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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. The postal service will be a good bellweather of how Elon and DOGE’s performance. If they publicly focus on the USPS it means they either are failing elsewhere or they never were serious. So I expect the will be talking about the USPS constantly. DOGE isn’t supposed to just be about cutting costs. It’s about waste and the USPS provides a great service to many Americans. and for anyone anti-postal service, you can easily opt out if you dislike the service. Seinfeld was wrong. You can opt out by just never checking your mailbox again and don’t mail anything. Email or send via one of the private services.
  2. Watching “A scanner darkly” tonight . Hadn’t seen it in years. Directed by Richard Linklater with a great cast. Odd but I’ve always liked it. First time I realized that Alex Jones is in it. I guess I never noticed or haven’t seen it since I was aware of who he was. kinda ruins it for me, but at least his character is tazed and hauled off by the cops.
  3. As someone quickly approaching old guy status, one change I wish I had done as a younger person was to push the 401k limits at work. I could have found a way to live on 1-2 percent less. Pack a few more lunches to work. It would have made a difference 25 years later.
  4. The guy,DeJoy?, in charge of the USPS has been an advocate of getting rid of the usps. He's a Trump appointee that Biden could t get rid of because the senate stopped Biden from filling open usps governor roles. The usps has undergone many structural changes under DeJoy which doesn’t seem to have improved the service. You have to wonder if this has been a slow plan to privatize them and instead outsource mail carrying to ups or fedex. one thing that might stop Trump is that many gop senators and reps are wary of changing if not eliminating the usps. Rural citizens depend more on the usps than urban. Personally I find it amazing that I can hand a mail carrier a letter and they will effectively hand deliver to someone across the county for 60 cents within a few days. FedEx something and you’re paying a helluva lot more.
  5. Perhaps NASA can come up with a plan to straighten the earth to keep consistent sun rises and sun sets.😀
  6. Just finished a rewatch of season 1. Can’t wait for next month for season 2. i have to think that Mark’s sister will have to lead the charge from the outside since none of the outies will be aware and Helena will be actively working against them. Burts retirement party was about as sad as it gets.
  7. Thinking more of this story makes me shake my head. Guy puts an arguably large amount, perhaps as high as $500k, into some magic internet money and withdrawals millions a few years later that puts him on easy street. Instead of paying the govt 15% or 20% of the profit, he goes far far out of his way to hide the transactions including exchanging bitcoin for cash with people. The results are that he is paying those taxes plus penalties and will spend most of the next 2 years in federal prison. Greed is amazing. Thru friends, I’ve been told about a Texas billionaire who would not only frequently talk about tax avoidance strategies, to a point of being obsessed, he eventually spent his final years fighting a federal criminal conviction. He was spared prison by dying. wonder how bitcoin boy got caught.
  8. Sounds like a problem if America or at least Trump can’t agree on which time is better. Do we just default that he gets to make the decision? Populism-authoritarianism at its best.
  9. I thought the plan was the opposite. We would keep the summer clock year round. People don’t want the sun setting before 6 in the winter months.
  10. Microstrategy is joining the nasdaq 100 on Dec. 23rd. More legitimacy. Amazing what happened to crypto in 2024.
  11. You can pay with either. If you wait to take the money out of the HSA, you can reimburse yourself whenever. Snap a photo of your receipts and throw in an online folder. Personally I would keep the money invested in an hsa investment account hopefully earning 8% per year.
  12. Crypto can be tough to always identify gains but really stupid to not pay Uncle Sam his share, as best as you can calculate it.
  13. I don’t care if we want the sun up later in the evening but doing away with day light saving will have the sun not rising until 9am and even 10am in some places. The further west you are in the time zone, the worst you will see it. Any law will not change the number of daylight hours. its what the people say they want so let them have it. Guarantee some will complain that they wanted a 12 hour daylight and why didn’t Congress deliver it,
  14. Vance’s special guest at the Army-Navy game is the guy who was recently acquitted of killing the mental illness guy. Nice.
  15. People quietly or partially quit the job in all roles and industries. If someone isn’t gong to give 100% on the field you don’t want them on the field. I watched Arian foster mention how he knew in the middle of a game that he was done. Not due to an injury but rather he didn’t care about playing. also bs when another player calls you selfish for you actions. They have no idea what is going on with him.
  16. 30 years ago a person would be laughed at for wanting to move to Montana. Or at least by many. Now it sounds cool. If you want a deal you have to get ahead of the curve. What’s going to be cool in 10 years. Or not just cool, but someplace where new residents are going to invest in new homes, restaurants, stores, etc. or pay top dollar for a place that has already transformed.
  17. Interesting based on his families ties to old school Galveston mafia, the maceo crime family. Not exact Michael Corleone buying legitimacy from the Vatican but not exactly 100% clean either.
  18. Only a bill, just I’m only a bill but the Texas House is proposing a bitcoin strategic reserve. It would be funded by the state allowing payments in bitcoin. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/12/texas-house-introduces-bill-to-establish-a-strategic-bitcoin-reserve.html
  19. Isnt this a maybe? If the NASDAQ classified them in the financial sector, they can't be in the NASDAQ 100. Instead they could be in the NASDAQ Financial 100. Some stories that I read about this indicate the decision is Friday.
  20. No, but to be clear I've never wanted to. I also don't buy things with MSFT stock. I'm not 100% opposed to buying something with crypto but I would not expect to do it with btc.
  21. Bitcoin is not a quick transactional system. Just like many global systems are not quick. There are other crypto systems that are as fast if not faster than Venmo. Of course Venmo is a bad comparison because it’s a closed model. Actual money is not really transferring to anyone with the standard transaction. Money only gets transferred when you deposit or withdrawal. Venmo makes me wait on the latter for up to 3 days unless I’m willing to pay them extra. i recently transferred some large (to me) bitcoin amounts from an exchange to my own wallet. I def wanted it to be faster than it was but its was much faster than if I had transferred money between banks. Less than hour with Bitcoin versus days with banks.
  22. No I don’t remember when TD bank retrofitted their teller windows to accommodate drug cartel duffel bags. Can you provide some background or links to that story? I recall they had lax AML policies but I’ve never heard of one that had a giant teller slot for duffel bags.
  23. Corn lobby is too strong for us to ban hfcs or even raise taxes on it. And I assume the sugar industry is no where in position to take over from hfcs. RFK Jr. may talk a big game about bans but he has to answer to Trump. Trump won’t let it happen.
  24. Not a formal training program but I've increasing my flexibility. I watched a video of how much of the world can sit for an extended time in a deep squat and the related health benefits. Made sense to me. I was initially able to comfortably sit in one for about 20 seconds before the pain started. Now I can pretty much go for 5+ minutes while watching TV. It really opens up the ankle, knee and hip joints via by stretching muscles. great way to start the day, or while while listening in (non-camera) on a zoom meeting. If this isn't easy or possible for you, I recommend slowly incorporating stretches to work your way to it. don't push it. I also try to increase my balance time on one leg at a time. If your balancing is not the best, you can surprisingly feel smaller muscles firing to keep your balance.
  25. Are there really many Americans that go hungry these days? Genuinely asking. I know it's not zero but I have to guess that even the extreme poor have access to food, if they pursue it. Not talking about healthy food but calories to get them through the day. I could see that someone with mental or physical illness going without just because of the challenges of their diseases.
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