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Doing anything on Facebook is the opposite of private.

If your portfolio is down that much over that period of time, you are likely not making good investment choices. S&P500 is up like 50% since 2021...

Your losses or lack of portfolio growth isn't really something to complain about online without more info on what your asset mix is. Unless your goal was just to complain, and not get any advice from helpful anons that are having more success in investment choices.

It’s invested in total market funds, some tech, some big cap companies, and healthcare

Tech, big cap, and healthcare are already part of the total market funds, so you're over-weighting (taking excess risk) by investing that way. Assuming you're pretty young based on time in market, you'd be fine with just the total market fund, until you have more experience with the market or just want a set and forget, for a while.

The US is the primary military force protecting Taiwan, by treaty. That's likely why.

Apple One+

Music, TV, Games, and 50GB storage for $10/month via Verizon.

Investing billions

Weren't the headlines a week or two ago about Microsoft trying to get taxpayer funded aid for reopening 3-mile Island? Companies shouldn't be asking for taxpayer funded handouts when they are basically printing money at this point.

Isn't Microsoft Copilot just ChatGPT?

People on the opposite side of that tolerance spectrum look at us avid ad avoiders like we put in too much effort to do that, so I see it as two sides of the same coin. I started blocking/avoiding ads due to the nuisance, long before privacy and security became even more prevalent attack vectors through advertising. That was just a benefit to the time saved by blocking ads, but not it's a primary use case.

Unlikely all 4 though. Give people 1-2 they can map services two, instead of multiple wasted (branded) buttons.

I'm like 80% sure they were being sarcastic in that comment. I hope so anyways.

If you don’t pay for something, you are not a customer, you are the product. If you pay for Youtube, you don’t see the ads, but you are also still their product. Lose /Lose

I wish they'd propose a mandate on having the option for disconnected vehicles sold in the US, instead. Privacy-conscious people should not have to resort to finding and disconnecting antennas to reclaim privacy from sketchy data collection. I get that China is the big bad wolf in this discussion, but American companies are just as bad with the data hoarding and erosion of privacy.

Is there really anybody who thinks they would like that?

Auto companies don't care what people like, only what level of BS people would put up with before going to a different brand.