ultranaut
@ultranaut@lemmy.world
- Comment on What can I do to help? 1 week ago:
I’m sorry you feel patronized, that wasn’t my intent. It seemed like you were just really ignorant, I didn’t realize you were pretending not to understand. Now I don’t understand how you pretending to be ignorant brings a semblance of reality to anything, that seems very counterintuitive to me.
- Comment on What can I do to help? 1 week ago:
In a democracy it is possible to democratically elect an anti-democratic leader. It’s one of the ironies and paradoxes of democratic political systems. I think if you study history some more the world should start making more sense for you.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
That is the downside, FZROX is only available to Fidelity customers. There’s also a potential risk it won’t track total market performance as well as predicted because one of the ways they keep the expense ratio at zero is by only purchasing what is supposed to be an equivalent subset of the total market to keep their transaction costs down. I don’t remember the specifics but I think they leave out lots of tiny companies and its not a significant risk because they couldn’t actually move the needle one way or the other.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
If you have an account with Fidelity, FZROX should be a better choice than VTI. Unless you enjoy investing or want to really get into it, either do a target date fund for the easiest and lowest risk, or a total market fund like VTI, or an S&P500 fund like VOO. You really don’t need to overcomplicate beyond that, except to potentially start buying bonds when you are nearing retirement if you didn’t choose a target date fund.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
What specifically are you invested in? That chart doesn’t look right if you are investing as you describe.
- Comment on What is your pet peeve in 2024? 2 weeks ago:
When restaurants have booth seating where you can feel the person in the booth behind you moving around in their seat.
- Comment on What is stopping the vice president from ever murdering the president? 2 weeks ago:
That logic doesn’t work because the official duties of the VP are both narrow and distinct from the President. Its not obvious that legal powers confer from the President to the Vice President in any way except under predefined circumstances. The VP would need to wait until those circumstances occurred, for example if the President was sedated for a medical procedure, and then do the official act while they have the actual powers of the Presidency behind them.
- Comment on Do you ever get a profound sense that everything in you life has happened before? 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes yes, and I tend to get deja vu very often, occasionally its even recursive where I’m having deja vu of having deja vu.
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 2 weeks ago:
If you are talking about federal income taxes, they are actually progressive. The vast majority of the money collected comes from the top 50%, the 1% pays something like 25% of the total just by themselves. Its why Republicans and billionaires bitch about it so much and want to eliminate the federal income tax. In reality poor people are mostly impacted by sales taxes, and that’s because of the basic economics involved that make sales taxes inherently regressive.
- Comment on Do you actually care about your friend's new baby, vacation abroad or similar life events or are you just being nice? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, if friends. Unless they are repeating themselves, I’m going to be interested at least a little. Coworkers, no. I’ll be polite and sympathetic but if it is not related to work I am unlikely to be interested and will try to bring the conversation back to work topics or end the conversation as soon as I can without being rude. Randos, maybe but probably not. I’ve met lots of interesting people and am always kind of interested in hearing about the human experience from anyone who want to share theirs, but really I think I got too old or jaded for that. I avoid interacting with random strangers if its a choice now, and am always at least a little skeptical of whatever bullshit someone I don’t know has to say to me. I try not to be rude expressing my disinterest but I will be if it feels appropriate or necessary.
- Comment on Growth of far-right ‘active clubs’ in UK prompts call to tackle misogyny 1 month ago:
Claremont Institute is likely part of it, or people and groups associated with Claremont.
- Comment on Nancy Pelosi's husband sold more than $500K in Visa stock ahead of DOJ action 1 month ago:
Also, if you were paying any attention to Visa as an investor it has been obvious for awhile now that the company is underperforming.
- Comment on Is Trump Made of Teflon? 2 months ago:
There’s that DuPont heir who infamously got away with raping a baby.
- Comment on Is investing in real estate immoral if you use it to buy your first home? 2 months ago:
REITs tend to move like the rest of the market. If there’s a big crash they go down like everything else. I think hedging against a big crash the way you’re thinking is probably not going to be worthwhile, you’re not really gaining significant protection.
- Comment on So I got hit with Microsoft's Windows 11 nag screen... 5 months ago:
Not OP, but it’s still lack of hardware support for me. I tried to daily Linux on my laptop and gave up in frustration after several months because a few key pieces of hardware are not supported and seemingly never will be.
- Comment on Massive issues with sleep and desperate for a solution. 5 months ago:
It’s easier if you cut back first so your body gets used to having less of it. I started by only having any before 12pm, then 10am, then I cut out energy drinks entirely, then I’d do part decaf coffee until I finally went full decaf. I definitely noticed some headaches and felt kind of shit occasionally but I don’t remember it being too terrible.
- Comment on Massive issues with sleep and desperate for a solution. 5 months ago:
Listening to a slightly boring audiobook has been the most consistently effective method I’ve found. Also, I had to give up caffeine.
- Comment on Massive issues with sleep and desperate for a solution. 5 months ago:
It’s possible to be both a useful and trash drug. Benzos are inherently dangerous in ways that lots of other drugs are not, it is very easy to fuck up your life with them.
- Comment on It's important to get a good interest rate 6 months ago:
Maybe I misremember but I thought they went crazy during covid and got into the whole antimask nonsense and refusing to comply with health and safety rules.
- Comment on It's important to get a good interest rate 6 months ago:
It used to be better, and the family that own the company are far right Christian extremists.
- Comment on How do you keep your homes clean? 7 months ago:
Robots do vacuuming and mopping at least once a week, some areas more often. I do basic cleaning of the kitchen regularly and more in depth cleaning occasionally. Bathrooms are about the same but less frequent. I find getting stoned really helpful for staying on top of cleaning, it’s a much more enjoyable experience.
- Comment on Why is living with your parents considered a bad thing? 8 months ago:
My parents suck. If you have to put up with their shit you’re definitely a loser.
- Comment on MSI CLAW gaming handheld leaked, features Intel Core Ultra 7 155H with Arc graphics and 32GB memory 10 months ago:
I felt like mine gave me cancer when I first turned it on, it was the dankest robot fart I’ve ever smelled.
- Comment on What could be wrong with me? 10 months ago:
Have your sleeping habits changed with the new job? If you’re not sleeping well regularly that could potentially be a cause.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 10 months ago:
I do. I use search basically every day and when I’m working I don’t want to waste a bunch of time digging through bullshit if I can help it. Google sucks, $10 a month for a better experience that both saves me time and helps get Google more out of my life is worth it to me.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 10 months ago:
I started using Kagi a few months ago and have been really happy with it. It’s completely replaced Google search for me. I think it’s saved me a lot of time and helped me avoid a bunch of advertising I otherwise would have been exposed to. Not being incentivized by advertising money like Google is really makes a difference I think. With Kagi you are the actual customer and search is the actual product, with Google search you are the product and the customer is whoever paid Google to insert advertising into your search results.
- Comment on Whats the difference between cheap and expensive modern TVs? 11 months ago:
I always check rtings before I buy a TV.
- Comment on What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ? 1 year ago:
I agree there are people undeserving, but that doesn’t change the fact that there are inalienable rights inherent to all people. If the state is going to legitimately enforce the law it must respect those rights while doing so.
- Comment on Guy politely asks the bear to leave the garden by the door. 1 year ago:
Do bears understand pointing?
- Comment on A real estate billionaire said Fridays are ‘dead forever’ for offices, and remote work guru Nick Bloom says he’s right—it’s part of a new 3-part week 1 year ago:
Except the justification for forcing people back to offiices is to socialize and collaborate in-person. It defeats the purpose if you’re showing up when everyone else isn’t around (assuming management justifications are genuine).