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Addiction is because nicotine is an addictive substance. Not denying my addiction to nicotine. I love the stuff. Pipes and cigars I'm not addicted to because I don't have a mental or physical desire for them. Of course everyone is different. Disagree on vaping being as bad as cigarettes. The best research on vaping has come from the British government, which has basically said that the danger of vaping is about 5% of what a cigarette is.

Turbo I still have that truckload of baseball cards if you still want them for your student. I don't know where they need to be sent or how they can be addressed.

Currently addicted to vaping (way way better than my former addiction to cigarettes). I like a cigar now and again but want to try pipes as a mellower and cheaper alternative to cigars. Pipes and cigars I don't have an addiction to.

Lotta dog hunters by me. If a dog isn't good enough some will just get shot by their owners and others will just be let loose in the woods to eventually starve to death, get hit by a car or get taken to a shelter. Sometimes they'll be run without their GPS collars and if the owner can't find them in a day or two they'll just quit bothering to look and just count on somebody else finding them and returning them even a week later. Letting the dogs tear apart a deer is a good way to train them and some hunters don't bother shooting the deer before it happens.

I've watched every "How to keep a tobacco pipe lit" video I can, yet I'm still re-lighting every few puffs. I recognize it takes some skill, but I can only do it for so long before I get fed up and quit.

He knew full well he'd be fired at the end of the season, so there's zero doubt he made a ton of phone calls to his agent and lawyers to find out how he could keep his contract money. Maybe they just forgot to tell him not to kick people. History says over and over that if you've got talent but you're a total loser of a human being, it invariably blows up in the team's face. That teams rarely learn this lesson is surprising.

When I heard Giannis was out my first thought was "Eh, he could use the rest."

That does help, thank you. About what I thought the downsides were, but being told assets could be liquidated really confused me. I'm confident enough staking the Avax/Cosmos/Sol of the world, so I'll eventually have to take a deeper look and see what the APY is for them. I'll give Osmosis a look, thanks for the suggestion.

Sounds to me like they had someone picked for the job already but just had to do the formality of posting the job opening, and so they paid about no attention to the other applicants. My first interview for the career I'm in now was like that--before any questions were asked the lead interviewer congratulated me for making it to the interview round.

Thanks. Since you mentioned LP (?) and DeFi staking, I was reading that it's considered high-risk because if the market goes down a lot in the time you have it staked, you risk your assets being liquidated. Is that true? I'd been thinking I'm a bit over-leveraged and so I wanted to do something else with a chunk of my money. So all I could think of is staking non-Tether stablecoins. Otherwise I was just going to long-term-hold a bigger project like Solana or Avax after this current bubble settles down and then just ignore any dips. I feel confident I'll do a better job taking profits next year. Plus I hopefully have a second income coming which will be used as my "buy the dips" fund.

Been a big learning year for me especially in terms of taking profits and using volatility to my advantage. My value-investing background says "The best time to sell is never," which doesn't so much apply to this market. I'm looking forward to next year now that I have a better sense of taking profits when a token reaches something of a high. I plan on checking the Fear and Greed Index a lot and using that as the big indication of whether I should be in or out of the market. Also may look to stake a decent percentage next year, too. I'm feeling like I'm a bit over-leveraged with what I'm actively trading, and so staking an L1 coin should be good to be able to ignore some of the ups and downs but make a small amount of interest on it.

There's a lot of recruiting by a city when it comes to a big company considering moving a lot of jobs there. Local taxes are obviously big, but they also want recreation opportunities in order to recruit employees to fill those positions, and sports teams add to that.

Could we have a situation where Leonard is offered a HC job somewhere else and PC is fired only to retain Leonard at Wisconsin and not lose him? Although I've heard from inside sources that Leonard loves Wisconsin more than he loves the idea of being the HC somewhere else and wants to remain with the Badgers in whatever capacity.

Yep. Cold oven @ 405. Pizza is ready about a minute after the oven dings that it's come to temperature. The thinnest of crispy layer on the bottom the way pizza is supposed to be.

I've heard before that only certain types of flour work well if you're going to overnight-proof dough in the fridge. Anybody know what I should be using? OO?

Thank you for that kind post. Unfortunately one of my faults in investing is I don't hold on to tokens long enough. I made some money off of AVAX but didn't catch the craziness. Fortunately, though, I'd moved it into FINA and Sandbox. I'm thinking next week I may start pulling out 10% per week just in anticipation of the crash. Dunno. But I'm scared of holding too long and just eating a big dip.

