Hear ye, hear ye! I hereby dub this week "the week that terrible support shall try thy patience to yonder breaking point". That is all.

@valentina said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch Would you recommend any other brand or model?

I have some over the ear Sony BT headphones that I like a lot, but like @JaredBusch said, they're a bit toasty in the summer. I mainly use them for travel, battery life is great, and they're around $150.

@valentina I guess I dig the "audio engineer chic" of big-ass headphones...

@JaredBusch double yuck. That should be a deterrent to buying an iphone.

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@Dashrender said in Fitness and Weightloss:

@Obsolesce said in Fitness and Weightloss:

@Dashrender said in Fitness and Weightloss:

So combine bad for us food with simply eating to much food (way more than our bodies need) definitely lead us to bad health.

Exercise and sleep is also a big factor.

I'm failing on the sleep part currently.

Me too. My body wants to be asleep 9-5 and awake all night. It's been tough to reverse that.

https://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/braised-lamb-shoulder-chops-64776

Will be cooking some lamb shoulder chops Saturday (unless we catch fish, then it will be smoked fish and grits).

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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Measles-stricken cruise ship quarantined, reportedly owned by Scientologists

Passengers are not allowed to disembark in St. Lucia, which eliminated measles in 2016.
Officials of the Caribbean nation St. Lucia have quarantined a cruise ship reportedly owned by the Church of Scientology after doctors confirmed a case of measles onboard.

Burn that ship down!!!! Deploy snipers to finish off any swimmers!!!!

Because of the measles cases or because of the religious owner? I mean you can make a case for both, I just want to see which side you fall on.

Don't make me choose... we can take down a chunk of anti-vaxxers (maybe just disease carriers) and scientologists in one fell swoop!

(Cruise ship owners pictured below)

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Watching some classic Tom and Jerry with the kids.

I credit Tom and Jerry for exposing me to opera at an early age. I quickly became obsessed with the music from Carmen (and Latin music in general).

@WrCombs said in What Are You Watching Now:

I have started watching Californication on netflix

Awesome show.

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@mlnews In other news, hundreds are dead after a Japanese bullet train derailed and collided with a mountain at 248mph.

Damn! That took a dark turn rather quickly

I would probably trust a Japanese bullet train over an American one, but that's really fast for traveling on a couple of iron rails.

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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just saw the 3mth and 10yr bond prices inverted in the USA

You dabble in the stock market?

That would be the bond market

Yeah, that too.

I've always associated the two as being similar.

Insofar as they are both investing. But beyond that, they are unrelated investment vehicles.

but a good portfolio has both vehicles

Absolutely not. That's the kind of stuff they tell the poor to keep them poor.

OK

Bonds are the riskiest thing you can do. You don't get a safer portfolio by throwing money away. That's on par with saying that a good portfolio includes stuffing cash in a mattress. "Diversification" is one of those blind kinds of hype that they use to justify things that logically make no sense.

It's like saying "Don't keep all of your eggs in one basket." It is the kind of thing that people repeat so much that they have no idea what it means, so you can say it about anything and people just assume that what you are saying makes sense.

When in reality, bonds are a super risky investment meant only for the ultra-rich to do specific "against the market" bets. Normal investors have no reason to add so much risk.

I had a WF advisor for 5 years every time say to avoid the bonds. Turns out he was always right.

It's one of the first things that they teach when you study investing. Sure, there are super specific times that a really progressive investor can use them wisely, everything has its place (including stuffing cash in a mattress), but you can't do it casually or for "diversification". it's always "insider market knowledge with a tremendous amount of savvy" needed to make it pay off.

Even investors knowing only generally about the 1929 crash would have lost had they used bonds instead of stocks.

Stuffing cash in a mattress always has its place. It's the ultimate tax shelter.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

If you really want a tax shelter, move to a "Territorial Tax regime" country like Nicaragua or Uruguay with zero taxes on foreign earned income!

so you're saying get an offshore bank account and stash cash ?

Or launder it through Deutsch Bank like the president.

@WrCombs hell yeah, we're having an actual seasonal day today... 71 'merica degrees.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Took the day off to take the car in to the shop. Not looking forward to the estimate.

best way to forget about that is a lawn chair, fishing pole and 6 pack.
sorry 12 pack.

Truth. We just stopped off for a sandwich and a beer, hoping to find some lovely fish at the fancy grocery store for smoked fish n grits.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I definitely prefer the Puff brand over the Kleenex brand for tissues for my runny nose.

I use paper towels.

And sand paper to wipe your ass? What kind of animal are you!?

Hey, some of require the extra strength provided by a paper towel to contain the power of our nasal expulsions.

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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

McDonald's in Austria offers hotline to embassy

US citizens who need help in Austria can now head to their nearest branch of McDonald's, because of an agreement signed by the fast-food giant.

The embassy says any American "in distress" or whose passport has been lost or stolen can get assistance from one Austria's 194 McDonald's joints.

really - joints? lol

I still here the term used that way around St Louis
Also BBC article. No idea their usage of it.

I use the term joint all the time. I just wouldn't ever use it to describe McD's... that just seemed odd to me.

joints are (to me at least) generally more of a divy like place, think low rent.

Joints can be reefer cigarettes, hip hop songs, or restaurants. Or those bendy bits on people.

@bnrstnr I'm far too familiar with those feels. Hope it shows up eventually and in one piece.

@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Anybody heard of such a thing?

Have I ever heard of someone with a BS title like "solutions consultant" trying to sell you something unnecessary, pricey, and useless? Absolutely. But I'd buy a beach front condo in Nebraska before I'd listen to anything that sales dick has to say.

New Mike Patton / Jean-Claude Vannier song, "On Top Of The World". Ready to hear the rest of the new album.

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