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Interesting on the Vitamin D. I am no expert but is seems that if one if deficient in any number of vitamins or minerals then that can only hinder the body's use of them as building blocks for immunity defense. Thanks for the research. I would think that as well, but there have been numerous studies trying to show the same for vitamin C and they have all been inconclusive. Vitamin D is the only one I know of that has been shown effective against cold and flu.

I signed up for the Disney+ free trial this weekend to start watching The Mandalorian. I watched 6 episodes so far and I'm really enjoying it. I'm not sure that I'll keep Disney+ after my free trial period, but I highly recommend signing up to watch that one show.

My son had the flu 3 weeks ago and my wife got it a week later. It's a bad one this year with a high fever and bad cough. My son had a fever of over 104 at one point. I never got it. I took Vitamin D3 every day (I do anyway in the winter), Echinacea (I know the science is week here, but has no side effects), and a zinc coldeeze or two every day. Plus I washed my hands constantly when home (if your hands aren't red and sore then you aren't washing them enough). I didn't know about Sambucol. Vitamin D prevents colds and flu. https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583

:o The nuclear option!

I'd take the smell of pot or cigarettes over the smell of too much perfume any day.

My wife and I were both from small towns, so it was culture shock for sure. A funny story. We bought a couple of rubbermaid type barrels for our trash to leave behind the building. So the night before the first trash day I put the barrels on the sidewalk. I noticed the next morning that the barrels were gone and our trash bags were sitting on the sidewalk. Someone took our trash bags out and stole the barrels. We were telling some friends we made the story and they all laughed at us and said "What were you thinking? You can't just leave brand new barrels out on the sidewalk in Worcester". They used to laugh at our small town sensibilities all of the time, like when my wife mentioned that she noticed that at the grocery store a lot of people pay with travelers checks. Apparently it was food stamps, not travelers checks. But back to the topic we just got used to the pot smell. Our apartment smelled like pot pretty much constantly for 3 years.

The first apartment my wife and I had together before we were married was on the ground floor right next to a bar. We had a huge fat lady living upstairs from us who you could hear <boom> <boom> <boom> every time she walked. And she would yell at and beat the hell out of her kids every day. The couple on the side of us in our building (the bar was the next building) would yell and fight constantly, throw things at each other, and it sounded like he was beating her up all the time. And when we'd leave our apartment in the morning it wasn't unusual (it was summer) to have to step over a passed out drunk on our front steps. We didn't stay there that long, just a couple of months and from there moved into a 3rd floor apartment where the people below us were heavy pot smokers and the spanish speaking folks that lived in the building next door would yell stuff at my wife and whistle every time she left the building, but it was a huge step up from the 1st place so we stayed there 3 years until we bought our fist house in the burbs. I don't miss city living.

27.83% for 2019*. Underperformed the S&P500, but I'll take it. I sold about 10% of my portfolio to invest in a piece of real estate in July and some of the stocks I sold did well the second half of the year, so that probably hurt me some. Also POEFF going way down in December (from ~US$2 to US$0.80) hurt my returns. *EDIT: Changed 2020 to 2019. I was getting ahead of myself I guess.

I noticed the same thing. It shows how people are starting think about it, even though it obviously has no value because it isn't printed on green paper with pictures of good (i.e. dead) politicians on it.

MSFT maybe? Gates taking over as Chairman of the Board and Buffet remaining CEO until is no longer able then use whatever succession plan is already in place. And Nadella still running Microsoft.

It is meaningless also because of population density. LA county has more people in it than the least populated 9 states do.

