BG3…soon. :)

I’m a blue person, stuck in the southeast. I’m nearly 59 years old, so I can’t transplant easily. My spouse has family roots and a house here too. (I don’t, I’ve been more mobile before I met her).

She’s not likely to sell her house either (despite being liberal) because she bought the home she grew up in; Nostalgia. I’m hoping that in 8 years when I retire, she and I will be more on the same sheet of music. Maybe she’ll be ready to downsize (though she still harbors the idea of keeping the house, renting it, and being able to will it to her daughter), and we can consider leaving.

The only game plan I can come up with is get a nice van as our “second home” and live full time on the road; Quite an expensive way to escape. Sigh…I hope she and I sync up eventually.

Yikes! I had no idea there was any way to lose money when credit card rates were so high. The article says that they had to approve people with lower scores than they would normally do, so they are having to write off double the volume that other issuers are.

…and I just opened my savings account with Apple/Goldman a couple of months ago.

I have no words…

I tried playing a bit with some small money I was ok with losing. I didn’t lose much, but realized in short order that there was no way I could ever get enough info to make a rational decision. Nearly every method/recipe/chart that I saw showed analysis after the fact. Welp, I can take anything in hindsight and make a story that fits the picture. But I never felt like there was any way to be predictive. I was only ever going to be flying blind.

I never stepped even a tiny bit beyond my tiny attempt at trading. I learned my lesson. I’ll just stick to my index funds/401k/retirement plan and hope for the best.

Thank y’all for being so proactive. I’ve been dismayed at the spike in Lemmy users over the past few days. The number of instances popping up with many thousands of accounts is suspicious.

Thank you again for working so hard to keep this space “clean”.

Omg. I didn’t even notice that. No wonder some posts were disappearing! Thank you!

Wow. Those are huge subreddits that are now unmoderated. Is Reddit planning on using bots to auto mod these and hope they catch all the spammage?

Yes! Fantastic news!

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Yeah. That’s what I do when a post goes poof. What’s odd is that I posted this when a post vanished in me this evening. After posting my question, I went back to the main page and there’s the original post in question was again. Weird.

I’m going to chalk it up to growing pains. I do see the pages refresh while I’m browsing and it’s a little disorienting, but as long as the content doesn’t poof on me, it’s cool.

If I were to become wealthy enough to have this luxury, I would probably goof off and video game the first month. I say this because it’s what I used to do when I was in school and had summers off.

After the boredom kicks in, my brain usually shifts to more creative endeavors. I imagine I’d do some of the projects I used to love. Calligraphy, creating my own language, photography, astrophotography, light gardening, travel to see museums, hiking, visit parks, read, wood working and carving, small projects around the house. Oh wouldn’t it be grand!

I remember years ago when Enron and Worldcom collapsed. People who were retired/nearly retired lost a lifetime of investments. They found themselves on the cusp of their elder years and thrust into poverty overnight.

If (when) the stock market fails everyone is going to be in that same boat because all other avenues of saving money other than shoving it in a mattress or burying it in your yard is ultimately tied up in the market. I have to contribute to a 401k and pension plan to get employer contributions. So instead of a safe CD or savings account…my extra money is “playing” the market. I don’t like this and predict it’s going to get really ugly for lots of folks when finance buckles. I’m 10 years out from retirement and on edge just thinking about this. Then again, I know I won’t be alone.