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Captainant

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  1. Yeah when I upgraded to my S24U, AT&T had an insane promo going where they'd give you $1000 for ANY Galaxy S phone trade in, so I bought an S3 on eBay for $50 and they took it! The only hitch was I had to take it via their zero rate financing. So my bill is $8 higher a month for 36 months, notbad at all
  2. IMO past the iPhone 12 there's not a significant leap generation over generation, just incremental improvements. I would recommend going for a 15 at least though, having a USB-C port is a major upgrade over lightning both for charging and for data transfer
  3. Wow that is a WILD pull lol. The US was governing post-WWII Japan and we had burnt down nearly all of their industrial capacity during the strategic firebombing campaign. But truly, why is a "trade imbalance" a bad thing? Do you get mad at HEB for having a trade imbalance with them? Should you get a discount rate because they never buy anything from you?
  4. I don't think trading partners are going to come back to the table like they did for decades. Germany asked for their 1200 tons of gold held by the US reserve to be returned. The USD is very much at risk to lose its status as world reserve currency. None of that is exactly going to be a quick fix or renegotiation
  5. There's a ton of communities categorized as "food deserts" because there is not good access to actual fresh food, or even decent frozen unprocessed stuff. You're right that it's not hard to eat healthy as long as you have a grocery story accessible to you. There's a significant number of people that do not have that luxury like you and I On topic: my house has rather gone the other direction. We bought our next size up car seats a little early, I've upgraded the house's tech where it made sense, we've invested in a few nice things we've been putting off. But that's because we know things are about to be TON more expensive. Basically trying to take care of any maintenance and hedge bets to hopefully not need to replace anything for the next while
  6. I just don't see what sort of negotiation has been going on besides "hey we buy a lot of stuff from you... FUCK YOU PAY ME!!!" So I have a hard time seriously believing any of this is going to work out smoothly. The guy who put us into this mess and you're counting on to fix it couldn't run a fuckin Atlantic City casino, and has only ever burned bridges in his past business dealings.
  7. Perhaps in a vacuum, but you seem to be wilfully ignoring the incredible level of 1) tariffs 2) uncertainty 3) hard dealing with trade partners There is real, generational damage happening to our economic posture. We can't unring that bell once we've told everyone to fuck off. Along those lines, what factors do you think are going to contribute to a recovery as fast as the fall?
  8. Not a salve for the women's team getting shrekt by the gamecocks, but that certainly did take the edge off
  9. It is pretty funny how the DOW has tanked historically for the last two days solely because of the capricious and dumb as fuck tariff actions of Donald J Trump, and people are getting mad because Trump is being mentioned. Go to texags if you want a reach around while watching a massive failure
  10. Wait, it wasn't already a store of value?? Somebody should tell all that crypto investors!
  11. Well they're certainly not $4/doz anymore
  12. Except they can take out loans against that net worth and convert it into REAL wealth and capital that exerts inflationary pressure on the economy, all tax-free of course. It's literally how elon financed his twitter buyout at $54.20
  13. Nintendo is selling a Japan region-locked Switch 2 for $340(ish) though
  14. They're selling a Japan region-locked device for $343
  15. I sold all of my long term holdings a little over a month ago and have been quite happy with holding that plus its proft in a money market earning interest and not losing 15-20% of its value. Decided to stay on Mr. Bones' Wild Ride with the other chunk of our holdings though.
  16. It really is funny how bang-on that was too lol. My apologies to Wally for being the Cassandra
  17. No no you're right, I'm sure the 3 man outfit that runs self storage units in Colorado is a perfect steward of the SPR and it's massive set of underground storage tanks and pipelines in Texas and LA. I'm sure they'll maintain that critical strategic infrastructure well, definitely better than those grifters at Fluor Federal Petroleum Operations. Since anything before the current administration MUST be a grift right?
  18. What a strange way to live. Anything before MUST have been a grift, so any new grifts happening now are okeydoke.
  19. Probably because China announced 34% retaliatory tariffs on American goods Are we feeling like we've made America wealthy again yet???
  20. Yes now we can finally just pick winners and losers, as the Almighty Free Market intended. It's so great to be beholden to infinite growth goals
  21. Except the person now steering our country's economic direction is doing everything literally the opposite of what we did to recover from COVID.
  22. What's his surly handle?
  23. A 10-20% correciton would be a blessing. We're staring down the barrel of stagflation. Inflation is rising, unemployment is rising, and these tariffs are going to be a considerable headwind for economic growth. And it's all self-inflicted for really no reason whatsoever and no benefit. So yeah, lots to be blase about, I guess.
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