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  1. On 12/27/2025 at 7:55 PM, Tony Two K said:

    Would appreciate any info on lenders who accept gold and or silver as collateral. Gracias in advance.

    Swap physicals for exchange-traded funds (SLV or GLD) and use securities based lending.

    The effective cost of the instruments is no different than paying for your own vault/securities. And similar tax treatment too.

    Or use metals futures. They’re already margined, 60/40 tax treatment could be better for some.

  2. Its fairly well-known that warm/red lighting is the most pleasant and least disruptive to night vision.

    Not to my wife, who can’t sleep without a night light. When we stay at her parents house, the night lights are mounted high on the wall—directly in my line of sight, and theyre RGB but my wife insist on keeping them at fucking GREEN, and they sear through my eyelids, right into my retina, when im simply trying to sleep.

  3. On 12/22/2025 at 7:13 PM, Born to Run said:

    You want a clean poop spot in the morning? Any random hotel lobby restroom.  Just walk right the fuck in.  

    Toilet hell on earth in the morning would be home depot.

    Hotel toilets are definitely the move.

    But it’s got to be a big hotel, like an international chain, with high turnover and maximum anonymity.

    Can’t do it in a small boutique hotel with a tiny lobby like they’ve got in hypercrowded cities or small towns. The desk can literally and figuratively smell drive-by poopers from a mile away.

  4. Trivia for the next time you find yourself in a pub quiz.

    The contemporary restaurant service where youre brought one course after another is called Service a la Russe.

    It was taken from the practices of the Russian imperial court, and displaced the then continental style of Service a la Francaise, where all the courses are brought at once to display an impressive table presentation.

    The terms are in French because this was codified by Antoine Careme, the precursor to Escoffier, who basically was the first chef godfather

  5. Wisner produced 1000 yards last year. Couldve done it this year too if he hadnt missed 4 games…and if the offensive wasnt a shitshow for parts of the season.

    He’s top tercile RB in the SEC which makes him top quartile in the P4

  6. 1 hour ago, someguy said:

    Do you think you could be convinced of anything, provided enough of the world's best psychologists, psychiatrists, motivational speakers, and negotiators?  Not just your opinions, but core aspects of your sense of self and how you interact with the world?

    I'm not trying to be confrontational or play gotcha, I just think satisfaction with this show is enhanced by exploring the questions presented around what are foundational aspects of being human - what makes people happy?  the interplay between the individual and the corporate?  the rational and irrational parts of humanity?  Can you be loved as an individual when everyone is treated the same?  Is it wrong to be dissatisfied with that (as Carol is)? - and less about looking for plot holes about the hive mind or focusing on the aliens.  I'm not saying those things aren't legitimate, and everyone is obviously free to enjoy shows on whatever terms they like - it is just that the show is pretty transparently an exploration of humanity (with COVID and AI clearly serving as background inspiration) and not engaging it on those terms will lead to frustration and dissatisfaction.

    We can stay fully within the bounds of the show itself. Manousos is shown to have unflappable determination. Probably he can't be tricked by a smooth talker. But Carol just got pussystarved by a robot lady and her very obvious psychosocial vulnerability was itself the showcase of entire episodes.

    The mind wanders when some of these weren't exactly heaters.  

  7. 11 minutes ago, kevwun said:

    No it means they're bringing in a better running back.  Wisner wants to be the main guy which is best for him.  It's best for Texas to upgrade at rb.  It's a business decision for both sides.

    Yup. He sees Baugh at the door. 

    36 minutes ago, Tex48 said:


     

    ryan bills GIF

  8. 19 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    Love the characters and concept but was extremely weak overall for a season 1. Feels like 2-3 episodes worth of plot/story and the rest was filler/indulgence.

    So it’s the TV version of the Aggy football ‘coaster. 

    Within the sci-fi construction of the show, one wonders why they cant be more effective when they have the collective intelligence and capability of every living person and absolute cooperation. 

    It should be easy to convince Carol to join them. The experience of the worlds best psychologists, psychiatrists, motivational speakers, and negotiators are all simultaneously available to them!

    The same for having to sleep in a gym to conserve energy or going through the conventional motions of operating a plant or a hospital or whatever. Hyperintelligence can do that much better!
     

  9. 20 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    Is this your way of bragging you have 3 pensions?

    theyre not overlapping nor defined-benefit (ie formulaic payout) to be bragworthy. 

    these are the ones that have performance metrics, coming from changing employing entities, and particularly the 3rd one’s fund selection suck ass. 

