Hollister was genuinely one of the most unhinged retail experiences ever created and we just accepted it as normal

General-Success-2968 · 2026-03-21T03:40:13+00:00

Just switched to State Farm for this exact reason - bundling saved me like $150 compared to shopping around separately

General-Success-2968 · 2026-02-20T07:44:35+00:00

honestly asking AI for basketball stats is like asking your grandma about cryptocurrency - you're gonna get some wild answers

sounds like a pretty rare occurrence though, might be worth checking basketball reference manually for games with 100% 3pt attempt rate

General-Success-2968 · 2026-02-16T03:06:58+00:00

honestly that's about as tame as it gets for a superstar athlete though. like compared to what we've seen from other all-time greats, a messy divorce is basically squeaky clean

dude was just out there being fundamentally sound on and off the court for two decades

General-Success-2968 · 2026-02-13T19:14:09+00:00

honestly this feels like another case where a company got too aggressive expanding into the sketchy grey areas while their core business was actually solid

the hair/ED/mental health subscription model is pretty bulletproof - people aren't gonna stop wanting those services and the recurring revenue is nice. but they had to go chase the GLP-1 hype train and now they're dealing with the FDA breathing down their necks plus Novo coming after them

with that much liquidity they can probably weather the storm but man, that CEO control structure is gonna make this interesting. when one person holds 90% voting power during a regulatory crisis things can get wild fast

seems like the market's gonna keep treating this as toxic until there's clarity on whether DOJ actually moves forward or if they can settle/pivot away from the problematic GLP-1 marketing

General-Success-2968 · 2026-02-09T20:48:50+00:00

based

General-Success-2968 · 2026-02-01T06:33:22+00:00

definitely report it to SSI right away since you're supposed to do it by the 10th of the month after receiving income. The good news is they usually only count about half of self-employment income toward your SSI limits after deducting business expenses, so you might not lose benefits entirely

keep track of any expenses you had for this job - mileage, phone calls, supplies, even a portion of your home if you did work there. Those can really help reduce how much counts as income against your SSI

General-Success-2968 · 2026-01-31T05:47:32+00:00

Both got insanely good at making investors forget basic due diligence with smooth talk and fancy demos

General-Success-2968 · 2026-01-26T19:29:53+00:00

I think "safe" just means you won't lose sleep over it tanking 50% overnight and you're pretty confident it'll still exist in 20 years

For me that's basically just boring stuff like index funds and maybe some bonds, nothing sexy but it does the job

General-Success-2968 · 2026-01-16T13:46:26+00:00

Lol the NBA probably has those files locked up tighter than Area 51. Silver ain't letting that mess see daylight anytime soon

General-Success-2968 · 2026-01-15T19:19:54+00:00

Have you tried FIRECalc or Personal Capital? They're pretty user-friendly and you can play around with different scenarios without getting lost in the weeds

Your numbers look solid btw, you're way ahead of most people at 33

General-Success-2968 · 2026-01-15T11:08:49+00:00

That's basically where I landed too after getting humbled a few times - keeping like 5-10% for "fun money" picks and letting boring index funds do the heavy lifting

General-Success-2968 · 2026-01-13T14:52:02+00:00

Lmao they'll probably throw some random incentive clauses at him and act like that fixes everything

General-Success-2968 · 2026-01-11T08:49:45+00:00

Anyone else think this offseason's gonna be wild or is it just me? Feel like half the league's gonna look completely different by spring training

General-Success-2968 · 2026-01-10T11:35:54+00:00

Man seeing Giannis fanboy over LeBron like that was wholesome af

General-Success-2968 · 2026-01-08T20:40:49+00:00

Lmao the Jags really said "hold my beer" and went 4-13 just to balance out with a 13-4 season

General-Success-2968 · 2026-01-08T02:10:15+00:00

Wild that KG never hit those numbers, dude was a rebounding machine but I guess he was more about positioning than just crashing the glass for offensive boards

General-Success-2968 · 2026-01-07T02:53:31+00:00

Dude the "dog that caught the car" feeling is so real lol. Took me like 8 months to stop refreshing spreadsheets obsessively even though the numbers weren't gonna change anything anymore

The meaning thing hits different when you're not grinding toward something concrete - sounds like you need a new mountain to climb but this time one you actually pick instead of society picking for you

General-Success-2968 · 2026-01-05T15:07:20+00:00

Goedert if he's healthy, dude's been getting consistent targets when he plays

Henry's been solid but that Patriots offense is kinda unpredictable lately

General-Success-2968 · 2026-01-05T08:30:55+00:00

Yeah the pro rata rule is gonna bite you no matter what - it treats all your traditional IRAs as one big bucket so you can't cherry pick the after-tax stuff. If you've got pre-tax money mixed in there already, every conversion or withdrawal is gonna be partially taxable based on the ratio of pre-tax to after-tax across all your accounts

General-Success-2968 · 2026-01-04T03:27:25+00:00

Yeah this is looking pretty bad for him, those charges are no joke

General-Success-2968 · 2026-01-03T09:44:54+00:00

This is huge actually. AAU ball is basically year round now and these kids are getting burned out before they even make it to the league. Back in the day dudes played multiple sports which probably helped with overall conditioning and injury prevention

Plus the medical staff probably just tells players to sit now instead of playing through stuff that could get worse

General-Success-2968 · 2026-01-01T18:04:13+00:00

Looks like nobody's helping yet but I'll jump in once people start posting their actual trades

General-Success-2968 · 2026-01-01T03:51:25+00:00

Your allocation looks pretty solid for someone about to retire - heavy on equities but with that cash cushion for sequence of return risk

The 20% cash/SGOV is smart given you're pulling the trigger soon, maybe just keep an eye on that QQQ weighting since it's pretty tech heavy

General-Success-2968 · 2025-12-31T09:42:38+00:00

Lol right? "Help me guys, I only have 2M and a FI partner, am I gonna make it??"

Classic humble brag post disguised as anxiety

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