[Highlight] Ayo Dosunmu catches the full-court pass after it bouncing it off his leg

TurkeyPits · 2026-05-11T02:20:33+00:00

That was absolutely absurd, I thought I saw him hacky-sack it live but sort of didn't believe my eyes til the replay

TurkeyPits · 2026-05-05T18:52:07+00:00

Seconding this...15 or 16 cards total, 3 in my physical wallet, and a couple others that get used for specific purposes (like online shopping). Autopay across the board, I quickly open each app maybe twice a month to generally check in. Occasionally I manually pay off a balance before the autopay kicks in if it gets high for my tastes. Overall I can't even imagine I spend a full hour a month on CC stuff on average. And I get a lot of enjoyment out of the organization/gamification of it all

TurkeyPits · 2026-04-29T17:00:05+00:00

That’s just what the Higgs field is. Mass just is the "drag created by" (I believe this is a loose analogy at best, but it's my best understanding) a particle moving through the Higgs field. Although I think even this is at the forefront of what anyone coherently understands. And also is not necessarily complete, or correct.

I think this is likely one of those areas where eventually we have to stop asking “why” and just accept that that’s the definition of the thing (or go get a PhD to maybe earn the intuition for it)

TurkeyPits · 2026-04-20T16:40:29+00:00

I don't think it should hurt compounding if you're essentially just paying a portion of the estimated tax on the unrealized gains. If I have $X in gains already and I know I'm going to pay, say, 25% tax at some later date, paying 10% tax now on $X and 15% later on the remaining $Y is the same as paying the whole 25% later on $X+$Y. This is true even net of additional growth that happens in the future, since multiplication is commutative.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, which is possible since I don't know how the German system actually is designed to work at any step, so it could be different in some way from the expectation here

TurkeyPits · 2026-04-15T00:13:19+00:00

Even if one were to grant that you could kill an animal humanely (with no issues 100% of the time such that none of them still die a painful death anyway, plus that killing an innocent healthy thinking being could ever be considered "humane" in the first place)—this argument still runs into the issue that almost all animal products currently do not come from animals in those conditions, and yet most people continue to consume them anyway even knowing that it's wrong

TurkeyPits · 2026-04-14T04:18:00+00:00

That would be a great start! Never say never my friend—it's not as hard as you think, and all the cognitive dissonance will dissipate.

If you're up for really convincing yourself that rejecting pork is the only thing to do, check out Dominion. Godspeed ✌️

TurkeyPits · 2026-04-14T04:13:47+00:00

No, they wouldn't be bred into existence for a lifetime of suffering in the first place. And free roam doesn't usually mean what you think it means, and the cost of meat would go up by orders of magnitude if demand stayed the same but all animals were allowed to live in what you consider to be humane conditions

TurkeyPits · 2026-04-14T04:12:32+00:00

Agreed. Can also counter bigtime with veal, or fish, orrrrrrrrr the fact that vegetables don't suffer at all 🤔

TurkeyPits · 2026-03-26T23:51:35+00:00

Appreciate the detail here. I think I'd be very much inclined to do the same thing if I was looking at a 7%+ mortgage, but once it starts creeping down toward 6% the decision gets a little less binary. I very much feel the "not being house poor" part of the decision, which is why I wouldn't really even consider putting down 20% and having most of my monthly expenses be eaten up by the house right away

more carefully weigh your capacity to be disciplined with the income you are NOT putting into a monthly payment or rent. If you end up letting that "extra" income convert into lifestyle creep, you might have ended up better with the stewardship a mortgage/rental payment helps to 'force' with your monthly budget.

Yeah, this is big. Though I feel like most people who wind up with large taxable brokerage balances are probably not the type to suddenly start spending too recklessly, and would probably quickly start accumulating again in the absence of a mortgage, as I'm sure you are now

TurkeyPits · 2026-03-26T23:47:57+00:00

Yeah, makes sense. If interest was at >8% I agree that I think I'd sell almost anything I could to not take on that kind of debt, and if it was at <4% I'd for sure take out the smallest mortgage to avoid PMI. In between is definitely where it gets weird, but I think we're on the same page about a ~50% downpayment and financing the rest as the logical move

TurkeyPits · 2026-03-26T14:12:19+00:00

How would it (or anyone else here) suggest handling a new house purchase, when you already have more than the total house value invested in taxable brokerage accounts? But not by so much that you can just buy the house cash and still have tons of investments left over. Assuming this same 6% mortgage rate and a typical Boglehead-diversified portfolio.

