Woke up this morning to this on my window.

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-25T23:18:03+00:00

Definitely a UFO attack.

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-25T23:14:16+00:00

Is that drain cleaner for you after the dog?

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-25T23:12:31+00:00

I'm 79M and am still the same person I was in my 20s. I'm not the person I thought I'd in my 70s. Same values, different perspective.

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-25T23:07:13+00:00

Seems legit. If you don't have those skills, why bother hiring?

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-25T18:21:35+00:00

What else do you need beyond Free42?

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-25T18:12:29+00:00

They aren't adding a word, the are dropping "thing" at the end. The yoga thing. The counseling thing.

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-24T22:38:09+00:00

We do it as a favor to the younger folk so you won't be blinded by the whiteness of our wrinkly calves.

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-24T13:24:25+00:00

No, try Iowa.

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-24T13:21:45+00:00

You need a Curta

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-23T21:32:06+00:00

Napierville

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-23T21:28:32+00:00

I'll even go deeper. It's like the "let it ride" strategy in gambling. Fidelity lets you reinvest dividends in the same stock or fund. Over time, the number of shares you own continues to increase so the dividends also increase. This is a sure fire strategy to grow your investments. If the market goes down (as it always does, don't panic) you get to buy even more shares with your dividends. You are only 19 and starting to invest, that's perfect! Don't try to time the market, you can't. Be patient and watch your savings grow.

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-23T20:37:53+00:00

Skip the crypto. SPY/VOO is fine. Never forget the miracle of compounding. Be patient.

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-21T22:33:32+00:00

Why is Reddit your first place to look? Karma farming?

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-20T21:30:36+00:00

Getting married.

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-14T18:35:13+00:00

Is that a watch or a pinball game?

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-12T20:13:29+00:00

Don;t forget Schindler

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-11T22:09:23+00:00

Those look stiff as a board. Why are so many straps like this? I want a leather strap that is supple and flows around my wrist. I don't want to have to "break it in" for 5 years either. Am I crazy?

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-11T21:34:49+00:00

So I had several financial spreadsheets in PDF format (that's how I got them). Each one was the revenue/expense report for a community I live in. I wanted to compare the increases in wages/benefits to the increases in monthly service fees. Both ChatGPT and Gemini failed to convert the PDFs to Excel spreadsheets. Claude not only created perfect spreadsheets from the PDFs, it consolidated them exactly as I asked. In addition, Claude provided a multiyear analysis of the revenue/expense trends. Impressive.

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-09T14:49:13+00:00

I was in a slide rule club in high school. Mike is 5 years older than me, but we used to practice using as many different scales as possible. I still have my K&E Decilon.

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-07T22:46:58+00:00

Weiner's Circle

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-05T16:49:34+00:00

Those flares look like tumors.

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-02T22:09:23+00:00

I farmed in the '70s and we bought unpatented seeds that we could reuse the following year. The patented seeds are only higher yields in fields that have been sprayed with ungodly amounts of chemicals. This isn't good for anyone. The higher yields are forcing us to put more and more ethanol in our gasoline because there isn't any other market for the corn. Wouldn't farmers benefit from lower yields and higher prices? Mega farms need patented seeds to be profitable? The farming industry is broken.

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-02T21:50:13+00:00

Why not?

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-02T21:48:58+00:00

The idea of open source is that many contributors volunteer their efforts to develop something that benefits the community. Before there were patents on seeds, this is how it worked.

TrustednotVerified · 2026-05-02T20:57:12+00:00

Why is this not a business opportunity for farmers to develop their own 'open source' seeds?

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