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- Thu May 09, 2024 1:50 pm
- Forum: Resources & Recommended Reading
- Topic: NYT article on fatFIRE
- Replies: 12
- Views: 955
Re: NYT article on fatFIRE
Thanks for posting. I enjoyed the article.
- Thu May 09, 2024 11:15 am
- Forum: Friends, Family, Relationships, and Community Questions
- Topic: What do you do for work?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 805
Re: What do you do for work?
I’ve had difficulties with this question since I retired in 2012. I guess it is a class probe. I have said a number of things and they’ve had different results. Early on - “unemployed.” Some people became genuinely worried about me. Then my dad felt it necessary to say I was sick and disabled. “Reti...
- Tue May 07, 2024 10:04 pm
- Forum: Work & Education
- Topic: Physics experiments for 4-8 yo
- Replies: 12
- Views: 563
Re: Physics experiments for 4-8 yo
Slinky is good to visualize longitudinal wave vs. transverse waves. Standing waves. I built a switch with optical isolation today using a semiconductor relay that uses an LED and a photo transistor inside. Galvanic isolation. Kind of an interesting concept if you want to switch loads at differing el...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 12:26 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: surprised by change and upredictability
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3829
Re: surprised by change and upredictability
As of 2024, Tesla Full Self Driving is still a lie. It's still not certified as an autonomous vehicle, because it's still not safe. So, the so called FSD is still just a glorified driver assist tool. As far as I know, the only car on the market with actual (but very limited) FSD is Mercedes, where ...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 8:47 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: surprised by change and upredictability
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3829
Re: surprised by change and upredictability
(Robotics? No, it's not even happening now (need to see a generalized robot folding laundry and taking the kids to school, not one doing dance moves), so 2050 is not far enough into the future. Don’t want to disrupt the lively discussion but this jumped out at me. This is changing so fast right now...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:55 am
- Forum: Transportation Questions
- Topic: Are we in a vehicle bubble?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 892
Re: Are we in a vehicle bubble?
With "write off" do you mean tax advantages? As far as I know, tax advantages allow you to buy more car per dollar, but it still takes more dollars to buy a more expensive car. Yes. There’s something called section 179 equipment deduction in the US for small businesses. I guess if you’re ...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:11 pm
- Forum: Transportation Questions
- Topic: Are we in a vehicle bubble?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 892
Re: Are we in a vehicle bubble?
We will see how long this lasts. I’ve been shocked at the average price of newly purchased cars. In prior years it was driven by low interest rates but not anymore. Now it looks like big truck and SUV purchases are being used for business write offs. That’s what my neighbors seem to be doing. $80,00...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 10:39 am
- Forum: Transportation Questions
- Topic: What is a good learner car? (as in learning to fix and maintain yourself)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2167
Re: What is a good learner car? (as in learning to fix and maintain yourself)
Yeah I hear Washington state has no smog check. My friends there drive their beat up cars around with Check Engine lights lit. Some friends in LA register their custom cars there to evade emissions requirements. IIRC They have some kind of crazy system where they take the car to WA and get tags, the...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:29 am
- Forum: Transportation Questions
- Topic: What is a good learner car? (as in learning to fix and maintain yourself)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2167
Re: What is a good learner car? (as in learning to fix and maintain yourself)
The Prius gen2 looks like a very robust car. The failure modes are well understood and manageable. They are getting old and you have to look hard to find ones that aren’t consumed. The catalyst issue is interesting. I think that it is not as hot now since the price of the catalytic metals has plumme...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:04 am
- Forum: Transportation Questions
- Topic: What is a good learner car? (as in learning to fix and maintain yourself)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2167
Re: What is a good learner car? (as in learning to fix and maintain yourself)
Those are good vehicles but there are some years in there that have issues. Some of the 4 cyl Toyotas have oil consumption problems that can rear their ugly heads as used cars. The early 2000s civics have a few years with poorly designed head gaskets that blow. A few years of F150s have poorly desig...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:42 am
- Forum: Transportation Questions
- Topic: What is a good learner car? (as in learning to fix and maintain yourself)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2167
Re: What is a good learner car? (as in learning to fix and maintain yoursel
Huh, I got stuck in a family reunion all weekend and missed all the fun here. Great tips here. I do not recommend my diesel Mercedes cars here ever. They are a hobby that fits me quite well. The fixes I sometimes show demonstrate repairs that can be done at home to save money on any car though. That...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:32 am
- Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Fixit Log
- Replies: 805
- Views: 215373
Re: Fixit Log
Missed a few days. Glad you solved the car issues. I had terminal on my Accord corrode badly a few years ago. I bought one of the clamp on ends from the auto parts store and fixed it. The thing to understand about starting is the currents are so high that it doesn’t take much resistance on a bad con...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 8:27 pm
- Forum: Friends, Family, Relationships, and Community Questions
- Topic: Mommy, my sister is teasing me!
