new account of [email protected]
I still think the Wii U failed entirely because of the name. Parents, or even worse grandparents, are not going to pay out new console money for something they think the kids already have. If they looked into it at all many would get the impression it’s just a big expensive controller for the Wii they already have.
Oh well, Wii U died in a ditch so the awesome Switch could feast on its corpse.
“I love the poorly educated” -Donald Trump at a campaign rally in 2015. And the crowd cheered.
He could never come up with something as viciously insulting as saying shalom to this man.
Your reply got hacked by the period boys.
We’ll see. I would have “lost” another several grand today if I’d stayed in. So I’m right once. Given that I check the market several times each day, it would have to be one hell of a jump for me to miss it at this point. But I doubt it’s coming any time soon.
This isn’t luck or gambling. This is recognizing that the economy is being destroyed either purposefully or through wild incompetence. Right now the market is reflecting that.
Hopefully anyone buying a new car understands that the second you drive it away it’s losing 20% or more of its value.
I’m talking something one year used with 10k miles on it will save you $10k+.
Not having it invested has “saved” me thousands of dollars so far. This could be a full on depression coming. The market is not smart. It is irrational.
You’re totally right and normally I would ride the dip. But we’re not in normal times. I’m thinking recession inevitable, depression possible. I’ll try not to miss the bottom of the dip, but that could be years from now. I’m happy with my decision.
He will say something incredibly stupid just about every day, you can take that to the bank. After delaying the tariffs again he announced 250% tariff against Canadian dairy because he misunderstood their variable tariff protection scheme. Even if the tariffs never officially come to pass, this on and off shit is terrible. The market is irrational but it hates uncertainty.
So I bought a Challenger R/T with 14k miles on it five years ago. Just that bit of driving in less than a year brought the price down $10k from new. I have put almost 70k miles on it, and it’s now worth $4k more than I paid for it.
For real, if you can get an old Ford truck from the nineties in good condition with low mileage it is probably a better investment than a 4% 401k match. My next door neighbor picked up a decent 90s Toyota truck that had been sitting in a barn for $1000. He is a mechanic so there’s that, but I thought he made an excellent purchase. So what if it’s missing some clear coat and has rust spots in non-critical locations on the body?
Do not buy a new car, ever! Currently having this argument with my wife.
Personally I pulled everything out of index funds right before the market tanked. I know trying to time the market is a fool’s errand, but it was so obvious that the US was about to shit the bed.
Now if that money to will be worth anything in a few years I have no idea. If we pull through I will reinvest. I’m literally thinking about buying gold, something that I thought was stupid just a short time ago.
I have no illusions about the intrinsic value of gold, but I read that JP Morgan Chase flew $4 billion in gold to their vault in NYC a month ago. Other big banks are doing the same.
Fuck the big banks, don’t get me wrong, but they know about risk and hedging.
Kind of when fent was just getting going. Funny enough if you bought on silk road you were highly likely to get legit product. Shutting it down no doubt caused deaths from OD when people started buying off the street
Interesting. I stayed in Brooklyn for four months a few years ago for work, and spent time in Manhattan and Queens. I saw far fewer people saggin there than in the small city in a red state I come from. I do agree the differences are smaller in the latter of the two timeframes you mention.
Feminism has always been egalitarianism. There will always be people co-opting terms and movements for negative reasons. If men see feminism as something different that’s on them to educate themselves. Women never achieved equity and now (in the US) we are backsliding as a country.
I hear you but I have to disagree on fashion. Check out what the teenagers and 20 somethings are wearing in cities. There was also a racial divide in fashion and music when I was growing up that seems to be gone. Today you can spot a white kid wearing an ODB shirt and a black kid wearing a Nirvana shirt. Most of the “rules” are gone outside of work. I’m in my 40s and one day I might dress punk and the next I might have a more hip hop look. I can wear things that would have someone questioning my sexuality a decade ago and now it’s normal for a straight person. It’s fun and freeing.
I tried to phrase that last bit so I didn’t come off as a homophobe but I’m done messing with it.
I once saw a group of about 15 elderly men having a get together in a Wendy’s. This was in a very small town. I didn’t speak to them but I got the feeling it was a regular thing. They were all very friendly with each other. Rather than a conference room, maybe it is more to attract groups like that.
A shitload of people are being fired from the government, I imagine plenty of them would be worthwhile replacements. It’s just that training takes time. I was working as the employee for a contractor in IT/infrastructure to a global giant up until a month ago.
My former co-workers talk to me regularly, they are getting screwed without me. Yet the company won’t call me up because pride. They wanted me to come back as an independent contractor at a lower wage. I won’t because pride. It’s fun. I gotta get a job soon though.
Right now they are paying two people a bit more than half what I was getting and they are fucking shit up because there’s no real training, let alone apprenticeship. Sink or swim.
People who could throw down 5 million like it’s pocket change? Yeah probably all of them are nazis. Most of them speak english.
Not much gets to me, but this shit is fucked up. I bet the people who work on these have horrible nightmares.
Some people get decision paralysis or FOMO so bad they can’t enjoy the game. I can be pretty bad in a similar way. I hardly ever finish a game even if I love it because I’m gonna do every side quest before I do the main quest and I just never get around to it.