Turns out GYLD was in a 1% dip 8/17 (when I assigned a savings chunk to it) only because it was the day after the ex/eff date. So basically I bought in a day too late to reap the benefit of the monthly dividend. Not sure if it's marginally better to buy in at 1% market price down or catch the ex/eff date, if you get to choose.
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A couple days ago I lingered over a FB post along the lines of-
since right-wingers have their panties in a twist about footballers taking a knee for racial injustice during the national anthem, reversing the usual patriarchal machismo-worship narrative that atheletes are heroes, let's also observe that cops and soldiers aren't heroes either. Not while sexual predation and a "snitches get stitches" culture are rampant in the military, not while every day we see a new story about police brutality, murder and corruption and "the thin blue line" means little more than "look the other way if a fellow officer is abusing their position".
And I thought again about Matt Dillon's cop character, Sgt. John Ryan in "Crash", who sexually assaults and then in a separate incident, rescues a woman trapped in a car about to catch fire. Is he redeemed, does he arrive back at some moral neutral or zero-point, or can one be both hero and predator? Is Sgt. Ryan an essentially bad person, or just a fucked-up mixed bag of good and bad actions? When do we separate incidental things a person DOES from the essence of what they ARE?
I eventually decided against stirring the FB pot, but I still ponder redemption and forgiveness.