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Cake day: August 26th, 2023

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  • Invest in index funds. They are self- cleaning…IOW when a stock stops performing it is removed from the fund and replaced by a better performer.

    Use a brokerage that is low fee. Fees steal your money.

    Do NOT let someone manage your money that moves stocks around for fees.

    Use Dollar cost averaging . Even if the market is down, keep adding regularly. Which is tied to…

    Don’t time the market. You can’t win.

    Don’t touch it. Don’t touch your money. Don’t incur fees and capital gains taxes. You will lose. Leave it alone.

    I am up 8% average yearly over the lifetime of my fund including all the downturns, it has been stellar this year well over 12%. Is this a “get rich quick” way of doing things? Is it exciting? No. Not at all. But it works.

    Investing (NOT TRADING) is EasyHard, because it’s really easy to do, but really hard not to mess with and screw it up.


  • My music is a compost pile. All the new stuff I listen to is on top and it gets listened to on repeat and the music is less engaging the further down the stack it goes, even though it was on repeat when it was fresh. Stuff at the bottom of the list may only get played once in a year or even less.

    My brain has changed a bit over time. I used to need that constant noise, it helped things flow. Now I prefer quiet. Noise breaks the flow.




  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldThe grand prize
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    8 days ago

    Let’s say that cube is 4.5’ a side. That’s 91.125 cu ft. Tungsten weighs 1,201.738 lb/cu ft. Which means the cube weighs 109,508.38 lb.

    That’s an impressively sturdy floor.

    Currently, tungsten is selling at about $340 USD/ton.

    The block weighs 54.7542 tons.

    So this is indeed a decent prize at $18,616 USD.

    All you have to do to claim your prize is get it home.

    Edit: corrected to a less whelming but still difficult to transport prize thanks to chiliedogg.




  • It was often owner/managers that couldn’t stay the f out of the way of employees who knew what they were doing, didn’t have a menu that was cost- and manpower-effective, or didn’t get rid of bad employees.

    The show was obviously edited for effect, but IIRC the businesses were legit. They were usually on their last financial “leg”, and owners would give up.

    Virtually all the failures otherwise were because the owner or management refused to follow Ramsay’s advice.











  • Because they want to exhaust the person engaging in a good faith discussion. It’s far more labor intensive to have to look for, find, verify for contextual correctness, quote and link said sources, then argue why one’s position is factually correct.

    And all the other person has to do is cite some patently false bullshit in 5 seconds and disregard the argument.