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I understand all of those feelings scaredy and have had most of them to one degree or the other. Well, okay the school hypnosis thing was kinda strange. The closest I came to that was when I was 6 or 7 and grew suspicious that the whole world was a charade that was using me as a scientific experiment, that my parents weren’t really my parents, etc. I decided to keep that thought to myself and watch for things that would prove my thesis. Several decades later they made a movie about that scenario: Truman.

That feeling faded after a few years and was gone by age 10.

I can remember walking around in about 1976 with a perpetual erection. Very embarrassing, but beyond my control.

I have fought the urge to spend too much time posing to make others happy. But I can tell you the opposite extreme ain’t great either…there needs to be an equilibrium in there somewhere. I suspect that equilibrium is partly what the Golden Rule is all about.

I used to feel inadequate about not being a genius. I’m mean I’m bright, but I’m aware there are others that are brighter. Then I worked for a company that was almost all Phds. I realized they effed up their lives worse than I did! Which led to the epiphany (to me anyway) that there is so much to learn in this world that no one can be an expert in everything. Sure they were brilliant in some areas, but that pretty much led to deficiencies in other areas.

You have something that is very valuable, scaredly. You are self deprecating and can pretty objectively evaluate yourself. Not many people can do that. It allows you to improve yourself while many others continue making the same mistakes and misunderstand the same situations throughout their life.

Also – remember how popular the topic of hypnosis was in the 1970s? Everyone talked about it! All sorts of articles on it! I’m sure that fed your thought process.

All sorts of things were popular in the past that are not even associated with those periods now. Lots of talk about gargling back then. Have no idea why. Nobody seems to remember that now. Mobiles hanging from the ceiling. Quadrophonic stereos. Roach clips. When was the last time you heard someone say “roach clip”? All they seem to remember now are lava lamps and pet rocks.

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Dec 2018 (country) Aug 2019

2.86 USA 1.59
2.06 Canada 1.10
0.25 Germany 0.71
1.26 UK 0.40
0.73 France 0.44
1.40 Spain 0.05
0.41 Holland 0.59
-0.24 Switzerland -1.12
0.02 Japan -0.25
2.44 Australia 0.88
2.45 New Zealand 0.99
2.03 Hong Kong 1.05
2.00 South Korea 1.15
—- Italy 1.34

about the same gap with the US as before, but rate is a lot lower!

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[quote=The-Shoveler]Too much attention being paid to the yield curve IMO.

It takes a lot of research and confidence before you start pounding nails on a bunch of new housing tracts at the same time.
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It’s not just the inverted yield curve.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trucking-truckers-bloodbath-signals-recession-inverted-yield-2019-8

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I agree dont sell.

We had a similar plan to yours when our kids left, we were going to downsize so we sold. But we ended up buying a bigger house! And we are glad we did. We get visitors often and all the space is handy then.

We have even had kids and grandkids move in temporarily, so all space is used then also. I know some people go smaller just so kids cant come home, but we enjoy being the hub of the family. Our house will be remembered as where all the great memories happened. It makes us happy.

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that actually sounds pretty tasty right about now.

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I’m hoping a lot of a moderates bailout on this party and a lot of moderates that bailed out of the republican party can find something the rally under and leave this extremes on the both side once and for all. AOC, Warren, Bernie, Harris, can keep the old democrat party…But they might as well change the party name to the American Socialist Party at that point….I think both parties really stopped representing most americans once the extreme wackos started taking over.[/quote]

I would agree with that. We need a new party. Neither the Dems or the Reps are anything close to my flavor or most of my friend’s flavor. Extremists in both of those parties.

And both of those parties are throwing out the moderates. That’s why the number of folks registering as undeclared are growing. I’ve been that way since I started to vote. Glad to see many are joining me.

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[quote=flu]Record high stock market close. lol. Party like it’s 1999.[/quote]

I’ll wear by raspberry beret.

