So, i've been thinking... ready for a bunch of disconnected ideas? Too bad
- Amazon Free shipping increase to $35 - lame. $25 is a much easier amount to deal with that puts you into the $26-$35 range - which is usually doable. The increase to $35 makes thing a bit harder to do. It expands the range to $35.50-$50.
As someone who likes to avoid using credit cards (and mostly uses gift cards) this is a pain in the neck. You used to be able to find $25 gift cards and can still find $50 gift cards. No explicit $35 card. i always went out of my way to avoid overpriced shipping. With the cost increase, maybe i'll just take the hit. i got my recent order up to $35.07, unfortunately i was $.30 off - so i decided it was cheaper to order less and just pay shipping. i hated doing it.
Why do you have to pay sales tax on Shipping and Handling? Seems like BS to me (as if the state weren't soaking me enough on the 10+% sales tax). The only thing taxed should be the catalog (price) amount. Not a fan of sales taxes on any internet orders, actually (regardless of location).
- Oppenheimer: i didn't like Barbie, do you think i liked Oppenheimer? Without the library having it, probably would have never seen it.
The answer unsurprisingly is no. A pretentious and long movie with little action. Another Oscar Bait overlong movie. Oscar Bait = excessively long, overacted (especially Downey Jr, Oppenheimer was a wooden character), semi-historical with a flawed character, (modern) showing a jewish character being "prosecuted".
The closest thing on AFI that i saw was the highly overrated Lawrence of Arabia. If you like desert sand and boring 3-hour movies check that one out. At least that one has some gun/war scenes.
- Dumb Money: to me this movie was more enjoyable than Oppenheimer. The story (sort of) of the Game Stop stock run-up and the short squeeze. An underdog story where the "little guys" take on the rich investment bankers (and their unethical naked shorts).
Absent from this story is what happened when the same types briefly tried that in one of the most manipulated markets in the world - the silver commodity market. It did not go nearly as well. If you don't know - silver is the most conductive electrical element and is used in the production of solar cells.
As a guy who has taken a few finance courses - i see why they would short Game Stop. The way they did it was questionable. The derivative/options market can make losses snowball.
Theoretically, the value of a stock is the present value of all future cashflows/profits. In the case of Game Stop, that likely doesn't last through this decade. They should be closing stores and downsizing.
i could never jump on something like that. i struggle to think short-term in general. Game Stop may have been undervalued at $3 or whatever it was, but there was never any rational justification for $50+. Knowing when to get out is actually kind of tricky.
- Been listening to Luke Bryan greatest hits disc 1 recently (a bunch of times). Strange that country seems to be closer to "pop" music than the stuff now pretending to be so. True, there is still the slide guitar and a little bit of twang. Some of the country singer have pretty good voices: Luke Bryan, Mark Wills (for the little bit older set), Keith Urban, etc.
Lyrics from "Kiss Tomorow Goodbye" that stuck in my head for some odd reason. "Love me like you loved me when you loved me and you didn't have to try".
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