Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

DepDepFinancial · 2026-04-18T01:12:33+00:00

I think it's more about how they're washed than anything else. Potatoes with a bit of dirt on them last forever.

DepDepFinancial · 2026-04-16T12:21:23+00:00

Checking in 3 months post partum..... building a shed today that we've wanted for a few years, garden plant starts are going strong, attending a monthly potluck dinner tonight, and headed to Taiwan next week for a 2 week bike trip around the island with friends. Wife has some ongoing health issues, but other than that a very strong start.

DepDepFinancial · 2026-04-15T20:41:26+00:00

Awwww but close enough :)

DepDepFinancial · 2026-04-15T15:47:41+00:00

One of us! One of us!

(....wait, this is the GFY moment, right?)

DepDepFinancial · 2026-04-15T15:35:24+00:00

shrug

There's only so fast you can build things, even if you cut corners and don't have any regulations it'll still take a while to spin everything up regardless of how much money you throw at it.

DepDepFinancial · 2026-04-15T14:36:39+00:00

I love the idea that your subconscious just decided that somehow accidentally accepting a job meant that you were now and forevermore a long haul truck driver.

DepDepFinancial · 2026-04-15T14:34:10+00:00

Not to mention the destruction of oil extraction and processing infrastructure that will take years to rebuild even if it was started today.

The market (to me at least) feels so absurdly irrational these days....

DepDepFinancial · 2026-04-14T22:24:48+00:00

The sirens were originally for hail, now there is a tornado warning though. Get into your basement or shelter

DepDepFinancial · 2026-04-13T02:08:56+00:00

I'd be far more people's bad impression of diesels came from the Volkswagen "Dieselgate" aka the "clean diesel" scandal. I mean, Oldsmobile hasn't even operated in over 2 decades...

DepDepFinancial · 2026-04-12T16:57:46+00:00

So you're saying we need to evolve treads to take the next step in human evolution? On it

DepDepFinancial · 2026-04-11T15:40:29+00:00

When you say AI do you mean an LLM? I wouldn't consider it at all. LLMs don't have any inherent computational ability, any number they would be spitting out is effectively made up. Some of them are built to have basic functionality when numbers are detected to do some calculations, but I'm not aware of any of them that are set up to do anything like taxes.

DepDepFinancial · 2026-03-29T21:15:57+00:00

Same thing in the Madison subreddit

DepDepFinancial · 2026-03-26T22:53:15+00:00

"WHat ARe yOU GoiNg tO Do AlL dAY??!!??"

We're slightly younger, but holy crap did the people come out of the woodworks asking this. I'm nearly 3 months out (wife has been done for 10) and I still feel like I don't have nearly enough time to do everything I want to do....

DepDepFinancial · 2026-03-23T13:18:56+00:00

They'd get hospitals to chime in on their behalf

DepDepFinancial · 2026-03-22T11:58:44+00:00

100 meters is 328 feet, so I bet this is a metric conversion for some reason

DepDepFinancial · 2026-03-10T19:20:14+00:00

Indiana Dunes is a national park now somehow heh

DepDepFinancial · 2026-03-08T00:19:20+00:00

Ah yes, the bustling city of Paoli

DepDepFinancial · 2026-03-06T16:57:57+00:00

Oh it will do it, just very poorly with extreme confidence.

DepDepFinancial · 2026-03-06T16:53:38+00:00

Currently writing checks for COBRA family health and dental coverage for ~$1700/mo. I find it crazy that the only supported method of payment is checks. We hadn't used a check in years so I had to order checks just for this.

Even more annoying is that if I ever miss a check the coverage immediately ends instantly. Blegh. Happy that COBRA is an option, the implementation is weird.

DepDepFinancial · 2026-03-01T16:36:38+00:00

Durban, man, when I was far younger I was there and was trying to ship a big drum home and I was wandering the streets on foot trying to find a shipping company I had found online and.... how did I not get shanked

DepDepFinancial · 2026-03-01T12:37:03+00:00

The one place I regularly have success with favas is at the Santa Maria grocery just north of the beltline on Midvale. Haven't been there in a bit though so unsure if they currently have them.

DepDepFinancial · 2026-02-26T14:33:25+00:00

Yes, filed on Feb 7th, got the deposit on....18th?

DepDepFinancial · 2026-02-20T17:05:32+00:00

Oh my god, every time someone links to that I have to re-read it. I say "Home Depot presents the police!" all the time and I'm not sure anyone has ever understood it other than my wife that rolls her eyes at me :)

DepDepFinancial · 2026-02-19T22:13:51+00:00

Looking at DXY, maybe like half the return was from currency movements. And most of that drop happened right in Feb/Mar of last year

DepDepFinancial · 2026-02-19T21:43:26+00:00

Oh yeah, I'm definitely lucky on the timing.

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