[-] DrDr@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

Save plan lowered my effective interest rate to around 2%. I'll still have to pay a lot over the next 20 years, and if the tax bomb is not removed it will be another 100,000. However my cash flow is much improved and how much I pay total has decreased drastically.

Still fighting with my student loan servicer to set me up on the plan correctly, but that is a different can of worms. The servicers need to have their contracts nullified for how terrible they have been.

[-] DrDr@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Stimulant medications have been around for a long time. ADHD patients that are untreated have a higher risk of developing a substance abuse problem. ADHD patients taking stimulants have a risk of substance abuse that is on par with the rest of the population. Prescription stimulants generally have low risk of abuse. I'm an addiction researcher.

[-] DrDr@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

What did Warren Buffett do?

[-] DrDr@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

I've been making six figures while getting my PhD. There are plenty of opportunities to get your PhD funded if you are a US citizen. There are plenty more valid places to poke fun at pursuing a PhD but it is very common to have funding and thus no debt.

[-] DrDr@lemmy.world 97 points 1 year ago

This is nothing but a distraction from lecterngate. Sarah Huckabee Sanders used taxpayer funds to pay for a personal trip, then had the Republican party expense a $20k podium from a company that has never sold a podium before to try to hide the embezzlement.

[-] DrDr@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I get your point but choosing Chinese phones as a trust example is hilarious. Every Chinese phone has a backdoor straight to China.

[-] DrDr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

How exactly would you leave Australia by train?

[-] DrDr@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It would almost certainly follow an approximate normal distribution just like the above graph. Why would it look different?

[-] DrDr@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Average is the mean, not median or mode. This doesn't change on context. Average is always mean.

[-] DrDr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I've raced motocross and also raced woods events and also do a lot of other off road riding on quads and UTVs. As the guy before me said, CC size isn't always going to directly reflect power. A crf450L has a 450 race bike engine and has much much more power than say a DRZ 400. I would suggest going with a CRF 300L. It will have enough power to handle almost all trails outside of steep steep inclines. It's a great bike and doesn't require much maintenance and is relatively inexpensive. Also couldn't go wrong with the DRZ 400 but I think it might be a little heavier and slightly less capable. When riding off road, too much power is often a hindrance rather than help. You can often go faster in the woods on a 250 race bike compared to a 450 because it is lighter and you are not having to fight the power output of the bike as much. A 250 4-stroke or 125 2-stroke bike would be a good option for starting as well, but they aren't typically set up for registering for road riding.

Good luck if you decide to get a bike. Take it slow at first, off road riding is much harder than road riding and there are a lot of lessons to learn that are best not learned the hard way. ATGATT

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