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  1. He's a card-carrying democrat and one of the ones who repeated the talking points that marginalized bernie and the progressives in favor of Hildog, if memory serves. So, long way of saying, your point checks out.
  2. Same. bought a truck because I feared the prices will skyrocket with tariffs (also, january is the best month to get a good deal as the market floods with hand-to-mouth buyers who rely on tax returns starting Feb and going into summer, in case anyone was looking).
  3. It's a gift, really....
  4. Which you raise an interesting point. You always hear the old saw, "the first million is the hardest..." I guess if you can do it once, it makes it easier to repeat. So while technically make the first $1m/year is hard no matter what, at some point you can start betting on the 6, 7, and 8's instead of trying to roll box cars or snake eyes? That's how I'm viewing it at least.
  5. It's the lip-biting for me. It was a sexual thrill for this deviant to thrust that arm.
  6. I wonder if all this (Trump 2.0 and everything that has transpired the last, let's say, 100 days) could have been avoided if we as a country took a less hardline approach to the vaccinations back in 2021. Hindsight being 20/20 and all, I do wonder if the outcomes would have been materially or statistically significantly different if the NEVER-VAXERS and Vax-Anxious didn't feel "forced" to take it. I think most people who had even small reservations were like me in that they still got or would get the jab.
  7. Right. Which I think the same person (or similiar) mentioned "good luck ever seeing your family except on two luxury vacations a year".
  8. That's a great answer and thought. Taxes alone must be about $300k based on what I experienced (30.1%). That's a lot of taxes and does seem like doing it the hard way.
  9. Talk about lottery ticket winner odds when looking at how many positions versus population. More likely to get into Stanford as a D student or get a Chick Fila franchise as an unhoused person than get the $1mm salary coach of one of the 32 teams in the NFL (or 50+ of big monied D1 schools).
  10. My specialist is a woman and I trust her and she's so awesome. I can't imagine, man or female, anyone better and think there is no small chance that her care is why I'm doing as well as I'm doing!
  11. His stance makes sense to me if you think of it (and he'll have to confirm or deny his own belief here) that if abortion is the full stop murder of human beings, then that is in many (and potentially his) minds as "murder is such a huge issue that of course being against it should oversdhadow the other stuff". So the R vs W being a non-issue now clears the path to vote against the MAGATs
  12. I got about 65% of the way there this year and it's taken time off my life clock in the form of lack of sleep and man hours worked and even then I needed a great deal of good luck. That's why I was asking-- knowing the horrors endured, how does one ever even obtain a consistent (or one-off) 7 figure w2 as a corporate, white collar worker. I think the answer based on this thread is some combination of a) insane luck b) insane personal sacrifice and/or c) find a job with a lot of upside on RSU's (see first reason a.)
  13. I'm obviously not smart or rich enough to understand the humor you in the inner chambers of power use. Come again?
  14. Looking at some taxes stuff. I am at a point where I'll be the most experienced and in the most senior role in my career and life as an oldie and I had a great year financially. However, I'm still so far from a 7 figure W2. I've had many friends and colleagues climb the ladder and I've heard of folks getting to that point. How do you do it? Has anyone here done it and can proffer some advice? Is it luck and a one-off (stock options/RSU's vest) or is it repeatable (C-Suite role? Managing Partner with huge bonuses?). Or anyone hit a grandslam with crypto / day trading? Just curious more than anything I guess and you guys and gals are the best and brightest! (My suspicion, btw, is that it is exponentially easier to make a million bucks a year if you own your own small-to-medium business and are not a corporate employee)
  15. This is a blast from the past!
  16. My personal opinion is that even with a hostile administration, the U.S. will continue to invest in some measure of sustainability and new / renewable energy. It just won't be as widely adopted and move as fast without the helpful nudge of federal regulation...
  17. It's a fascinating topic (Climate) to revisit and keep top of mind, considering a new regime who is likely going to be unfriendly to the ESG space compared to the rest of the Western developed civilization. I think I saw today we've already dropped out of the Paris Agreement (again), or are about to?
  18. I agree, but I bet there is at least a forecasted or modeled hypothesis that shows a net negative CO2 at some point. All projects have a build/implementation phase that put you into a negative initially (e.g. power plants, solar farms, etc. etc. etc.). It's basic EIOERI stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_return_on_investment
  19. I think that if he were to die in office of natural causes, you could not convince the unwashed masses it was a hit/assasination/inside job and the conspiracy theories would put JFK to shame.
  20. I mean...that is the million dollar question. From what I can gather, the idea is to use lower carbon footprinting and going to market with a premium offering (e.g. pay $.01 more per gallon for the fuel that is less carbon intensive) so that the producer can capture that value, but the basis has to be the customer/market asking for it. To give an energy example.
  21. They are talking about DAC or Direct Air Capture (I believe). Oxy is (or was, haven't followed lately) huge into this down in Houston. ETA link: https://www.npr.org/2023/12/27/1210928126/oil-climate-change-carbon-capture-removal-direct-air-capture-occidental
  22. It's because today, doing anything beyond the most rudimentary and lip-service of net zero is wealth and value destruction and we live in a world where value creation in the short-and-medium-term is all that necessarily matters (e.g. shareholder capitalism). Thus, regulation is necessary. Edit to add, I know you get it, but for the granola types who don't have a business background, the theory undergirding all this is in our system: A company merely exists to create value for shareholders by investing in projects that generate cash flow growth and/or return on invested capital (ROIC). If the ROIC is less than the cost of capital, the growth destroys the value. Climate Change implementation to processes (did you know that it is widely understood that 7 industries make up 85% of the direct greenhouse gas emissions) is costly and hard and distracts from or actively destroys value creation.
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