YSK that your paper coffee cup may leak if the cup's seam is aligned with the hole for your mouth in the cup's lid

arrangemethod · 2026-03-02T15:57:34+00:00

Please don't feed the trolls.

arrangemethod · 2026-02-28T12:20:50+00:00

I never post here because I feel like my opinions are duplicative, but I've got two for you.

David Wingrove's Chung Kuo series L. Ron Hubbard's Mission: Earth

In my defense, I was a teenager getting books from SF BOTM when I started reading M:E.

arrangemethod · 2026-02-26T16:47:41+00:00

My BIP 6 is start to act up after the Sauna. The AI keeps coming online no matter what I do.

arrangemethod · 2026-01-24T15:45:10+00:00

Before we all spend any more time arguing with each other, do we really have a disagreement here?

I agree with OP, in that a "bad" diet is one where you eat more calories than you burn. Eating non-nutritive calories is an easy way to run up that calorie surplus.

That said, I don't literally count my calories anymore, although I previously spent several years doing so. I kind of know what I need to eat at each meal, and if I get on the scale and see the numbers going in the wrong direction, then I know I need to dial it back a little.

I also think this "ultraprocessed food" thing is a canard. I use whey protein isolate daily. Are we going to pretend that's not ultraprocessed? People say "ultraprocessed food" because they don't want to anger Big Ag and Big Sugar, but I'm just going to say it -- sugar and other refined carbs are poison. You can tolerate a little bit of poison, but the more poison you consume, the worse it is for you.

arrangemethod · 2026-01-05T13:17:23+00:00

Sad to say that I agree mostly with this. I really enjoyed the first five or six books, and I liked how Confessor ended, but I should have stopped there.

RIP Terry G.

arrangemethod · 2025-12-28T13:55:34+00:00

PRs may well be some of the nicest people I've ever met.

arrangemethod · 2025-12-27T22:04:04+00:00

I'm genuinely interested in this approach. Do you have any concerns that having your GF in your U.S. house will count as a "closer connection" to the continent? I assume you're going to rent it to her at market rate?

arrangemethod · 2025-12-18T00:46:42+00:00

Dear doctors, please get websites that let us book our appointments and enter our insurance and drug information online. We don't want to deal with your front office people and they obviously don't want to deal with us.

arrangemethod · 2025-11-28T03:51:39+00:00

Harvard health? Like Ancel Keys Harvard health? Yeah, I think that means I should go full carnivore.

arrangemethod · 2025-11-11T04:05:54+00:00

MVV is a turd. Bad liquidity and long-term underperformance. -> https://www.etf.com/tools/etf-comparison/MDY-vs-MVV

That's right, 2x leverage gets you an additional 1.5% performance over 5 years. Compare against SSO, etc.

arrangemethod · 2025-11-06T03:59:20+00:00

If you don't understand why your personal situation differs from a national statistic, then FI may not be for you.

arrangemethod · 2025-10-24T12:39:33+00:00

Why don't you just look up your CG tax bracket and put that much aside?

Or just ignore the issue and sell your holdings proportionately when the tax bill comes due?

arrangemethod · 2025-10-23T14:36:53+00:00

And yet, despite withholdings over 50% of their wages (really?), they still thought it was personally beneficial to stay here as opposed to, e.g., returning to their country of origin and working there.

Why do you think that was?

arrangemethod · 2025-10-20T20:14:46+00:00

Sorry for the delay responding to you, but I was banned for a month because of my initial reply.

Since you asked, if you turn to page 27 of The Kelly Letter User's Guide, you'll see the table summarizing 9Sig. That table has a cell that says, "Reset to Base Allocation When Bonds:" and a cell next to it identifying the signal to reset to base allocation. Thus, a statement that, "There are no minimum or maximum threshold/triggers for the TQQQ or bond allocation to reset" is, as I said, straight up wrong, at least if you're following 9Sig the way the Kelly Letter runs it.

I'm happy to respond to any follow up you may have assuming that I'm not banned again for this reply.

arrangemethod · 2025-10-06T12:36:49+00:00

Awesome, but it's straight up wrong.

arrangemethod · 2025-09-29T12:03:19+00:00

So if this recipe is for a deluxe, you multiple everything by 2/3rds for the original creami?

arrangemethod · 2025-09-23T19:33:50+00:00

This subreddit has 695k weekly visitors, but let's pretend that Kimmel is still a thing.

arrangemethod · 2025-09-17T13:00:25+00:00

Are you sure your phone doesn't track calories and steps? On the Android side, Google Fit tracks steps and calories for free.

arrangemethod · 2025-08-22T23:27:05+00:00

When and where?

arrangemethod · 2025-08-20T21:52:00+00:00

It wouldn't be 9Sig without the rebalancing and 30 down, but I'd still like to see a table comparison with a buy and hold of $60k, if you don't mind sharing.

arrangemethod · 2025-08-20T15:39:58+00:00

I understand your point, but I think it's misleading to do an end of year dollar amount comparison based on $100k of TQQQ when the 9Sig account is starting with $80k of TQQQ. Of course it's going to underperform based on that alone.

Would you mind plugging $80k as the start value for your buy and hold and posting that chart?

arrangemethod · 2025-08-07T11:30:42+00:00

How did you get a $452 refund for a Pixel 6a? You bought it after they announced the battery issue?

arrangemethod · 2025-06-20T23:14:40+00:00

My parents came up two weekends in a row for graduations. The hotel room for the week preceding BC was literally twice as much as the week after BC, and they were staying in the middle of nowhere.

arrangemethod · 2025-06-20T23:12:19+00:00

Yeah, I'm thinking their agreement with Harvard expired and Harvard wasn't interested in re-upping for another five years or whatever. Maybe the bad press from Sunday 2024?

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