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  1. gunnarthor
    Pretty sad story here. Not sure how many of us are like this young man but probably worth reading anyway. https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/09/investing/robinhood-lawsuit-suicide/index.html
  2. gunnarthor
    https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/08/investing/wall-street-market-bubble-yusko/index.html
  3. gunnarthor
    Any of you guys have thoughts on Snowflake or Square?
  4. gunnarthor
    I feel ya. We've all been there, done that. Don't let it discourage you. You doubled your money and identified a sound investment. That's great!
  5. gunnarthor
    Yeah, Guerrier would be a wonderful outcome. Just not a realistic one.
  6. gunnarthor
    He's 27 with 40 ML innings. Playoff teams shouldn't rely on him to make the difference. He could be an average bullpen arm. He might have a Matt Gurrier type career - less innings, obviously, but better k-rate. Solid set-up guy is probably his ceiling but it's probably closer to low-leverage bullpen arm.
  7. gunnarthor
    Physically, he looks a lot bigger than he did with the Twins and he is throwing the fastball 6 miles per hour faster. I believe a few of his teammates in Oakland were caught using PEDs. Would anyone really be surprised to find out that he was using PEDs?
  8. gunnarthor
    I did. Should have bought more. ROKU was also a really nice buy, too. I bought that at 47, IIRC.
  9. gunnarthor
    It's 2020 and Nick is still complaining about Terry Ryan. Good lord, move on man.
  10. gunnarthor
    My wife loves Disney and when it was falling during the pandemic I said, hey, it's at 90, you should buy more for your IRA. She said sure. I found out today that she didn't.
  11. gunnarthor
    https://www.investors.com/news/amd-stock-twilio-stock-novocure-stock-flashing-buy-signals/?src=A00220 Likes NVCR and OKTA, one of Mike's picks. I passed on AMD a while back and still regret it.
  12. gunnarthor
    I did. Thank you. Bought a little bit of SNAP as well.
  13. gunnarthor
    Oh, I thought you were going with a phonetic thing.
  14. gunnarthor
    I've had pfizer in my IRA for a few years now, mostly b/c of the dividend reinvestment (I love dividends). It hasn't been a great stock, really, but it's a decent enough longterm stock that I'm not worried about it either. (Just a random note, but my wife has held Coke in her IRA for a five years now and man, does that dividend reinvestment work). I'm way over exposed to big banks (WFC, USB) which hurt a bit although the little I have in tech (MSFT, ROKU) this year offset that. We now have a pretty big cash pile - roughly 20% of our holdings - so we will probably make a few big buys in a while. I'm sure one will be a conservative index fund but I'm not sure about the other. We don't own Apple or Amazon, for instance, but danged if I can figure out if this is a good jump in point. A week ago, I was ready to jump in on MC but I waited too long.
  15. gunnarthor
    Stock market soaring on the news of Biden's win. Reaches all-time high. The last nine months have convinced me that I will never understand the market.
  16. gunnarthor
    The first half was closer than the score indicated, the second half wasn't. The defense looked pretty bad all game but the offense, even with a mixed up line, had some promise but they left some points on the field. Special teams - fake punt fiasco, long return on a squib kick - were pretty bad.
  17. gunnarthor
    He's a nice story but his break out was just SSS. He's a AAAA type and easily replaceable.
  18. gunnarthor
    Love Eddie but the FO doesn't have the payroll. We have to hope that this FO can change a nucleus of players and stay competitive like the Twins managed to do in the 2000s.
  19. gunnarthor
    I was just really impressed that Nick managed to get in a shot at the "previous regime".
  20. gunnarthor
    First, good for him. Second, I imagine next years Twins are going to look a bit different. Hope we win this series.
  21. gunnarthor
    he was pretty impressive. Hopefully, he gets a full season in next year.
  22. gunnarthor
    The part in the quote above pretty much sums up the problem. You don't understand why that is problematic. It's on you to learn why. Educate yourself on racial issues in America because, frankly, that paragraph suggests you are happily ignorant while talking on an issue you don't understand. Judge Frank, in his decision, stated “A comment — even joking — that infers that an African-American man is fortunate to not have been shot ‘yet’ by a police officer would be problematic. Such a comment ignores the historic context of law enforcement actions against African-Americans.” That's a federal judge calling out police behavior here in Minnesota. In my first post, I gave you a link to a very important decision that was made recently. I suggested you only read three pages. Apparently, that was too difficult for you. I'm not sure what else people should be doing for you. Your posts tonight have been willfully ignorant of the issues people are discussing, full of strawmen that others have continued to point out, and extremely defensive.
  23. gunnarthor
    QI = qualified immunity and it is one of the biggest problems we have in getting rid of troublesome police officers. The link discusses it pretty fully. My "favorite" example of QI was where a part-time police officer raped a woman in a mall parking lot (and was convicted for it!) but the court found that because of QI, her claim of unlawful arrest was thrown out. A police officer telling a person of color "I haven't shot you. Yet" is a world of difference away from a white guy telling a black guy that. You understand that, right?
  24. gunnarthor
    I disagree. I will say that the legal community has seen some amazing push back by judges on the concept of QI over the last few years that is something I never thought we'd see and this is because the public, through protests, videos of officers acting out of control, emotional pleas from victims and, yes, athletes, is making changes. Frankly, if they weren't, much of the opposition to these actions would go away. This order is 72 pages long but read the first three pages. It's devastating. That order - out of Mississippi - was huge in legal circles and is a potential bet to get to the Supreme Court. Judge Frank here in MN denied a motion to dismiss against an officer who told a person of color that he hadn't shot him "yet". The order called the officer's actions racist. I have several more cases like these on my work computer, judges taking note of current events to call into question how police treat people of color in America. These are real changes that are happening because protests have been non-stop on these issues.
  25. gunnarthor
    I have no problem calling out racist posts and racist posters. I'm a civil rights attorney. I happily do it. Our office's unofficial motto is "we'll sue the racism out of you." But why wouldn't we get those reports? ESPN reported on that exact thing on other teams. Do you think the Twins beat reporters don't want to pursue that line of a story? Or are you implying that the voices in the locker room are cowed? I'm not sure you'll find a lot of support for either of those ideas, but perhaps I'm mistaken.
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