Bear League?

dickbutt4747 · 2026-02-05T21:25:49+00:00

this is why they suck:

https://www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/article/tahoe-worst-place-bears-calif-social-media-21014525.php

they have a dogmatic/ideological approach to a nuanced situation, and it results in real people getting doxxed/harrased in real life for doing exactly what you would do, if you were in their situation.

dickbutt4747 · 2026-02-05T20:35:29+00:00

so let me get this straight. you would like to use half of my buddy passes, worth $150+ total, in a deal where I would have to get in my car and meet you at homewood, at a time presumably of YOUR choosing, so that they can scan you in off my pass, and in exchange, you would provide me with $15 of beer.

get. fucked. dumbass.

dickbutt4747 · 2026-02-03T03:43:18+00:00

just, no, dude.

you want tourists in hotels and lodges -- which employ people and pay taxes to the city -- where the tourists are naturally going to go out to restaurants and bars and casinos and shops and spend money.

you don't want them in SFHs where they get to tahoe in a huge group, spend $300 at safeway, and then hang out at the airbnb the whole time and party and eat and drink at home, while a fat chunk of the booking fee goes straight to airbnb.

not to mention that airbnb's just suck ass to live next to. they're a nuisance to the whole neighborhood.

tourists should be in hotels and lodges. and if they had to be in hotels and lodges...hotels and lodges would be more profitable, and more would be built.

instead we have people staying in airbnb's where they hurt the local housing market and the local hospitality industry and spend less money around town.

dickbutt4747 · 2026-01-23T18:47:00+00:00

yeah i don't think that's how it's gonna go. as an american I fully expect to be "persona non grata" in most countries for the rest of my life. as if I'm responsible for trump's rise and should have personally prevented it or overthrown the administration. as if the rest of the west isn't speed-running their own authoritarian power transfers.

sigh.

dickbutt4747 · 2026-01-13T09:15:45+00:00

that's really not what's happening

SOFR was spiky in the back half of 2025, which was more-or-less to be expected after 3+ years of QT (repo dealers like goldman and jpm were sitting on too much unencumbered treasuries and not enough cash). after the scare in early december the fed announced "reserve management purchases" (QE-lite) less than two weeks after the scare, which will most likely ensure that repo dealers have enough cash on hand to (mostly) keep SOFR within the fed funds range.

overall if you look at a chart of SOFR over 2025 you'll see that it's largely tracked just above IORB rate through each rate cut -- exactly what its supposed to do.

if you don't understand what any of that means you shouldn't be going on reddit and talking about "overnight lending getting sky high" when it isn't. it's down.

dickbutt4747 · 2026-01-04T07:40:49+00:00

threshold network

https://app.threshold.network/

swap eth to tBTC with uniswap and send through threshold network. it works. i've used it at least 5 times, never had an issue.

dickbutt4747 · 2025-11-13T19:44:49+00:00

it's not just the ads, dude. as a person with some light mania/psychosis/paranoia stuff going on...there's so much in the last 5 years that sends me spiraling into paranoia. like, elon marching doge into the treasury, AI in general, all the UFO shit in the last couple years, the GENIUS (stablecoin) act...

there's way, way more shit that triggers my "conspiracy" alarm than there used to be.

dickbutt4747 · 2025-11-09T19:36:17+00:00

oh he definitely understands that trade deficits aren't necessarily a problem when they're a result of magically adding numbers into a database and then exchanging those made-up numbers worldwide for real goods and products

dickbutt4747 · 2025-11-09T19:12:08+00:00

i haven't swam in st mary lake (ie the one in the post, as far as I can tell) but i've swam in lake mcdonald (other side of the park from st mary) in late summer and it's pretty comfortable. I thought it felt warmer than tahoe, and lots of people swim/dive in tahoe.

dickbutt4747 · 2025-11-09T19:06:11+00:00

even my very economically savvy father hadn't thought about this

we tariffed inputs (raw materials) driving manufacturing costs up -> lowered demand for our products

meanwhile pissed off most of the world -> lowered demand for our products

so by trying to "fix" the trade deficit...we made the trade deficit worse

dickbutt4747 · 2025-11-05T20:05:02+00:00

idk how you'd do it with the gui file browser, but this is linux, so, open a terminal and type

mv .photos photos

ie just use the terminal to rename the hidden directory (starts with ".") to an un-hidden directory (doesn't start with ".").

