EvacuateSoul

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[–] EvacuateSoul 7 points 3 days ago

Yep, when we visited most of the houses had little names they would use for their address. Villa Bonita 200m S of xxx

[–] EvacuateSoul 9 points 5 days ago

In the sense of an advancing disease, yes.

[–] EvacuateSoul 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Winches have existed for a long time.

[–] EvacuateSoul 10 points 1 week ago

Gerrymandering has no direct effect on statewide races.

[–] EvacuateSoul 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (17 children)

This is a common talking point, but much of what you've said isn't true. We did not have enough gold to cover every dollar the whole time under Bretton Woods, about 65% at the end of WW2, and it wasn't out of the blue that Nixon withdrew from the agreement.

If we had tried to maintain that system, we would have either lost all our gold due to countries taking advantage of the price difference between the peg and gold markets worldwide, or we would have had to restrict dollar supply to the point we would no longer be the reserve currency of the world, neither of which were in our country's interest.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system#Late_application

[–] EvacuateSoul 10 points 1 week ago

"Honey, let's go to bed, so these nice folks can go home."

[–] EvacuateSoul 18 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

WEP, war emergency power. Depends on the aircraft how long you could use it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_emergency_power

[–] EvacuateSoul 2 points 3 weeks ago
[–] EvacuateSoul 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

2017 tax law changed this

One of the law’s changes allowed owners of pass-through businesses—partnerships, sole proprietorships, and S corporations—to deduct 20 percent of their qualified business income (QBI) when calculating their taxes.

Edit: Better source https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-provision-11011-section-199a-qualified-business-income-deduction-faqs

~~https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-2017-tax-bills-pass-through-deduction-largely-favors-the-wealthy-and-encourages-gaming-of-the-tax-code/~~

[–] EvacuateSoul 63 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

1911s being from 1911 make my head spin.

[–] EvacuateSoul 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I put some sources above for you. Junk is junk for sure, but I was making a joke about how colon cancer is climbing during a movement to say even vegetables are bad and meat will keep you healthy.

Not sure if you've seen much around you, but in my area it seems to be all the rage.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by EvacuateSoul to c/[email protected]
 

I'm not a true believer in crypto, but I used to play around with it. I have received a 5-figure USD sum of bitcoin from the MtGox settlement, and I'm considering my options. It is a true windfall. It was worth maybe $100-200 when I used to play daytrader and shop silk road with it.

We are on track for early retirement as it is, but my "smart money" intuition says pay the long-term capital gains and invest in funds, how we do everything else. More money earlier is always good.

My gambler side says to withdraw some maybe, but split the rest into a half dozen likely candidates for someday real world crypto use which may take off. I don't stay up to date on them anymore, so this would take some real research.

The weird Trumpy stuff going on with BTC makes me think it couldn't hurt to hold through the election in case prepper types panic buy it lol.

My wife says it's unexpected so just leave it as a high-risk part of our whole portfolio, but I worry she underestimates the risk and scamminess of it all.

Update: I sold the account down to 0.1 BTC today. I may sell more later on. Thanks everyone for your input.

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