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Free888
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re: 2024 Lexus GX 550 Overtrail
Posted by Free888 on 5/13/24 at 11:29 pm
[quote]They clearly have some machining issues with that motor. Are they all made in the same factory? It might be isolated to the ones from a single factory.[/quote]
The Tundra is made in the US, and supposedly it was a wastegate issue (they’ve since changed suppliers). The GX is made at the Tah...
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re: Retirement investment options and expected return
Posted by Free888 on 5/13/24 at 3:48 pm
[quote]What is the catch with "Ishares high yield yearly maturing ETFs". Almost sounds like a CD?[/quote]
If you’re talking about the Ishares iBonds, I like them and use them in an inherited IRA. Just be sure you hold them to maturity. ...
re: Retirement investment options and expected return
Posted by Free888 on 5/13/24 at 3:44 pm
Assuming you’re mid 60’s,50-60% in a total market fund, the balance in laddered treasuries (ratio depends on risk tolerance, could even go 40/60). Rebalance every year. This assumes you already have a 6-12 month emergency fund. ...
re: I need quick access to 75k-100k. What’s the best course of action?
Posted by Free888 on 5/13/24 at 3:37 pm
[quote]Update. We ain’t buying because the house was shite . Oh and it’s 100k equity in my home valued around 285k.[/quote]
You dodged a bullet. That’s cutting things way too close. ...
re: Is Kimberly Guilfoyle using a anime filter?
Posted by Free888 on 5/10/24 at 12:59 pm
Always thought a woman should get one facelift at 60 if they wanted it, and then leave it alone. ...
re: How do you feel about young NY investment bankers being worked 80-100 weeks?
Posted by Free888 on 5/10/24 at 2:48 am
I have no sympathy for them. They usually end up as a managing director or a cushy corporate job. Having been on the other side of it, their main job is packaging info and trying to sell it, or to repackage info from corporate teams to provide the C Suite cover for their decisions.
One of my fav...
re: Best Presidential election poll of the day- by Scott Adams
Posted by Free888 on 5/10/24 at 2:40 am
The ADL is the Jewish version of BLM. Their main goal is to shame companies into cutting them checks. ...
re: Looking like Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan won't run in the Preakness
Posted by Free888 on 5/9/24 at 7:13 am
[quote]Secretariat's winged victory at the Belmont.[/quote]
That Belmont was the greatest sports achievement in history. Secretariat’s quarter miles were [b]faster[/b] than the previous one. It’s a shame that the only video from that is so poor. ...
re: Trump proven right again. Covid was leaked from Wuhan per documents
Posted by Free888 on 5/8/24 at 9:37 pm
[quote]I'm MAGA AF but it was Fauci's fault, not China's.[/quote]
Let’s not forget that China knew the risks, shut down internal movement, and allowed it to infect the rest of the planet. They should have been ostracized. ...
re: Trump proven right again. Covid was leaked from Wuhan per documents
Posted by Free888 on 5/8/24 at 9:36 pm
[quote]The OT threads were full of posters who denied that a lab leak was the cause.[/quote]
Here’s a thread to start with
[link=(https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/politics/nobel-prize-winner-claims-covid-was-manipulated-with-molecular-tools/89598301/)]LINK[/link]...
re: Rep. Mike Collins from the top rope On RFK and the Kennedy family holes in their brains
Posted by Free888 on 5/8/24 at 8:48 pm
That’s out of line. His father was assassinated that way. ...
re: Dead Worm in RFK Jr.'s Brain
Posted by Free888 on 5/8/24 at 7:48 am
Now check Biden ...
re: Revealed: Bezos' Grandfather Was Co-Founder of DARPA
Posted by Free888 on 5/7/24 at 3:15 pm
[quote]Took from Xerox, Gates did. Developed DOS off that.[/quote]
Got your story a bit twisted. Apple “borrowed” the mouse from Xerox, along with the GUI system idea.
Gates basically swindled the guy that invented/owned DOS out of the software as he didn’t realize what he had. IBM would hav...
re: UNC professor refusing to release grades for course.
Posted by Free888 on 5/6/24 at 4:06 pm
This is why tenure needs to go...
re: UNC chancellor Lee Roberts everyone.
Posted by Free888 on 5/2/24 at 10:11 am
[quote]What has Biden said and done about this?[/quote]
This is the big issue. Biden has been a coward about this, deferring to his handlers. Even people like Adams won’t make excuses for him anymore. ...
re: Haggling for a new car - Video
Posted by Free888 on 5/1/24 at 10:51 am
He could have held for a bit more. That processing fee is simply another market adjustment. ...
re: AstraZeneca admits in court filings that its Covid vaccine can cause blood-clotting
Posted by Free888 on 5/1/24 at 7:28 am
[quote]So birth control pills have a clotting risk 100x greater than this vaccine. Just for reference purposes. Just to give people an idea since everyone here is just fact seekers…..[/quote]
Birth control pills weren’t mandated. No one was going to lose their job by refusing to take a birth cont...
re: April 30, 1945 - The Death of Adolf Hitler
Posted by Free888 on 5/1/24 at 7:22 am
[quote]Why??? They started WWI and lost. There's consequences for doing shite like that and they FAFO.[/quote]
The Treaty of Versailles was so punitive it drove Germany into near bankruptcy. It eventually resulted in the fall of the German government, opening the door for Hitler.
This is why ...
re: When will plus-size airline passengers get their body size-justice?
Posted by Free888 on 5/1/24 at 7:10 am
[quote]Did we just figure out how to ensure an empty seat on southwest?[/quote]
Sure seems like it. If you’re a couple traveling together, seems like a no brainer to guarantee a row to yourselves. ...
re: "Protestors" at UCLA had no bananas warning signs because one of them has a banana allergy
Posted by Free888 on 5/1/24 at 5:52 am
[quote]I simply hold the first and second amendment to be sacrosanct.[/quote]
The right to bear bananas...
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