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Thanks for that first link. I'm interested to see what the conclusions are.

Could a diet where you only eat the meat from one slaughtered cow be the ideal vegan diet? One consciousness killed. This approach would require purchasing a half from a local farm…

I should probably finish reading it but doesn't "Guns, Germs and Steel" give a totally non-racial explanation for what they are saying?

Part of me hates Walmart and part of me loves it. I love that I can go to one place and get 80% of whatever I'm looking for. But I also like the specialty stores my town has. N of …

It is your opinion that your filters and methods for discerning truth or value are correct. But you think they are the method. We disagree about the methods obviously. Because we d…

I don't know you but I think you have categorized me as one of "them" (people who don't think critically) and have been arguing with me from that perspective. I think you have a ri…

It's so interesting to me that your conclusion about me is that I'm not a critical thinker. If you knew me in real life you'd rank me among the most critical thinkers you know (or …

More examples of you assuming the worst about me. I'm well aware of what you posted. My sarcasm didn't go through. I mean no one has written a published and cited paper about our c…

Probably best to just ignore everything we've both said (including this advice). There haven't been any published and cited papers about this thread yet so it's too early to tell w…

For anyone left reading, let this be a live demonstration of how it can be a waste of time to try to convince someone on the Internet their thinking is wrong. I'm pretty sure Zetic…

I guess we'll have to disagree about whether I'm capable of investigating their claims. Maybe you aren't and that's well and good for you. If you cannot investigate their claims, I…

It's a logical fallacy to assume what they are saying is false because they might stand to profit from it. They might be biased but can't we investigate their claims independently?…

We certainly have different types of filters. Your filter apparently catches blogs and that's fine. I feel I've been exposed to many interesting things on blogs. I'm sure others wo…

You may just ignore this (dear thread-reader may not!) since it's on a blog but how do you fit this into your mental model of market phenomena? https://allocatesmartly.com/diving-d…

If you're open-minded, give the paper a read. They suggest a method, that you can verify yourself, for figuring out which months are likely to be worse. The paper you shared define…

A lot of people would be better off it they just took a $100 a month and put it under their mattress, i.e. throwing money into a pit. There are obviously many better ideas than tha…

I'm not sure why I feel the need to convince you. I think your confidence in the face of contradictory evidence that I've seen triggers something on an emotional level for me. I al…

I'll admit I haven't read the book completely or in a long time but is it not about how the EMH is true and so anything other than B&H low-cost index funds is a fruitless pursuit? …

Perhaps they were some of the most functional humans despite their alcohol consumption.

I don't believe the EMH is settled nor that markets follow a random walk. There is academic literature to back up both sides of both of those beliefs. Things aren't as settled as y…

For the curious thread-reader, here are some websites that offer ideas that might make you question whether all "timing the market" is the same and equally bad long term. - https:/…

I am more worried that when I want to start selling them so I can retire coincides with the beginning of a long drawdown. I suppose one way to address this risk would be to save ev…

I think we're agreeing that you need a strategy and you need to stick to it. Where we differ (I think) is you think my strategy is objectively bad and yours is objectively good. I …

I do think it's important to be aware of our emotions when it comes to money and investing. I've realized that I won't be comfortable enduring drawdowns much more than 20% and so I…

We all choose what investment strategy to follow. I have chosen other strategies that have smaller drawdowns. In the case where I have to tap into my retirement account because of …