A couple of blogs are not sources.

Invest in index funds. They are self- cleaning…IOW when a stock stops performing it is removed from the fund and replaced by a better performer.

Use a brokerage that is low fee. Fees steal your money.

Do NOT let someone manage your money that moves stocks around for fees.

Use Dollar cost averaging . Even if the market is down, keep adding regularly. Which is tied to…

Don’t time the market. You can’t win.

Don’t touch it. Don’t touch your money. Don’t incur fees and capital gains taxes. You will lose. Leave it alone.

I am up 8% average yearly over the lifetime of my fund including all the downturns, it has been stellar this year well over 12%. Is this a “get rich quick” way of doing things? Is it exciting? No. Not at all. But it works.

Investing (NOT TRADING) is EasyHard, because it’s really easy to do, but really hard not to mess with and screw it up.

Because they generally die before they infect others. They absolutely can get rabies. I have never seen anyone say it’s “near impossible” except pro-wild-animals-as-pets “experts”.

https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-changes-political-divides-2019-7?op=1

Yeah, but watch out. Allegedly they’re more conservative than you think.

Why come to lemmy if you’re not down for linux?

I dunno, maybe the brothel gas a restaurant with a good prime rib special.

Yet another reason billionaires shouldn’t exist. Dude is making international policy based on requests from foreign leaders, along with having conversations with them while launching the US government’s satellites of national security importance.

What exactly are the “material conditions leading to gun crime”? I mean, if it’s poverty and education you’re thinking of the very same segment of the country that is pro-gun are pretty much the same ones that will refuse to expand government services or controls to provide access to improving these situations.

The reason we have so much gun crime is because we have so many guns and so few controls on them. Why do other countries thar have lots of guns have less gun crime? Because they control the shit out of them. They actually make gun owners responsible for their guns. Unlike the US, for instance, where ~70% of guns used in crimes are stolen or taken without the owner’s consent. How could this be? Because guns are uncontrolled toys left under vehicle seats, in gloveboxes, in door pockets, on the kitchen counter, in bedside table drawers…unsecured for everything from little Johnny to shoot little Susie or the gas station clerk to get a gun pointed at her and told to give up the cash. Someone’s guns get stolen? They get pissed at the violation, shrug, make an insurance claim, buy more, and their handgun gets used in a school drive-by shooting. Not their problem. Just more guns on the street. That’s the problem with gun crime. Guns are everywhere and relatively easy to get.

We’re just barely seeing the beginnings of people being charged with their guns being used in crimes with the parents of shooters bought them guns despite clear warnings. This can’t happen hard or fast enough IMO. Gun owners constantly pay lip service to responsible gun ownership but they’re the most resistant to any actual responsibility about them.

I do this too, to keep them separate in my head. I get that they’re interchangeable.

Before people bash her because of her dad:

She is doing this

She spoke out as pro-gay marriage

She also headlined a Planned Parenthood fundraiser in Texas.

She seems to keep her politics quiet, however these public displays land her on the right side of things. I don’t know her and don’t care one way or the other what side she’s on, I just want to be sure she’s getting a fair assessment without her dad’s shadow hanging over her.

If every prostitute approached you and had to tell you how much better she is at something than your current SO/wife, you should ditch your SO in favor of prostitutes, even though you’re not there for service.

Then it would be like Lemmy.

MrBeast named in lawsuit claiming participants in his $5 million ‘Beast Games’ show were exploited and sexually harassed

MrBeast’s ‘charity porn’ shows the morally complicated reality of YouTube philanthropy

I’m presenting more than just my opinion. I’m not interested in debating whether or not the relatively minor charity he does is worth it because he isn’t a charity. He’s a self-promoter, no different than a Joel Osteen, who profits off the idea that he does good. Does Osteen do some good? Sure! But the primary interest is enriching himself by exploiting others. Osteen exploits faith and desire to buy good deeds for a path to heaven for his viewers. Beast does the same vicariously for wannabe influencers and fame-seekers. Don’t you want to be rich enough to be famous and have people fawn over your deeds? A materialist’s heaven.

Beast is charity exploitation porn. One of those people that does “good deeds” and then plasters himself all over the good deed while recording the people he is helping, demonstrating how great a thing he is doing, while simultaneously stuffing his pockets as fast as he can with cash. He’s supposedly a billionaire to give you an idea of where his priorities are.

Considering the number of republicans who have officially come out in support of Harris, even if it’s just to avoid trump, it’s certainly possible.

Yep. Agreed - except it is yet another avenue for monetization should it take hold. People keep acting like the fediverse is some kind of incorruptible platform.

This is the truth. Both sets of parents have dumped stuff on us often enough that we’ve had to put our collective foot down and refuse most items. Gone are the days were there might be just a few real nice items people wanted to keep, now it’s collections of Precious Moments figurines or similar that nobody wants.

It’s really hard to get rid of stuff that is still good and useful. You can barely literally give it away. I hate waste, so just dumping whatever it is in the trash is an absolute last resort. Places you would think that would take stuff are also overwhelmed and won’t take a ton of different things. Salvation Army, Goodwill…all of them have gotten picky and will refuse things even if new on occasion.

It’s really given me a deep revulsion for “stuff”. If something comes into our house it has to have a real purpose, or if it’s replacing something, the old thing must go ASAP.

It could go a number of ways.

• An attempt to stuff a ballot box for their preferred candidate

• An attempt to invalidate voting by mail by conducting obvious fraud, then publicly blame vote by mail

• An attempt to vote for an opponent to claim the opposition is conducting fraud

The only problem I have with your statement is the implication that the only “someone” is trump.

Everyone should care about waste or excess spending.

Edit: and trump himself has driven a shitload of waste and excess for personal gain.

Prevents abortions, Republicans should be all for this, right? Right?

No water or other assistance for voters in contested areas.

Here’s $100 to say you like trump.

Man, this is a fucked up place.

Seems like the usual 1/3 that agrees with trump on whatever. Not gonna change.