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CooterBrown

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  1. Just saw Black Bag. I enjoyed but I wish there was a bit more meat on the bone but it was obviously a limited budget. It’s a quick 90 minute watch. My only real complaint is the cinematographer really lived over exposing light sources. Holy shit this movie was murky and blinding at the same time.
  2. So, if that passes, a fetus wouldn't have constitutional protections until it is born.
  3. I'm glad I moved everything to SGOV & GLD. Now I'm wishing I went 100% into GLD instead of 25%. It's up almost 2% today. Gruntled and disgruntled at the same fucking time.
  4. Guadaloopy following his man crush, Elon.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. On the bright side, we have $3 steaks to go with our $12 eggs.
  8. The FBI moves to criminalize Habitat for Humanity for accepting environmental grants. https://newrepublic.com/post/192660/trump-fbi-charge-climate-organizations
  9. There was a report yesterday that when you log on to the SSA site there’s an updated terms that you must allow DOGE access to all your data. SS is effectively gone in a month.
  10. We go to war with Canada. Europe sends military resources to support Canada. Putin takes a weakened, distracted Europe.
  11. 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.
  12. Responsible chickens mask up.
  13. 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.
  14. I figured we'd have American troops fighting alongside Russia within a year. That timeline sure is getting compressed in a hurry.
  15. 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?
  16. The Washington Generals of political parties. JFC.
  17. Hot Wheels has already banned Trans Siberian Orchestra from Texas.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Yeah, a republican who won't publicly say he's a republican, running as a democrat. That's a recipe for winning.
  21. I moved half my retirement to GLD. This is the first time in 15+ years I haven't been either 100% in the S&P 500 or a 70% S&P 500 and 30% VGT split.
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