How many Palestinians did the Israelis kill and displace from the time that the UK allowed them free rein to push into the territory after WWI? How many homes have they seized or destroyed?

I like Devuan, because Debian went to the dark side.

XP phoned home. Win2K was closer to the pinnacle of Windows development.

I do not have specific advice for finding an advisor. I didn’t reach FIRE suddenly, and built up my knowledge over time. Early on it was a combination of Peter Lynch, Robert Kiyosaki (I wouldn’t recommend taking Kiyosaki too seriously, though), Mr Money Mustache, and a book that I recall was titled Living Without a Salary, but that may not be correct. I didn’t follow exactly the advice in that last book, as it called for investing in Treasury notes. Now it’s inertia plus the *fire subreddits. I use Vanguard, but as a self-directed investor.

For parking cash, have you considered credit unions instead of banks?

You need an adviser who won’t take you for a ride.

You’re going to have substantial capital gains taxes this year.

If it were me, and in a taxable account, I’d put it in a mix of VT and BNDW after making sure I could cover taxes.

What if the only way to turn them is a repeat of 1939-1945?

Back in my teens, a Seventh Day Adventist said that to me. I got the better deal in life.

“Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.

That word is “Nazi.” Nobody cares about their motives anymore.

They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?”

― A.R. Moxon

Do you believe that people should use job titles they no longer hold?

If you work in the US, NDAs tied to severance are generally illegal.

Even so, I gave my last employer the benefit of silence for the amount of time my severance would have covered in regular salary. That time is now past.

A Model I was the first computer I owned. I miss it, but don’t know that I’d actually use it if I still had it.

And he made life worse for nearly everyone.

Another vote for Lutris here. For many years, my main game was WoW, and it runs fine there. Now my main game is GW2, which also runs fine under Lutris.

Not far behind you. I learned BASIC on an original Commodore PET.