The existence of exceptions does not invalidate a general rule.

they can often get it right

They fail to outperform a broad market index like 85% of the time, and they charge fees for it lol

That’s called “timing the market” and it’s impossible without insider knowledge.

Historically, what, 4 years or so?

If you pulled all your money out in 2009 you were fucked. But by 2013 things were fine again.

https://fourpillarfreedom.com/heres-how-long-the-stock-market-has-historically-taken-to-recover-from-drops/

We’re reading different books. Mine is called Equality.

their children’s lives are still left uncertain

Fuck em. A lot of children’s lives are uncertain.

It is only a fact that you feel xyz. It does not remotely mean that xyz is true.

Specifically five people.

No, I will not elaborate.

some particularly stupid people treat economic systems as moral systems

ie spreading/stopping communism is a moral good.

“public” schools are private schools

Despite having invented the English language, you Brits are really bad at it

You give them too much credit. They’re not even necessarily there for the company’s profit.

Extra unnecessary features are often added and shoved at you purely because some executive needed a project to spruce up their resume, and for literally no other reason.

Give it time.

Distribution cost of games has gone down to almost zero since then.

lying is almost never justified - not even white lies

We could NOT be friends. “Absolute truth no matter what” people are freakin exhausting.

I got far more compliments from women (age 30+) when I was 14 than when I was 24. Got literally catcalled by a car full of women when I was 15.

Yesterday they certainly did

Storm bands go brrrr

I’m imagining a teenage Henry Horne reading about longbow tactics and thinking “damn that’s pretty sweet” and then suddenly remembering it at the Somme and being like “awww yiss I’m about to blow these motherfuckers minds”

Do you think construction workers just do one job and then never work again??

I use mine a lot, but it’s even more frequent that I think “damn, my leatherman is in my backpack and I could really use it right now”

The 90s was when Republicans first began the scorched earth tactics against Clinton. It was when all the conspiracy theory shit started. They planted the first seeds of populism then.