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The Christmas tree garland is out of season, but does make it more festive:
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2021-2022 hunting thread
I hope he feels appropriately guilty!
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Do you FIRE? Financial Independence, Retire Early
Luckily for me, the only guy I hang out with that has a net worth over $10M drives a pickup truck and smokes $8 cigars, and cuts them in half to save for later if he feels like he wonāt be able to finish the whole stick.
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Do you FIRE? Financial Independence, Retire Early
Also meant to say: Thanks, but I donāt think I hit a home run on this. I would say I singled my way onto first, was sac bunted over to 2nd, and am waiting to see if a bat can get put on a ball to get me home. Small ball. Lots of factors and people involved.
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Do you FIRE? Financial Independence, Retire Early
Iām a grinder, and we donāt have a super exciting home life. Itās not sexy but I feel ok when I look at our portfolio knowing I can walk away from work if I want and am not a slave to debt. Also, if I quit at 50, Iāll only be at a ~$2-2.6M portfolio balance. Fine for paying for our current standard of living, but noting fancy, and way below some folkās SoL. My wife is weird/OCD about money and is a real penny pincher, so that is a factor in this. Another factor is all of our immediate family/relatives are set financially and are good with money, so I know I wonāt have a bunch of increased expenses dealing with them down the road. I have been very lucky in that regard. To be honest if I quit at 50 Iāll probably get bored and want some more spending money and may go back to work at some point to basically use all the money for fun stuff. Maybe Iāll just keep working but kick the fun budget up a lot. For me, that was the point of FIRE and what Iāve done, to get a foundation of wealth laid and then have options. I didnāt want to end up like the Jack Lemmon character in Glengarry Glen Ross. On the wealth building side I missed many opportunities. We didnāt take some risks along the way that many of our cohort did that is bothersome now. We didnāt want to be landlords and sold all the houses we owned along the way that would have been killer Austin rental properties now. Passed on other investment properties that have doubled in value. Should have pushed more money into the market during the covid dip. Also, we hate having debt and have paid off houses at accelerated rates, when a more sophisticated investor would have allocated capital differently and been more leveraged; this has probably cost us a fair amount in the long run.
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The Gun Ownerās thread
Do you use a rangefinder and are you planning on dialing turrets / holding over with mil dots, etc.?
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2021-2022 hunting thread
Holy Shit what a dumbass kid and tip of the hat to you and the landowner for not letting that screw up a good thing yāall have going.
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Do you FIRE? Financial Independence, Retire Early
Iāve worked in commercial construction, heavy construction, utilities, consulting engineering, equipment sales, and O&G; and Iām sorry to say, for some reason the fraction of toxic socio/psychopaths trying to climb the ladder no matter the cost is much higher in O&G than anywhere else Iāve worked (even sales!). The exact scenario you describe I watched happen over the last two years at a small O&G firm I was at. I ran the Projects group and he was hired about halfway through my tenure to run the Operations group. It was depressing watching him turn a collaborative, profitable operation into a hyper-political, miserable, (and non-profitable) environment for everyone around him. He spent more time spinning stories and board slides excusing negative results and blaming other groups than he did actually solving problems. As you allude to, he didnāt have enough experience to actually know how to solve problems, he had spent much more of his career figuring out how to climb the ladder than building the skills/knowledge to make good decisions when you get towards the top. To keep this post FIRE related; I read The Millionaire Next Door about 20 years ago and used a lot of the information provided there. I made the decision fairly early in my career that it wasnāt my goal to own my own firm or be someone seen as important, I just wanted to make as much money as I could doing what Iām good at to build wealth and financial independence. I have worked my ass off building experience/knowledge to give myself career flexibility/portability and Iāve negotiated career moves decently to increase income and we have lived below our means, usually at a 20-50% savings rate. I started investing with Vanguard over 20 years ago and became a bit of a Bogle-head early on. Weāve never had any massive breaks or huge windfalls, just the slow and steady saving and investing. Two kids 12 and 9. College 529ās just about funded to my satisfaction. No debt. Currently trying to decide if I āretireā in a few years around age 50 (if I can get the healthcare thing figured out and my portfolio keeps chugging along - should be ok at 4% withdrawal rate at that point), or if I stick with working beyond that age either in upper mgmt or downshift to technical expert and just enjoy tech stuff and not have any mgmt stress. Iām currently running a ~30 person consulting group and definitely feeling some burnout. Wife hasnāt worked in 3 years, was doing part time contract consulting before that. Maybe once the kids are a little further along I can get her to take a low key job with healthcare and I can take a long sabbatical/retire/downshift/whatever.
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The cofounder of CrowdStrike was on 60 Minutes this weekend and said the US could ātakeRussia off the internetā (?) for some time as a response to cyberattacks. I donāt know what that means but the segment made it sound like ātop menā are working on it. Hopefully for real.
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MillerEP probably posted this but in case not, supposedly recent Wali sighting: http://
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Tapatalk is really struggling and did the double post for me as well. The interesting thing is when Tapatalk canāt load a twitter link from MillerEP, it just loads a random surly topic. Like your clicking on Ukraine links and then the Surly āBeer 2018ā thread pops up.
