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Do you honestly see yourself ever retiring and how?
  • Yes.

    By Planning.

    I didn't think it would work for the first 10 years. I just wanted to eat better cat food in retirement.

    Pursuing higher paid jobs when I can. Changing jobs periodically. Pursuing higher pay until the pay asked for my soul. Then stepped back, changed jobs, and make way more for less.

    Paying down debt when possible. Building up to a constant dollar figure of debit and investment per month. Growing that when I can. I now save 40%+ of my income.

    Keeping my spending low by prioritizing my time on free things. Prioritizing the money I spend on high pact purchases.

    Planning with 4% rule. Works out to needing 300 times your monthly spend in savings. Driving that number down. A $15 a month expense requires $4,500 invested to support.

    A great market runup.

    I am glad I did too. My friends are dying. One's 40's are rough.

  • How many Nintendo Switches do I need for a family of gamers?

    I don't understand the Nintendo Switch. How many do I need for a family of gamers?

    They are a personal device like a gameboy. There is a TV version for party games. The games may or may not be shareable, even with the physical games. Assume the ideal usage is during screen time on a weekend.

    I have been avoiding buying one as I don't understand them. Thinking of getting them soon.

    I assume one OLED for the family and then a portable per person, then one copy of each game per device.

    How is this affordable?

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    The Mighty Ducks

    "The Mighty Ducks" did a good job featuring Minnesota. "D2" did a shit job. Even called Minneapolis a "po dunk town". I think the writers had nit watched the first movies.

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    What are you supposed to do at a food truck festival?

    The lines are long. The food is expensive. Everyone in the group wants to eat something different. The food taste is a gamble. There are few places to eat.

    Does everyone stick together and wait in all of the lines? Split up and meet at some location? Eat on the way to the festival and just hang out?

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    What would a 3 hour work day be like?

    It often feels like there are only 3 productive hours in typical American white collar work day.

    What if we just cut out the rest?

    Edit: Some great responses. So responses must have also been said about the 5 day and 40 hour work weeks.

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    Religious Landscape Study
    www.pewresearch.org Religious Landscape Study

    Explore the geographic distribution and demographics of America's major religious groups.

    Religious Landscape Study

    In the USA, 3.1% claim Atheist, 4% Agnostic, and a total of 22.8% "Unaffiliated".

    In Minnesota, 3% claim to be Atheist, 4% Agnostic, with a total of 20% Unaffiliated.

    Posted as I often feel there are few Atheists in the USA. Turns out Atheists are under noticed.

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    What is "Toastify is awesome”?

    I keep getting a red banner saying “Toastify is awesome” when updating. What does it mean, and what should I do differently?

    3
    Question: How to Calculate Just Pay for Work

    How would one actually calculate the full "fruit of labor" in work that includes several people doing different tasks?

    How to calculate between people doing the same task producing physical items seems easy. Add in customer service, sales, and development, and it seems easier to focus on what other groups pay for those skills, which is not what I want.

    It also seems looking at the difference between having the role, and not. However some skills are mandatory, just less involved.

    Feel free to simplify, but different tasks is a must.

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    Anything I buy must be physical

    I don't like subscribing to nonphysical things. I can read a physical paper a month after it arrived. Digital is faster, but I tend to lose it before I have read it.

    I need a recipient in my pocket. Too often my virtual thing is lost, my device fails, or things reboot and I don't have my secure 24 digit password with me.

    I won't subscribe to a digital only anything. Physical and digital is nice.

    Edit: They don't even have to be identical. A digital daily with a monthly print would be nice.

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    Req.Incoming Email NOT my Focus? Client/Server

    Hello friends. Work email is crushing me. The ticketing systems, plural, email me on everyone's tucket. (Because some people only work tickets via email and others through the web interface.)

    Are there any email clients or servers that allow new email to land somewhere other than the inbox? Or allow my view to start elsewhere?

    I declare email bankruptcy daily....

    Send whiskey.

    Edit: I was unclear.

    I have filtering, but those all happen after the mail is in the Inbox. I get a quarter second of crazy emails and previews and things moving, then they are gone. (Outlook sucks.)

    I don't even want to see that shit. Not at all.

