CmdrShepard42

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[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You could argue that you can judge their success based on the ratio of employees they used to employ versus how many they employ now.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Claims to not have cherry picked anything yet follows up with the claim that scientists are fake experts and he doesn't listen to them.

You've exposed your ruse here, bud.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

Those numbers can be quite skewed considering their definition of a "farm" is one that generates as little as $1000 in revenue per year, so anyone with a few chickens in their suburban backyard that sells eggs to their coworkers would fall under this definition. They even outline that 80% of these small family farmers have full-time jobs outside of farming. They also claim giant companies are "family owned" simply because a few family members control a majority stake. One could call Walmart or News Corp "family owned businesses" using this same definition and claim Walmart is a tiny portion of the retail space because there are 500k individuals selling keychains on Etsy versus their single company.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Considering the study is referencing young adults and pediatricians have been keeping an eye out for signs of this for quite a while now, I'm not so sure this is the case here with regard to this study at least. Someone like me who's pushing 40 I would absolutely agree with you because nobody was monitoring this in the 80s and 90s but that hasn't been the case for a while.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Agricultural land isn't cheap either which is why most farms are owned by massive corporations these days. They've bought up most of the good growing land.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's been the same in Oregon for years. The only reason why this crop was ever expensive and grown primarily indoors is that it was illegal and now with enough distance from illegality and enough competition, the price plummets. Your state may start implementing license and growing restrictions to counteract this as they've done here because the state loves their tax revenue and wouldn't want to jeopardize this cash cow.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Both these animals bit someone?

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

They will with batteries since the EU is forcing the issue starting in 2026.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

How to you gauge quality and longevity on cars that have only been out for a couple of years?

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee -1 points 10 months ago

Chrysler/Jeep/Dodge isn't an American company. The only domestics are Tesla, GM, Ford, and Rivian.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

I'm in BTC S&P 500 Index, BTC Russell 2500, BTC ACWI EX US IMI, and BTC US Debt and am at 11.93%, 3.6%, 3.87%, and -1.34% over the last 3 years. Over the last year though, it's 36.36%, 26.36%, 25.22%, and 11.6%. My funds are Large Cap Blend, Small Cap Blend, Foreign Blend, and US Bonds at roughly 67/7/20/6 percent division of my portfolio.

I think you just got into the market at the height of the markets during COVID and are still digging your way back out. You could try diversifying a little bit in a similar fashion to spread the gains and losses out a bit over both large and small US companies and foreign markets.

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