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Good article. This is my favorite quote, probably the understatement of āAfter Stalin died, the Soviet Union became a much safer place to live.ā
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Good article. This is my favorite quote, probably the understatement of āAfter Stalin died, the Soviet Union became a much safer place to live.ā
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Post a pic that makes you lol
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Another Moscow photo. http://- Š ŃŃŃŠŗŠøŠ¹ ŠŗŠ¾ŃŠ°Š±Š»Ń - иГи Š½Š°Ń ŃŠ¹
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She must be right with God. http://- Š ŃŃŃŠŗŠøŠ¹ ŠŗŠ¾ŃŠ°Š±Š»Ń - иГи Š½Š°Ń ŃŠ¹
āOrcs shelled a church in Severodonetsk on Palm Sunday This is the fourth visit to the Severodonetsk Holy Christ-Christmas Cathedral. This time the shells hit the roof.ā http:// Fucking ridiculous.- Š ŃŃŃŠŗŠøŠ¹ ŠŗŠ¾ŃŠ°Š±Š»Ń - иГи Š½Š°Ń ŃŠ¹
During some time I spent in Romania, my host told me that one reason the Romanians hate the Russians is that a Russian plan to defeat some kind of NATO invasion through Romania was to detonate nuclear bombs in the depths of the Black Sea, bringing huge quantities of hydrogen sulfide to the surface and in effect creating a massive chemical attack that would basically kill everything within some distance of the coast. A little far fetched, but thatās what the man said. And there is really high concentrations of hydrogen sulfide at depth in the Black Sea, which is fatal at fairly low airborne concentrations; could really complicate any salvage operation.- Š ŃŃŃŠŗŠøŠ¹ ŠŗŠ¾ŃŠ°Š±Š»Ń - иГи Š½Š°Ń ŃŠ¹
Oryx posted a good longer form article reflecting on the Moscow sinking. Worth the read. āThe catastrophic saga of Russia's attempt at subduing its neighbour must have not only astonished those following the offensive, but also Russia itself. Once thought to be amongst the most powerful armies of the world, the biggest enemy of the Russian Armed Forces turned out not to be NATO, but the Russian government itself. The incompetence, corruption and complete denial of reality so deeply embedded in its way of governing not only contributed to dragging yet another country into a senseless war, but also appears to have eliminated the Russian Armed Forces as an effective fighting force. In this sense, the sinking of the cruiser Moskva, though a seemingly isolated event, is a symptom of far larger problems. Ukraine might derive little direct military benefits from it (though a boost to morale of this kind is perhaps one most beneficial events any military can enjoy), these problems are certain to continue to hamper any Russian attempts to win the conflict militarily. Whether the Russian political and military leadership is capable of eventually tackling these problems to some degree is unknown, but their ability to do so will likely be the single largest determinant in the outcome of Russia's war of brutality.ā http:// https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/04/neptunes-wrath-flagship-moskvas-demise.html- Š ŃŃŃŠŗŠøŠ¹ ŠŗŠ¾ŃŠ°Š±Š»Ń - иГи Š½Š°Ń ŃŠ¹
Maybe Vlad will add some Hall and Oates to his repertoire now Everybody's high on consolation Everybody's trying to tell me what is right for me, yeah My daddy tried to bore me with a sermon But it's plain to see that they can't comfort me Sorry, Charlie, for the imposition I think I got it (got it), I got the strength to carry on, oh yeah I need a drink and a quick decision Now it's up to me, ooh, what will be She's gone, she's gone Oh I, oh I I better learn how to face it She's gone, she's gone Oh I, oh I I'd pay the devil to replace her She's gone, and she's gone Oh why, what went wrong?- Š ŃŃŃŠŗŠøŠ¹ ŠŗŠ¾ŃŠ°Š±Š»Ń - иГи Š½Š°Ń ŃŠ¹
Iām sure Miller posted this, but Tapatalk is really struggling to load and I didnāt see it: Commander of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation Igor Osipov arrested. He was said to have been arrested by people in civilian clothes. http://- Š ŃŃŃŠŗŠøŠ¹ ŠŗŠ¾ŃŠ°Š±Š»Ń - иГи Š½Š°Ń ŃŠ¹
Seriously - I donāt know why Putin has these puppets out there spewing this rhetoric. Honestly, what are they going to ābombā Kyiv with? They canāt fly bombers over as they donāt control the air; their cruise missiles get shot down at a significant clip; maybe use the handful of hypersonic missiles they have left? Itās like he wants these folks out there trying to foment (via dog whistle to this point) the ālaunch the tactical nukesā rhetoric to paint him into a corner so he can finally do what it seems like he really wants to (start using nukes) with the excuse of āthe public demanded itā. If he wasnāt so crazy, heād have these folks using the sinking to lay the groundwork for the turning point/walking back of the āoperationā: āit was an accident/tragedy/major setback/our guys fucked up/this is going to really screw with our operational effectiveness / we need to step back and reevaluate/ maybe this is just too costly right now.ā- Š ŃŃŃŠŗŠøŠ¹ ŠŗŠ¾ŃŠ°Š±Š»Ń - иГи Š½Š°Ń ŃŠ¹
Iām pretty sure those are dry grain storage. Iām all for screwing up the dock, but cruise missiles coming from the north I would think would have a good chance of being hit by Russian SAMs (I mean you would think the Ruskies would stage anti air defense around their port, but maybe they were counting on the Moskva for that?ā¦) How many Neptunes does Ukraine have? - Š ŃŃŃŠŗŠøŠ¹ ŠŗŠ¾ŃŠ°Š±Š»Ń - иГи Š½Š°Ń ŃŠ¹
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