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  1. i guess its more accurate to say i hate this bug-eyed looking motherfucker, in every role he plays in every tv show or movie ever. just complete creeper energy.
  2. this pre-flight entertainment is superior to the in-flight entertainment.
  3. I had never watched Stargate. Ancient Egyptian Scifi stuff is always a bit of brainless fun. Frame by frame it was everything a 90s blockbuster scifi should be. Very curious what a "serious" director like Villeneuve or Nolan or Cameron can do to a franchise like this instead of Roland Emmerich.
  4. Thats what i ballpark the watch is for. income taxes are really high in this market, and doing cash is kinda icky for me. I figured a fancy watch is worth the seatdown meeting we had and he can flip it for cash if he wants to.
  5. Hes the boss of his particular branch office and is ‘junior partner’ in the franchise, so i assume he nets a sizable chunk of the commission.
  6. Wondering what you guys would do in this situation: A few years ago I enlisted an agent to rent out my house. He found my current tenant. The first time I raised the rent, the tenant proactively offered to buy my house (at a low-ball price). We declined and just extended the lease. Last year, I told him I am extending lease for the final time and would sell the house afterwards; he made no indication of interest to buy. Recently I talked to the agent to ask about selling the house. We shook hands on him putting it on the market this summer when the lease ends. He said he would also ask the tenant if hes interested (or if he needs help looking for a property). ….well now the tenant just got back to me directly, saying he wants to buy the house directly (at a very fair price). and suggested the agent doesnt need to be involved to save cost. The standard procedure in this market is 3.6% agents fee payable by the buyer. Its completely true that agent is not doing anything here - no listing, hosting, etc. But I feel obligated to him out of a sense of ethics. I’m thinking if we skip him out of the process, I buy the guy an Omega watch or something as a ‘serious’ business gift? Is that fair?
  7. cool moving goalpost bro. argue with someone else about the wheres and whys of military service. surely of the hundreds or thousands of deportees, you couldnt link to a story to one who *didnt* shoot a gun randomly into a crowd of people. i didnt cherry pick this story — your buddy brought it into the thread. why are you mad at me for pointing out that of all the people to lionize as martyr, you people happen to choose felons, each and every time? the universe has an incredibly sense of humor.
  8. how dare people conflate shooting randomly at a group of kids vs shooting randomly at a group of adults!
  9. other than the part about shooting a gun randomly into a crowd, how was the play missus lincoln? wild how you just brush off gun violence, what would be your #1 pet peeve, and magically somehow rope in "oligarchs" instead, your #2 pet topic.
  10. the stalk is in the new Y, and rumors are will return to the 3 also. some of their decisions they go back on. the model s went to the yoke like steering, then after a while they decided to make the traditional round steering wheel available again.
  11. this storys so old and so much information has percolated to the surface i dont know why its not obvious that the truth is nuanced and messy (as it always is) and that all elements are legitimate, including martin being an extraordinary victim, and incognito being an extraordinary turd. frenemy is a real thing in any forced proximity scenarios. i had a dorm neighbor who, by that fact, had lots of social overlap with, we were cordial, hung out, but at times he was a complete piece of shit. once he bought a new wrangler and invited like 6 of us for a ride -- just spilling out the back. he drove towards pease park, bouncing it on and off the curb for fun, and once there decided to do donuts and just absolutely tear up the grass field of the park. an outside observer would call label us "friends" but if i lived in a diff dorm and knew him by reputation i'd consider him the worst person in austin. its a high-testosterone environment with men who run through walls for a living. theres going to be ribbing and clowning and if theres a hint of weakness theyre going to exploit it. if the dolphins lockerroom were the 4th reich martin wouldnt be the only person out of 52 to have spoken out. but also, i joke plenty with my friends but stop short at talking about slapping their mothers. its just a case of a softer than normal athlete running into a meaner than normal squad, and an exceptionally juicy drama for sports media.
  12. ^^convicted of a felony for shooting a pregnant woman in the leg, but nevermind those details.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. im not meaningfully invested until after tax season. just swing trading commodities and other futures
  16. me selling baba at 115 (almost 130 now) from 80, is going to haunt me like what i did with facebook
  17. you know what crime is worse than serial homicide? misgendering.
  18. If it had killed you, the gravestone would read "here lies [xxx]. he died of embarassment"
  19. this one must be kyler murrays house
  20. great movie at first but it got a bit laborious when the Predator got killed by being nagged to death.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. https://x.com/sstrange_world/status/1889301100005605791
  24. 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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