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Participantgroping around in the darkness for a top, scared by the slightest sound.
if you had to buy and hold something for 24 months, there’s no way you’d let money just sit unmonitored in the stock market for 2 years outside a retirement account.
id say the the risk of being in the stock market seems to me a 20% chance of gain, 30% stable, 50% loss.
however, id feel perfectly comfortable letting gold stocks sit unmonitored, justs et and forget for 24 months.
but i dont beleive in the system.
The risk of holding gold, seems like 50% chance of a gain, 30% stable, s0% loss.
the problem really is impossible to tell the path we get to to get anywhere. it can be so crazy to get where your’e pretty sure you’re going.
ParticipantI was tempted to go all cash during the crash but realized it was too obvious to do and so refrained.
Participant[quote=ocrenter][quote=spdrun]
ocrenter: speaking of quarantine, I’d really support requiring airlines to ask for proof of a recent negative (last 48-72 hours, no older) COVID swab before boarding passengers for Northeastern airports, as well as requiring quarantine. The majority of cases in places like NJ are starting to be from imported outbreaks, and most of the hotspots aren’t within easy driving/train/bus distance.
We could even randomly check car passengers for proof of recent test and quarantine plans … there’s precedent in the US for this. California has ag inspection stations at its borders to prevent importation of dangerous parasites. A virus is essentially a dangerous, microscopic parasite.[/quote]
great in concept. problem is pandemic is so widespread and so many folks clamoring for tests that we now have shortage of plastic swabs and result time gets dragged out to a week.
if someone had activated national defense production act early on regarding all items (reagents, swabs, masks, PPEs) we would have been in good shape. (for example Taiwan added 60 mask assembly lines within a month’s time).
anyhow, we are asking patients without symptoms to not test due to supply constrains and excessive delays. all of the medical groups within the county lobbied the county to fall in line on this and the news today is the county has agreed to fall back to no testing of asymptomatics.
what I’m telling asymptomatics who was exposed: assume you have it, quarantine for 2 weeks, take zinc and vit D and aspirin.[/quote]
I bought a sr citizen daily pill dispenser to make sure I get my daily vit d and b12. Its plastic with days of the week. My wife thinks its dumb. I love it .
I know its not definitely helpful but im very hypnotizable and suggestible and the placebo effect is extremely powerful, esp 4 me. Plus vit d levels are good to keep up anyway
I guess maybe ill throw in some zinc too. I forgot zinc!!!
The dispenser really keeps me on track, i forget with just bottles. I throw in random pills a few times a week. A garlic . A calcium. A multi. Vit some resveratrol. The occasional turmeric. Its like a little surprise box.
I 100 % believe vit d will help protect me
Participanthttps://local.theonion.com/8-4-million-new-yorkers-suddenly-realize-new-york-city-1819571723
Very funny vintage onion article on the suckiness of urban existence.
NEW YORK—At 4:32 p.m. Tuesday, every single resident of New York City decided to evacuate the famed metropolis, having realized it was nothing more than a massive, trash-ridden hellhole that slowly sucks the life out of every one of its inhabitants.
With audible murmurs of “This is no way to live,” “What the hell am I doing here—I hate it here,” and “Fuck this place. Fuck this horrible place,” all 8.4 million citizens in each of the five boroughs packed up their belongings and told reporters they would rather blow their brains out with a shotgun than spend another waking moment in this festering cesspool of filth and scum and sadness.
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By 5:15 p.m. there was gridlock traffic on the outbound sides of the Holland and Lincoln tunnels, and the area’s three major airports were flooded with New Yorkers, all of whom said they wanted to go anyplace where the pressure of 20 million tons of concrete wasn’t constantly suffocating them.
“I always had this perverted sense of pride because I was managing to scrape by here,” said Brooklyn resident Andrew McQuade, who, after watching two subway rats gnawing on a third bloody rat carcass, finally determined that New York City was a giant sprawling cancer. “Well, fuck that. I don’t need to pay $2,000 a month to share a doghouse-sized apartment with some random Craigslist dipshit to prove my worth. I want to live like a goddamn human being.”
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“You see this?” added McQuade, pointing at a real estate listing for a duplex in Hagerstown, MD. “Two bedrooms, two baths, a den—a fucking den—and a patio. Twelve hundred a month. That’s total, not per person.”
According to residents, the mass exodus was triggered by a number of normal, everyday New York City events. For Erin Caldwell of Manhattan, an endlessly honking car horn sent her over the edge, causing her to go into a blind rage and scream “shut up!” at the vehicle as loud as she could until her voice went hoarse; for Danny Tremba of Queens it was being cursed at for walking too slow; and for Paul Ogden, also of Queens, it was his overreaction to somebody walking too slow.
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Other incidents that prompted citizens to pick up and leave included the sight of garbage bags stacked 5 feet high on the sidewalk; the realization that being alone among millions of anonymous people is actually quite horrifying; a blaring siren that droned on and fucking on; muddy, refuse-filled puddles that have inexplicably not dried in three years; the thought of growing into a person whose meanness and cynicism is cloaked in a kind of holier-than-thou brand of sarcasm that the rest of the world finds nauseating; and all the goddamn people.
In addition, 3 million New Yorkers reportedly left the city because they realized the phrase “Only in New York” is actually just a defense mechanism used to convince themselves that seeing a naked man take a shit on a park bench is somehow endearing, or part of some shared cultural experience.
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“I was sitting on my stoop, drinking coffee, and out of nowhere this crazy-looking woman just starts screaming, ‘I am inside all of you,’ over and over,” Bronx resident Sarah Perez, 37, said. “Then, we both had this moment where we looked at each other and realized, okay, we have to get out of here.”
“This place sucks,” Manhattan resident Woody Allen, 74, told reporters. “It just fucking sucks.”
