thestringpuller

This has probably been asked before, so my apologies if this has been asked and answered.

Basically I'm looking to buy a small business < $500k (ideally 200k-400k range). Something boring, but reliable (anything from a strong vending machine network, to a simple grocery store. Something tried and true). I'm planning to transition from my full time job into running this business full time and trying to grow it with my business partner and mentors I've built relationships with.

I have about ~400k I could raise in cash from myself via savings if I liquidated all my assets. However this would lock up all my capital until I'm able to pay myself back from earnings/income of the business.

I was

I don't know if it's just FedEx Ground or what, but any time a package comes to me through FedEx and goes through the Kennessaw Station it's a freaking nightmare, and I end up wasting at least 3-4 hours of my life, per package, dealing with support.

This week will mark the 10th time since the pandemic started that I've had some sort of issue ranging from mis-delivery to losing the package entirely.

The support process is awful. Absolutely awful. The station hides behind their ticketing system which prevents anyone from calling the station directly to talk to someone in charge there. In fact one investigation into the station got no reply at all thus the shipper had to claim the package as

Was able to use the 50/50 method last week as described here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ0ixceBZwA&feature=youtu.be&t=469

I don't know if this method was changed with a hotfix in the last week or so. Don't know what's going on.

I had the following genes planted:

YGHGHH YGHGHH YYXXHX XYYXXX

And no matter how many times I crossbreed these I always get the base plant: YGHGHH; The gene in slot 3 should have have a 50/50 chance for Y/H but always comes up H.

Am I doing something wrong is something broke? I'm thoroughly confused. The only thing I can think of is the H gene has higher precedent now.

Edit:

Tried a bunch of times. Either devs changed or this is glitched.

"...listen, Ryo. Parents often die before their children...That's the law of nature. Friends will be there for you even after parents die. So treasure your friends. And friends you can trust are true friends indeed"

Wealth inequality causes problems, this isn't what's up for debate.

What is really freaking me out, is that as an entrepreneur I'm seeing that a wealth tax will primarily target cash on the sidelines. That is capital limited partners (high net wealth individuals) put aside into things like venture capital.

The reason for this, is ultimately this is the least "productive" capital lying around for high net individuals, thus most expendable.

The example I like to use is this. I want to start a business and have a brilliant idea, but no capital of my own. However, my best friend from college is extremely wealthy, and has some spare cash to invest but doesn't feel like running a business himse

I'm referring to mainly this thread/post for context.

As quick preface, I once had a discussion with one of my coworkers when I worked in financial technology about the gold standard. And he stated, "The reason Nixon took us off the gold standard is because when he was in China their leaders basically told him they were planning to nuke our currency on the open market by devaluing gold via large selloffs." We then got into a discussion about economic warfare, and how it's significantly more effective in the modern era on asserting a government's will in relation to military force.

It

A lot of people have stated to me in discussing Yang, "Well if you live in SF or NYC or [insert some expensive city here]" they'll just raise the rent by $1000 a month.

Well I thought about this for awhile and remembered Yang's discussion about dynamism. In short he pointed out how less and less young people are moving to new places in the US for their careers than ever.

So I thought a little bit harder about this and realized, "well what if people who can no longer afford to live in the cities just pick up and move to the midwest or other areas with significantly lower rent?" If you don't own a house you don't have to sell it, you can just wait for you lease to expire and leave.

We are a

I think cancel culture, is akin to the above quote a business associate/mentor once told me. If you notice, the pattern of censorship, cancellations, and the general "change this piece of art based on my beliefs" mentality results from it being much easier to destroy something than to build something new.

Take ZQ for example. Look at her credits and ask yourself, "what has this person actually built or contributed to building?"

Now ask "what institutions, people, businesses, has this person contributed in destroying?"

This is the crux of the culture war in my opinion, is people who are in outrage find it easier to riot and burn things down rather than come up with a true solution, or sol

The way the narrative is being framed as I understand it like so:

"A few bad apples shouldn't discount the whole movement as a violent movement, and even so violence against fascists is okay because they are evil."

All the journalists who called out GamerGate as a harassment movement seem to have given a pass to violent activism in the street because of "context". Also if I recall correctly the FBI report clearly stated no physical violence had been committed to any of the "victims of GamerGate" (Sarkessian, Quinn, et. al)

So how is Gamergate bad (no violent acts committed), but Antifa good (documented violent acts committed?)

I understand the why behind the narrative, but have ethics ju

Been in Bitcoin since about 2012.

I used to be able to trade large amounts of Bitcoin for cash in person, but now it seems regulators are cracking down even on that?

Just noticed LocalBitcoins enabled AML/KYC for all parties involved and removed cash in person, and many cash traders in my old rolodex have since ceased operations. If you told me 7 years ago Coinbase-like platforms would be the go-to for liquidation/purchasing I would have laughed in your face.

This is really sad and making me want to exit altogether after all these years.