I’ve run a business for over 20 years. A business is a bit like a relationship where there is a big passionate start like the early growth part. This is where it was the most fun. Eventually assuming your business lasts it matures, perhaps changing a bit over time incrementally but becomes stable. For me as my main source of income it is now a job where the buck stops with me. I get the most complex problems and issues that others can’t solve. A lot of start up and business talk is about the first phase of business and growth and nearly never about mature businesses where things are more stable and maybe a bit more boring.
Another example would be Bloomberg as mayor of NYC. A sugar tax was attacked as an attack on the poor, minorities, overreach of government, attack on freedom to name a few. I can’t see it being supported any time soon by another politician as Bloomberg was in a position to be able self fund a campaign and be a bit more drastic in certain areas. You mention Michelle Obama who got more crap as well for trying to get kids to exercise as well.
This is great. My own experience with my wife and birth control have included
* depo shot - which she did not have great experience with
* the pill - which had barriers going to the doctor, to continue getting the prescription. This included a mix of planned parenthood, before we had insurance to get the prescription, and finally getting insurance and finding a doctor.
* Finally an IUD
For the pill, a once daily med all the information to know is given with the prescription. Having a pharmacist give this OTC, like say pseudoephedrine, giving the basic instructions for it is enough.
Good for you on cutting down. Alcohol can slowly increase and turn into a drinking problem. Years ago I started having a beer after work and it turned into two over time then every day. Now I may grab a lower abv beer on the weekend but the entire situation could have turned easily into a long term drinking problem.
On more than one flight in my life they have been over booked and need people to come to the counter and take whatever they are offering. One time out of key west Florida the airlines refused to start boarding until a few passengers took another flight.
I’m on the north east and calling home for Tylenol is still a thing. Since I don’t have direct knowledge of the area I skimmed the article and question exactly how far it goes. Specifically “Two health centers at the largest school district in Washington State are operated by a nonprofit which provides, among other things, gender transition medications and referrals for gender transition surgeries” - the health center is operated by another entity? So the school nurse is replaced and outsourced ? Or is this something entirely different where students can get a referral to an outside? Later in the article they say they don’t provide puberty blockers. I’m not sure but this sounds more like something where the reality is a bit different.
A corporate policy that says don’t get involved or stop a theft is one I can certainly back. A retail employees life is not worth the goods being taken.
I have been using zfs for years from ubuntu 18. Easy snapshots, monitoring, choices for raid levels, and ability to very easily copy a dataset remotely with resume or incremental support is awesome. I mainly use it for kvm systems each with their own dataset. Coming from mdadm + lvm from my previous set up is night and day for doing snapshots and backups. I do not use zfs on root for ubuntu instead I do a raid1 software set up for the os and then a zfs set up on other disks - zfs on root was the only gotcha. For FreeBSD zfs on root works fine.
I view it as paying by cash, so the same type of pitfalls exist. I'm not really pushing crypto as the best payment method, just giving the OP possible alternative payment methods they could use. There is a learning curve to using crypto, which I believe reduces the potential of consumers not fully understating the risk of sending payments. Consumers who want the protections should use a credit card to get those.
I’m not a crypto evangelist by any means but one thing that I like about crypto is there are no charge backs. I added coinbase and it’s not a huge amount but about 5% of sales go over this. Apple/meta/amazon pay are also some what alternatives because the payment is going through a device that can be physically stolen but harder to do fraud than a virtual credit card.
Margin is always a bad idea in my opinion. You can loose money in the stock market with out margin but no more than you paid. DCA makes sense to thee average investor. Unless you feel the market is insanely overvalued, keeping auto invest on makes sense. We have not retested most highs and if you had DCA you bought while things trended down in 2022 and bought in 2023 as it came up and are in a good position.
This Peter Lynch talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf_f8GV0yYM is one of the best videos on the stock market I have seen. It’s from the 90s and is relevant today. I like how it goes into how there is always something to worry about like a recession , the difficultly of predicting the market and how even with one of the most successful funds from the 80s every time the market went down his fund went down.
The simplest is following the Bogle three fund method VTSAX / VTIAX and VBTLX from vanguard that have a low fee split to your liking. I weight towards us stocks and very little in bonds. If you just did this over the last few years you portfolio would be up now , might have been down last October but over all doing ok. I auto invest in these and then go into single stocks I think are under valued. The books by Peter Lynch were easy and fun reads about investing although you can also get the main points watching a few of his videos on cspan for good information on trading that’s relevant today.
Coke Zero has that boring flavor for me. It’s not bad, but doesn’t stand out in flavor. Diet Coke has a different taste to it slightly more artificial but more like soda.
