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I saw an Indian at Costco shelling out wads of cash buying gold bars. My first thought was: what scam is he running here?

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I don't know how feasible it is to leave the country with a significant amount of gold, but China and India have been loading up on precious metals, and there are stretches where the costs are a good bit higher in Asia than in the US. I only somewhat follow silver, but when the price was blowing up here (went over $100/ounce for a while), it was trading for about 20% higher in China.

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Should have got Wes Chatham (The Expanse)

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I was thinking Joseph Gordon Levitt, Idris Elba, or Pedro Pascal, but that's a damned fine call there.

I've never worked FOR them, but I have worked WITH them. Their leadership and engineering teams are top notch.

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There is a deep cut reference to The Wire S5 above.

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For months, I've been trying to remember where that "evacuated" conversation came from. Thanks.

Apparently this turd has existing on Amazon's phone app for a while. I haven't used Amazon's website in about a month, but apparently it's been rolling out on the website over the past week.

My grievances are as follows:
-it significantly slows down the entire website
-the "search assistant" bar takes up like 25% of the screen. It actually pushes "My Cart" off of the screen, so I need to either close the bar, or scroll over on the other portion of the screen in order to click on my cart.
-you can close the AI bar, but it will pop up next time you search for something
-the only way to remove the AI search assistant appears to be installing an app called "Adios Alexa", which obviously is not something backed by Amazon. I will not be doing this.

I've been using Walmart+ more and more over the past year. I'm using an IPTV, so I have no use for Amazon Prime streaming. I can't cancel my annual membership outright, but I set it to not renew in December. This was the last straw.

The only good news is that I just discovered that I was paying $5/month for commercial free Prime (which I wasn't using). And I thought that Prime was only $100/year (it's $140). So this trash AI assistant is now saving me $200/year. :bow:

ETA: Apologies if this has been discussed already. I googled it and didn't see any mention on this site.

I'll add a few of my own sad small town LA changes:
-they put up a plant where we used to park
-the old drive in is a new WalMart
-the cafe is closed (where our names were carved on that corner booth)

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We Fire Guys The Day Before Their Bday, Inc.

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Not trying to victim blame, but maybe the OP should have been job searching a few months ago.

I haven't seen it mentioned yet (though I scrolled fairly quickly through the thread), but the Pels O/U being that low may be in part due to Vegas thinking that we may still trade Trey and/or Herb for draft picks.

I'm not saying that the Pels will be good, just saying that if rosters were to be locked right now, that 29.5 win total would almost certainly increase. I'm not a gambler, but I might throw some money on the over, simply to give me a reason to be interested in this season.

Looks like a gradual rollout. And it is currently 6%APY. If that's still the case whenever I get access to it, I may throw a few grand in there to get started. If it maintains the 6% for an extended period, I'll add more. If they drop it significantly (they will), I might just let my initial deposit sit there for a while.

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Montecito Apartments

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Top tier "new" buildings (new to the thread) have been slim pickens the past ~10 pages, but that's a good one.

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Usually arts, entertainment and music reflect the culture that it’s in.

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And culture is heavily influenced by demographics. 80's culture was great (as was the 90's), but demographics plays a big part in the 80's memberberries.