u/Emcee_nobody

I wonder if others have seen it too. I look at homes in the valley quite a lot and it makes me chuckle and shake my head when I look at some of these homes being listed at over a million. Some of them are just not great homes.

I mean, they have the square footage (or lot size), and they have the location (good, pricey neighborhoods). They're renovated with new appliances, new tiling, new floors, new countertops, etc. But some of these I am seeing also have homes in the same vicinity that are going for the same amount yet they REALLY are million+ dollar homes. Homes I would give a kidney to live in.

Then what happens is the gold-painted turd doesn't sell and slowly gets price cut after price cut, while the real gem sells immediately. But even the turd holds on for months and months, or even longer sometimes. Its just silly.

Is this normal? I'm not in real estate, nor do I have much experience in it but this just doesn't make sense. Either the agents are giving these homeowners a load of bull regarding what somebody will realistically pay for their house, or the homeowners are being stubborn nitwits. Probably both.

I'd love to see a reality check happen soon because we need to get this housing crisis under control, and I wonder if this mentality is holding us back.

What the hell is going on?

I seriously can't believe I just saw that. Watching something on HBO Max and I saw an ad from VanEck for investing in SMH, the ETF. Not an ad for VanEck, exactly, but for the ETF itself.

So strange.

Every day I see it. Some schmo who is related to somebody gets hired at my company to look at spreadsheets, call subs and arrange meetings, order pizzas, make coffee, organize the printer room, order nametags, blah blah blah, and they don't know what to call them so their title becomes 'Project Engineer'. Ummm...why?

This willy-nilly throwing around of the term 'Engineer' has gone far enough. Can we at least use the terms 'Assistant' or 'Technician' instead? Seriously, I went to school to be an engineer and it really grinds my gears.

I love frozen potstickers because they're so easy to knock out of the park.

Don't get me wrong, there is no substitute for some fresh ones from a great restaurant or some made yourself.

But man, place them in a pan with about a quarter inch of water, a healthy drizzle of black sesame oil, a little hsao xing, and cook em until the water is gone. Top with sesame seeds, fresh chives, and make a quick soy-mirin-citrus sauce.

Boom. Always the business. Plus the kids love em just as much as we do.

What do you guys do this kinda thing with?

I love frozen potstickers because they're so easy to knock out of the park.

Don't get me wrong, there is no substitute for some fresh ones from a great restaurant or some made yourself.

But man, place them in a pan with about a quarter inch of water, a healthy drizzle of black sesame oil, a little hsao xing, and cook em until the water is gone. Top with sesame seeds, fresh chives, and make a quick soy-mirin-citrus sauce.

Boom. Always the business. Plus the kids love em just as much as we do.

What do you guys do this kinda thing with?

I'm looking for a spot that is open at least until, so we can do dinner around 8pm and not feel like we're A-holes for staying 2+ hours.

I used to work in the food & beverage industry but I've been out for a while and kids have prevented us from going out for the last 6 years.

Looking for something upscale, delicious, interesting, and/or maybe with a good view.

We eat everything, but things like raw oysters, good cocktails, and great desserts are a big plus!

Please help me out guys!

EDIT: Thanks to everybody who had some input on this. Everything you all mentioned would have amazing food and cocktails. I guess maybe it's just down to ambiance then. Right now I've narrowed it down to Mar Muntanya for the views and Rouser (combined with the train station bar downstairs) for the opulence.

For me, I'm so damn tired zombie apocalypse films. Superhero films too.

In doing a bit of research on my portfolio some interesting concepts arose. Apparently some think that if you have both a mid-cap value fund, such as AVUV, combined with a mega-cap momentum fund, such as SPMO, then they will actually work against one another.

I own both in my portfolio and haven't seen this (if SPMO is green, AVUV is red kinda thing). Does anyone here have a take on this?

Hey everyone, proud owner of a 2023 Limited, 2.3L engine, for almost 2 years now.

I've noticed that the gas mileage it gets is pretty sub-par, which hovers around 21mpg for the most part.

My 2017 F-150 averaged about the same, same with my 2018 F-150 I used to drive to work.

Now I drive a 2025 Ranger and it averages about 24mpg.

Just wondering if this is normal for my model and trim and if I just need to live with it. Or if there is something I can do about it (aside from driving better).

Thanks guys

Looking to hear from those who AREN'T holding the popular ones, i.e. VT, SCHD, SPMO, VOO, etc.

What is your rationale for doing so? How long have you had it and how well has it performed? How do anticipate it to perform in the future?

I am a registered democrat and typically vote as such. I try not to live in the past, but I see the Democratic party fumble the ball every time it comes to picking a candidate. Kamala Harris was obviously a horrible choice. Nobody was excited about her. Uncle Joe wasn't much stronger, IMO. I liked his presidency, however, and thought his administration was quite effective, regardless of him being a walking corpse. I'm just saying they could have gotten a better candidate or at least planned for a better one.

But nothing compares to their incredibly horrible judgement when it came to picking Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders. The country was obviously wanting someone who would shake things up, and put people's feet to the fire. Hillary was not that person. Bernie was. So was Trump. He was the best person to unite people and beat Trump at the time, and I honestly feel like things would be much different if the DNC hadn't been so spineless in 2016. This was the moment that started it all, in my opinion.

I'm happy to hear other opinions on this, unless it's going to whiny hateful ranting and name-calling. Let's keep it civil please.

I just did it and I got some pretty nice, seemingly unbiased information and perspective. It even gave me specific ways that it will most likely need rebalancing every year to improve stability and slowly shift weight toward a less volatile allocation as I age.

I mostly took it with a grain of salt, but I was pretty impressed at how it was able to analyze it.

They usually intend to show concern for you, but they can't help but show their shittiness and obviously have a tone of judgement behind it.