Whenever I watch highlights of games in Minnesota, they play that stupid horn after every single positive play. Super annoying.

But as BSCR noted, there is literally no way they CAN have a controlling interest. They could marry a shareholder of the early era stock sales I like it. Consolidate power through arranged marriages. One day they'll rule the kingdom!

I'll support whatever it takes to keep the DH out of the NL.

The ProShares futures ETF has a 1% fee. Grayscale has a 2% fee, and even free stock trading exchanges you're paying a market maker. Somebody somewhere is always making money off you/me. I almost forgot that Robinhood offers crypto, too, but just a few of them. So it can depend on what you're looking to do, too. Some folks just want Bitcoin and Ethereum, and for that, Grayscale/Robinhood/futures ETF or waiting for a spot ETF is probably your best bet. But if you're hoping to find that next 10x, then you'll want a crypto exchange. But yeah, when you get into it, for a good long while it'll feel like you're seven years old and you just lost your parents in Chinatown. But hey, you've always got us here!

A former boss bought a lot of sports memorabilia. The teams and players themselves don't own the jerseys. The memorabilia contract is bid out for crazy money. Then there's a guy, likely with great connections, whose job it is to be in the locker room and collect the jerseys, and then they're each given usually holographic authentication. Should a player toss out their jersey, they have to pay for it since it would be lost revenue for the memorabilia company. Nothing gets washed, either. Dirty uniforms are more valuable. He also owns some baseball card photo negatives, which were pretty neat. I've been told the police officer whose job it is to stand around in the bullpen also has great connections.

Wouldn't the NFL want to kill the City owning the team? I would presume public ownership would make all their financials public, and I can't imagine the NFL would like people (especially the players) know what sort of revenue they make per year.

What I'd recommend is going to Coinbase Pro. Remember it'll be different from regular Coinbase. Pro will be the one with the candle charts. It'll take a couple days to get your bank verified and all that. Definitely use a strong password and 2FA. I haven't ever been sent one, but definitely if you get an email from Coinbase that looks all official, assume it's a scam. You can also get one-time-use 2FA codes, which would be helpful if you ever lose your phone. Also get some portfolio tracker, because Coinbase ain't gonna give you a tax form. I use two different exchanges and will trade on them because it's cheaper and faster. I use DEXs, but only when I want to buy a token not yet listed on the exchanges. You're probably never going to have a transaction of 0.25% or less. And yeah, Ethereum's gas fees are outrageous. At this point I don't buy any Ethereum-based token on a dex unless I can get it off an exchange. I feel comfortable holding a modest amount of money on Coinbase. A bigger amount you might want to look into a hardware wallet like Ledger. Online wallets are convenient, but they also end up subject to hacks if you happen to download some virus on your computer. Should be common sense, but don't trade crypto or use an online wallet on a public wi-fi. Metamask is the most popular online wallet and you'll need some sort of online wallet to eventually trade on a dex. But also double-check the online wallet address before you download it--Fantom Wallet has a pretty bad copycat version out there now that people are downloading. Not sure if I've posted this before, but good Youtube channels: Whiteboard Crypto--a great "What is ___" about crypto and doesn't push opinion Invest Answers--some opinion, but generally good quality stuff Altcoin Daily--The Nightly News of crypto Alex Becker--good for degenerate low-cap gaming coins Elio Trades--Been liking him more, though he can be overly bullish at times JRNY Crypto and Sheldon Evans are also good It's also of value to go on CoinGecko and use their "categories" tabs. It helps you learn basically what each coin is about. Especially if you have an industry skillset like you know the Real Estate market, you can focus on just the coins in that category. It's also a great way of investing because there's otherwise just too much out there to properly learn.

When the market crashes I'll be curious if NFT prices go with it. If they do I'm thinking I may well buy "land" on Sandbox.

Stuff like Valkrye that just came on the market is a futures ETF. Grayscale has applied for a spot ETF and that's likely to be approved mid/late December. Right now Grayscale has a few different cryptos it offers, though technically you're investing in the trust which only owns that particular crypto. It's worth looking at some of the differences, as Grayscale doesn't track perfectly with the crypto market. But otherwise yeah, just go with Coinbase Pro. It has a good security record, though I wouldn't hold six figures there. Alts are where it's at!