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  1. Haus

    Health Problems

    Key note if taking a magnesium supplement, if you have a low resting heart rate be careful! They are a low tier beta blocker, which can cause your heart rate to drop.
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    Interesting, Non Political News

    From the "shit I have in a feed because it was involved in all my grandparents dying" file... https://ground.news/daily-briefing/new-hope-for-alzheimers-groundbreaking-harvard-study-finds-lithium-reverses-brain-aging-the-boston-globe
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    It's an invitation to a round of Rodeo... Grab her hair shove it up her ass when she reacts negatively say "Your sisters ass was tighter" See how many seconds you can keep riding. Unrelated :
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    Job Hunting

    I have to agree with @ToeMissile on this one. If your line of work is anything like mine the first stop when job shopping is your personal network and calling people to see who in your industry is hiring. This also usually helps you get the right in with the right people. Now a days any...
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    So we have folks calling other people "boo" and "sport". I wonder when we'll escalate to "friend" and "buddy"? Let me check a few my achievements while I have been lurking on this MMO LARP board for years now... Gutted to the studs and rebuilt two bathrooms in my house. Gutted and...
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    I think I explained my reasons for wanting to keep doing something I see as useful in retirement. I saw how decline hit my grandfather who raised me once he stopped having anything active to be doing. I know I'm like him, so I suspect I will need to find something to keep myself feeling...
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    How about this stat. Median 401k balance for Americans with age brackets... Ages 40–49: $154,212 Ages 50–59: $252,850 Ages 60+: $210,724 59% of adults in the US couldn't cover a $1,000 emergency without going into debt.
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    TBH, If I detach and let logical pragmatic Haus decide there's a very solid argument for East Oklahoma, or dare I even say it Arkansas. (I have co-workers in Arkansas who have made a few feigned attempts to luring me up there.)
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    I think it's more my ingrained upbringing, and the desire to poke fun at Oklahoma which is bred into every Texan....
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    That's a mighty low bar you're setting there sir... ;)
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    Home buying thread

    You know I'm right here and can see this, right?
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    Home buying thread

    Ours became the home of our "big ass F shaped desk" and our home office out of which I work. We still have a dining table in one end, and I admit we reconfigure it around the holidays to host Thanksgiving/Xmas at our house. I don't know of any in person meetings from the forums. Honestly, if...
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    This is one of the considerations in "project Peaches" which is to buy land away from Dallas and build on it. But I still have most of my family, and even more of the wife's family who are around DFW, so we're kinda trying not to move that far away. That and I don't know if I could deal with...
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    Home buying thread

    In my neighborhood in Dallas the lots are around 1/3rd acre. Houses originally built as 2400-2600 sq ft houses. Now every person who moves out the house gets snatched up, then tear it down and drop a 4000 sq ft 2 story McMansion on it. Although the last couple of those they have done have...
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    Home Improvement

    I did Cabinets To Go when we redid our kitchen around a decade ago. If you have a basic nail gun and moderate competency using it then assembly of them is pretty easy peasy. Once I got an idea of the scope of the project through the guy at the CtG store showed me how he had a contractor who...
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    I'm watching it play out in real time with my mother right now. 75, and never really planned/saved for any retirement. Only has her Social Security. Saved by the grace of : That my grandmother put the house we were all raised in into a trust so that she'd have a roof over her head She had...
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    I was the SFDC admin/deployment guy/everything person for a small company I worked at around 8 years ago. Found I could manage the SFDC stuff ok since I treated it as just an DB app with a very dynamic front end to work against. Learned a TON about how our business operated in helping move...
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    That is a dangerous spot for me. There's an old bit of wisdom I was given "Don't make the hobby you enjoy into a job, it ruins enjoying the hobby" and I'm working against that right now even since I am also looking at puttering in my hobby and trying to sell things in retirement.....
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    In the spreadsheet I mentioned I do exactly this. Since it's attached to my budget spreadsheet I have a very acute picture of my monthly expenses, which then rolls to yearly, and I have a "how long do you REALLY think you're gonna live" field which I'm optimistically setting at 90 right now...
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    I have a spreadsheet I'm using to generally coordinate all the things involving this and there's one column for "If Social Security still exists" and one for "Social Security blew the fuck up and you're on your own". My dream would be that social security still exists and pays out what it says...
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    Job Hunting

