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The dollar is backed by the "full faith and credit" of the US government. A government who, if I read correctly, will be at the point of it's debt being 200% the size of it's GDP before the end of next year. That is like someone making $100k a year and having $200k in credit card debt. But...

Not that Ms Woody here isn't a little ball of bank material and all but.... When did a chick with one tiny spot of ink and pierced nips qualify for SG? Have they wandered that far off brand? Unrelated:

I think it's more that some people are starting to realize that at some point the "your money is based on nothing besides you saying your money is valuable" rooster will come home to roost. Now his idea of backing USD with BTC has so many issues as to be preposterous, even to those of us who...

I have lived this cycle and living it a third time right now. Had to live through and help with my grandfather slipping away in the late 90's. Then my grandmother around 2010. Now my mom is showing the signs and very probably going to have to either come live with me, or move into an assisted...

I believe the official term for what you have there is a "She Shed"... I took the opposite approach. I cobbled together an adapter for my shop vac. Now twice a year I just vacuum out anything, then pour half a cup of bleach down the condensate line for good measure and call it a day.

Ah yes.. the Certification dance. This year I had pop up on my yearly "goal requirements" going to get three certifications, one which was essentially my exact job, then certifications on the two biggest products we sell. They are also essentially over glorified vocabulary and memorization...

I'm gonna have to say "can confirm" on this one... Unrelated :

I'm ashamed of how long I stared at that with my mind trying to assemble whatever secret message the red letters must obviously spell out... Unrelated :

This was a big part of what led to us paying a color consultant. heh I will also step in to defend Ryobi tools. I'm a DIY/hobbiest builder and the Ryobi tools have been damn solid for me. @Mrs. Haus got me one of the older 8 port chargers and it died... well.. it died after around 11 years of...

When it is the heat of the day on the hottest day of the year and an electrical Transformer in your alley decides to explode and take out power for 4 hours

My money is on one of two scenarios... Base level flippers, who will do basic renovation/remodel. And turn around and hopefully sell for a profit. You'll know because it will be sold.. then fixed up, then back on the market within 6 months at a jacked up price. Large companies that are...

"This group has a lot of troublemakers in it, and we're here to get to the bottom of it.... And while we're at it.. let's investigate the new retarded kid in the class too!"

Yeah, this is still the biggest hurdle I run into. Effective and easy fiat on/off ramps. Until that's in play it will be a severe limiter to things involving crypto becoming anything serious in terms of a cash alternative.

I think there needs to be somewhere I can get a "Creepy Nadjia doll". Drop in a mildly modified version of Alexa/ChatGPT and hilarity ensues.

The darker tone is "Mega Greige" - Sherman Williams number SW 7031 The lighter is "Agreeable Gray" - SW 7029 The door is "Newburyport blue" - Benjamin Moore color HC-155 - Also denoted on the list here with "603/15.996/244.260" Neither of the other swatches I have have the three number notation...

I thought about that, but for whatever reason, I just can't stomach the number of "all white painted brick houses" I see from the flippers in my neighborhood. It's like you can identify the flipper houses that way. heh The white just doesn't work for me.

IIRC she spent the night with him, and then had him drop her off at her parents house the next day (guess it was lucky her family was local)

Pretty sure the dog was trying to warn me of the dangers of this particluar unfaithful hussy's crotch. When I saw the car of the guy she went off with pull up, I stepped onto the patio and yelled "Better tell him not to leave yet, you're going to need a ride somewhere". She lost it bawling...

I have found a certain special guideline for life. Realize what you're good at, and realize what you're not good at. And don't be too proud to pay someone who is good at something you're not. I have a general idea and rough eye for colors, but I know I'm no specialist in it. This woman was...

So.... Getting ready to paint Chez Haus... Paid a color consultant to come out and advise as I had no idea what to do with literal pink brick that has gray mortar. Part of me was ready to bite the bullet and get the brick painted ($$$), but she suggested this color scheme which is somewhat in...

In my life I have cohabitated three times... First time - 6' Redhead, wild in the sack and we got along well. Eventually she just couldn't apparently handle dating a guy shorter than her. She moved out. This was in an apartment. Second time - Lived with this girl for 6 months, sex was good...

Let's see.. @Mrs. Haus and I actually met on an online dating site, which "back in the day" was not nearly as common as it is now, to the point I wasn't initially adverse to coming up with some non-online explanation for how we met, heh. We'll be married 20 year next May, so literally around...

No but large ingest data tables for hashing/cracking/AI training aren't going to easily download themselves. And I don't plan on hauling 16TB of hard drives to and from Vegas every year for DefCon. ;)

Here's a protip.... In the mid-late 80's is essentially when all the soda manufacturers switches from Sugar to HFCS (For Diabetes and all the endocrinological disorders listed there...) Since eating sugar triggers the use of enzymes in your system which tell you when you're full, and HFCS...

With what I do for a living (Cybersecurity work), I could actually put around 4gig to solid use. WHen I get the place away from town I am probably going to convert this house into a rental. Wondering what the logistics to having it be rented with "Free internet and wifi" so that I could keep a...

I bask in 2G here )with a 5 static IP package.. of course. I hear 5g is hitting later this year.... Getting fiber though is a huge longshot in rural Texas right now, so when I escape the city it will probably be to slum it like a beggar on Starlink.

As mentioned the main use we have for this is ground beef. From time to time I can get a great deal somewhere I will buy a LOT of it. Usually in normal packs. Then we divide into around 1lb portions (since with just two of us, thawing/cooking 1lb at a time is around the right amount). Put...

Yeah, you can lay them flat, or even stand them on end like you were putting plates in a dishwasher....

We have some like that around here already. (We have accumulated so many different "reusuable" bags it's kinda crazy). I think I'm going to give either this or cardboard partitions a try. That way I have a "beef stack", and a "chicken stack", and then stack the pre-packaged meats (like...

That tidbit about the labor participation rate makes complete sense to me. Full disclosure, I turned 54 yesterday so I'm at the upper edge of that "prime" bracket. I know a lot of people in my age range and a little older who essentially got nudged into retirement during Covid. Companies had...

I'm torn on this one.... I am a cyberhistory buff, and things around the Manhattan project are massive in the world of how all the technology we use and work with today is how it is, so I am definitely compelled by the subject matter. But 3 hours.... damn....

OK, so this isn't a true "Prepper" question, or maybe it is... But this seems to be the best place to drop it. Deep Freezer Inventory Management So, we have a chest freezer here which we use for storing meat. We also have a second fridge which we store some things in (mostly bread and such...

It's the 8th of July... your birthday. You have a great lunch with family, your bestie sends you birthday cupcakes that spell out "You're my boy, Blue!", you finally have your car back from getting hail damage repaired, the construction project on your house is finally done except for just...

As opposed to my mother who seems to have her one rating scale being "How good are their chicken and dumplings"

We live on different ends of a spectrum. I have asked my mother where she wanted to go on mother's day. Literally, anywhere she could want to eat at. Her answer?

I did pellet therapy for years. In my early 40's I had a test done and I had an insanely low number (like 124 or so). I did pellets for around a decade, they said the only notable potential real side effect risk was reduced fertility. Since I know I'm shooting blanks effectively that didn't...

I think it's under the concept that demand for commodities precedes demand for product. Since you would need commodities to manufacture goods. If commodity prices are down, that means demand is down, that means producers are anticipating lower demand for finished goods. So a downturn in...