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    UnitedHealth Exploits an ‘Emergency’ It Created
    prospect.org UnitedHealth Exploits an ‘Emergency’ It Created

    The Change ransomware attack left an Oregon medical practice with an empty bank account, and only one quick way to fix it: sell to UnitedHealth.

    UnitedHealth Exploits an ‘Emergency’ It Created

    > Last Thursday, the medical colossus UnitedHealthcare applied for an emergency exemption that would fast-track its takeover of a medical practice in Corvallis, Oregon, in a letter warning regulators that the practice might close its doors if the merger were not approved right away.

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    UnitedHealth Exploits an ‘Emergency’ It Created
    prospect.org UnitedHealth Exploits an ‘Emergency’ It Created

    The Change ransomware attack left an Oregon medical practice with an empty bank account, and only one quick way to fix it: sell to UnitedHealth.

    UnitedHealth Exploits an ‘Emergency’ It Created
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    How to protect Intellectual Property from new employer

    Pretty sure I will be asking a lawyer, but I want to learn more words and concepts first.

    A possible new job wants to own any intellectual property I create and wants me to declare anything I want to keep as my own. This seems normal in my industry as they will be paying me to do some thinking.

    Issue is that I have a number of ideas I have been developing. I am going to float some of them as products in my own time, though this may be years from now. Most of these are outside the current market for the company as far as I know.

    How is this typically handled? I presume I don't need to have copyrights or trademarks prior and can just list tentative titles.

    I am also a little unclear on the spread between "intellectual property" and "an idea I am playing with".

    Thoughts? Concepts to investigate?

    Edit: I did Internet search this, but I have not found working keywords.

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    Bryson's America: Why would you walk?
    www.independent.co.uk Bryson's America: Why would you walk?

    I'LL TELL you this, but you'll have to promise that it will go no further. Not long after we moved here we had the people next door round for dinner and - I swear this is true - they drove.

    Article from 1999, referenced study likely from earlier.

    > The average American walks less than 75 miles a year - about 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.

    Thank you to @urlyman@mastodon.social for pointing this out.

    Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240218142310/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/bryson-s-america-why-would-you-walk-1079183.html

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    Mayor Jacob Frey quips that choosing remote work over office makes you a 'loser' (Minneapolis, MN, USA)

    > "I don't know if you saw this study the other day, but what this study clearly shows, is when people have the ability to come downtown to an office and don't, when they stay home, sitting on their couch with their nasty cat blanket diddling on their laptop ... if they do that for a few months, you become a loser! It's a study. We're not losers, are we?"

    16
    Non-computer standing furniture

    There is evidence that standing is better for the human body than sitting. For work we have standing desks for computer work and such. Some aim to stand 8+ hours a day.

    What about for other activities? How do the unemployed, retired, and homemarkers get in enough standing? Are there good ways to stand while reading a book, or sipping a coffee and enjoying the dawn?

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    What happened to the Batteriser?

    While looking for uses for old disposable AA batteries, I ran across the Batteriser from 2015. Clearly, it was a flop of some sort, as I am posting in 2024. What happened? Are there any iterations that do work?

    https://money.cnn.com/2015/06/02/technology/make-battery-last-longer-batteriser/index.html

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batteroo_Boost

    Also, are there any uses for old batteries?

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    Berkeley can't enforce natural gas ban, federal court rules again
    www.berkeleyside.org Berkeley can't enforce natural gas ban, federal court rules again

    A federal court rejected a rehearing of Berkeley's ban on new natural gas appliances, putting similar regulations in Oakland and elsewhere in doubt.

    Berkeley can't enforce natural gas ban, federal court rules again

    On Tuesday, Jan. 2, a federal appeals court declined to rehear the case of Berkeley’s ban on new natural gas hookups, which was struck down by a panel of judges in April 2023.

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    Pluralistic: The real AI fight (27 Nov 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

    > Last week's spectacular OpenAI soap-opera hijacked the attention of millions of normal, productive people and nonsensually crammed them full of the fine details of the debate between "Effective Altruism" (doomers) and "Effective Accelerationism" (AKA e/acc), a genuinely absurd debate that was allegedly at the center of the drama.

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    Chex Mix Pack Date?

    Does anyone know when Costco will be getting the boxes of Chex for making Chex mix? (Has the three varieties needed in one box.)

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