There's been an uptick on China is great material passing through my pages - more in the past few months. They don't have to work too hard to demonstrate their achievements.

@taiwan_girl said in Net Worth and pensions: @NobodySock Here are a couple that I "fool around with" https://cfiresim.com/#google_vignette https://www.firecalc.com/index.php They both seemed pretty good to me and were fun to play with. I haven't looked at them recently so dont know what (if any) updates or changes have been made. They both run many simulations based on past stock market returns. I think they call it a "Monte Carlo" Thats where the variable “discount rate” comes into play. Considering market gains, losses, and good old dependable inflation. I plugged in 4 percent and then there is the crap shoot of picking the number of years one has left to live. With monthly pensions and SS, that magical number makes all the difference in placing value to the as yet untold true pot of gold

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I'm FB friends with a guy I've known since first grade. My mother used to give him a lift home from primary school. He lives on the Isle of Rhodes, I live in Rhode Island. One of us made a better choice, I suspect. Weirdly, I ran into him at my dad's funeral, in 2014 - he was there for the preceding funeral. We still do a bit of banter from time to time.

@jon-nyc said in Buffett retiring: Ok now I’ve seen it all. A fucking crypto boi accusing Buffett of not adding any real value to the real economy. A cryptofuck. https://x.com/cameron/status/1918870264068166008?s=46 What a maroon.

https://x.com/interesting_ail/status/1919523098681811271?s=46

https://x.com/robinhanson/status/1919452774019858776?s=46

Where is this question voiced by her that should be the only fucking question right now? "how can you consider cutting Medicaid, Medicare, SS, only to give more tax breaks to the ultra rich and the Pentagon? " She would get a little bit of respect for voicing that "sacrilege" statement to fellow Republicans.

@89th said in Life is tough for 6 year olds: And the dolls, think of the dolls! 25 each. Shit parenting. They only need 2.

https://www.reddit.com/r/JustGuysBeingDudes/s/zwbkwmyR0C

Kind of weird timing.

I had a similar thought when I was listening to Bondi speak about how many hundreds of millions of lives Trump saved in the last 100 days, it was almost like she was yelling at the press out of hatred. Reminded me a bit of Spicer's first press conference defending the crowd size.

Sounds familiar

So I see @jon-nyc makes the common mistake of many that watched those films.

Don't knock the coffin until you try one. Many spend the longest times in one. Though admittedly there are also many would rather burn in an oven. Yes, I slept in one of those capsules in a capsule hotel in Tokyo too. It's an experience alright. Get well soon, @jodi.

You wonder? He used the word ‘whitelist’. Of course he’s a Nazi.

I had freshly prepared salad from Wawa before. It was very good. Though that was before COVID. Wawas also have very good air pumps. Wawa's other things like prepackaged snacks, milk, water, sodas, etc. are about as good as other convenience stores.