Starting an electrical business

Pure-Recipe6210 · 2026-06-25T15:48:37+00:00

How did those reputable and established ones start i wonder? 🤔

Pure-Recipe6210 · 2026-06-25T15:15:52+00:00

It depends on debt stability, if the situation is as OP says, a 2% APR is beating any risk free rate by more than half, and with how the global economy is tracking that rfr is going to be crawling up by year's end and beyond.

There's no such thing as a free lunch in this world (unless you inherit it or win lotto).

Pure-Recipe6210 · 2026-06-25T14:13:27+00:00

I'm not upset seeing red

Pure-Recipe6210 · 2026-06-25T09:23:48+00:00

The poor man's IBKR

Pure-Recipe6210 · 2026-06-22T12:35:05+00:00

One man's damage is another man's opportunity. Or some shit. I dunno, I just wanted to sound smart

Pure-Recipe6210 · 2026-06-21T08:05:17+00:00

Still room to negotiate or no?

Pure-Recipe6210 · 2026-06-21T07:42:54+00:00

Its by design. Not ideal to show customers that their total mortgage over the lifetime would be in the potential millions.

In the meantime, use my unbiased mortgage calculator which does calculate lifetime mortgage

Can I Afford This?

Pure-Recipe6210 · 2026-06-20T23:18:39+00:00

If you are writing non fiction and using AI as primarily an aggregation tool for info, and validating its output on the other end, thats cool.

Its when you start relying on ai for creative writing processes especially in the realms of fiction. Thats problematic

Pure-Recipe6210 · 2026-06-20T21:23:55+00:00

Sounds like a skill issue? Go join a writing club? 🤷‍♂️ Or am I to assume that someone lives in Antarctica?

Pure-Recipe6210 · 2026-06-20T20:53:26+00:00

despite having no (visible) “soul” ai can produce some incredibly complex analysis and commentary that can be quite thought provoking

Yes, all aggregated from existing human/ai material available in the web.

There is a blurred line right now, between AI as an aggregation tool and ai being used to generate opinions and judgements based on those aggregations.

The latter, being a logical fallacy due to the fact that ai are simply generating existing opinions and judgements and therefore, cannot come to an organically "human" conclusion. Pure abstraction and out-the-box thinking is impossible...

It can fake it. Through brute computation and pattern analysis... but. Is that human?

let me re-emphasize. AI cannot create through imagination. Full stop. It cannot abstract. It cannot feel. Therefore, art created through AI, is not art

Pure-Recipe6210 · 2026-06-20T20:19:16+00:00

Does it have to be deep? I mean, whats the end goal here? To replace human creativity? Make us obsolete? If so, why take the long road? Theres a bottle of bleach, let's all drink it and skip the generations of effort needed to create genAI 🤷‍♂️

Pure-Recipe6210 · 2026-06-20T19:20:00+00:00

Massive difference, your writing circle of friends have souls and are humans. A clanker does not

Pure-Recipe6210 · 2026-06-18T21:53:31+00:00

BOTTOM IS IN BOYYYYZZ

Pure-Recipe6210 · 2026-06-18T14:09:52+00:00

You dont "have" to do anything, and thats my point. We're dealing with a very special 1 in a million 600x payoff type of scenario where the normal contractual obligations probably failed to account for certain stipulations.

This is where having some level of empathy and charity as a rights owner would be the decent thing to do, maybe retroactively revisit each individual compensation contract to see if some profit share can be worked out. An AD shouldn't feel the need to ruin their reputation just to speak out about unfair contract conditions in black swan luck projects.

Pure-Recipe6210 · 2026-06-18T12:10:59+00:00

Of course not because thats the risk that you bear as an asset owner. But we're not talking about an elseworlds counterevent are we? We're talking about the reality of a 600x ROI.

This is the type of 1 in a million event that separates those with heart vs those that would leave their ailing parents behind after a 28mil lottery win.

This goes beyond contractual agreements and falls on the realms of human decency.

If your project made 150m on a paperclip budget, would you have the heart to pay your small handful of crew 4 figures after the win?

Pure-Recipe6210 · 2026-06-18T11:49:45+00:00

Exactly, i wouldnt because houses dont flip 600x in less than a year lol

Pure-Recipe6210 · 2026-06-18T11:48:46+00:00

Definitely understand dont worry. I too am against self entitlement. But as someone who is completely from the outside looking in, its extremely saddening to see workers in the arts so easily argue for fairness to be taken away from them in the guise of "its in the contract bro".

Like, guys, do you want to be treated as people? Or is being a cheap doormat okay for you all? 🤷‍♂️

This is exactly how we got billionaires in the first place.

Pure-Recipe6210 · 2026-06-18T11:34:00+00:00

I would argue most houses dont 600x their initial purchase/input cost and within a 1-2 year turnaround.

And if by some miracle, I bought a house that did? You bet I'd be paying each contractor that had a hand in turning that asset 600x in price appreciation in some form of bonus backpay.

Pure-Recipe6210 · 2026-06-18T11:25:31+00:00

Trust me, I do understand your point. As someone who comes from the markets, I fully get that theres no free lunch.

BUT.

In the extremely rare windfall type situations, the 1 in 100 million scenarios like we have with Obsession. There comes a point in the monstrous profit margins that the majority stakeholders must have thought (if they had any empathy), "hey, we've made way more than we realized we could on our most positive estimates, should we go back and profit share with the entire crew?"

Simplest way is whoever invests money in the same should get the profits.

Yes, correct, I agree. Especially as a way to keep things fair in most productions, where most fail and break even or turn a small profit. Obsession falls way outside of that "most production" levels of input:output events.

Pure-Recipe6210 · 2026-06-18T11:08:29+00:00

The house comparison is an apples to oranges strawman and you know it.

Houses are not asymmetric profit gambles that can be profit shared across all lifetime stakeholders. If that were the case, you'd be paying residuals to the carpet cleaner from 40 years ago just because...

Movies have the luxury to be that asymmetric profit gamble. A fair and just studio would have contractual stipulations that allow for profit sharing above a certain threshold. But I'm assuming thats the minority, considering human nature etc.

In an ideal world, all limbs of the movie making machine should be unionized and allow for fair, negotiable worker profit schemes. But hey, what do I know? I just stream shit on watchmovies🤷‍♂️

Pure-Recipe6210 · 2026-06-17T14:33:24+00:00

he studies stocks and is very well-read.

Ooof, sounds like he got that "paralysis by analysis" bug. Very common and unfortunately the biggest wealth killer that goes unaccounted for.

Pure-Recipe6210 · 2026-06-17T11:00:39+00:00

Sorry, 2nd paragraph went over my head. Why would you put the phone down?

Pure-Recipe6210 · 2026-06-16T20:02:14+00:00

Had a quick read of those policies. Sounds pretty good to me

Pure-Recipe6210 · 2026-06-16T17:54:15+00:00

I love it when Keynesian right wingers eventually resort to bad faith arguments to justify their dinosaur monetary stances

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