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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023

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  • you’ll just have to built your own apps too

    We are well on our way.

    I was confused before I made the switch. So many of the most useful kinds of apps weren’t maintained anymore by anyone on the Google Play store. I had this surreal feeling that the app ecosystem was getting worse every year.

    And then I installed F-Droid and figured out where all of my favorite app developers went. ¯_(ツ)_/¯


  • I hate investing

    Mutual Funds / Index funds are your best bet. (Look for descriptive words like “broad”, “mix” or “full market” in the description).

    If you can, pick out one named “target retirement YYYY” with YYYY being within a few years of whatever year you will turn 67.

    It will automatically follow investing best practices based on your current age - agrressive earlier, and very cautious later.

    I’m not familiar with all the details of how it works

    Perfect recipe to get ripped off. (Most people I know say that insurance/investment combined products suck. I’ve heard some disagreement whether they’re just a bad deal, or such a bad deal they ought to be a crime.)


  • I can’t prove anything, but:

    • There’s evidence that billionaires are taking much more than they earn, and that we (everyone else) would be dramatically better off without them (whether we tax them away or… Come to some other compromise.)
    • Billionaires own most media outlets and social media sites, even those these don’t actually make much money compared to everything else the billionaires own. This makes some people ask why they bother…
    • There’s a noticable tendency in billionaire owned media to focus daily on divisive topics. The specific topic changes, but the divisiveness continues.
    • There is history of powerful authoritarians investing heavily in divisive propaganda, primarily to break apart and distract groups of people who could overthrow them.

    What I have laid out is not proof that today’s billionaires are directing their staff to verbally attack minorites at any opportunity.

    But it certainly is something to think about next time a vicious rumor about a minority group comes along.

    Edit: Yes. I do understand that neither men nor women are minorities. But there’s still enough differences to allow pushing a divisive narrative, which I suspect is enough reason for certain motivated people.

    And to the “could just be a shitty set of incentives” argument. Fair enough. It could be. It’s highly suspicious, but it could be.