What is this? Some pseudo-wisdom from a “life coach” or something?

Immigration is exchanging one set of problems for another. If immigration is a vast improvement, those problems are in the background. But if it isn’t, then it takes a lot more work on your part to work through them.

You’ll be dead before you see the full fallout of this disaster.

Bit dated, but at the time Descent II’s Redbook sountrack was pretty good for ‘96.

Ignorance is bliss.

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.

I’ve been participating in Threads (yeah, I know, should be ashamed) and I’m unfortunately a sucker for some of the ragebait, especially political.

Guess what Threads pushes at me. A lot of the dumbest ragebait. Not people that actually want to have a conversation. My fault for being a sucker, but the algorithms work.

Doesn’t really matter, I’m shadowbanned. Pissed off too many republican propagandists by refuting them, so as usual, the “report” button is their remedy.

They got their Applebees. Does’t matter.

Probably. Willful ignorance.

Yep. Hurricane info is available from official sources for free.

However, I can’t help but imagine some tiktok of someone finding themselves trapped on a rooftop crying because their preferred app wouldn’t show some critical info.

I’m sure that’s photoshopped (or AI, whatever), but if it weren’t, gawdamn it’s gonna hurt and break shit on landing.

Even the taillights.

Ads have ruined the internet. Truly.

Coding-wise I’d hazard that younger generations are on-par or better than my generation. But “jack of all trades” is probably more our wheelhouse.

That is absolutely an answer, but getting teens to take more classes after being done with school…? Good luck. The kids are issued chromebooks, that’s as much tech as they get.

I had my eldest help putting together her PC after she wanted to upgrade parts for her birthday. That’s promising, I think?

I don’t like dishing on generational rants, but OMG the mobile device generation is every bit as lost as Boomers are when it comes to the actual functioning of their device or using a PC as an actual work device.

My kids have had a PC since they were four, they’re teens now and they still don’t get a lot of it, but when their friends come over they are absolutely clueless. Use an Xbox or Playstation? IPad? Sure! No problem! Anything beyond that they just give up.

Interesting reading the responses here. I set static addresses all the time and have had zero issue over a decade +.

Similar story. The old man was adhd/asd/ptsd and went through life a narcissist burning everyone around him, but it was never his fault when there were negative consequences. Hope you have better success, mine never really learned or accepted what he was doing.

E: damn autocorrect. It’d be better to leave it misspelled than the nonsense it puts out.

A race to see what will kill the most of us first. The plastic or anthropogenic climate change.

Bullies always quick to play the victim.