  10. On 12/18/2025 at 8:29 PM, VABuckeye said:

    Early last week I was up over 25% for the year.  That has dipped to 19.4%.  Today is helping some.

    2025 tally, with a few days left in the year

     

    S&P 500 TR benchmark: ~18%

    Pension 1: 18.6% - blend of funds and self-directed account

    Pension 2: 16.4% - similar blend

    Pension 33: 18.0% - equity fund

    IRA: 26.4% - long only equities, slight beta to market

    Taxable account: 11.1% - mostly long, low trade frequency, drag from held a few old bags (Sonos, Celcius, etc)

    Kid's account: 23.4% - same as above without bags

    Active trading account: 115% - +34 percentage points from gas futures, +2 from oil, -3 from volatility, +94 from currency futures, +44 from equities, and -56 from crypto futures for being greedy

     

     

     

  11. 36 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    I doubt this was intended as a joke, but it's a fucking great one, man.

    Reading is difficult for you as a goop of chromosomal surplus so ive snipped a phrase from the ADL themselves:

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    One reason for this is that a major segment of the white supremacist movement, white supremacist prison gangs, are particularly violent, committing hate-related murders, murders of members of other gangs

     

  12. On 12/16/2025 at 1:32 AM, TwiceHorn said:
    On 12/16/2025 at 3:14 AM, TwiceHorn said:

    In case you hadn't noticed, ADL is Jews, and y'all are supposed to like Jews for now, especially the anti-Palestinian ones like ADL.

    The ADL casts a wide umbrella on what counts as right-wing, even for events that are not right-wing ideologically motivated, such as during drug deals or prison gang attacks.

    An Aryan Nations member who stabs a Crip counts as RW murder, because definitionally A.N. is right-wing. Do they count a Crip stabbing of an A.N. as left-wing?

    Half of what goes into their extremism killing scoreboard (212 of 429) is non-ideological.

     

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    Another reason why more killings are connected to right-wing extremism than other forms of extremism is the fact that some types of far-right extremists frequently commit non-ideological violence as well as ideological violence...The Center on Extremism defines non-ideological murders as murders for which the motive is unclear, murders committed to benefit an extremist group or members thereof (such as killing internal or external rivals or suspected informants) and murders committed for traditional motives such as greed, anger or jealousy. These can include domestic violence murders as well as murders related to criminal enterprises such as drug dealing, in which many white supremacist gangs engage.

    The Center on Extremism conservatively classifies all such murders, even those with unknown motive, as “non-ideological,” even though it is possible that extremism still played at least some role in many. Non-ideological murders are included in these statistics because to exclude them would give a misleadingly understated impression of the violent acts extremists commit. Moreover, there is considerable public interest in some of these subjects—such as the links between extremism and domestic violence or the links and similarities between extremism and organized crime.[9]

    Over the past decade, ideological and non-ideological killings by extremists have been roughly equivalent (217 to 212), with most of the latter coming at the hands of right-wing extremists, primarily white supremacists. One reason for this is that a major segment of the white supremacist movement, white supremacist prison gangs, are particularly violent, committing hate-related murders, murders of members of other gangs, murders related to criminal enterprises such as illegal narcotics and murders of their own gang members and associates for reasons that may include such perceived offenses as breaking rules, attempting to leave a gang or being a suspected informant. Anti-government sovereign citizens have also been responsible for numerous non-ideological killings in recent years. This is partly because, since the late 1990s, sovereign citizen ideology has increasingly spread within the nation’s jails and prisons, including to people with violent histories

     

  13. On 12/18/2025 at 3:47 AM, Im_smarter_then_you said:

    How long are you supposed to hold the door for someone?  Like is it based on time, distance, age , gender?   Is it rude to hold it so long that the other person moves quicker?

    Just long enough to engender both the possibility and the anxiety that the door is held for them, and then you promptly shut it right before they get there, because do your own work, asshole. 

  14. On 12/18/2025 at 2:22 AM, TwiceHorn said:

    You express pure contempt for the poor as if every single one of them is permanently poor and if any of them are striving, they're still fucked up because they left their country of origin, just like your forebears did.

    Thats kinda funny. Because in other threads, many of you believe in permanent economic class entrenchment, and that the suggestion of even the possibility of upward mobility is a right-wing dog whistle. 

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