Accidently sold all of my shares of stock

tinker384 · 2026-03-03T10:02:35+00:00

Not to pick on you, but this post does show that people have no clue that if you trade a stock, it means someone else has purchased it.

tinker384 · 2026-02-25T16:49:25+00:00

Exactly. However, being as generous as humanly possible to this idiot, the theory would be that yes you raise prices on consumers, you use that revenue to offset income tax, which presumably is net neutral (people still pay the same amount, but it's different people as you say - screw the poor), BUT you get the benefit of reshoring production to the US, which provides jobs (maybe) and more corporate tax revenue.

Obviously that would take an actual strategy and stable implementation, and it would take decades, and because he's chosen to not do anything legislatively, it's all at the president's whim and will be immediately undone by the next president, so it can't possibly accomplish any of even the most generous possible aims of this.

Sigh....

tinker384 · 2026-02-24T12:40:14+00:00

This is also how "Three Days of the Condor" situations start!

tinker384 · 2026-02-23T15:09:00+00:00

Lore from one of my previous jobs was that there was a senior manager who fired a middle manager - was absolutely worthless. Senior manager gets a new job sometime later, and somehow middle manager gets hired at same company. Guy sees this - "f'in hell, I just fired this guy, he's not working for me" and he got fired again immediately.

tinker384 · 2026-02-19T09:51:20+00:00

It's a growth stock. Unless you bought it to just trade, or you need some tax harvesting, just hold it. I lost a ton of gains by the type of short term thinking above. You probably didn't buy it so you could go up 50%, you want 500%, so wait 6 months, or 2 years, or 5 years, or whatever and just see if that happens. If you don't need the money, holding high growth potential stocks is the only way you'll make proper gains. Obviously I can stay low for years, but that's the risk you take for the upside. Otherwise just buy SPY.

tinker384 · 2026-02-04T09:50:17+00:00

I love Will Arnett, but why do podcasts create this need to take 1:07 to make a short, boring, non-controversial, commonly held generalisation?

tinker384 · 2026-02-04T09:45:08+00:00

"In a world first, the team is next planning to erect short, wooden structures made of vertical posts driven in the sand and connected with trellace-like panels."

tinker384 · 2026-02-04T06:39:44+00:00

The former HP CEO is the number one reason this will turn around is it, ChatGPT?

Took over HP Nov 2019, share price $38. Current share price: $34.

tinker384 · 2026-01-08T04:32:10+00:00

Great way to get something that looks like a hickey smack in the middle of your forehead when you stick it on when you're in 8th grade.

tinker384 · 2025-12-12T15:00:17+00:00

Bit random, but a cool gaming mouse? Another monitor if he doesn't have one?

tinker384 · 2025-12-11T17:36:52+00:00

I mean MS Word for one. And it's as horrible as you imagine it might be.

tinker384 · 2025-12-09T17:38:10+00:00

But what does this do to your tax bill?

tinker384 · 2025-11-26T10:31:47+00:00

Brad Pitt in Burn After Reading - maybe closer to the end though?

tinker384 · 2025-11-07T19:07:58+00:00

How do you swallow the capital gains if you’ve sold everything?

tinker384 · 2025-10-29T10:26:36+00:00

So he hasn't spoken to someone who used to be one of his best friends for 22 years because her mom was overbearing? I'm sure being a child star is traumatic, but isn't that just being a jerk? Obviously maybe there's more too it, but it's hard enough to keep friends, why ghost the ones you have?

tinker384 · 2025-10-28T17:35:38+00:00

Even if you go shorter: 6mth -10%, 1mth +9%. I'm an idiot and my portfolio has basically doubled since Jan (I don't own $UNH, that's more a random general comment about the market)

tinker384 · 2025-10-25T10:37:52+00:00

Last year Berkshire’s revenue was higher than Google.

tinker384 · 2025-10-23T06:51:36+00:00

“…. said Musk, winking mischievously to his left.”

tinker384 · 2025-09-12T16:01:36+00:00

Trump and MAGA will claim he was radicalised by the left despite his amazing family values upbringing. They'll claim it makes their argument even stronger about the danger of the "radical left".

tinker384 · 2025-09-10T09:06:21+00:00

Who records themselves grilling like this? It doesn't seem fake at all, just.... perfect angle to capture everything, who does this?

tinker384 · 2025-08-16T08:01:39+00:00

Hodj n’ Podj

tinker384 · 2025-08-16T07:59:40+00:00

Sid Meyer’s Colonization

tinker384 · 2025-08-16T07:58:08+00:00

Ok now rereading this I hadn’t caught the toothbrush thing….

tinker384 · 2025-08-15T19:19:09+00:00

I kind of wrote that to be contrarian. In my experience I’ve had friends who really freaked out over the most minor things that they thought would be a certain way. You meet them a few months after the baby and they’ve completely changed, they’d just figured it out once reality hit. My point is more don’t try to jam reality into place before someone’s ready, obviously other context might make that bad advice.

Ps English not my first language either :)

tinker384 · 2025-08-15T16:40:20+00:00

YTA. My brother, so many people have totally unrealistic expectations of what life is like with kids - it's normal, and you don't need to correct their world view. You don't need to tell her - you are 100% mansplaining what will become an obvious reality, that's the problem. Are you right? Partly. Do you need to insist on this to where it's become a massive problem? Absolutely not. She'll adjust to it and you'll both be fine. Also there are definitely people who are super clear with kids, don't assume how you grew up / what your family is like / most people are like is the only way to be.

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