It CAN be time based, but there’s also a “hot” and an “active” sorting. Both of which are “algorithms”.
It’s a lot more simple of an algorithm, and doesn’t intentionally push specific topics, but if you open https://lemmy.world/ anonymously, you’ll see a default “All/Active” feed which is sorted by engagement.
It’s business hours Tue-Fri. Sounds like the volunteer isn’t for unpaid work, but for volunteering to do this instead of their normal duties for the week.
Tho I’m sure they’ll get dinged on their performance review if their regular work output reduces, so I’m guessing they will end up needing to put on unpaid hours to compensate.
Yup, there were a large number of downturns over the decades. The 90’s and the 00’s were squarely in the tail end of boomer retirement years and they ended up just fine.
The great depression bounced back and even if you invested at that time, over the long term you would have come out ahead of you just held onto a total market position.
Pull up any Dow Jones historical chart and you’ll see plenty of flat or short term dips, ones that held for several years, but in the end the line still went up faster than inflation.
https://www.macrotrends.net/1319/dow-jones-100-year-historical-chart
Every generation had multiple periods where the market looked poor, but if you don’t prepare for the future, you guarantee a shitty retirement.
If you save and prepare for the future, you at least have a chance of being comfortable in your old age.
If you’re saving into a total market index fund, your returns should go up in relation to inflation OVER THE LONG TERM.
I’ve been investing for decades in VTSAX and similar across a few retirement accounts, and while there have been ups and downs, since I don’t touch it and keep adding to it in small amounts over time, I’ve had great success with beating inflation while doing absolutely nothing to manage my investment.
Yes, there was basically a whole decade that didn’t do well, the following decade more than made up for the slow returns.
That’s just how retirement investments work. You don’t look at a single quarter, year, or even decade, you look at your entire working life plus retirement. And the market has always been ahead at those time frames.
With how much he loves the letter, I’m shocked he didn’t call it the X party.
I hear he loves history too, so maybe the History X party. I guess he should include the America part so people know which side he’s on.
The “American History X” party sounds about right for him.
They also hate when people donate “supplies” which is usually 30+ year old torn up camping equipment, and old clothes that should have been thrown out.
Just donate money and get out of the way.
If you really want to be a help, donate time before disasters happen so you’re trained up for when they do. Starting to gather supplies and training during a disaster is far far too late.