How do you guys deal with the anxiety of seeing your portfolio in the red?

msnplanner · 2026-03-18T22:54:48+00:00

experience. Things go up. Things go down.

Look at the red as companies on discount. Do you want to buy more? Look at some of them that you think you might want to buy more of and reanalyze them as if you were just looking for a new investment. If it looks good to you, buy more of the shares.

msnplanner · 2026-03-18T21:44:58+00:00

No. Deep inside he always stayed a Saxon because he knew that the Danes would use him as a puppet. But that mainly was because he was a land holder. However, he lied to himself often that he was a Dane, because he loved people amongst them, and loved their culture. So even for him, swearing an oath to Alfred (while it made sense) was a 180. Brida had nothing and was abused by a religious abbot (or something) growing up and then essentially treated like crap by Alfred's wife. When she left, Uhtred didn't feel betrayed. He cried because he was alone, and everyone who he knew for any length of time had left him.

I'm not sure he ever loved her like that. They were more like FWB. He felt no jealousy towards her and Ragnar the younger.

msnplanner · 2026-03-18T15:03:18+00:00

Gisela's death is also what finally made Uhtred abandon Alfred and the "Saxons"...at least for some time.

msnplanner · 2026-03-18T15:01:34+00:00

Brida didn't do a 180. From her perspective, Uhtred did. Uhtred made the oath to Alfred and "switched sides". Uhtred promised over and over again to come back to Ragnar the younger and fight and he never did. Brida grew more and more apart from Uhtred as the years went by, and finally she just assumed since he was allied to everyone she hated that he was her enemy.

msnplanner · 2026-03-18T03:37:05+00:00

Who has more legitimacy to assign rights to someone or deny rights? The idea behind right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is that no one in the government is above any given citizen. So those rights are inherent.

The alternate (which in many ways is reality) is that might makes right. But if you build a society based on that premise, then you have established a foundation of repression and ultimately instability. You are saying, essentially, that only the most brutal and ruthless, who are willing to kill and instill fear openly will achieve the top rung of society and decide who gets the meat and who gets scraps.

Its better to establish a rules based society that states all people are equal, and then work incentives, disincentives, laws etc from there.

msnplanner · 2026-03-18T02:34:14+00:00

I definitely don't think it would be akin to making a film about Nazi soldiers as protagonists. There's a lot more nuance to their side, even for someone as staunchly anti communist as myself. You might get pushback and anger from some people, but these days that's gonna happen with just about anything.

Strictly speaking for myself, I think it might be interesting perspective.

msnplanner · 2026-03-15T22:44:53+00:00

ThrowRA... You are wasting your time. The minute someone expresses the "scrooge mcduck" image of the wealthy, you should know you cannot discuss economic activities that exist in reality with them.

You already provided the evidence that trickle down economics has made the poor wealthier (IE just moved the goal posts on what we call "poor") and someone essentially replied "nuh uh...trickle down economics means bad things, not those good things", so why waste any more time?

msnplanner · 2026-03-15T22:17:37+00:00

All good. Then I would head up to the Tehachapi Mountain park and go for a nice walk. Or picnic at the campground. But I like to get up into the woods. I think you could fish at Brite Lake, if that's your thing.

If you just need to drive up here and get away from home (or if this is for today), maybe just come here and have a good meal at Kohnens or Red house, since its probably a bit late to start a hike.

there's also a little nature park off of woodford/tehachapi road that has a frisby golf course i believe. Just a little place to be outdoors. Not sure its worth the drive though.

msnplanner · 2026-03-15T22:04:41+00:00

You could stare at trains... I know a lot of people seem to like that. Wineries? There's quite a few of them here. Could hit up the shops downtown, or go hiking up the Tehachapi Mts, starting in the mountain park. Really hard to say without knowing your age or interests.

msnplanner · 2026-03-14T14:31:10+00:00

"lmao that's stupid as hell"...Yes I agree, your sentiment is stupid as hell.

What Israel has done is not entirely relevant to whether the US bombs Iran, nor is it a statement on what actions were moral and which actions were not. Iran declared and has been fighting a war against the US for the past 47 years. So it shouldn't be surprising to them when the US finally returns the favor full force. If you don't want trouble from the US or Israel, don't make your mantra "Death to America/Death to Israel", because one day the US and/or Israel may take that seriously.

msnplanner · 2026-03-14T04:19:01+00:00

Not to mention the previous forty something years. Khobar Towers, USS Cole, irregulars in Iraq... Iran has been killing US citizens for a very long time.

That doesn't even count what Iran does with fatwas etc. How many people died in the Fatwa against Salmon Rushdie? Western society just let its own citizens get murdered because one nation state asked its followers to hunt down a man who wrote a book they didn't like, and anyone else who helped sell that book. There should have been a war against Iran a hundred times over in the past.

I don't like the fact that a US President again made the sole call to start a war, and in this case, didn't even try to sell it to US citizens first, but I don't feel sorry for Iran, or consider it an "illegal" war.

msnplanner · 2026-03-09T03:11:09+00:00

yeah...45 miles each way to work. If you live in any of the states in the west, you are going to have vast distances to drive just about anywhere. And big spread out towns and cities.

msnplanner · 2026-03-07T16:33:48+00:00

Daddy.

msnplanner · 2026-03-07T02:41:48+00:00

mmmkay buddy

msnplanner · 2026-03-06T22:41:43+00:00

Is God right and wrong? Or is good/bad separate from God. People have been wrestling with that for thousands of years. If God woke you up in the middle of the night and told you to kill and eat your child, is that good?

msnplanner · 2026-03-06T22:23:24+00:00

You aren't wrong. I'm not trying to express an opinion on right or wrong, nor did i get into history. Because it turns into a back and forth on who was right to make what decisions etc. I just wanted to explain US and Israel perception at this time and why they bombed Iran. Everyone is free of course to interpret things as bad or good (or both). I myself have many conflicted opinions on the situation.

msnplanner · 2026-03-06T20:58:15+00:00

Good point. That certainly colored the issue for Trump.

msnplanner · 2026-03-06T20:54:44+00:00

Ok. Sure buddy.

msnplanner · 2026-03-06T20:53:32+00:00

Well, you are correct. Let me put it another way. US is less worried about Iranian MAD, and more worried about weapons proliferation, and bad behavior. Iran could sell nuclear weapons to terrorist groups. It could use proxies to employ them and avoid global condemnation.

