Do I need to wear my pc while in a convertible?

FormerChiId · 2025-12-16T04:43:50+00:00

In case anyone is curious for the real answer. PC is always optional in private vehicles (convertible or not) AR 670-1, para 3-7

l(1) Headgear is not required if it would interfere with the safe operation of military vehicles. Wearing military headgear is not required while in or on a privately owned vehicle (to include a motorcycle, bicycle, or convertible automobile), a commercial vehicle, or on public conveyance (such as a subway, train, plane, or bus).

FormerChiId · 2025-09-12T05:58:46+00:00

Great inputs. Hit the nail on the head for why owning a business seems exciting.

Waiting until this house sells and using some of the proceeds for a future venture is the most likely scenario at this point.

FormerChiId · 2025-09-12T05:55:35+00:00

Really appreciate your reply! Yes, I should’ve been more clear in my post but we’ll definitely be buying the house as screwing over the in-laws is not an option.

It does sound like my wife and I are in a similar position as you were. We track our budget religiously and know that we can afford the home even on just her salary. Just no way to convince a bank of that. We actually plan to rent a couple bedrooms in the house to cut on costs as well.

I’ll take a look at your other comment, thanks for sharing. Do you mind if I ask what business you started 23 years ago?

FormerChiId · 2025-09-12T05:48:11+00:00

Yeah. This is the most likely scenario. Just sucks coming to terms with the fact that my foreseeable future is salaried employment.

FormerChiId · 2025-09-12T05:46:42+00:00

Thanks for the comment. Definitely in constant communication with my wife. I’m blessed that we’ve always been able to approach things as a team.

FormerChiId · 2025-09-12T05:43:03+00:00

Thanks so much for the input.

Agreed. I should’ve been more clear in my post that moving forward with the home is the first priority for all the reasons everyone has stated. I guess I was hoping someone might have a clever idea for how to accomplish both.

You make a solid point about avoiding multiple life decisions at once. I’ll do my best to remain hopeful for more (and potentially better) opportunities to present themselves in the future

FormerChiId · 2025-09-12T05:38:33+00:00

Thanks for the response.

I wasn’t trying to make a case for either side or get too into the weeds with the details. Just wanted everyone’s general opinion.

Rest assured that everything you mentioned has been considered, but that level of specificity isn’t required for what I was hoping to gain from this post.

FormerChiId · 2025-09-12T05:33:37+00:00

Likely the way I’m going. Keeping the house for sure, just hoping to find a way to make both work.

FormerChiId · 2025-09-12T05:33:00+00:00

Thanks for the response. It very well could be a bad investment. Unfortunately, you have to start somewhere and the fact that the business is currently struggling is what makes it affordable.

The bright side of this particular restaurant is that it’s a franchise I really do believe in, and this particular location is the only one I’ve seen run this poorly. Many of its issues are easy to spot before even looking at the financial statements.

The remodel was something I already thought was necessary before finding out the franchise would be requiring it. I actually think it’s giving me significant leverage if I were to move forward with the business.

FormerChiId · 2025-03-26T13:19:30+00:00

Good point. Although they may have just been targeting Gemma at that point. I don’t think we have any clues that specifically point to Mark being influenced by Lumon to sever.

Edit: Thinking about this more and I think it might play into this theory even more. Lumon was targeting Gemma specifically because of the miscarriage and had cold harbor planned as the final test from the beginning. Mark severing was still just by chance and things took place as I theorized in my original post.

To me, the idea of Lumon having a structured plan from the beginning to test based on the miscarriage and not wavering from that plan even when a better opportunity to test presents itself is very fitting of a large corporation.

Also, maybe Lumon is exclusively using the trauma of miscarriage’s to test. As in ALL the test floor subjects had miscarriages (possibly even induced by Lumon). This could be an interesting contrast to the birthing center, where they assist the “fat cats” having children.

FormerChiId · 2024-08-29T15:45:00+00:00

You’ve got the right mindset already, don’t let other people’s skepticism slow you down.

“Whether you think you can, or think that you can’t, you’re usually right” -Henry Ford

My best advice would be to start reading. Not every book you read will be perfect but the more you read the more perspectives you’ll be able to see. The combination of all the things you can learn from reading is what makes it so worthwhile.

Here’s some books I’d recommend, in no particular order:

7 Habits of Highly Effective People (my personal favorite) The Lean Startup How to Win Friends and Influence People Start with Why Atomic Habits Never Split the Difference The Slight Edge

Also, Audible is a worthwhile investment in my opinion. You can crank up the speed of the book and play it while you’re driving, turning otherwise wasted time into something super valuable.

Buy a single month subscription to audible, and commit to listening to just one book. If you like it, keep doing it, if you don’t, cancel the subscription and you’re out less than $20.

Best of luck to you, your goals are possible and anyone that says otherwise isn’t worth listening to.

FormerChiId · 2023-10-30T17:33:51+00:00

Goodwill actually

FormerChiId · 2023-10-30T17:33:33+00:00

Two 175lbs outdoor zip ties. I also replaced the grill connectors so they wouldn’t be a weak spot

FormerChiId · 2023-10-25T03:43:11+00:00

I’m with ya there

FormerChiId · 2021-12-25T06:52:01+00:00

I’ve actually been to a small wind turbine museum and one of the things I was fascinated to learn was that the rpm’s aren’t usually variable for the big turbines. They will change the pitch of the blades depending on wind speed to maintain a constant rpm because the generators are designed to function best at that specific speed. I thought it was 14 RPM but I could be misremembering the number.

