This is excellent advice. I don’t know the future. I just know that technology is acting the ways it did before previous busts, but much worse this time.
Still… transportation is looking really good, right now. Everybody needs stull delivered.
Be sure to dig into the composition of any index fund you buy. Many of them have so much technology stock that they’re both indistinguishable from each-other and also doomed.
The market does great over time, but anyone in tech can tell you this is an abysmal time to buy in to tech stock.
Any fund that blindly buys big popular companies is going to be shattered by the coming tech bubble bursting.
Look for funds with rules for inclusion. Today’s tech stocks are fraught with fraud may have trouble passing those rules.
Ethical funds exist, but don’t currently go far enough to protect your investment. Smoking is bad, but certain kinds of warmongering are apparently a-ok…
Sector specific funds like energy, or transportation have much lower exposure to the current tech bubble.
Right. Right. But maybe we should choose democratically - with one vote per dollar not allocated to mere survival…
(Hopefully this sarcasm is obvious.)
I don’t want that machine
Let’s take care not to lose sight of what billionaire nepo-babies want.
Mixed history and all - public figures publicly embracing doing better through a better work environment goes in the “win” column.
I asume the prompt was: Tell me your board of directors are all too young to remember the DotCom bust without telling me so directly.
and I challenge you to watch it again and defend its virtues.
“Barf” is a half dog played by John Candy. I rest my case, your honor.
My kid watches it continuously, and they and I find it hilarious.
And yes, people do roll their eyes at my Monty Python quotes.
Now I need a “Spaceballs: The Money” duffel bag!
Probably got better results that way. The more existing real art is available, the better the remixed slop will be.
What’s the best way to get an intro to these tools?
Find a website with a free chat bot and ask it for guidance on learning these tools. If that doesn’t work, try another site. Keep asking for guidance to run up their chat bot bill until it blocks your IP range. Rinse and repeat with a new bot, or a VPN.
That’s the most fun way to learn about this stuff.
Oh, the best way? I have no idea.
Good advice.
Of course, some developers circumvent this by not adding DRM to their game.
Can’t waste dev time fucking with an esoteric key system if they don’t first waste dev time writing an esoteric key system.
I figure the engine swap business has got to be booming right now.
Was it pre-spyware? I’ll pay extra for pre-spyware vehicles. I work in IT, so I value my privacy.
Nice!
If you get bored of Typing.com there’s some great typing games for sale on Steam and itch.io.
Five now. It’s good money.
Or one Google employee who is particularly lousy at building social media bots.
Yes. It’s somehow a fucking race to build the Torment Nexus from the classic science fiction novel “Do not build the Torment Nexus”. It’s almost unbelievable.
You just know a bunch of these assholes are going to turn Cube into a reality, and then act surprised when they wake up inside the death trap.
Very strange when they dropped the slogan, like being honest about being evil got them brownie points.
I thought it was strange too, until I realized - I think the slogan change was a deliberate message to court a specific type of investor/customer: Epstein’s billionaire pedophile friends.
There is PeerTube. But to your point, full time creators need money, and monetization isn’t solved on PeerTube,
You can look up the composition of each index, before you buy it.
Usually I need a web search to map the stock ticker to a holding company and then another wwb search to map the holding company to a real company.
You’ll see heavy amounts of Microsoft, Alphabet (Google) and Amazon in anything that is just blindly buying with an algorithm - almost as if algorithm companies are good at fooling an algorithm…
Searching for funds with a non-technology focus will help, or searching for funds that focus on providing a dividend return (today’s biggest tech companies are deep in debt and usually don’t pay a quarterly dividend.)
Companies that do routinely pay a dividend are under some pressure to resoond to their customers rather than to CEO hype waves.