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[Chap]

There is famous car tuning meetup in Austria at lake Woerthersee. This guy drove 12.000 km with his Volkswagen from China to get there:

https://www.instagram.com/analoggeist_jli?igsh=MTh2MzZyMDNudXMyNA==

[don_pipone]

Can anyone guess the city?

[Rustygate37]

@don_pipone Jakarta??

[don_pipone]

@Rustygate37 wrong continent. I must admit the colours and the sun make it look like it. It‘s Europe though.

[Chap]

Munich

[don_pipone]

@Chap you got it!

[Chap]

@don_pipone said in Random conversations:

@Chap you got it!

Olympiaturm, Olympiapark and BMW World

[don_pipone]

@Chap good catch 🤌

[Rustygate37]

@don_pipone dammit, I’ve been to Munich too. Just haven’t seen it from above ….. and it’s been about 8 years. God I loved my visits to Germany

[don_pipone]

@Rustygate37 seems like you are in need for another visit

[Tago Mago]

@don_pipone I decided not to play. I felt like I had an unfair advantage

[don_pipone]

@Tago-Mago how kind of you. But yeah, it would have been way too easy for you.

[goosehd]

Anyone thinking about buying SpaceX stock? Thoughts on trying to get in immediately or waiting a week or two? I'm tempted, but feel that there will be a decent drop from the IPO and should start climbing in a month or two when everything starts to settle.

[NickD]

@goosehd no, I don't want to make Elon Musk any richer.

[Chap]

@goosehd said in Random conversations:

Anyone thinking about buying SpaceX stock? Thoughts on trying to get in immediately or waiting a week or two? I'm tempted, but feel that there will be a decent drop from the IPO and should start climbing in a month or two when everything starts to settle.

It’s 2026, I am 55, do I want to invest into traveling to Mars? Nope definitely not… and then there is one of worst person on earth

[goosehd]

I feel the same about the man, but the company and the Starlink system of satellites has made our lives much easier than what we were dealing with before. Living in a rural area, internet was spotty at best with download speeds of 20 Mbps at best and upload of 1-2Mbps...With Starlink I now have 200-400 Mbps download and 20-50 Mbps upload. It has made running a business from home much easier...especially when you consider some of the files sizes we deal with on a routine basis.

[goosehd]

It does feel like I'm sleeping with the devil though...and hate that aspect.

[Chap]

@goosehd said in Random conversations:

I feel the same about the man, but the company and the Starlink system of satellites has made our lives much easier than what we were dealing with before. Living in a rural area, internet was spotty at best with download speeds of 20 Mbps at best and upload of 1-2Mbps...With Starlink I now have 200-400 Mbps download and 20-50 Mbps upload. It has made running a business from home much easier...especially when you consider some of the files sizes we deal with on a routine basis.

I agree, and maybe it will be a good investment, who knows. But it would not fit into my investment strategy which is more conservative, dividend related aso., I am a Munger/Buffet fanboy… and I would simply not invest into an IPO in general.

Do we need a stockmarket thread?

[goosehd]

@Chap I wonder about that sometimes...

We are conservative as well, but on occasion I see something that sparks my interest, then I remember my father-in-laws advice that there is no such thing as easy money (especially fast easy money). Also, never gamble more than you're willing to lose...he wasn't a gambler

I still miss him and his advice.

[Giles]

Not interested in the slightest, when it comes to investing I have the opposite of the Midas Touch.....