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  1. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    F U even more for bringing your ugly friend pink lady!
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    Yeah.... When I landed in my current gig and realized I was going to stay more than 2 years I finally rolled all my old zombie 401ks into it. Was embarrassed afterwards for having put it off so long when it was really stupid easy to do... As for S&P500 performance. For me it was the...
  3. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    This is where I'm at right now... Arena 336 , and the land of... F U PINK LADY!!!!! At this point I'm stacking ranks in Wizard after one rank in Zap Power. I've kill her around 50% of the time I see her now. Plan on letting it run overnight to see if I can afford Necromancer in the morning.
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    I still play WoW passively when I need an "unwind my brain" break. Haven't been an active raider in over a decade. But I somehow still enjoy playing the auction house like it was my personal minigame. @Mrs. Haus and I still duo for farm for mounts occasionally on the weekends. She is the one...
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    Another thing to remember is that there are probably people reading this thread who aren't actively posting in it. And I can see why. If you're behind the curve on retirement (which I will fully admit I was until I landed a job in sales around 10 years ago that was good enough to help me catch...
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    I'll admit he has some points. There is probably some internet braggadocio going on in the numbers being thrown around, there's probably also some real case studies. The reason I create this here instead of the investing thread was that I was figuring on hopefully having the best shot at the...
  7. Haus

    Idle Earl, home-made

    Just dropped in to say.... F U Crow....
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    Job Hunting

    I'd estimate half. Dead internet theory currently has the number that around half of interactions are bots.
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    We here at Chez Haus are a house divided on this front. I seem to do better and stay more with a plan when I have a "place to go to work out". Traditionally this has been a gym, and for a while Orange Theory. @Mrs. Haus does best at her plans when she had the gear here at the house. To...
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    I have to agree with this in that he's a guy who's focused, as you mentioned, on getting the financially illiterate out of the debt slave hole. To which his plans and advice work towards that goal. Yeah, if you've reached a good level of financial literacy then you probably moved into/past...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    There are already organizations doing a "faux" version of this. Where they issue you a "debit card" and each day whatever you charge a transaction sells some of your ETH and covers it. I assume you could do deposits the same way to build up ETH...
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    I've noticed this, but so far just on larger ticket situations and services. For instance, I am looking at a project I need to get done at my house (replacing the breaker panel) and all the electricians I have gotten quotes from so far have a 3% upcharge if you're using a CC. This was also...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Key note should be that ETH is far better positioned to move into the mythical position of "usable for everyday transaction" thanks for it's speed and additional L2s on top of it.
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    This is great so long as you pay the whole balance in full before interest charges hit, and don't have some stupid annual fee on the card. It's a game system you can beat with diligence. I thoroughly enjoy the fact that with the amount of crap I buy off Amazon I get 5% back using an Amazon...
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    This, I believe, breaches into one of the areas of "things have changed and older people just don't grasp how". One example? I remember when I was a kid, one of the reasons my grandfather bought me the first "pc" we had at the house (an Apple ][e) was to be able to help him track his assets...
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    This is an area I have one concern. I know Alzheimer's is the demon that hunts my family. Every grandparent I have had was suffering from it or another variant of age related dementia when they passed. I also know looking at the ages of deaths around what I estimate my genetic clock will tick...
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    I am one of those who believes in keeping a 6 month emergency fund when you can. But I agree with you that you don't keep it in cash. At minimum keep it in an interest earning account (I have a flat out "savings" account with some cash in it making 4.2% APY right now) to buffer against...
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    Take his car. He needs a few discreet object lessons, IMHO. heh
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    It's possible, if you're diligent and save. When my wife and I were in our late 30's I also didn't have much in my 401k. (less than what you have, we had some things happen which made me take a payout which was stupid and heavily taxes/penalized). You'll have to buckle down into a recovery...
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    Home Improvement

    I have one of these loaded with water for "Cat behavior control"
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    I think a question I keep coming to in my head regarding the AI Bubble (which I definitely believe is a bubble). Is when it pops will it be just the traditional "Now these things price correct back to where they should be, and the hype train heads to another station", or will it only pop after...
  22. Haus

    Investing General Discussion

    I'm certainly not saying they shouldn't. Being a US company benefits them in many ways, and unlike some countries we won't arbitrarily nationalize them. I just find it one more step towards the "corporatocracy" dystopia model. At some point a large multinational will be big enough that it...
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    Investing General Discussion

    We are entering the stage where large corporations are being treated like vassal states that have to pay tribute to the empire....
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    Compared to @Mrs. Haus and I who own two cars grand total, both wholly paid off. One 2013, and one 2017. heh My idea of a extravagant expensive side project vehicle would be buying an older El Camino to restore/restomod.
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    Yeah, one whole driver in my "buy land and build a house away from Dallas" plan is escaping the insane property taxes in Dallas (even if you're homesteaded for the exemption)
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    Yeah, some of it, I think, has to do with letting lifestyle inflation creep in on you. You start making more money and there are things you associate with "well off" and you start doing those, and those cost more than the frugal means you'd been living with. Like when the guy who usually...
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    Investing General Discussion

    And it's not just "tech", you have to go into the top tech performers as there are a more than a couple of S&P tech stocks that when you take monetary devaluation into account are flat or negative for the last year.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Elderly Parents and Looking Out for Them

    My one surviving parent is living in the house I was raised in around 20 minutes from me. But this is already a consideration in some ways. My sister moved back to Texas to move in with her and take care of things at the house (I take care of maintaining the finances, money, mom is currently...
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    Job Hunting

    Well. Covid proved to a lot of employers that they could, in fact, have many of their jobs get done "from anywhere". Which now also means "done cheaper in Costa Rica or India". Then you add in that all the big companies for the last year and a half have been pushing people into training AI...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Health Problems

    His take on it (my cardiologist) was essentially... "This would be a great heart rate if you were a regular runner and in great shape.... we both know how much you weigh..." So it was something to watch. Never had Afib, although oddly my watch also checks for signs of that too. Only time...
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    Health Problems

    I have to watch things because my cardiologist is all kinds of cautious on me because my resting heart rate is around 52-55, and it dips to the low 40's when I sleep. It's why I wear a "smart watch". Been told if I ever see a number starting with a 3 we have to have a pacemaker talk.
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    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.
  36. Haus

    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...