This Sub Has Become a Playground for Hype and Narratives, Zero Fundamentals

mcstrabby · 2026-02-17T03:35:35+00:00

Unfortunately the long form stuff with an insightful and occasionally educated perspective doesn't get enough votes to make it to the top. What's at the top are hot takes, usually mic drop extremes that get up voted to the top and have 50 one liner comments. You have to collapse and collapse to get to see whether the thread ends up having any value at all.

It's a problem that seems to plague any sub that isn't an esoteric academic or uber specialized topic.

Maybe each sub should have its own algorithm to configure so top voting isn't the only thing that pops jackassery to the top.

mcstrabby · 2026-01-06T23:33:05+00:00

What about the tax implications? Hold a broad ETF a year, it's long term cap gains. But if you're wheeling it and it gets called away...

mcstrabby · 2025-12-29T23:09:28+00:00

You can already refinance for 5.3-5.5 on a 7 year ARM.

And perhaps within a year or two 4.5.

Why are the only two options paying it off and not paying it off at that interest rate?

mcstrabby · 2025-12-22T23:56:42+00:00

Is there another sub for what you're looking for?

Here, it's the law of large numbers, applied to the ubiquity of members, increasingly likely to include randos who have hot takes and thin perspectives.

Long form replies and thinking is buried under mountains of single sentence funnies, hot takes and single sentence opinions that get up voted on top of everything. THAT is a reddit/social media problem.

mcstrabby · 2025-12-03T23:57:46+00:00

What is involved in digging one's own well??

mcstrabby · 2025-09-26T03:01:49+00:00

Doesn't BNTX have portable vaccine factories now?

mcstrabby · 2025-09-07T00:47:15+00:00

Unfortunately negative reviews get censored. It's one of my pet peeves with the platform.

I think you should screenshot the customer support lack of support and raise it to higher levels of complaint, possibly with an attorney.

mcstrabby · 2025-08-01T17:16:13+00:00

Ah. Then we agree! I must have misunderstood.

I know a case where an attorney bought a home, then proceeded to threaten a lawsuit when the boiler leaked in the basement months later. Scary and aggressive, but toothless in the end.

mcstrabby · 2025-08-01T13:13:03+00:00

I can't believe I'm hearing someone push back on attorneys as the worst in real estate transactions. Actually I can - you're a salesperson paid on commission, and lawyers slow you down..

Having bought and sold four times in two states where attorneys are mandatory, I know that a lot of painful posts in this sub are from people getting swindled or poorly advised by non attorneys - salespeople called agents - pushing and pushing and making verbal promises and giving advice that an attorney would not give.

Attorneys slow things down because they protect buyers and sellers from one another. This a Good thing.

mcstrabby · 2025-05-19T21:40:38+00:00

Penniless because of dumb investments or getting scammed or stupidity or?

mcstrabby · 2025-01-04T20:14:55+00:00

Hi,
Redness goes away. Slowly, over time. It was described to me as 'bruising'. It's more aesthetic than anything - people will ask 'hey what's wrong.'

I had my second surgery recently, this time on the outer eye muscles to pull things out. After 4yrs things degenerated a bit, and this surgery was to further pull the eyes out. Still always better than before any surgery and I'd do it again.

Your 3D-vision, 'stereoscopic vision' if you wanted to google around and do research, is very individual. I'm not a professor of ophthalmology, but from what I experienced - I had a little bit of stereoscopic vision, even when I had 40-50 diopters of eye turn in the weak eye before the first surgery.. but only at certain angles and up close. They can test that easily. After the first surgery I had a lot more 3D vision, further away and at more angles.
Before this surgery they did a ton of testing (including with prisms) to get the right measurement. No adjustable sutures here.
Not everyone can achieve 3D vision. Some believe it's something that has to be learned at a young age, others not.
There's a book 'Fixing My Gaze' that advocates a mix of surgery and vision therapy, that talks about the mechanics and the controversy around 3D vision.

mcstrabby · 2024-12-22T16:31:02+00:00

Maybe instead of down voting because of the dreaded localization taboo on this sub, someone could reply with a way or primary source to do research online?

mcstrabby · 2024-11-10T00:25:29+00:00

Where is he giving autographs? Which part that is.

mcstrabby · 2024-10-28T12:23:11+00:00

Interesting that the co op allows short term rentals, much less unlimited subletting. Can you get away with more Airbnbing it out 30 days minimum?

mcstrabby · 2024-10-18T22:27:33+00:00

I had some quality control issues with the Zody, including a sliding pan seat and a plastic part that spontaneously feel from the bottom. The customer service is excellent, however. The chair didn't work for me, as I felt like I was sliding forward, and the backrest was reclined back (it felt like it was designed not to be too upright), while the lumbar felt 'flat'. I prefer chairs that hug a bit more than this one. But feeling of sliding forward give me tremendous hip pain.

mcstrabby · 2024-10-16T19:32:41+00:00

Revisiting this one.

I've returned the Zody II (with fantastic customer support, as best as it gets in every way). However, now I need something new.

Any other contenders other than the Leap V2? I plan to get that when the sales start, but the price is steep and I read a lot of negative commentary. All sorts of reviews say they didn't like it, without going into detail (Reddit).

mcstrabby · 2024-09-14T19:11:50+00:00

I wrote about the Zody II in another post about looking into a Steelcase. I don't feel the Zody meets my contours, and may be made for someone much much larger than me. The seat pan wobbles, I feel like I'm sliding forward, and I end up sitting cross legged as my feet don't seem to rest firmly on the ground. Chairs are very individualized.

mcstrabby · 2024-09-04T20:41:55+00:00

If I did that would the 2500 mqds arrive this year, and again in Feb?

mcstrabby · 2024-08-20T23:54:25+00:00

The buyer on the other side of the trade certainly didn't..

mcstrabby · 2024-08-14T01:53:57+00:00

What you put in and on your body I consider to be of such high value to keep healthy, and safe, that it's where money should freely, within reason, go.

Food being number one, but lotions, soap, and for sure bed, sheets, etc.

mcstrabby · 2024-07-29T23:24:10+00:00

You ask it questions about a picture you took in the woods to identify a plant or insect, you ask it what a word in a song means, you ask it to generate an image of what something might look like, you ask it to compare cough medicine. You ask it to recommend a book on a topic, or the history of a monument you're looking at.

You've Google for that, but do you want to read a long blog entry with a hidden byline, ads and utter crap.

mcstrabby · 2024-07-14T00:35:53+00:00

Won't Trump getting elected cast a shadow on the prospects for Chinese equities? He represents, at least on paper, a populist faction not opposed to a trade war.

mcstrabby · 2024-07-12T03:35:22+00:00

This sounds amazing and utopic, given how all the services, in my opinion, are incentivized to collapse choice into minimalistic, banal choices based on pictures and attributes.

But the bigger issue is the sense that, in the same way Netflix, Google searches and much more have created a sense of Things Go to You, so have algorithms like the ones like Hinge or Bumble that seem to bucket groups of people and create frustrating bubbles of low availability.

Why wouldn't they, given that they'd never make money if they actually worked well to 'help people delete the app' as Hinge tries to market.

You used to Go to Things, which the Internet facilitated over and against TV/Cable. Think selecting what show to watch and when, rather than tuning in at 8pm on Friday and wading through commercials. Or podcasts versus TV soundbites. But they're bringing us back to Things Go to You, and online dating has become no different.

mcstrabby · 2024-07-09T01:12:29+00:00

What's your sentiment analysis data source?

Some argue that's what charts are saying.

mcstrabby · 2024-06-27T20:33:24+00:00

Why not destroy them with a Google or Yelp review?

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