PhineasC

I have no idea how that is worth it in any scenario, but I guess the draw to be near your momma must be very strong.

LOL Tell us how you really feel about Baltimore. Having grown up with that humidity, I can't help but laugh at the New England crew when they complain about a "day of high dews" with something like 80 degrees and 75% humidity. That's like a beautiful dry summer day in Baltimore. I also laugh at the crew that begs for "oppressive heat and humidity" in New England. I am pretty sure they have no idea what that really means.

LOL We already gave you the solution, but you want to stay in NYC to be near your family. So you will never own a home.

Many Americans are terrible with money and terrible at judging market forces so I think some of this mad rush to move to a new house is a form of mass hysteria. I am seeing people around here jumping from one suburb to another in basically the same exact style and size of house, but probably paying a premium. They seem to just be caught up in a craze. They are told it's "time to buy" so off they go...

So glad I bought my place in Randolph when I did. It would be much more expensive now.

This is a split that has existed in this country since the 1950s, and probably before. It's an interesting question for sure. The gay community actually plays a large role in gentrification, and the fact is they lean left to a large degree. https://www.vice.com/en/article/nz5qwb/when-it-comes-to-gentrification-lgbtq-people-are-both-victim-and-perpetrator Of course, there are also factors such as the draw of art and music venues that exist in urban areas, along with restaurants.

Definitely. It's very hard to buy something rundown and just sit on it, however. The lower-level daily crime is overwhelming in parts of the city. Crimes such as theft, squatting, destruction of property, ripping out the copper from the walls, drug use, etc make it very hard to simply buy a cheap row home and wait for gentrification. Someone I know recently tried to do it and his place has been ransacked many times. He had to basically leave it as a bombed-out shell for now. He still routinely finds evidence of attempted forced entry when he goes down there to check on it.

That is true, but gentrification brings with it other issues. In neighborhoods in Baltimore where it has occurred, prices skyrocket as a bunch of white liberals move in, pushing out the original poor (usually African-American) residents. The new residents then form HOA-style orgs to "keep out the riff-raff" and force them into even worse parts of the city. I expect the usual hypocritical suspects to drop emojis on this post instead of addressing this harsh truth or buying themselves a starter home in a city such as Baltimore, however. LOL

Yes, places like Baltimore. Detroit. Chicago. Philly. There are plenty of small starter homes in these places.

Meanwhile inner cities are getting hollowed-out and turned into war zones...

If the company has a healthy pipeline and business plan, it might be a good investment.

Blockchain technology itself has value, of course. That's not what everyone is investing in, however. And NFL players very often make dumb decisions with their money. In the past, they used to invest in dodgy sports bars in Miami. Now they take their pay in Bitcoin.

It'll go down even faster than it went up. I also don't get this idea that the big banks will use one of these existing blockchain implementations. They will just develop their own blockchain implementation that they control, rendering these other coins nearly worthless overnight. IMO, a better long-term investment is in the companies that will deploy blockchain technology for the large banks, not these silly coins.

But those things have some entertainment value inside of the game, at least. People are now buying meme images... it's nonsense. Some kind of mass hysteria situation, I think.

People who think this current craze is sustainable are going to lose the farm. This is just like someone who thinks they can "beat the house" in Vegas consistently and come out ahead.

But this is more akin to a guy selling cure-all elixirs off the back of a wagon. Sure, it "has value" as long as the hype lasts. But the bottom falls out quickly and there is literally zero residual value once you drink the concoction and realize it does nothing.

Glad to hear folks are getting in, making a little scratch, and getting out. If you think of this like a casino and learn to control your gambling impulses, things will have a better chance of working out. I hate to sound like someone's grandpa, but I still don't think trading in ideas that literally have zero realistic underpinning (such as shitcoins and Gamestop) will ever be more than a slot machine. Probably even less reliable than a slot machine, actually. There is not enough GenZ meme power in the entire universe to change the basic fact that humans ultimately want things that have real tangible value, in the long term. There is so much fakery in the market today, and things are getting way too overheated again. Another one that is silly is the NFT craze. Many of these things being sold have zero real value.

I like how this is being painted as a Millennial vs Boomer battle when as usual it will just be the 0.1% versus everyone else, just like everything else. Once some establishment people make some money in crypto, they will pull up the ladder behind them same as always happens.

The bottom is going to fall out eventually.

These same people also always have to leave the family parties at 6:15 PM to get the kids home to put them to bed. I actually know people like this. They are usually pretty tweaked and neurotic types and their kids are weird.

He's talking about the American style of eating a huge fried dinner along with sitting down on the couch immediately after eating and then falling asleep. That is a really bad combo if you are eating dinner at 8:30 PM. It works for Spaniards because they eat a small, healthy dinner with a glass of red wine then take a stroll in the cool evening air before turning in late. Totally different scenarios.

Sitting down as a family to eat dinner every day around 5:30-6:00 PM is really important to us. I saw some stat recently that the majority of families don't even eat together anymore. Everyone just grabs whatever out of the fridge and runs to their corner of the house, I guess. I find that rather sad, but I supposed every family dynamic is different. We do let our kids stay up later than most, 10 - 10:30 is normal. I know some parents who have their kids, even older kids, in bed by 7 PM when the sun is still up and kids are still playing outside. Those kids then of course wake up at 5 AM... that's kinda weird IMO but I guess it works for them. Maybe that's the schedule for modern latchkey kids whose parents need to drop them off at school by 7 AM.

I don't have any issue with legalizing drugs (they should all be legal, along with prostitution, polygamy, etc.), but if you are finding yourself needing to "microdose" on hallucinogenic mushrooms simply to survive your crappy day-to-day, that isn't going to end well. That's how you end up needing more and harder stuff. People really should be trying to establish their normal lifestyle baseline as no drugs of any kind. If drugs and booze are a required part of how you deal with simply being alive, you will have issues. Drugs and booze can be part of a way to kick back and have fun every once in a while, not a daily routine like eating breakfast.

It's been next level for sure.

The difference is incredible. If you are a light user, you can probably go days between charges. It's that much of a difference. I have the MacBook Air. Plenty of power for native apps, and the Office suite is native now. I have been sitting outside by the pool working on my laptop since 11 AM with backlight at full power and streaming music to Bluetooth speakers and still at 60%. No Intel MacBook could keep up with that.