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2 hours ago, caulfield12 said:
Which Vanguard Fund would you feel most confident parking a significant amount of money in for the next 15-20 years, and why?
Some of the ones I’m currently looking at (yes, another list!)
vpmcx
visvx
vmvix
vmvax
vpccx
vtsix
vtiax (super popular with FIRE crowd, so maybe tack the opposite direction, haha)
vghcx (health care seems as logical a place as any, right?)
vtwax
vwinx
vigax
vimax
I parked a substantial amount (to me anyway) in VBIAX. I'm not particularly risk tolerant, and it has the proper asset mix to diversify at my (and my wife's) age with one fund. I also have a bit of money in VTI which I am funding from dividends on the VBIAX fund.
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17 hours ago, The Beast said:
Any wheat beer suggestions with some flavor?
Depends on what flavor you want. Do you want a heavy banana/clove flavor? or do you want a hopped up wheat? What do you consider a wheat beer lacking flavor?
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6 minutes ago, oldsox said:
Sorry if this was already covered, but why did it take Arizona authorities 8 months to charge him? Incident was in Feb, charged in Oct.
First, because they filed in the wrong jurisdiction. Second, some of the delay is waiting for the blood work. In WI that takes like 6 months.
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54 minutes ago, Balta1701 said:
Frankly, unless LaRummy weighs 120 lb, those numbers are garbage. Plug a full bottle of wine (4 glasses) into a BAC calculator, make it over 2 hours (dinner with friends) and you get 0.06-0.07 for a guy my weight. He had probably 6 glasses if it was wine, one of which was right before he hit the road, so that his BAC went up between the breath and blood tests. Fewer if it was strong or fortified. 2 really strong mixed drinks in 30 minutes might do that.
Might be worth mentioning that in most states a breathalyzer is not admissible in court. It can only be used to gain reasonable suspicion along with other factors. Trying to glean details of a curve argument based on a breathalyzer is kinda tough since it has a degree of error. Bit of free legal advice: if you are pulled over, NEVER tell police you were drinking. No matter how drunk you are, and ALWAYS agree to all tests. Get a lawyer and they can make up a curve argument.
Anyway, to me, and as I said before, if he were black, he would have been beat or shot. Literally, everything about his demeanor, and his stance against kneeling during the anthem says everything about him. He wants blacks to have their hands at 10 and 2 and obey all commands of the officer, but he does whatever he wants. How he represents this team is hard to understand.
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8 minutes ago, Sockin said:
Passan’s article says he agreed to and took the breathalyzer.
Uh...i think the story is that if a black guy did at a traffic stop, the cop would have his gun drawn and beat the hell out of him.
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48 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:
He's a drunk that's my worry. Who even cares how bad it looks externally when a drunk is gonna lead the team everyday.
Nobody that gets two duiS doesn't have a drinking problem. He has a drinking problem and now he's the manager.
100%. Plus it is clear that he will have no accountability.
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WI has NOT been called. That tweet was fake. Well fake is the wrong word, but it hasn’t been called.
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Just now, ptatc said:
He was basically making a joke about the leather top and the amount of skin showing being inappropriate for an NFL sideline reporter. That's it. He wasn't degrading the reporter. He wasn't making a comment about thinking lesser of a person. It was an inappropriate joke using topics he is familiar with. If you've listened to him over the years, it was nothing deeper than that.
1. Why was the joke inappropriate then? By what standard?
2. Why, in his view, can't she have her shoulders showing? Why make the joke? How is it not degrading for a woman to have her clothes criticized by a man who doesn't face the same standard?
And I've listened to him forever. He doesn't continue to get into these messes because he respects other people.
I'm not here to convince you that jokes like this are wrong, but your defense of McNeil doesn't make any sense. It cannot be both inappropriate, but also harmless.
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10 minutes ago, ptatc said:
Actually he doesn't. Over the years he has talked about the industry, going to their conventions and even had some of the stars for interviews on his shows.
