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While Discord makes socializing easy, it often trades user privacy for that convenience. Like most other people, I mainly use the platform to coordinate with friends and guildmates during games, so many of these features felt like vulnerabilities rather than perks. To fix this, I adjusted a few key settings to boost my privacy without sacrificing the usability I rely on for my gaming sessions. Stop Discord from Collecting my Data Telemetry is the first thing I disable in every app. Not only do I find tracking my usage behavior creepy, but I also don’t trust companies with my data,…

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Looking to start saving and investing? What account or order of accounts should you use first? Your 401k? IRA? HSA?I’m a big fan of methods and orders of operations for doing things. I think that it is essential to have a set plan for executing tasks, especially long term tasks like saving for retirement. But what’s the best way to go about funding retirement? What is the proper order to save?Remember back in elementary school the order of operations for math – “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally”? I always found that useful – parenthesis, exponents, multiplication/division, addition/subtraction. Its rules…

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Student loan rates have continued to hold steady over the last week. As of March 17, 2026, private student loan lenders are offering fixed rates as low as 2.65% APR and variable rates starting as low as 3.28% APR, depending on credit profile, degree program, and repayment term.Abe℠ Student Loans currently offers the lowest fixed rate loan available. Student Choice is currently offering the lowest variable rate student loan available.While federal student loan rates are set annually by Congress, private lenders continue to adjust based on market conditions and Treasury yields. Staying current on these changes can save borrowers hundreds…

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Key PointsA new federal law creates a “Do No Harm” earnings test: programs whose graduates earn less than comparable high school graduates will lose access to federal student loans starting in the 2028-29 academic year.93% of cosmetology certificate programs are expected to fail. Mental health services master’s programs also face higher than average failure rates.644,000 students are currently enrolled in programs expected to fail, receiving $2.7 billion in federal loans annually. Already-enrolled students are protected and can finish their degrees, but new enrollees will eventually lose loan access if their program fails two years running. Hundreds of thousands of college…

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