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Not an easy decision for sure.

Glad it was you who had to make it and not me.

In the grand scheme of things, $5K is a very small amount to lose.

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He’s still going strong apparently.

https://www.bubbleinfo.com/

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[quote=Coronita]Looks like Hertz is getting really close to BK…. Those Z06 vettes might be going lower…

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-22/hertz-creditor-talks-reach-impasse-hours-before-key-deadline

Edit… The Z06s are all sold….except 1 in vegas. And it’s an automatic.

You snooze, you lose.

https://www.hertzcarsales.com/certified/Chevrolet/2019-Chevrolet-Corvette-70b473320a0e0adf07cdfe61d8c18084.htm%5B/quote%5D

Superspeeders Rob Feretti is buying Hertz stock because they burned him in the past.

I hope he doesn’t get burned again if his stock becomes worthless if Hertz goes BK.

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Side note. I don’t know why CA calls this program “worksharing” because one isn’t really working. A more accurate name might have been “free loading sharing” , but I guess “work sharing” sounds better.
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The theory is that, instead of having a company layoff, say, 1 person out of 10 they keep all 10 employed 32 hours instead of 40. The company still keeps everyone on the payroll and the state still pays unemployment, but this encourages companies to eventually get to a point where all 10 are back to full time. If someone gets laid off entirely, there is less chance the company will ever bring them back.

So in essence, the work is shared during the downturn instead of having one person out of work completely.

I think it’s a smart program. Face it, the state was going to pay unemployment one way or the other. Might as well do it in a manner than nudges the company into keeping everyone – with a return to full time likely.

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[quote=FlyerInHi] Meh… most people would consider Trump ijust “average” or “above average” in weight.
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I think the reported 237 lbs is a lie. He looks heavier than that to me. Maybe not 300, but definitely not 237.

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[quote=Coronita][quote=scaredyclassic]contemplating one last refi.

current 3.375, 30 years, bal less than 200k

looking at about 2.7, 15 years, no cost.

maybe wait a little bit? i feel like it should be a little lower…

got a low rate from sofi.com, cheaper than aimloan and amerisave.

anyone have any internet lender they like nowadays?

planning hopefully to pay it off in 5-8 years, so not looking at a huge savings. but still, a few thousand[/quote]

2.75% on the 15 year was what I got a few years ago before I paid it off. I think maybe it can go lower.[/quote]

I’m at 2.75 15 year also.

If I were you I’d take it scaredy. Maybe it will go lower, maybe it won’t. If it goes lower it won’t be by much. A bird in the hand…

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And I know yall will think I’m crazy, but I kinda hope Jamie Dimon runs one of these days.

I like the guy. I think he says was he thinks, and what he says I like. but he’s smart enough I don’t think he’ll run. Why anybody would volunteer to run for president I have no clue.

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[quote=outtamojo]Oh no klobuchar not her please- reminds me of a very mean teacher.[/quote]

I think they are setting it up to be Gretchen Whitmer.

One reason being she’s gov of a swing state.

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Agree with Shoveler.

It happens everywhere but the news we watch focuses mostly on news closer to home. It’s not just in the US, news sources everywhere do that.

Dam collapses, bridge collapses and the collapse of other infrastructure is nothing new…it’s happened since dams and bridges and other infrastructure was created.

The Michigan dam burst is relatively minor. Read about the St Francis Dam sometime.

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[quote=FlyerInHi] …when I return to San Diego from Vegas it takes me about a day to get used to the higher humidity[/quote]

San Diego humidity is nothing like the southeast, from the Carolinas all the way through TX and OK. I don’t want to even move when humidity and temperatures are high at the same time.

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A few reasons
(1) they loooove fried food – not healthy
(2) the area has high humidity. Have you ever lived in high humidity? It saps your energy. I came alive when I moved to CA…lack of movement promotes obesity
(3) I haven’t figured out the poverty aspect…perhaps its tied to (2) and the lack of movement. Shrug.

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If he gets a cargo bike, he should get one designed nearby and named after a nearby river:

Home page

Village Homes is probably the community my father and I visited in Davis around 1979-80:

https://steemit.com/health/@jennislay/sustainable-suburbia-exploring-village-homes-in-davis-ca

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[quote=Coronita][quote=outtamojo][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=outtamojo]Oh no a bike shortage!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/nyregion/bike-shortage-coronavirus.html%5B/quote%5D

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My son needs a bike for the fall.
I was gonna go bike shopping with my son. Rejected by ucsd and uci, he chose ucd over ucsb for biology.1 400 sat and 4.0 GPA doesn’t give you your choice of 2nd tier U.C’s. these days.I wont mention demographics Asian cough cough.[/quote]

Buy him a car if he’s going to ucd. 1. It will make him feel better 2. He’ll be a popular kid. 3. Car prices have been and will continue to go down. 4. He deserves a reward for his hard work and accomplishments, despite stupid school administrators not giving him credit for it.

UCD is a good school. He’ll do fine.
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UCD is a great school – behind only Stanford in northern California. Maybe behind UCB for certain majors.

I’m not sure getting him a car will raise his social stature there. It is very much a green-leaning school so a bike might be better. Davis was known for always pushing the envelope on the environmental front with lots of psuedo-hippy students and professors. Things may have changed since I hung out there but I doubt it.

I remember my Dad and I toured a solar housing development there in the 1970s – and nobody was doing solar in the 1970s!

You should not feel apologetic about UCD at all. It is highly regarded, he’ll get a great education, and he’ll love the area. And from a parents perspective: it is a very safe town and costs are relatively low as far as California goes. It is so close to Sac that you’ll have lots to do when you go up for visits. Downtown Sac is very vibrant now with lots of bars and restaurants – my wife and I were surprised how much it has changed since we lived up that way. A great live music venue that looks like a hole-in-the-wall: Torch Club.

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We want to make sure our favorite places survive, so we plan on going out as soon as they open up. We’ll be extra cautious, but we’re not going to live in isolation.

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This is a rare event, but not a unique event.

These same conversations and life vs economy discussions happened in 1918 and, just like today, there were folks on both sides of the fence, protests, and different communities taking different approaches.

I’ve read every San Diego newspaper from the last half of 1918 (I did that back in March when this all started) and the parallels to what they did then to what we are doing now are striking.

For all of the advances in technologies and record-keeping we’ve made in 100 years, the approaches and reactions to those approach are largely the same.

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