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Jimmy makes an excellent point. It is absolutely worth the money to have a good financial advisor. As for me, I am comfortable with equity market risk and long term investment horizons. Therefore, I am heavily invested in the stock market. I am not a stock picker (mostly) so I use low cost index funds for my stock and bond exposure. I preached to my children that if you do this from a very early age with a very long investment horizon you will certainly be happy with the results. For example, if you start at 22 years old saving $100 per month, just $1,200 per year, and invest it in the S&P500 with dividends reinvested, assuming the future return equals the historic return (they won't), then in 40 years you will have deposited $48,000, but it will be worth ~$1,000,000. Why wouldn't you do this trade? Given that I know nothing about your personal circumstances, I would not tell you how to invest. But I will definitely tell you that you need to save, live below your means, and find that good financial advisor.

Amen, though tough to buy in your 401k

https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/money/average-401k-balance-by-age Fidelity estimates you should save from all sources: 1x your salary by age 30 3x by 40 6x by 50 8x by 60 10x by 67 But according to Vanguard median 401k savings (not all sources) is only: 25-34: $11,357 35-44: $28,318 45-54: $48,301 55-64: $71,168 65+: $70,620 Get saving and investing, people. The stock market is a tremendous engine for wealth creation. Do not miss out.

I am really liking Star Rocky, but maybe take out the space? StarRocky?

Oh yeah? How does your phone work? Do you plug it into the wall every time you post here? Or maybe you store electricity in its bottle somewhere then hope you can use it. That is exactly what ever one of us does every day.

The issue with wind, solar, hydro and any other renewable is not just a problem with the source, but it is the interaction of the source with our existing grid. Our power grid has no storage capacity. That means all power generation must perfectly match all power demand at all times. Since the availability of renewables is undependable, until the storage problem is solved, they must always be used in combination with fossil fuel based generation. Fossil fuel generation also has availability issues of its own. It is very time consuming and expensive to bring a cold fossil fuel power plant online. If demand spikes and the plant is not already on line it will be too late to satisfy the demand and brown outs and black outs ensue. The historic solution is to always have them online. This is as suboptimal as the wind stopping. Or for that matter, blowing when there is not enough demand to consume the energy created. Storage capacity forgives the sins of both types of energy source as it moves energy through time from periods of low demand/high generation to periods of high demand/low generation.

I laughed when you said you haven't done a super deep dive yet.

#teamcowcards

Kudos to you for doing the heavy lifting. And finding that for every AA is HEAVY lifting.

I thought this was going to be about how handsome you thought he was.

Yeah, this was a hard post to read from the title on down.

I would really like to see Indiana continue with their momentum. I am a fan of Angel Escobedo and want him to succeed.

Sorry, I do not have any hometown, state, high school data on these guys. As far as I am concerned they do not exist prior to their freshman year.

jinx. You owe me a coke.

Oklahoma State beat Iowa 30-10 on 1/11/04 at CHA

Are you sure that was your second thought?

Too soon

Who has the current longest losing streak on this board?

As long as we are taking bits from other sites, this one is for you @Jimmy Cinnabon

My bad. Yes, my link is specific to the Championships, not the OG Qualifier. I can only assume they will follow a similar procedure for the OG Qualifier as for the Championships, but I do not know for sure. Certainly it would be reasonable to assume that the USAW and the PAN-Am organizers have discussed this and know that the US has not yet determined its rep for the OG Qualifier.

Yeah, that humble brag was a little much. Would have been better if he said "when Yianni and Mick called me for advice, I confirmed they would be wrestling"

https://uww.org/article/pan-american-championships-2024-entries

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