need to be more Andy Griffith and less Robo Cop. Not one of them should be armed at this point. Have a nearby vehicle with weapons, in case it's needed.

    Also tactical gear should not come in Extra Short XXL.

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  3. 17 hours ago, Pancho said:

    Am I offended when I hear Latinos say the n word? No.

    When I first heard it, I was in the locker room at the gym. I legit couldn’t start my workout for 15 minutes because I was thinking “should I be offended at that?” 

    Other Black folk here may have a different opinion but for some reason, I’m just not offended.

    Out of curiosity, would the complexion of the Latino, saying this word, impact your reaction. Some Latinos have dark skin and others lighter. Comedians like Tom Segura and Louis CK are both Latino but look like they’re Irish due to mixed heritage.

    as a white guy, I stay far far away from any non-African American using the word. Honesty I’m not a fan of hearing anyone use it. If I was at a happy hour with my African American friends or co-workers and it was used more than once, I’m quietly moving away from the conversation. Zero benefit, and potentially harm, in me being there. 

    Ultimately it becomes impossible to universally decide who does and doesn’t get to use the n word.

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  4. Would someone pay off an extorter who was completely lying about an incident? It's possible to create a scenario where this would occur but it's far more likely to believe the opposite. 

    I'm not close to the facts of this case, but isn't the entire case going to depend on Cohen's testimony and what Trump knew and arranged? Whether Trump had sex with Daniels just seems like salacious details but almost immaterial. I assume the defense isn't going to disagree that Daniels was paid off by Cohen, who may or may not have acted on Trump's explicit directions. 

    If I'm the prosecutor, I would hate to have Cohen as one of my main witnesses. Sleazy, convicted lawyer who likes to go on TV slamming Trump but previously loved Trump when Trump was paying him. In almost every situation, Cohen has zero credibility.

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  5. 5 hours ago, Armybrat said:

    Palazzo ftw

     

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    I used to be a regular palazzo visitor but was never treated well by my casino host. Felt like I would have to beg for comps which I refused to do. Obviously I wasn’t gambling enough to get his attention so I switched to another casino where the host would take care of me. 

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  6. 11 hours ago, MrBig said:

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    Never buy something and have your employer reimburse you on each paycheck. It can work out but there are horror stories like this.

    I worked for an employer that wanted me to buy a work laptop, and they would reimburse me over 2 years for it. I opted out and told my boss I would log onto work email from the client's workstation that they were providing me for free. I wasn't going to buy my work laptop just to check email.

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  7. 35 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    Question:

    My parents, both 75, are looking for a financial advisor in Houston. They spoke with someone referred to them and were given a fee structure but have nothing to compare it to. They are not big time (firmly middle class) and are afraid the FA might be too “big” for them. 
     

    Can anyone give me a ball park of what the fees would look like?

     

    *Understand more info may be needed 

    1% of assets under management (AUM) is frequently quoted as a standard fee. There are different opinions out there about this fee structure, and people feel strongly about their opinions.

    Some people opt for what is effectively an advisor flat fee, or $/hr advised. Then you or your parents may have to perform the actual transactions with the brokerage account.

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  8. 1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

    What's the price it has to trade at for how long to free up his ability to sell? 

     

    1 hour ago, C-Man said:

    I think I saw somewhere in this thread that he's going to be awarded 35M more shares if the stock trades at $30 or more for 15 or 20 consecutive days, something like that. I mean hasn't it already accomplished that as it just went below $30 for the first time on Friday?

    Can't you just leave this info blank on the SEC filings and figure it out later to maximize profits for Trump?

  9. 26 minutes ago, C-Man said:

     

    On TikTok I watched a legitimate review of the Trump Bible from someone who said they were an expert. First off she was perplexed at the lack of a page that provides information such as where the Bible was printed. She assumed the lack of a page meant that Trump's team didn't want to highlight that it was most likely printed in China. Second, the expert said that the leather and page quality was on par with a sub-$15 Wal-Mart Bible and not one costing $50+.

  10. 47 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    This is the most inexplicable part to me.  The other are just sub-optimal business decisions, the sort of thing that happens.

    But hyper-politicizing a major consumer product?  I mean, even Michael Jordan observed "Republicans buy shoes too."  Ford and Chevy and BMW and functionally every other auto maker don't tie the image and marketing of their products to a particular (and extreme and polarizing to boot) political ethos.  Sure, there are political identities that identify more with particular products (I'm guessing that more Republicans buy Ford and Chevy trucks, and more dems buy Priuses and Accords), but the manufacturers wisely (well, actually, EASILY, because they don't get in that game to begin with) avoided having their products tied to a politically polarizing position.  Elon....not so much.  AND, he picked the dumbest group to cater to.  Sorry, Elon....incels and blind fanbois aren't going to produce the sales figures you need to succeed.

    I don't have any idea of the politics of most major CEOs. They're smart enough to stay neutral publicly and usually indicate that they are open to working with any Administration in the WH. The right message is that the company should want anything that is good for America and to stay away from social issues or partisan issues. 

