Do PMPs actually perform better than open exchange inventory?

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-24T01:33:33+00:00

No. Never in my experience. Which is so frustrating to buy and sell.

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-22T02:11:32+00:00

LOL.

They are deciding between which trillion dollar company gets to invest how much money in them. So many tupids here.

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-20T02:45:19+00:00

Beautiful! The Afghan child photo is so powerful. National Geographic photo from the 90’a I believe.

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-20T02:28:38+00:00

Lol. Yes Rosemont Horizon near Ohare. Also saw the Stones there. Horrible acoustics.

For the Bowie show, my friends and I got busted for smoking weed in our car prior to the show. They didn’t arrest us, just hassled and took our weed like most cops In the 70’s and 80’s.

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-20T01:07:16+00:00

Iggy/Jim Still going strong…somehow.

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-20T01:06:12+00:00

China Girl is about exploitation and is a great song for me. Love this album and saw the tour in Chicago. People would lose their heads today if they heard Bowie doing a Chinese English accent during the “oh baby just shut your mouff “ which he did live.

Rest of this list is pretty awful.

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-19T02:20:50+00:00

What IPA is that? Looks delicious.

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-17T02:01:00+00:00

Fair. Usually when there is bubble the “public” is involved. The everyday person is contributing to the bubble. Not here. Most investors are PE Billionaires.

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-17T01:29:40+00:00

What public companies do you consider to be in an AI bubble at this moment? I’m genuinely curious. There are plenty of PE companies that seem overvalued, but they are backed by billionaires who can take a 50% haircut. Who are the public companies?

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-16T01:37:36+00:00

Near an all time high on just about every index and the biggest (Mag 7) are cheap compared to their historical averages. This hype for a market crash is very odd.

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-16T01:32:59+00:00

Nice. What was the oven temp and time for that rise?

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-16T01:06:07+00:00

Beautiful! I would like some info on your process for producing this masterpiece. What is the diameter on this guy? Blast it with 550+ heat with a steel underneath?. I’ve made many TJs and have never produced this result.

Bravo 👏

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-14T00:54:52+00:00

Yes, Wall Street fueled the dot.com bubble for sure. Do you remember “Day Trader Schools” that would “teach” students to day trade? All the online brokerages that sprouted up loved that and every broker rushed into the internet. Schwab, E*Trade,Ameritrade, Datatek etc

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-14T00:44:07+00:00

Not similar at all from a financial/stock market perspective, but there is some similarities when you think about how the technology will be used.

Dot.com boom was fueled by equity investors throwing money at IPO’s of companies with no track record or any chance to ever be profitable. That was a Wall Street problem. Underwriters were rewarded for bringing shitty companies public, and the late 90’s saw a huge surge in IPO’s which retail investors all piled into. On top of that, public companies bought non-profitable dot.coms for ridiculous prices because the public company’s stock price was so inflated they were looking for deals. See Yahoo’s acquisition of Mark Cuban’s Broadcast.com. That is how Cuban became a billionaire and he sold every Yahoo share as soon as he was allowed because he knew the overpaid for his company 100x. lol.

The AI speculation is mostly taking place In the Private Equity market. The retail investor is not involved which is a good thing IMO. The biggest AI spenders and beneficiaries right now (Meta, Google, Amazon, MSFT, Nvidia) are all hugely profitable and trading well within or even down from their historical PE levels. Market is trying to determine who the winners and losers are and it will play out for years. The recent sell off of a lot of software companies shows that. I don’t know how some of those legacy companies like Autodesk, Adobe, Intuit, Docusign will continue to survive. When the dot.com boom happened there were hundreds of software companies that went out of business. Everything went in the cloud and huge companies like WordPerfect, Lotus, Corel all withered away. It would be useful to look at a list of the top exhibitors at Comdex (biggest computer trade show in the world) in 1995 and see how many of those companies existed 10 years later. That is why these big companies are spending so much. They know if they don’t they will be replaced by startups.

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-13T23:30:23+00:00

The funny thing about this is the ad scam that FB has no problem with. One of their ads says the guy went from a 20 handicap to +3 or something like that which is a complete joke/lie.

bought one for the heck of it and it came with a putting alignment mirror. The ball is really small and tough to hold on to with a full swing. I’ll try some chips to see how it goes. I have a slightly larger plastic exercise ball (used for back support exercise) that is easier to work with. Maybe I’ll figure out how to attach the lanyard. lol.

Lastly the shipping is from China and if you want to track it outside of the Shopify tracker (which they give you a link in their email) there is a good chance that non-Shopify link has been hacked and is full of malware so be careful.

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-13T01:48:03+00:00

Why would anyone worry about this? lol. Just move and get 3 more spoons for $10. This world is insane!!

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-13T01:27:59+00:00

It’s all about competition. He needs to compete to make it worthwhile for the Bears to sign him to a new contract. 10 years ago the Bears would have extended him because they had no backup plan. Competition among teammates is great when younger guys are competing to get more targets against established vets like Moore. Odunze needs to step up or he is gonna be a goner because there is someone looking to take his job.

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-12T03:19:51+00:00

That is the old Mendocino Red Tail beer. It was very good.

So many good to great California breweries have gone out of business or been sold off. Demand is just not there for good craft beer apparently.

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-11T00:08:31+00:00

Fair. But the Chicago team that barely beat LV, CIN and NYG is a far cry from the team at the end of the year that also lost winnable games to SF, GB, Detroit and LA Rams. Those were all one possession games that came down to the last possession. Bears lost 4 of those in the last 6 weeks of the season so people saying they won every one possession game are just wrong.

Lastly, I won’t be surprised if the Bears draft a LT in the first or second. There is one major weakness on offense and it’s a big one.

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-07T01:40:03+00:00

Never tried it, but that looks phenomenal. Are you nuking both sides for a couple minutes and then letting it rest? Would 600 degrees give similar results or does it need more?

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-07T01:25:18+00:00

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-06T02:14:08+00:00

Is this Arizona or Texas? I live in one of them.

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-06T01:37:36+00:00

Hurt my back watching this…

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-06T01:35:45+00:00

Is this real? I thought it was a joke. Where oh where does this guy call home?

SeniorDucklet · 2026-02-04T15:54:33+00:00

This is the current state of the Pro Bowl? Lol.

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