I almost edited my comment to revise my position, and I was waiting for someone to call me out. I’m glad you did. Immigrants built the US (Canada too), and fully earnestly I believe it’s what makes America great. I would be angry if someone questioned, say, Ilhan Omar’s citizenship and patriotism because she was born elsewhere. I can’t not hold that opinion simply because Musk is a piece of shit.

So without snark, I don’t question his citizenship. I don’t believe he holds the values I think make an “American” (or, uncomfortably, maybe he does…), but for better or for worse, a citizen he is.

Calling Musk an “American” is surely stretching the truth a bit, innit?

That is generally my feeling, yes. But if I were a time traveler there’d still be two or three events I’d probably avoid. Will this be one worth avoiding?

I get that the question is in contradiction to the statement about timing the market; I guess I’m just thinking out loud and wondering other people takes on it is?

I what I mean by timing the market is reallocating based on what I think may happen. Simply increasing contributions (if I can) when the market craters might technically be timing it, but differently than what I mean.

I’m not looking to profit from the collapse. Funny moves like shorting things isn’t my style. Neither is trying to time the market.

My question is what do I do with my retirement to avoid collapsing with it?

Yet here you are…

Why would you choose a time you did not eat the food as an example of why the food is not good?

Choosing that story if it were your only time being in contact with that food would make a ton of sense.

Also, there’s no need to be insulting. It serves no purpose.

I know you mean that 30% their employees are gay, but it tickles me that it reads like you’re assigning them a position on the Kinsey scale.

someone else brings some in. And, because I have eyes, I can see them falling apart before even being picked up. And I conclude that I’m still not missing out on anything.

You’re maintaining that this sentence doesn’t carry the implication that you didn’t eat the food?

It’s the writing that needs work. Your comments heavily suggest that you only have seen the food but never halve eaten it. Is that incorrect?

The one nearest me is owned by a gay couple. Not sure how that slipped through the cracks…

So you’ve never eaten it and are judging it as bad food?

Here’s a peek of what I saw.

It’s a famously difficult (or at least expensive) book to find in person. I have a PDF copy of it.

Several years ago I met a U-2 pilot, and naturally we talked about the SR-71. I mentioned I had a PDF copy of Sled Driver. His eyes lit up and said he’d been looking for at least a digital copy forever. I sent him the PDF, and in thanks he invited me to the base and showed me all around the U-2 stuff; the vacuum chamber, the room in which they suited up, the planes on the ground, and most impressively took me in the chase car for a U-2 that was practicing touch-and-gos.

I saw Shul (and Walter too) speak at an event near my house shortly before he died. He closed with this story, which if I’m honest I’m sure 90% of the crowd was there to hear. It was like the Beatles playing Hey Jude or something.

I’m also in California and would agree. The word “supposed” is doing a lot of work there.

On the other hand, with so many EVs in California we have to at least consider a part of that is because of the loss of gas tax income.

Yes, strictly “to drive” (by which I assume they mean fuel only) makes sense. Medium term expenses are a mixed bag, like increased tire wear but no oil changes. Long term is a mixed bag as well, with an eventual battery replacement and depreciation, offset by the long term costs of a ICE drivetrain.

It’s clearly cheaper day to day, and overall cheaper in the long run. But it’s not all roses.

We need to figure out how to pay for road upkeep somehow.

That’s not to say the way gas taxes are allocated to road maintenance now is perfect. Far from it. But on paper (at least where I’m from) that’s how roads are maintained.

Every single car in the last five years is a privacy nightmare, not just EVs. My next car will likely be an economical ICE not because it’s ICE, but because it’ll be old enough to not be a privacy nightmare.

Being a paid service is a feature, not a downside to me. Even their AI implication, opt-in of course, is reasonable.