Oh lord just read up on this guy. He's perfect for the new Republicans. Chronic liar started a business which is reporting 0 revenue and even the details of the accident that left him partialy paralized read like a very rich white soap opera. "Cawthorn was seriously injured while returning from a spring-break trip to Florida. He was riding as a passenger in a BMW X3 SUV near Daytona Beach, Florida, when his friend Bradley Ledford" Spring break BMW and a friend named Bradley Ledford, besides Moder8's alter ego that's got to be one of the whitest names ever.

#13

The constitution only governs the government. It only applies to a business in the sense that they have to follow the law. As such they can do things that would be unconstitutional for the government to do.

The only analog analogue I could come up with is safe deposit boxes and sure enough if the police suspect you in a crime and have reason to believe evidence might be in a safe deposit box they can indeed force it open.

So while the density of our data held by private companies has increased the ability for law enforcement to get to it remains the same.

Father of the year award!

I hope his family uses some of the GoFundMe money for a Worlds Best Dad coffee mug, one of the few cases it wouldn't be an exaggeration.

He also caught his niece jumping out of a second story window.

Mad Respect for Ray.

#4

If Dolly were to invest in a ride to space it would be used as a prize for a science fair for disadvantaged kids.

#1

Yup I have known about this for years and since my job has me driving all over town I pretty much assume that I have been caught in a geofence at least once.

I vote locally and look for people who say they want to curb this practice but usually even if they all won they wouldn't hold enough power to make a difference, and they pretty much never win.

#2

I try and keep it that way but in this day and age pretty much anything that isn't forbidden is compulsory so I have no doubt I've done something wrong at least once or twice that a prosecutor could make hay with.

On the plus side I'm a middle class white guy so I'm probably safe from police trolling.

#18

You could still sell but not buy. Not only that but post game analysis shows the Jan surge was actually not as driven by retail as the narrative claimed. There was a lot of institutional action going on that got drowned out in the retail noise. So the effects of Robinhoods actions probably in hindsight did less than reported to kill the momentum.

I am not justifying their actions and I have no way of knowing if the reported reason for cutting off buys was real or just a cover to help Hedges.

Apologies to AU but

When asked why he didn't get the vaccine sooner Mississippi man says I don't know I'm stumped.

#16

Back over 36 but starting to go back down.

#15

You got a sticker? Man all I got was a happy face adhesive bandage.

#10

You aren't wrong, however since I'm pretty strongly libertarian if people want to risk their money that is their business. Robinhood has pretty large disclaimers when you start, and when you do any new type of trade eg. options, that you can lose money doing this and only do it if you know what you are doing. The fact that you can just click the warnings away and be a smooth brain ape is kind of a plus in my book. Too many services want to nanny you and charge you a fee to be your nanny, for some people that is good, but some people want to cut the apron strings. If you don't know that the stock market has risks and using options or leverage increases the risk you shouldn't be investing but that is neither mine, nor an apps place to determine. I frequently do limit orders set to extended hours there is a big ole' warning when I do that about the increased risk of volitility doing that. However I figure if I decide I'll pay X for a stock and it nose dives after hours and the order triggers but it keeps dropping well I felt the stock was worth X I'll either hold until it comes back or I'll panic, sell, lose money. My choice, I determine my own risk tolerance.

#14

There are a couple out there besides Robinhood but at this point my account isn't large enough to make transferring really worth it and too large to take the tax hit selling and moving. I have heard some will pay transfer fees for you and maybe some day when I have some time I'll look into it but honestly I don't get what the hate is about Robinhood it pretty much does exactly what is advertised and is very easy to use.

This winter when I start bringing in extra money again I'll probably look at just opening a second account with another service and TDAmeritrade is already on the short list along with WeBull and Fidelity. Maybe I'll open a couple with a bit in each to play around then after a year or two migrate to whichever I find suits me best.

#34

Impressive. I will be shamelessly stealing it at some point in the future :)

#31 probably an old one but new to me

#2

Not sure where your analysis comes from $HOOD isn't a great investment in my opinion but for small retail trades it is a pretty good platform. The "advice" is pretty worthless but if you need advice you shouldn't be trying to trade without a broker anyway.

As for me up 40% in the past year using Robinhood so I'm not complaining. If I had enough to get a real brokerage I would, but I don't have enough to invest for them to take me without a ton of fees. Most of the other free ones don't have the flexibility and options for us small fry so I'll keep using it.

#3 And thank goodness for that it keeps my $MO 7.23% dividend rolling in.

#7

Unsurprising you haven't heard of them, old racist white guys are not a primary demographic for hip hop. Even groups that came out back when you still had 90% of your teeth and adult diapers were not a line item in your budget.

Yeah and this area is growing by leaps and bounds. I was at a Pulte meeting Monday and they did 130 starts in July and plan for 113 in August. Probably 60% of those will have fireplaces.

#12

No I don't run the gas line that's a different license. Part of my demand comes from the fact that the guys who have that license don't want to mess with the repairs because there isn't enough money in it. The license for running the line is expensive and time consuming so doing fiddling little repair work doesn't make enough to cover the time/cost input.

Gas fireplace service and gas log install. We have roughly 800k households in the area and maybe 20 people who do gas fireplace service so even if only 10% of households have gas fireplaces or want to convert wood burning to gas that's about 4000 houses per worker with 6 a day 6 days a week all year that would take me 2 years and 3 months to get to each one. Since a fireplace needs service 3-5 years yeah I'm that busy.

#5

Can't commercially exploit till 2103.

#31

Apologies for the Hindi/Hindu mistake thought Hindi was the people as a whole not language, I have filed it away in permanent storage for the future.

Most people on here are aware of the nuance however as you pointed out most Americans not so much, that was kinda my point for the Hindu people who have it on their threshold, I understand when walking in that they are Hindu and not Nazis but how many people show up to their homes know? In this area I would hope most, as we have a fairly large Indian population, so if you do service work you in this area you have seen it multiple times. However what about areas where there are many fewer Hindus? Do they get harassed are they having to constantly explain themselves? That is why some degree of education and rehabilitation might be something they would prefer.

Yup I'm back to wearing a mask in customers homes which while working on a fireplace is a serious hindrance. I was looking forward to a much easier season this year but oh no, and frankly with the number of people willing to lie about it I don't really see I have a choice even if they say they are vaccinated unless I demand to see their card I don't think I could trust them.

Since I'm in about 6 homes a day if I get even an asymptotic case I could be a one man superspreader event. 60 homes in 10 days with 4.5 people on average per home 270 people potentially infected yikes.

I was reading recently that the lack of full FDA approval is a barrier to mandates.

The good news if that is the case is that in a couple months moderna and phizer will get full FDA approval so that will cease being an issue.

If I were Hindi I sure would want the swastika rehabilitated. I frequently go into houses with swastikas on the threshold I imagine those families are not keen to be associated with nazis.

Shkreli said he would release it if Trump won but in his typical jerk style he only released a small section and it sounds like he recorded off an old boom box with the cheapest mic he could find.

Here's hoping the new owner lets us poors here a bit more with better sound quality.

#47

Not reading the whole thread to see if this was mentioned but my recollection is that the only thing they got Clinton for was lying under oath about the affair. The thing is while Clinton is despicable an affair was never the grounds for the inquiry so it should not have been brought up while he was under oath.

Trying to say Starr didn't do anything illegal like Clinton did is IMHO apples to oranges.

They both had an affair they tried to hide anything beyond that and the situation diverges making equivalence no longer possible.