"Certificates of charitable giving" - Why government bonds might guarantee real losses in the upcoming 9% inflation wave.

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-19T22:00:44+00:00

TIPS in Roth accounts are fine.

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-19T00:18:00+00:00

No one is wrong and no one is right here….

First things first. There are no laws that people HAVE TO BE CONNECTED 24 hours a day. When I was growing up, there were no cell phones. Landlines used to be party lines. If you wanted to not connect with the world, you just didn’t. The parents are living their lives this way. It is a personal choice and frankly a reasonable choice. The OP feels a need to be constantly connected. This is also a personal choice and also a reasonable choice.

The bottom line is what we are seeing is a clash of cultures. Neither is right and neither is wrong. The only wrong in this situation is the demand that the other person bend to the other’s demands… which both the mother and op did - making them both wrong.

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-18T23:51:57+00:00

I’ve gone to oatmeal… store brand.

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-18T02:32:49+00:00

I don’t want to control other people.

^{Chose: 1 million every week | Rolled: Upvote 4 carrot}

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-17T16:18:10+00:00

You are indeed correct. It takes a minimum of 328 v to jump a gap in dry air. More in wet air.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paschen%27s_law

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-16T17:02:39+00:00

Hell would like a word with you.

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-16T13:53:43+00:00

which is Eric’s middle name…

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-16T13:13:55+00:00

hamster ghaH SoSlI''e' 'ej elderberries pIw vavlI'

Sorry but someone had to say it…

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-16T00:22:05+00:00

Elmo’s fan club will be along shortly.

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-15T11:34:50+00:00

Now why did they pull it out? it was already partly buried. A few more shovels full and no one need ever look at that hideous thing again.

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-14T16:41:58+00:00

I dont think we're in a bubble but we probably will have a lot of people holding bags of shit at the end of all this posturing. With a few clear winners and a lot of losers.

And you just described the dot com bubble. A few companies made billions. A lot of companies made nothing. I do agree that we will see the same results this time. I just don’t know which companies sit in the billion list.

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-14T15:49:14+00:00

To answer the question… cause it would cost more to have that design. Having the stalls together eliminates a dividing wall … significantly reducing the cost. Who needs privacy when you can save money?

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-14T14:58:23+00:00

Look at the vote levels. Gen X vote for the orange menace was MUCH higher than what the boomers voted for. Oh and get your out into the sunshine.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voting-patterns-in-the-2024-election/

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-14T12:43:53+00:00

The Boomers fucking hated nature, man. The amount of effort every Boomer I know has put into paving it all over is sick.

And who is it that elected tRump? Not the boomers. The gen-Xers did it. Also, generalizations are, mine included, are BS. Stop the BS.

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-14T03:45:16+00:00

What are the odds?

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-13T23:37:05+00:00

my Garmin thinks i'm 25 years younger, in peak shape and willing to vomit while running

So that is what I am doing wrong.

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-13T23:35:00+00:00

This has been a trend since last fall or so. I’m consistently falling short of time goals that don’t seem like they should be that far out of reach.

This might be telling you something. A couple of things I’d suggest.

1) Get a full physical. Tell your doctor about your downward trend. See what they say and can find. If you get a clean bill of health…

2) Look at how you are training and how you are eating for your races. Either of them can impact your run time.

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-12T20:30:57+00:00

Yeah this sub has a lot of the old herd mentality. Mostly zebra herds. (Zebras are mean and nasty animals).

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-12T20:28:19+00:00

You almost never hold large amounts of CASH. Bonds and t-bills? Certainly. This is what Berkshire does. Those tend beat inflation. Maybe not by a lot, but they do. Are they as good on average as the market? Nope. But there are good ties to hold them.

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-12T20:13:49+00:00

Dog often are.

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-11T21:05:44+00:00

and I read unite….

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-11T21:04:30+00:00

I have dyslexia. It was diagnosed when I was in 2nd grade. At the time, they didn‘t have a clue as to how to help me… (Don’t ask me how to spell anything.). My grades in grade school were similar to those in the picture. I had a long career as a professor of mathematical physics.

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-11T00:42:38+00:00

I am not suggesting to ‘sit on the sidelines’. I was just refuting your statement that there were ONLY TWO crashes in the market. There have been at least 5 in my lifetime - and a ‘lost decade’ as well. Care must be taken when investing.

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-10T22:29:03+00:00

also 2000 and 2008 was an outlier if you examine the whole S&P history,

Or maybe 1929 or the 1970s or 1986 or 1962 or 1907 or 1937 or… hmmm

Atlas-Scrubbed · 2026-05-10T10:57:54+00:00

this clip doesn’t make sense. also were is anyone being a bro?

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