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  1. 49 minutes ago, boilerhorn said:

    Is the revised Model 2 from 2024+?  

    A friend owns both a Tesla and Polestar.  He says the Polestar is the worst car he has ever owned.  Breakdowns, etc.  The Hyundais are interesting and I like the styling (had one as an Uber), but I fear the Hyundai "quality"

    New one is 2024+ you can recognize outside by new tail lamps and front end. Meaningfully the suspension is more compliant, seats are better. 

    Friend bought the Hyundai Ioniq 5 because he couldnt wait for a Model Y. Roomy car, AWD drivetrain great like the Y.

    Theres stupid maintenance requirements and bugs in the in-car software and phone app and other limitation in tech that reminds you its kinda stuck in the old car world rather than built from a clean architecture. 

    Tesla gets regular and legitimate functionality and *safety* updates through software. Previously, they added signals from the vehicle exterior cameras to pretension seatbelts in case of imminent crash (rather than wait for airbag triggers). Recently, they use in-cabin visual sensor (in addition to existing seat weight sensor) to adjust airbag response to the estimated weight and height of passengers.

    In theory many of these EVs have software-updates, but they dont have the same level of component integration so they can’t or they don’t update with that level of functionality and frequency. 

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  2. 18 hours ago, boilerhorn said:

    I drove the Chevy Silverado LT EV on Saturday and was extremely impressed.  I worry about it being a new model - and that it is a little more pricey than I would like to spend on an unproven EV.

    I have considered a Tesla Model 3 because of its relatively low entry price point.  However, the depreciation seems to be pretty steep on the Teslas these days.  Thoughts I am having (1) just buy new or (2) buy used.

    #1 - I suffer depreciation, but the good/bad/ugly of the car is all on me.
    #2 - 2 years old and around $20k lower than new

    What do the Tesla owners and Tesla haters have to say?  Ideally, I want a reasonably priced EV with range of 300 miles.

    The revised Model 3 is meaningfully different from the previous one, and if you qualify for EV credit its still an insane value.

    Depreciation probably isnt assessed properly. First they just had the new model. Second, EV credit brought down value across the board. 

    As a new buyer, its unlikely the credits will be perpetual or increased - to your future advantage.

    It's on balance still the best car in the segment. IMO, Hyundai/Kia are credible competitors if you like their styling. They still have more software weaknesses. The VW IDBuzz gets nowhere near 300 miles. I like Polestar 3 but they price it on the high end. Taycan Cross could be a good 2nd hand splurge. 

     

  3. 16 hours ago, Wally Fairway said:

    Good news, for those of you that are fully invested in the market; I decided over the weekend to take about 50%+/- from the market and ride a moey market account. Thinking the feed funding extension that is due in March could be a problem, and the markets will back up firm this rush. 

    But I forgot today was a holiday, so you have time to but calls and profit from my wrongness.

    im not meaningfully invested until after tax season.  just swing trading commodities and other futures

  4. On 2/15/2025 at 8:46 PM, Bama Llama said:

    Do not fuck around with animals. Ever. I’n typing this loaded with psin killers following two hospitalizations and ghree surgeries on my infected right wrist resulting from a bite by a perfectly docile house cat I tried to put flea meds on.  Little fucker went Tasmanian Devil on me.  Docs say the bacteria in his saliva are badass infectors of sofg human tissue. One of the main ligaments to my thumb was ruptured by the infection, I’ll be infused with antibiotics through a picc line in my arm that hors into my fucking heart. Animals can fuck you up and wreck your life plans. 
     

    If it had killed you, the gravestone would read "here lies [xxx].  he died of embarassment"

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  5. On 1/28/2025 at 5:27 PM, kingkoopa6 said:

    Even a predator from another world came in and landed on earth only to pick a fight with the wrong Comanche woman. 

     

    great movie at first but it got a bit laborious when the Predator got killed by being nagged to death.

  6. 10 hours ago, Mother mopar said:

    Stop being poor and hire a CPA. 

    Deloitte does my tax and for the first few years I had to self-fill volumes of information like in the OP, over and over and again. Takes basically just as long to crunch the tax all by hand by myself.

    Their process (and the GlobalAdvantage portal) improved in the last few years.

  7. There's technical issues and and costs to restart production wells after having shut them in. Might need testing, maintenance, etc. But unless there is severe demand impairment, they won't shut down the wells, they'll merely choke its production rate down. 

    The bottleneck now due to damage in refining capacity and sanctioning of some tankers has a small marginal impact. On the upside IEA and Rystad (industry analysts) revised upwards expectation of global demands and OPEC+/Russia supply to meet it, despite what OPEC+ previously stated in December.

    If the Ukraine war gets resolved - and looks like its trending that way - then you'd also expect much of the sanctioning pressures to subside.

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  8. 54 minutes ago, nnm said:

    So not that different than American aging boomer Harley crowd. Not to be confused with the true biker gang crowd, who will rip your head off and crap down your neck. 

    Ive been watching The Pacific and trying to reconcile how the people who did Nanking one generation ago are now the people who apologize to everyone for the train arriving 2 minutes too late. 

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  9. One time I watched this short documentary on the japanese harley/lowrider motorcycle subculture. It was said how they were emulating the american motocycle gang culture, so that it was linked to the yakuza and participated in bullying and violent extortion and racketeering and all that socially stigmatized stuff. 

    One scene had this motorcycle “gang” gather in a parking lot. The bikers were walking around gathering up trash and turns out its just a bunch of 50 year old accountants and such, and theyre all like “oh yes, we rike motos please, sound is very very good thank you, haiii.” 

    vicious thug people, these japs.

  10. On 11/19/2024 at 12:08 PM, Shanee said:

     

    I noticed your post about Paris and I'm actually in the planning stages for my own trip, considering either Paris or Spain (been in touch with a guide for Spain from https://gowithguide.com/spain ). Since you've been to Paris before, I'd love to hear how your recent trip went.
    Which area did you end up staying in?
    Did you do that cooking class you mentioned? If so, which one?
    What were your favorite "finer things" experiences that you'd recommend splurging on? I'm particularly interested in your restaurant recommendations since food is a big priority for my trip planning.

    for my tastes, food in Spain trumps France easily.

    this goes for everyday dining through to haute cuisine where ive tried different michelin starred restaurants in paris and lyon. 

    ive also done a cooking class in spain (with coworkers) and its a lot more social than it is educational. if the cuisine is novel to you, theres learning value in it. if not, i dont think most of them are geared towards being a good cook. its just something to pass the time while sipping on alcohol and pretending to do culinary labor. 

  11. A trader thinks that the prices of eggs are going to increase, and so he contacts his broker and asks him to buy 1,000,000 egg futures at $1.70

    Sure enough, a week later, the price of egg futures is $2.50, and the trader, happy to ride his winners, places an order for 3,000,000 more egg futures

    Next month, at $4.30 a piece, he pats himself on the back and restructures his liquid investments to buy another 10,000,000 egg futures

    At the end of the quarter, egg futures are trading at $7, and the trader finally calls up his broker and tells him to sell them all

    The broker replies: “To who? You’re the egg man!”

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  12. 9 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

    I need midstream was a crappy business and midstream companies were crappy to work with, but this was an interesting view (h/t Visual Capitalist):

    💰 Ranked: U.S. Industries Where Companies Are Most Profitable

    This graphic is really good because (1) tobacco fucking rocks to own (2) you never hear people say shit like “man philip morris is ripping me off on cigarettes and ipads are extortionate”.

    but people do complain about grocery stores and consumer packaged goods and those guys only get single-digit margin. perception vs reality. 

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