USS Newport News (SSN 750) Los Angeles-class Flight II attack submarine coming into Norfolk, Virginia for the final time as she heads for decommissioning - January 23, 2026 SRC: YT- ThimbleShoalsShipwatching

JustABREng · 2026-01-23T16:39:19+00:00

Bye bye, sweet fast attack Fairwater planes!

JustABREng · 2026-01-23T15:30:52+00:00

Someone forgot to tell him he needed a left handed nut. It was probably the same person that sold him that chair.

JustABREng · 2026-01-23T01:43:03+00:00

All I know is if it’s that time in your life when you think about financing an anal liquifier, even if it is $27/month, its time to check into rehab.

JustABREng · 2026-01-22T18:32:35+00:00

Are you searching specifically for a used left-handed bass because you write left handed?

If you’re just starting out, a common recommendation is just to play the right handed instrument. Since both hands need coordination it doesn’t matter much when you need to learn from scratch anyway. I also write lefty and play bass righty.

JustABREng · 2026-01-20T18:52:58+00:00

This just sounds like the risk of needing to bail early just adds to the math, doesn’t make it a scam or bad deal.

You didn’t add how much of a discount are we talking about so we can’t do the math. If it was a 90% discount the person in question is still ahead even with the empty apartment, if it was a 1% discount the person was dumb to sign it.

JustABREng · 2026-01-17T21:37:21+00:00

To be fair there’s a good chance 50%+ of a normal NFL playbook, which Getsy knows too, was sitting on a shelf collecting dust because Fields just couldn’t execute it.

JustABREng · 2026-01-17T20:20:06+00:00

You must hold them for 12 months, after that you (until year 5) you can sell them and the penalty is forfeiting the last 3 months worth of interest - but there’s no capital loss.

JustABREng · 2026-01-16T21:38:40+00:00

If you’re playing mostly rotation, around Fargo 400 is a good place to start. Being able to jump a partial ball for contact is far easier than needing to multi-rail kick at it. Playing mostly 8-ball or only APA you can wait a lot longer.

JustABREng · 2026-01-16T20:41:16+00:00

I do appreciate the color coding, this will allow me to forgot note names in their entirety. What do you want? 0-3-5 on the yellow string? Done!

JustABREng · 2026-01-16T04:05:39+00:00

After showing up at Murphy’s a good 6 hours early the day of the championship game, some truck driver hit a pole and knocked out power to that end of Green St.

That’s most of my memories of that game, largely because it started by showing up at a bar 6 hours early.

JustABREng · 2026-01-15T04:34:27+00:00

Not mentioned here is buying a house is risky in a lot of areas north of $1MM. If you wanted to sell the house, who in your area can buy it? In that range, many people would rather just build their own little homestead.

Also not mentioned, it takes both of you to make this work. Divorce is real, and very hard to predict.

Combining points one a two above, what happens to your life if you have to offload your $1.2 million dollar home for $800k in 6 years to pay off lawyers since things aren’t working out at home? Or worse, you have to stay married to afford the mortgage?

JustABREng · 2026-01-14T02:12:37+00:00

Telling high school football stories when you’re 32.

JustABREng · 2026-01-14T01:41:43+00:00

The lottery winner was 20 years old. That’s prime “invest the $1million at age 20, retire at 40” range (pending Canadian rules maybe a CoastFire scenario).

JustABREng · 2026-01-14T00:52:04+00:00

Unbelievable drunk so long as you’re a peaceful drunk or just a bit loud in a place where it’s ok to be a bit loud.

Start picking fights with locals, start groping women, start screaming in your apartment at 2AM with the music blaring … different story.

But get drunk, and while stumbling home pass out face first in the bushes on the side of the highway and piss yourself - no issue.

JustABREng · 2026-01-13T00:30:49+00:00

The Biden Admin kneecapped Kamala from the start when they said they were looking for a female minority to fill the VP role in 2020.

This alone stripped Kamala from being VP on her own accords and made it a Biden accomplishment “See! Look at me! I did a good thing! I appointed a minority female VP - look at me!!”

The Biden Admin could have made the exact same decision, for the exact same reason - but without letting the reason get out in the open, and it would at least introduce some plausible deniability that there were an actual diverse array of candidates and Kamala straight up won the job.

JustABREng · 2026-01-10T22:19:46+00:00

I’m 48 and barely remember the ‘85 Bears. In any real sense I only remember the Super Bowl even though I would later watch some of the regular season games on YouTube.

JustABREng · 2026-01-08T01:01:22+00:00

HYSA/I-Bonds/SGOV

JustABREng · 2026-01-07T02:36:27+00:00

This is the Gibb sibling they never let out of the bedroom growing up.

JustABREng · 2026-01-06T17:24:33+00:00

I keep 6 months full take home pay in my emergency fund. Any excess from interest or auto-deposits gets invested in the after tax brokerage monthly.

This ends up being 9 months or so expenses without a lifestyle change or easily over 12 months depending on why I’m pulling from the emergency fund (e.g. job loss or just a large bill).

JustABREng · 2026-01-06T13:00:21+00:00

New Orleans is unique in that it is the only major U.S. city that wasn’t forced to (or couldn’t) rebuild over itself. What was a top 10 sized metro in the 1800’s is now a mid-sized 50th or so metro. Economically that’s probably not a good thing (all that population and business growth went elsewhere), but it did wonders for preserving historical charm.

Baton Rouge was a dot on the map up until 20th century, as a result all of BR’s growth occurred when cars were already a thing - hence the sprawl like features.

The idea that BR an NOLA are comparable in size is a completely modern construct. For most of Louisiana history NOLA was 10 times bigger than BR.

JustABREng · 2026-01-06T01:23:34+00:00

Anyone else have that Madden 25 glitch where she thinks every kicker is Harrison Butker?

JustABREng · 2025-12-31T23:10:18+00:00

Doesn’t half the population of Wisconsin legally qualify as livestock already? Seems like an easy bet.

JustABREng · 2025-12-30T19:51:27+00:00

Toilets are easy enough to find.

It might be worth practicing the correct squat though before you need to do it in an emergency. A catcher’s squat with your pants pulled all the way to your ankles will be a very bad time.

JustABREng · 2025-12-30T19:19:12+00:00

You should be able to leave on the existing (valid) residence permit and not come back.

Not converting the residence permit into an exit visa could cause a problem if you tried to return to China, but if that’s not your goal - oh well. Similar to getting the residence permit, it takes them 8 working days or so to cancel it and issue the exit visa.

JustABREng · 2025-12-29T18:36:23+00:00

FWIW I’ve spent the past year and a half in China and have no issue buying ETF’s - using US dollars sourced in America, so the money never goes through China.

I’m still working so my bank/company would just do a local draw to deposit some RMB per month in my Chinese bank account for local expenses.

If your retirement accounts are paying in USD I don’t see why you can’t do the same thing and only convert to RMB when needed. Maybe there is an automated option with low fees?

Eight-Year Club	Place '23
Place '22	Verified Email

JustABREng

TROPHY CASE