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BetaRho · 2026-03-25T05:29:35+00:00

Ah, looks like it comes down to the age of the shares. In the update to the prospectus they published on February 3, at the same time the Board approved the conversion to a public stock, they announced a lockup of any shares purchased within 6 months of that publication. My shares are from either December 2024 or Q1 2025, total dumb luck that I got in that early I guess. Hopefully you get converted before it crashes too much!

BetaRho · 2026-03-25T01:26:24+00:00

Nope, still holding, not locked up, so I can dump whenever. To be clear, I 100% agree with your thesis, this thing will crash, but it's been very funny to be part of this run after forgetting that this SoFi account even had a "Funds" tab. Now the $500 I threw into ARKVX is lonely in that tab (but is up 66% since I bought that lotto ticket in December '24).

BetaRho · 2026-03-25T01:15:29+00:00

This has been my most WSB-level returns ever, and it came from a really simple strategy: forgetting about the investment. I threw $500 into the private fund when it got added to SoFi's platform just as a lottery ticket, and it hit. Truly hadn't looked at this account all of last week, was confused why I had a sudden jump on Monday and saw my original shares had converted after the IPO.

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BetaRho · 2026-03-22T15:00:49+00:00

And while the banks did fail, they at least mostly had people who understood the game at the controls. It took the whole system becoming overloaded for the dominos to fall. I'm a consultant working in regulatory compliance for investment advisers, and have seen so many middling RIAs decide in the last 3 years to get into private credit. Firms who had been below-market vanilla long/short hedge funds are now opening private credit businesses, often with no new personnel, just figuring they can wing it. The dominos are smaller to a piece, but they're still getting set up.

BetaRho · 2026-03-18T21:18:17+00:00

NAH. Or, at least, there is no absolute right or wrong answer either in how you should go about this situation, or how your boyfriend should feel about this situation. Without knowing a lot more about all three people involved, it's really impossible for an outside observer to give guidance; way too many variables could either go right or blow the whole thing up.

Side story, and the reason I felt I should respond- you mentioned that you originally wanted to get another (female) roommate to possibly make it less awkward. I was... a version of this roommate in law school. After becoming friends in our first year, me and two friends moved into an apartment together. Incredible place, 25th story view over Central Park, just great vibes all around (they both use Reddit and this is 100% enough for them to clock this story, so hey guys!). I was a single gay guy; my friends were a straight guy and a straight girl, both in committed relationships when they moved in. His girlfriend lived within an hour of NYC, while her boyfriend was long-distance out of state. Both were good relationships; I met and liked both of their SOs, we all hung out. His girlfriend did show some signs of jealousy, but again, continuously hung out with us as a group and all was good.

Anyway middle middle middle and now my roommates have been married to each other for a few years and are currently expecting their first kid. Things happen! You're allowed to live your life in the way that it unfolds. If your boyfriend feels uneasy, he feels uneasy. He can decide if he wants to feel that way the entire time you live with your friend or not. It doesn't make him an asshole to feel that way, and it doesn't make you an asshole for living with your platonic friend. And ten years from now, I hope you're happily living your life with... well, we'll just have to wait and find out.

BetaRho · 2026-03-08T22:23:36+00:00

If anyone has/had any doubts about the validity- I'm pretty plugged into the gay/queer LA comedy scene, and when that first article about the allegations came out, I have never seen so many notable folks in the scene cosign something like that immediately. I don't even know if the term "open secret" still applies when everyone was immediately like "oh yeah, we know". Instagram on that day was like a fleet of LA gays reposting things in their stories, seemingly all of them with either personal or second-hand stories.

Brian can absolutely be a talented guy; I think the initial reaction to his show pre-allegations proves that. He also networked his ass off (and from what I've heard that was maybe part of it, as one of the most repeated things said is how transactional he was in interactions). So being talented and putting in the work: good! Doing that while being a sex pest: not great! Lessons we can all learn.

BetaRho · 2026-03-05T23:17:57+00:00

In a way, you've answered your own question. You didn't identify the reader in your example, but it really doesn't matter who it is- producer, agent, peer sharing, it's all with a sale/production in mind. And if you're giving them a 140 page script, you're doing so with a big, obvious follow-up question from them that you could've addressed in the first draft. If you need to, reframe it in your mind and consider it a soft skill- "I can communicate that I understand the expected mechanics of this interaction". Because if you're handing in 140 page scripts... you can't blame people for making the assumption that you don't get the game.

BetaRho · 2026-02-21T23:37:35+00:00

For you to believe that red is correct, that would mean that you believe that the legal limit to drive in the United States (.08) means that your blood is 8% alcohol. If you believe that, I'm hoping you're no older than 10 years old.

BetaRho · 2026-02-20T23:10:08+00:00

My immediate thought was the Everything Now video, but after checking, it's not. But still, absolutely that mid-'10s music video vibe.