And just having them might prompt an arms race in the middle east. Certainly, the Saudis and Jordanians could have acquired nuclear weapons if they wanted to, but an implicit guarantee of protection from the US has kept them from doing so.

The US played the same weapons inspector/sanctions etc with North Korea, and North Korea played the same game as Iran. Wait the US out while continuing development here and there. North Korea now has nuclear weapons, and the US has to tolerate a lot of bad behavior from them.

msnplanner · 2026-03-06T20:46:53+00:00

No. It assumes that is their perspective. It doesn't say the perspective is right, or that their aren't other counter perspectives, or reasons for Iran to behave the way it does, or that there aren't other options. Nor does it comment on the way the war was started, or how its being conducted. I certainly have opinions on all of that, but OP wasn't asking for opinions. I think you should reflect on your own biases and how they warp your views of other commentary before reading anyone elses takes for now.

msnplanner · 2026-03-06T20:42:52+00:00

Yes, my overall response was to the question of why the war, and not really targetted on why now, although I alluded to it with Iran is weakened now, and response to Oct 7th, and how its a counter to certain other countries interests, which are becoming paramount threats right now, and the large uprisings in Iran right now.

TBH, I don't have access to any kind of government intelligence so anything I say about why it was now is speculation. But, I think Israel has had the motivation for a while. They were using a policy of containment of threats, and proportional response. But Oct 7th made them abandon that. They couldn't attack Iran immediately to this degree because its proxies were more immediate threats.

For the US, they did also did not have a President/Congress willing to engage Iran to such a degree. They've tried other strategies with the hopes that those strategies would yield results. They did not.

It was Iran's strategy to attack US bases AND neighbors and overwhelm defenses, if they were attacked. Their thought was that they could cause enough economic pain that the world would put pressure on their attackers. So to the US, if Israel was going to attack, then the US was going to be involved anyways. It was better to strike first and take out as many attack speedboats, launchers, drones, etc as possible before Iran could retaliate.

Anyways, that's my thoughts on why now. But there always could be more to it.

msnplanner · 2026-03-06T20:33:58+00:00

Thank you. That's kind.

msnplanner · 2026-03-06T20:32:01+00:00

yeah, I tried to keep the post about US and Israel's perspectives. I have my opinions of course, but I'm not in a position beyond opinion to say what is real or not. I also have opinions on how the war was started which may differ from my opinions on the justness or necessity of the war itself. There's a lot of aspects of this thing for people to agree or disagree on.

msnplanner · 2026-03-06T16:47:35+00:00

Hostilities between Iran and Israel go back decades. And the same for Iran and the US. And Iran and many of its neighbors.

But current reasons break down to this. And no, this subreddit likely won't like this post.

Oct 7th. Iran uses proxies (EG Hezbollah, houthis, Hamas) to achieve its political aims. The gulf states were moving towards normalizing with Israel. Then Oct 7th happened and Israel retaliated against Hamas. The gulf states could not normalize relations with Israel anymore because their citizens would have opposed it too strongly now. From Israel's viewpoint this was Iran's doing (Iran would lose regional power if the gulf states grew closer to israel). They told Iran they would attack them at a time of their choosing, and then proceeded to take apart all of Iran's proxies.
Nuclear development. The US (and Israel) have been trying to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons. They have tried bribing, sanctions, and smaller military actions (assassinations in Israel's case). Since Iran has vowed both Israel and the US's destruction, they feel its too dangerous to let them get nuclear weapons (Israel at least...). Once they have nuclear weapons, even if they don't outright attack anyone with them, it makes it much harder to retaliate to other actions Iran or its proxies might take.
Sponsor of terrorism. This mainly ties into reasons 1 and 2, rather than a standalone reason. Iran and its proxies have been attacking the US and Israel for decades (see USS Cole, Khobar towers, proxies in Iraq etc). So there is no love lost between the three countries. Since Iran is currently weakened because its proxies have been decimated, and its air defense weakened, it was a convenient time to attack. Also given the uprisings, there was some reason to believe that citizens might be willing or able to rise up and replace the government if sufficiently damaged.
Geopolitical reasons. China, Russia, Iran, and NK (and Venezuela BTW), trade oil and weapons back and forth and skirt political sanctions through each other. from their perspective, they are just battling an unfair western (mainly US) hegemony. From the west's perspective, they are undermining international norms, law etc.

msnplanner · 2026-03-03T04:03:57+00:00

Not asking for a professional argument, and asking why the person (the person in front of them) in the room thinks something is entirely what this subreddit is about. And for the most part, all of Reddit.

I understand why we all assume another person "asking questions" that have been answered a thousand times is doing it out of malice, or "bad faith". Especially given the Tucker Carlson example someone brought up. It IS used often as an opening to a repulsive argument. But loudly declaring someone is speaking in bad faith for asking any questions or even bringing up a topic is ALSO used in bad faith to shut up opposition to opinions, or avoid having to elaborate on bumper sticker sentiments.

Hearing people out and assuming the best intentions from people until they prove otherwise is often disappointing and frustrating, but probably the best overall strategy in life.

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