Lion ponderings

       Didn't realize what a hottie trophy wife bird puppet hottie was when she was discovered in Oct 2024 at Maker Faire.  She was a hottie like all of them on arts & crafts tube, but really popped without glasses.  Definitely got the british version of Jennifer Lawrence going on. Since then, she had a 2 million view full frontal shot.  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OAKmaRCPI2o   To afford that much space at her age, without a wedding ring or a cameraman, she's either living with her parents or roommates. She almost exclusively makes paid content.  502 horny old men fund the bank of patreon. British born & raised, but we can fix the accent.  We have the technology.   We have the capability to make the world's 1st bionic british  hottie.  lauramathewsart will be that hottie.  Better than she was before.  Better, stronger, faster, less british accented. https://www.patreon.com/cw/lauramathe...

 Fixed a bug where the integer arguments to Resample were overflowing.  It kept the resamplert plugin from resampling long segments, while seeking still worked.  It might explain why using resamplert to fix synchronization didn't work.  It might have seeked to the right starting sample but drifted during playback. The next features began with a way to find the 1st use of asset in a project.  It's such a rarely needed function, just went for 1 instance of the asset instead of the next & prev instance.     Its mane use was finding a song in a playlist.  It possibly could advance to the next instance if it's currently on an instance, but it would be difficult with frame alignment.  It would be quite rare for an asset to appear in 2 completely isolated edits.  Usually, the edits of a single asset are next to each other.   There are times when editing music where you need to find every place a certain take was used, but all...

 Running some spreadsheets, with 3% interest, no inflation, & no stonk market gains for 20 years, the retirement fund would drop by 25%.  The cash would drop by 1/2.  We all know over 20 years, interest rates are headed down & stonks are headed sideways or up.  3% & a negative stonk market seems plausible for at least the 1st 10 years.  Applying very conservative 3.5% inflation as a renter, the retirement fund would drop by 50% & the cash would be gone in 20 years. The stonk segment needs to average 4% growth for the portfolio to come out flat in 20 years.  There could be no transfers to the cash segment. Rebalancing to keep the cash constant would drain the stonk segment by 1/5, assuming the stonk went up 4% every year.  The stonk now has to go up 5% every year to break even.  Definitely better to not rebalance, but that would leave a 100% stonk weighting in 20 years.  10% annual stronk growth would yield the dream, etern...

 Lions were around to see fixed income give way to house flipping as a path to wealth after 2004.  Then they saw house flipping give way to rental properties after 2008.  Then they saw rental properties give way to cryptocurrency after 2016.  Then they saw crypto currency give way to 100% index fund portfolios after 2020.  Now, the pendulum is undeniably swinging back to fixed income. In the current stonk market with a 50/50 allocation, lions would run out of money without working.  A 100% fixed income would be so dramatically improved, it would provide enough to stay in Calif* & leave a small amount left over.  Move to FL & have a lot left over.  A lot of gootubers are making the same discovery. Previous gains from stonk came manely from buying dips rather than static positions.  The 50/50 allocation doesn't allow buying any more dips.  Most gootubers bought all at once in 2022, when 100% index funds hit the news.  The...

After another difficult night battling Brachioradial Pruritus, managed 1 hour of sleep in which lions dreamed about just moving into a new apartment, strangely having trouble finding a shower, food & separating clean from dirty clothing.  Wondered why the lion kingdom had to check in so frequently.  Gradually realized the lion kingdom was homeless, having to scrounge for a shower, constantly having to find a place to live.  The new apartment required constantly reapplying.  Was waiting outside in a line to get in again. It made lions ponder their situation, relative to the last 20 years of rent inflation.  An apartment in silicon valley was $900 in 2005.  Today, it's $5000.   A house near the current apartment was $600k in 2005.  Today, it's $3M.  No amount of working or income can guarantee any security in fiat money.  Future lion could keep moving as rent increased.   -------------------------------------------------...

 Continuing the horror movie trend, it was Dawn of the dead 2004.  For some reason they're more cozy escapism than other genres.   It's 2004 sauce.  Mcmansions, plasma TV's, mega malls, midwest suburbs, peak generation X, it's all there.  No mcmansions now.  Tiny homes & ADU's are the thing.  Midwest suburbs have now been replaced by digital nomads.  Really contrasty, vibrant emulsion color from that era abounded.  Noted it in Tropic Thunder 2008.  It may be the 1st blue ray transfers were from that era & they were all stylized in that contrasty saturated way to show off the format.              This one came to the lion kingdom in an X post about the car POV.    It was entirely set in a mall.  That was the era of the mall of amerika, the great mall, the big box store.  The internet wouldn't be accessible enough for mass mail order for another 4 years but as soon as ipho...