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Yeah, I started at 3/6 months which was what my grandfathers yardstick for such things was. Right now my cash equivalents is hovering around 15 months. If I also consider my "play fund" of crypto that bolsters it up to around 22-24 months. Which I could squeeze further by tightening spending...

Thing I've been pondering.... My grandfather raised me always believing in having a cash pool accessible. In his world, being post-depression era, that meant literally stashed cash. In my world that has been some cash on hand, but mostly cash in easily accessible places like interest earning...

They announced these layoffs, while simultaneously announcing that they're going to be hiring 250k in temp workers over the holidays. So I would bet these 30k are in perm corporate positions not the ephemeral and flexible world of their actual distribution employees. But it's another 30k in...

Seen in my driving today... And next door?

I'm starting to look more and more at that. My current gig is one where I get enough time during the "work week" to do other things, while it still being a full time gig. But more than just "stop working" I think retirement for me is going to look like "Doing something I want to do without...

BREAKING NEWS! Funny to me since I know folks who work at Gamestop corporate.

When I'm explaining it to people (who are usually younger, so "cost of a house" is wholly alien to them). I use cost of a burger combo. Which is a fancy way to get around to the Big Mac Index. https://inflationchart.com/bigmac-in-minwage/?show_divided_by=0

My standing theory is... If I'm parking somewhere that when leaving I will want to load shit into the trunk (Groceries, Home Depot, whatever) then I pull forward in. Otherwise I back in. At home both cars are backed into the garage (detached 2 car) because the way our driveway winds around the...

The new Druid tier set looks like crap, did someone slash the polygon budget again?

Yeah, but they could take him off the overarching helm of the whole cinematic thing and instead just have him work specific projects. In my perfect world he would be in charge of a Justice League movie and could mold the whole thing in his style off the late 80's/90's era JL and I bet it would...

Seriously? F all that. I can put a better filter inline before the fridge anyways. About to redo the under sink filter anyways.... AND..... one google search later : https://www.groovypost.com/howto/hack-rwpfe-water-filters-ge-fridge/ Only drawback is that you can then use generic filters...

A surprising number of the side by side options I'm seeing now are opting for a lower capacity ice maker, but it's built into the door so it doesn't "take up" a shelf in the freezer... Which is kinda nice. I don't know if I can put it off a month. But we'll see. Some local places are having...

I love that guys videos and have literally already been watching that one since yesterday afternoon. Went to the Best Buy Outlet near my house today to do some look and see, found a few which line up to his lists. Originally I was thinking we'd go from split sides to French Door, but watching...

So yeah... Apparently I am fated to become the fridge person around here. Today I notice that my usual morning beverage in the morning (Coke Zero over ice) wasn't producing as much foam/fizz as usual. I check the ice dispenser and the ice is coming out slightly wet. Apparently during the...

Could be irrational exuberance, could be the world realizing Trump isn't going to pull the trigger on 155% tariffs on China because of.. .well... Advanced TACO theory. Stranger thing I'm trying to find the explanation for is how stocks are banging up against all time highs and gold is still...

I think they need to treat the "multiverse" the way comics have always treated other comics in the past (and when I say past I mean pre-Crisis in the comics. It's other stuff going on. And then very rarely you'd have a cameo "team up" between two characters. Somewhere around Crisis on...

I still find this talk about this e-girl entertaining, as the only thing I watch Twitch for is a twice weekly nighttime "just chatting" stream from three guys, all over 50 I believe. And the closest to "gaming content" they ever get is that they wrap each show with a Marbles On Stream game.

Any time you're having sex, you're paying for it. The only question is how explicitly you're paying for it.

Overindulgent Hobby Update! I tweaked a couple things. Added a retired handheld massager (previously used for calf cramping, but the massage head kinda broke) to the side of the Vac chamber. Now that vibrates things as they're being vacuumed which seemed to cause a LOT of of frothy bubbles...

OK. Now on current rebirth... I have thought about it, the "end game" here is diamond accumulation. But it is put behind the same exponential curve of "credits cost you more the more credits/diamonds you have" which means it has a soft cap which end up feeling pretty hard. Essentially when I...

No worries, I let autocorrect and speech to text do a lot of lifting and that shit happen. I consider my typing and posting to be a "performance art". ;)

I did that a few times, then just started the "put things in the cart barcode up" and the one scanning stop went a lot faster. That system breaks down though if you have a lot of things in the cart to the point you have to stack stuff up. But also I got the Sam's plus thing and get free...

The thing at Sam's is good, but not perfect yet. It scans your basket, then correlates that to either a recent register or recent scan and go purchase for accuracy. It will still ping you for a check from a person if it sees things in your cart it can't identify, or aren't on your receipt...

This also ties into the fact that recently Walmart announced that they planned on meeting their growth goals for the next 5 years without a net increase in employee count due to leveraging AI, automation, etc....

I will say that depending on what you're looking for there's some very passable AI music out there. I have been listening to a thing called "NuvoLuxe" as my "background/wallpaper" music for a while since they do a lot of AI style stuff in genres I enjoy. (They have a multi volume set that's...

.,.. when you start thinking about stuff you really want to happen after you die. Or as I think I might have previously mentioned have some dark dressed mysterious woman show up at the viewing throw salt all over your corpse and coffin and scream "AND THIS TIME YOU'LL STAY DEAD" then leave...

Well I found the "Put a small bet on this and forget about it" stock on my list which is actually benefitting from this latest game of brinksmanship by China and the US. This is in my "fun and games gambling" side portfolio. I put around a car payment on it back when it was around $.60...

As mentioned my belief is that they're going to partner with hardware manufacturers (like with the Asus ROG Ally) and eventually that means one will essentially design a PC that just has an XBOX official "shell" on it and skin for Windows 11 that makes it feel like a dedicated gaming platform...

Watching how the GamePass nonsense is heading and all else with MS the wife decided she wanted "A good console with a lot of games that we don't have to be online or pay a sub for". To that end.... I dropped off our ancient Xbox 360 with a dude today to mod/unlock it and pimp it out. It will...

Yeah, the "black magic box" is called a Maestro box. I was suspect of it and if I really needed it, but seeing what it's delivering I'm definitely flipped on that opinion. This was the first year for this iteration of the Escape and they had the standard trims which we got one of, and the...

Yeah, I've already ordered a paintless dent pulling kit (the glue gun and puller style) and it looks pretty basic to do. That's one ding she has on her drivers door. As mentioned I have all the gear already to do cut, buff, and polish for any surface scratching. The more complicated part is...

@Hekotat If you find a good one let me know as well... This relates to this weeks decision on the part of @Mrs. Haus . The only actual new car I've ever purchased was the 2013 Ford Escape which is her daily driver. It's coming up on 13 years old now. I had fully accepted that it was time to...

What I'm wondering how is how Palantir isn't (visibly) on the chart. I can't imagine they don't also have a massive dutch rudder going on with the rest of the AI chip crowd.

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I wasn't. I meant in the way the person behind that film really intended it to be a sharp and witty criticism of what they saw as "fascist statism" and it became a cult classic for "Bugs attacked us and we kicked bug ass, plus Doogie Howser is a freakin PSYCHIC!". Hell, the book was the first...

I haven't watched season 2, and honestly have no intention to at this point. But I wonder to what degree it might end up being James Gunn's version of Starship Troopers where we was angling to teach one message, but a lot of people just gravitate to "So THAT is all we have to do to have a utopia?"

I also had the one on the left forever, and have now upgraded to the one on the right. I have never in my personal historical experience known of ANYTHING good coming from "filling out a post treatment survey", as every time all it seems to be is the insurance company looking for a reason to...