Eldad

Yes. 99% of Democrat voters think it’s terrible I’m sure. We are not on teams at war. Who is one of the more annoying liberals to conservatives? Beto? Let’s say Beto let a crazy bum sleep in a tent in his front yard and then was killed by said bum. I guarantee there would be some portion of the right laughing at the irony. The people that live on Twitter and act as propaganda vehicles for the parties are NOT the American people and should be ignored.

The position of both sides on these two polemic issues is actual very similar. 1. The Right says the right to bear arms is worth the human cost. Their reason seems abstract and philosophical to those on the outside. Your talking about tyrants arising and revolutions when people are being killed everyday. 2. The Left says we must value all humans (especially when they have a disadvantaged background) and always believe that a criminal can improve and become a better person and therefore unlimited chances for career criminals and this ideal is worth the human cost. Again, to those on the outside it seems not pragmatic and philosophical. You are talking about the brotherhood of man when this lady is getting stabbed. In a normal world we would compromise and trade maybe banning assault rifles for 3 strikes and you get hard labor for the rest of your life.

Sold the few T20s I bought on Monday. Pretty good for no risk. Blake bought a bunch of investment books I think and then he was gone. Good for him, probably a better use of his time with the market in mania mode.

Setting up well for Nigel.

I agree. No one pays attention to those liars anyway. They all face downsizing because no one watches.

I get the feeling. He will be arrested and probably was already living in a hell of his own making. All I can do is try to not be enraged by everything like everyone else.

Don’t get mad. We all gotta simmer down.

Very sad

True but the interest and dividends don’t involve any sell decisions and harvesting them rather than selling will typically mean more cashflow in the future. There is a reason many trust documents only let the gold digger 2nd wife spend the income and save the principal for the kids haha.

Also, after the next 30-40% sell off you will probably be very proud of your pool LOL.

Exactly. My thing is free time and low stress. I could probably sit under a tree and read library books the rest of my life and spend almost nothing. If I was a single man I might already be good to go. Now I also have in the back of mind I would like to someday be in a position to maybe buy or start a business that could potentially employ my children if they need that.

Spending the principal is tough. Spending the interest and dividends instead of reinvesting is much easier. So I guess the goal for me is get the income big enough to use that later in life. Slowly transition from growth to income producing in 15 years or so. Had to sell a chunk last year to add on to my house. I have 3 kids that need their own room at this point, what are you going to do. It hurt. I have tapped dividends and interest to help with trips before and I have no problem with that. But yes part of this investing thing is just a game.

Gold Price $3,659 Heck of a run and still not many care. Up 40% YTD after a 25.5% return last year.

Perfect example is the 2000 bubble with the fiber buildout. Then CSCO switches made most of it worthless.

Except it’s digital and not physical and can become redundant or obsolete very quickly. The non AI enabled data centers built just a few years ago are already becoming obsolete. I get what you are saying but it may be an over simplification.

Market CAP for Mag 7 is easiest to verify. As of this morning I get 19.83T Just off 2.33 Trillion. LOL. It is a BS engine.

Mainly agree with you but GOOGL, MSFT, AMZN at least have the cloud service business that is somewhat aligned with all of this build out and can but saas stuff on top of it. META seems to be on tilt and is kind of worrying me. Open AI is probably not long for this world.

The gold is in the little tiny details. WB reads 500 pages a day not summaries that everyone can get.

Just read it. You will be better off.

Good points. I am an OCD perfectionist as well and just really hate giving someone a wrong answer or even an educated guess, but we are a minority it seems. People are dumb and lazy now and can’t even bother to read their boss’s instructions carefully so this will be a good substitute doesn’t seem like the best path for civilization LOL.

I am really not sure of the use case honestly. There is certainly value in being able to process lots of data and apply even some very elementary logic to that data, but if it gives you a hallucination even 10% of the time it is essentially worthless is it not? Even if I am wrong, these basic things that it cannot do correctly when weighted against the time and funding cost and crazy pie in the sky promises just seems so out of balance from an investment prospective. I also do not think all scientific progress has degraded man, but we live in maybe the most materialistic age ever so that is a common notion and even a hope I think for some reason. But that is another discussion.

Basically any time I ask a super specific, esoteric question it makes up a complete lie. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is an army of humans feeding it boiler plate answers for the most common questions. I mean when it first came out I remember a Google exec saying yes we have that as well but we didn’t release it because it lies constantly. When Open AI let the cat out of the bag, they were forced to play the game.

I understand that but they keep saying it is moving towards AGI or that it somehow models a human brain and has real intelligence. Completely not the case if it can’t figure out that the third letter I have given it is correct and then moves it to the 2nd letter. My point is that it is still, and probably always will be, just a giant statistical calculator that badly needs human guidance.

I play Wordle most days. Today I got it in 3 tries which is rare for me. I put my first two guesses with the colors for each letter into Chat GPT and Gemini. They both got the same wrong answer with the same obvious mistake. Today’s answer is DRIFT. I told both of the systems that “I” was green in the third position. Yet they both answered with DIRTY. Very odd. Not sure this is taking over the world anytime soon.

Yeah but the bet was small and Wall St immediately pushed back. They are now making a huge bet and Wall St. is supporting it for now.