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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.

The US is the primary military force protecting Taiwan, by treaty. That’s likely why.

Apple One+

Music, TV, Games, and 50GB storage for $10/month via Verizon.

Investing billions

Weren’t the headlines a week or two ago about Microsoft trying to get taxpayer funded aid for reopening 3-mile Island? Companies shouldn’t be asking for taxpayer funded handouts when they are basically printing money at this point.

Isn’t Microsoft Copilot just ChatGPT?

People on the opposite side of that tolerance spectrum look at us avid ad avoiders like we put in too much effort to do that, so I see it as two sides of the same coin. I started blocking/avoiding ads due to the nuisance, long before privacy and security became even more prevalent attack vectors through advertising. That was just a benefit to the time saved by blocking ads, but not it’s a primary use case.

Unlikely all 4 though. Give people 1-2 they can map services two, instead of multiple wasted (branded) buttons.

I learned my lesson from the early days of covid. Buy that good stuff i bulk as a habit, not as an emergency reaction.

I’m like 80% sure they were being sarcastic in that comment. I hope so anyways.

Biden went somewhere on this?

Both of those scenarios still leave a conservative majority. Unless a Dem Senate pulls a McConnell on new nominations.

Well yeah, that’s technically their purpose.

States legalizing it are doing so because the federal government is basically turning a blind eye to the supremacy clause on that topic (for the most part). States always have the right to be more restrictive than the federal government, but when they try to make laws less restrictive, it’s technically not on solid legal ground. That said, laws only matter when they are either enforced, or blindly followed.

I guess that means the US will send another $10B “self defense” aid package, again. Sigh.

They’ll appeal anyways, all the way to SCOTUS. It’s part of their overall strategy.

Yes

Apparently “held accountable” is “got secret amounts of cash”.

I’ve had sets of LED under-cabinet lights powered on 24/7 for about 14 years. I think one bulb went bad, out of 12.

If you don’t pay for something, you are not a customer, you are the product. If you pay for Youtube, you don’t see the ads, but you are also still their product. Lose /Lose

I always considered atheist to mean “don’t believe at all” ans agnostic as “willing to believe, but won’t live any differently”