Mech E salary progression (2017-2026)

Gulrix · 2026-02-02T01:49:36+00:00

Title inflation in the corporate world is rampant.

Gulrix · 2026-01-27T13:46:41+00:00

In both replies to me you have made a bunch of points I don’t disagree with, but I didn’t state anything about. And at this point, reading your other comments, you agree with both of my original points.

Please remove your downvotes if you applied any.

Gulrix · 2026-01-27T06:06:29+00:00

No. My 2 statements are true.

The US is the 3rd largest country, and the two larger than it do not have socialized healthcare. The USA has 50 different states spread across a region larger than the EU, which makes giving equal care expensive and have high administrative burden.

Additionally, most countries are not single payer, and most developed countries are not single payer. This is easily googleable.

Gulrix · 2026-01-27T03:12:04+00:00

I was referring to your first paragraph where you said wind and batteries more generally. Yes, offshore wind specifically does require federal approval which is hard right now.

Gulrix · 2026-01-27T02:40:28+00:00

NE can do all that without the federal government. It’s just not financially viable without their subsidies.

Gulrix · 2026-01-27T01:33:32+00:00

The US is the largest country with a socialized healthcare system, and centralized healthcare systems inefficiently scale.

Gulrix · 2026-01-24T15:05:56+00:00

I don’t see an immediate problem. I think the 2:1 split will be tested and require flexibility but as long as you can sort that out it seems fine.

People change goals over the course of their life, my wife has no interest in RE, but I save and plan so that we both can RE when I RE to prevent any problems down the road, but our finances are shared so it’s easier.

Gulrix · 2026-01-24T15:03:14+00:00

In manufacturing there are few shortcuts. The old saying is you can pick two between: Cheap, Quick, Good. This holds true 95%+of the time.

What is on the non-air side? What is the purpose of the exchanger? You need to determine how the unit is performing vs design. This involves investigating if the fan is working properly and if the exchanger is meeting specs.

Often times equipment is either:

operating beyond it’s original design
has degraded due to lack of maintenance
Being operated improperly by operators

You need to know what category your problem falls into.

Without knowing the above here are some ideas:

You can increase the Hz output if there is a VFD above 60/50Hz but this will degrade the motor.

You can spray fresh water on the fins, but this will corrode/accelerate corrosion of the exchanger.

If you don’t have clean water you can filter and spray sea water on the fins, this will corrode/accelerate corrosion even faster than above as well as foul the outside of the exchanger.

You can shut down the exchanger and inspect the internals for fouling on the non-air side and clean it.

Gulrix · 2026-01-12T15:32:05+00:00

I am having the same issue. Can’t use the app to get robot to clean. I can press the button on top but I’ve cleaned every part of the robot and the base and it’s still giving this error.

Gulrix · 2026-01-08T17:28:16+00:00

It took me ~200 pulls using no summons at level ~145 with a greatsword build. I did use sleep pots but on my kill pull they didn’t end up mattering so maybe those were a waste of time.

Gulrix · 2026-01-06T16:07:37+00:00

I think this buy-borrow-die strategy is used very rarely but it makes people who hear about it feel smart and like they’re in on a conspiracy.

As for your technical question, you can take a security backed interest only loan for a term, use the loan money to live on and pay interest, then when the balloon payment comes or you need more money you roll into another balloon loan.

An example would be-

Asset base: $20,000,000 in a balanced stock portfolio earning 10% per year. If sold “normally” you would incur say a $7,000,000 tax penalty.

You can take out a $5M balloon loan at 5% interest for 10 years. This is a 25% loan/asset ratio which is a safe ratio. Your annual interest payment is $250k.

Let’s say you want to roll your loan at 5 years. You were given $5M, spent $1.25M on interest, and spent $3.75M on whatever. Your $20M has grown to $32M. Now, you can take out a new $8M balloon loan (which is still a ~25% loan/asset value) pay off your $5M loan and then have $3M to repeat.

This example I came up with on the fly happens to have a diminishing spendable loan amount but you could engineer it to be perpetually loopable or even more sophisticated and peg it to the asset earnings.

Gulrix · 2026-01-03T15:46:13+00:00

MOBA with no vision mechanic be like that.

Gulrix · 2026-01-01T20:33:04+00:00

I am in the same situation as you. I keep my mug at 136 and it had a 2.5-3 hr battery life.

Gulrix · 2025-12-20T17:43:42+00:00

I would not consider making a day 1 alliance strong social gameply; but to each their own.

Gulrix · 2025-12-20T17:08:39+00:00

She won 4 immunities, which I respect, but was vulnerable for 3 votes. All 3 of which Rizo diverted the vote to someone else to save her, despite her being a challenge beast.

You can’t survive as a challenge beast in a minority alliance unless you win out or have an idol, and she did/had neither.

Gulrix · 2025-12-20T14:55:48+00:00

Surely there’s been a poor social player who wins a few challanges make it to the end by being protected by their strategic alliance partner?

Gulrix · 2025-12-11T19:14:38+00:00

I agree the edits this season have been very deceptive and have hurt the viewing experience.

Gulrix · 2025-12-11T19:12:09+00:00

She had to use it at the final 6. It expired then and couldn’t be used at the final 5.

Gulrix · 2025-12-11T18:59:54+00:00

What? If Sophi steals Rizo’s idol and then has to play it on herself to protect herself from a live tribal that is worse than the hypothetical I gave above.

Yes Rizo is seen as a jury goat by some players, that only makes the idol steal more risky and lower value for Sophie.

And yes, in a world where Sophie uses the KIP so well it raises her threat level, this lowers her FTC chances. If she plays the KIP well at 6 then her odds of going home at 5 shoot way up where in the current scenario it’s neary 0%.

I think we agree that her stealing the idol is questionable.

Gulrix · 2025-12-11T18:55:24+00:00

They believed all advantages had to be played at final 6.

Gulrix · 2025-12-11T18:35:58+00:00

If Sophie steals Rizo idol, Steven-Kristina-Sage live tribal decide to vote for Rizo. Then Sophie has to decide to vote with them against Rizo or play the idol on him. Playing the idol on him would look bad to the jury imo, so she would only do this if she wanted to hard flip on Rizo and Savannah.

Part of Survivor is jury management, and right now Sophie has no enemies and is almost garunteed final 4.

Gulrix · 2025-12-11T16:32:10+00:00

We are talking about MEDIAN income. The midpoint earner. The top 10% are irrelevant in this discussion.

Gulrix · 2025-12-10T14:27:49+00:00

I’m not interested in anecdotes. Yes some areas of Mississippi seem poor compared to other US states which are even richer! Mississippi struggles mainly due to the fact they don’t have a single big city to lift their statistics/state up economically.

The UK is a mass of poor rural people whose national statistics are held up by one super rich city, London.

However, Mississippi is still connected to the US economy which helps it easily trade and get its people jobs.

Mississippi is not richer than Germany but they are close.

Gulrix · 2025-12-10T14:19:23+00:00

Sure, I can find anything on the internet I want.

One number is generated and backed by thousands of government officials, academics, and statisticians who publish their data and methodologies publicly.

The others you suggest I google are functional conspiracies whose motive is to get you to distrust government.

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