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Upvoted because Spartacus. One of Kubrick's best. (Even though he disowned it)

Both of these things can only help. Meditation also helps

Public schools aren't "cheap," they lack the funding to either implement a ratio like this or to pay enough to recruit and retain talented staff

One on one isn't even necessary, look at the Montessori curriculum, two competent Montessori guides can manage a classroom of 30 kids with each kid working at their own pace (within guardrails, of course). The structure of public education in the US is a problem in addition to chronic underfunding

While the ACA could have been much better in many ways that just weren't possible to get through the Senate, if you recall before that, there was pretty much no way at all to obtain any kind of insurance without getting it through an employer, and if you switched employers, your new employer's insurance could just tell you "sorry about that diabetes, we won't cover that since you had it before you started here." We would be in a much, much worse place right now without the ACA

Here in Texas it's always been BFE, butt-fucking Egypt. Never have I heard Idaho used in this context.

However the context is different, because BFE refers to somewhere far away rather to being in the middle of nowhere

Streisand effect right here. I had no idea who this guy was, but now I do

Let's be honest, 0.1% of that would be life changing for anyone reading this

The Rock is cooked.

"Dwayne Johnson's net worth is estimated at $800 million as of 2026."

I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're correct

That website is registered to someone in Rwanda

It's totally different though. Sports betting is an all or nothing affair, you put money on an outcome, you either win or lose, then it's over.

Day trading (and now vibe trading/meme stocks) may be similar, however investing in a company with good fundamentals long-term carries significantly less risk.

Many companies offer dividends, so you can make money even without the stock price itself increasing. And in holding a diversified portfolio of quality stocks long-term, meaning you ignore market fluctuations, the risk of losing everything is basically zero, and the likelihood of your portfolio increasing in value approaches 100%