I'm not convinced that's the same thing. To think that he doesn't go to industry conventions or have porn stars on for his own enjoyment, or to drive ratings, rather than some self-less act of feminism is nuts. People use services on the regular while looking down on those who perform them.
I really cannot wrap my head around a way to read his tweet that isn't an attempt to judge a woman on a standard men do not face.
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9 hours ago, Y2Jimmy0 said:
It absolutely came from Entercom. Mac should have never sent the tweet because it's stupid but he also shouldn't have deleted it. Never let a crisis go to waste. He gave the company an opportunity to dump him and that's on him but this wasn't a fireable offense. It was a poor attempt at a joke that didn't land. I'm really not sure who it's even offensive towards. If you're offended that Maria Taylor was compared to someone who would host a porn awards show, doesn't that mean that you think people who work in the entertainment industry are in fact lesser? Shouldn't those people be offended that people are offended about being compared to them? The same people who were outraged over a dumb tweet would say that those who work in the adult entertainment industry are respected people as well with jobs. So what gives then? If the offense is that he was objectifying a female that was just trying to do her job then that's fine but that isn't how this has been painted.
No. The tweet shows that McNeil thinks lesser of people in that industry, and then compared Taylor to them.
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1 hour ago, soxfan49 said:
Good. Banks are offering mortgage assistance so there should be something that mandates rent assistance.
A lot of places have moratoriums on foreclosures and evictions. And given that courts are mostly closed, there isn't much landlords can do.
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1 hour ago, StrangeSox said:
Really bad news for Wisconsin. Conservative courts are forcing people to choose between their health or their right to vote. Several Republican politicians including the president have been explicit that they reject mail voting purely on the grounds that it may help Democrats.
Milwaukee already announced that they're going from their typical 190 or so polling places to.... five. How can anyone consider the results of tomorrow's election in Wisconsin legitimate?
This is all to keep one conservative judge on the state Supreme Court.
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I am only shopping where I can use Apple Pay.
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4 minutes ago, scotty22hotty said:
blow it out your ass. The Dems focused all of their energy on the impeachment farse for ALL of January and first week of Feb while the country could've been focused on this Chinese contravirus. Instead they called him racist for his Jan 31 ban on China and possibly avoiding a Europe-like meltdown.
Thankfully JB is manning up as a gov and taking initiative instead of spending his entire time blaming Trump.
Believe it or not but Trump is not a dictator... It's the states role to lead the charge over it's population. Why didn't any states act when Trump closed travel from China? ...oh right, hindsight is 20/20
Time for all of us to start living in the now that's grounded in reality instead of blaming others.
Local governments look to the feds on national health issues. Local health departments deal with food licensing and hoarders etc. Not pandemics. The response falls to the feds.
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37 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:
complete failure of leadership at every level. This is overboard and will do more harm than good. It's one thing to shut down public venues and gathering spaces. It's another to tell someone they can't go get their car fixed or get a cup of coffee to go.
You base this on what?
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Nest vs Ring
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What other technology ecosystems are you in? How will each work with that?
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7 hours ago, pettie4sox said:
A release statement from your employer. They say you're suppose to get it reviewed by a lawyer. I've looked over mine, I'm not signing it but if you don't you forfeit your severance.
I guess the big question is do you think there has been anything about your time there that could give rise to a claim? What are the circumstances of the last off?
You don’t have to answer but those are things to consider. What are the chances you are going to sue them? What are the chances you’d get more out of a lawsuit than the severance amount?
Also I’m sorry that you have to go through this. That sucks.
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20 hours ago, pettie4sox said:
Signing a release after getting laid off, yay or nay?
A release of what and for what?
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53 minutes ago, Jack Parkman said:
Mazara might be about to turn the corner. He's not walking much, but he slashed .287/.320/.859 in the second half last year. The MLBN videos show the changes he made to achieve that.
If that was true, then why trade him for Steele Walker? I like the trade a lot, but there has to be more to the story. If changes the Rangers made were working, then trading him seems dumb.