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  11. 1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    No. Democrats have been saying this for decades and it WILL NOT WORK. Sure, it is hypothetically possible that one or more individual Democrat candidates could win a statewide race with a very strong campaign. That’s just hero ball, and can happen at any time. It’s not a strategy.
    The political structure of Texas is unique, and the path to power via political party consolidation in Texas runs through the county courthouse and has since the late 1800’s.  When I pound the desk about Democratic political incompetence in Texas, that’s what I’m talking about. 

    Believe you're exaggerating somewhat. Dems have only been out of power for a few decades and it took them a first 10-15 years to acknowledge a problem. I'm unsure if there even is a state Democrat party at the moment.

    GWB and Rick Perry were standard Republicans who may have turned Texas right, but they stayed away from the direction that we're now seeing with Abbott, Goeb and Paxton. GWB and Perry were somewhat aligned with an average Texas republican. The new crew are all MAGA level crazy and that isn't aligned with the average Texan. The average Texan is just slow to react.

    Obviously it's was premature for some to think that Texas would  flip blue in 2016-22. I agree that '24 is not there yet and may even regress some from '20 due to the Biden dementia myth.

  12. my uneducated opinion.

    • their base models needed to keep getting cheaper. Make it so it was a dumb financial decision to not buy a Tesla. If a Model 3 could compete with a Honda Civic in price, the game would be over.
    • the truck is beyond stupid and should have never been made. I can't imagine anyone buying it except for those wanting it for their social media content. And those influencers are a mix of Elon fan bois and people who want to hate on the truck.
    • Elon has destroyed the brand. Previously a liberal would overpay for a Tesla because they wanted to be seen as green. Now buying a Tesla is unthinkable for someone who is on the left and somewhat politically active.

    Sucks for Austin that a falling company is hq'ed there and isn't the truck made there. I have to guess that Austin will experience much of the layoffs.

  13. Can you imagine the daily calls between Trump, Devin Nunes (Truth Social CEO) and the Truth's CFO/Investor lead? You know Trump is screaming at them in regards that he's unable to sell his shares and their stupid rules are costing him hundreds of millions.  "I had $6B in value a few weeks ago, and now it's worth ______.  F you!  Fix this!"

    Of course, their reaction is to issue more shares to the insiders, most likely without a lockup, screwing over the other shareholders like ol' Jerry at Oklahoma Four Seasons tree trimming.

     

    From a CNBC article:

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    The company also seeks to offer the resale of up to 146.1 million shares of stock from “selling securityholders,” 114.8 million of which are held by Trump himself. Trump owns 78.8 million shares of the company, and stands to obtain 36 million “earnout shares” if the stock stays above a certain price for enough trading days.

    Trump’s current stake in the company was worth more than $2.2 billion at Monday morning’s share price. Trump is not allowed to sell his shares until a monthslong lockup period expires.

    There is little chance that Truth social and its DJT stock doesn't end in a massive SEC investigation. Unless Trump gets elected.

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  14. This morning Truth Social (DJT) filed to issue millions of new shares to stakeholders. Presumably to insiders like Trump.  Market responded by dropping DJT by 15% in pre-market trading.  I bet their board will soon announce that Trump will be allowed to sell shares before the lockup (shares lockup not his personal lockup) ends. They will say it's due to Biden and his SEC punishing DJT and this is the only fair method for Trump to get his money back.

    Sounds like a great day for Jerry to double down on buying more. copy from above. Perhaps take out a cash advance from his credit card.

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    Jerry Dean McLain first bet on former president Donald Trump’s Truth Social two years ago, buying into the Trump company’s planned merger partner, Digital World Acquisition, at $90 a share. Over time, as the price changed, he kept buying, amassing hundreds of shares for $25,000 — pretty much his “whole nest egg,” he said.

    That nest egg has lost about half its value in the past two weeks as Trump Media & Technology Group’s share price dropped from $66 after its public debut last month to $32 on Friday. But McLain, 71, who owns a tree-removal service outside Oklahoma City, said he’s not worried. If anything, he wants to buy more.

     

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  15. I don’t see Texas flipping blue this year but we will continue the slow drip towards a blue Texas. It’s not about  population shifts or Covid deaths. The drip is from the laws passed in Austin. Take school vouchers. This will kill many small schools. And while it’s actually not a red vs blue issue, the GOP and Abbott are making it a litmus test to be elected as a Republican.

    Small counties will remain (bright) red, even they should see a move to the left. Perhaps even with some voters just staying home.

    at some point in the next 10 years Texas will explode as a blue state. Abbott is seeing to it.

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  16. 12 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    This has been proven false. Same with the “just wait till they die off” trope. 

    While there are limited data points, Texas only went for Trump in ‘20 by 5.5 points.  It was ~16 for Romney over Obama.  

  17. Played v1 of fallout back in the 90s but recall very little.

    It’s hard not to compare this show to Silo on Apple TV. While I thought Fallout was more entertaining, Silo produced more of a mystery that kept me wanting more. Silo however is not as ambitious, or at least S1 of Silo.

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