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- Comment on Is there any security in the communication with Voyager I? 2 days ago:
China:
Haha! We’re gonna publish this miniscule finding first! Suckers!
- Comment on Is it worth investing if I can only contribute $50 a month? 2 days ago:
Not everyone has stable income. And for them, attacking debt isn’t always possible, especially after they go to get their car inspected and have a $1000 bill to settle in order to get to work for their unstable income. That’s starting your emergency fund goes first.
You need your initial emergency fund to reasonably cover “a bump in the road”. You then get stable, attack debt, and build emergency fund to be 3-6months expenditures, in case of a serious emergency.
Only then do we begin gambling in the investment markets.
- Comment on Is it worth investing if I can only contribute $50 a month? 2 days ago:
Terrible advice.
Emergency money literally must be liquid or it is not, by definition, emergency money.
- Comment on Is it worth investing if I can only contribute $50 a month? 2 days ago:
Do you have emergency money?
First start emergency fund, then take care of debt. Then build a savings for emergency fund, then invest.
- Comment on Is it ethical for a parent to distribute inheritance based on the child(ren)'s mental capacity (aka refusing to give an inheritance to child(ren) with reduced mental capacity)? 5 days ago:
100%
Anyone who doesn’t understand this has no family that’s dealt with family breaking over money.
- Comment on Is it ethical for a parent to distribute inheritance based on the child(ren)'s mental capacity (aka refusing to give an inheritance to child(ren) with reduced mental capacity)? 5 days ago:
If you’re cool with that kid killing themselves in your name then yeah.
Otherwise what the absolute fuck is wrong with you (not you, OP)? No. This 100% makes you a horrible human being who should have never procreated to begin with and you’re a failure as a parent.
- Comment on Are there humans who require heating lights like pet reptiles? 1 week ago:
Not exactly but some people have weaker hearts/poor circulation/etc.
- Comment on Do you consider Taylor Swift to be of the working class and why? 1 week ago:
Is this a joke?
Anybody who does not have to work is not working class. That’s how it works.
Chris Pratt wouldn’t suddenly be “working class” if he quit acting and became a plumber.
He’d be a hobbyist plumber. Perhaps a professional plumber. But he is not working class.
Guy in my city got bonkers rich off of software in his 20s, fucked off to Thailand to idk appease his cultural fetishes, came home with a wife, and now they run a restaurant.
They do not need that restaurant.
Dude works hard. And if I were to ask him if he were working class, he’d laugh, say absolutely not, and buy me a beer.
- Comment on Am I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent? 2 weeks ago:
Depends on how much you’re investing. Is it an amount that is not a drop in their bucket? Congrats, you’re evil.
Is it chump change to any millionaire? Don’t sweat it. You’re literally incapable of changing the course with your buy in.
- Comment on Why do people with lots of 'karma points' tend to be nothing but egotistical assholes? 2 weeks ago:
Because they’ve learned to write responses in ways that get them lots of ego rubs
The medium is the message.
Someone who is good at social media is good at what social media rewards.
Ego. A narcissist.
- Comment on how do you workout when you don't have much time? 2 weeks ago:
Can you walk to a place instead of drive daily?
I replaced a 10 minute commute with a 45 minute walk. Got me walking nearly 8 hours a week. ~20 miles.
I think building it into your routine rather than making it an event is key.
- Comment on Will the price of Freeze Driers go down? (USA question) 2 weeks ago:
No, you locate water, filter it, boil it, etc.
- Comment on Will the price of Freeze Driers go down? (USA question) 2 weeks ago:
Yeah if you backpack you can make use of it.
Otherwise: no.
- Comment on what's the best way to react if a guy stares at you like he wants to have sex with you when you're doing yoga? 3 weeks ago:
Fart loudly? Idk.
So this answer might come off the wrong way. I wanna start by saying that the reality sucks, and I’m sorry it’s that way and we should all work to better it. That having been said…
A conventionally attractive woman in yoga pants doing yoga in public will catch eyes like a man wearing a speedo at a water park. It’s stupid, it sucks, but it is what it is. The best way to avoid it is unfortunately to not do it. Especially if that gawking is feeling like more than gawking, and you’re concerned for your safety.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Sorry about what you’re going through.
