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I need to set up a deepfakes generator just so I can do a version of me with dreads and gold caps, wearing a knit beanie and smoking a rank-ass cigarette. "Muhfukkas be out here reinvent'n shit..."

If a couple of short paragraphs constitute a "rant" for you, your education obviously ended right around the "good enough to read a fortune cookie" stage. The popularity of Twitter makes so much sense now... You whined about "gouging", and I pointed out why it's a terminally-ignorant take. If...

A bit mild for me. Plus I don't have a visceral connection with it like I do with a good Yaucono. :D Took a girlfriend to PR for a 3-day weekend a while back and drove all around the island, including taking her up into coffee country (oh, those old carreteras with the stone markers and the...

Mmmm, love that stuff! We've got cafe Cubano all around here, but most people don't know how to do it right. I have - no lie - driven 25 minutes to this little cigar-and-coffee shop where the smell alone is worth money, just to get a cup. There are times when no substitute will do. :) (I'm not...

I used to have a very nice Dillon press set up, and reloaded myself - then found a guy who did excellent-quality reloads at a price that made it pointless to spend my time (he was great on custom orders, too.) Sold that whole rig... I kinda miss it. There's a whole skill set to it, and being...

When I was teaching pistol-based self-defense with Kent Turnipseed, he insisted that I put 1000 rounds/week downrange for six weeks, and at least 100 per week after that - in fact, he'd only let me instruct in the classroom until I got through that first part. Made me damn sore for quite a...

Note that all of those people you cite also had tremendous skills backing their judgment. Feelings alone are useless without those - and having skills will often give you a "sixth sense" about things that someone with no skills could never have. Ask any soldier who's served in combat about that...

It's called "personal preference" and "availability of options". The strawman of "OMG! The only choices are between $7 coffee and $8 coffee - THE SKY IS FALLING!" doesn't hold up. There's a bunch of businesses - rental car companies, auto repair shops, real estate offices, high-end car washes -...

That is one of the key principles of trading, yes. :)

You're confusing the time that options stop trading in the cash market with expiration. They are not the same. What time of day does option expire? According to NASDAQ, options technically expire at 11:59 AM Eastern Standard time on the date of expiration, which is a Saturday, oddly enough...

[sigh] And... it's too stupid to take the well-deserved L in time. Obviously a part of the "I'll just move the stop away from the price, 'cause it just HAS to recover" gang. Oh well... someone has to provide the liquidity and the good fills for the rational people among us. I suppose we should...

:D:D:D Love it! Oh, the self-panickers among us... There are some really odd relationships in the world. A certain type of Cordyceps mushroom that only grows from the heads of cicadas that are buried by digger wasps... 60-foot long tapeworms... M.W.'s loathsome but irresistible tropism whenever...

Oh... you caught me. How shall I live now? Guess you'd better report it so it can be taken care of. I'll just go back to making those Destriero-level returns and await my punishment.

My, what an odd deja vu experience. I once turned on a light in a (rather high end) hotel room late at night only to see a huge palmetto bug skitter away into some dark corner. It did, however, pause and look at me - with an expression that conveyed exactly your attitude. A relative of yours...

Kudos on spending the time to link to explanations of those things. There are people just up-thread who very likely need a step-by-step guide.

You came here for it. You got it. :D:D:D

Different critter, and wrong demonym. It's "australopithecine", I believe. :) P.S.: Here you go: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pithecanthropus I was particularly leaning into the "extinct primates intermediate between man and the anthropoid apes" part of the definition.

That part, at least, is a bit odd. I live in FL, and my food bills haven't changed but slightly. Of course, I only buy fairly basic stuff - I enjoy cooking, and veggies, rice, chicken, and pork are the biggest items on the list - so I may not be the best demographic for that. Heavily processed...

There's a reason they're called "witching" days.

Oh, the classic "four Fs of survival"; evolutionary behavioral patterns. Some shrink coined a less-pithy and more academic term, but you know college students... M.W.'s responses to me have never risen above that grunting pithecanthropian level, so it seemed reasonable to call it out.