Everything posted by 52-80
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
^^convicted of a felony for shooting a pregnant woman in the leg, but nevermind those details.
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Electric Cars
New one is 2024+ you can recognize outside by new tail lamps and front end. Meaningfully the suspension is more compliant, seats are better. Friend bought the Hyundai Ioniq 5 because he couldnt wait for a Model Y. Roomy car, AWD drivetrain great like the Y. Theres stupid maintenance requirements and bugs in the in-car software and phone app and other limitation in tech that reminds you its kinda stuck in the old car world rather than built from a clean architecture. Tesla gets regular and legitimate functionality and *safety* updates through software. Previously, they added signals from the vehicle exterior cameras to pretension seatbelts in case of imminent crash (rather than wait for airbag triggers). Recently, they use in-cabin visual sensor (in addition to existing seat weight sensor) to adjust airbag response to the estimated weight and height of passengers. In theory many of these EVs have software-updates, but they dont have the same level of component integration so they can’t or they don’t update with that level of functionality and frequency.
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Electric Cars
The revised Model 3 is meaningfully different from the previous one, and if you qualify for EV credit its still an insane value. Depreciation probably isnt assessed properly. First they just had the new model. Second, EV credit brought down value across the board. As a new buyer, its unlikely the credits will be perpetual or increased - to your future advantage. It's on balance still the best car in the segment. IMO, Hyundai/Kia are credible competitors if you like their styling. They still have more software weaknesses. The VW IDBuzz gets nowhere near 300 miles. I like Polestar 3 but they price it on the high end. Taycan Cross could be a good 2nd hand splurge.
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Markets still falling like whoa
im not meaningfully invested until after tax season. just swing trading commodities and other futures
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Surly #Stonks
me selling baba at 115 (almost 130 now) from 80, is going to haunt me like what i did with facebook
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Serial-killing cult: the Zizians
you know what crime is worse than serial homicide? misgendering.
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22% of men (incl. Kevin) don't realize that a chimp would fucking wreck them
If it had killed you, the gravestone would read "here lies [xxx]. he died of embarassment"
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Amazon Prime
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American Primeval - Netflix
great movie at first but it got a bit laborious when the Predator got killed by being nagged to death.
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TurboTax
Deloitte does my tax and for the first few years I had to self-fill volumes of information like in the OP, over and over and again. Takes basically just as long to crunch the tax all by hand by myself. Their process (and the GlobalAdvantage portal) improved in the last few years.
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Hey Oil Barons.......
There's technical issues and and costs to restart production wells after having shut them in. Might need testing, maintenance, etc. But unless there is severe demand impairment, they won't shut down the wells, they'll merely choke its production rate down. The bottleneck now due to damage in refining capacity and sanctioning of some tankers has a small marginal impact. On the upside IEA and Rystad (industry analysts) revised upwards expectation of global demands and OPEC+/Russia supply to meet it, despite what OPEC+ previously stated in December. If the Ukraine war gets resolved - and looks like its trending that way - then you'd also expect much of the sanctioning pressures to subside.
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22% of men (incl. Kevin) don't realize that a chimp would fucking wreck them
Now imagine if it was a bear shark
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Post a pic that makes you lol
https://x.com/sstrange_world/status/1889301100005605791
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Random thoughts that don't warrant a thread
Ive been watching The Pacific and trying to reconcile how the people who did Nanking one generation ago are now the people who apologize to everyone for the train arriving 2 minutes too late.
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Random thoughts that don't warrant a thread
One time I watched this short documentary on the japanese harley/lowrider motorcycle subculture. It was said how they were emulating the american motocycle gang culture, so that it was linked to the yakuza and participated in bullying and violent extortion and racketeering and all that socially stigmatized stuff. One scene had this motorcycle “gang” gather in a parking lot. The bikers were walking around gathering up trash and turns out its just a bunch of 50 year old accountants and such, and theyre all like “oh yes, we rike motos please, sound is very very good thank you, haiii.” vicious thug people, these japs.
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Post a pic that makes you lol
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Paris/Europe in late January?
Caneles are a specialty of bourdeaux but can be found across france and if you can find the copper moulds it makes a great souvenir
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Paris/Europe in late January?
for my tastes, food in Spain trumps France easily. this goes for everyday dining through to haute cuisine where ive tried different michelin starred restaurants in paris and lyon. ive also done a cooking class in spain (with coworkers) and its a lot more social than it is educational. if the cuisine is novel to you, theres learning value in it. if not, i dont think most of them are geared towards being a good cook. its just something to pass the time while sipping on alcohol and pretending to do culinary labor.
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Surly #Stonks
Just off of this website is good enough 🙏
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Financial Goals in 2025
^money shouts. wealth whispers.
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Surly #Stonks
A trader thinks that the prices of eggs are going to increase, and so he contacts his broker and asks him to buy 1,000,000 egg futures at $1.70 Sure enough, a week later, the price of egg futures is $2.50, and the trader, happy to ride his winners, places an order for 3,000,000 more egg futures Next month, at $4.30 a piece, he pats himself on the back and restructures his liquid investments to buy another 10,000,000 egg futures At the end of the quarter, egg futures are trading at $7, and the trader finally calls up his broker and tells him to sell them all The broker replies: “To who? You’re the egg man!”
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Surly #Stonks
A few more months of this and Surly will end up owning all of IBRX
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Random thoughts that don't warrant a thread
I never clicked on that from 5 years ago because i didnt recognize “blippi” and wasnt curious and am so glad i saved myself an extra 5 years of torture
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Post a pic that makes you lol
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Hey Oil Barons.......
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.