Waning testosterone has some advantages: no more acne, cooler emotions, fewer irrational thoughts. I once heard someone say that young men go through years of testosterone poisoning, and I get it now.
I finally started lifting seriously. I highly recommend it. I look better, feel better, and a lot of little aches and pains that were starting to creep up on me have gone away.
A few gray hairs in the beard looks really sharp.
Tim Walz once held his hands apart to show his buddy the size of the walleye he caught. Then, the very next week, he did the same for a different friend but held his hands slightly farther apart. Inexcusable!
This whole post is gold, both the owls and non-owls. Those two people do look like they're living the dream, too! I'm reconsidering my life goals right now.
Hillary lost because she didn't do enough to incentivize people to vote for her.
Hilary got more than enough votes. She received 2.9M more votes than Trump. Her problem was that her support was much too concentrated in a small number of states. The Electoral College math punishes candidates in that situation.
This one's an oldie, but a goodie.
The whole picture screams "autumn" to me. Especially the big orange eyes.
Boo. The babylon bee is MAGA pandering trying to pass as humor.
Minot. Curtis LeMay would have had wet dreams over it.
In theory a pension is stable, guaranteed income. The employer promises a monthly or annual payment for life, and they manage a pool of money to make sure you get that payment regardless of whether the market goes up or down. People like stability.
With a 401k you take on the market risk yourself. If the market tanks (2000 and 2008 come to mind) then your retirement funds are suddenly worth less and your payments to yourself (distributions) go down. Of course, if the market is hot you can also direct your investments to try and ride the wave. Greater risk means greater (potential) reward.
401k's also have required minimum distributions that kick in as you get older. If you live long enough you will reach a point where you have been forced to drain the whole thing into your regular bank account. Then it's time for another plan.
After digging into it, we banned the two sh.itjust.works accounts mentioned in this post. A quick search of the database did not reveal any similar accounts, though that doesn't mean they aren't there.
This sounds a bit like a normal non-profit organization, but the board of directors is composed of all donors (the "consumers").
What's the incentive for someone to want to be a "worker" in this scenario? I assume they are still paying dues? Are they getting some compensation for doing additional work, or is it an unpaid positions?
Mastodon will still be the biggest fediverse service. It will remain a niche player in the microblog world, as Bluesky gradually becomes the big player by stealing users from the platform formerly known as Twitter.
The rest of the federverse will (hopefully) coalesce around fewer projects. Development is massively fragmented right now. I'm very curious to see which projects flourish, and which projects die.
I do not expect the federverse to unseat large corporate social media and become home to the masses. And I'm okay with that.
We're supposed to be done with the heat waves by now, ma'am.
It's your community to manage as you wish. Don't hesitate to enforce the no politics rule if you see fit.
That said, I think this thread is fun, lighthearted shitposting and would vote to keep it up. If politics posts becomes a trend, though, then that wouldn't be cool here.