Comments for Regarding http://urbanhonking.com/regarding Gesamtkunstblog Wed, 07 Jul 2021 19:45:09 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Spring is here / the lilacs bloomed and died already by dv http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/2021/05/04/spring-is-here-the-lilacs-bloomed-and-died-already/#comment-101445 Wed, 07 Jul 2021 19:45:09 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/?p=4052#comment-101445 Congrats on joining “Team Weed.”

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Comment on Spring is here / the lilacs bloomed and died already by ro6ot http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/2021/05/04/spring-is-here-the-lilacs-bloomed-and-died-already/#comment-101256 Mon, 10 May 2021 04:16:17 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/?p=4052#comment-101256 hash tag “easy bake oven”
*hash* tag {full circle round to smoking weed*
niiiice

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Comment on Spring is here / the lilacs bloomed and died already by Kerry http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/2021/05/04/spring-is-here-the-lilacs-bloomed-and-died-already/#comment-101232 Wed, 05 May 2021 21:34:03 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/?p=4052#comment-101232 WHAT?!? LARRY!! I mean I guess I thought he was already dead, but I’m shaken still. I know you’re a Switch person but really if you can snag a PS3 or 4 or whatever you should play Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2, they are HUGE open world and amazing western style and make you feel kinda like if you were a rando that got into some really serious shit with Jake’s evil crew and then decided to just hunt them all down and kill them. It’s the best!!

Spot on all the same TNG observations and then some, I tapped out on season 4 on my rewatch game but now I’m inspired anew.

BRB testing my oven light

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Comment on “To Stonk or Not to Stonk”: Stock Market Advice From An Anarchist Who Doesn’t Know Anything by Elise http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/2021/02/02/to-stonk-or-not-to-stonk-stock-market-advice-from-an-anarchist-who-doesnt-know-anything/#comment-100987 Mon, 08 Feb 2021 14:46:29 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/?p=4036#comment-100987 Thank you for this response – L was telling me for days and days to go read your response to our comments, and I thought you just wrote a comment, not an entire blog post! This was amazing! “To stonk or not to stonk…”

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Comment on “To Stonk or Not to Stonk”: Stock Market Advice From An Anarchist Who Doesn’t Know Anything by Yours Truly http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/2021/02/02/to-stonk-or-not-to-stonk-stock-market-advice-from-an-anarchist-who-doesnt-know-anything/#comment-100956 Tue, 02 Feb 2021 20:57:18 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/?p=4036#comment-100956 Yeah!!! We can’t/shouldn’t rethink investing! It just is what it is. Much more fun to try to be empowered/active in something you do have control over (like French horning!!!)

We are all muddling through it together. I have no idea what I’m doing mostly

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Comment on “To Stonk or Not to Stonk”: Stock Market Advice From An Anarchist Who Doesn’t Know Anything by Leander http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/2021/02/02/to-stonk-or-not-to-stonk-stock-market-advice-from-an-anarchist-who-doesnt-know-anything/#comment-100954 Tue, 02 Feb 2021 20:43:35 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/?p=4036#comment-100954 Thanks for this. All of this is awesome, you are awesome!
What I particularly like is how it is freeing to think about how this unethical maneuver is pushing us to become more active in the radical work we able to do in the community. I think I was seeing it as a challenge to, like, rethink the whole idea of investing but I’m a fucking French horn player, not an economist or banker so that was an unfair thing to ask myself to do! Anyway, this is a measly response to a super generous gift—but thank you!

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Comment on What a Tangled Web we Weave by L http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/2021/01/18/what-a-tangled-web-we-weave/#comment-100943 Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:37:42 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/?p=4034#comment-100943 LOL I had no idea you posted about this at the same time I did!

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Comment on What a Tangled Web we Weave by Leander http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/2021/01/18/what-a-tangled-web-we-weave/#comment-100942 Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:34:52 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/?p=4034#comment-100942 A new post from Yours Truly – what a gift! This was great – thank you for sharing.

ALSO: do you remember when you had an advice column? How would you feel about giving some advice?

First off, I want to acknowledge that this is an AWESOME problem to have. Please excuse me if this sounds like I am complaining about good fortune!
So my partner and I had long discussion last night about investing in the stock market. She is a university professor, as you know. I am a freelancer with many random jobs, including some adjunct work. Through privilege, pandemic luck, a bushel of scarcity thinking, and seven years of my partner’s stable income, we’ve managed to amass a savings of $15K. We both feel safer than we ever have, feeling like if something happened to our house or medically we are finally in a place where we wouldn’t be in crazy trouble. Once we hit this savings goal, we began to aggressively pay down debts, highest interest rate first.
So that’s where we’re at. The problem is that that savings is just sitting in point zero zero zero whatever apr savings accounts and my partner feels like she is being stupid by not investing it. She doesn’t LIKE capitalism, but feels like “participating in the economy” is how life works if you want to be comfortable when you retire or if you have extra money, like literally, you are being stupid if you’re not using it at least to keep up with inflation.
I know this is SO dramatic sounding, but the thought of willingly investing in the stock market makes me feel ill. Encouraging unethical business practices, the ethos of growth, and “finding new markets,” all of it. Not to mention, I believe investing in the stock market has the power to degrade folks’ moral characters. God, it sounds so crazy to say that, but we live in trump territory and most of the people who are into him are so strictly for their retirement accounts. We’ve talked about alternatives, including peer-to-peer lending, real estate (maybe like a real estate investing co-op), and even weird (to me) shit like gold bars/coins. None of this seems as logical and straightforward as an index fund to my partner.
We have a non-optional stock market-based retirement account through my partner’s job. In the last few months, I have been randomly bequeathed stock in a utility company that my grandfather worked for. So I know that I’m already participating. My partner makes the point that we already participate by just being alive in this country and I see her point. But life is choices, right? Every day, we try to make decent choices, going to the farmer’s market, reusing things, not eating meat, whatever. I don’t know. I have the feeling I’m being a huge baby but I also having a really hard time processing the idea of willingly investing in the market system.
One last thing: we’ve agreed that we have until March 1 to come up with a compromise solution or we’ll just go for it. I’ve promised her that I’ll be fully on board, joking I’ll get myself a green tinted visor and a cute pair of suspenders for the occasion. We’ve also talked about how we’d rather not divide the savings into “hers” and “mine” and instead want to do something as a team.
Any advice for a more productive conversation around this or for just swallowing this pill?

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Comment on What a Tangled Web we Weave by Elise http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/2021/01/18/what-a-tangled-web-we-weave/#comment-100941 Tue, 26 Jan 2021 16:58:12 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/?p=4034#comment-100941 L. and I were literally arguing last night about whether to participate in the stock market or instead open a restaurant called 1-800-Burrito and I feel this blog entry helped clarify some things for me re: capitalizm. Thank you.

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Comment on What a Tangled Web we Weave by Yours Truly http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/2021/01/18/what-a-tangled-web-we-weave/#comment-100931 Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:03:08 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/regarding/?p=4034#comment-100931 lol yes isn’t it great (2021)!!!! Everything is fine! Let me know if you read the cloth book (also known in my house as “the string book”)! BLESSINGS

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