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.

Is there any alternative to starlink that could be invested in? Everyone needs to divest from starlink as soon as they can.

Yeah I reported one of those and the mod/admin asked me if I meant to report a comment from over a year ago. It’s broken and they know it.

I remember them disappearing for long periods during the reddit days. Was it ever a full year between updates though? I don’t pretend to know ljdawson, but they’ve got a goose laying golden eggs here and they’re keeping it locked in the basement.

I love Sync but I’m thinking about switching.

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.

Thank you for your service. I was friends with a foster kid and the situation at the foster home was fucked. One day for fun I went with a bunch of the foster kids to an out of the way parking lot, where they just beat the shit out of each other, fight club style.

His foster parents seemed like nice people, but the living situation was more like a fucked up dormitory where you got what you could through intimidation and violence.

DJ I hope you’re ok.

After reading sovcit nonsense for over a decade, I have a very simple conclusion. They are fucking stupid.

They have to sign these legalese mumbo jumbo contracts to live in society, and rather than trying to parse them out, they assume that they are more akin to magic spells.

So, much like a cargo cult, they believe if they repeat the words of the magic spells they will cast them for their own benefit.

The sad thing is, at it’s core, I believe they are realizing that the state fucks the poor ever chance it gets. What they get from that though, because they are dumb, is that it’s all magic spells because of rugged individualism beaten into them by American culture. They should be developing class consciousness.

Jipped is gyped. As in ripped off by gypsies. It’s not a nice thing to say. Many people don’t know about the racist origin of the term. If you hate me for saying this I can tell you the nastiest joke I know involving a gypsy. They prefer to be called Roma though.

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

I try not to watch these, I definitely don’t watch the ones where they’re dropping grenades on dudes. This one really hit different. Dude is out there in the smoke and the darkness, being fired on, casually talking. A UAV bomb explodes and he doesn’t yell, or even flinch. I wonder how long he’s been on the front line.

May this war end soon with Ukraine victorious.

Hello fellow friend of coal. We’re in a sad sorry state of affairs. Hopefully you’re in one of the four or five places in the state that aren’t covered in traitor flags. Never forget, coal keeps the lights on! (In the mansions of the company owners)

Still sucks, because I believe the idea was to hold the territory long enough to exchange it for the parts of Ukraine stolen by Russia during peace negotiations. Amazing the brave fighters have held out so long.

Because of 18th century French aristocracy, no shit.

Thanks, you explained better than I would have. I was going to go on a tangent about Louis XIV showing the other aristocrats his new “lawn” concept.

The Enola Gay was on the front page of BBC yesterday.

You might be thinking drug cartel when you see the word cartel. A cartel is a group of companies in the same business colluding for reasons like to remove safety regulations or keep prices high. There is a worldwide diamond cartel that keeps those prices up and spreads bullshit about how your fiance won’t be happy without an expensive, natural diamond. Yes, there is even a cartel for eggs. They are loving bird flu because they can blame it for high prices.