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Better hold on to your points filled hats lads.... There's a bill in congress to open up payment network access so that Visa and MC no longer have a duopoly in the space, and if you listen to the Visa/MC backed astroturfing sites this would mean DOOM for points rewards (which they pay for with...

Driving to run an errand today and pick up a screw in the back driver's side tire of the wife's car..... pull into a gas station, slightly overfill it with air to make it to a place to get the flat fixed (middle of the tread, so repairable). Takes 3 hours for the place to get it fixed. Can't...

I have one doctorate. It's good enough, so I can whip out the "that's DOCTOR to you..." card when i'm sufficiently drunk. On the catastrophe of the day front. Calling the AC folks since today my AC started doing this trick of running for 5-10 minutes they apparently resetting, waiting a few...

I can confirm most of this.. I love Sharkbite fittings and have used them in several applications in both my house and my mothers. There's also an offbrand I think called Gatorbite which seems to be identical. Makes plumbing so much easier as I hate brazing shit.

I'm testing the waters at Texas Capital Bank, if you're a Texan you can park cash there for 4.88% (effectively 5% with daily compounding).

So using this, feeding it my linkedin pic, and giving it the prompt "This man as Santa Claus"... I get this... Apparently I am the three headed Santa which guards the gate to the North Pole.

Me telling people about music I liked in high school today is the same time dilation as when I was in high school and people told me about remembering the INVENTION OF ROCK AND ROLL.

I'll just kick off my contribution for this one from the Parent derail over in Politics... ;) Copypasta powers.. ACTIVATE! Pre-warning : Incoming Haus Wall Of Text Rant time... I think it extends beyond just the attitude many younger people take towards their elders, but we can start there...

No nudity, and this early in the anime/manga there weren't a ton of hot chicks outside Nami (already shown in this thread). IMHO, Hot chick crewmate will happen when they pick up the character named Nico Robin. Although even with no nudity, there's enough death, and even enough blood that...

Honestly, no. I have sporadically read some of the manga, and sporadically watched some episodes (while my wife was in her obsessive phase over it) and I could have followed the show without even that. Things you need to be ready for : It's unapolegetic about being based on an Anime...

It's OK.. they have a plan... https://babylonbee.com/news/auto-ceos-struggling-with-whether-to-replace-striking-workers-with-robots-or-mexicans

I'm in pretty much the same boat. Around $55k left on the house, been here for 20 years (also did a refi, but for me it was a 3% lock-in). House is already worth 3x what I paid, will probably be 4x before I sell it. Plan on buying land outside town and building there, then move there and rent...

I dunno.. I was thinking more it was the CHOPPER HAT WITH ANTLERS...

#NotAllHeroesWearCapes

He'll cast his GF/Wife as Power Girl then lecture you for not appreciating the Itty Bitty Titty Comittee.

Just finished watching this. Did the whole thing in two nights here at chez Haus. Even with her temperment towards anything touching what is probably her favorite manga of all time the best @Mrs. Haus could nit pick was "Well.. why does so and so have that accent? it makes no sense". And that...

TBH it feels pretty sturdy. Once assembled and all the bolts tightened well I was able to pick it up as one piece and move it without it wobbling and whatnot.... Now I will tell you more once the cat shows any interest at all in it. So far he's only interested if he sees me drop treats on it...

So.... We get new living room furniture. We now have a space in a corner. @Mrs. Haus and I decide to put in a "cat tree" for the cat... See one on serious sale on amazon : It arrives in a surprisingly small box for something that large. Requires assembly. Took me around 30 minutes while...

My take on the Uranium market is that in general until we have one of those "evolutionary leaps" in photovoltaic solar the one really viable energy solution long term is still going to end up being nuclear. As such URNM seems to make a good general bet on that market. Looking over the longer...

So now my question is how far do I play chicken with a hyperbolic curve.... I've been accumulating bits at a time, DCA on it is around $32. Originally in my "Things I plan on holding long term" bucket, but that curve is making me debate some profit taking.

At least that looks like solid copper ;) Yeah, I have run flats and no spare as well....

Yeah, and this is after a $13k hail damage bill from a freak storm in April. My insurance is going to go through the roof. heh

In my case I had options.... once it was airborne and heading for me. Swerve left to avoid... Hit concrete barrier. Swerve right into car in the lane beside me. Tank the damage...

And the tales of woe for my car this year continue.... Driving home from San Antonio to Dallas last week... A pick up in front of me runs over and flings the remains of an 18 wheeler blown out tire into the air and across the front of my beautiful CTS-v sport. Grille emblem.. gone. Three or...

"Today on "This old Undercover CIA Monitoring Station" we're gonna convert this old monitor and camera display wall into a poppin new entertainment center!" Unrelated :

OK, so after forgetting how much I wanted one I'm getting ready to finally pick up a pellet grill (I want an "easy bake oven" for here in town, when I buy/build the country place I'm going to build a traditional coal/wood smoker) Trick request is that I want something which can also get to temp...

Starting to stock up content for my next yearly review...

You mention "investing if renting" but one of the key points is that in many cases the cost of home ownership, even with maintenance, taxes, and the rest, ends up lower than renting if you're looking at a window more than a couple years. As rent inflation goes up by inflation, but also...

This would apply if you were investing in multiple houses. But in terms of owning a home... You're going to be sinking money every month into either rent or a mortgage, so you have a sunk cost either way. With one of those you build equity and stand to make some money on selling it, with the...

You don't need 20 years around the same location. The rate at which my house has accrued value over time made it such that I could have sold for a profit within the first 5 years of owning it, probably less. It's more along the lines of "Can you commit to living in an area for 2-5 years?"...

Even with taxes, I'm still below an average 1 bedroom apt in Dallas right now.

Even without appreciation.... When you buy a house with a mortgage you're buying it in "today dollars", which then inflate, but your mortgage payment doesn't (unless you are an idiot and sign an ARM) outside insurance and tax increases. When I bought my house my mortgage payment wasn't that...

But somehow the Eagles will still win the division, forcing them to go in on the wild card.... But that game tonight...

So I was pretty happy with the HD Homerun box. Here in Dallas, getting around 75 channels. But I was getting artifacts and issues on a couple. Upgraded to this antenna over the weekend, now 93 channels.... Only drawback was the app not working with my phone.... Now watching SNF and...

PRE-WARNING : There are TWO versions of the anime. The American released version which was modified a good bit (called the 4Kidz release), and the OG Japanese release (where you'd have to be into subtitles to follow it, and will probably end up following the One Piece core theme in how you...

Which they can do just as well with it about 5-6' towards the camera in that shot and let the person using the kitchen not get pissed at them. ;)

Looking at this I will admit that at first glance I thought 'Hey, that dude left his rolling workbench/toolbox in the kitchen"... But upon further thought, that's NOT a large kitchen. I'll be willing to bet at some point the counter with the sink in it had a peninsula extending out from the...

Maybe not, but every year as I eat the peaches I prefer I take the pits from them and have been throwing them in dirt. Each year this seems to result in around 6-10 peach saplings. I've been accumulating them in planting containers in my back yard right now. So at some point this year I need...

A note should be that unless they changed it Moen are lifetime gaurantee, so you can sometimes contact them for a warranty replacement cartridge for it. I've actually done that for my wife's shower before.