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If your portfolio is down that much over that period of time, you are likely not making good investment choices. S&P500 is up like 50% since 2021…

Your losses or lack of portfolio growth isn’t really something to complain about online without more info on what your asset mix is. Unless your goal was just to complain, and not get any advice from helpful anons that are having more success in investment choices.

It’s invested in total market funds, some tech, some big cap companies, and healthcare

Tech, big cap, and healthcare are already part of the total market funds, so you’re over-weighting (taking excess risk) by investing that way. Assuming you’re pretty young based on time in market, you’d be fine with just the total market fund, until you have more experience with the market or just want a set and forget, for a while.

I wonder if/how many of them will be unwillingly forced to the front lines in Ukraine within a year…

I wish they’d propose a mandate on having the option for disconnected vehicles sold in the US, instead. Privacy-conscious people should not have to resort to finding and disconnecting antennas to reclaim privacy from sketchy data collection. I get that China is the big bad wolf in this discussion, but American companies are just as bad with the data hoarding and erosion of privacy.

That sounds more like HR propaganda to me. Interviews aren’t free, but they are cheap. Paying someone what they are worth, vs. low-balling someone desperate, is fiscally practical.

I’ve gotten to the point where I ask recruiters that hit me up on LinkedIn if the position has a listed salary range. If not, I usually bail right then, unless the job or company is interesting enough to have a conversation. But if they are cagey about salary or benefits, I bail. They are the only reason I’m there, so being cagey about them is a red flag.

This. No way in hell I’m entering all that personal info on a non-official website. That’s how you get on voter spam lists…

This has been the case for a long time. Just go on the website and find a drop box or location. They are pretty much all over the place.

Same here

it’s feature of retail/capitalism. You just have better tools like Keepa to showcase this scam, now.

I thought it was a coating, like what they use to filter UV light. I have Theraspecs that do it, but those are sunglasses.

She was just upselling, not actually knowledgeable. They filter some blue spectrum, not the whole color blue.

They didn’t put “AI” in the subject line of the emails, so Microsoft doesn’t care…

At some point they are going to have ad channels with content breaks.

Irony is, a lot of larger office building thermostats are really only there for display purposes (thermometer), not for control purposes (actually functional).

Our profit margin demands you buy over-priced books from our shop

College material monopolies should be illegal, just like all other monopolies. Want to give students an education in the real world? Let the free market determine textbook prices.

They are not deleting, they are editing. So the platform would have to undo those edits rather than just flipping the visibility flag.

I don’t work any more productively with more screens. The distraction outweighs the benefits for me.

I’m more productive than anyone else on my team, and would argue more productive than the majority of people in my whole department. I use a single 28" monitor.

Yeah, Plex lifetime was worth it.

The only time I ever fell for a “lifetime” software purchase was back when Trillian (the IM client) was popular. That lasted less than 5 years. Then they released “Astas”, which was just a UI refresh, but they treated it like it was a whole new company and product. “Lifetime” is always a scam.

1000mbps / $100 / month