I’m going to go out on a limb and say Netflix and other platforms probably picked up these shows/movies because they were cheap and wouldn’t need to pay out residuals if they became hits.

Kinda sucks they don’t get paid but honestly no one makes it out big on their first run. You use your new leverage to negotiate better the second time around, after you’re proven your worth.

A few exceptions to this, but more than likely the streaming platforms would have never picked up these shows were it not for the very beneficial terms.

As more people join one will get selected. There was r/cars and r/autos for a long time. R/cars won out in the end.

I would say not too far off BF3. There is a drone and I would say the sniping is a little too strong to the point where a few people play it like CSGO. But it’s nothing like CoD or the newer battlefields.

Edit: By new CoDs I mean no wall running or jet packs. No dumb kill streaks. There is an element of run and gun but it’s limited if effectiveness.

Played a lot this week. For those on the fence this game feels amazing. Terrific gun play and movement. This is a real ‘back-to-basics’ battlefield-like shooter. I highly recommend jumping in on it.

So all the OEMs in China signed a pledge to maintain ‘normal’ pricing. They’re openly colluding to fix car prices when they were dropping quickly as a result of supply and demand renormalizing.

A lot of the NOVEC line is/was manufactured in Belgium. That plant was shut down for several months because high levels of PFAS was found in the surrounding area.

They cleaned it up and restarted the plant, only to announce they’re exiting the business by 2025.

I agree that the regulatory issue was their main motivator for shutting down PFAS manufacturing. Their plants (like Belgium) probably require significant maintenance and improvements, meaning millions in CAPEX. Money they probably don’t want to spend on products that will be globally banned within the decade.

It appears that withdrawals from an IRA are exempt from the normal early withdrawal penalty.

Source: https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/plan-participant-employee/retirement-topics-tax-on-early-distributions

That said, I wouldn’t recommend it. 401ks offer tax advantaged savings but are a limited resource due to annual contribution limits. If you withdraw from them you won’t be able to make up for those year’s contributions.

Moreover, student loans have tax advantages as well such as a $2500 deduction for interest payments. Paying out of pocket means you won’t be getting that tax advantage either.

If you build a spreadsheet what you’ll find is that it depends upon how the stock market does (assuming the 401k is invested) vs the interest rate in the student loan. We don’t know how the market will perform but we do know that the tax advantages say you should leave your 401k alone.

3M announced they were exiting this space, rightfully so and probably a decade late. But I’ve heard rumblings in the industry that the US Govt might require them to continue to produce these awful materials as they are used in defense-related applications. Hope that’s not the case and we can shutdown all other producers (Chemours/DuPont etc) as well.

Needs to be bookmarked. Honestly, the whole wiki needs to be moved over.

My exact pathway as well. Glad to see a fellow RE person.

Currently have the savings/investing on autopilot. My current hurdles are my wife’s student loans and her pursuit of PSLF, as well deciding to rent or sell our current house when we move next year.

I noticed a lot more MAGA posters right after the API changes. That website is going to go the way of Twitter and eventually, Parlor.

This is hilarious. Reddit resorting to bots…like a new twitch streamer trying to con their way to partner. What a sad, sad outcome for what was once a great website.

Between Reddit and Twitter I hope big tech begins to take notice and realize they don’t control as much as they think they do. They’re much easier to replace than they think, and ultimately they’re just ad companies.

Legit the first thing I noticed. It’s actually not that hard to find the community you’re looking for.

Sorry, I should have been more clear. I meant the movie Avengers: Endgame.

Lol, hell no. Especially when the movie will be streaming in 3 months time. Haven’t been to a theater since Endgame.