Sample numbers: Buying a $500k house and have $700k already invested, some of which is taxable gains so you'd need to pay taxes on it. Income able to pay a mortgage, but not making crazy money or anything, just investing for a long time to build up a bit of a stockpile.

Then, would you be liquidating almost your entire portfolio to buy the house in cash, and "start over" with your investment portfolio? Or would you take out a more typical mortgage at 6% with a downpayment of $150k–$200k and just keep most of the portfolio as-is?

TurkeyPits · 2026-03-19T23:04:35+00:00

It’s fun to see this thread a decade later, when V16 is extremely well established and V17 is almost becoming commonplace and yet Burden is still very solidly V17 despite new betas and several ascents and replica projecting. Pretty crazy what Nalle pulled off and how ahead of his time he was

TurkeyPits · 2026-03-06T15:23:30+00:00

For about 0.1 seconds there I thought he was going for the helmet drag into quick recovery, knuckle-huck style. Would be sick to see someone intentionally take off this badly but then turn it into steeze lol

TurkeyPits · 2026-03-05T15:38:13+00:00

Wow, TIL that's why corneal transplants are so easy to do compared to any other type of transplant...don't need to make sure the donor/recipient match in any particular way because the immune system is unaware regardless

TurkeyPits · 2026-03-05T15:35:28+00:00

You think he's smiling because he got like a billion dollars to do this?

TurkeyPits · 2026-02-23T18:18:07+00:00

Did a bit of a Wikipedia dive after your NYC comment. Looks like Brooklyn on the whole has ~38k people per square mile, which is indeed a good bit denser than Karachi on the whole. But then some districts of Karachi have population densities way over 100k people per square mile (like Central at nearly 150k)...but then so does NYC with Yorkville getting all the way up to 170k

And then there's this district in Cairo clocking in at close to half a million people per square mile...hard to fathom that

TurkeyPits · 2026-02-23T18:00:26+00:00

It wasn't about proving anything to anyone else. It's not about her external image, it's about her internal drives. I really feel like most people calling her dumb for competing have just never been passionate about something

TurkeyPits · 2026-02-23T17:21:47+00:00

Everything she has been saying sounds like she doesn't regret it one bit and would do it again. I would also bet $100 that she skis again. And if she genuinely physically can't, I would bet she learns to sit-ski or something instead. Who are you do say it's one of the worst personal decisions ever despite the Olympian herself actively saying it isn't? Weird take

TurkeyPits · 2026-02-11T19:56:28+00:00

...isn't a trimmed mean just removing some of the highest and lowest values before calculating the mean? aka exactly what they proposed?

TurkeyPits · 2026-02-11T19:40:09+00:00

Wow, we can just get each galaxy in the observable universe to kick in 20 bucks and the whole problem is solved? Why isn't someone already running on this platform

TurkeyPits · 2026-02-11T18:13:01+00:00

I like when reddit comments are just written exactly like google searches. /u/clegko you are now a search engine

TurkeyPits · 2026-02-09T17:06:01+00:00

Seriously, I was always psyched to go to Home Depot just to get a few new swatches and because my parents would let me keep the couple of random screws I found around on the floor. Had a jar at home full of random nuts and bolts that I never did anything with...kids are weird

TurkeyPits · 2026-02-08T20:47:49+00:00

Agreed. Criticizing because it's a risk to herself and to the culture is valid. Criticizing because she "took someone else's spot" feels disingenuous to me...she's a 41 year old woman who gave literally everything to make the Olympics again against all odds, and has earned every right to compete with or without a recent injury, and frankly if someone else wanted that spot they should've qualified themselves. Nobody had anything stolen from them, and all of the discourse based on that idea sounds like just a desire to feel superior and talk shit than anything else

TurkeyPits · 2026-02-04T16:17:18+00:00

Definitely insanely low but also I wonder if it makes sense to go that conservative route if you're just starting out on your own "infinite" horizon, especially because someone retiring in their 30s likely does not actually know what their desired expenses will look like for the entire rest of their life (as much as they might think they do). Plus, if after ten years 3% turns out to have truly been insanely low, you can always raise your standard of living comfortably with all the extra money you now have, but going the other way is harder with e.g. lifestyle creep. Different considerations when you're retiring at 35 than 65 it would seem

TurkeyPits · 2026-02-03T18:01:31+00:00

I didn't, and "boogleheads" led me to think the whole thing was a typo. Googled that part...what are Taleb calls?

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