I just want to say I’m drunk and high and read neither of your messages beyond the first bit. I’m sure it was a deep and meaningful exchange though.

The Shining

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505

And that’s the story of how I upgraded my flat’s front door experience from depending on 0 cloud services to 5 cloud services.

Fin.

You hit on another driving quote I love:

“Don’t be courteous, be predictable.”

It always comes back to financial incentives. Enshitification follows the almighty dollar. Unrestricted and subsidized capitalism amplifies it all along with socialized protections and policies for those that need it least. (And those same people and organizations who benefit most are the first to speak out and block similar practices from benefitting the people)

Came here to drop that same quote. 🫡

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serial experiments lain?

“Address and nearest cross street” Map of the area on a large poster on the walk-in door. That was all of the information at our disposal.

General total market exposure: yes. ETFs can provide exposure to the total market, just tech, renewable energy, etc - if you have conviction about a sector/theme of individual equities there’s probably an ETF for that. That said, “ETF” alone doesn’t tell us much other than you’d like to play safer and more easily than picking individual stocks to play. When shopping, check in on what specific stocks the ETFs are invested in and how they’re weighted compared to others in the same theme you’re looking into.

Unless the family is filthy rich and can weather all of the storms that come with old age, it’s best to not count on it and be pleasantly surprised is there is an inheritance - expect nothing other than what you yourself can provide for is the best approach imo … this is the American way these days. I’m early 40s and am not even counting on social security being around, be cool if it is, but this place is a shit show.

First just take that 100k of rainy day funds and get it into a high yield savings account at like 3-4% APY - that should at least give some solace that it’s not evaporating at the rate of inflation.

The thumbnail looked like a brisket with all the dark bark that had cracked along the outside

If free or YouTube-only is not a prerequisite, Better Sleep lets you create your own mixes of various sounds.

I have a can of peanut brittle to share with you

Right? We’ve had two thousand and twenty six years since Christ walked the earth to reduce our dependency on GitHub, what are we even doing

What’s a “standard” dose?