I ❤️ fishnets. The texture is so satisfying.

I’m doing this between my phone and desktop using Syncthing. It’s been working great!

Who fucking watches Apple demo videos?

There is no perfect vacuum, even in deep space. In the space of our Solar System, there is on average 5 atoms in every cubic centimeter. In interstellar space, there is on average 1 atom every cubic centimeter. In intergalactic space, there is on average 1 atom every 100 cubic centimeters. It’s a gradient, but much like the perfectly straight lines and flat planes in the original question, perfect vacuum is a theoretical construct that is impossible to achieve in our reality.

7,000 student having racked up 1 million dollars in lunch debt is uplifting news?

What about vaping marijuana?

Thanks!

I’d like to hear more about this feline boat building endeavor.

What app are you using that has this neat tagging feature?

This is hilarious 🤣. I’m laughing my ass off right now, irregardless of how frustrated you guys may be.

For what it’s worth, I’m not the one downvoting you. I appreciate your perspective. However, if nobody can retire without the ability to pay $200k/year, very few people will ever be retiring. I believe working with patients in these terrible situations, has created a form of selection bias were you don’t see the successful retirements. Not everyone needs a Fat FIRE, and I would prefer to live frugally and retire early vs working away my life until a regular retirement age.

To add to this, you are also expected to withdraw more year after year along with inflation. If your safe withdrawal rate allows you to withdraw $40,000 on year one, you can withdraw $40,800 the second year (assuming 2% inflation). Dispite this increase, your portfolio should still grow. If you are withdrawing all of your gains, you are setting yourself up for failure.

No, you always take less than the increase. This is why most FIRE plans revolve around living on 3-4%. The gain percentage minus withdrawal percentage should ideally leave you with a number greater than the losses due to inflation.

That’s a long way of saying your “best-case scenario” is actually a worst-case scenario.

You’re ignoring that your balance will increase over time through interest and stock gains. I believe this is historically around 8%, exceeding inflation.

“Voting with your wallet doesn’t work when there aren’t any alternatives.”

Just cook your own food.

No, just let it die. Please don’t force the rest of us to pay for this.

I’d say it’s working as intended. Let them drive themselves into the ground.

Maybe everyone shouldn’t have defederated from them then.