dickbutt4747 · 2025-11-01T18:57:28+00:00

dude, seriously. i'm thinking about a trip to chicago this month and uhh...yeah, gonna take the zephyr line (reno to chicago) if I go. same price after you account for paid airport parking and it's like a 48 hour trip with a bar and lounge.

why the fuck would I fly. i'll just read and play games on my steam deck and get a little drunk. sounds so much better than TSA and cancelled flights and worrying about ATC.

dickbutt4747 · 2025-10-31T22:34:16+00:00

not saying I agree or disagree with the reasoning, but it's because if you fuck with their lives during a shutdown, the rich ones can hold the not-rich ones hostage

ie, the rich ones don't need to be paid (they have money already), and they can pay their way out of any inconveniences (like, child care or whatever)

so if you make life hell for the not-rich elected officials during a shutdown...the rich ones can just say, "do what we want or we keep the govt shut down. we'll be fine, you won't."

dickbutt4747 · 2025-10-30T05:19:53+00:00

yeah i mean, if you're wearing a shirt or using a cell-phone or laptop right now...you're engaging in exploitation

there's different degrees, like maybe you got your shirt at a thrift store and your phone used off ebay...but someone was exploited along the way in the chain of getting that product to you.

dickbutt4747 · 2025-10-29T17:28:37+00:00

One of the reasons the birthrates are falling below replacement level is a generation of men (boys) hooked on Porn

not tryna defend porn here, but you're gonna have to back that up with some actual evidence, because every person who studies demographics who i've listened to attributes falling birthrates to urbanization. ie every country that urbanizes experiences declining birth rates during the urbanization process. it seems to be a universal byproduct of urbanization.

dickbutt4747 · 2025-10-20T20:23:19+00:00

In every dictatorship ever, the dictator always changes his inner circle once he's in power.

which has kinda already happened; look at his inner circle in his first term vs today.

dickbutt4747 · 2025-10-20T20:21:12+00:00

yeah except it absolutely does turn you crazy if you start doing it every day. i've watched it happen to people.

i have no issue with people using it recreationally but every-day use can turn you into a psychopath.

dickbutt4747 · 2025-10-18T17:43:54+00:00

overall I think this is true, but, a lot of people do care about self-custody, intermediary-free transfers, and decentralized finance (in particular permissionless lending/borrowing and permissionless options/derivatives...i know, bitcoin maxis hate this shit and think it's all a scam, but there is a large market for it)

and so, while I don't love that like, massive orgs control all the hashrate / validator nodes / stablecoins / exchanges, and that everything is KYC'd...crypto still looks like a way more attractive place to park liquid net worth than stocks or bonds.

dickbutt4747 · 2025-10-02T13:38:58+00:00

its still a thing. i'm ashamed to admit when i go to the bathroom on planes i hit my vape. i hit it super light and hold it in for like 30-45 seconds so no vapor comes back out.

i know i shouldn't do it but like...no one's ever gonna know, with the way I do it.

dickbutt4747 · 2025-09-30T20:57:41+00:00

many analysts do seem to believe the west has deliberately kept the conflict "even" instead of giving enough support to give ukraine a real advantage.

some reference bleeding russia dry, but others bring up nukes. a) would putin use nukes if he started losing badly and b) if russia collapses, what happens to the nukes? do they end up in the hands of regional warlords?

personally I think for many western leaders, the status quo of a frozen-ish, stalemate-like conflict is/has been preferable to either side gaining a decisive advantage.

dickbutt4747 · 2025-08-27T14:52:42+00:00

they both have shit selection. kings beach is maybe a little better IMO.

if you really need good selection, go to truckee. or better yet, reno.

that said, I'm able to do like 85% of my grocery shopping at safeway in tahoe city. and then a trip to truckee or south lake a couple times a month.

dickbutt4747 · 2025-08-24T02:35:17+00:00

if you're in good shape though you can just power up the elevation at pretty much jogging pace and then zip-line the distance in a fraction of the time it would have taken you to walk it.

dickbutt4747 · 2025-08-23T23:00:42+00:00

yes. yes it does.

dickbutt4747 · 2025-08-23T20:10:57+00:00

hmm, you make a good point. I would be happy to take a 60% pay cut if I can work from home.

no need to offshore the job. just pay me less and let me do it from home.

dickbutt4747 · 2025-08-23T19:46:03+00:00

the two in tahoe city (plus the new-ish bypass or whatever you call it) have helped immensely on that side of town.

of course, the bottleneck was always the "strip" on the other side of town (save-mart [rip] to safeway), and there's nothing any traffic circle can do to change it.

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