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@Porwest · 4 months ago

Sometimes I will admit that I have a bit of a strange way of looking at money. Or, perhaps it is not necessarily strange at all. I mean, down to basic things, I tend to often look at the cost of thing...

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@Porwest · 4 months ago

Am I Being Shadow Banned?

Whenever you write online, regardless of which platform you happen to be using, you are always going to be subject to at least some level of editorial oversight , so to speak. It's not necessarily q...

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@Porwest · 4 months ago

Last Saturday's Mulch Day

Last weekend was one that was work filled but rewarding nonetheless. Turned out the weather was not terribly warm, although that humidity is kicking in already in full force. Not enough yet to make i...

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@Porwest · 4 months ago

One Stock I Have Trouble Owning

What's not to love and admire about Warren Buffet, affectionately known as The Oracle of Omaha ? A man who has been well known in the investment community as a guru of sorts—few people in the investm...

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@Porwest · 4 months ago

Busy Weekends and First Camp of 2023

Gosh, at least the weather is finally beginning to warm up and act like spring. It's been a long time in the making—and frankly I will tell you I was getting damn tired of cold weather. The nice thin...

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@Porwest · 4 months ago

More Trouble with myLot

There was a time when I spent a considerable amount of time on a site called myLot, a site I have written about here before more than once. What was once a great community with great people and one wh...

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@Porwest · 5 months ago

It's Going to be a Busy Weekend

Oh boy. Don't you just love it when it all just comes at once? Well, that's partly because we are (albeit slowly) entering that time of the year when the weather is getting nicer and there are just si...

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@Porwest · 5 months ago

TikTok Banned Me for a Week

When it comes to two things, censorship and government overreach, I am against both and vehemently. I am talking about TikTok recently banning me from their Live platform for a week and a recent bill...

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@Porwest · 5 months ago

Since some of the updates, when I go to my "write" page for a full post, one of the options missing for me is the SPONSOR BLOCK. I value my sponsors and would like to include that block on my posts....

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@Porwest · 5 months ago

myLot Admin Has Stepped out of Bounds

Should I write so much about another site on this site? Of course, it's myLot I am talking about. And besides, I am quite an opinionated guy, and I enjoy having places to share them. And well, some o...

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@Porwest · 5 months ago

Not Gone, Just Busy

Has the well gone dry? I mean, where has this guy been? He's probably lost the creative flow and is simply on hiatus until the well gets an opportunity to be refilled. No, no. Not at all. All is well...

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@Porwest · 6 months ago

I Am Mr. Crab Pants

The Shirelles once sang, "Mama said there'd be days like this." And most certainly, we all get our fair share of them. Granted, the song was more about facing hard times in life and listening to the...

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@Porwest · 6 months ago

Rivian Is Still a Buy For Me

Whenever you invest in what is essentially a startup, it is never an easy call to make. There are just too many variables and uncertainties. You have to really believe that the company can be successf...

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@Porwest · 6 months ago

I Don't Do Budgets

Let's face it. Budgeting, in the traditional sense, can be very hard to do. And more than that, it can be a very difficult thing to stick to. Many people try to budget only to find themselves frustrat...

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@Porwest · 6 months ago

Biden Slipping...Again

It is often funny how politicians try to spin their successes. The reality is that most Americans, and I think anyone around the world where politicians exist (which is of course, everywhere), follows...

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@Porwest · 6 months ago

Just A Wee Bit of a Drop-In

Busy, busy, busy. What am I to do? I have wanted to spend more time here and of course; I have wanted to post something new. There are times when I could probably post something more personal or frien...

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@Porwest · 6 months ago

An Opportunity to Share

I have written before about my little hobby of creating music. It is just something that I enjoy doing, for whatever it is worth. And it is nothing that I ever take even remotely seriously. I am not...

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@Porwest · 6 months ago

I Hate to Say It

For just a small period of time I thought there was something left after Rusty left. In fact, I was adamant that the chance was there that read.cash could somehow live on and keep going, with a more d...

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@Porwest · 7 months ago

When Icons Fall Down

There are certain celebrities that just charm us from time to time, and for a variety of reasons. Each one that does simply has a certain quality or thing about them that gets your attention and c...

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@Porwest · 7 months ago

Buildings Things is Sometimes Hard

It sounds like a bit of a no-brainer, and perhaps even common sense, to make a statement like, "If things were easy, they wouldn't be hard," but when you start to break it down a little bit and expand...

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@Porwest · 7 months ago

Aging Parents Can Be Life Altering

It is becoming a bit of a difficult time in my life. As my mother ages, there are things happening that suggests she may be suffering from either dementia or Alzheimer's. Things I have noticed for a w...

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@Porwest · 7 months ago

Off to Paducah We Are

A lot of the time when I come in here, I am more prone to try to write something interesting or profound or share some piece of information that I find compelling in some way or another. Not that I a...

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@Porwest · 7 months ago

Busting Down the Barriers of Writing

Writing is obviously, rather simply put, putting words onto a page. Well, these days it tends to happen that we are putting words onto a screen , but you get my gist. The art is in just keeping on d...

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@Porwest · 7 months ago

I Don't Have to Write For You

Of course, this is read.cash. It's a writing site. But it is not the only one. And even beyond writing sites, there are some social media sites that are kind of like writing sites, but less focused...

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@Porwest · 8 months ago

Elon Musk Gets the Last Laugh

Tesla is a very interesting company when you really think about it. I mean, here's this guy who is the face of the company, Elon Musk, who was not even technically a founder of the company. Sure, he'...

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@Porwest · 8 months ago

Being that there are several places that I write, I thought it might be a good idea to create a Facebook fan page of sorts where I can post links to various writings and share other information for th...

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@Porwest · 8 months ago

It's One They Always Get Wrong

Call the start of our own roaring 20's the age of cancel culture . Gosh, our 20's are quite a lot different than the 19 20's, that's for sure. Back then Americans loved America more, respected the...

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@Porwest · 8 months ago

You Are But a Mere Beneficiary

Let's talk about work. But first, I talk about this sort of thing often for a couple of reasons. To explain a little bit further where I am coming from when I write to you about these kinds of things...

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@Porwest · 8 months ago

A Major Misrepresented Article on the Rich

CNBC's website recently published an article saying that the richest 1% scooped up a whopping two-thirds of all of the new wealth created in the past two years. The article was based on a study conduc...

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@Porwest · 8 months ago

The Internet: A Portal of Opportunities

Sometimes you think about a certain technology and consider, "It's great to have, but I could probably live without it." In fact, many of the technologies we have today I lived without for a very lon...

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