If it takes unethical practices to provide for an animal, it’s unethical to have the animal.

That being said, supervised outside team seems like a reasonable choice.

Any stock based investment is more risky for short-term saving as there is no guarantees of returns and potential drops in value. For long term savings, the dips can be waited out and on average have historically gotten good return over the long run. For shorter term savings you could consider fixed income like CDs. While the rates are lower, they are guaranteed so you will have your money when you need it

I think it depends greatly on your preferred workflow and what you plan to model. Parametric drafting like fusion involves creating dimensioned and constrained sketches and manipulating them. Where direct modeling like blender or plasticity is more like painting in 3D

You wouldn’t create a figurine using parametric tools as all the fine detail would be impossible to constrain. At the same time a precise gear that needs to mesh would be difficult to model in a direct modeling tool as it’s difficult to make the precise teeth

I personally track it in a self hosted jellyseer instance, but I used to use trakt.tv

The Roth IRA is great advice. I think a 401k is good as long as you are maxing your company’s contribution. Any higher than that would be better invested in another account so you could use it for an emergency before retirement

If there are culture problems with Arizona, I’m sure Germany will be more difficult. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/tsmc-arizona-struggles-to-overcome-vast-differences-between-taiwanese-and-us-work-culture

In the US the states with the most data are Colorado and Washington which happen to have some of the lowest rates of obesity

Music too fast, jail. Music too slow, believe it or not, also jail