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In my experience:

• A lot of people do this with 401ks and such because many times there aren't many other options.
• People I know who are serious investors with a lot of money tend to not invest much in the S&P 500 because they think of themselves as superior investors, but I don't know of anyone for whom this is actually true based on past performance.
• I invest some 20% of my money in the S&P 500, which is probably not as much as I should. It's some combination of the above hubris, which is natural, wanting to be diversified, and enjoying gambling on individual stocks.

That's because the death rate for these sorts of problems is very low and at best is a very weak evolutionary pressure which won't yield results for many generations. Additionally, the heritability of medical stupidity is very questionable.

Not enough innuendo, a lot of missed opportunities. I mean you have cookies and milk, totally unused. Like "fill my stocking with a duplex" could easily have been "fill my stocking with gifts from your sack". Is she even trying?

I know someone with moderate substance abuse issues and diagnosed severe mental illness - basically as bad as it gets if left untreated. But she also lives independently and holds down a solid middle class desk job. How? She has rich parents who pay for treatment (individualized psychiatry) and care (housekeeping mostly), as well as an array of friends who help oversee her.

Homelessness is not necessary, even in the most desperate cases. It's just a question of what we're willing to pay and how much we're willing to care.

Trump is an actual reality TV star though. He's one of the most skilled people on Earth at appealing to low-effort thinkers. Others like him in the crime/depravity department (Herschel Walker, George Santos) haven't done as well electorally.

There's still a lot of Democratic politicians sadly Xitting about how Elon has too much power while helping keep his media platform afloat while the boosted right wing blue checkmarks get all the top replies.

This just in: Trump just un-pardoned Steve Bannon (SCOTUS immediately says that's allowed now).

Our media is so stupid. The world's richest man just bought the whole federal government and the MSM reaction is "Ooh, maybe there's gonna be drama!"

Sane-washing was the wrong word for what the media does with Trump. It's more like reality-TV-washing. It makes everything he does seem like a TV show that's not real, and they never talk to or about the real people who are harmed by poorly run government. When was the last time the MSM talked to or about the struggles of a homeless person, someone living in the ghetto, or an immigrant trapped in a broken system? But they talk to and about Elon Musk every fucking day. They've spoken more to Elon Musk about immigration than to all (other) immigrants combined.

The media isn't right-wing or left-wing, it's entertainment-wing. It's just a reality TV soap opera focused on characters and personalities, not informing people. We should stop pretending it's a source of information, the MSM is a source of entertainment.

Not quite, in America we always think of the sacrificed as belonging to the other tribe.

And the shoes (which are abnormally large) don't look like any work boots I've ever seen, resembling trail running shoes but bigger. The laces seem to be oddly non-existent and instead the straps for lacing them appear to connect with each other.

AI can get reflections right, just when it doesn't it can be very creepy.

It's been anticipated throughout the campaign, but kind of got overshadowed by all the other horrible stuff about Trump. RFK Jr. is the biggest anti-vaxxer in the world. Trump ran with him openly to get his cult on his side. This is the obvious result.

It's interesting that RFK Jr., the head of HHS, is now actively preparing to withdraw the polio vaccine. And the story is "Ooh, Republican drama!"

Our government has become a reality TV show, but it's still doing things that affect living and dying. The media is the problem, they made this happen to sell ad space.

Like many, he was a right-winger until he became the victim of the right wing. Suddenly he became the most extreme example of the "woke" activists he used to attack.

Your commitment to long-term civilizational success, Elon, is not universally shared

It's not even the majority position

What you call the "woke mind virus" cares about one thing only: equality

The levelers want to destroy everything because in the rubble we will all be equal

• Tweet reposted by Luigi, worshipping a capitalist 10x worse than the one he shot

"I really wish the left would stop acting like Trump is going to try to remain president if he loses the election. Trump has no intention of trying to overturn a free and fair election."

• Every Republican leading up to 2020.

Clearly we can solve homelessness by simply terraforming Mars and moving all the homeless there, right?

It was also preceded by a violent act of terrorism that made people support whatever the president wanted to do in the middle east.

Also a good reason why driving a giant vehicle like a GMC Sierra that smashes anything it touches shouldn't be free. A higher vehicle tax on something like that would be appropriate, instead they get higher tax write-offs and lower emissions and safety standards.

Whatever oil wants, oil gets.