FPSXpert

Gonna likely be Houston about this time tomorrow. Good luck and godspeed to whoever braves the roads.

Delivery really is just much more convenient. I've been getting my groceries delivered like this from a certain big box retailer and it's been very nice. No more bullshit traffic, bullshit parking, bullshit walk in and out, bullshit aisle walking around slow people, bullshit searching, bullshit looking for an employee for 20 minutes to help get a $3 stick of deodorant, bullshit line at checkout, etc etc. Now it's just click add to cart and it shows up at my door the next day.

I'm sure it's partly by design because they charge a subscription for the service, but the convenience and money/time saved not having to drive makes it so worth it.

I view this as a self correction in itself as well. Walgreens is losing money because they skewed so far that they're annoying customers into leaving en masse for other options. Now their options are they can either go back to the old model that worked better, or they can keep playing hardball until more stores go out of business, and someone else can take over that corner and sell better.

That's what I would call a bubble. The same has been said for FAANG stocks because they are success stories, and I do think that TSLA and NVDA are large enough with enough assets that they aren't going belly under overnight.

That said, there were stock advisers, people with degrees and decades of work in early 2001 saying "Buy Enron!" Same goes for dot com stocks, same goes for cypto bros. I've made some pocket change off those two companies "mooning" their share values so I am definitely not complaining, but don't rely solely on those two to go "line go up" forever. When they did my decision was not to buy more, my decision was to very smartly sell off a small portion to "make my money back" per se, and now the rest is house money basically :)

This is why one of my "divestments" is non-cash valuable currency, items such as weapons / tool stockpiles, and training / knowledge. Seriously on that last one is so important if you have a day off learn how to use basic hand and power tools. Learn to cook something. Learn how basic gardening works. Take a CPR and Stop the bleed course, how to do basic electrical work, etc. You don't have to be professional at them but learn how to do them.

Best case scenario, you can be cheaper and look sexy knowing how to cook clean and repair. Worst case scenario, those are going to be worth more than Benjamins in a true SHTF scenario.

"It's okay, I put the park-anywhere lights on"

Don't smoke, kids, or you'll look like this 😂

I'll die on that hill with you. Most likely from self-induced health problems from loving the good food here too much, but for all the crap that we deal with the good food is a plus.

I'm gonna put it this way: In an apartment complex I used to live in, AT&T service was terrible while Sprint (still a thing at the time) and Tmobile had okay service, and Verizon had great service.

One of my neighbors there was literally worked for AT&T as a telcom engineer or something, and was as such eligible to get free cell service from AT&T.

He paid the hundred bucks or whatever at the time for Verizon, instead of the literally free service he could get from his employer, because it was so terrible. Good riddance.

Me using a VPN on the internet all the time and failing the captcha multiple times: Maybe I am a robot?