Everything posted by Hefeweizen
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What is a "goodwill impairment?"
It’s similar to what fidelity just did to their investment in Twitter. Essentially a loss in value.
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2023 Fatass Thread of Dominance
Nice job. I’m almost 3 weeks in and down 12 lbs. It’s been easier than I anticipated. The food tracking is absolutely key for me. I eat, record, and let feeling full be something I don’t worry about. Haven’t felt a ton of hunger but I do snack. Lowest weight since kids were little. My goal is still 25 lbs away but feeling good about it more.
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Texas tops list of worst places to live and work in America
I know this sounds ridiculous but on the Monterey peninsula the best deal on most groceries is Whole Foods. So we shop there and Costco and it works. Safeway is outrageous as is Luckys. HEB is a National treasure but we’ll never get them out here. I had barbecue today and as long as you don’t want brisket you can be ok. I had pulled pork and chicken that was delicious. Finally, to echo @closetohumping the cost of living for middle class is ridiculous out here. Between folks who are locked into minuscule valuations and can transfer it across family, making existing housing extremely pricey, and new construction being really expensive, you have to go to Merced or Los Banos or Palm Desert or Inland Empire, and it’s crazy. There is an attempt to increase the housing stock finally but it’ll be very limited in its effect. But now that I’m here there’s no way I’m going back. QOL is just so good.
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2022 Tour de Francis
Jasper Disaster
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Texas tops list of worst places to live and work in America
This is the truth. The third is following a job. But there are plenty of Unfilled jobs here. The problem is wealth and lack of new housing has squeezed any kind of middle class into limited options. None of my group of friends here would move to Texas but a bunch have employees there.
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Markets still falling like whoa
I can finally start obsessively checking my 401k again!
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Surly #Stonks
I think it’ll retrace to below 2 while we wait on positive news. The biggest problem is everyone is waiting to get diluted. If a major comes in then we should be good, but meantime ride the PSS coaster.
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Surly #Stonks
Read my mind. Let’s go catch falling knives! In at 13.50.
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2021 - Is inflation finally back in the conversation?
Ironic that you found this aimed at you when it clearly wasn’t. If the glove fits though…
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2021 - Is inflation finally back in the conversation?
Unfortunately CEO performance is correlated to metrics which may or may not be reflective of company performance. Hence idiotic stock buybacks that make you scratch your head. And on top of that, a CEO can actually be penalized for making long term decisions beneficial to the company. But that goes to the core issue in a lot of companies. Their boards are pathetic and don’t do their job, rubber stamping the compensation plans. Unfortunately none of that is relevant to this thread as it relates very lightly to inflation… And the CR bullshit really needs to go away, it runs an otherwise really good thread.
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2023 Fatass Thread of Dominance
About 10 days in and doing great with LoseIt. Not really paying too much attention to the macros right now, focusing on calorie count but it is surprisingly effective to measure what you eat and realize portion size was absolutely the issue in my diet. I am down to 273 going to 245. Goal was November first, but app is saying mid October now. We’ll see. I don’t travel and don’t eat out much so should be able to control the inputs easily. Snacking between breakfast and lunch has made it a lot easier to keep from feeling hungry. I’ve just about eliminated processed sugar.
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Surly #Stonks
In at about 1.69 dollar cost average. I still believe!
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Now of embedding that isn’t allowed, what the hell are we even doing here?
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
So embedding tweets is bad, what about memes, gifs, IG sloot photos, dogs, food, and travel photos? We could go back to drawing dicks in ASCII but I don’t see that happening either. I think greater functionality is better, maybe avoid threads or posters that like to embed tweets or threads? Ignore is a useful function, I don’t really understand the self flagellators who won’t use the site features.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Has a real Napoleon dynamite feel to it.
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"I’m on Threads" meta thread
Looks like his meme game isn’t as strong as he was told.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Begging for posts… this is fine.
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"I’m on Threads" meta thread
I’m seeing this right now and just muting the ones I don’t want to see, but I am not a heavy user and won’t post at all. I just want to read news and follow UT football and a few other organizations.
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Time for another ‘my dog is awesome’ thread
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"I’m on Threads" meta thread
You suck one dick and you’re a cocksucker…
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Texans, Fire Up Your VPNs/Present Your Government ID to View Porn Online (Now they want to ban all porn nation-wide)
I would assume a multi billion dollar operation that is as distributed as they are have a plan. Maybe even with some contingencies for dipshit political games.
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2023 Fatass Thread of Dominance
Well I’ve gone half a year and literally right back where I started, this past weekend. I was right at 281 although the weight moved from my gut to chest and legs. So, time for a serious change in lifestyle. Installed LoseIt to track calories as I know that is the issue. 4 days in I’m down 3 pounds but I expect that to level out shortly. Targeting 245 by thanksgiving. For reference I was 6 ft 5, 230 when I was in peak shape. I’m turning fifty in a couple of weeks and my knees have decided being a fatass is not going to work. The 12 hour intermittent fast seems like an easy goal to accomplish every day too.
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Texans, Fire Up Your VPNs/Present Your Government ID to View Porn Online (Now they want to ban all porn nation-wide)
Their bet is that publicizing it will result in people finding it through other methods. It’s smart marketing. Unlikely to make much difference to their bottom line. Why are you worried about their revenue? I’m pretty sure they have a plan…
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Do you FIRE? Financial Independence, Retire Early
Yeah Fidelity does this for me as part of account services… not really an “out there” concept. On the other hand, money market funds pay close to what a six month CD does right now so I’ve let all my CDs mature and roll into MM. I am not sure if they’re the ideal vehicle when things are staying choppy for another year or two.
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"I’m on Threads" meta thread
Do you need a face tron account? I’ve never had one or Instagram.