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will the 529 amount (as is) cover tuition? for how many years? on one hand, you saved this money that can only be used for school stuff. it's right there and ready to go. If you take out a loan and essentially gamble on the 529 'recovering' in the next what, 2 years, you are betting that the amount recovered in the 529 is > the interest paid on the loan? if you know the 529 will be short to cover the 4 years no matter what, i guess i could see taking a loan out on the front end and hoping the stonks go back up in the 529 to cover the back end. there is also no guarantee that it will be better in a few years. if the reverse had happened and the market had tanked 2 years ago but now it was well on the rise and at the same amount of $$ it is today would you feel this way?

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have had this happen (pilot crew 'timed out') on SWA in March. Last flight out of Love going to SLC that kept getting delayed and delayed until we boarded and were about get in the take off pattern when the co-pilot timed out. I guess they found another co-pilot because we did eventually take off about 2 hours later. supposed to land at 11:30pm and landed at 2:30ish AM while we are bitching at SWA, on the return flight, we were not able to get a direct from SLC to Dallas. had a stop in Denver. the SLC to Denver leg kept getting delayed. we land about 10 minutes after the posted flight time for the Denver to Dallas flight and rush to the gate. They did not hold that flight for the 10-15 people that needed it. This was Saturday afternoon and they said the next flight back to Dallas would be Monday afternoon. After raising a little heck, we are able to split our fam up and get 2 seats on the last flight out that night with 2 standby. then 2 guaranteed seats the following morning at 6am with a voucher for a shitty hotel. - Son and i were on standby and watched SWA hold that flight and delay it by 45 minutes so that connecting passengers could make it. Fuck that, why start that now when they screwed us over.

Cuban was fake pissed off. he was texting someone to move up the time line for the hostage negotiations for a new tax-payer funded arena inside the city limits.

the automakers cancelled a ton of orders to the silicon fabs during the pandemic/lock downs. I work in supply chain for a global phone mfger and our demand kept increasing with all the gov stimmys. we normally see big increases in sales during tax refund time for example, so we planned on an increase even though through the pandemic. so i am sure our chip orders increased as did a lot of consumer electronic categories (work from home stuff like computers, video call stuff, routers etc...). This coupled with periodic shut downs of these same fabs in China, India, Vietnam, S. Korea etc.. at various times led to a massive shortage when the automakers tried to re issue the orders to keep up with demand. Silicon takes a long time to process. For high end graphic cards and CPUs a wafer can take 15+ weeks start to finish. So even placing an order for a silicon run and getting it confirmed to a specific start date could take 6-12 months before you could see those chips. Also, at least in our industry we also saw massive decommits from key suppliers on promised shipments, so I can assume that the same thing happened in the auto industry. you line up everything and are waiting for a specific chip and then it does not come when promised.

Luka's fade away in the lane has not been working lately. guess we got spoiled that he hit like 90% of them in the PHX series. it's more and more needed as the refs are allowing a lot more contact on drives to the rim (both ways). that fade away (if you can make it) seems to be a safer bet. with the decrease in fouls called on drives, it seems that GS is leaving at least 1 person to 'guess' where Luka's pass is going and normally camping out to steal the pass going to the corner 3 spot. Luka has been picked off a few times because of this when he leaves his feet on the drive and then hurls a pass out of the paint. didn't the AAC leak earlier in the year as well? I seem to remember that happening but could not tell you the game. Let's see if the Mavs can win one in SF and make the Warriors buttcheeks clench up a little during game 6 in Dallas. Not ready for the ride to be over.

would always pay the $1.00 to upgrayedd to double pizza

yeah, i was confused that Biden's name was not on the primary ballot. I just assumed with all the ads that each R candidate was running directly against Biden.

is the perp a cyclist too, or just a yoga instructor? If both, should be super easy to catch if people just listen. no way she could shut up about 'sharing the road' or how the yoga lifestyle is sooo much better for you.

damn, not the response anyone wanted. Bullock picked a hell of a time to go ice cold. I guess that is the fallacy of needing 'one of these guys' to step up every game vs expecting a proven badass to be themselves to win. When all of the step up candidates wilt, it's Luka and the spares. gotta think we will be hearing Mr. Cash cover 'Hurt' soon.

latent lust between Porterhouse and Texilla not going away

put in an order on this one supposed to ship first week of June or so. total newb on watches but taking some ill-gotten gains and wanted a moon phase. was very taken with this one and pulled the trigger.

