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I'm looking forward to Starlink, too. My boss can't get internet at all and I have a max 3mb speed on a shoddy line. They're saying it'll be 15-50mb speed and starting to roll out in North America around the end of this year. More expensive for the box and the service but not prohibitively so.
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I bet that pizza thinks it's WAY better than the other pizzas, too. But the recipe is unwritten... There's just a certain way pizza is supposed to be made. Anything else would be disrespectful to pizza. If my son is hungry, what am I supposed to tell him?
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I'm way too jumpy and got out at $600. Maybe a good lesson to wait until things level off. I think it's valued at something like the second-biggest company in the US right now. Saw an internet post recently of a young kid who had $65 to his name and wanted to get into investing, so of course he bought Tesla. But it makes me wonder when there's eventually a hiccup, if all the fractional shares left at once, what sort of difference might that make. The EV explosion does make me think about becoming a nickel miner, though. Thinking about Vale right now. Debt, but they've spent a lot of it on environmental stuff, which is obviously more inviting to Tesla than that one big nickel company in Russia which turned a river red. There's one EV company in China that's getting huge, but I kinda also don't want anything to do with China.
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Yeah my father had told me to buy FCEL when it was at $3. But I did what all sons do when fathers give advice. So you think solar wont pick up? I already have Energy Transfer, so Im not looking to do more oil/gas. I picked up Intel on its dip a bit ago, but I have no real long-term hope for it and wouldnt mind moving it to something else.
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Would sure love to make a play on solar. One would figure Biden will eventually be throwing a lot of money at it along with Congress making sure subsidies are in every forthcoming stimulus bill like the last one. And hadn't Trump raised tariffs on Chinese solar? One would guess Biden will also repeal those and China makes more PV cells than anyone. I see that Jinko Solar is on the exchange, though I haven't really run its numbers yet. Any other recommendations folks here might have?
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Come on now, I think you know full well that will never be the case.
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Optimistic articles on bitcoin say that once bigger firms start to accept it as an investment its price will start to stabilize so much more than now. The ones buying now like the idea that they can get in before the big guys do and make a lot of money from it. There's a few select applications where you can pay in bitcoin, but of course with it being on fire lately nobody is going to. But even then the value of the dollar isn't going to turn into Zimbabwe in my lifetime, and so I have a hard time believing I'll be paying for gas with it anytime soon. A lot more firms are starting to get into it now. And I wonder how many firms have hated it so far specifically because Warren Buffet has been very vocal that he'll never buy it.
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Well, the stimulus part wasn't borrowed but just printed. The Fed recently changed their "aim for 2% inflation per year" to "aim for an average of 2%," which gives them a good bit more liberty to keep the printers humming if so desired. I don't see any cause to believe Democrats or Republicans will halt any of it. Too many votes out there to buy. Along with national debt there's also massive corporate debt. Probably also a good number of businesses which got blown up in March but will manage to hang on for a year+ before calling it quits. I see it as a matter of when, but that's still the hardest part. Not like I want to hold onto cash for two years or longer before anything finally happens. Buffett bought some interest in a gold mining company when before he's always hated gold. Granted, a company is a little different yet still kinda the same since their value directly relates to gold price. I also hear some folks recommending agriculture ETFs since poor and rich alike still have to eat. I also wonder about bargain places like Dollar General/Family Dollar, but I don't know much about them yet. I just put a buy in for Ethereum, largely because my bitcoin friend steered me the right way last time and he studies crypto pretty hard. But yeah, I keep trying to think of how a person is actually supposed to value that stuff and there's just no way. Total guessing game apart from its value seeming to be tied to the inverse strength of the dollar.
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I don't recall exactly what my folks charge for rent, but it definitely isn't some bargain. They bought it about three months before the market crashed and immediately lost 40%, but it's probably a $400,000 home at this point. You can walk to the Cardinals and Coyotes arenas, and the development they've done in that area has really helped. Maybe I'm wrong, but I tend to only think that being a landlord is good if you're able to offer any sort of value to that investment, like being able to do repairs yourself instead of hiring it out, or really knowing the real estate market in the area to pick out underpriced homes and know areas that are growing.
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I sold my bitcoin a couple days ago. The phrase "record high" frightens me in general. The entire history of it is big gains and big falls, not steady growth.
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I should have noted it's Glendale, Arizona. Can't get any warmer. Amazingly they were rented out through the summer this year. They won't rent to locals anymore. Locals are only there to party and end up making a mess and/or leave cigarette burns in leather couches. The last straw was when the cleaning lady came in and found 100# of marijuana in the bathroom. Guess the renters thought they had an extra day rented.
