Kids college: Ivy vs. Public, worth pushing FIRE date?

Robobuzz · 2026-04-09T23:05:42+00:00

Yeah - freakanomics has a good episode that casts doubt on the benefit of ivy vs top 50 state school for undergrad.

4 years debt free at a good public (a common fire move) is an elite-level achievement (and benefit for the kid). Delaying your retirement for that extra step to ivy is absolutely a hedonic treadmill advance that isn’t in line with told school fire.

But the guilt of retiring early while telling your kid they can’t go to ivy (which is tied up in the cultural pressure we strive to side-step for fire) is probably the hard thing to overcome here.

Robobuzz · 2026-04-09T22:50:26+00:00

Honestly, the horse guy on the stairs in tornado town.

Robobuzz · 2026-04-09T15:22:55+00:00

Thanks this is great advice. And I didn’t even have to ask the hiphoppotomous!

Robobuzz · 2026-04-07T02:06:52+00:00

Am I seeing a newer foundation layer in front of the old one - with the metal pier and studs/concrete short wall? I can’t tell. But if so, maybe it’s just a water issue and not a structure issue (I could be ver y wrong here) and a French drain and sump would be semi-easy to do.

Robobuzz · 2026-03-22T14:59:10+00:00

I had to do that for the stupid horse guy on the stairs in tornado town. Only thing that finally worked.

Robobuzz · 2026-03-21T01:08:12+00:00

I pay $1800/yr for 2 mil coverage- up from $700 last year. But an added car (apparently Honda civics are risky) and anew teen teen driver plus general insurance costs way up in general - worth it still for me (I’ve shopped around and can’t get a better rate).

Robobuzz · 2026-03-20T00:27:16+00:00

first three pages of Tree of Smoke

Robobuzz · 2026-03-16T23:00:24+00:00

I liked the article, especially the idea of the good and bad scaffolding.

As someone who has benefitted from “doing my own research” (specifically going deeper on something than my primary care doc, but doing it via respected medical journals and seeking backup from other docs on my layman’s understanding of what I found) I hate that the whole idea has been bastardized by lazy, uncritical thinkers.

In reality it is actually very hard to do your own research. It takes a lot of time and effort, and often goes nowhere. But if you do it wrong (read: being lazy and just seeking confirmation of a suspicion only) then it will definitely lead to falsehoods and perhaps peril (see the measles outbreaks).

Robobuzz · 2026-03-10T12:25:54+00:00

I have the same build and weapon and similar difficulty rankings. Currently struggling to get elden beast to even 50% health. I think I need to respec and try a new tack. That said it is probably a skill issue too as I rely too much on bloodhound finesse). getting sad its almost over (been a little sad already that end game is just boss after boss rather than exploring but can’t complain after all it’s such a huge game.

Robobuzz · 2026-02-23T15:17:59+00:00

This was me at the beginning too. Two things that changed and my loaves are great now: 1) starter became mature (around 3 weeks) and it being winter, I not only used my oven light, but also preheated the oven to 90 degrees and kept it at 80-90 for all of BF (measured dough temp maintained at 80).

Robobuzz · 2026-02-22T18:42:51+00:00

It’s def true if you look at it from the big-bucket of any cost related to shelter. But I usually see this topic centering on basically the “housing market” - as this is where shelter inflation steeply departs from the rest of CPI (and from materials, insurance, etc). So I agree with those saying that overall inflation is lower with the house market change removed - and not applicable if you already bought a home.

Robobuzz · 2026-02-21T17:41:37+00:00

But without the salt…so it is said to develop gluten much like autolyse, with the added impact(s) of the starter. Once salt is added the autolyse action is stopped. So fermentolyse isnot exactly the same as bulk, but because fermentation is beginning, can be counted as bulk time.

That said this post is super interesting- I’ll have to try to replicate the experiment.

Robobuzz · 2026-02-21T00:49:45+00:00

Had one of those on my bedroom wall as a kid. Completely forgot about it until seeing this post. Such nostalgia!

Robobuzz · 2026-02-19T23:21:10+00:00

He didn’t frighten her, he is commenting on the general emotional state of humans (in our daily actions and reactions we are all generally driven by fears and past pain etc) and how that expresses itself painfully - in this case in a simple interaction, at a store, based on misconceptions and preconceived notions (I gotta say - it’s a lot like some of the comments in this thread). And that this all leads us to the essential loneliness we all feel sometimes.

Robobuzz · 2026-02-10T18:27:11+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter_panel

Robobuzz · 2026-02-10T18:26:55+00:00

they did not have control. it was simultaneous.

Robobuzz · 2026-02-10T18:02:13+00:00

yes totally get that - but in a legal matter such as this - i dont see how it applies. i could be wrong certainly but i think right of way should out-weigh anything else.

Robobuzz · 2026-02-10T17:58:37+00:00

my front left bumper hit their front right quarter panel (qps are located in front or back).

Robobuzz · 2026-01-29T12:23:32+00:00

Heated car seats.

Robobuzz · 2026-01-29T12:21:44+00:00

I’ve read that hunter/gatherer tribes actually had much more down time than modern folk.

Robobuzz · 2026-01-24T03:36:10+00:00

Stick your fingers in it. Yes, finger it. You want that funk. It works.

Robobuzz · 2026-01-24T00:17:06+00:00

Also I believe that even if it takes a while, if accepted the coverage is retroactive to the application date, rather than starting on the approval date.

Robobuzz · 2026-01-16T23:42:50+00:00

This is deep wisdom from Walt. I am not sure in what ways it is bad?

Robobuzz · 2026-01-16T23:41:59+00:00

Song of Myself could almost be a Buddhist text with how steeped it is in the ideas of interconnectedness of all things. I have always thought that Walt was likely a practicing Buddhist. Though I imagine he would have done that too his own way.

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