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  1. Barclays has a card that for $99 I get 50,000 AA miles sign up bonus with no spending required. Citi has 50,000 miles with no annual fee first year but a small spend. Between my wife and me we can get 150,000 miles for $198 plus some spending that’s easy to hit. I missed out on the 70k bonuses but this seems good. I can use the miles on AA codeshare flights with BA.
  2. Me too, only 1 year since in HS I was a military brat moving around to a different HS every year.
  3. Wasn't cutting back on H1B visas in Trump's platform until the Elon/Besos/Zuck group started complaining?
  4. The bill even raises work requirements to 65 years old to get Medicaid so look for more competition for those Walmart greeter spots. Well they won't be able to afford their insulin. "Diabeetus" [/Wilfred Brimley]
  5. Conmen like the stupid and gullible equally.
  6. I got to see that museum and church as a teenager on my Junior class trip. I lived in Scotland and a classmate had a house in Stavanger, we did a couple days in Oslo too.
  7. My goal is to get my family (5 or 6 of us) to Europe and save money or improve the travel conditions for the parents. Kids can fly coach. So maybe this doesn't work the way I think it does anymore. I used to travel a lot. I'm close to a million miler on American and could have made it if my travel was more consistent with them over the years. I have not been in a heavy travel role for about 15 years. 20 years ago I used my points on American for 2 first round trip class seats to Kona and my hotel points for a week free at a Hilton resort (This is what my wife expects). So if no amount of Chase "miles" or points is going to get me a good deal then so I just find the best cash back card. I have an American Citi-Advantage card and about 38,000 miles in my account now which is good for one coach round trip in May 2026. Am I better off trying to build up enough miles for a couple tickets (5 or 6 people traveling) or to get enough to upgrade my wife and I to better seats? I have some time and plenty of credit card expenses to earn points but just need to figure it out. We could get my wife another AAdvantage card which comes with 50,000 points, no annual fee the first year.
  8. I think I will go with the Chase Sapphire Preferred (not Reserve). The bonus is 75,000 miles and fee is $95. If my wife gets one too that’s 150,000 miles for $180. Thoughts?
  9. I think chaos for the sake of chaos and insider trading is the issue. Stable gains were too slow for some people.
  10. In San Diego right now and the ratio of hot women it’s high and the number of obese people I see a day is single digits. Like maybe 3 or 4 a day. So low that you don’t really notice.
  11. Yes. I’m switching over to how I spend every day items now.
  12. One of my friends goes every time. He has a 65 Mustang
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