Oh boy. People think the Politics section is bad... No kidding. Somehow I don't think "buy low, sell high" is the optimal mental model for family members... I did not realize you could sell family members. Where do I sign up? How do you determine cost basis? How do you add the ongoing expenses to the cost basis to lower realized gains? Is the person sold treated as a capital asset or as a collectible? So many questions... Maybe a place to start your research: The Price of Pain and the Value of Suffering https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/the-price-of-pain-and-the-value-of-suffering.html

And yet: https://www.justfacts.com/news_poorest_americans_richer_than_europe

Oh boy. People think the Politics section is bad...

for a value investor who knows what he/she wants, of course. can ask the same question about wine, cigars etc. you have to pay up for quality, and the intrinsic value is in the quality when you can afford the price "you have to pay up for quality" That depends on your definition of quality. You can get a "quality" car brand new for ~$20K (Toyota Corolla or Hyundai Elantra) if by "quality" you mean dependable car that will run for more than a decade with little to no problems whatsoever. If by "quality" you mean "luxury" and/or "technology" regardless of the dependability, then you are correct.

I've had bad luck with Ford and Chevy and good luck with Toyota and Hyundai. I'm still driving my 2007 Hyundai Elantra and my 2006 Toyota Sequoia Limited, I hope to keep at least the Sequoia another 5 years or more, the Elantra has over 230k miles so I don't know how much longer it will run for, but knock on wood it is running great right now. Someday when it is time to replace them, I'm not sure if I will go Toyota SUV and Hyundai compact car again or step up to Lexus and/or Genesis. I will probably step down in size from the Sequoia next time and either get a 4Runner or a Lexus GX460. For the Elantra I'll either get another Elantra or step up to a Sonata or even to a Genesis G70 or Lexus IS. Cars are too expensive to experiment with other companies that I don't trust. Whatever I buy I will want to drive them another 10-15+ years for well over 200K miles.

My sell order for my trading position in AYRSF was triggered at $9.30 today. I'm holding some as well, but this is the third time since the beginning of November that I've bought 1000 shares at $8.30 and sold them at $9.30. I'm doing this in my IRA at Fidelity so no trading fees and no taxes. I'll buy back another 1000 shares if it hits $8.30 yet again.

White House briefly locked down over mystery ‘blob’ overhead https://www.timesofisrael.com/white-house-briefly-locked-down-over-mystery-blob-overhead/

Yes, Fleabag is also great. I just can’t watch this when my son is around. ;D. That’s the thing with Netflix, they have a lot of foreign TV. I am sucker for Brit TV and now Netflix also has a lot of German TV series, Chinese and Korean costume movies and who knows what else. Amazon Prime has one of this too, but no ones else comes close. To get these things one needed to buy a special subscription, which would cost quite a bit, now it is included in Netflix and Amazon “all inclusive” streaming buffet. Disney can’t beat that, but of course they have another angle. I haven't seen them yet, but I've heard good things about 'Dark' (German) and 'Money Heist' (Spain -- La Casa Del Papel). “Dark” is excellent, but it’s also really dark. Money Heist is on my “to view list”. I haven't seen "Dark", but "Money Heist" is excellent.

NASA Cameras Capture Soundwaves From ‘Mystery Spacecraft’ Hurtling Across Earth https://www.unilad.co.uk/science/nasa-cameras-capture-soundwaves-from-mystery-spacecraft-hurtling-across-earth/

Is it soapy with exaggerated overacting? I've recently watched, again, Ken Burns' The Civil War. Fantastic, as always. The Expansion season 4 and The Witcher are coming soon, looking forward to both. I don’t think “The Crown” has any overacting, I found the acting exquisite. It’s a bit like Downton Abbey in a way, except all the characters and events are real. The season 1 was slow at times and I almost thought I would skip and look for something else, but Season 2 and especially Season 3 got better and better. Speaking of the UK, I just finished watching all 3 seasons of "Harlots" on Hulu. Good show.

Sold some Apple today. Just to take some profits and raise some cash to hold. I sold about 20% of my AAPL shares (cost basis in the $90s).

I bought some more WFCF recently as well. Almost doubling my position and reducing my cost basis.

I don't follow Mongolian Growth Group anymore, but Kupperman is still actively blogging: https://adventuresincapitalism.com/

I guess the music stopped at some point. The day the music died.