- Replies: 56
- Views: 23516
Re: Mommy, my sister is teasing me!
Exit tax is a really cool concept. I’ve never looked at things this way but somebody recently explained the concept to me. Made a lot of sense. You can get out of all kinds of things if you’re willing to pay a one time penalty fee. The latest chapter of this story is my sister retired. Dad passed a ...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:07 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Building a better world - Cam's Journal
- Replies: 193
- Views: 36980
Re: Building a better world - Cam's Journal
Always fun to read your updates. Man if I had Vevor when I was young. I just bought a Vevor AC hose crimper a few months ago on Aliexpress. Outstanding tool for $60.
Good to hear the log covid isn’t a permanent thing.
Good to hear the log covid isn’t a permanent thing.
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:28 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Sex Work, Erotic Capital, and ERE
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1641
Re: Sex Work, Erotic Capital, and ERE
Unfortunately, beyond my current semi-decrepit/chubby state of being, my own ability to make hay through "play" is seriously limited by my strong tendency towards also actually saying things such as @7w sounds like an excuse to me. If I wanted to try this I’d just put a price on it and se...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:31 am
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Sex Work, Erotic Capital, and ERE
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1641
Re: Sex Work, Erotic Capital, and ERE
This was the lady. I recall reading an interview she gave to the SJ Mercury while on lunch break…during the dot com bubble. The interview really got into the male vulnerability thing and how she played it.
The Dot.com Call Girl: A Silicon Valley Escort's Memoir Paperback – February 15, 2008
The Dot.com Call Girl: A Silicon Valley Escort's Memoir Paperback – February 15, 2008
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:05 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Sex Work, Erotic Capital, and ERE
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1641
Re: Sex Work, Erotic Capital, and ERE
I wasn’t being terribly clear about the sick part. I feel people are free to get off in any way they like as long as they aren’t hurting anyone. What I meant is the whole cycle. Berating your subordinates. Feeling guilty. Then finding a sex worker to beat you up so you feel better. How about just ap...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 7:11 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Sex Work, Erotic Capital, and ERE
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1641
Re: Sex Work, Erotic Capital, and ERE
@7w wow. That is an interesting story. Thanks for sharing. I’ll have to try to dig up the articles from the Silicon Valley call girl. My recollection was she was the other end of the spectrum of the dominance femme. She said things like these guys were just a bunch of emotional little boys inside an...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:44 am
- Forum: Health and Food Questions
- Topic: What doesn't kill you might make you dumber?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4666
Re: What doesn't kill you might make you dumber?
Also the fact that a lot of high IQ folk tend towards being drop-outs. For instance, one of my uncles was a typical highly radical1960s drop-out. He was part of one of the more dangerous anti- Vietnam War groups organized around a major university. Ugh. Reminds me of stories of the Weathermen. Kind...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:19 am
- Forum: Health and Food Questions
- Topic: What doesn't kill you might make you dumber?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4666
Re: What doesn't kill you might make you dumber?
Estimates of annual loses due to long COVID in the US is in the USD250B/yr range. (About 1% of GDP). That's people who are out of the labor force either full time or part time. This is data. But it’s all muddied up. For example an employer could have used the pandemic to clean house and mid career ...