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[quote=flu]amazing what $500 will get you… too bad it’s sold out for now too.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

Finally,consumers have choice. Ordered….[/quote]

Or for $500 you can get this…

https://jalopnik.com/i-just-bought-a-low-mileage-jeep-cherokee-for-500-and-1836224597

which upon closer inspection is this…

https://jalopnik.com/heres-whats-wrong-with-my-500-low-mileage-jeep-cheroke-1836311140

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[quote=temeculaguy] You want someone to care about the worker and the working class, you won’t find better.
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Would have to disagree.

There was a point in my life I lived in the Sacramento area and was struggling. EDS (Perot’s company) wanted to hire me to manage a data center there.

They sent me the contract to sign. The pay was poor and there was a clause stating that if I quit within the first year, I would owe the company $3x, two years $2x, and 3 years $1x. Can’t remember what x was but it was a significant part of the salary.

I passed on that offer and shortly thereafter got a great offer doing software development in San Diego. The rest is history. Thank goodness I passed on Ross.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7081345/How-living-rooms-changed-six-decades.html

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Been going through this with our parents too.

One parent would help their spouse when health failed, but when that spouse passed and the remaining spouse’s health failed things got trickier.

Fortunately for us, our remaining parents have wanted to stay in their home right up to the bitter end and we have had siblings who were at a point in their life where they wanted to live with and assist the remaining parent.

So far, we’ve been able to keep them in their homes. On my side, after my mom passed and my dad remained at home right up until the day he died.

On my wife’s side, it is working out similarly but we’ll find out more this summer as her health is failing very rapidly and we don’t expect her to make it past August.

Of our four parents, one died of a car accident and three will die of cancer – 2 lung cancers and a breast cancer.

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Did the same thing – stayed with my tiered plan instead of taking the TOU they were automatically switching me to.

I just analyzed my last 10 years of SDGE bills. Found this interesting:

Rates in April 2019:
Tier 3: $.49
Tier 2: $.35
Tier 1: $.25

Rates in April 2012:
Tier 4: $.26
Tier 3: $.24
Tier 2: $.17
Tier 1: $.14

In other words, the cheapest rate this year is about as much as the highest rate 7 years ago. Rates have almost doubled in 7 years.

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Stock down to $211. Ouch.

Seems like everything is going wrong for Tesla lately.
Fires. Autopilot deaths. Tariffs. Slowing US sales.

I really do think they’ll have to be purchased by another company, probably in 2020.

As others have said, an Apple-Tesla tie up seems to be a match made in heaven, but I’m not sure Apple is interested in the auto industry any more.

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yet. the age of consent for sex in CA is 18.

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The transition to autonomous vehicles will be long and gradual. We’re not going to have self driving cars that don’t need a person in the driver’s seat for a long, long time no matter what Tesla wants you to think.

The first increment will be cars that can drive themselves on specific, well controlled roads. Perhaps toll roads or HOV lanes. Next, in very well mapped geo-fenced areas, but that may require some sort of street to car communication to bring the safety factor high enough to implement. In both of these situations, there will still need to be a driver ready to take control once the vehicle leaves the well controlled area.

But to be able to program a car to understand all situations that the human mind can interpret instantaneously? We’re a long way from that.

Have you watched the video of an autonomous car following a non-autonomous car down the freeway? The front NA car swerves suddenly into the next lane to avoid a stalled car, and the A car hits the stalled vehicle. If the second car had been a human, the driver may have been able to look thru the front car to see the upcoming stalled vehicle, or at a minimum the driver would likely have swerved just assuming the front car saw something bad.

That is just one example, but there are other situations that humans can interpret but will be very difficult to implement in software.

Maybe I’ve got autonomy on my mind because I read today that a couple made the first porno in a Tesla running on autopilot.

https://www.businessinsider.com/couple-shot-porno-in-moving-tesla-on-autopilot-2019-5

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