Heretic

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On Feb 16, 2019:

  • Heretic replied to "What's outraging you today?" at 03:45 pm
  • posted by FatHobbit

    It's funny. The losses stand out to me more than the gains.  I looked and even with the terrible end of 2018 I am still up 40% from January 2017. You're right. 

    I also think part of it is timing (to go along with how, as was said, losses can be more likely to weigh on a person than gains). Because the end of '18 was bad enough that, regardless of how good the rest of the year was and regardless of how '19 has shown an improvement to start with, those months where I was watching shit going downward are what sticks out to me at the moment. Give me a few more months of growth and I'll likely have forgotten about those bad months, but right now they're the main thing I think of when I think about market finances. And it also was such a departure from how things had been trending. For a long time, at least for me, it was gain, gain, gain, gain with an occasional month that had a small loss here or there. So to have a period where there were notable losses also sticks out because I'd guess if you looked at the past handful of years, that period would be in the "stick out like a sore thumb" realm where they're so different from the norm that they're impossible not to notice.

On Feb 15, 2019:

  • Heretic replied to "Do you and your partner share political beliefs?" at 11:26 am
  • posted by QuakerOats

    I don’t know how she could be in that environment long term – wow.

     

    We’re on the same page in our house; although my sibs have somehow fallen victim to the left …….too much liberal urban echo chamber.

     

    Probably because of having to spend time around you.

  • Heretic replied to "Disgusted by the Trump administration part II" at 10:22 am
  • posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

    It's all so simple and so clear.  Thank God there is a wise person such as you who can fight the good fight and fend off this mob of liberals you seem to be engaged with.  

    You really, really, really missed the actual point being made.

  • Heretic replied to "What's outraging you today?" at 10:19 am
  • posted by jmog

    My tax burden is lower and my 401k and IRA are both much higher now than in 2016. I have made many more “dollars” since Trump took office. I am also not rich.

     

    Unless you have no job and have no money at all in the stock market, you have made money because Trump is in office. You may not want to admit it, but facts don’t care about your feelings. 

    So, to recap:

    1. Geeblock used how he hasn't made money to say that no one has made money -- ie: the logical fallacy of using anecdotal evidence to claim something is truth.

    And in response:

    2. Jmog used how he has made money to say that anyone who has done anything has made money -- ie: the logical fallacy of using anecdotal evidence to claim something is truth.

    And that is the Internet in a nutshell.

  • Heretic replied to "2018 Ohio State Basketball" at 10:12 am
  • posted by FatHobbit

    After tonight I suspect they might win one of the northwestern games and that's about it 

    Yeah. Before this 4-game stretch, I was expecting 3-1 and hoping for 4-0 and they got 3-1...but they did it in a very uninspiring way. Easy win over Rutgers, two ugly up-and-down performance wins over PSU and Indiana and this debacle last night. I know Illinois is playing well right now and they now have 4 straight wins, but that is a game they HAVE to win. Issues of being a young team with no true point guard. Can't count on guys on a night-by-night basis (Luther had been great recently and was a complete non-factor last night) and are plagued by too many turnovers every single game (Jackson, who is a shooting guard playing the point, had FUCKING SEVEN TOs last night! How in the... ?!?!)

On Feb 13, 2019:

  • Heretic replied to "2018 NFL Season Chatter" at 03:38 pm
  • posted by BR1986FB

    LOL...old Elway desperate to find anything off the trash heap to help the Donks.

    Went on ESPN to see who was playing in college BB tonight and their front page story says that between Flacco and Keenum, Denver currently has $28.5 million of their cap invested in two QBs, with neither being their guy for the future. That's both hilarious and sad at the same time to see a team having that much $$$ put into two stop-gap picks at that position.

  • Heretic replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 12:53 pm
  • posted by Spock

    Lololoo loo Ok I.  The biggest single increase in any pay check i have gotten in a decade was from his tax cuts. You dont Know what you are talking about.

    Are you talking your week-by-week take-home being increased? Because I've been seeing a lot of rumblings by people complaining about how they've gone from having a refund to having to pay or from having to pay a little to having to pay a lot when they go to file. With the primary reason, from what I gathered from an article I read about this (ie: I skimmed it, therefore, I might be somewhat off), being that they got more take-home pay on a weekly basis due to how things were set up...and then, because they're the kind of idiot that thinks "MOAR TAKE-HOME = I WIN!!!!" and then stops thinking right after that thought, they're completely baffled by how the gubment is sinking their claws in a bit more at filing time.

  • Heretic replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 11:29 am
  • posted by SportsAndLady

    Really trying to argue you don’t slobber on trump’s nuts?

