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I do a lot of QRF. I can't count how often I've been the one guy who shows up to stop a 3am tap op. My most-driven vehicle is probably a fire truck. Usually I fail. It's frustrating and no fun, but I feel like it matters.

I think a lot of the "Foxhole hates builders" frustration is actually about QRF, and specifically that the devs have got the wrong balance between time to kill a structure and the time to respond to the attack.

It takes seconds to kill a relic base with demo charges, and at least 20-30 to respawn through home island to defend, even if you react instantly. Once it's down, the time to spawn nearby and run is usually less than the time to tap it. A gunboat can relia

So let me start out by saying I'm a committed Boglehead, I've been putting most of my retirement savings into a Vanguard S&P 500 index fund every month for 30 years. And I'm not an activist investor, I've got no problem investing in defense contractors and oil companies. But there's a very small number of companies that I really can't own in good conscience.

What do you think of buying index funds, while also short-selling the undesirable stocks in a brokerage account, in an amount that cancels out their contribution to the index fund? So for example, for every $1000 I spend on a 500 index fund, I would short-sell $58 worth of Palantir since it's 0.58% of the index, so my net position

Hi, I'm in my 50's, my father passed away recently, and I've inherited a chunk of his Morgan Stanley IRA. I've only just now been able to look at what assets are in the inherited account, and while Dad was great at real estate, I'm not sure what the hell he was doing with his investment accounts. It's mostly cash (hopefully that's a recent change), plus a scattering of high-fee mutual funds and random ETFs.

Anyway, my personal accounts are with Vanguard, so I want to transfer the inherited IRA over to Vanguard and Bogleize it along the way.

How does that process work? What should I watch out for?

There's also the question of what do with the mandatory withdrawals. Since the withdrawals

I live in rural southeastern Mass, my 2-acre property is about half grass and half forest (white pine and a few oaks and maples), the landscape has some sandy upland dropping down toward a swamp. I am not an enthusiastic gardener, or better to just say "neglectful".

Mowing the grass a few times a year is easy enough, but the forest edges and undergrowth are a giant pain in the butt. After 20 years of neglect, the stars of the show are Japanese knotwood, Norway maple, multiflora rose, honeysuckle and barberry, plus my favorite natives greenbrier and poison ivy. So much poison ivy. Everything out there is either toxic, thorny, or trying to take over my driveway and eat my house.

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Hi, I live in southern Massachusetts. My wife wants more mountain laurel around, and we've got a big one that we planted 20 years ago. Any advice on propagating it? Since they grow pretty slowly, I was thinking of air layering, so I can start big. I've only done it once, though, as a kid in Hawaii. Some questions:

1. Does air layering work well for mountain laurel? If not, what do you recommend?

2. Do I have enough time this season?

3. Will I need to transplant into a pot for a year or two, or can I plant an air layer directly into the ground? I'm ... not always great at watering potted plants.

4. How big a branch can I take? The parent plant is about 8' tall and badly in need of