Sorry - didn’t know they had to be up and coming. I wouldn’t call most of the artists on that list that, but definitely worth checking out.

Pretty Lights

Flying Lotus

Parov Stelar

St Germain

Wax Tailor

Portishead

All of the Mushroom Jazz series by Mark Farina (he didn’t create the tracks but will give you lots of artists to segue to)

Track down Club Soda - it’s great.

Who’s actually hiring?

Love it. I hope other countries follow suit since no one here in the US is going to learn until life starts being inconvenient/uncomfortable.

Domain names have little to do with privacy, and also wise to mentally separate the domain name from your website. If you’re looking host a website and not deal with the US, it’s probably more important to focus on who your domain registrar is and who your web host is (and what countries both are based in). The TLD you pick is almost irrelevant.

Ya know, I love his music.

Remember: he’s looking after his party’s interests of small government and free market.

Giardinara

Bread and Butter

Are those similar to the Trump-Epstein files?

2.75 mothafucka!

USian here - thanks for your nice reminder, and please to all of my neighbors up north: keep it up. Nothing is going to change down here until businesses (ie, the money) are hurt.

Ohhh, hiii again!

Mmmm - turbo button. Classic.

BOTW

Fallout: New Vegas

Skyrim

Get what you’re saying, but that sounds like a bit of a stretch. If any employer did want to go all in on stupid like that, people would still be able to do the following:

• don’t contribute money to it (I certainly wouldn’t - I’d pay out to another account under my control)
• roll over / transfer any funds that are already in there into an account of your own control
• look for another job (big red flag for an employer, if you ask me)

How many Mooches to a Long? I need to set up a conversion table.

Yep - exactly right. I didn’t say the new rule wasn’t colossally stupid, but it gives everyone a greater ability to gamble with their retirement. “Luckily” they don’t work like a pension which you have no control over. Example: if your employer decided to invest in Trump coin and then your pension fund tanked. That would be a different level of horrible, but in this case, the rule is giving us all new ways to be stupid with our money (by choice).

Not a finance expert, but I don’t think there’s any “401k system.” 401k is just a type of account (a bucket you put your money in) that has special rules, such as:

• you put money into it tax free and are taxed on it when you take it out (opposite of a Roth - you put money that’s already taxed into it and take it out tax free)
• employers can contribute to it
• age restrictions on when you can take it out without being penalized
• special circumstances on when you can borrow from it

So it’s an account type with some rules. No money there other than what you put in and where you invest it (that’s where you have the choice in where to invest it, and in that case, there’s no way I’d be investing in crypto). No “system” that’s funded or anything like that, other than how each individual investment is put together.

Example: pick something like an S&P index fund. Far as I know, there are no crypto companies/currencies that would qualify to be in that.