my wife makes fun of my for doing bunny ears. i dont know, i learned how to tie my shoes via bunny ears, and then 30 years later the topic never came up. there was never a tying shoes lvl2 class that was offered to me, nor was there ever a reason for me to seek one out.

many do, but they dont have to. if you withdraw 4% or less each year, most simulations show a 95% success rate over 30 years (meaning you dont run out of money) and in most cases you end up with significantly more money than you started with. it doesnt matter if your withdrawals are via dividends or selling shares.

well, there’s two levels, retire early, and retire comfortably. to be able to retire early, it requires a high income, or absurdly low expenses (or both), but many people arent even on track to have any savings for retirement at all, and for that you don’t need a crazy income or super low expenses, you just need to…

financial independence does. frugality helps lead to financial independence.

sure but it’s still an increase of less than 10% seems like a pretty incremental increase, hardly worth pasting a time series, pointing at the year and saying ‘this is where everything went wrong!!’

go back to 2014 and see what, that the number of flags went up 10%? hardly an egregious increase.

hm... i dont know, i just sweat too much to want to get in my (or anyone else’s) car without showering after a workout.

that’s not the case. if you use a pro installation to encrypt the drive, you can use it on pcs without pro, you just cant encrypt a new drive from a nonpro pc.

ok but is being able to recite the national anthem something that more than 5% of the population could do on the spot without any pre-warning? i certainly cant, and its not for lack of exposure to the anthem.

lol, you guys

wait you started eating less than half as much and you’ve been losing a lot of wait? that’s crazy.

You seem to be purposely missing the point.

Jesus christ, 4 months. That’s it. This is your wife, not your high school girlfriend. How hard is it to just not cheat for 4 months.

1.2buttloads.

1.2buttloads.

I still don’t understand why ‘plugging straight into the outlet’ is seen as a feature. I have the original eeros, all have a cord that lets me put them anywhere within 6 feet of an outlet/power strip. I would never trade any of them for ones that plug straight into the wall.

I still don’t understand why ‘plugging straight into the outlet’ is seen as a feature. I have the original eeros,…

Every single time I’ve ever heard ‘taxpayer money’ its been to stir up outrage at some wasteful spending that a government official did, by making people think the official was spending their (the taxpayer’s) money.

It’s hard for me to respond to this, your explanation of how government spending works is completely ridiculous.

and certainly not eggs.

where is this guy getting his water that it boils over? when my water starts boiling it just... boils.