Screwball

My daughter has a deal similar to that in Columbus. I'm not a fan of that, and I'm not sure she is either but has no choice. IMNSHO, that isn't the way it should work. How about a "market" where we can shop? It's kind of like the internet. Wires are like pipes. Who owns the wires, pipes, fiber to get what we want from point A to point B from who we want. The rest is middlemen shafting us over their business plan of poaching on infrastructure they didn't build or maintain. Roads, bridges, whatever is another matter but ours are not good as one would expect because we are so good at this ****.

I owned some too at one time. IIRC their dividend wasn't bad either.

I don't remember. To expand a little on my post above. My rate is due to expire next month so I have been rate shopping again. It is obvious from the rates quoted, costs are going to continue to go up. All rates per kWh are higher than what I pay now. I haven't looked at natty gas yet but I assume they are higher as well. I also think it's nice of them to charge us $10.00 a month "customer charge" when I have no choice of being their customer. Swine pricks.

Interesting. I have tracked my electric bill since the end of 2021 thru present. I have each bill broken down by charges and kWh. My bill since December 2021 is up %25.58 cost per kWh. Interesting, the actual electric I use is %29.84 of the total bill. Transmission and distribution charges have went up %49.69 and %56.70 per kWh, while the customer charge has stayed the same at $10.00 a month. This is Ohio AEP and me shopping for monthly rates.

I haven't followed this but I did see some really wild chart porn on how this traded. I can't believe people are this stupid.

Investopedia is a great site IMO. Investing in general has become way to complicated, at the expense of many.

Maybe our tax laws are too complicated.

I won't link it but I posted a chart up thread from a few months ago of the 10yr. The Fed went 50bps cuts, then two 25s. A week ago the rate was almost the same as it was before they cut. How'd that work out JPowell? The rate is only one metric. We still have a market, and things don't always work like the monetary geniuses at the Fed think. I do love the yield on the short term rates though. Safe is good.

Are you saying the Fed should raise rates?

Thanks for this. Interesting. Plastic, what a concept at the time. Plastic is oil related and intensive. Times have changed. Hemp is a great thing.

A thread on the insurance angle to the CA fires and insurance companies.

Jean Stapleton made that show IMO. I'm not sure it would get on TV today.

Life is a balance sheet - plan accordingly.

Zuck is one of the biggest creeps on the planet. Nothing would please me more than FB going to zero, unless it was a few banks. 🙂

Not really a strong jobs report, but the action on the 10 year was interesting. At exactly 8:30 when the report hit the tape the 10 year took a spike. Nothing looks funny. JPowell should be proud.

These are two of the biggest hucksters ever to hold the office. This conversation was right out the nose thing from the movie Sting. 🙂 They are the big club.

The big O and the big T were laughing - wow - wonder what about? Simple - they are laughing at us. Same as it always is.

Does it matter when the last 3 people either country elected was the ****-for-brains like Trudeau, Trump, and Biden?

Presidents and golf; Dwight D. Eisenhower's influence on Augusta National remembered - The Augusta Chronicle March 2019. A damn tree...

Cheese is one of those thing where it matters what you want to do with it. I'm only a few hours from the Amish country in Ohio and they have some kick ass baby Swiss. I like that sliced thin to put on sandwiches, but it comes in a wedge. I have a hand slicer that does a slice about 3/32 (guessing, would be interesting to put a caliper on it) thick and 1 3/4 wide that works great. Grating is another story. Cheese likes to gum up, and temperature matters. But we all know that. I would go with horsepower. I've still got one of these and it works like a charm. This is manual, and I'm sure there are electric as well. Can be found on Amazon.

I almost bought one. Decided against it. Why buy one? Maybe make a little money? Maybe, maybe not. But it's fun stuff, and if it trips your trigger, why not? I made some stuff and had a local guy print it. He has access to a print farm best I can tell, then violates copyright laws and sells trinkets for cash out of a local video game type shop. I don't care. I got my stuff. I find it interesting they now sell these machines, which is what they are, for the prices they can sell them for. Another example would be drones. Technology brought to the retail world at an affordable price. That's a good thing.

Good as place as any I guess. Anyone into 3D printing or 2D laser etching/cutting? Once can buy some neat stuff to do some neat things for not a lot of money.

It's probably a myth - drivers... Guys spend thousands of dollars on new clubs all the time. Drivers especially. Does it matter????? I don't think so. For the golfers out there; how many times did you buy a new driver and it was spectacular - until it wasn't. It all of a sudden was just as bad as the driver you just replaced. Imagine that. It ain't the arrow - it's the Indian. Bobby Jones, according to today's technology, shows he had a clubhead speed of 130+ - with hickory shafts. Drink beer and forget it. And don't play the guy with the best tan for money.

Adding; let's not play War Games.

I worked in a test lab/eng/R&D from 1987 to 1999. We started this stuff way back then. All this didn't happen overnight. It has taken this long for the technology to advance far enough to do so. We had a 6 speed manual transmission that drove like an automatic but was too clunky to mass produce because the technology wasn't there yet. Speed mattered, limited by size many times. But we were collecting data via telemetry systems fed to computers at the engine and transmission telling when to shift when we didn't use the handle in the cab. That was 25 years ago. Today? Wow! I think it is nuts, and to be honest, it all scares me. This is different stuff. Self driving cars are one thing - machines (robots) and/or software are being programmed on how to think - and react. This is nothing new - but there is a dangerous threshold to be aware of IMO.