ultranaut

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[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

That is the downside, FZROX is only available to Fidelity customers. There's also a potential risk it won't track total market performance as well as predicted because one of the ways they keep the expense ratio at zero is by only purchasing what is supposed to be an equivalent subset of the total market to keep their transaction costs down. I don't remember the specifics but I think they leave out lots of tiny companies and its not a significant risk because they couldn't actually move the needle one way or the other.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

If you have an account with Fidelity, FZROX should be a better choice than VTI. Unless you enjoy investing or want to really get into it, either do a target date fund for the easiest and lowest risk, or a total market fund like VTI, or an S&P500 fund like VOO. You really don't need to overcomplicate beyond that, except to potentially start buying bonds when you are nearing retirement if you didn't choose a target date fund.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

What specifically are you invested in? That chart doesn't look right if you are investing as you describe.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

When restaurants have booth seating where you can feel the person in the booth behind you moving around in their seat.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

I get cold easier and my clothes keep getting looser but that's about it. I don't count calories so I'm not sure when exactly I'm running a deficit or for how long but I have been steadily losing weight. I was a few pounds into the overweight range when I decided to start losing weight, now I'm down at least 14% from my peak and basically right in the middle of the healthy weight range for my height. About a year ago I started eating less, and started only eating until I didn't feel hungry, and significantly reduced my alcohol intake. Its about the laziest diet possible because I still eat whatever whenever and still drink regularly but the net result is I'm running a calorie deficit often enough to lose a fair amount of weight. It doesn't really feel like anything, or it feels about the same as running a calorie surplus. I imagine if I was running a larger or more sustained deficit it might be unpleasant and feel like starving but a minor irregular deficit isn't something I really notice.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

That logic doesn't work because the official duties of the VP are both narrow and distinct from the President. Its not obvious that legal powers confer from the President to the Vice President in any way except under predefined circumstances. The VP would need to wait until those circumstances occurred, for example if the President was sedated for a medical procedure, and then do the official act while they have the actual powers of the Presidency behind them.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Sometimes yes, and I tend to get deja vu very often, occasionally its even recursive where I'm having deja vu of having deja vu.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago

21,000+ dead and 100,000+ missing sounds like a war is happening in Saudi Arabia. Those are shocking numbers.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

In the future when the cops he trained fuck up, they can point to being trained by this idiot as an excuse to get their department more budget for training instead of getting in trouble for the fuck up.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you are talking about federal income taxes, they are actually progressive. The vast majority of the money collected comes from the top 50%, the 1% pays something like 25% of the total just by themselves. Its why Republicans and billionaires bitch about it so much and want to eliminate the federal income tax. In reality poor people are mostly impacted by sales taxes, and that's because of the basic economics involved that make sales taxes inherently regressive.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 44 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It is pretty ironic the entire time the gun industry was fueling paranoia about the government creating a database of all the gun owners they themselves were secretly creating a database of all the gun owners.

 

For years, America’s most iconic gun-makers turned over sensitive personal information on hundreds of thousands of customers to political operatives.

Those operatives, in turn, secretly employed the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians running for Congress and the White House, a ProPublica investigation has found.

The clandestine sharing of gun buyers’ identities — without their knowledge and consent — marked a significant departure for an industry that has long prided itself on thwarting efforts to track who owns firearms in America.

At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington, Marlin and Mossberg, handed over names, addresses and other private data to the gun industry’s chief lobbying group, the National Shooting Sports Foundation. The NSSF then entered the gun owners’ details into what would become a massive database.

https://www.propublica.org/article/gunmakers-owners-sensitive-personal-information-glock-remington-nssf

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

I grew up in that world too and he is exactly what those assholes used to rant and rave about while describing their Antichrist. Its funny how that turned out but I can't say I'm surprised, they are really shitty people.

 

In November, Ohio residents will have an opportunity to vote on Issue 1, a constitutional amendment that would finally abolish the state’s extreme partisan gerrymandering. Voters will not, however, be informed of this fact on the ballot. Instead, the Ohio Supreme Court’s Republican majority ruled Monday that the amendment will be described in egregiously misleading terms on the ballot itself, with ultra-biased language designed to turn citizens against it. Incredibly, a proposal that would end gerrymandering will be framed as a proposal to require gerrymandering, a patently false representation of its intent and effect. The court’s 4–3 decision marks yet another effort to subvert democracy in Ohio by Republicans who fear that the citizenry—when given a voice on the matter—might dare to loosen their stranglehold on power.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/09/ohio-supreme-court-voter-fraud-gop.html

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