    Yeah, I have been seriously weighing that as my "last act" to lead into retirement. I'm just not as sure yet how much my consultative cybersecurity skillset will lean into independent consultancy. But I have been poking around looking. I give a lot of high level cybersecurity talks to...
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    Job Hunting

    Some trends I'm seeing emerge right now that might be multi-industry : Middle Management, who previously did a lot of "watch the dashboards, make sure the lights are all green" are being looked at HARD. Because if they're really coaching/developing needed workers cool, but if they're just...
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    Job Hunting

    I'm at the point of literally thinking "Find a way to pile up as much money as I can in the next decade and then fuck off to the middle of nowhere to be Crazy Ol Haus the guy who makes stupid metal doodads", then take up a hobby of yelling at clouds.
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    That does bring up another aspect of it.... What to do in your retirement? I know people who are "I'm going to vacation, travel, and laze around" and I don't see myself being happy like that. My grandfather raised me and as I've gotten older I see more of his behavior in me than I ever...
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    Saw this today : And now I'm back into a mode of thinking about what's going to happen in around a decade with my wife and I are done with all aspect of the modern work-a-day world. Looking at projections I see recommendations that you need 10 years worth of your expenses saved up in some...
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    Job Hunting

    Feels bad man..... https://www.aol.com/finance/quarter-gen-x-ve-laid-152156619.html At 56, I can attest to every one of these stats except the laid off one (thankfully and knocking on wood) Highlights : • 24% of Gen Xers laid off in the last decade still don’t have jobs. • 49% say they make...
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    Brotox: cosmetic treatments

    I don't know of anybody using it for face wrinkles. But I do know someone who gets it on their scalp to , of all things, reduce migraine frequency. Heaven knows how that f*ing works, but it seems to.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    If you take 35 north from Dallas into Oklahoma, around the Turner Falls area you can see where we've also done that on a smaller scale, just sliced through what should be rocky hills/baby mountains because I-35 will not be denied. Same in some places in Arkansas as well that I've seen doing...
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    The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

    Went to see this today. It ranks a solid "meh". Better than any of the MCU stuff since Endgame I've seen (with the exception of the Sony produced No Way Home, which I liked) I'll give it a 6 or 6.5 or so....If I were more of a FF fan it'd probably be a 7-7.5 . The retro 60's vibe worked...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    And remember kids, if you trim back all the bush around it, it'll look bigger!
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    Thunderbolts* (2025)

    The problem was this held through Endgame. But post endgame the comic nerds have stopped being the backstop of reliable viewers. This was probably, IMHO, a combination of them just going too deep into "esoteric characters few have heard of" (looking at you Shang-chi) and unfaithfulness to the...
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    The Naked Gun (2025)

    Veep and Idiocracy need to be granted their own special category of "Films and shows which STARTED as a comedy and BECAME documentaries"
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    Dating

    Don't hypothetical yourself out of ever really knowing. Pursue it, enjoy things, see where they lead. Worst case scenario you have to have a talk about how you can't take living in LA. best case scenario happily ever after happens for you. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take, (and...
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    Investing General Discussion

    They are, and this has been going on for a long time. Apparently the "smart people" haven't considered the BLS stats reliable for over a decade, but today's revisions are just a new extreme watermark. This is the biggest set of revisions since the 2020 crash.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Yeah, it was one of those revisions that is so extreme it even has some pretty conservative true believers asking if the BLS has an honest grip to really measure the numbers..... And yeah DXY took a punch in the taco today relative the last week and a half of good upward movement.
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Not sure why I'm the grumpy old Master Shifu of browsers now. But I'll say I have been using Brave for probably a few years now and love it. Easy to control a lot of the stupid tracking, although this site still has an odd bug where it never remembers my "NO, I don't want to allow you to post...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Yeah, just make sure there's enough greasiness in that food and it should shotgun through fast and you'll probably powershit half those calories out in an hour. That's how it works, right?
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Mine says "Hi, you're reached Haus, the year is 2025... you should know how to text me if you need me."