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When fleeing New Yorkers were asked if they would miss the city’s iconic landmarks, most responded that Central Park is just a pathetic excuse for experiencing actual nature, that the Brooklyn Bridge is great but it’s just a fucking bridge, that nobody goes to the Met anyway, and that living in a dingy, grime-caked apartment while exhaust fumes from an idling truck seep through your bedroom window isn’t worth slightly bigger bagels.
“This is no place to raise a kid, that’s for sure,” said 32-year-old Brandon Rushing, a lifelong New Yorker. “I grew up here and I turned into a giant asshole. Why would I want that for my son?”
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“Plus, we’re the place most likely to get nuked by a dirty bomb in a terrorist attack,” he added. “So that’s great. Also, it smells like shit here, and I’m not exaggerating. You’ll just be walking around and it starts smelling like human shit, and it just fills your nostrils and you breathe in shit for like 20 seconds.”
Before departing by private helicopter, Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke with members of the media to address the situation.
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“You know what the greatest city in the world is?” Bloomberg asked reporters. “Scottsdale, Arizona. It’s clean, it’s not too big, it’s got a couple streets with shops and restaurants, and the people there aren’t fucking insane. This place is fucking insane. And by the way, that’s not a reason to like it. Anyone who says that is a delusional dirtbag.”
By Tuesday night, New York was completely abandoned. At press time, however, some 10 million Los Angeles–area residents, tired of their self-centered, laid-back culture and lack of four distinct seasons, and yearning for the hustle and bustle of East Coast life, had already begun repopulating the city.
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ParticipantWe are really tired of no bookstores
ParticipantThe lenderfi website had a notice thst they were not taking apps for a while.
Crazy!ParticipantThe psychological accuracy puts this way above soap opera territory imo.
Im on the last episode and am sad to see them go.
But i read the shows so hot internationally theyre doing a season 3 right now in israel!
I feel rabbi lippe weiss becomes more sympathetic as the show progresses . Keep an open mind
July 10, 2020 at 2:50 PM in reply to: the reopening of america is a pivotal historical moment? #818732Participantscience: 1
dumbasses: 0
trump: -1
Mississippi: -36https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/us/mississippi-coronavirus-legislature-trnd/index.html
July 10, 2020 at 11:31 AM in reply to: OB density to be raised from 0.7 to 4.0 in proposed plan #818735Participanthttps://www.obpeoplesfood.coop/
i wish this were my local market
Participant[quote=svelte][quote=scaredyclassic]in the clear light of monday, it seems like maybe this was a bit nutty an idea.[/quote]
Not nutty. I can’t say the thought didn’t cross my mind when my kids started wandering off.
It’s an idea hatched in the heart, not the brain.[/quote]
in SHTISEL, the youngest son lives with the father. that show informs on so many topics
Participantone of the beautiful things about the lockdown was just the clean air, the cessation of consumption for consumptions sake, the brakes on capitalism. Could low rates be a similar event? There is nowhere for money to grow, except in its own supply, more of it, to try to entice people to grow and consume, but no, they’ve had enough? or is it justa temporary blip? At 2.% on the 30, figure the 15 year might be 1.625, buy it down with a couple points to below 1%. Sign me u p for that deal. i too feel that there’s at least a 50% chance that comes our way, within the next 120 days
Participant[quote=gzz]BBN and GBAB are taxed as ordinary income and pay 5 and 5.5%. They are nearly the same so I’d go with GBAB.
The others are taxed at the lower dividend rate, not as ordinary income, and all well over 2.5%. They could all go down long-term, but I don’t think that’s terribly likely. The main risk of them going down is probably President Biden does a big corporate tax increase. But I think that risk is mostly already reflected in their prices.
If you want complete risk free gains, it isn’t going to work. But if you have 2m+ net worth and are playing with 100-150k, I think you want positive expected return, not risk free return.[/quote]
This morning, i am a definite no. Some days i believe in the future.
Today, i feel we are all doomed financially.
ParticipantThe sound of a train is soothing. Its beautiful. You know the johnny cash song, folsom prison blues. Beautiful. When i hear that lonesome whistle, i hang my head and cry. The train will become like another member of the family. Beautiful meditative rhythm. It will be so integrated, soon it wont even be noticed, except perhaps in the stillness of the night, drinking a glass of port on the back patio, youll think, that is a gorgeous sound, the sound of life moving forward. Tell your kids its thomas the tank engine theyll love it too
The freeway traffic hums you to sleep. Thats true. Ask anyone near a freeway. It seems bad, but its actually a positive . Obviously also good freeway access increases the value of your home.
Power lines are safe. Ill get you the science to back it up. Power lines are a good thing, they scare away dumb people who normally bid too high!
Ppsf is low. A steal! You will not find another place this gorgeous at 214 a square foot.
Ive never wanted to be a real estate agent but i have an urge to try and sell this house. Many lawyers are basically salesmen, but i generally prefer trafficking in ideas, not dirt. This place though, needs a real advocate. At the right price i might buy it.
I have friends in nyc who lived right next to roaring elevated subway traffinic. And they were happy to be there!
Its a gorgeous building in a beautiful county that everyone in the world wants to live in, who believe me live next to actually hortible things, not signs of a good civilization, like trains, but real nastiness, its being given away at less than cost to build! You cannot lose in the long run with a property like this. You look into the future youll see too, the quote unquote negatives on this place are net positives, youll double, triple your money 20 years out and you will live in paradise! Your home will basically cost you nothing to live in.
ParticipantTheres no way in hell id live next to a freeway.
I could live with the train.
We almost bought a place with power lines in the yard. So cheap. I really wanted it but my wife was freaked out. On balance, probably better we passed tho i was sad at the time. Because it was so cheap!!!
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