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  1. Let's start with this one
  2. Rode several of them in Costa Rica. Good times.
  3. Sophie, that's YOUR choice to make.
  4. Haha. Need to learn the accent from my Canadian friend ASAP. FWIW, I've started using the word "washroom", which is more accurate description than "restroom".
  5. If I go anywhere outside the US, I'm making Fuck Trump t-shirts for the family and wearing those everywhere we go.
  6. Miraculously ahead in all of my positions - most were bought back in 2013 so most are over several hundred %. Even for those purchased last year (except for ABBV) are ahead. I got lucky and won't see because the tax would not be worth it. For now. Glad I kept my parent's $ in CDs. At the time I thought a 18-month 4.25% was crap, but dodged a bullet.
  7. Buying a flowbee to cut my own hair. Punching extra holes in my belt so I don't have to buy a smaller one. Going to work barechested so my shirts don't wear out. Shirts from England are expensive. In all seriousness, probably cooking at home more, downgrade to bourbons instead of Japanese whiskies or Scotch, stop drinking beer altogether. Re-evaluate our vacation plans... right now we go vacation 3 times per year. Figure those average out to $10K per trip. Buy stuff on the used market.
  8. These are the pork soup dumplings (xiao long bao) from Din Tai Fung. These are pan fried pork buns (生煎包) There's a place by my work that has really good ones. The ones I bought at the Shihlin night market (10 for $10) were amaze-balls.
  9. Yes. It should be limited protect certain industries. South Korea put tariffs (stopped imports?) on passenger vehicles while they were propping up Hyundai. Once Hyundai became profitable, they allowed more foreign cars to come into SK. The US makes plenty of stuff. Just not what people will buy in volume. e.g. 15 million people in the US buying $500 TVs from China = $7,500M ($7.5 billion) 50 foreign companies buying high precision instruments at $10M = $500M Similar to tax cuts... the "trickle down effect" is absolutely bullshit. $100 tax cut to 99% of the population. They'll use the $100 to buy the shit they NEED like groceries. $1M tax cut to the 1%, they may use it to buy a Porsche or 2, but will never spend as much as the 99%.
  10. The tariffs are making the US a pariah state even worse than Russia, Iran, North Korea, etc. since their reach and level of impact is only small percentages of what the US can do. At the risk of my job, expenses and bank account, I hope the rest of the world renegotiate the trade agreements among themselves and leave the US out of these negotiations. Maybe, just maybe under-educated, hell yeah, 'merica mouth breathers will say "shit, maybe those edumacated people were right all along." I doubt it, but it's nice to dream. Oh, saw a graphic last night. Trump is imposing tariffs on European nations, but conveniently not imposing tariffs on Russia.
  11. Not mine, but someone else's wife or girlfriend. Merging from 1 freeway to another, everyone is trying to "zipper" in and it's usually fairly smooth. Trying to zipper in today with my turn signal on, and the chick behind me speeds up to try to block me. I have a bigger car so she backed off and honked at me. This happens at least once a month. Bitch.
  12. Haha. You don’t have to pay (income) taxes if you don’t have a job.
  13. What is the property tax rate in Travis and Williamson counties? I had a house in NW Austin back in the early 2000s, and don’t remember the property tax every increasing.
  14. Stinky tofu is yummy though, once you get past the smell.
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