▲ 11 r/AskUS

Are you planning on consuming any of the hamburger mystery meat that’s going to be flooding the US market imminently?

Meat that will be supplemented with “lean trimmings” of undisclosed age. Can have been frozen for any amount of time.

Meat that’s supplemented with Brazilian meat with undisclosed vaccines.

Prolly just mysterious meat in general

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u/Gordon_throwaway — 1 month ago
▲ 1 r/401K

4% loss when 401k Plan changes providers?

Bear with me here… my company plan just changed from John Hancock to Voya. Since we weren’t given a choice of what fund our liquidated assets would go into (just an “age based fund”) and I’m nearing retirement, I moved 100% of my investments out of John Hancock into a rollover IRA and just continued with normal payroll 401k deductions. I then directed all future 401k deposits (2 pay periods) to go into a Stable Value fund at JH with the idea that I would reallocate after the plan provider change. The final value on the date the JH account was closed was $4,462.44.

I received the ToA confirmation into Voya, and the transfer in was $4,281.09 into their “Fixed Account B”lol, what happened to $181.35? I apparently lost 4.06% between JH and Voya? The confirm says it “represents the gain or loss accrued from the last statement date to the date of transfer shown on the confirmation”. But 4% of what is ostensibly the safest investment option Voya has? Its asset class is “Stability of Principal”.

What am I missing here?

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u/Gordon_throwaway — 1 month ago
▲ 3 r/AskUS

Is Pete Hegseth a sociopath?

“By the time the U.S. began attacking Iran, Central Command, which said it needed a minimum of nine of its 16 [civilian protection] staffers to function, was left with one person...A U.S. airstrike hit a school, killing more than 100 children."

“Hegseth’s early exchanges with the generals made clear that the civilian harm program had no future in his reimagined “Department of War.” “

https://www.propublica.org/article/hegseth-civilian-harm-mitigation-response-trump-defense-department

u/Gordon_throwaway — 2 months ago
▲ 8 r/AskUS

What is Trump’s plan to help Republicans in the mid-terms?

Usually, at this stage a President is out campaigning on all the wins his party has delivered for his Party. Instead, Trump is campaigning on voter suppression, increasing tariffs (taxes on everyday Americans), lies about the economy, and giving Saudi Arabia, the home of the 9/11 terrorists nuclear technology.

This doesn’t seem like a winning message.

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u/Gordon_throwaway — 3 months ago

When does Vanguard close Buy access to new issue bonds?

If the auction is on Thursday, do I need to submit my order by Close Wednesday? Or will it accept orders on Thursday before the auction?

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u/Gordon_throwaway — 3 months ago
▲ 79 r/AskUS

What are the implications if FBI Epstein File training videos show agents were instructed to redact references to Trump?

A journalist received multiple DOJ and FBI whistleblower accounts that the DOJ created training videos to coach 1,000 FBI agents on how to find, log and redact Trumps name from the Epstein Files. She submitted a FOIA for the training videos, and the FBI has acknowledged the videos exist.

https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-exclusive-fbi-admits-it

u/Gordon_throwaway — 3 months ago
▲ 81 r/AskUS

If you saw this driving through suburbia, would you assume it was a Thai restaurant, or a replica of the Colonnade at the White House?

u/Gordon_throwaway — 3 months ago
▲ 47 r/AskUS

Would this just be buying off farmers *again* while at the same time not fixing the problem Trump’s tariffs created? When do farmer’s get tired of being exploited?

u/Gordon_throwaway — 4 months ago

I just don’t get it. I guess it’s the difference between one income and two? My water bill without watering the lawn is about $210/quarter now. Just me. No kids. I stopped watering the lawn 2 years ago when the summer quarterly bill got up to $500 (yes, I know. I can go monthly. It’s still $500). My curb and front yard look like sheet right now, as I work to transition to no water landscaping; and I’m sure my neighbors gossip viciously about it. Around me, everyone is gearing up to shower those lawns with water all summer. Me, no way. It’s like throwing money down the sewer.

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u/Gordon_throwaway — 6 months ago