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Just now, Look at Ray Ray Run said:
This is weird. So he puts in the work for the day to day stuff, but doesn't know how to put in the work to put himself in a great position for the season?
Not sure I've ever heard that about a player before.
I think it sounds like Moncada. Changing his hitting approach was an off season adjustment, and doing what he did in the minors wasn't enough. It makes me wonder if the Sox think having Mazara around guys who have made that jump will help.
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32 minutes ago, Kyyle23 said:
I agree it was strange but I think it was done that way because the people of that planet were not technologically advanced so it kind of appeared that way to them.
I did expect at least one Camera shot inside of it to show who was piloting it though
This image is from a CNN story on Rise of the Resistance. I think Mandalorian used red eyes because the theme park robots will have red eyes.
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If you request the desktop version in safari it works. Weird.
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Since May 12 his BABIP has .371 and he has posted a .782 OPS.
Since June 1, he also has a .371 BABIP but an .842 OPS.I'm not sure how sustainable a .371 BABIP is for McCann, but he's been productive even at a level below .400.
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8 hours ago, Jack Parkman said:Not necessarily, if steps and progress are clearly defined at the beginning of each project, I'm fine. I can work independently with those guidelines. If the project needs to be done in three months, With step X done after the first month, step Y done after month two, and the entire project done after month 3 that is fine.
If you give me a project, and say " Have this done in 90 days" that would drive me nuts.
If you say " Have this done in 90 days, and if you have X done in 30 days and Y done in 60 days you're pacing yourself properly" That works for me. The interim steps are necessary to make sure I'm on the right track. Those are the little things that help. Is that too much to ask?
This is the task-subtask model that would help me greatly.
If the task-subtask is too much, than a 1-1 meeting with my boss at the end of the month to go over what I've accomplished is ok. As long as I'm keeping my boss happy, and it is clear to me that my boss is happy, I'm fine.
The biggest thing that drives me nuts is not sharing career advancement goals. Without that, my motivation is gone. Clearly defined. Goals.
1 year goals, 3 year goals, 5 year goals, etc.
If you meet these criteria, then you advance. If you don't, you stay put. There is no arguing and no excuse making. Everything needs to be objective. When shit gets subjective, it drives me nuts.
I'm fine working independently if all of these things are laid out at the start of the program/job. When the job itself becomes ambiguous and the performance measurement subjective, then it falls apart.
I was able to motivate myself fairly easily in school and college because everything was quantifiable and I could measure my progress along the way.
The one exception was my HS and college literature classes, because the grade was 100% subjective.
The main reason I need these things is to give me peace of mind that I'm doing my job properly. Without them, I become deathly afraid that I'm getting fired tomorrow. I've had jobs where I got hired and fired within two weeks and I never saw termination coming. I thought the job was going well, and my boss never indicated anything was wrong. It has left me with PTSD about my jobs where I need reassurance that my boss is satisfied with my work periodically for peace of mind. Otherwise, every day I go into work with dread that I'm getting fired. All of these quantifiable things are a response to my PTSD with being blindsided with getting fired. If I know that it is coming, I can handle it. If I don't it is horrible.
How are you going to advance when you always need someone to draw out the timelines of a project and set expectations with this amount of clarity? You can't be a manager with these needs, so how do you define "advancement"? And how do you take on projects that have never been tried before where progress cannot be so readily defined? What value are you bringing to the company?
What you see as reasonable are the things that every employee wants, but eventually understands they won't always receive, so we all learn to work within that uncertainty and set our own timelines to accomplish goals based on experience. That's what managers expect. Failure is acceptable if you learn from it and correct it in the future. You don't seem capable of handling that.
Career advancement is always subjective, and has as much to do with personality as experience and technical ability.
You really need to find a way into a government position with civil service protections and position criteria so getting fired requires process, and advancement and raises are a little more defined.
Technology catch-all thread
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I've had eero for over a year now and no issues. Router, and one beacon. If you are using the garbage router the cable company gives you, then whatever you buy will seem great.