Big Scrub TX

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Bro...what?

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Bro - a kid made a blockbuster on a shoestring, effectively without needing Hollywood.

The new Muse album is great.

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I used to rent a car on most trips - have driven in Spain, Germany, France, England, and The Netherlands.

Now I only use Uber or a car service. The cost is roughly the same, if not cheaper, and it is one less thing I have to worry about.

I go EMEA at least 3-4 times annually. Same holds true for South America and Asia.

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Even for pan country trips? I drove through 5 countries.

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Why do people have an aversion to shorting stocks ?

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Any moral "aversion" to it is stupid. It's perfectly legitimate.

However, it's extremely hard to do successfully. Given the relentless upward bias of markets - as well as the "short carry" one must pay to be short (borrow costs, dividends, etc.) - it almost relies on market timing, which is nearly impossible.

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Comparing the prices of common household goods to what they were back in his younger days, local old man George Swander reportedly remembered Tuesday when things cost roughly the same as now after adjusting for inflation. “Back in my day, you see, you could get a hamburger for just 15 cents, which, when taking into account steady economic growth and the increase in federal monetary creation over time, is about the same as it is now,” said Swander, recalling that he used to be able to get by on just a few bucks a week that, in relative terms, equaled roughly the same amount that his expenses came out to today. “When I see how much even basic stuff like food and household items cost nowadays, I’m always shocked until I factor inflation into it, and then it’s just like I was back in 1954. Your dollar used to go about the same distance once you take overall adjusted economic growth into account, believe me.” The old man added that he even remembered when minimum-wage jobs paid roughly the same amount as they do now after seeing the hourly rate was exactly the same.

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The Onion - Old Man Remembers When Things Cost Roughly The Same As Now After Adjusting For Inflation

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International is part of my contract with T-Mobile. I receive a text with rates and limits when I enter a country and connect to a tower.

I don't ever reach the data limits and have never been charged for service.

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Me too, but the variable is speed. You can do all you want at 256mbps. I wanted 5G.

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I'm in Europe now and have taken several Uber rides through various cities and it is rudder chaos with all the pedestrians, bicycles, scooters and motorcycles all doing whatever the hell they want. I would not want to deal with all that.

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That was a small part of our experience, as we were mostly in much smaller and/or rural places. But I found Paris very easy to deal with also.

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The supposedly actually all get out of the way for emergency vehicles too. We just let the bob and weave around us.

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I saw that in another country on an interstate - both lanes sagged halfway into their shoulder so there was a perfect parting of the Red Sea for the emergency vehicle to go through.

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We have similar laws here in some states

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In my mind, this is the rule of the road on every single mile of 4-lane-or-greater highway in the entire US. It's utterly absurd that the median driver simply refuses to obey it.

Also, they use their turn singles, seemingly every single time they are supposed to.

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so youre intent is to shite talk anyone who buys before you do, making yourself feel better about waiting to purchase the stock?

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I'll talk shite. Unless you were doing a purely speculative attempted flip, it was dumb to buy it any day before today (and today probably still pretty dumb).

I just got back from a 12 day drive across central Europe. Our group was 8 and I was driving a 9-passenger Ford Transit. (although in past trips, I have rented Mercedes Vitos as well as VW Caravelles).

I can't recommend this enough and think it's weird how "scared" some people seem to be of such. You really get to see a lot of things you don't normally see.

Driving was easy and parking was easy. I was given numerous, onerous warnings about the difficulty of parking such a vehicle. The only slightly "non-easy" thing was in Dresden - I was too lazy to move the van off of the street earl in the AM, so I got a ticket. $29!

We hit 5 countries total, including Luxembourg. I wasn't expecting much from Lux, but I actually would like to go back and spend a little time.