u/Chole_Wunt

Never seen this before in 20 years of second hand shopping....

Sellers listing items for free, then saying "Make an offer" with zero description. Then they get offended by your offer and absolutely refuse to describe the item or tell you what their price expectations.

This has now happened with 3 separate people this month.

I’ve been in gme for years (made a lot of money so stfu shills) but always from the purely numerical investment side of things. During that time, I’ve been laid off twice due to the extreme incompetence of the EXACT types of execs at eBay. Hundreds of people loose their jobs while they blame their own negligent failures on “market conditions” and get shuffled to some other $500k/year + job where they just ruin another business.

RC’s “distasteful” and “hostile” remarks are 100% right and on-point. I wish he managed my company and would love to work for someone like that.

I don’t believe in emotional investing in general, but bought another 100 shares today just for the “fuck you” to the worthless eBay people and will be keeping those are my FU shares forever. I’m burnt out, just fucking over it, and this is my outlet for now. I know it sounds small, but it’s crossed a meaningful rage boundary that’s not been crossed in my brokerage before.

Im in that mid-life phase where many my old “friends” seem to be going through some personal crisis: divorce, illness, career changes, etc and many who I’ve not talked to for 10years plus are reaching out. I’d assume for some soul searching. Most of these people I’m not friends with for good reasons. But apparently I’ve developed a reputation amongst my old group for being an asshole for not engaging.

For example: My best friend through high school and college was always deeply insecure about his man-hood or whatever and let women walk all over him. We had a first falling out when his GF of 4-years tried repeatedly to sleep with me (I refused). Me blowing the whistle as his friend lead to him finding out she was sleeping with 4-5 of our other friends, including his drug dealer. But he still blamed me because I’m the one that did the right thing and stood up for him. Fallout #2 was his next GF who I was really good friends with and knew all her secrets. I told him she cheated on everyone. Was engaged (with rings, she showed me both) to two different men at the same time (one was deployed in Iraq) and she only ended things with those guys AFTER she started dating him. He agin, blamed me. Actually married the girl. Now is reaching out because she had a kid with another man and divorced him….

There several others with similar themes.

I just have no interest in engaging with these people. But they are all engaging with each other. And I’m getting labeled an asshole.

Seen a couple articles detailing the “$15,000 tube socks” with a completely serious tone and claiming this how gme is to fund the acquisition.

Like are people really that dumb that they don’t know what satire or irony is? Are the writers that dumb? Is their audience that dumb?

Dumb dumb dumb.

Ive been out and about in the surrounding desert hikes and trails for 20+ years now. One ever saw one rattle snake in all that time. Saw about a dozen or so other kinds of snakes.

Last year I saw 5. This year Im already up to 5. Peavine and Hunter creek area mostly.

Could just be luck, but when the difference is that drastic, I start wondering if there is a population explosion happening.

I havent seen fud like this in years. Never once in any new feed have I seen anything about GMEs cash on hand. Getting new massive investors. Having the most profitable year ever in the history of the company. The dynamics of insiders and normal people (not other corps) owning the majority of the stock. On and on. All of this is spun into "Shrinking revenue" and other bullshit.

The last few days have seen fud like never before in my news feed. Crazy articles acting like all investors have lost hope. That this deal with eBay is some hallucination, when in fact, things like this happen all the time. Several articles about the deal already being DOA, when literally nothing has happened except the offer. Bunch of articles outlining the "only structure" being a massive dilution of current shareholders with nothing to back it up.

There is A LOT of money being spent on trying to get people to sell GME. A LOT.

The frugal markets Ive used for decades no longer exist.... The last thrift store in the area offering thrift prices has converted to 25% off retail model. Ive decided its no longer worth even going.

FB has really tanked lately as well.

My spirits are kinda crushed for second hand stuff, so I wanted to ask if flee markets and swap meets were any better. Or if their prices have gone to absurd as well. Or if its just a bunch of garbage being sold. Worth going?

Anywhere else to buy and sell second hand stuff for private use?

So hear me out. There a bunch of these for sale in my area, the pickup truck style ones, open air cabin, low miles, for $20-30k. Ive never looked into them before, but they have my attention.

Ive been a car guy long enough to know that there is always a catch to cars like this. They are cool, clean, and beautiful. And common sense would say very utilitarian as well.

Im guessing the wideness would be a problem as a daily driver. So I would probably not use it for grocery store runs or other places I had to park in a narrow parking space.

I do a lot of desert off-roading to explore new places. Mostly dirt roads manageable in a Subaru. But id imagine I could really expand whats accessible with a hummer. Road trips (8hrs+ of highway) where the destination involves mild off roading that challenges a subaru. I also have a mining claim that a challenge to get to and id imagine the hummer would open that up more. So this would be used as a light-dury work truck.

But.... I dont see anyone doing any of these things around me interested in hummers. They ALL have pickup trucks. Many of which cost 2-3x more than the hummers.

So what is the catch?

This has plagued me my whole life and its really painful. One of the muscles under my chin just repeatedly cramps up after rides. Sometimes during rides, but often after rides. Especially when I just happen to look down.

This happens during and after skiing as well (Im a good skier)

Im hydrated, have decent riding position. Bike is comfortable. No idea what causes it.

Its annoying as F and would love to solve this if anyone knows how. Or just call me a freak.

Im 6'3" on a 2023 XL Endudo bike. Started gravity and freeride oriented riding about 3 years ago and have progressed a ton.

Something Ive noticed is how parts, fitment, odd-ball things significantly change as you get better. For example: I really preferred the cheaper Grip damper forks at first. It wasnt until I started riding hard that the fancier suspension started feeling better.

So now I am wondering about cockpit setup for more advanced riding. What typically changes? If anything. Ill be doing lift-access bike parks, all the terrain from flow/jump to technical chunky bits and going to be breaking into double blacks this year. Otherwise trying to get into jump skills and other feature skills more.

One specific I need help on is my handlebars. I got crazy-big 80mm bars a year ago and they were a game changer. Instantly made me better at everything, including jumps and climbing. But now Im wondering if going back to a more conventional bar rise is something to consider.

Ive taken a stance of just blocking useless people on reddit instead of engaging, just to try and keep my sanity..... and prevent my accounts from getting banned. Because I do have a habit of feeding the trolls.

This is mostly the people that just interject themselves into a thread to do personal attacks and just shit on well thought out conversation.

So Ive been clicking on a lot of profiles to hit "block user" more than I ever have. And Ive noticed about 80% are 5+ year old accounts. Many are 8 year old accounts. I just blocked a 10 year old account. Ill look through their comments and its just full of shitty one-loner comments and condescending emojis.

I find it weird because Ive had accounts banned for the most innocent confrontations. Even just being rude. And I cant image people habitually doing this are able to keep an account for that long.