I don't think that "indie rock" adequately describes the sound of Michael Kiwanuka. His music has notes of both folk and funk in the most satisfying way.

It seems to me like you're saying that these problems are mostly with ETFs that track certain indexes, as opposed to traditional mutual funds tracking the same indexes. If I agree that this whole thing is a problem, is the solution to just stick with mutual funds?

Therefore the obvious thing to do is make it easier for everyone to leave at 4:30 without acknowledging that all you're doing is increasing the number of people who are going to be on the road with you.

Public transportation is more dense and consistent than driving a car. Even something as simple as a dedicated bus lane can move an order of magnitude more people during rush hour than a road full of cars, as this example from Los Angeles shows:

https://twitter.com/metrolosangeles/status/1153807208229957632

For the past 15 years it's been compounding at half the rate everyone was expecting it to

A broadly diversified US equity fund like VTSAX had a CAGR of 10.25% from 2003 to today. That's a hair over the 10% that underlies many projections about retirement investment.

I think that Johnny Cash utterly transformed Hurt in a way that few covers do.

police are an important part of keeping a society civil. Prisons (or some incarceration system) are needed for dangerous folks like serial killers.

If you're interested in challenging those beliefs further, I'd recommend a couple excellent books.

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America by Kristian Williams

As ever, the only way to have a good music library is to manage it yourself, instead of outsourcing it to a multinational tech company.

I found this in the credits of a television show, of all places. The music folks at HBO are really on top of things.

I studied political science and wound up working in computers. I think it was more fun to learn political science than computer science, but would have been a lot less fun to work in the former field. Technology is definitely the place to be right now.

I don't know a lot about Mayor Pete (other than his identity politics) and this article completely turned me off from him: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/all-about-pete

He really doesn't belong in the same breath as Andrew Yang or Bernie Sanders.

Not going to happen. Even setting aside the thoroughly racist origins of modern American policing , law enforcement is effectively a right-wing gang. The FBI is too busy persecuting nonviolent environmental activists, Black Lives Matter, and other left-wing groups to recognize the growing threat of right-wing extremism in their ranks and in the country at large.

He said too many homes have been built in Turkey.

Hardly. The economy in Turkey is simply suffering under an authoritarian government.

I'm also reading Bad Blood right now. It's an excellent book. I think Theranos exemplified everything wrong with the technology sector right now.

King of Tokyo is like a better version of Yahtzee with cartoon monsters.