CooterBrown

"Voluntary" meaning that there is a financial incentive to use the Bible curriculum. That financial incentive is $0 state funding if you don't implement it.

I was an air fryer skeptic until last year. I bought the Ninja and probably use it 3 times a week. My favorite it to cook boneless chicken thighs in it for gyros. If you haven't tried the frozen Ore-Ida Fast Food Fries in an air fryer yet, you're missing out. I don't know how they actually taste like they're deep fried but just a tiny spray of duck fat spray and 10 minutes later they're the best fries you can make at home without actually frying. Roasted potatoes and Brussel sprouts also turn out great in the air fryer.

I say no because it's a slippery slope. It's meant to be a retirement safety net and nothing more. Once you let someone access the money for any reason, the end recipients of that money (colleges and home sellers) will do everything they can to take advantage of it. Colleges can then justify increased tuition because everyone would have access to the fund. Housing prices would increase because anyone could afford a down payment. The public would complain they don't have enough access to the money, Congress will give them more access and pretty soon, so much of the money is drained prior to retirement that it fails at its intended purpose. As it is, it is highly beneficial and close to cost neutral.

It’s crazy how little he looks but he said he’s still 6’4” 245 and he was 310 when filming Guardians.

A deep ball for Ewers is 10 yards. Even Squints could hit that 20% of the time.

The only thing worse than relying on Ewers is relying on Burt.

Happy to eat crow on this performance. Can Nwaneri play left wing? I’d love to see him on front of Martinelli if he can still produce at the same rate up there.

I hate these games. Completely dominate but only up 1 at the half. Our MO is to now come out flat and end in a draw.

A friend is a radiologist at Cleveland Clinic and they’ve been using AI to read scans for several years. There are a dozen companies that provide the AI for radiology already. Musk isn’t just late to the game but completely terrible at it.

If they can’t grift enough money from the religious education materials, they’ll tie receiving any state funding to it.

Grand California has a private entrance right into California Adventure right by the pool. I've never stayed onsite but if I did, I would stay there.

Tried to grab Jack White tickets for ACL Live. For both nights, I never saw the GA floor tickets become available. They were not available in the presale either. Any idea what's going on with those tickets?

We all know what he was doing…

I don't know shit about fuck in other neighborhoods but our kids and hundreds of other kids bike around Allandale without supervision every day. Pretty everyone I know keeps track of their location by Apple Watch but they still have freedom to bike around.

The aggy vet school… https://www.texasobserver.org/watts-horse-veterinarian-cruelty-training/

No. Just run on the economy. That’s the only thing that wins elections. After you win, you can literally implement any policy you want and history has shown Americans will shrug their shoulders and live with it. You just can’t run on any of that shit.

They say they have $35M/year to pay for it. At $15,000 a year that's just 2,300 students. Are they just going to stop admitting poor people to make the numbers work?

For those few anti-Trump GOPers, it's a passive way to undermine Trump without having to publicly do it and get primaried.

Yep. I definitely grew up working poor. Neither of my parents ever broke $10/hour. We had breakfast every day at my grandma's house because otherwise we wouldn't eat. We weren't homeless because we rented from my other grandparents and rent was like $150/month. I mainly went to college because I had a burning hatred for my childhood and poverty.

I’ve seriously never seen a white guy lay concrete. Is that even a skill Americans have?

That is a legitimate sticking point. I want to make sure my exit point isn't too easily hit on normal market swings but I don't want to to lose 20+%. As a result, it's hard to pull the trigger. A quick look at VOO from 2010 to today, there are only a few sustained runs where the closing price is lower than 10% off of the all-time high closing price. For all of them, if you re-entered the ETF after 3 days of the closing price being within 10% of the all-time high, the price set a new record within a few weeks. I don't know if that's an actual indicator of when to get back in or if it's just a coincidence since there's so few extended downturns. Most of the downturns are less than a week except for MAR2020-JUN2020 and APR2022-JUN2023. Since I do have enough to retire in that account already, I think erring on the side of wealth protection is probably an okay decision. There are worse things in the world than sitting in a Fidelity cash account earning a bit of interest.

I'm 7 years from retirement. My IRA portfolio is aggressive...70% VOO 30% VGT. Returns have been phenomenal. However, I don't exactly trust the Trump brain trust to not drive everything into the ditch and set it on fire but I also don't want to miss out on market hubris. I'm considering setting a trailing stop limit at either -5% or -10% for both ETFs. Even though I may be briefly out of the market for a few days if there's a short market downturn, at least I am protecting wealth and, since it's an IRA, there are no tax consequences for being overly risk adverse...while also being greedy...right now.