So I’m not commenting on the often-horrendous wider effects of the economic downturns we’ve seen, but strictly in terms of the stock market if you’d started investing a steady amount in the stock market every month starting in 2010 you’d be doing pretty damn well right now.

Heck, even if you’d put all your money in…

This may not be the case for you, but for a lot of people it’s psychologically easier to not spend money if it’s in a seperate account that you have to manually transfer the money from.

One option would be something like Engine No. 1's VOTE ETF, which uses their shareholder rights to elect people with ethical goals to the board of directors of the companies they hold. They recently managed to get two climate change activists on Exxon-Mobil’s board of directors.

You could hand pick stocks you deem…

I definitely wouldn’t go so far as saying that kitchen and bathrooms are “almost always worth way more than the expense in the home’s market value”. On average, bathroom and kitchen remodels don’t recover the investment, though for your particular house and market that may not be the case. https://www.zillow.com/seller…

With the free version, yes, the number of people who could ride the top rides was unchanged. But it meant that instead of waiting in line, you could wander the park, watch shows, or ride less-popular rides while waiting for your appointment.

No, the Shire is quintessentially English. The rest of Middle Earth isn’t. You could certainly film a Middle Earth film in Europe (and parts of north Africa), but if they’re doing most of their filming in the UK that probably means they’re doing most of their filming on a studio lot.

I’d argue that the games before Tennis For Two aren’t video games. They’re computer games, but with no animation they don’t really count as “video”.

All while paying their employees pretty decently, at least compared to most of their direct competitors.

Unless something weird is going on, you’d expect different cashiers to encounter a roughly equal number of heavy or odd-shaped items, so that’s not really a problem.

Sabine would only be 31 as of The Mandalorian, actually a year younger than Kimiko Glenn.

The pay is lousy everywhere (though it’s more tolerable in areas with lower cost of living), but the amount of crunch and the amount of respect given to trans/non-binary people varies massively between studios.

Yeah, and it’s an average for all QA industries, not just games. Very few people are making 50k doing QA for games.

If you use a lot of fresh herbs in your cookings--and I realize not everyone does--it really doesn’t seem like it’d take that long to break even. Fresh basil is expensive.

If you use a lot of fresh herbs in your cookings--and I realize not everyone does--it really doesn’t seem like it’d…

Nah. It’s “We’re headed towards some tougher times, but we can still choose just how tough”. The best case scenario at this point is still pretty ugly, and will involve millions of deaths, but that, or even the intermediate case scenario, are a long way from the end of the world or even human civilization.

That comparison is deeply unfair to Dreamworks.

It really depends on whether you’re comparing it to the existing budget options or the existing higher-end options. The price is pretty in line with the higher end options already available, though it’s definitely possible to have a great time for much, much less.

I’m having a hard time imagining a situation where the two minute delay caused by having them leave a message then immediately calling them back would cause any serious problems.

Both. They were raped, and then their partner attempted to gaslight them into believing they were not.

Yeah, there are always innumerable new junior level employees eager to join the industry. But junior level employees are basically useless without a good ratio of mid to senior level employees. People fresh out of CS programs or art school have some valuable skills, but they have no idea how to actually make a AAA…

That you have a fleet matters. Whether your choices resulted in a large fleet or a small fleet doesn’t.