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Dbeasy

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  1. Quinn looked good.
  2. I just went to the PlayFly website, and I still don’t understand what they do.
  3. That was the point you stupid fuck.
  4. Get that field to grass asap.
  5. I don’t understand how you don’t understand why people are offended. An athlete makes more money in a few years than 90%+ of the population will ever see in their entire lifetime. It’s enough money to never have to worry about paying the bills ever again. But instead of doing that, the athlete blows all the money and then asks others to give them money. That isn’t a story that makes most people feel like giving. It’s just like Mary Lou Retton. And it’s pretty frustrating for most people who scrape by to make a living.
  6. I posted a view that was wildly inconsistent with my past views on the secondary and Akina. In the past, I constantly harped on the need to play more man to man because I believe it’s critical to stop high powered offenses. I do remember Saban saying that during the playoffs. I also lamented not having a DB coach who would properly teach the technique we got used to watching when Akina was in charge of the secondary. It was precise and fantastic. Third, I also made many references in the past at how age discrimination is wrong, not only morally and ethically, but also it’s often a bad business decision. So why did I react poorly to Akina being the hire? Several reasons. The defense last year was terrific, so I figured they had a scheme they were comfortable with and didn’t need a ‘man’ oriented coach. Maybe they do. Second, I simply age discriminated against Akina. Whoops. He seemed pretty old the last time I saw and heard him. I don’t know that we are getting Fangio. Maybe he’s fine. I also remember him not being able to deal with a scheme that mixed man and zone. Also, a 68 year old guy is going to turn off some recruits. I guess the rest of the staff can pick up the slack. So I don’t love the hire, but it probably won’t be a disaster either.
  7. Do you happen to remember the name of the surgeon at Mayo?
  8. Jeez, the guy is 68. This is a ridiculous hire. Texas is going to lose recruits over this.
  9. This is shocking, and not in a good way.
  10. Man this team gives up goals right after scoring, all the time.
  11. Facts are so 20th century.
  12. Got it. If you are comfortable with the risks that’s a great way to go.
  13. Financially this is not a bad deal. It’s actually a good deal. What goes thru my mind is the person willing to do this work for that fee level. They really can’t afford to spend very much time on the house. So you’d have to make sure you figure out the optimum selling price yourself because the analysis they would do is likely to be very limited. Plus I would be a little concerned about their ability to recognize major deal risks and address those risks properly. Or, I’d be concerned about them making mistakes. If you can get comfortable with all of this, then it’s not a bad option. If I were selling my own house, I think I’d be a little too concerned about competence. However, I’ve sold houses for 1%, which isn’t too much more money, and at that level I can spend the appropriate amount of time on the deal to make sure there are no major financial mistakes or exposures.
  14. I’m thinking prices down a little, but transactions up significantly, for the same reasons as y’all have posted.
  15. This is a really awesome story. Thanks for sharing.
  16. A proper answer would be something like below you stupid fuck.
  17. I’d be interested to hear long time agents and mortgage people to comment on the following scenario. Assume the economy goes into a recession in the next six months, with significant job losses. Not as bad as 2002 but close. Also assume Fed rates drop from 4.3 percent to 3 percent in six months, leading to significantly lower mortgage rates. What happens to home prices starting at the beginning of the job losses for the next 24 months? Up? Down? A lot? A little?
  18. What does he bring of value? That’s the question.
  19. I really don’t get it. He spews a bunch of garbage but then can’t answer simple direct questions. What a rube.
  20. Go ahead and give us the cliff notes of how Putin was justified in invading a sovereign territory. I’m willing to listen.
  21. In junior high, I went to band camp in Lubbock at Texas Tech. They made a huge deal about not fraternizing with the opposite sex. Well, I got caught one night making out with a girl outside between buildings. The punishment? I was called up on stage in front of 5,000 fellow campers, and forced to make out with the girl. It was a brutal embarrassment. Interesting side note though. The girl ended up six years later becoming Miss Lubbock in the State of Texas beauty pageant. So I’ve got that going for me.
  22. I don’t even understand what point you are trying to make in this word salad mess. Russia invaded Ukraine and tried to take the whole country by force. What exactly should the world have done in that scenario?
  23. Because BIL holds only max 3 month treasuries, any short term fall off in value due to higher interest rates would recover in a few weeks or months. So there is very little interest rate risk, and no credit risk because it’s US gov treasuries. Unless Trump decided to default on US debt. That would be Armageddon.
  24. Given your age I would not hold any individual stocks. Just my opinion. Of course, I still own 2 individual stocks. As far as “safe” investments, I would look at a U.S. Treasury ETF with short duration, at or under 2 years. BIL, etc. Stock prices are overvalued, corporate bond spreads wrt treasuries are too narrow, CD’s, HYSA yield below treasuries slightly but don’t really give you much if any more protection than treasuries. edit: you can’t get 5% without taking more risk. With short term treasuries you get 4.3%
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