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i was getting used to Danny pimp slapping hyperbole Corby...le sigh

curious on what people in this threads 'strategies' are. - buy and hold. dca on monthly/weekly buys. mostly BTC and top alts - not really timing the market, but having no issues getting 100% in fiat and set buying and selling targets with goal to stack fiat - buy/sell memecoins based on tweets i fall into the middle category with the goal to stack fiat at the end of the day. i really only keep ETH on hand and that's to degen around in NFTs. After any decent sale i will normally convert most of the ETH to USDC or something.

just speculating, but after Mike left, for better or worse, Danny had a lot more airtime on the show. if he got no pay increase, no increased title/role then i can see getting pissed when cumulous probably told him to stfu and stay in his producer lane.

that's why this year being in the final 4 is the Mavs best chance at a title for a few years. As someone said earlier in this thread (or maybe the Mavs one) that they will believe Dallas can attract a big time FA the moment after it finally happens. this is a golden chance with the only obstacle to the Finals being a Warriors team that is damn good but not at their peak from a few years ago.

did they actually sell it on an exchange or give it away to some key holders to try and make them less pissed/whole?

yeah, that's throwing the horns down level bad and hence the ensuing karmic correction. i just wish we could hear the smack between Luka and the Suns fans down there in first quarter.

to be fair, Kidd called him out too for shitty defense. Luka responded.

i don't view it as that differently, but I am not a buy and hold crypto person. Buy and hold people, in general, are not keeping their BTC/ETH in a CEX, but in their own wallet. So setting up a stop loss sale is difficult from that perspective (or maybe i just don't know how to do it). Whales are highly manipulative (sometimes seemingly in conjunction with the CEXs) so it's hard to read the tea leaves and guess the direction of the market. Easier to buy and hold, but must have stomach for huge swings and you are counting on entire market going on a sustained run to lift a long period of DCA buys from the ATH. Whales want to make money too. they still need to buy low and then move the market higher to sell. You cannot time the bottom and top, but lots try to draft the whales moving the market up. If you set areas to take profit and set SL to limit losses, it comes to resemble stock trading whether one sees any intrinsic value or not. crypto can be easily traced. that's the point. if a gov agency wants to find out where money is going and who it is, they likely can. amateurs find and dox crypto scammers all the time by tracking how wallets interact to follow the crypto. tracking is not recovering though and obviously freezing like with a traditional bank is not happening, but they can keep an eye on suspect wallets and pounce when it's moved to fiat.

This is what i don't get from all the Suns fans saying "we needed a big man" when defending the #1 overall pick. No one needs a big man to have success. That is not the same as saying you cannot have success with a big man. Luka posted up more times than Ayton in the series (and got more rebounds, lol) but when bigs are getting torched on defensive switches and/or getting pulled out of the lane to hedge the corner 3 there is a strong argument that the cons outweigh the pros to having them on the floor for long stretches. When Ayton was effective, he would slide up the high post and sorta invite his defender to help on a baseline drive and open up that easy dish for a dunk. He needs to play like Shaq and bully opponents each game by battering into them on the block. make the refs determine what is allowed and what is not. otherwise, any player can get a jump hook off in the lane and he brings no advantage. if you allow a smaller player to guard you and are not creating a need for a double team, a true big should not be out on the floor.

Spencer cemented that win. Luka was balling out from the tip, but every other starter was playing nervous on offense, not hitting anything. Suns could have easily come back but SD came out confident and on fire. Then JB took over in the 3rd and removed any doubt that the Mavs were going to throttle the Suns.