WTF-Beta

Love these threads. ️

1- no
2- no
3- yes, but I'd spend the same money in the UK instead
4- no
5- no

I like houses to have vertical facades. I'm not a fan of "organic architecture."

Thanks!

@CHAS said:

The Hydrogen powered Mirai.https://www.toyota.com/mirai/
Get your own little Hindenburg.

I'd love to!

But anything with this level of technology will be expensive.

My car didn't arrive today and might not until Monday or Tuesday (it is insured as of last night, though).

It's old school-- normally aspirated internal combustion with a mechanically geared automatic. It has an electrical system of course but not "electronics" in the modern sense.

It has hand crank windows if I recall.

I'm excited but have always thought hydrogen had great potential.

So I heard him talk about Gaza.

He said his position is Israel shouldn't be given weapons but should be sold them if they follow the applicable laws. He said nothing about the fact Israel doesn't follow the applicable laws.

He said nothing about the fact Israel alone does not allow its nuclear program to be monitored by the relevant international agency.

He said nothing about the fact that AIPAC is a lobby for a foreign agent and, again, refuses to follow our law by registering it as such.

IMHO, his moment on the political stage arrived and has since departed.

Again, JMHO.

Yeah, it's a scary topic. I won't regale everyone on a Saturday night with the horrible facts about it I have filed in my memory.

They know how to cook in that part of the world. Ask me how I know.

The New Deal FTW.

What bloviating circus clown minions!

I don't know the scale. The one that hit us was EF-1.

"Jun 26, 2025 — The twister touched down in Largo near Ulmerton and Belcher Roads on Wednesday evening. The NWS said peak wind was 90 mph."-- local affiliate

I hope everyone stays safe!

Tornadoes are the worst. They worry me more than hurricanes. I've experienced one. It was a calm day and all of a sudden the wind was moving 60 mph down the street. It took a lot of pieces of mobile homes and trees with it. Inside was the place to be. A mobile home in a park opposite mine had a house lift off its foundation and land flipped upside down in the middle of the street. An old woman was in the mobile home finding her cat as it was tossed into the air. They both walked out alive. I haven't found a combination of a sudden, seemingly random weather event, with the kind of with this level of violence. They happen routinely here but not often.

Is our children learning yet?-- GWB

What Bernard said. Most of us would like to look forward.

He can't get any more insufferable.

And I am impressed buy only in the sense that life couldn't be any more absurd.

Well, for automobiles, the emissions are water vapor. There's been hydrogen cars on the road from Honda and I believe others in test programs limited to specific areas in specific states.

But however they produce it and whatever the environmental factors involved in its production (and thank you; this is fascinating) is there not a consensus that the oil industry will never really allow it?

The worst thing I've heard said about them is that they explode, as if gas and electric vehicles don't?

I just did a Google's AI search about relations between country x and country y.

I thought I was reading Cold War propaganda.

It was wild.

How about no. Sorry can't get with this. "New Democrat" politics iirc.

I suspected as much.

Oh, it just occurred to me that maximum annual contribution and market volatility are not related to each other. Duh.

I had to leave the USAA page alone and do something else. It's almost sunset. It's finally cooled off again. I might return to it tonight. I might wait until tomorrow.

@wtg said:

Totally agree with @steve-miller and @mik .

@Mik said:

FB Marketplace is a great place to find used furniture.

There's nothing like scoring a deal on something you really want and that you only pay 20% or less of retail for...it's like a treasure hunt!

wtg, on the other side of the acquisition curve. As someone once said to me..."You spend the first forty years of your life acquiring stuff, and the next 40 years getting rid of it." I didn't get it when they said it, but I definitely do now.

Two good points.

I'm especially mindful of the second because I don't want a lot of things and don't have a lot time or energy to devote to caring for them.

My trustee told me you get the needs asap and the wants will follow.

I don't know if I mentioned this but my car is being put on a truck tomorrow and will get here this weekend.

I have a comprehensive list of who needs to be paid, the amount, the payment format, and the mailing address, for everything, with the exception of auto insurance, and I'll be done with that final task tonight or tomorrow.

Tomorrow I will put the list in order-- 1, 2, 3, etc. I'll send it in its completed form to my trustee.

The one thing we messed up on is she asked me to open my investment account. I needed to fund it with $25 to open it.

So then she sent a cashier's check for the yearly maximum of 20k and, of course, they had to reject it.

I told her I'll send her a figure adjusted for market daily closing so she doesn't have to do this one three times. Lol.

She doesn't have a fiduciary role with this account. It's for living expenses.

Yes, I'm enjoying this thread immensely but my 3.8k rug is something our investments would have to earn.

Mik, Thank you.

I have about a million and a half things to get done but they will be.

The Oracle founder bought CBS, the largest private donor to the IDF in history. I already knew of him because he bought an entire Hawaiian island. He bought one of the neighbor islands.

CBS is not news.

And the attack on 60 Minutes was predictable.