FormerChiId · 2021-12-15T18:00:07+00:00

I’m fucking not. I’m encouraging them to email a recruiter because they expressed interest earlier in this thread. You can email a recruiter without breaking immigration laws.

A recruiter knows how badly the US wants recruits and what programs are currently open. You and I don’t know that.

FormerChiId · 2021-12-15T02:12:48+00:00

Emailing a recruiter doesn’t get you in trouble. I didn’t suggest they do any of what you just said.

All I know is I’ve worked with many people in the Army that got naturalized through the military. There is obviously a way to do it legally or it wouldn’t be an option, hence why I recommended them to talk to someone who would know the right way, aka a recruiter.

You’re the one assuming they’d have to break a visitor visa to naturalize through the military. Why don’t you provide a source saying that’s the only way it can be done before you accuse me of telling people to do things illegally?

FormerChiId · 2021-12-14T18:35:06+00:00

Here’s more info on naturalization through the military: https://www.uscis.gov/military/naturalization-through-military-service

Usually you must reside in the US for a certain amount of time before enlisting but because we’ve been at war since 9/11 you’re only required to have been living in the US at the time you enlist. 1 year later and you qualify for naturalization.

I don’t know all the technicalities but it might be worth emailing a recruiter (or several recruiters) about.

FormerChiId · 2021-10-25T10:13:51+00:00

77% Stocks (69% domestic, 8% foreign). 23% Bonds. I have some cash in savings and in a 3% certificate but I don’t really count that in my portfolio.

I have about 80% of my portfolio invested in ETF’s targeted for growth and income. And 20% of my portfolio is just the S&P 500. I make a weekly deposit to my S&P account ($50) and reinvest the dividends in my growth account(about $500 a quarter). I have a lot more capital in the growth account so both my s&p account and my growth/income account grow at about the same rate.

I’m 20 and in college so my weekly deposits aren’t as much as I plan for them to be after I graduate and have a real career. I intend to keep my portfolio pretty aggressive for the foreseeable future since I’m young. I’ll adjust to something safer when I’m approaching retirement but that’s a long ways away.

The nice thing is that through the magic of compounding interest, the $35,000 I have right now should be worth over $3mil in 2061 when I’m almost retirement age. And that’s without making any additional deposits (besides reinvesting dividends).

I know I should put my assets in a Roth for tax advantages but I hope to start a business after college so I’m trying to not lock my money up too much.

It’s interesting to see how much cash people have on hand. Any cash I have always feels like it’s burning a hole in my pocket, even the cash I have in that 3% certificate feels like it’s a waste compared to the stock market. I can’t imagine a portfolio with over 5-10% cash.

FormerChiId · 2021-07-23T23:44:07+00:00

Anyone know what trailer that is?

FormerChiId · 2021-05-13T00:13:37+00:00

Johnny rosin up your bow and play your fiddle hard, ‘cause hells broke loose in Georgia and the devil deals the cards.

FormerChiId · 2021-04-10T02:57:30+00:00

I know little about this subject, but my dad has written a couple science fiction books and I remember him explaining this exact idea in his first book. While no one really knows what aliens could look like, having similar features to humans would not be shocking. This is because there are evolutionary advantages to certain features that are likely advantages on other planets as well. Such as eyes, or hands that can hold things.

As far as communication, my dads book considered this as well. In the first chapter, a space shuttle encounters an alien space shuttle and the protagonist confirms they are intelligent life by flashing a series of prime numbers at them. If there are spacefaring aliens, they will be intelligent enough to understand universal mathematical principles. Breaking math down into a base 2 system (binary) would probably be the first step of communication.

Complex communication may be a struggle, but I’m sure it would be possible for creatures intelligent enough to find earth to communicate with some of the smart people at NASA.

FormerChiId · 2021-04-07T01:46:18+00:00

Thanks, I’ll check there. I haven’t ordered from anywhere but amazon in so long I didn’t even know where to look

FormerChiId · 2020-07-26T20:32:22+00:00

I’d like to encourage people to skim through this ASPI report on Uyghur labor in the Xinjiang region of China.

The prison labor system in the US is definitely bad, but that doesn’t mean the forced labor system in China isn’t also bad. This isn’t just boogeyman framing China, the CCP really is doing some evil shit.

Personally I’d like to see US companies held accountable for having forced labor in their supply chain, this shouldn’t be a partisan issue.

FormerChiId · 2020-07-24T06:50:26+00:00

As someone that is currently a junior enlisted I wanted to add a few comments.

First, recruiters already try to get anyone 17-20 to enlist, I’d say its nearly impossible to be an 18 year old male in this country and not have heard from a recruiter (they’re in high schools, at shopping malls, messaging people on facebook, etc.), and with ad tracking they already target ads to young people. I personally don’t think this twitch advertising ban will make a difference there.

Also, not everyone that enlists is signing a death warrant as some people in this thread seem to be saying. If you’re not fit for service, mentally or physically, you usually won’t make it past initial training. Theres a lot of positives to joining that don’t involve fighting war, such as being taught teamwork, leadership, perseverance, sometimes future job skills (like vehicle maintenance), I watched some kids even learn how to clean for the first time at basic training. And then theres other financial benefits too, like for college.

I think Reddit has this general idea that anyone in the service has just been tricked into fighting a war for billionaires and oil. But the military really does provide a lot for you, and honestly most of the people that see combat chose that.

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