AnonymousActuary
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AnonymousActuary
1d ago
fair - the immediate concrete decision is how much to spend on finishing our basement (ie adding extra fun features) and how much to go on extra nice vacations the next few years (think ski trips with lessons to teach our kids).
Just staring at high 6 figure retirement account balances and wondering if I should be rethinking my allocation of present to future a bit more (early 30s, for reference)
tagging other repliers for visibility: @birb_cromble, @TowardsPanna, @Mihow, @stolen_brawnze
AnonymousActuary
1d ago
correct, basis points
AnonymousActuary
1d ago
Have any of you thought about moving spending forwards vs saving for retirement with seemingly numerous multiple crises coming down the pike in the next few decades?
Thinking: AI Global fertility Global debt (insert other left or right-coded flavored crises here as desired).
Just seems like my desire to put away money for 35 years from now versus making memories with family and friends now has started to decline.
I guess option 1 would be just to cut 401k contributions down to the match level instead of maxing? I've had trouble saying no to the immediate tax benefits, but seems like the move.
Would love cash out refi if interest rates were lower, but not looking to add several hundred beeps to my mortgage.
AnonymousActuary
1d ago
Eh I don't know, his kids are what, 2? 6 and 2 are very different ages.
AnonymousActuary
4d ago
have some kids?
AnonymousActuary
5d ago
I think this goes too far - she certainly was anti-illegal abortions and preferred contraception, but I wouldn't think of her as anti-abortion in a pro-life sense.
AnonymousActuary
5d ago
@quiet_NaN this is interesting to me because I feel like high-school level homework (and to some extent college level) was actually helpful for me.
Doing the readings in history and typing up notes really helped me remember history better Doing problem sets in Calc I-III and professional exams helped me remember concepts better than I would've otherwise (though I still forgot most of them within a few years) Doing coding assignments in CS 101 really helped me be able to code.
Maybe it's more about elementary and middle school homework?
AnonymousActuary
7d ago
I tried Battle Brothers and got murked hard in my 2nd battle. Maybe I had the difficulty too high? Haven't been back but should really dust it off again.
AnonymousActuary
7d ago
The higher stakes version of vegan meats and driverless cars is going to be embryo selection
AnonymousActuary
28d ago
He mentions Wicks being buried in the tomb of "his father" at one point
AnonymousActuary
29d ago
Cy does seem to get treated poorly by the script - his adopted sister is super upset at him but its unclear when he found out (and was a literal child when he first met her).
I do agree in hindsight that it's odd for them to hide the jewel. Honestly, I don't know why Martha didn't just toss it in the acid? EDIT: I guess diamonds don't get hurt much by acid...
AnonymousActuary
29d ago
I think this has definitely had moments of truth, but some of the spiritual scenes did not ring like that to me. Blanc and Jud's first conversation (ending in Blanc's "Touche, Padre"), the phone call, the final confession and absolution. There was something sincere there. It might just be Johnson still feels some fondness for his religious upbringing and time in his life that he doesn't for the conservative end of the political spectrum.
AnonymousActuary
29d ago
I believe they specified his grandfather had a daughter, his wife then died, and THEN he became a priest
AnonymousActuary
29d ago
Cross-posting from Small Question Sunday (with some addendcums) upon suggestion: Maybe I just missed it, but a little surprised to see no discussion of Knives Out, Wake up Dead Man on the forum given the culture war angles of the previous two (immigration, tech billionaires). Disclaimer - I haven't seen glass onion. I will avoid major spoilers but minor spoilers may be included. I wouldn't read if you haven't watched it yet and want to.
Wake Up Dead Man certainly seems to be set up to skewer the church, and conservatives, with characters including a sci-fi writer-> substack blogger who is paranoid of the "libtards", a failed right-wing politico, who is attempting to build a following through youtube videos, and Monsignor Wicks, the bombastic preacher who exclaims that he must "fight" the decay in the country as an excuse for his own failings.
However, despite this, I was drawn to the film by the character of Father Jud - a young priest who killed a man in a boxing ring before coming to the priesthood, he is a compassionate character who pushes against the excesses of Wicks while nonetheless being devoted to Christ and to his faith. He offers eloquent verbal parries to Detective Blanc's (the main character in the Knives Out series, played by Daniel Craig) rationalist, atheist worldview, and takes his vocation seriously.
