Random Thoughts or Whatever

[Mystic]

U.S. Consumer Sentiment @ Six-Month Low

The University of Michigan's most recent survey of consumer sentiment indicates that consumer sentiment in U.S. fell sharply to a six-month low of 57.7 in May of 2023 from 63.5 in April, well below forecasts of 63, amid renewed concerns about the trajectory of the economy, preliminary estimates showed. The expectations gauge declined to 53.4 from 60.5 and the current economic conditions subindex fell to 64.5 from 68.2.

 

[nailer]

The more things change the more they stay the same.

 

[Mystic]

The more things change the more they stay the same.

Kinda like the US national debt ceiling, except it just keeps growing "taller".

 

[Quadman2]

One can get a full glass by combining a half full with a half empty. I want quantity and quality

Let me know how that goes...and how you get to this synergy-nirvana.

Bon chance.


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[Quadman2]

Can one achieve top speed by combining half-slow with half-fast?

Viewed a Doc Hyman the other day, on share on PBS "Health Talk" session with a statement that stayed with me. "I want to grow old slowly, and for a long time!"

I liked it. I liked it a lot.


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[Quadman2]

The more things change the more they stay the same.

And if I may add...depending upon if you are looking down at the daises or looking up at them.


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[Quadman2]

Kinda like the US national debt ceiling, except it just keeps growing "taller".

Could be Mys...why the biggest skyscrapers are oft, the bank buildings, eh?


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[MuseChaser]

Our household has been debt-free for many years. Accumulated some debt in the formative growth years, of course, but we never allowed the debt to increase beyond a secure ability to pay it down. Debt was incurred (except for one ill-advised early purchase on a Montgomery Wards credit card in our youth...which we learned from immediat3lely) only for necessities (cheap house, cheap car to get to work). If the debt was difficult to service, we cut spending and worked extra jobs.

Seems pretty simple. Sometimes you can't have what you want, and have to find the gumption to cut back to what you truly need. Hmmmmmmm.....

 

[noogies]

Viewed a Doc Hyman the other day, on share on PBS "Health Talk" session with a statement that stayed with me. "I want to grow old slowly, and for a long time!"

Conversely:

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, 'Wow! What a ride!'"

H. S. Thompson.

 

[SolderIron]

Let me know how that goes...and how you get to this synergy-nirvana.
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With a Genie in the old days and with AI automated manufacturing soon

If we don't blow ourselves up, I predict the next step is the cell phone will become an AI wand to command our personal empire (home, bank, transportation, entertainment, medical, etc). One can have it to address the owner as "Your Lordship"

Like

Your Lordship has an appointment in the Colonoscopy Lab in half hour and the car is waiting to transport you.

 

[Erik Tracy]

 

[noogies]

"As things fell apart
Nobody paid much attention."

 

[Erik Tracy]

 

[Lou F Quincy]

"My last check is gonna bounce."
Carl Reiner
Ocean's Eleven

 

[bluesky]

NTR (nothing to report)

 

[Quadman2]

Often the thought of....

'Did I really eat that very last
cookie/chocolate, etc.?'

crosses my mind.

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[harman/kardon]

"A Metaphysical Scoop"

By Dr. Peter Bamm

God is dead. (Nietzsche)
Nietzsche is dead. (God)

 

[nailer]

Dead is dead ... (me)

 

[spicer]

Our household has been debt-free for many years. Accumulated some debt in the formative growth years, of course, but we never allowed the debt to increase beyond a secure ability to pay it down. Debt was incurred (except for one ill-advised early purchase on a Montgomery Wards credit card in our youth...which we learned from immediat3lely) only for necessities (cheap house, cheap car to get to work). If the debt was difficult to service, we cut spending and worked extra jobs.

Seems pretty simple. Sometimes you can't have what you want, and have to find the gumption to cut back to what you truly need. Hmmmmmmm.....

Debt free, the only way to live.

 

[nailer]

Debt free, the only way to live.

And the only way to die ...