You miss your parents because they gave you love of some kind, whether or not it was the right kind, all your life. The same reason people don’t leave their abusive partners.
As for school, if you’re in the US just take your GED, if you feel up for it. You may be done with high school earlier than you would’ve otherwise! It will save you a year of social obnoxiousness while you’re going through something difficult. And if your goal is college, just be sure to weave in your story in your application essays and you’re a shoe-in. Idk, college boards eat stories like this up, so hey, silver lining!
What your parents did, as per your description, is wrong. I think most people can agree with this. You’re right to be confused. Sorry youre going through this. Just know your confusion is valid, your pain is valid. You’re right to be upset with the way they treated you and you’re right to stand your ground on being with the people who you love.
- Comment on Chrome’s New War: Killing Ad Blockers 3 weeks ago:
New??
- Comment on Is it expected to tip for furniture deliveries? 5 weeks ago:
Yes. Absolutely. There’s a fuck ton of things you shouldn’t tip for. This is not one of them.
- Comment on Blocking trash newspapers in Apple News+ just disabled the link but doesn't free up screen space. 5 weeks ago:
Them’s the rules.
- Comment on Blocking trash newspapers in Apple News+ just disabled the link but doesn't free up screen space. 5 weeks ago:
Hey, looks, a reason to uninstall Apple News+
- Comment on This scammer pretending to be Greenpeace 5 weeks ago:
That’s fucking hysterical.
The balls on that guy to try to float Bitcoin as good for the environment.
He’d be better off impersonating OPEC.
- Comment on What positive things do you expect from Trumps upcoming four years? 1 month ago:
The end of daylight savings.
Fuckhead almost did it.
- Comment on Many TV stations put a banner ad in the picture these days 1 month ago:
Maybe in news it is. My knowledge comes from working with a 3rd party for ESPN. I know ESPN refers to this as the bug. There are “bug operators”, and boy howdy does the producer yell at them when they’re not on their toes.
- Comment on Many TV stations put a banner ad in the picture these days 1 month ago:
That’s actually called a “bug”—not the software error kind, though. In sports broadcasts, we get the classic “score bug,” always been there, usually small and tucked in a corner to keep things low-key. But what you’re seeing here, this whole bottom-of-the-screen takeover, is way more like those old-school news channel bugs from back in the ‘90s or early 2000s. You know, the ones that would stretch across the screen with stock prices, news updates, whatever they wanted to throw at you, right underneath the main action. It’s more intrusive for sure, but not anything wild—it’s actually been around for decades.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Tech is a wild ride.
Index funds are boring but not stable.
S&P 500 is always a good bet.
- Comment on Is there as much enthusiasm for Trump online today as eight years ago? 1 month ago:
I dont know I think the crowds have been mostly siloed away from each other.
Try going on truth social, if you dare.
But who knows how much of that is bot traffic and LLMs.
🤷♂️
- Comment on What is your pet peeve in 2024? 1 month ago:
Fascism.
- Comment on Should we neuter everybody? 1 month ago:
No you’re right it’s called extinction.
- Comment on If Trump wins the election thru fraud how can the democrats refute it and prove they won? Or will it just be like another Jan 6 and four years of whining like Trump? 1 month ago:
If there is another jan 6th it will be a tragedy.
There will be many more casualties.
The incumbent office won’t hesitate to act like Trump did, tactfully. It will be a massacre.
That’s all I know.
- Comment on Why should we have to continue seeing people's replies when we block them? 1 month ago:
If I block someone, I want to see [blocked] instead of what they are saying. I want to receive no notifications for this. I should be able to view what other people in that comment thread are saying. I should be able to toggle the ability to read these people’s replies, but not reply unless I unblock.
They can still see my shit. That’s fine. Just stop making me see theirs in my inbox. And stop blocking the rest of the conversation where other good folks are continuing to discuss something I was interested in.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Crosses?! No, those are lowercase it’s, for “Time to leave.”