Playing monopoly is definitely a viable option if it makes you happy. The best investments in life are those that benefit mental and/or physical health.

You’re right, it definitely isn’t.

That’s why I like the “value” themed ones, like VTV. Those follow indices with companies having a somewhat reasonable price to earnings ratio.

You may enjoy listening to his episode of freakonomics: Please Get Your Noise Out of My Ears

Some people will spend a lot of money to have the benefit of some control over their ambience. Home location choices. Choice to have a personal vehicle vs. public transportation. Purchasing expensive noise cancelling headphones…

My personal history of owning individual stocks has been very disappointing. If you ever decide you want to invest in the equity market, I recommend exchange traded funds (ETFs) that follow an index and have a really low expense ratio. My favorite exchange traded funds are VT, VTI, VTV, VXUS, BND, and BNDX. VBR may be a good one if you ever want exposure to smaller companies.

Mutual funds are another option, similar to ETFs.

I fortuitously moved all my VTI into VTV a couple weeks ago to divest myself of TSLA, and over the past two days have been actively keeping the balance of my 60/40 equities/bonds portfolio by selling a little bit of BND and BNDX to get some more VTV as it sunk. Didn’t need to modify the VXUS portion.

Sure was nice to have those bond portions to assuage the decline.

Quisling?

Geez, it’s almost as if this is one of the most contagious pathogens known to humankind. If only there were some way to protect against it :'(

Hey, at least all the MAGAsites still love him. I guess there’s that…

bUt ThEn TeH cHiKkEnS wUd GeT aUtIsM aNd PpL wHo EaT tEh EgS wUd AlSo!!!1!!

I’ve heard bananas and applesauce are also egg alternatives for baking, probably just for confectionary dishes, though.

Here you go! https://itdoesnttastelikechicken.com/vegan-egg-yolk/

Edit: Here’s the vegan fried egg: https://www.noracooks.com/fried-vegan-eggs/

My SO has concocted some pretty nice vegan alternatives using black salt and tofu and mung beans and corn starch and various other ingredients and techniques. Definitely not a 1:1 to real eggs, but enough to get someone by if they don’t mind a change. Mostly scrambles and skillet sunnyside up kinda of eggs. The yolky dipping sauce is quite good and easy to make.

There’s a product that’s shaped like an egg, cracks like an egg, boils like an egg, fries like an egg? I haven’t heard of it. I’ve only heard of stuff like Just Egg, which is a scramble analog…analegg…wait, I think that’s something else…

Yup, XAig. As a bonus, it’d implant the necessary biostructures for a Neuralink system installation.

I love the idea of supplemental self sufficiency through family-scale animal husbrandy, especially with hens.

Unfortunately, this is an unintented consequence of doing that: https://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/americapox

I love me some Costa Rican-style beans and rice. It’ll be interesting to see what people will consume in lieu of eggs, should the price become prohibitive long-term.

Geez this country is really obsessed with eggs. Almost like it’s some kind of hard addiction.

At this point, I’m astonished no one has come up with some kind of synthetic egg that looks, acts, and tastes just like the real thing.

It appears a hen needs about 115g of feed a day to produce one 50g egg, so the product yield is less than half the input, plus all the other overhead like conditioned living space, water, antibiotics, lobbying for ag-gag laws against animal rights activists… I bet someone could come up with a more efficient way to make an egg. They could even call it something like “Aeg™” which could have some cute marketing meaning.

As foretold by the prophetical Team American: World Police

I think the implicit assumption is if they didn’t take the offer (“easy way”), they’d then get the “hard way,” in which the US receives the same end result, but no one in Greenland gets the million. It churns the bile in my guts that anyone on earth is even having this discussion with a modicum of seriousness. Greenland is for Greenlanders.