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Comment Re: Poor savings habits strike again! (Score 1, Interesting) 210

I have no empathy for people who put all their eggs into one basket.

6 months emergency savings in a local bank. Rolling 12 month CD ladder. 401K or IRA in a three fund portfolio. By age 25 anyone making mid-high 5 figures can have a year of income saved, but instead they want tattoos and nice cars and big apartments and every concert memory.

No empathy for slaughtering yourself.

Comment Poor savings habits strike again! (Score -1, Troll) 210

50s here, very high income earner. Never stable income but when it comes, it is big.

I also always saved 10 to 20 percent of my income since my teen years so a firing has no real negative outcome.

My peers and colleagues save poorly to comical effect. When you make six figures you can save five figures and the growth in savings is huge over ten years and twenty years.

I have no tears for my peers and colleagues who refuse to save. Refuse.

Comment The NHTSA is unconstitutional. (Score 0) 279

Shut it down.

All of this stuff is better handled locally, or state-wide. The bureaucracy of the NHTSA is mind boggling, and the fact that folks look at their headline name but never what they actually do all year long doesn't surprise me.

"What about the children!" has never prefaced citizen safety or well being.

Comment Re:Please stop (Score 1) 171

Hyperloops are just a popularization of an older sci-fi concept, Evacuated Transport Tubes. There are places where they could work and be amazing - essentially bridging two cities together to seem like they're a short subway's ride apart. Think cities in the midwest. Crossing the Atlantic via bored tunnel is not one of those places, at least not until far far future....

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