If you have morals and standards, its not hard to take a stance on every issue. If you support education, it doesnt take much looking into anything about education to understand how decisions fit into your worldview. And even if you support some aspects of one side and some from the other, you still have to pick a side because welcome to Americas 2 party system.

My experience with many users on lemmy who support “critical thinking” are not actually advocating critical thinking. Theyre trying to justify their mental gymnastics while simultaneously feeding their self-righteous egos

In addition to the target date funds, there are some very basic funds through every broker. Some big ones like SPX and QQQ track directly with the s&p and NASDAQ. Every etf will have a theme (tech, biotech, industrial, energy, etc.) And should have a short description on them. Find something that fits your fancy if you have an industry you really believe in

To freeze your credit means that you (or anyone inpersonating you) can do anything that requires your credit. Cant make large purchase, take out loans, etc. Its a good way to protect yourself from identity theft.

To unfreeze it, you need to go through a process with the credit union before you can use it again. Its generally a good practice to freeze your credit always if you can plan ahead for large financial purchase

But the comments do matter?

The stock market traded on speculation of future value, not current value. If tesla increases profit by $1M , their market cap doesnt increase by $1M. It increases or decreases by the speculative future value.

If protestors are going to be prosecuted, the perceived value of the company increases because theyre will be less negative press.

It also leads to, "what else is the president going to do to help musk’s company? " and that list is endless, and speculation runs wild.

Buying a shit ton of your own cars to then claim the government rebate for EVs, but still having those cars available for sale is fraud.

My college gave them away for free. The wellness center just had a big bowl of them outside the door. Grab what ever when you walked by. They only had them out during school hours when they had someone working the desk, so it wasnt really a concern that people would be poking holes or some shit in them.

The wellness center would even come to any organization and give a free “safe sex” talk if you wanted them to, and that came with its own goody bag with more than just condoms. It was awesome

When my daughter was 2, i taught her to say this. I thought it was hysterical. I was the only one

May 6th, 1997

Its probably just as likely the drones are coming from the military base and theyre running tests/trainings at night so no one can get a clear image of what they actually are.

Thats a pretty thin argument. “If you replace this part of the movie, it could be completely different!”

Is home alone not a christmas movie because they also could have taken any vacation and left their kid at home?

It is literally set at a christmas party. Without christmas, that movie doesnt happen

You think laws matter to the privileged?

Are you sure it’s a virus and not Poison?

im not allowed

Well with an attitude like that…

And with this comment, I need to find the energy to finish my pi-hole. I’ve got all the software installed and am at the point to set up the DNS server settings, but im just exhausted. I sit on the couch at the end of the day and pass out before I can even make it thru the opening credits on a movie/show

Idk man, I have a federally compliant 1 way pager. So it’s not illegal. We score the highest marks on our DoD security audits every year. Theyre distrubuted from the security office, so I’m sure they do some sort of vetting on each individual one.

We’re a govt contractor, but our civilian govt counterparts use them too

People that work in classified environments. You can’t have smart devices (phones, watches, anything that communicates with the outside) while in these controlled spaces. pagers are acceptable because they’re 1 way communication, so there’s no risk of data leaks from the classified space

I’d like to know … how to be a more interesting candidate

Homie is just trying to be better and being frustrated they aren’t getting feedback on how to be better

My wife does. But she’s a sucker for “a good deal”

I dont ever click on them myself, but if I start searching for something I need/want, and I see a brand I’m familiar with thru advertising, I’m more likely to explore their product, at least. Simply just because, “of I’ve heard of this before”