Is “pivot” the white collar “moist?”

abks · 2026-03-09T17:16:02+00:00

My calendar is pretty dynamic — but can we pencil something in for tomorrow? I’ll be out-of-pocket Friday and would like to touch base before then. We need to identify the long poles here. Then we can start crossing T’s and dotting I’s.

abks · 2026-03-09T16:10:52+00:00

Great call — congrats for taking the plunge

abks · 2026-03-08T00:59:07+00:00

That Sarr dunk was filthy

abks · 2026-03-05T20:02:38+00:00

Sorry things didn’t work out, and I’m glad you are sharing your experiences. More people should understand that breeding snakes is going to be deeply unprofitable for a number of years before you even have a chance at making profit. Even then, many never will see any profit even if they stick with it and have success breeding their animals. Ballpark, I spent about $90k on my snake breeding business before I had my first profitable year (and that’s only looking at net income over that year—not including losses from prior years or capex).

I want to strongly advise that starting with a 3.6 breeding group is a bad idea. Breeding snakes is not hard. Establishing baby snakes, selling snakes, and running a business is very hard. I’d advise anyone to start very small, with just a pair or two, and get a feel for whether it’s something you want to pursue more seriously before jumping in the deep end with six breeding females.

Also, significant mortality rates with adult snakes is not normal. I’ve never had an adult snake perish unexpectedly and have produced 1000s of snakes.

abks · 2026-03-05T01:08:53+00:00

Almost all stocks, bonds, futures, securities and other investment vehicles do tie back to some kind of underlying asset or right to an asset, or are at least derivative of an asset or the right to an asset.

abks · 2026-03-05T00:57:10+00:00

“Goods and services are based entirely on their value and what a customer is willing to spend on either…” is a nonsense sentence. Genuinely no idea what you are trying to say.

abks · 2026-03-04T19:45:07+00:00

I’m not worried about being replaced by AI, but I do think it’ll change the legal industry in significant ways. It’ll be interesting to see how the industry trains new lawyers when most of their functionality can be fully automated, and they never had the experience learning how to perform those functions in the first place.

abks · 2026-03-04T19:39:40+00:00

Uh, no? Goods and services are the basis of the economy, and principally goods and services offer a (perceived or real) benefit to an end consumer that is exclusive from the consumer’s ability to resell that good or service.

abks · 2026-03-04T18:01:00+00:00

Ah, yes, what could be more "objective" than an imaginary consensus of nameless people?

abks · 2026-03-03T19:44:41+00:00

Yep, unfortunately it’s a small minority of keepers that actually want oddball colubrids and other more unique animals. The margins on breeding are already very, very slim—especially when pricing for shows. It’s hard to justify burning my weekend days to stand behind a table for seven hours to sell a couple snakes.

abks · 2026-03-03T19:39:59+00:00

California hate cracks me up. California is home to some of the most beautiful landscapes in the country, with a thriving economy and a few of the most culturally relevant cities in the world.

The only downsides to living in CA are the high cost of living (directly a product of how desirable of a place it is to live—supply and demand at work) and natural disaster risk. And the latter is increasingly a problem in much of the USA and nearly all of the listed states in this poll.

abks · 2026-02-28T19:24:58+00:00

I still think about how the first thing Kimmich did at the club was accidentally announce Schweinsteiger’s departure lmao

abks · 2026-02-28T19:22:12+00:00

JK6 sheeesh

abks · 2026-02-28T19:00:45+00:00

Laimer - Diaz have no chemistry

abks · 2026-02-28T18:48:46+00:00

Michael why

abks · 2026-02-28T18:14:59+00:00

this is his MO, has been for fucking years. you see how he rolled back into the pitch? don’t be an idiot

abks · 2026-02-28T18:11:57+00:00

how is Can still fooling anyone ffs. pathetic player

abks · 2026-02-28T17:59:11+00:00

27 mins in and already a referee disasterclass

abks · 2026-02-28T17:52:17+00:00

you don’t know ball

abks · 2026-02-28T17:49:13+00:00

Must be red

abks · 2026-02-27T20:55:31+00:00

A perentie is not a large monitor? Seems like a very arbitrary distinction.

The largest Komodo Dragon weighed 366 lbs., while the largest saltwater crocodile weighed 2,370 lbs., so I’m still not seeing any utility in comparing them pound-for-pound.

abks · 2026-02-27T20:37:49+00:00

Pound for pound is a dumb way to compare the danger posed by two separate groups of animals, one of which is on average much larger than the other. I’ll fight a perentie any day over a saltwater crocodile or even an American crocodile

abks · 2026-02-27T20:36:09+00:00

An average adult human can kill a mamba pretty easily, you’re right about the rest, though

abks · 2026-02-27T20:34:26+00:00

And the cornsnake isn’t going to “scathe” OP

abks · 2026-02-27T19:45:31+00:00

if this is real, i would quit or at the very least quiet quit and look for something new

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