What is the best part of your current job?

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What advice would you give to someone with a family member who is on the pathway to radicalization?

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Hey Sammy, this is Leo and I'll be testing your ability to use Reddit. Can you respond to this question?

How des one break smoking habits rather than the physical addiction? And what would be a good way to react to intense cravings?

Yo, Samurai, what's your most memorable moment of the '85 championship season?

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I was born on Mariah, Whitney and Celine Dion and as I got older I listen to a lot of Rock music, I also listened to the Boy bands and teen pop when it was huge back in like 98/01. I wish I was a lot older to truly have appreciated it. I love The Tories, Avion, Backstreet Boys, Leona Lewis, Kelly Clarkson and a ton of others. When I was younger I listened to loads of female artists but as I got older and came to accept that it was okay to be gay and like guys I started listening to more guys, but Kelly and Leona are my favorite female singers.

There's a rock band from Cali called The Tories and there was another band also from Cali called Avion, and both bands were fronted by a guy named Steve Bertrand. Every time I hear a song of his it inspires me a whole ton. As far as writing my own stuff goes, I've had a lot of writers block recently. It'd be such an amazing time if Steve could write and sing songs with me.

Who were your biggest inspirations to inspire you in your music?

Do you like beetroot on a burger, or are you an uncultured heathen?

As far as what made me want to write, I think I was always naturally good at poetry and I was always good at rhyming things, but my lyrics kind of sucked. I mean, most of the stuff I wrote was when I was 13/15 and I was writing your typical cheesy teenage baby I love you type songs when I didn't know the first thing about what love is, and at the old age of 31 I honestly still don't. My lyrics kind of got more hilarious as I got older. When I figured out and accepted I was gay I started writing songs about guys and how they did me wrong. Some of them were about encounters I've dealt with in real life, others were fictional and some of them were super funny because some sets of lyrics were written when I was stoned out of my mind. I wish I had those lyrics but all of that got lost in a hard drive crash when my external drive kicked the bucket. Lesson learned don't ever use External drives, use cloud storage instead.

What inspires you to write a song?

btw teeth's condition is 95% a combo of genetic background+hygiene

As far as lyrics go I was lucky that the words I wrote were original, but music and beats were a different story. When I was 15 or so and still learning about sound editing I'd download random backing tracks and try to loop instrumentals to try and make a melody. I can write lyrics but making melodies is super hard for me and I don't understand why. I've had perfect pitch since before I could talk, all I did was hum and if the note I was humming matched the note of the sound I was happy. Eventually I just kept at it and then when I learned how to talk I started singing shortly afterwards. IF someone were to write a song and give one to me I could sing it no problem, but trying to make my own melodies, well, let's just say it doesn't really go all that well.

When you write your songs, do you ever have to google your lyrics to make sure they are all your own? Have you ever changed lyrics because someone else had something too similar? What song made you want to write?

HSAs are good to have on that list too if people have HDHPs

What are the three top alternative investments?

Other than buying apartment buildings or even homes to rent or flip, what are the best ways to invest in real estate?

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Hi, I just turned 40. For retirement I have state pension and a 403(b). Is there anything else I should be looking into? I've looked into Roth IRA, but it's a little intimidating to navigate on my own. Thanks

I have two questions:

1. Are there any critiques you can provide regarding common advice given on r/personalfinance r/povertyfinance, r/financialindependence, r/fatFIRE, r/leanfire r/r//FinancialPlanning, r/Fire, etc? A more pointed question would be what do you think of this chart: https://i.imgur.com/lSoUQr2.png
2. Have you had experience dealing with notable fraud within the financial industry.? Banking seems to be a common industry for fraud according to SEON: https://seon.io/resources/industry-fraud-index/