One of my favorite scenes involves Blanc and Jud working to try to find a clue which involves Father Jud calling a construction company and getting their receptionist. There's the standard comedic setup of the super-talkative receptionist who won't let him ask the question they need an answer to, but the whole scene shifts when she asks him to pray for her (link here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7VHPrO3SX5A). It's a really beautiful portrayal of pastoral care and prayer, and played straight. It seems to impact Blanc as well.
The sacrament of confession also plays a role and is highlighted in its entirety, a scene that happens due to Blanc's realizing that the moment calls for personal grace more than his grand reveals.
Father Jud seems almost more apolitical than political to me despite his opposition to Wicks and the other more conservative characters - he comes across as much more above politics than taking any particular political stand.
It seems like Rian Johnson has had a history of being religious but fell away from the Church at sometime in the last few decades.
Anyway, curious to hear what others thought of it.
AnonymousActuary
29d ago
You might be right - I'll post it in the new one tomorrow morning.
AnonymousActuary
30d ago
Maybe I just missed it, but a little surprised to see no discussion of Knives Out, Wake up Dead Man on the forum given the culture war angles of the previous two (immigration, tech billionaires). Disclaimer - I haven't seen glass onion. I will avoid major spoilers but minor spoilers may be included. I wouldn't read if you haven't watched it yet and want to.
Wake Up Dead Man certainly seems to be set up to skewer the church, and conservatives, with characters including a sci-fi writer-> substack blogger who is paranoid of the "libtards", a failed right-wing politico, who is attempting to build a following through youtube videos, and Monsignor Wicks, the bombastic preacher who exclaims that he must "fight" the decay in the country.
However, despite this, I was drawn to the film by the character of Father Jud - a young priest who killed a man in a boxing ring before coming to the priesthood, he is a compassionate character who pushes against the excesses of Wicks while nonetheless being devoted to Christ and to his faith. He offers eloquent verbal parries to Detective Blanc's (the main character in the Knives Out series, played by Daniel Craig) rationalist, atheist worldview, and takes his vocation seriously (a scene with him praying for a woman on the phone stands out as a highlight - might opine on it more in a comment later). The sacrament of confession also plays a role and is highlighted in its entirety. Father Jud seems almost more apolitical than political to me despite his opposition to Wicks and the other more conservative characters.
Anyway, curious to hear what others thought of it.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
Hyperion by Simmons - Awesome. Really appreciated all the different perspectives and stories. My favorite book this year.
Make sure you read the sequel - there are books past the sequel that seem to be more unevenly reviewed but I liked the sequel quite a bit.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
wtf happened in 2020 is COVID happened in 2020?? I'm confused why you think that isn't a sufficient explanation.
Depending on who you ask, half the country decided the other half wanted them dead rather than doing simple common sense things, and the other half thought the first half wanted them unemployed or in camps. I could write paragraphs more on this but I feel like that simple fact explains a lot.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
kids everywhere. Had a friend visit from out of town today and he remarked how he had never seen this many young families in a Catholic church.
AnonymousActuary
1mo ago
should note that Ross Douthat expressed some skepticism about Rod's approximation of the scope of the problem
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
functionally speaking this is the current status quo - commercial prices are generally somewhere around 1.5-2.5 of the Medicare price for a given service.
The hospital transparency stuff is hidden behind massive massive JSON files and poor data quality. Numerous startups are working in the space to make it actually transparent - still a work in progress.
The insurers themselves are doing some of the work by using eg variable copays to drive utilization to cheaper contracted hospitals. Only works in urban cores though.
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
it's worth mentioning how much of the admin is just due to complying with the regulatory burden that comes from being in the health care industry. The typical way we try to control costs is by rolling out complex programs that require more detailed coding, data tracking, etc.
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
This is even better in the books. Denethor and Theoden each have their moments of great competence, countered by the Witch-King. Saruman is arguably incompetent, but still a fearsome adversary just due to numbers and the timing constraints the free peoples are operating under.
AnonymousActuary
2mo ago
they actually did that in Rise of Skywalker, with Rey using force lightning semi-accidentally (to not-kill Chewbacca)
Yeah I think I'm more the reverse haha - looking for ways to push retirement back further to have more money to spend on the present. And just trying to decide if it's worth unwinding prior investments at all to do so.
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