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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ah yeah, a winch is a great idea. Yeah, I'm staying on forest roads, but those roads have tons of potholes so I was thinking something for a better suspension would be best even if staying on the roads. I already upgraded the headlights to LEDs which are super bright. I think a candle was brighter than the stock sealed beam ones!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! Yeah I know the F250 had an option for an LSD so I was hoping it would be fairly straightforward to swap one in.

Any advice on what to look into for shock upgrades? And yeah I have no problems with clearance so I wasn't planning on doing a lift. These roads would be closed by the forest service long before I ran into clearance issues on one of them!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ongoing, I max out my retirement funds every year.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's a good point. My recent contributions were certainly focused around mid 2020 - mid 2021. I’m at roughly 70% VTSAX, and then 10% each VTIAX, VGSLX, and VUSTX.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you think it's worth cutting losses in VGSLX and reinvesting in VTSAX? I guess it depends on how much prolonged high interest rates are going to continue to weigh on the real estate sector.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's split across a few accounts so it's difficult to put a single, exact percentage on, but I'm at roughly 70% VTSAX, and then 10% each VTIAX, VGSLX, and VUSTX.

I've shied away from target date funds because I've wanted to have more control over the underlying allocations (potentially to my own detriment, I'll accept responsibility for that).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think so? It's the performance chart from Vanguard.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm definitely not planning on taking it out. I still have a long way to go before retirement. I was more concerned about if I'm investing into the right funds and if my returns were anomalous for the given time period.

[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

ActivityPub protocol so that anyone can run their own instance, but can also be blocked if anything heinous happens.

The overlap between the users who will run their own instance and the users you want for a dating app is the empty set.

(Speaking as someone that runs a personal Lemmy instance here)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll be honest with you: I have better things to do with my time than debunk the same old re-hashed covid vaccine bullshit. It's been almost three years since the vaccines were given to billions of people. If the clinical trials did truly miss awful side effects or there was something else wrong with them we'd know by now. It's all bullshit and always has been. I'm done wasting my time debunking something that obviously has no credibility.

There's no mass conspiracy about any of this stuff. If you want to get to the root of it just follow the money. Who profits from you and other people clicking on and reading these outlandish articles that promise to shed light on some massive conspiracy that the whole world is otherwise missing? The people that run the websites. They collect their ad revenue by peddling bullshit. If you're not paying for something, you are the product, not the customer.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Also assuming you're not just a troll with this comment...

You're posting links to this website "vigilantnews.com". Have you looked into who is behind it? According to their about section, it's made up two people. One simply called "The Vigilant Fox" and another named Dallas Ludlum. (https://vigilantnews.com/about)

The latter, Dallas, runs a blog dressed up as a newspaper with clearly a hard right take on politics here: https://conservativecompass.substack.com. He's also quite active on Quora for giving job seeking and career advice: https://www.quora.com/profile/Dallas-Ludlum.

More interestingly, from a reverse image search, this person's headshot also shows up on an eastern European photographer's website here: https://sebastianszulfer.com/en/services/headshots-portraits/. Yet Dallas claims to be on the east coast of the US on his Twitter account. Traveling to Europe just for a photo is quite the trek.

At best, the sources you're listing are simply one or maybe two person's opinions dressed up as a newspaper in order to generate pageviews and thus ad revenue. At worst, between the anonymous "Vigilant Fox" persona and the fake headshot profile photos, it's likely this is part of a larger fake information dissemination campaign.

Is that "challenging the narrative" enough for you?

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