    Hilarity is hilarious.

  • Heretic replied to "What's outraging you today?" at 10:27 am
  • posted by Spock

    Your a Dope..........Trump doesnt pay for golf

    Lord, you are stupid as fuck. There's the cost for his trip to whichever of his resorts he's golfing at, for one thing... And his protection while at said resort.

  • Heretic replied to "College Basketball Thread" at 10:23 am
  • posted by SportsAndLady

    I turned the game off when duke was down 20 with 7:30 left. I read your post and laughed. 

    Didnt realize you weren’t kidding lol wow

    When I saw the score on TV, I figured there was a glitch or something. It was a 20-point game midway through the second half when I stopped watching it. Holy fucking choke job, Louisville!

On Feb 11, 2019:

  • Heretic replied to "2018 Ohio State Basketball" at 12:52 pm

  • Yeah, good road win against a team that I have no clue how to judge, as far as quality of win. Indiana has wins over three high-level teams (and those three wins place them among the best teams in the country as far as "best three wins of season" goes), but have been a .500 team outside of those three games. It's rare that you have a team with results that are so widely scattered over the spectrum to where you can't predict what'll happen on any night.

    One thing I wish is that they could maintain prosperity in games. Against PSU, it looked like they'd blow them out of the gym early on and the game wound up being a nail-biter. Yesterday, it looked like they'd be on the verge of taking complete control multiple times, but let Indiana back into it each time and wound up in another nail-biter. When they gave up three 3s in 90 seconds to lose a 9-point lead, I was about 98% convinced they were going to blow it. Fortunately, they got a couple huge plays down the stretch (that Jackson 3 after Indiana took the lead was ice cold!) and were able to get the win.

  • Heretic replied to "Cancer sucks" at 12:45 pm
  • posted by SportsAndLady

    “Fuck cancer” is one of the few statements that is universally supported. 

    I had all 4 grandparents two years ago. Now down to just 1. 2/3 from cancer, the other from Alzheimer’s. 

    Alzheimer's has the same "Fuck it" sentiment for me. Happened to my dad and his mom, meaning that genetics says I'm probably pretty likely to be getting it down the road. One of my friends has a brother working in medicine in the field of trying to find a cure for it; I've told her that, down the road, if his team comes up with anything, I'd likely have no trouble being a test subject.

  • Heretic repped a post in "What's outraging you today?" at 12:40 pm
  • posted by thavoice

    When I was in California last week they really were making it confusing with their bathrooms.

    A place had 2 "all gender" bathrooms which in reality would only accommodate two people using the facilities at the same time.  ANother place at a female restroom, but then also an all gender bathroom.

    Again, doesn't seem like the best use of space.  The All Gender room had a urinal and a toilet right next to each other.  It isnt like two dudes would be using it at the same time, and if a dude was in there no way a woman would use it.

     

    Just seemed like a total waste.

    Also, the stench of weed.....geesh.   Waiting for trans and you could smell it bellowing out of many vehicles, and on the drive to the airport there were waves of it enough that you smelled it easily in the vehicle.

    That state is a trainwreck

    Were you trying to figure out the restroom situation because you were "waiting for trans"?

On Feb 8, 2019:

  • Heretic replied to "2019 Off-Season NFL Chatter" at 03:44 pm
  • posted by SportsAndLady

    Lol, screamin a smith says Dwayne Haskins is more of a runner than a thrower. Haskins has maybe 150 career rushing yards. 

    Coming on the heels of his KC-vs-SD preview where he highlighted a bunch of players who were either on injured reserve or not even on those teams, it's looking like he's even less knowledgeable about football than Barkley is about the average team he's talking about in the NCAA tournament.

  • Heretic replied to "College Basketball Thread" at 02:21 pm
  • posted by wildcats20

    Follows it up with a loss to Illinois. 

    Yeah, have to wonder if the loss of Langford is starting to show its effects. Hard for any team to be the same after losing a good cog and since his status went to "he won't be back this year" a week or two ago, they've been struggling a lot more than when him returning was potentially in the cards.

  • Heretic replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 02:18 pm
  • posted by like_that

    Nice to know you don't have your steak well done.

    I'll be here all week.

    Look, I'll admit that I have my quirks and flaws, but I'M NOT A FUCKING UNCIVILIZED MONSTER, DAMNIT!!!!!

  • Heretic replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 01:32 pm
  • posted by O-Trap

    I might fucking move.  Seriously.

    Yeah, I'll put up with a lot, but you try to separate me from a steak dinner, there will be blood flowing down the streets.