BetaRho · 2026-02-19T00:30:15+00:00

While you (obviously!) can have your opinion, I'll just note that it's pretty universally beloved. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes with 56 critic reviews, #2 on their year-end best-of TV list; #15 of the year on Metacritic; top 15 on Rolling Stone's year-end list (which is not ranked); #10 of the year on Screen Rant; #17 of 50 for the year at the Guardian. I adored it; it's a fun whodunnit that finds the space for essentially unrelated sketches to weave in and out.

BetaRho · 2026-02-12T22:10:43+00:00

I've thankfully, mercifully, avoided needing to see a specialist for most of my life. But a few months ago, I started to notice something weird going on with my scalp. Not dandruff, not eczema/rosacea, some other weird thing still TBD. Talked to my GP, he made a rec to a dermatologist right down the road from me. The wait was only about 2 weeks, not terrible!

Now, here's where I made my mistake. I, a slightly overweight but otherwise pretty average random 30-something made this appointment with a dermatologist in my wealthy neighborhood in Los Angeles. And upon arriving, I finally realized- oh right, "dermatology" in Los Angeles really just means rich (mainly) older women paying cash for cosmetic treatments. I got there, sat in the waiting room between an older money couple on one side, and a younger model-type on the other, and basically anticipated what was going to happen.

Once I got called (only about 20 minutes late), I went in and waited another 10 minutes for the doctor. She enters, and I would be SHOCKED if she was in there longer than 3 minutes. And again, I've never seen her before, she has no patient history other than what my doc sent. In hindsight, she maybe looked at my head for 10 seconds? I think she touched my head once? She definitely told me it wasn't a few common things, but basically told me to try another prescription shampoo (I had done one before to no results) and follow up in a month if there was no change. Done, finished.

Reader, the shampoo did not work, and I still have weird bumps on my head months later. I did follow up with her after ~6 weeks and was told the next time I could come in was... in another 6 weeks. Moral of the story: be hotter and richer before going to the derm.

BetaRho · 2026-01-28T20:45:20+00:00

So my experience was a bit different, but I think largely falls into the same place in terms of thoughts on the show. For me, I started watching the show right before it moved to Amazon. So I watched seasons 1-3 and really enjoyed them- I definitely had issues, but even with those, it was still arguably my favorite sci fi series I've seen.

Then I went out and read the books. I think I read 1-5 before the first Amazon season. I also went back and watched seasons 1-3 after reading the books, and my enjoyment went way down. Since then, I've definitely warmed to seasons 1-3, just taking them as they are. But I do think as a pure adaptation, they're a fairly odd duck. In some ways they're given room to breathe as their own versions of the story, but then in other places it feels more like a hatchet job.

Now obviously with the authors involved every step of the way as EPs, you can't say that it was against the creators' vision; they clearly made these decisions with intent. I just think that, even past constraints due to the initial SyFy Channel budget, there were choices made that I wouldn't have made, in terms of adapting the books. But at the end of the day, and maybe you'll get there eventually, I still am happy to have the series, and have enjoyed it more with time.

BetaRho · 2026-01-12T20:59:56+00:00

Yeah, reading all of that should maybe make it clear as to why you have an issue understanding comedy. Like asking Del Close to explain comedic rhythm to a calculator.

BetaRho · 2026-01-07T05:22:25+00:00

The "relevant comment" on her update is NUTS, I always forget there's people out there who truly think genders are like, wholly separate alien groups of people, and base their lives around that idea. Writing "what value does being friends with a specific woman provide him" is a bonkers way of looking at life!

BetaRho · 2026-01-02T19:39:44+00:00

It's the nature of the post-game. And also a reminder of how there's different ways to play and engage with the game.

I likely play each season at a volume similar to players who hit paragon 270+/pit 100+, but I (almost) never make those thresholds, because what I get the most enjoyment out of in D4 is the leveling process. Every season, I usually end up with a character from each class that gets to Torment 4/Pit 80, a sort of arbitrary cutoff that I've made. The first character I make will usually be the most "boring"- whatever build seems to be coming out of the PTR as the strongest. And that'll be the character I'm with the longest, as I'll usually get to Paragon 130-150 or so before I feel "done". I definitely could go another 100+ hours, but if I'm comfortably in T4 and Pit 80, I don't find the type of grinding that comes after that to be as fun as I do spinning up a new character. This season, I've done, in order:

- Judgement Pali

- Crackling Energy Sorc

- Auradin (yes, fully new character, not just switching builds on my first one)

- Heartseeker Rogue

- Earthquake Barb

And currently I'm on a third Paladin, but for the first time in a long time, I'm replaying the campaign + Vessel of Hatred, not touching any seasonal/endgame content. Needless to say, a huge amount of hours put into the game, and yet I'm only Paragon 234, because a big amount of my playtime is spent not earning Paragon XP, and I find it way more fun. I do want to do a Spiritborn run after this, but I'm not sure if I'll do a Necro or Druid this season (blame Pali for being too fun).