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My folks have a second house in Glendale that they rent out. They hire a cleaning lady, a landscaper and a rental agent. It pretty well pays the mortgage but not a money-maker. Pretty good number of folks who rent it for 2-4 weeks at a time. But certainly a better deal than leaving it empty for 10 months out of the year.
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Guess I learned something that high schools are indeed doing all that. Wish I had that class, too. Think we're gonna start a contest at work. Paper-trading (fake money) only, starting with $10k, who can be the first one to get their account under $1. Winner gets the pool.
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The opt-out option would be a lot smarter way of setting it up, kind of protecting people from themselves. And I wonder how many people don't opt-in just because they think the immediate $200 more in their paycheck is a better deal. A high-school class on investing and general life skills would be so much more valuable than AP Chemistry or some other senior-year class. Parents just aren't teaching their kids about these things anymore. I would think more young people are trying their hand at investing after Robinhood kicked off no trading fees. Although I'd guess if you're young and male and don't know what you're doing, you'd probably jump into options trading. Heard a story from not long ago that there's some kind of hedging options strategy, but Robinhood has it where it shows all your losses first and only later shows the profits. So a guy killed himself because he woke up to a -$750,000 account. Worse yet when the profits later rolled in he'd actually made a couple thousand dollars.
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That's really surprising. Even when I was making $26k as an editor, I still had a 401k. Are there that many people simply declining the option, or is it just an extremely small number of jobs which offer retirement benefits? I mean, 18% of the workforce is employed by local/state/federal government. Even accepting that many are part-time, I still have a hard time with only 12% of median earners being invested.
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Really trying to dip my feet into learning how to analyze a company, analyze against their competition, and then figuring out their intrinsic value. Pages and pages of notes so far and haven't even yet found the formulas for the many different valuation methods out there. Pretty overwhelming so far, but I'm sure things will make more sense as the months move on. Found one site which offers company valuations on different models, but $50/mo isn't worth it for a small-time investor. But recognizing that I'm doing more speculation than investing, which is fine for play money but not so much when it will effect your retirement. Right now starting to look into O, a REIT with a good dividend; and A2 Milk.
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Bless this Mess, Fresh off the Boat, etc....I discovered yesterday that 80% of the shows I regularly watch weren't renewed. Not sure if I wanna watch Brooklyn 99 anymore, either.
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So Amazon changed Top Gear into a 'specials only' show now since nobody was watching the first two seasons when they moved from the BBC. I've seen the two specials they have out now and they're still so heavily scripted, everything is staged and full of bad jokes. Amazon has turned the three guys into being nothing but bad actors who don't really even seem to have an affinity for cars anymore.
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Not 'cutting the cord' related, but a youtube channel I sometimes watch is of a younger couple who traveled the world for two years. They said that for a year before they left they signed up for a huge number of travel cards to get those sign-up bonus miles and those "spend $2000 in the first two months for a bonus" cards. Definitely a lot to manage, but it did get them a lot of free flights. Similarly, I have a planned $4000 purchase coming up, so I got the Capital One card just to get that initial-spending bonus.
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I've done my reading (could always do more), but still largely speculating and not investing. Really need to carve out more time each week to sit down and take a better look at one or two companies. Thought pharmacies would do better with a vaccine coming our way, but I guess if it needs -70 temperatures to remain good that doesn't really help them. Did very well on Tesla, though I jumped out at $590 after hearing from many that it was overvalued and could potentially face their first vehicle recall. It's still going up, though. But I think once they get their satellite internet service....off the ground... it'll surprise some folks at just how many rural people are wanting better service. Got some Grayscale Bitcoin Trust a couple weeks ago. Turned out to be good timing. But I have absolutely no idea what to think of it going forward or if I should just cut bait.
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I keep thinking that for folks who watch the Brewers via internet connection and are subject to blackout dates, one solution could be to get a VPN and just say you're in a different state/country. Regular free Youtube has really upped the number of commercials they show. I'd pay $15/mo just to get those removed.
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I tend to like anything Jason Sudeikis or Will Forte do. Speaking of Will Forte, I think Last Man on Earth is on Netflix now, which is a love-it or hate-it show. I hated most of the first season because I don't enjoy main characters you sorta root against, but they changed the character at the season finale of the first season, and I really liked it from then on.
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Watched Ted Lasso based on recommendations here, and you guys were totally right. Really enjoyed it.
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What I liked least about that last season wasn't as much the Mother stuff, but that we spent years watching Ted's Id (Barney) slowly grow as a person and in his relationships, and then they just wiped it out in one swoop. May as well have had the married couple divorce just to round out the awfulness.
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That's awesome. I may look into that in a few years. My flat gaming has just about died because I like VR so much more, but I don't love VR so much that I want to buy a $400 PS5 just to buy a $400 PSVR2 when it comes out.
