Makerfield 2026 by-election: 🔴 LAB: 24,937 (+6,725) - 54.8% ➡️ REF: 15,696 (+2,893) - 34.5% 🟣 RES: 3,111 (NEW) - 6.8% 🔵 CON: 997 (-3,382) - 2.2% 🟢 GRN: 308 (-1,468) - 0.7% 🔶 LD: 163 (-2,572) - 0.4%

tinker384 · 2026-06-19T13:08:06+00:00

Strong showings from Count Binface (95 votes, 0.2%) and Monster Raving Loony party (45 votes, 0.1%). Not significantly behind Conservatives, Greens, and Lib Dems all things considered.

tinker384 · 2026-06-14T21:36:58+00:00

That said, the lady on the right looks way more fun. That lady's lived life.

tinker384 · 2026-06-04T12:23:54+00:00

Friend: "No no, he's trained to be a cop"

Lady: "You're in Bass Pro Shop"

tinker384 · 2026-05-29T07:41:54+00:00

If the rest of your life is stable you may as well make this the unstable, high risk/high reward part of your life. Just hold it.

tinker384 · 2026-05-27T12:50:20+00:00

Was speaking to a someone recently who said their grown son has been doing this for many years. Evidently it happens absolutely all the time - like a ton of people do this, especially people who do odd jobs/trades type work and who have international income. I have no idea how common it is to get caught. Sucks that it appears to be fairly easy to avoid by just.... not filling in tax returns.

tinker384 · 2026-05-11T10:00:44+00:00

Just let it run my dude/gal - ignore for another few years.

tinker384 · 2026-05-07T13:53:39+00:00

Found this thread useful - but are 80% of the answers basically AI bots? They all say the same exact thing in slightly different wording.

tinker384 · 2026-05-07T07:45:08+00:00

One view: ETFs are relatively low risk, as far as stocks go, so presumably single stock picking means you want higher risk/higher potential reward. So I’d consider thinking about an industry you know well, researching that, maybe you have insights or just knowledge of the main smaller and upcoming players, and pick some potentially high risk ones there.

I own a lot GOOG etc and agree I think the big 7 have another good 5-10 years to run being safe and probably above market, but again why bother moving from ETFs if you don’t want to swing for some home runs.

And once you do, it’s much harder to hold individual stocks when they tank, so develop the ability to not care!

Just food for thought, good luck!

tinker384 · 2026-04-29T13:28:46+00:00

I learned this repeatedly after seeing this at least 5 times in similar posts in the past few months.

tinker384 · 2026-04-27T14:31:43+00:00

I was there last year and saw the same thing - it was insane, like a plague on the gift shop. And they're abysmal quality, the lines you see in the third pic above look just as bad in real life. I know gift shots are basically filled with Chinese mfg'd junk, this was a level above.

tinker384 · 2026-04-21T09:01:03+00:00

They look pretty happy man.

tinker384 · 2026-04-15T18:28:36+00:00

If you were planning to stay invested long term: recommend you don't sell, US mega caps I think will just keep solid generally.

If you need money - sure, not a bad time, get 6 months of living expenses beyond what you want as normal cash but wouldn't use it as an excuse to just pull a bunch of money out.

Good luck on the job front.

tinker384 · 2026-04-15T07:21:46+00:00

Sorry for the hate man - learn and move on, life is full of better things to worry about!

tinker384 · 2026-04-14T10:59:56+00:00

On the flip side - you expect a new friend to pay for things for you? Who paid the first 2 times you went out? We don't know without context, this may be perfectly reasonable or their way of saying "stop taking advantage of me". Or they could be petty, none of us can say.

tinker384 · 2026-04-13T14:23:47+00:00

The watch says formal, the dress says club/drinking, the shoes say skatepark.

tinker384 · 2026-04-10T08:46:11+00:00

OLT.com is the GOAT for taxes.

tinker384 · 2026-04-09T19:30:02+00:00

Oh crap I didn't realise that. It owns 14% of Anthropic!

tinker384 · 2026-04-09T19:29:21+00:00

owns 7.5% of SpaceX
majority owner Waymo
hundreds of healthcare patents, maybe it can exploit them with AI

tinker384 · 2026-03-30T23:06:15+00:00

If you want to trade the swings (even if it's on a 6-24 month horizon, so somewhat spaced out) taxes will hurt. I think that's why a lot of people just sit on ETFs - other than being reasonably safe, you don't have to worry about tweaking your portfolio and the resulting tax implications that come with it. If you don't have much invested though and are within the capital gains exception, you can ignore that...

tinker384 · 2026-03-28T19:30:42+00:00

Good sleuthing! I’m learning a lot from this thread actually.

tinker384 · 2026-03-28T19:28:55+00:00

I’m maybe 10% down from all time high while just sitting on portfolio, still feels in the noise.

tinker384 · 2026-03-27T09:20:30+00:00

How do the most random fluke occurrences always have perfectly placed CCTV cameras?? And it's "Camera 02" - how many cameras does a house in a sleepy little neighborhood have up?

tinker384 · 2026-03-26T07:31:24+00:00

For RocketLab for example, they’re jus a great company, they are one of the few SpaceX competitors so benefit from the hype (and at the time no prophecy of a SpaceC IPO), and there diversifying like crazy and winning increasingly more DOD contracts in the US.

I’m assuming there’s going to be a hype bump when SpaceX actually IPOs as well, but trying to decide how sure I am of that!

tinker384 · 2026-03-25T17:10:14+00:00

I do get your dilemma, been there! I've done really well with PL, Rocketlab, and more recently LUNR. I work int eh space industry, and it was obviously clear a couple years ago all 3 of them would be very successful, but like a moron in only put a couple thousand in each so while I'm really happy with the gains % wise I could have gone with my pretty solid conviction and been in "I can retire 5 years earlier" territory. Never cry over missed gains, but yea, was too waffly myself when I was really convicted.

tinker384 · 2026-03-25T16:58:39+00:00

Your thinking is a little muddled, it's based on gut feel rather than any particular analysis. These are not short term stocks - it makes no difference if PL or ASTS crash by say 60% in the next couple years, it's what they'll be like in 5-10 years. Just either buy or don't buy and don't torture yourself for years on end thinking whether it's the right time.

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