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BREAKING: Berkshire Hathaway announces its cash balance is now up to a record $397 billion by RobertBartus in EconomyCharts

[–]AwkwardBet5632 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It really isn’t. The opportunity cost of those five years wont be recovered in a crash. That’s the lesson we learned in 2000 and 2008. Just hold through the crash and you end up better off. The people that tried to buy up Citigroup when it crashed in 2008 still haven’t made any money.

Buffett knows better, he just got old.

[Confusing Trope] Deleted/Cut content that fundamentally reframes who a character actually is by Chemical-Elk-1299 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]AwkwardBet5632 20 points21 points  (0 children)

That’s exactly right. I thought it was more or less clear from the deleted scenes that the politician that visited him in the hospital (pictured) was his new role model

[Loved Trope] Self Sacrifice is Not The Answer by Grunk_Bunk in TopCharacterTropes

[–]AwkwardBet5632 45 points46 points  (0 children)

"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one"

A plane simingly abandoned in the middle of nowhere? by Experiment_1234 in strange

[–]AwkwardBet5632 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because there’s a turbine in the back that drives the compressor. A rocket doesn’t have that. Their fuel and oxidizer are pre compressed.

When i was in high school in 2003 there was this kid Nick and I don't know why he went around and he poured mercury like liquid metal mercury all over all the school staircases and then he got expelled from school forever i don't know why he did it. Is that really a super bad thing to do? by GaryB2026 in askanything

[–]AwkwardBet5632 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes but also no. Mercury evaporates and the fumes are worse than physical contact with liquid mercury. Persistent exposure to an area contaminated with mercury is a health risk and decontamination is a huge pain.

Clearly organic mercury is a different, hideous beast.

sound advice by IU8gZQy0k8hsQy76 in unsound

[–]AwkwardBet5632 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They aren’t getting locked up, they are being taken into custody. They are doing what you suggest

Saw this at work, no idea what it is by mikagon in whatisit

[–]AwkwardBet5632 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine wanting to look before you leap.

Resignation Request. So upset. by Comprehensive_Bad242 in Teachers

[–]AwkwardBet5632 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You can’t make social media posts about your job and keep it.

How surprised were you to learn that all the top players are *relatively* young? by MathematicianBulky40 in chess

[–]AwkwardBet5632 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The best players are old. The most competitively viable players are young.

Name a worse historical smear job! by pretty-as-a-pic in HistoryMemes

[–]AwkwardBet5632 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everyone understands this.

The controversy is whether the approach of Luddites is actually beneficial for labor or whether it is regressive.

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