I drink diet soda sometimes and have a strong idea it is unhealthy so I limit intake. I switched from full sugar soda which has its own risks. I tend to now drink flavored selzter with out sweeteners although there is a question what natural flavors may be. I also imagine the same risks apply to hot dogs and processed lunch meats that diet soda has.
I remember warnings in the 90s on labels that saccharine causes cancer in high doses in lab mice on gum - over time ace k / Splenda and aspartame were used instead.
This era had shoutads/clickagents, eads and doubleclick for monetization. Banner ads were obtrusive and complained about at the time. I remember text ads google was pushing were actually a welcome change.
They sell software though that is mostly licensed under the GPL which has certain requirements regardless of if you give it a way free , support down stream projects financially or make an entire public company around it. I’m not sure if red hat can really stop rebuilds beyond ensuring all their trademarks are removed any more than Debian could suddenly stop ubuntu from using that as their starting point OS. RHEL is not free but as I understand it you are getting support from redhat, potentially some legal protections for another SCO type lawsuit, but you are not paying for Linux. I can’t license red hat Linux and get a non GPL license from red ha can I?
I wouldn’t have done this not because I knew anything about the company but think it’s inherently risky at those depths. But trampoline parks, indoor skydiving, kids school 5k run and ropes course all are wavers I signed that stated there was chance of death for the activity.
I was about to respond similarly - original Canadian (children of past immigrants) may need to deal with an influx of immigrants. Immigration has more benefits than downsides especially for aging countries with low birth rates and the ability to pull highly educated immigrants is a net positive for a country and I haven’t got to the cultural benefits that they bring.
Maybe I don’t know what you mean by ESG messaging I’d assume it’s related to some environmental stuff and/or diversity. Strong stories just work - Wall-E was excellent with a back drop of its environmental messaging and non Disney into the spider verse / across the spiderverse are excellent movies with diversity and a great stories.
The issue here is the GPL and what does it provide, freedom wise , for a system that is built of other contributors who also released their work under the GPL. It is a bit funny to me that red hat wants to kill off clones of their os and plenty of people think this is ok and seeing it as freeloading because red hat gives back which I would say they may be required based on the GPL and their business model. Could the Linux foundation move to subscription base and charge red hat based on they also give back and suddenly require subscriptions? This though isn’t the first time I have seen the same story so I am less worried. I remember red hat initially moving to their enterprise release and there was quite a few months of unknown what people would do after rh9 - I suspect this will also work itself out. If red hat wants to be more closed source they should build off of FreeBSD or something that can be less opened.
I lost weight cutting out sugar soda. I did move initially to zero calorie but have cut down on that and moved to seltzer. I didn’t experience being hungrier drinking the artificially sweetened stuff but would lean towards it better to have it in moderation. Alcohol is another big one.
Some people don’t have to count calories but as someone growing up in America I think I can speak to this - some of y’all are eating full meals when cooking with taste testing or having what would be considered 3 serving of pasta or cereal in a sitting. Serving sizes might be significantly smaller than you imagine.
Taxes don’t change on the day to day swings of the properly value of the house. There is a set value and a set rate regardless of the worth of the house. Now it could be every 10 years a city needs to re-assess. So they go and value all the houses then they make a tax rate that gets to what the tax amount will be. So some go up and some go down based on the new value. There are some outliers - your taxes may change if you expand your house under a permit or so some upgrades. If you buy a house and believe its value is too high you can try to argue the total amount to lower the taxes. But nothing automatically is happening that is lowering anyone’s price except a total reassessment of the area. This is how gentrified areas may push people out with high taxes because a reassess changed the total tax amount and then your house may suddenly need to pay substantially more taxes * except in California as they have different laws.
I do think this is true on some cases others are an mis judging of calories that are being eaten. The calories on menus have been great in this case. Going to order a salad at say cheese cake factory - some push to nearly 2000 calories. Add that second patty on burger with fries 1500 calories. These come close to a full days calorie needs on a single meal.
Property taxes won’t change if these values collapse. A city may reassess values in the future but that just means some people go up and some go down with the final receipts the same.
An owner may walk away from a Mortage and the bank will pay the taxes. If taxes are not paid you move into tax liens that trade and may be able to get the property just for the taxes on it. In the end property taxes get paid.
Ssl is like the lowest on the chain. You have the domain registrar and the end host and perhaps cloudflare in the middle - and for phishing the mail starting point. All of these are better choices to report abuse than let’s encrypt provided free ssl that’s open for any one to use. I would place that at the level of a phishing site using nginx who could realistically add code to block a list of phishing domains somewhere in their code because it might be used by phishing sites - just no.