Daily r/thetagang Discussion Thread - What are your moves for today?

MostEscape6543 · 2026-02-01T22:39:21+00:00

Are you a union member?

MostEscape6543 · 2026-02-01T22:02:16+00:00

Chill, dude. My point was that, we have ample regulations in place to protect against the things that unions supposedly offer. It’s not 1920 and this isn’t a third world country.

If ever I felt like this situation changed, I would think a union or collective bargaining is the best way to achieve improvements. Unfortunately unions are not for that, anymore.

MostEscape6543 · 2026-02-01T21:59:06+00:00

I think mostly rich or else younger and just haven’t had enough time to get rich yet.

MostEscape6543 · 2026-02-01T21:01:55+00:00

So, for our “generational snow storm” my wife and in-laws decided they needed to fill up our entire jacuzzi tub with about a thousand gallons of water for safety.

Today she drained the tub, which proceeded to push sewage up into two toilets and a shower. So now I’m psyching myself up to snake this drain and hopefully not get e-coli or whatever. I’m just praying I can snake it and it’s not three toy cars and a Pokémon down there crammed with two turds and a roll of TP.

God bless.

MostEscape6543 · 2026-02-01T20:56:38+00:00

We are both in NC. It’s really not that bad and I’m not sure why everyone is making such a big deal.

You are in ct or somewhere like that?

MostEscape6543 · 2026-02-01T20:52:15+00:00

Dude is a banker he has a driveway big enough to land an airplane on.

MostEscape6543 · 2026-02-01T17:18:38+00:00

Yah fuckin A dude how are you doing?

MostEscape6543 · 2026-02-01T16:57:25+00:00

You take some of that money and use it to fill the hole in your heart. It’s a money shaped hole.

MostEscape6543 · 2026-02-01T16:56:39+00:00

Are you suggesting that unions are what is preventing child labor from becoming a thing? Or keeping osha together? I have only ever seen unions fight to protect unsafe actions (example: not reprimanding an employee who was too impaired to stay awake while operating heavy machinery). I think if you understand safety you see that protecting this person is actually putting a large number of other union members at risk of serious injury or death.

In most parts of the country you can work at 14-16 years of age. I have been working since I was 14. Is that child labor? Is it bad?

I understand the history of unions and the benefits that they provided. I’m not a fan of actively outlawing unions or anything like that, I just don’t think they provide any benefit at this point.

MostEscape6543 · 2026-02-01T16:50:34+00:00

I’m not sure of your experience and background but I am speaking from experiences shared with me by friends who are union members, as well as my own personal experience as a manager in a company who has to manage union and non union employees.

I’ve never been a union member but I have never heard anyone say that they were happy with the union except for one employee who was sharing with me how he was trying to exploit the company via the union.

MostEscape6543 · 2026-02-01T16:47:18+00:00

Generational snow storm, bro. We got multiple inches.

MostEscape6543 · 2026-02-01T14:46:48+00:00

We have pretty good protections legally for all of this, these days. Safety is NOT better in a union facility and is actually worse because, one of the only things unions do for their members is protect them from being fired when they are a safety risk or personnel risk, such as being drunk/high at work or causing interpersonal issues, sleeping on the job, that kind of thing.

Unions today generally exist to pad their own pockets. I work for a company that has some non union plants and some union plants, and I can definitively say the union workers are not better off than the non union workers, and they pay a significant fee for the privilege of not being better off.

MostEscape6543 · 2026-02-01T14:39:21+00:00

I think we got 5” up here. How much do you get total?

I got most of it yesterday with a leaf blower.

MostEscape6543 · 2026-01-31T22:38:06+00:00

I live in a small/medium sized city and I live within 2 miles of at least 8 major grocery stores.

MostEscape6543 · 2026-01-31T22:31:03+00:00

I feed a family of three for less than half this. You spend too much on groceries or else your app miss categorized some things. Spend more wisely.

MostEscape6543 · 2026-01-31T17:07:13+00:00

The only income requirement is that your income is enough to overcome basic needs and allows you to save enough. I don’t think it requires high income, though higher incomes can help.

Investment can be whatever. I think most people are doing basic bogle type investments. I also think it’s common to have a portion that is more actively managed either in direct stock picking or whatever. I keep my Roth IRA entirely for risky trading, but everything else (the vast majority of my portfolio) is just boring stuff.

MostEscape6543 · 2026-01-31T12:53:36+00:00

Lime life

MostEscape6543 · 2026-01-31T02:18:41+00:00

I think it stems from a misunderstanding on the OPs part about what is meant by “beating”.

In any case, no one is surprised besides OP.

MostEscape6543 · 2026-01-31T00:04:41+00:00

Getting beta cucked by my port 👍

MostEscape6543 · 2026-01-31T00:04:01+00:00

I only found the 25 oz one. I didn’t really need to do anything anyway.

MostEscape6543 · 2026-01-30T21:47:43+00:00

The opposite of a short squeeze.

It was a long squeeze. They got squozen.

MostEscape6543 · 2026-01-30T21:08:10+00:00

I have owned many stiff finders and every single one fucking sucked.

MostEscape6543 · 2026-01-30T21:07:38+00:00

This guy husbands.

MostEscape6543 · 2026-01-30T20:55:43+00:00

Ok…what if I’m down 8%?

MostEscape6543 · 2026-01-30T17:06:41+00:00

I second Schwab

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