u/wingbat13

Basically the title^ I have 2 bikes that could probably use a tune up, anyone know of any places that would cut even a small deal for that?

$385 for the olympic triathlon distance, no add ons except the required USAT 1 day membership. I'm sorry, but what a racket! I just checked, I paid 250 after fees in 2021, and 275 after fees in 2023. Still expensive, but jesus.

I have capitalism/inflation fatigue from just about everything nowadays, so I don't think I'll be signing up this year. Not to mention, 2 of the 3 times I've done this event, the swim has been cancelled, I think I'd actively puke if I had to do another "run, bike, run" for 400 bucks.

My family loves my mashed potatoes for thanksgiving, but in the last year or so my dad has really been trying to watch his sodium intake due to health issues. When I was making the potatoes this last year, I was just in the kitchen near my whole family, and as they saw me start to add salt, they stopped me, saying they we're trying to limit salt. My grandma literally gasped after like a half second pour of salt because she thought it was too much (it was probably like, a tsp pour into 10lbs potatoes at the time she gasped lol)

I just vibe out my recipe, it's a lot of butter, cheese, sour cream, garlic, and other seasonings like salt and pepper, so I don't have any measurements for what I'm adding. The taste is never like, ridiculously salty or anything, like it tastes good. My question is, how much salt added to something like mashed potatoes is too much? Like am I going to cause a problem if I were to make it how I normally do? Maybe a better question is what ratio of salt to potato do you all use and do you think it's aggressively unhealthy? Their ask kind of throws off the vibe of the way I make them, but like, if it's going to limit the years my dad has, yeah i'll leave out the salt ya know haha

Acorns is definitely not my main investment account, mostly just using it in the way I think it as originally marketed, your pocket change and round ups. So it grows, but not too quickly. Regardless, I should hit my first 1,000 next month which is exciting, but I can't decide what I should be using this money for down the line! I have some student loans at about 11k, I've been considering using it for that when the balances approach each other, whenever that may be. Scrolling this sub it seems like a lot of people use it for home down payments. So what's the consensus? I guess I just struggle with the mindset of this account because I already have my HSA, 401K, etc etc, so what should this fairly liquid account's goal be... Anyway, just a discussion would love to hear other folks goals!

When the market kinda crashes, think covid or the Iran war most recently and what not, people kinda freak out about their investment accounts, and usually you see some people swooping in to comment something along the lines of - "as long as you're not about to retire this doesn't matter you will recoup your investments over time, don't pull anything out" etc etc etc.

My question is, are the only people who are screwed people who literally we're about to retire TOMORROW in a market crash? Like I look at my fidelity account and I'm already back over what I was before the Iran crash, which took about 2 months total. Does this question make sense? Like lets say I have 1 mil in my 401k and I'm retiring tomorrow, and then it crashes and now it's down to 800k, it just doesn't seem like a huge deal to me because it seems to bounce back very quickly?

I was a teenager during 2008, so I don't have experience with that time, have we just not seen a really long, debilitating crash in awhile? I guess it just seems like the crashes don't seem to stay down for longer than a few months, and even then, it's not like you pull your entire retirement savings out at once, so it'll recoup pretty easy. Idk, lol.

Gas prices got me considering biking to work - any rush employees here who have a favorite spot to park? Obviously can never 100% guarantee your bike won't be stolen, but just looking for suggestions for a well enough populated/traversed space somewhere on campus.