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Comment Re: Food packaging, cookwear, cosmetics (Score 1) 159

Whenever I start worrying about something being safe to eat or drink, I remind myself that there are microplastics in my organs, and then I ask myself again whether I should really be worried about whatever. itâ(TM)s given me an odd peace of mind about the harmful chemicals i canâ(TM)t avoid anyway.

Comment An important lesson we'll never learn (Score 1) 108

A lesson as to why we should stop giving automatically celebrities a platform whence to share their "wisdom": He wanted to know what to do to save the world. He believed he could learn that by seeing the earth from a physically different location. His takeaway was "Everybody in the world needs to do this." Amazing.

Comment Re:Broken clock... (Score 2) 272

To elaborate a little on "the risk of mistiming sells and purchases is just too high", what I mean is that the stock market always goes back up because of the way the economy is designed and most people would very likely end up selling after the drop (often a sudden drop) has begun and then shame-facedly buying back in only after the recovery either begins or is over, meaning they will experience the loss and miss the recovery.

If the stock market ever doesn't go back up again, your cash is probably also no good here anymore. Hopefully that's because we're transitioning to a sane and rational economy.

Comment Re:Broken clock... (Score 1) 272

That's good for you and I'm happy for you, but not everyone can do this. Meaning, for you to sell, someone has to be buying. If everyone is trying to sell, and no one is buying, it's going to be a lot worse.
That's the problem with our economy and the way we do retirement planning. But given that we accept this model, most people really are better just putting it in an IRA and forgetting about it except at key milestones where they reset their risk percentage because the risk of mistiming sells and purchases is just too high.

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