Lion ponderings

  Cheese surprise.  This was a failure.  The meat needs condiments.   Tried adding mayonnaise after toasting but it really needs to be toasted with the bread off for that to end well.   --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Galloway died at 80 from a stroke.  It was believed to be caused by agent orange in Vietnam.  He previously had a blocked artery at 75.  It's generally accepted his exercise regime extended his lifespan beyond what it would have normally been.  Corony artery blockage manifested itself a bought of dizziness after exercise, rather than the traditional chest pain.    Lions had boughts of dizziness starting in 2010.  They came ever more frequently, ever since.  They normally come during episodes of mental stress, sitting at a desk, rather than exercise.  Then there was evidence of high blood pressure in a retina bleeding.  It could...

 The simultaneous decline of university enrollment & shortage of doctors is 1 of the great scams.  If higher education was in so much surplus that they were going out of business, they should provide more med school education & the price of healthcare should go down.       Lions have pondered the social security date over the years.  Dave Ramsey: take it at 62.  If you need anything from  the government, you're already screwed.  Other finance tubers: spend money on Bolden to calculate it. The mane problem as lions see it is lack of trust in the government.  Will it keep up with inflation or is it better off in an index fund?  The COLA is based on the average of wage deflation & healthcare inflation.  It's usually far below healthcare inflation.  Yet it is more dependable than investments .  It's about equivalent to a pension & everyone considers a pension the gold standa...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV356Gx4nhE    A living breathing online dater who lost his fortune to a scam.  Thought they didn't exist.  They used to just fall for fake positions of authority, requesting anonymous deposits.  Authority figure scams work because animals are programmed for obedience.  1 of the only online dating encounters lions had was with a scammer.  He quickly gave up.  It could happen to someone really desperate or in an asian culture which hits hard on marriage as rite of passage.  Maybe a 15 year old lion could have fallen in love to the point of losing his fortune but not after 50. As long as lions are sane, a scam is not likely to work anymore because they know too well how the social order works.  Once you know it's all based on status, just how stressful it is on the breadwinner, & can afford paid encounters, love is never what it was again.   ----------------------------------------------------...

 We might be nostalgic for the 70's once again.  There was a failed 70's revival in the 90's, complete with Neil Diamond tours.  The stagflation is arguably worse now than the 90's.  Housing inflation in the 70's may or may not have been worse than now.  It doubled from 1977-1982.  It only increased 25% from 2020-2025, but that was the nationwide average.  1977 didn't reflect a rise in flyover state costs from a population shift from job centers to flyover states but might have reflected similar increases in all areas.  Housing inflation continues to be concentrated in just a few states, lowering the average.   Lions believe modern inflation is equal to the 1970's but technology deflation has offset the housing inflation.  Inflation is a lot more tolerated because animals are a lot more invested in assets & reaping very high returns.  Losing your small cash position isn't the disaster it was. It could always swing the opposite w...