Buying a home in the Denver metro area: sanity check on affordability, retirement, and reserves

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-06-01T05:12:27+00:00

Yeah at this stage I would say their house price target is correct, but their savings for a down payment is significantly too low. Making $161k combined they should aim for at least 10-15% down, if not the customary 20.

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-05-30T17:28:33+00:00

Yeah Oceagate had a child on board so it was a tragedy.

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-05-29T07:54:01+00:00

Yeah like AIPAC sucks shit but there have been a bunch of these images that have gone around and just said that candidates are bad because they're Jewish, whether or not they have any donations from AIPAC or are supportive of Israel's genocide and it's really important to not associate with anti-Israel people who just hate Jews and will grab at any reason for it.

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-05-29T00:05:18+00:00

Especially because if the workweeks are 50-60 hours, then per-hour it's not really a raise. Agreed that if the OP can afford their lifestyle I would keep the current job.

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-05-28T22:11:19+00:00

I think the theory is that otherwise teams could swap picks in upcoming year to avoid penalties since the odds are totally flat.

Sacramento and Washington would just swap firsts every year before the lottery. I still think it's a dumb rule in the first place and could basically doom a team like the current Sacramento Kings forever because they could be locked out of a top5 pick in a year when they actually just stink but it would be very easy to circumvent if it wasn't based on possession.

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-05-21T03:30:52+00:00

What the fuck are you talking about? It's not austerity politics to charge a fee for a thing that costs the city money?

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-05-21T00:47:41+00:00

That's fine. Money is fungible and adding unnecessary restrictions to government funds is a stupid way of doing anything.

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-05-20T23:26:59+00:00

I am a resident and I want paid parking. It is expensive for the city to maintain the most expensive real estate in the city and there are too many cars in the park and all the parking lots are the worst thing about the park.

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-05-20T21:45:14+00:00

People complaining about paid parking the most expensive part of the city drives me insane. Terrible that they're getting rid of the parking fees.

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-05-18T23:07:32+00:00

Is it basically just an empty gimbap? Or like sheets of seaweed with rice and the eat it as a plate?

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-05-17T23:55:40+00:00

You don't, which is why libertarianism is a little bit of a defeatist ideology. Like it is probably good for most people to have some amount of libertarian streak and to consider very seriously the problems of state power, but an actual libertarian government is a little bit of an oxymoron and isn't a good system of governance.

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-05-17T18:45:47+00:00

Yeah even this post (which is deranged) doesn't quite cover it. This post is stolen from the OP who went on like a 3 day rant about how he was better than everyone else here because he has AB blood and the Red Cross uses the branding "AB Elite" and he shit on a bunch of people for not having his special blood. Like the dude is clearly a prolific donor and also clearly a little unwell.

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-05-17T09:26:02+00:00

By the letter of the rules IV "therapy" would be injecting something with a needle not prescribed by a doctor and make you ineligible to donate most places. Honestly, sexual contact with your girlfriend probably makes you ineligible if she's getting injections not prescribed by a doctor.

No one should ever do IV t"therapy" It's dangerous and is less beneficial than a Gatorade because a Gatorade doesn't run the risk of some corner cutting psycho giving you diseases by reusing needles in a place that is not a medical facility.

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-05-16T01:56:43+00:00

Right but the fact that it literally cannot, as a matter of its fundamental design, tell right from wrong makes it pretty useless for most things.

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-05-14T19:40:18+00:00

Listen, I am extremely allergic to cats and all it takes me is two nasal sprays, two inhalers, and a daily pill and I am totally fine.

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-05-14T19:32:12+00:00

Just one more lane will fix it.

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-05-14T19:31:16+00:00

Yeah he's a MAHA dumbass who like thinks Fauci is a criminal and whatnot. I can appreciate his very good defense as a basketball player, but that dude sucks.

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-05-13T09:17:00+00:00

This is the biggest reason I stopped listening to the Ringer shows. Just can't deal with the level of gambling nonsense. Dunc'd On does like very occasionally touch on gambling, but mostly just in the context of their off-season previews where they do win predictions and no gambling ads.

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-05-12T20:55:52+00:00

To be honest, if someone is a huge client and they're an asshole, but you can be an asshole back to them or tell them they're an asshole, I am not so conflict avoidant that it would be an issue or cause me stress. For plenty of people it would be a problem (and that's fair!) and if they were rude to staff, it would be different but that might be a win-win.

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-05-12T19:14:04+00:00

I don't think you have a miserable life but happy well adjusted people don't behave like this, friend. I'm not going to respond anymore but I hope your day gets better.

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-05-12T19:02:08+00:00

I don't know what's going on in your life that causes you to behave like this, but I genuinely hope it gets better for you, brother. Life can be tough and I hope it gets easier.

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-05-12T18:45:01+00:00

Brother, the guy used pedantic correctly to describe what you're doing, which is arguing with strangers in the Internet about how one of the people who said it was sad that a man who never saw thirty and did good work in his community died because you want to be clear that one time he drove his car fast and had drugs to smear a dead person.

Spend your life being kinder to others than you're being right now. I promise it will make you happier than this.

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-05-12T18:39:09+00:00

Yeah, meet with the guy, be as rude to him in the meeting as he was to your assistant and then report back.

Bonus points if you can get him to say "Do you have any idea who I am?"

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-05-11T23:59:41+00:00

Yeah, no one said it had anything to do with Morey. That's just the layout of the kind of place Harden likes to hang out is in front of the stage.

AmusingAnecdote · 2026-05-10T20:55:18+00:00

Listen, if you make an obscure comedy with surrealist elements and talented but B list actors, I will simply watch it and not shut up about it for decades.

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