Endlessvoid

Yeah, missing the IR blaster unfortunately! It does have an accessory port for microscope/endoscope, I just got an endoscope but haven't tried it yet.

They have frequent sales, i got it for under 300

Don't forget the RGB notification led!

I switched to Chinese brand phones, they still have all this and they're dirt cheap, currently rocking an Ulephone power armor 18t, which also has a flir infrared camera and a microscope for some reason. No I'm not joking, they work surprisingly well and have come in handy more than I thought they would!

As others have mentioned, you can invest in the stock market within your 401k, though your options can sometimes be limited or saddled with high fees depending on what broker the 401k is through.

If yours is through a shitty broker then you might be better served by opening an individual retirement account (IRA), likely a Roth IRA given the limited info you've shared. You can open one with a broker of your choice, so go with one of the better ones like vanguard or fidelity. Using tax advantaged retirement accounts will always beat saving your retirement money in a non-tax advantaged one, all else being equal.

Edit to echo the flowchart from one of the other comments: https://imgur.com/u0ocDRI

This is the core of sound personal finance strategy in purified form. Great resource!

Really buying into the corporate propoganda here aren't you? These used to be great paying jobs, but the average auto workers salary has eroded just like every other industry and is less than $40k these days, even if you arbitrarily exclude non-union auto workers it's still barely $50k. Even those non-union workers will benefit from industry wages increasing with this new contract.

Also, this contract will be a 4 year agreement through 2027, and auto workers haven't seen a raise since 2019. If you considered the 46% they're asking for as an annual raise over that time period 2019-2027 it would only be a 5.75% annual raise.

And we haven't even talked about the inflation since 2019 which has already eroded their pay by 20%, plus whatever additional inflation through the next 4 years will do. If inflation doesn't cool down through that period this 46% may barely maintain their current wages.

I burst out laughing while reading this article, it's laughably bad, written by someone who doesn't have the slightest understanding of the content matter.

Virtually all existing communication mediums are light based, since "Light" is a term that covers electromagnetic waves spanning a range from radio waves, all the way up to xrays, with visible light getting a small part of that range in the middle.

With all light there is a tradeoff where higher frequency light can carry more information at the cost of lower penetration. It's why your 5Ghz wifi is faster than your 2.4Ghz wifi but the 5Ghz doesn't reach as far in your house

Visible light is in the 400-800Thz (Terahertz), so it's orders of magnitude better for transmitting a lot of data but since it's blocked by most materials it works better if you use something to channel it, like a glass tube. Which is why visible light is already used extensively as the backbone of the internet, aka fiber optic cable. (to be completely accurate, most fiber optics use near visible infrared light, just below the visible spectrum, since it doesn't scatter in glass as easily)

The new communication standard referenced is nothing ground breaking, it's just a standard for any niche application which can make use of it. It's not a new technology, and if it was better than existing methods we would already be using it.

I've enjoyed your memes the past couple weeks!

Don't carry water for people who would let you die to increase their mountain of gold a little. What you've described might be true of millionaires, even multi millionaires; but no one gets to a billion dollars without stepping on those below them in the pursuit of more money than one person could ever spend in their lifetime.

Being a billionaire is pathological, if the human race was a biological organism and one part of it started hoarding that many resources, we would call it cancer and cut it out.

If we thought about this enough, we'd be two steps from nationalizing the (insert industry here)

This works for so many things, railroads, electric utilities, healthcare system, communication infrastructure, etc. Any industry which operates with a defacto monopoly and which maintains our nations critical infrastructure has no business being run by capitalists on wallstreet. They don't provide any value to these industries, they extract it.

Ironically their "reason" for why they can't afford to provide sick days ("we don't have enough manpower to give people more days off") is going to do the exact opposite by increasing attrition and making attracting new talent more difficult. But don't worry, they'll just lobby congress to repeal the minimum safe staffing requirements to address their created "labor shortage".

Don't believe me, look up how hard they're pushing for one man crews right now. Soon they'll have just one guy (who has been working 80 hour weeks and hasn't seen his kids in months) running a 3 mile long industrial machine solo, carrying hazardous materials through all weather conditions, likely right through your residential neighborhood.

Will there be casualties? Without a doubt. But the returns for shareholders will be glorious.

CEO: "punish him anyway"

Everybody look! This worker has fallen in love with his chains and begun to believe wealth inequality is a good thing!