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  1. 9 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

    I need midstream was a crappy business and midstream companies were crappy to work with, but this was an interesting view (h/t Visual Capitalist):

    💰 Ranked: U.S. Industries Where Companies Are Most Profitable

    This graphic is really good because (1) tobacco fucking rocks to own (2) you never hear people say shit like “man philip morris is ripping me off on cigarettes and ipads are extortionate”.

    but people do complain about grocery stores and consumer packaged goods and those guys only get single-digit margin. perception vs reality. 

  2. 9 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

    What I have found out on my own has been the years is that the flu is the worst I have ever felt while sick. The only way I helped to mitigate it the times I did have it was to go to the hospital and get an IV. I got better far quicker doing that than trying to ride it out in the bed at home.

    We had the flu vaccine in previous seasons but skipped the last one. Never again. Shit is torture. 

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  3. Crazy idea: the people with economic interest in an entity gets to allocate *their* capital in a way that aligns with their interest. 

    Its amazing that the type of people crying about fascism are the ones who want to dictate how other people spend their money. 

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  4. anyway, to get back on topic, ive been fighting the goddamn flu, and its the worst thing since covid, and the 2nd illest ive ever felt. 
     

    also, michael jordan was hungover on game 5. cmon, aint nobody playing 44 minutes of ball with a flu. 

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  5. 14 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

    How do you know the premiums don’t reflect the true payments?

    if they do, then 122k is insane cost of service and hence the expensive family premium ($25k/yr for contribution from employee+employer)

    if they dont, the insurance companies go out of business. 

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  6. 1 hour ago, tbone_ said:

    Totally agree those are bullshit numbers.

    But how exactly is he getting screwed only paying a $250 copay?

    He and everyone else are getting screwed because the premiums need to reflect the insurance payout be it $122k or $61k or $30k or whatever the true payment is. 

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  7. 1 hour ago, Hefeweizen said:

    I will tell you guys about a low volume thinly traded stock I really like because of its dividend so it’s really not very stonk like.  ALVOF, a small Canadian energy company operating in Brazil.  Very well run, excellent cash flows, and conservative management.  I’ve collected dividends for a while now and the stock is relatively cheap on a P/E basis.  It does take an appetite for currency, energy, and exchange rate risk though…

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  8. Slipped on a patch of black ice the other while turning a corner and fell on my side. It happened so goddamned fast i couldnt even process how i braced/reacted to the fall. 

    I’d taken wilder spills in my 20s, doing endos without a helmet, smacking into trees on mountain bikes, etc, without nary a scratch. 

    This damn fall put my arm out of commission for 2 weeks and this is how the bruising showed at the end of that period. 

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  9. 15 minutes ago, LTbear said:

    Much bigger raptors, just not named Velociraptor. Utahraptor, Dakotaraptor were both as big or bigger than the JP raptors. 

    I know youre totally making this up because those states didnt even exist when those dinosaurs were around 

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  10. 1 hour ago, ztejas said:

    Depends on the produce if we're being honest. Garlic, onions, carrots? Do your worst. Avocados? I'll be damned.

    Goes in the things that make u surly thread, but fuck buying avocados. 

    you can try to pick good ones (which my wife thinks shes good at), but sometimes you still get them with brown chunks. 

    those fuckers have like a 16-hour peak ripeness window and its all downhill after that. 

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