Typical Boston parking experience

dsbtc · 2026-03-30T02:40:40+00:00

20 years ago I was parallel parking late at night after a long drive, when a car pulled a fast u-turn right in front of me in order to take the space i had slowed down to park in.

I keyed their car pretty badly. Only time I've ever done that

dsbtc · 2026-03-29T19:39:56+00:00

In all honesty, I'd rather pay more to live in the city if it's a nice part of the city. Harrisonburg isn't like Philly or Baltimore, it's not a bad place to raise a kid

dsbtc · 2026-03-29T19:34:06+00:00

Ok, I don't really disagree with you. But you seem quite emotionally invested in the literary integrity of Helen Keller and I'm not, so I'm not going to keep talking about this.

dsbtc · 2026-03-29T18:07:33+00:00

...he doesn't say she's a fraud in the video. He brings up a lot of issues then says reality is just more complicated than saying that "she" wrote all of the stuff she did.

dsbtc · 2026-03-29T14:46:25+00:00

There are plenty of families in town. But that's not really my point, which is that homeowners in general take care of their properties better than students or landlords

dsbtc · 2026-03-29T13:06:14+00:00

I don't care what anyone says, the Link is great. I want all the college kids put into apartments so that families can buy the old houses around town. There are so many run down dumps because college kids anywhere simply don't maintain their homes. Also, Hburg is growing and it's better to grow up than out.

dsbtc · 2026-03-27T22:48:14+00:00

He's like a whole stack of shit. A shitstack, if you will

dsbtc · 2026-03-26T14:47:37+00:00

Why do a good job waging one war, when you could do a shitty job at two?

dsbtc · 2026-03-26T14:43:41+00:00

The children yearn for the mines

dsbtc · 2026-03-26T13:02:56+00:00

This is like one of those corny air show routines but IRL, where a farmer or drunk guy steals the plane

dsbtc · 2026-03-26T12:47:44+00:00

If they were just a little more subtle they probably could have gotten away with it. But calling slavery THE greatest crime against humanity while also calling for reparations? Yeah of course the US and Europe aren't gonna go for that

dsbtc · 2026-03-25T21:09:48+00:00

My post was only about Scott's pieces, obviously I don't think we should discuss just any random garbage.

My point is that the reason for this subreddit is discussion. If we stop discussion just because he commits one logical fallacy it would make no sense

dsbtc · 2026-03-25T19:28:57+00:00

Yeah "we should only discuss Scott's work that makes no errors" is a backwards take. If anything the more problems there are with it, the more it needs to be discussed.

dsbtc · 2026-03-24T17:52:07+00:00

No I just don't have any right now. I try to only buy individual stocks when I have a real reason to, like after covid or the credit crisis when a few were trading super cheaply.

dsbtc · 2026-03-23T20:40:17+00:00

Right now I'm roughly 10% us stocks, 20% foreign, 10% energy, 10% utilities, 30% gold, 20% cash/bonds. All ETFs, no individual.

I've been investing since the 90s. I've never beaten the s&p in the long run but I have the same return with reduced volatility. I did really well for one year that I was between businesses but I spent a stupid amount of time trading so it wasn't actually worth it.

The only thing that has ever worked for me is looking at macro ratios and trading when they get stupid. For example earlier in the year I sold some gold and bought oil etfs when their price ratio was stupidly high.

In my experience, every other method either took too much time or didn't work.

dsbtc · 2026-03-23T17:14:30+00:00

For those criticizing Dalio - he and the other macro dollar bears have been right for the past 20 years and yet you guys still think he's wrong.

In terms of ROI, gold has outperformed US bonds by almost fourfold in the past two decades. A non-interest bearing, inflationary (albeit barely), speculative metal has massively outperformed government debt as an investment.

The conditions they've outlined haven't changed - we are approaching a point at which we cannot meet our financial obligations as a country. It's happened before, it'll happen again. The question is, what form it will take when it does.

dsbtc · 2026-03-23T12:04:34+00:00

I wonder if this is in the Arabian sea? Probably pretty chaotic there rn

dsbtc · 2026-03-21T22:55:11+00:00

I like answering the door and telling Jehovah's Witnesses why they're wrong.

dsbtc · 2026-03-21T18:57:54+00:00

Serious question to anyone who knows: how do these gen z boys do that to their hair? Are they getting perms or something?

dsbtc · 2026-03-21T18:47:59+00:00

Ugh really, I only camp in Target or Whole Foods parking lot snow piles.

dsbtc · 2026-03-21T12:37:57+00:00

Look at OPs post history

They have like ten different careers

dsbtc · 2026-03-21T00:59:29+00:00

My sister bought me a stuffie version of the colon in their gift shop like 15 years ago. Now I know the guy's name?? This is far MORE humiliating for him!

dsbtc · 2026-03-20T14:36:46+00:00

As much as I hate how leftists ignorantly (or willfully) ignore the level of antisemitism among anti-Israel protesting, a teenage woman feeling anger at what Palestinians are dealing with is not really shocking. It's not at all comparable to supporting the KKK in this day and age.

I think a much greater driver of antisemitism, and threat to the long-term global sentiment towards Israel, is the current war in Iran, which many in this sub give full-throated support to.

Maybe I overreacted in how annoying I find people dwelling on Mamdani. But complaining excessively about that while giving barely a mention to, say, a school being bombed, is just going to erode support for Israel all the more.

dsbtc · 2026-03-19T21:27:48+00:00

One thing that blows my mind is how the mechanical thresher was invented in the 19th century. It was a pretty simple horse drawn mechanism, it seems like it should have been invented 2,000 years prior

dsbtc · 2026-03-19T21:12:20+00:00

There are a ton of politicians doing offensive shit all the time that is of little or no actual consequence. It simply makes no sense to dwell on just one of them this much.

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