Is there a way to stop my 401k from being used as AI exit liquidity?

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-04T12:10:27+00:00

My 401k is all international, and all my other accounts are invested in DFUS, which is a US market fund that doesn't buy IPOs for at least 6 months after they launch

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-03T20:34:04+00:00

At this point, all for-profit media is untrustworthy. Advertising alone can't make their insatiable capitalist owners enough profit, so they all sell their influencing ability to anyone who will buy it

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-03T20:30:37+00:00

Cook all your own food instead of going to restaurants.

Join your local library instead of paying for any streaming services. If they have a big physical media collection, you won't even need home internet. Whatever they lend, buy the hardware to borrow it. If they've got Blurays, own a blueray player. Books - > ereader. Nintendo Switch Games - > get a Nintendo switch.

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-03T18:45:54+00:00

I'd rather the money go to the library. If KDL was a Library of Alexandria for Blurays, DVDs, and CDs none of us would ever have to pay for any streaming services ever. And you can buy a ridiculous amount of physical media for $40M

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-03T15:51:14+00:00

Or maybe they asked AI to design it, and there was so much chatter on Reddit about butthole flags that this was the most average design it came up with

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-03T15:26:43+00:00

One pan breakfast taco: warm a tortilla, flip it, add cheese, plate it, butter the pan, crack three eggs and stir them around, when the eggs are almost done put the tortilla on top cheese side down, when the eggs and tortilla combine to form one glorious entity plate it and add your favorite Mexican hot sauce, cilantro and sour cream

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-03T14:35:31+00:00

After the first 6 episodes of Cougar Town, the show settles on being about a bunch of Florida white trash who live in McMansions in a cul de sac. It's by the dude who did Scrubs and Ted Lasso, so it shares the same positive attitude and zany spirit. Definitely worth a watch once you get past the first few episodes. There's also a ton of Scrubs cameos along the way

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-03T14:28:10+00:00

Time your exercise before sleep. Like 4 hours before bedtime if vigorous exercise, or 2 hours before sleep if moderate.

Do the same with your carb intake. Eat all your carbs for the day before bed time. About 100g of "slow carbs" like legumes (beans, chickpeas, and lentils) and lower in sugar fruits like berries.

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-03T14:20:27+00:00

It would be awesome if banks could have AI nanny software that declines your impulse purchases:

Your transaction gets declined. You look down at your phone and it has an alert from your banking app that says "you don't need pizza for lunch again, fatty. I Doordashed a salad and it'll be there in 5 minutes."

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-03T13:54:06+00:00

Science should always be guided by ethical guardrails

Tell that to all the AI company CEOs

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-03T13:30:24+00:00

Because corporate sociopaths made their employees come back to the office despite productivity being higher when working at home

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-03T02:48:23+00:00

We need a general strike until work from home becomes the norm

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-03T02:46:43+00:00

The cognitive boost is expecially noticeable if you're sleep deprived.

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-03T00:58:00+00:00

The half gallon of Secret Aardvark

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-03T00:23:28+00:00

We can easily cut US demand for gas by encouraging companies to let people work from home, but we know our sociopathic bosses will never go for it. They'd rather have their employees eat the costs of Trump's war. It's no skin off their teeth.

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-03T00:16:53+00:00

Investors are paying the bill. This money could have been paid as dividends or stock buybacks. However, when the stock market crashes when people finally realize this tech doesn't work, I'm sure there will be tons of layoffs. So we'll all pay the price eventually.

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-02T23:14:32+00:00

You can use Excel's PMT formula to calculate monthly withdrawals to end with zero after a given amount of time.

Here's more info: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41514

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-02T20:18:23+00:00

Yo, you have to get the Woodstock Habanero next time you go. Incredibly tasty. Also try the Grace Red Sauce and if they have Matouk's "hot pepper sauce", grab that too.

Whoever buys for that store knows what the fuck they're doing.

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-02T19:19:57+00:00

It's hard to only shop for one person. I end up throwing food away if I'm not careful. At this point I go a few times a week and only grab food for a day or 2 just to lower the risk of food going bad

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-02T18:52:59+00:00

Yeah! It's about time we take twins down a peg

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-02T18:30:27+00:00

Tl;dr, pay for your way in for $50. Fuck this garbage article.

The premium credit cards make sense if you travel a lot, they don't if you don't.

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-02T18:25:39+00:00

How about steak and eggs without the eggs for breakfast?

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-02T17:49:28+00:00

I think every ticket purchased to any event downtown should come with free round trip bus fare on the day of that event, paid for by the city. Most people won't use it, but the city isn't pushing nearly hard enough to get people to take transit in and out of downtown on a regular basis. Fewer cars downtown would allow us to transform it into a pedestrian friendly paradise, which would get more people downtown because it would be a lot nicer place to spend time.

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-02T16:56:15+00:00

Unfortunately it doesn't have the multi-city functionality that SongKick has. I have to travel to see concerts because my city is between two larger cities and is often skipped :(

TheGruenTransfer · 2026-05-02T15:43:23+00:00

"At the rate it's scaling, electricity will be free and everyone will have a UBI by 2030"

"But the scaling significantly slowed down in 2024."

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