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[Heritage_Guy]

@chrisjohnnick
IH forum of course.
Reddit but it needs to be highly curated to your interests.
Fedora Lounge for their classifieds
Omega Forum for their classifieds as well vintage Omegas are a sickness

[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.