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  1. Watch the Netflix Untold: Jake Paul the Problem Child.  It’s all about promotion. Tyson loves Jake. Thinks he’s great for the sport.  More people have watched JP fights than any fight in recent memory.
    Whatever the result, it’s not going to be a Tyson walkover, because Mike wants to promote. It’s not about boxing skills.  It’s about eyeballs and dollars.
    For the record, I think “influencers” like JP are a scourge on society. 

    All makes sense. I’ll pass on the Netflix doc.
  2. My daughter had a friend who asked us to call her by her boy name when she was in our house. My daughter declared our house a safe zone for her lgbtq+ friends. Her parents didn't know she was trans and her parents didn't know when she was having sleepovers "with the girls" that she was dating one of the girls she was sleeping over with. They were 12 and 13 years old. My daughter's classmate committed suicide a few weeks ago. His parents were caught off guard. Had they known I am sure they would've gotten him help. Maybe you heard about the kid who shot his friends in the back of the head while sitting on the couch at his house because he "just wanted to know what it was like to kill someone"? A freckle-faced, redhead kid from my daughter's school. Apparently he posted a picture of himself with a caption of song lyrics about murder on his Instagram. Had his parents been paying attention maybe they could've gotten him some help before he murdered his friend. Now he will be tried as an adult at age 17.
    Kids don't tell us what is really going on in their lives. Sometimes you have to break their trust in order to help them. I say that as a parent with a daughter who struggles with her mental health. Looking at her phone is a large reason why she is still here and helped us get her help before something tragic happened. Your daughters may have turned out fine. However, there are many many people out there with different stories. From online predators to my own personal stories like the ones above. If we aren't watching our kids then who is? We live in a lily-white suburb where people's doors are open 24-7. You don't expect things like that to happen here until they do.

    Damn
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  3. You can thank the local Iranian-American community members from Westwood for helping to rid this encampment on their own the night before. The Iranian-American diaspora, whether Jewish or Muslim, despise these Palestinian protestors. They’re affiliated with the same assholes oppressing their country.

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  4. So should we track down those socially awkward people and bully pressure them on social media about getting laid, and tell them they aren’t a real man (or woman) if they aren’t having sex at least a few times a month year?

    No. What we SHOULD do is just disable all social media. But we won’t.
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  5. This is what I hate about our world.

    In a normal world, I’d say wtf does Jake Paul have to gain from this fight? If he wins, congrats dickhead, you just beat a 60 yo guy. If he loses, congrats dickhead, you just lost to a 60 yo guy.

    But in this shittastic bizzarro simulation world, he wins just because it gets people talking about him. Reality tv trumps all.

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  6. The saving grace in all of this is how much direct specific help the Palestinians trying to live in bombed out hovels with no water, sewer, medical care etc etc are getting from all the “support” of these rich entitled US college students living in tents and occupied buildings. The struggle is real. Really is heart warming to see.

  7. Multiple visits multiple BOA branches. You go in and there's a "greeter" at a terminal. They ask wtf you're there for, you tell them, and they 80% of the time tell you it can be done at the ATM and would you like them to show you (deposits and withdrawals are most of these)? Or it can be done on the web site. If it needs an appointment they ask if you made one online, and when you say no they graciously check the schedule and help you schedule something on their terminal, usually hours away if you're lucky, in a few days if less lucky.
    It isn't the teller telling anyone to get out of line. The greeter fucking actively deters you from being able to get in to the teller line.

    I switched banks specifically because of this greeter. I figured that was better than stabbing the guy.
  8. What I don't get is why anyone really gives a shit?  I mean, I get protesting against the Vietnam War in the U.S.  You or someone you know might get drafted and die in a foolish, lost war.  I get protesting in support of BLM in the U.S.  You or someone you know might get pulled over and murdered by the police.  I don't get protesting for/against Israel or Palestine in the U.S.  None of these people are affected by what's going on half a globe away.
    I get some may view acts by one side or the other as evil, and that it may even be correct.  But even so, what the fuck is all this going to accomplish?  How is this going to impact anything going on in Gaza?  If all these universities divest from Israel tomorrow, is Israel even going to notice?  No.  The holocaust gives Israel an apocalyptic world view and they do not fuck around when it comes to their security.  There is no way they would allow themselves to be in a position where they could be brought to their knees by US universities redirecting endowment investments.
    It just seems like everyone, from students to University Presidents to Governors to police would have a lot more proximal problems to be concerned about that they might actually have a chance to positively affect.  Which makes me think this isn't about Israel or Gaza at all, rather about the theatrics of civil unrest on college campuses in an election year. 

    What I don’t get is why does anyone give a shit that they are protesting? I mean sure the university admins and cops have to deal with it, but outside that who fucking cares? Stupid fucking college kids looking for dramatic causes are gonna do what stupid fucking college kids looking for dramatic causes do.
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  9. I don't know how to break the news - but nothing only goes up, buy the rumor/sell the news, so up 25% YTD, 113% 1 year, 147% 3 years and you are worried about the negative reaction to an earnings report.
    This stuff happens all the time, and eventually to most companies, is your concern that it is more than a blip on the path forward? If so sell some, or buy puts (as a hedge), or sell some OTM calls to generate some premiums from your holdings.

    note - my comments are based on interpreting your comments as if they relate to Facebook specifically and not the broader market (like S&P 500); I get that it is easy to get nervous. If you want more safety, you can still get 5%+ on cd's and there is no harm in that. 

    I appreciate your post and agree with all of it. But I don’t think your response had anything to do with my post you quoted.

    I was just making the point that value is value whether converted to cash or not.
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  10. I won't dispute that real estate exploded in the last 5-6 years, but a quick google search shows Austin rents are down 7.4% year over yeard, and up a net 18% since 2019.  That's 3.1% annual growth.  My math could be off, though, and the data could be wrong.  Just a snapshot.

    That’s not far off. Here’s the actual numbers according to Witten Advisors.

    The real affordability measure for rents though is percent of income spent on rent by apartment renters. I’ll look that up later when I have a minute. 565558e3f676bdb5d763a3a7a4e7146f.jpg
  11. Seems to me the polls miss the point when asking about inflation.

    Sure growth may have slowed, and people are maybe appreciative of that, but the real problem is rent, houses, groceries, and other shit just costs too damn much relative to what a lot of people make. We could grow at zero percent and that’s not gonna change things.

    That’s what people are upset about. And it’s not going to change unless incomes grow faster than costs by a bunch. And our system isn’t going to allow that for the masses.

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