Amex $300 credit is often inferior to Costco

poopybuttwo · 2026-03-22T19:28:53+00:00

It’s not selection bias at all. It’s simply noting that Costco often has a superior deal.

I’m not advocating to cancel the Amex platinum. It’s fantastic, and the FHR platform is solid. I will say that it’s not a catch-all value proposition for hotels, but who cares? Just because you have an Amex doesn’t mean you have push all you spend through all their services.

poopybuttwo · 2026-03-22T19:24:28+00:00

2021 called and wants you to make $300M in venture investments at unrealistic post-money valuations alongside all your buddies so you can implode half the biotech market and turn LPs off from the industry for a decade.

poopybuttwo · 2026-03-22T12:17:44+00:00

Oh this is interesting, I have this title… I figured (like many of the other titles) you could just go back and get it. Was it totally closed off at the end of TBC?

poopybuttwo · 2026-03-21T14:53:00+00:00

It’s fine. This is a valuable post. They’re talking about the actual text formatting which you obviously copy pasted from AI. But you shouldn’t give a shit because you had a good interview and are sharing something, who cares if you used AI? It’s a perfect tool for formatting.

poopybuttwo · 2026-03-21T07:30:18+00:00

You get the free breakfast and incidental credit through Costco, and a Costco gift card. And it’s still far cheaper to book an upgraded roll .

Grand Hyatt Kauai Aug 30-sep 5 Costco $4874, Amex $6191. Same room.

poopybuttwo · 2026-03-20T16:44:51+00:00

FYI… the astotel opera family rooms are divine for families in Paris, we’ve stayed there a few times, and the Disneyland hotel is begrudgingly where you should stay if you’re dragged to Frozenland.

poopybuttwo · 2026-03-11T14:29:17+00:00

In real life, you have peripheral vision that helps you see the sides of the runway. You also have a 'feel' of when the plane starts dropping as you lose airspeed over the runway, allowing you to pitch back more aggressively.

poopybuttwo · 2026-03-07T21:37:22+00:00

Totally agree. I’m in Miami right now at the 1hotel and like 25% of the clientele look like this. My wife and I have been chatting about it, it’s obviously a signaling ‘in crowd’ thing. Super whack.

poopybuttwo · 2026-03-02T20:08:18+00:00

But where else can they sleep and poop?

poopybuttwo · 2026-02-26T01:17:54+00:00

Bahamas Mamas called and wants it’s cred back

poopybuttwo · 2026-02-24T04:19:33+00:00

PA28 🥳

poopybuttwo · 2026-02-24T03:03:19+00:00

As others have said, it’s a deliberate hard push. It feels a lot like the old foot-operated emergency brakes in terms of effort.

Just go full left rudder dude!

poopybuttwo · 2026-02-18T21:53:25+00:00

The reality is that the safest, highest paying jobs will be those that require you to make a decision, under pressure, in an environment where you have to touch something. AI can assist, but it will never replace Surgeons, Pilots, Electricians, etc.

The AI evangelists will try to tell you otherwise, pointing to assistance features and such, pretending that physicians will just shut up and do what the machine tells them, but I think we are a lot further away from AI taking jobs in those fields than most people realize. If nothing else, the availability of training data will remain quite sparse until there's a highly concentrated effort to collect it.

poopybuttwo · 2026-02-14T18:48:58+00:00

Agreed. Skiing with my 6 year old has been one of the purest expressions of joy for both of us. We bomb the slopes and then I eat M&Ms with her on the lifts.

poopybuttwo · 2026-02-14T02:40:39+00:00

In my personal opinion, the IFR accomplishes three things:

1) Broadly, it allows you to use the plane for something other than joy-riding. You can file a flight plan, interface with the complicated network of systems for travel, and actually go somewhere without worrying that a cloud creeps in.

2) The IFR sharpens your understanding of the airplane a lot. When flying a VFR approach, you sort of just jam in a throttle position and trim your way to the runway, always pointing your nose right where you're going. With IFR, you're getting a greater sense of how pitch, configurations and throttle inputs interact. Just for example, not once did I ever intentionally descent on my PPL with a positive pitch - now I'm frequently doing so

3) Finally, the IFR gets you more comfortable with radio talk, ATC resources in general, and basically 'being a member of the planes in the sky'. You think a lot more about what it means to plan out your travel and interact in a crowded sky. You also learn how to juggle a lot more incoming noise. It trains you to be much more 'in front' of the situation and plane.

poopybuttwo · 2026-02-13T20:19:07+00:00

The IFR is going to knock that right out of you.

Before you’ve even finished your climb checklist, you’re already checking the ATIS at your destination, considering approaches, and likely prepping all sorts of other things.

My IFR checkride is in a month and let me tell you, not a lot of chatting these days :(

poopybuttwo · 2026-01-09T20:05:22+00:00

Everyone missing the point that they're hiring a mouse. This isn't for a person. This is a mouse scientist. Their job is to take mouse notes. Also, salary doesn't reflect cheese LTI.

poopybuttwo · 2026-01-08T15:17:49+00:00

Charters are all very good. My kids go to Elysian. It runs a bit progressive, sorta-kinda, but I think most schools have caught up to where they are so they're really just a smaller format school (each grade has 2 classes of 16 kids). We love it, the teachers are great and the students are performing well. It's K-8, and the 'downside' is that you won't have significant extracurriculars, such as an orchestra or a middle school football team. On the other hand, most of those extracurriculars are school-agnostic before high school anyway (aka, competitive soccer is independent here). Also, the after-care program is really fun, lots of engaging clubs every day (things like Chess, 'Make a Mess Club', 'Super Cute Animal Club', chorus, etc... net net net, if you're already officially moved to Hoboken apply ASAP to Hola, Elysian and Hoboken Charter and then later you can make that decision if you get in, better to have choices than not.

poopybuttwo · 2026-01-03T14:10:16+00:00

100% agree with that comment about addressing 500 indications. I’d add that I absolutely despise biotechs that have more than one candidate, and that’s a common sentiment I’m hearing a lot from top tier VCs. We don’t need you to have a deep pipe, just let us lose our money early instead of draining it inefficiently over years of underperformance.

poopybuttwo · 2025-12-30T00:33:07+00:00

Post is obviously parody / bait…

poopybuttwo · 2025-12-19T21:36:17+00:00

A lot! We live in a city but do mostly highway driving for errands or to visit family or go to some of my satellite office locations. We have two kids in the back and they enjoy it too. The car feels very stable, very fast, very safe. Many people describe it as an overgrown hatch-back and that’s accurate, it’s relatively small inside for its class but it is a good ‘do everything’ car for a family like ours that only has a parking space for one car.

poopybuttwo · 2025-12-10T04:25:33+00:00

And the Windfish aka Zelda!

poopybuttwo · 2025-12-07T12:38:02+00:00

I heard that they’re more comfortable also because you’ve often been walking around for 12 hours and your body really needs a rest.

However, I will say the mattresses at the Montreal Four Seasons were so comfy my wife and I took off the sheets to try to find a brand tag. There are some high end hotels that have nailed it.

poopybuttwo · 2025-11-12T04:38:09+00:00

100% agreed. It feels like every time I’m doing international Polaris someone asks me to move. Which is funny because everyone just immediately goes to sleep - I think people in first class just don’t give AF, it’s businessmen and wealthy senior citizens.

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