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CooterBrown

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  1. 13 hours ago, Blotto said:

    All I know is lidar costs are falling fast as volume picks up. I have seen multiple references online speculating Lidar sensors in the $200-300 range in 2025.

    The iPad Pro has Lidar sensors in the camera. Granted, the distance is fairly limited, to around 5 meters, but it's really accurate. We have used it for some some projects recently.  So, lower grade Lidar sensors are probably $50 or less already.  

  2. 16 hours ago, 52-80 said:

    39% with median $1k savings doesnt mean $1k is all they have access to. 

    It is not the balance of their checking and savings (“transactional”) accounts  

    This is money “earmarked” specifically for emergency. And 39% is the bucket of people who earmark less than 1mo income (not expense) for emergencies. 

    These people cover the 50th percentile in financial metrics, and their financial accounts and non-financial assets are far greater than $1k.

    I don't keep shit in my checking account.  I zero it out at the end of the month so we start at zero on the 1st.  Any leftover money is an extra investment in our brokerage account. I also never have more than $20K in my savings account.  In my 52 years, I've never had a need for emergency money that had to be paid instantly.  I can't even think of a non-criminal scenario where I would needs lots of cash immediately.

     

  3. 9 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

    BREAKING: China Just Canceled All U.S. Beef Contracts—Buying from Canada & Brazil Instead

    Trump’s trade war tantrum just cost American farmers billions—China is officially cutting off U.S. beef and shifting its business to Canada and Brazil.

    🔥 $21 billion in American agricultural exports? GONE.

    🔥 China’s tariffs on U.S. beef? Up to 15%.

    🔥 Meanwhile, Canada & Brazil are laughing their way to the bank.

    🔴 American ranchers just got screwed.

    🔴 Trump’s chest-thumping on tariffs just handed China an easy excuse to ditch the U.S. market.

    🔴 MAGA “patriots” who cheered the trade war? Congrats—your beef industry just got bodied.

    But hey, tariffs are “winning,” right? 

    Let’s see how that plays out when U.S. farmers start begging for another bailout.

     

     

    lolollol

    On the bright side, we have $3 steaks to go with our $12 eggs.

  4. Well, I took the rest of my retirement "out" of the market.  Technically, I split it 75% SGOV (returning around 5% right now) and 25% in GLD.  GLD seems like a decent play right now since the outflow leaving the market has to go somewhere and gold is a good bet of where a lot of it will land.  

  5. 3 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    Any concerns over them catching bird flu and passing it on to you? How do you manage to keep them from being exposed to it from wild birds?

    Responsible chickens mask up.

    Mobile Game Mask GIF by Ping Creates

  6. 80% of elder care workers are immigrants. That's wild. 


    We just put my MIL in assisted living over in Northwest Hills. Outside of management, 100% of the staff are from Jamaica and other Caribbean countries.
  7. The Comptroller is taking over aggy.  It'll be interesting to see which mouth breather Abbott appoints as the interim to fuck up one of the few state agencies that is largely apolitical.  Putting a MAGA disciple in charge of what is effectively the bank of Texas for a few months can't have any negative effects, right?

     

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    28 minutes ago, B00M said:

    Is anyone pulling out of the markets as (a) protection against trump’s seemingly intentional recession and (b) protest against Trump since there’s little else we can do until midterms and we know he views the stock markets as a report card? I’ve been thinking about it…

    I moved half of my retirement to gold (GLD) a week ago. That's had a slight profit since then.  It'll stay stable or increase unless the nukes drop.  This week, I moved another 25% to Fidelity's money market account (SPAXX) that is returning 4.x%. I'm okay with that return for 2025.  I have roughly 20% in the S&P 500 (FXAIX) and 5% still in tech (VGT).  I was in FXAIX & VGT for over 15 years with no complaints.  I was hoping to stay in that mix for 6 more years until retirement.

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    1 hour ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

    The Hobby Bldg has been demo'd and redeveloped (something about an "infestation" issue). 

    Mrs GOTJ works out of a leased facility in N Austin that has been shrunk down to a third of its size pre-Covid. She currently goes in one day a week because that's all the space they have to accommodate the mgmt team.

    The Hobby Building had a major rat infestation.  It was so bad you couldn't leave food on your desk because rats would come out during the workday for a snack.

    When my wife quit working in that building, she brought home her little dorm fridge she kept in her office and there were two dead rats under it.

  10. 45 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    We need Matthew McCoughnney (sp?). Step up to the Green lights courtesy phone and save the country, sir.

    Yeah, a republican who won't publicly say he's a republican, running as a democrat.  That's a recipe for winning.

     

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