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Hefeweizen

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  1. A giant vagina. But something is wrong with the blood vessels.
  2. No, Pacific Grove. Carmel is a little out of my means unless I want to live in a tent. But the whole peninsula is a nice place to be. Hell, seaside and marina are “affordable” by Cali standards, and are nice places and pretty safe. Only area nearby that is rough is Salinas, and that’s a solid 30 minute drive away. I have a friend whose adult kids work remote from Montana and love it. I couldn’t take the winters.
  3. Not a stones throw from anything but pebble beach, but point taken. It’s an hour drive to Santa Cruz, and another hour from there to San Francisco. San Jose is about 1.5 hours without traffic. Which is never on “the 101” as they call it here.
  4. Well I never lived in anything but big cities in my life and now live in a town of 15,000. And I’ve got to say I miss nothing. I never was one for crowds, got older and decided I’d rather Texas football on TV, and love the feeling of knowing (even if just by sight) most of the people I come in contact with. So not only could i live in a small town but I don’t think I could ever live in a city again. Hard to say never but I’m pretty sure about that. Of course I’m biased because my small town is right in the Pacific Ocean and it never freezes or gets above about 75.
  5. Whenever I see MSM in the post my eyes glaze over. Can we just set up a few instances of AI chat bots to have this thread go nucular?
  6. Getting closer to the ground. So I have increased my position to a cost average of 3 bucks. Almost 30 percent of the float is short right now I see.
  7. Apparently call tbone and Stanley.
  8. Thanks for mentioning this book. Was not in my radar at all and now boughtened and awaiting finishing the Slow Horses series which has had my attention for a few weeks. I am 26 books into 2023 right now, which is almost double what I read last year. Side effect of moving to a quiet town, working from home, and gaining a few hours a day not commuting…
  9. Only if all of ourselves hold t bills, right? I am very interested in the potential outcomes here and I don’t see that ultimately it is either austerity or inflating out of debt that’s the answer. Maybe both! But it’s going to get fugly eventually.
  10. Faherty is good shit and they make clothes for big guys too. Edit: Bonobos is good quality but mostly sized for manlets. Nothing long enough for me.
  11. It’s not if you throw the cat in with the testicles.
  12. Boy the past two weeks have put the hurt on my portfolio. I thought I was positioned safely but there is nowhere to hide right now except maybe in money market or CDs. Lots of fun to watch the market realize the Fed is not going to stop the beatings until morale improves.
  13. Won’t go into the China debate here at all, but a huge part of this whole process is that the world has woken up to how bad a rogue actor can get over his skis if no one shows resistance. Putin was encouraged by the lack of response all the way through the invasion last year, and had to have been taken aback that all of a sudden, what hasn’t been an issue in taking Crimea, or downing the airliner, or poisoning people overseas, became a red line. Now there is a consensus, NATO looks like a real alliance again, and authoritarian regimes that think military might will allow them to bypass international norms are on the back foot. The world has changed a lot, and the consequences will resonate for a while. The visit to Ukraine on the eve of Putin’s speech just underlined it.
  14. I think it is all down to location, but in my hood prices have continued to climb from when I bought. That was about 7 months ago. Meanwhile the house I sold in Austin is worth about 400k less than what I sold it for. Ouch…
  15. USA letting its nuts hang will never get old. And this is definitely putting poutine in a tough spot for his state of the gulag archipelago speech.
  16. Been reading the Slow Horses, really quality writing and the show nailed the feel of the books. Really increased my volume of reading by decreasing time spent on line to about zero outside of wordle and surly. It is amazing how freeing putting away the phone is. And I got rid of my personal computer so I use my company laptop only anymore. This could have gone in the whiny old person thread I see, but one more recommendation which I may or may not have previously made : Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahnemann, great book about the tricks our brains play on us.
  17. This would have gone to classics in the old days but like everything else new, it sucks.
  18. How did we get on Hunter’s cannon? The fucking UK took care of this shit after Dunblane. We’ve had a hundred of them and haven’t done shit. End of story.
  19. If your argument is that a few dead kids and college students are the price to pay for gun freedoms you’ve already lost the argument. I mean, pointing to low percentages of catastrophic failure is not going to persuade anyone. In an interesting twist, all public meetings in Texas for an unnamed state agency now require the applicant to provide private security so that staff is safe. That’s reassuring.
  20. Coming to Arby’s, We have the crickets!
  21. Personally I’m a fan of his brother, Seymour Butts. Good post on Kasparov who has always been an interesting read, and particularly prescient on Russia politics.
  22. Building structures that don’t collapse during earthquakes is really expensive, especially if you get some height on them. I don’t know what the underlying soil is but sand will liquefy during shaking and that adds another layer of shit to the sandwich. This is horrible.
  23. Does anyone know where Tony Almeida and Jack Bauer were at the time?
  24. It’s either full of Rona or piss. Or both.
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