They unfortunately do.

Canada

Brazil

Australia

Mark Rober’s Experiment

You’ve never seen animals flattened way onto the shoulder, well outside the lines or in the middle of the lane where the car should have gone right over it?

Putting a dimmer switch in the bathroom has probably been the best cheap quality of life upgrade ever.

I have it set so when pushed all the way down is just enough voltage to turn the LED bulbs on, not fully off, so there’s no guesswork where to set it when stumbling in during the night or first thing in the AM.

Have it dimmed real low while showering and getting ready for bed to get my eyes used to the dark, flip it all the way down as I leave, and then as I wake up in the AM I can bump it up a little to gradually wake me up. Life changing!

I need to get back into it. After doing it for a couple months, my flexibility and range of motion was really increased.

Some positions are hard and it can be discouraging at first, which is what made my SO quit doing it with me, but if you stick with it you can really start to notice progress.

I used the Down Dog app which is really customizable and it goes on sale for Black Friday for $20/yr instead of the normal $100/yr or $13/mo. It comes as a whole suite of apps but I haven’t used the others besides the meditation one much. I want to try the Pilates one too if I can get off my butt.

Nice photo! My Jay friends are so fun to watch. They recognize me and will call to me for snacks sometimes.

I snagged one of those at a gas station heading home from Tennessee and it was really good!

That sounds good!

My biggest gripe with the rise in violent talk is that it comes off like those commenters trying to get other people riled up into do that violence for them.

If you feel the justice system has failed and there is no other recourse, than that is one thing. But I keep seeing all these comments saying “why aren’t you out there doing anything about it?” and my first thought is always “well I haven’t seen your face on the news…” As far as I’ve seen it’s still all right wing nutters doing all the violence. If you aren’t out there doing something dangerous, why are you here telling others to go do that thing while you sit at home?

You’d call someone a hypocrite if they were on here every day telling other commenters they should feed the homeless, but you found out they don’t volunteer or donate or whatever. But I got to scroll past a bunch of keyboard warriors on every political or news thread throwing tantrums about why “nobody is doing what must be done.” Justified or not, if people start going after others, it’s going to go badly for both sides. If you won’t put your money where your mouth is, why are we all forced to read it?

If you’re serious, spouting off about it on a public forum is pretty stupid. If you’re not serious, you’re making the rest of us look stupid to anyone checking out this platform. I feel that’s a pretty fair assessment without judging your opinions or anyone else’s. We’re all wrestling internally with where our limits of tolerance are these days, but we can talk with each other productively about it, or we can rant and rave like a bunch of violent cavemen, but I know which one of those environments I’d rather be in.

Cheerwine is some tasty stuff, and for the most part it isn’t readily available in my part of the country, so it always feels like a special treat when I do find it.

Otherwise A-Treat is out local soda brand, and their Sasparilla and Birch Beer are the taste of my childhood.

I’m sure we could come up with something new to disagree on if we really tried. 😉

Oops, thanks for the correction! 😊

I’m sure there are more. I looked up high school athletes too but didn’t include it because estimates ranged to like 3-4% which sounded reeeeally high.

And if we are counting people who suffer because they’re punishing trans people for existing, it likely is 10x the amount. I hope that everyone, trans or not, has 10 people that would be upset if the law was threatening them. I know it’s making me really upset and nervous for some of the people I know.

Anyone who says we need to push people toward depression or self harm so what’s her face can get her 8th place swim medal has some real issues…

“That’s now no longer about celebrating your rights. It’s about denying other people theirs,” Newsom said. “Marriage equality was about everyone’s right […] But your child may not have that same opportunity to get on the podium if a trans athlete is competing.”

Let’s look at this…

NCAA says out of 500,000 athletes, 10 (0.002%) are trans.

If an estimated 1% of the US population is trans, that’s 34,000,000 people.

Assuming that all 10 of those athletes win medals, Newsom would sacrifice the actual human rights of 34 million to see 10 people get a symbolic token? This is sounding like an excuse to be shitty.

That seems true. I don’t normally think that deep about it since my investment strategy is hands off. I’m really just paying Vanguard and Fidelity to buy bits and pieces of their shares.

I guess I just don’t like Elon and his type having anyone’s money and I don’t like me being able to link myself to them even if it’s a few steps removed.

I agree with this for 99% of personal investors, but this sounds like what OP is already doing. They’re looking for something that goes further to support their beliefs.

It bothers me to a minor extent to technically contribute to some of these companies. I’m sure most of them do plenty of evil like polluting, wage theft, shady practices, etc. That’s how they get on the SP500 I assume.

I see it as rather capturing the US economy as a whole (or general representation of) and no one is picking favorites, it’s just that these are the x biggest traded companies right now. If one drops off, another replaces it. There’s no ethical decisions in the choice of companies that make up a market index other than to invest in it or not.

My ethical choice is prioritizing providing for me and my spouse in old age, and as we have no children, it’s up to us to ensure we have that, and this is what I felt was the most responsible decision to achieve that.

Like you alluded to, I invest in my community by volunteering, and I try to avoid as much consumerism as possible, especially from known shitty companies.

No personal experience with it, but a little searching turned up M1 Finance. They’ve been around for 10 years and I see lots of search results for them, so there’s at least some legitimacy.

You set up what they call a “pie” made up of “slices”. It’s a pie chart of your stock and fund choices. You can buy partial shares and it looked like you can buy both funds and individual stocks. No idea if there are minimums, I saw some comments saying they don’t have every fund, limited or no bonds, etc, etc.

But you set up your pie, set up automatic investment (you can also do manual or fund just a single slice in a transaction, or various other options), and then it automatically distributes across your pie to the percentages you indicate.

Depending how many slices you plan to set up, it may take a while, but it seems to be a way to do what you want if you’re willing to determine all the specific things you want.

Everything I learn about Slavic languages makes them sound like they were only invented to swear or say dirty words. 😂

Glad to help!

It is coincidentally the only Cyrillic character I know! 😂

I had a friend for a bit that was Ukrainian, and this is the only specific letter he taught me.

Zhe

I don’t have any experience with it, but would fiver be along the lines of what you’re looking for?

In my HOA almost all of the board members own multiple units and they don’t even live in our neighborhood. I know one is a realtor, as she sold me my place, and another is just an investor.

They’re not always the most pleasant people, but they do an ok job the majority of the time. People seem to hate owning a house but still getting told no on things.

I don’t know if they actually vote multiple times, but I think we’ve had less than a half dozen rule changes in the almost 20 years I’ve been there.

They have a vested financial interest in making the neighborhood as attractive and successful as the rest of us. While their motivation is purely a financial interest, the petty and self-centered things I’ve seen my fellow residents try to demand is crazier than anything our board has actually done.

I imagine so. Everyone is looking to “see results,” but for the majority that is just going to mean make them invisible, while for the actual homeless, the answer is much more complicated and less popular with a lot of other people.