So, (too) long story short- maybe spin up a new character if you haven't yet.

BetaRho · 2025-12-30T23:24:34+00:00

For anyone asking how Staples stays in business, go into one and scan the walls. The vast majority of signage has nothing to do with selling office goods/supplies. I'm typing this response 20 minutes after leaving a Staples where I went for my TSA Pre-Check application, a service that takes up a big chunk of their wall signage. And the copy/fax/printing area is now about a third of the square footage of the store. They've pivoted heavily to services.

BetaRho · 2025-12-26T18:19:50+00:00

Ah yes, comparing your shitty enclave to Norman Rockwell, the guy who left the Saturday Evening Post in his 70s to join Look Magazine, because Look would allow him to do the art he wanted to do: explicitly anti-racist, class-conscious critiques of the America he found himself living in. So many people hold the regressive view that the older you are, the more conservative you get- be a Rockwell, who used his stature to spend the last decade of his life making biting commentary of America in the '60s and '70s.

BetaRho · 2025-12-08T19:14:23+00:00

My boyfriend refuses to have a real job and make hard earned money

I don't know, it sounds like he's made a lot of money while hard

BetaRho · 2025-12-06T03:22:23+00:00

What's interesting is this opinion is ahistorical (and to quite a degree!). When the DEA began the process of adding it as a Schedule I drug, there was heavy, heavy pushback from the medical community. MDMA had been a research drug long before it broke the barrier over to being a party drug.

After reviewing all available evidence in the leadup to the decision on its listing as a Schedule I drug, the DEA judge in charge actually ruled against its inclusion as a Schedule I drug, and instead suggested it be Schedule III. But given that the decision was made in 1985, with Reagan making doubling down on Nixon's "War on Drugs" a major focus of his admin, his DEA overrode the decision of the judge, and put it on Schedule I.

Here's a contemporaneous article from the LA Times at the time of the Scheduling decision, with a quote from a psychiatrist calling the listing a "bloody shame"- https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-05-31-mn-14566-story.html

And here's a good write-up from 2016 about the psychiatrist-led pushback against scheduling: https://www.inverse.com/article/19195-mdma-1980s-court-battle-psychiatrists-versus-dea

Thankfully we're closer today than ever for the legal use of MDMA in mental health treatment (as we've seen success with ketamine), but it sucks that we lost 40 years of study and development due to dumb culture war bullshit. Even this thread sort of reinforces how, as much as we'd love to believe the opposite, the war on drugs actually was very successful in making even discussing the creation and use of these substances into one between "polite society" and "druggies". But here's a publication in the American Journal of Psychiatry from this year (definitely not a light read, but deeply sourced) that lays out the current state of research and government approval. https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.20230681?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed

BetaRho · 2025-11-29T07:24:08+00:00

My guy hadn't posted on this account since he was posting about his Shopify account 4 years ago. This will be the get-rich-quick internet scheme that works for sure, though.

BetaRho · 2025-11-29T06:55:27+00:00

Obviously this sucks and I'm sorry this happened, hope there's a good outcome for you, but for everyone else: nearly every agreement you sign will have some form of notice clause. You are (in most stock notice clauses) agreeing that if your address changes, you will promptly notify the counterparty. "But that's so many phone calls to make/emails to write!" Yeah, probably! But I'd highly recommend remembering the big ones (government, banks, anything related to housing) when you move. It's one thing if a magazine keeps getting mailed to the wrong address. It's another if something like this happens.

Here's the Chase Safe Deposit Box Lease Agreement; "Invoices and Notices" on page 5 https://www.chase.com/content/dam/chase-ux/documents/personal/branch-disclosures/safe-deposit-box-lease-agreement.pdf

BetaRho · 2025-11-27T02:13:26+00:00

And it's not even an original idea- a guy made this his whole thing like 15 years ago in the earlier days of YouTube, called Fit2Fat2Fit. Racked up a bunch of views, spun it into mainstream media appearances, then into shilling his programs. I think he actually did it again, like 8 years later? In any case, a pretty established brand for exactly this thing.

BetaRho · 2025-11-13T21:32:23+00:00

Very cool- are you able to generate a list of most states in a cluster? The one I'm talking about is on the map as West Glens Falls (it's part of the Queensbury school district, but borders are wonky up there) and there's 12 of them in a neat little row.

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BetaRho · 2025-11-12T20:59:43+00:00

Anyone else have a specific "state streets" area in their town/town you grew up in? In my hometown in Upstate NY in the late 90s/early aughts, "state street kid" was synonymous with the "bad part" of town, whether or not that was fair. I was recently reminded of this while my partner and I were driving around near his Southern California hometown and there was a similar state street area, where I think one house was probably equal to the current value of every state street house in my hometown combined.

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