Yes. If you can afford it, dumping that money into an ETF like VT, VTI, or VOO every month for the next 10 years is very likely to result in you turning a profit. Start with a Roth IRA and don't bother with a standard brokerage account until you're able to max out the contribution limit. If you want to do anything more complicated than buy big low cost ETFs study up first and go slow.
I also went through that and will never forget the sermon where the minister projected a medical diagram of a rectum and then repeatedly explained how God designed it as an exit only and anal sex will send you to hell. He wouldnt stop talking about it and kept making gestures. I was long over the BS by that point so I sat there awkwardly trying not to laugh through the whole thing.
Its crazy the cops thought sending undercovers to have sex with activists was a good idea in the first place, let alone fucking a teenager. Its rape by deception at the very least, and prima facie unethical. Anyone and everyone responsible belongs in prison.
Generally yes, but there's exceptions and degrees. I think its a job sort of like being a cop where it tends to attract a certain type of person, and the culture of the job is corrosive to ethical behavior. Power tends to corrupt, and the corrupt tend to be drawn to power. The result is most of them either start off at least somewhat ethically compromised or quickly arrive there.
At his age, 3 million net worth isn't really rich, especially compared to his peers. Its more like upper middle class. He can afford retirement in HCOL areas and vacations out of the country. Rich is you can fly a private jet to one of your mansions for vacation. If you try to claim you're rich with only 3 million actual rich people are going to laugh at you.
Its even technically illegal to be employed by several state governments if you're a communist. Or its technically legal, but there's old laws from the Red Scare era which are no longer officially enforced saying its illegal.
At my job everyone gets a background check before they start. I assume it includes at least a basic web search for their name, which could potentially turn up social media but to my knowledge its primarily focused on turning up legal issues. If the job involves handling money I believe its more thorough than the standard background check but I don't know the specifics. You only get drug tested if your job requires operating heavy machinery or employer owned vehicles, or if you're involved in an accident where employer insurance gets involved you can be required to do a drug test after the accident.
I was in a tiny crowded restaurant with one bathroom and needed to wash my hands. Whoever was in there before me nuked the whole site from orbit and it smelled like death. I hold my breath and quickly exit right into a woman waiting who immediately gets a face full of it and looks at me in complete horror. I start explaining it wasn't me but she has no reason to believe me and obviously doesn't. We're both regulars there so I keep running into her afterwards until I eventually moved away.
I've never been banned from Reddit but I was threatened with a ban by a Reddit admin when I reported a right wing troll group who was obviously using sockpuppets to harass people and spread racist bullshit in some local sub. The admin message said I was abusing the moderation system by reporting them and if I didn't stop I would be banned from Reddit. I was never banned but a few weeks later all of the sockpuppet accounts I reported were banned by the antievil operations team along with one of the mods in that sub.
I think it can be possible even without eye surgery.
When I was poor I would only wear one contact at a time to make them last longer. I would alternative eyes, and would either take it out or switch to glasses when I was reading or looking at a screen for any extended amount of time. My eyesight improved after a few years, not to the point of being cured but my prescription got weaker. I don't know if there's actual causation, and the optometrist just said "hmm, interesting" when I brought it up, but it does seem like that is what improved my vision.
Also, I know someone with a rare vision issue who had to see a vision therapist to do eye exercises and whatever they did was helpful for them. That's a more specific situation though than your typical eyesight problems where corrective lenses can be used because I think it involved how their brain processes visual input.
Yes. If you can afford it, dumping that money into an ETF like VT, VTI, or VOO every month for the next 10 years is very likely to result in you turning a profit. Start with a Roth IRA and don't bother with a standard brokerage account until you're able to max out the contribution limit. If you want to do anything more complicated than buy big low cost ETFs study up first and go slow.