As someone who had a two month old in the PICU for a few days with RSV, this is great to hear. I wish it’d come a few years sooner for us. The little guy is fine now but it was terrifying at the time.

I recall a theory as to why they are evil.

This vaguely reminds me of the song Fish Sticks by The Heligoats:

You were baptized in a river

I was thrown off a bridge

Then I landed on a crab you slept with seahorses

I started having seizures, you started having kids

You found your inner self, I found my inner fish

I finished it, but the whole random npc to protagonist pipeline left it feeling too generic, especially when the first two games had strong central characters. Not likely a game I’ll bother replaying.

Happy (belated) birthday. Nice progress, both life and monetarily!

I’m a little older, I think, but a decade ago I was a year or two into a big career move and freshly married with a pretty modest nest egg. Fast forward and we’ve now got two kids and a house of our own. The career move really paid off in the last 5 years, our net worth has done things I hadn’t really even aspired to. I think my 40s will be a nice time to kick back and relax.

Thought exactly this when I read the headline.

It’s cool though because it was done by AI and therefore isn’t political or punitive.

For real though it’s gonna be great when AI hallucinations start hitting regulations and legislation and we end up with bizarre and nonsensical things in the text that no one bothered to fully read (cause we fired the people that’d actually do that).

All I can think of is this scene from the Rejected cartoon.

They chimed in elsewhere, sounds like they want consensus amongst the admin group and they are worried about the recent (frankly transphobic) UK Supreme Court ruling. They also expressed understanding that blahaj wanted to move faster and defederate.

Edit: Source I was referencing. Not advocating for or against, but there at least appears to be a bit more nuance than straight up support of or apathy about transphobia.

Here’s some AI slop to definitely explain this in a coherent way.

A decade ago I randomly won a Vizio google tv box from a tech site give away. I don’t remember its ultimate fate but I’m sure it’d be useless at this point due to lack of updates anyway.

Yeah but he was an asshole which was a pre-existing condition, so we’re going to have to deny murder coverage here.

I have a solid plan for bringing back zebras if it comes to it.

Store brand dire wolves, so disappointing.

Perhaps the centrists or non voters, the rest saw it coming and are either horrified or delighted.

Holy shit, is this the government official version of sending someone a link to a batshit crazy youtube video that “proves” your patently nonsense beliefs?

I know this wasn’t your direct question and I’ve got no idea if your advisor was any good, but it sounds like you were comparing apples and oranges (a diversified portfolio vs the sp500) and the issue was probably more that you weren’t on the same page with risk appetite or allocations. A fiduciary is likely going to advise you against an all sp500 portfolio, and if all you want is to buy an sp500 etf or mutual fund, then paying an advisor to manage it seems silly. My dad lives across the country and I set him up with a fiduciary through NAPFA and he still occasionally grumbles when the advisor adds friction to some of the (frankly bad) investment decisions he makes like chasing weed or gold stocks. He’s the perfect example of someone who should be hands off and has a negative expected value making financial decisions. But enough of what you didn’t ask for. 😂

One of the challenges with helping people with financial advise is not projecting your own goals or tolerances, you need to know the full picture and their behavior. Do they have debt? Are they saving for a house? College? Will they chase meme stocks? Panic sell in a down turn?

And if it goes badly — like a recession popping up right after you help them, you can end up the target of frustrations and strain a relationship.

So I try to give general guidance if it’s sought, and push people to a fiduciary if they really want to get their house in order. I’m happy to provide them self help resources if they want to get into it (bogleheads wikis, a random walk down wallstreet, etc). This puts them in the driver’s seat instead of you.

Ugh, I’ve got nest protects and actually like them. I guess that’s another headstone in the Google graveyard.

Given how it went when they rebooted last time it might be best to leave the series to nostalgia.