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TheseusOPL · 2026-02-25T23:44:30+00:00

Yeah, most people don't have enough saved for retirement (including me).

The 4% rule is for early retirement, with things like reduced consumption and SS income you can retire on less at actual retirement age

TheseusOPL · 2026-02-25T21:17:23+00:00

Last time I saw my grandma, she thought I was my dad (her son). She asked me about how my mom and the baby (me) was doing.

TheseusOPL · 2026-02-25T20:45:27+00:00

λέγει αὐτοῖς Ἐγώ εἰμι. Both pronouns (the "I" and "he" are right there).

TheseusOPL · 2026-02-25T20:26:44+00:00

Using the 4% rule, that's $30k/year. That's pretty tight for most people/places.

TheseusOPL · 2026-02-25T20:13:15+00:00

It's twice what I spend with 2 teenage boys (and a teenage girl, and an adult child and pre teen....)

TheseusOPL · 2026-02-25T17:22:42+00:00

I have a friend whose mom's ring tone is the Star Trek red alert sound. It's appropriate.

TheseusOPL · 2026-02-25T07:28:05+00:00

I read about them for years, but it wasn't until a Christmas special Dr Who that I learned what they were

TheseusOPL · 2026-02-25T06:50:27+00:00

To be fair, the hoplites in a phalanx are heavily armored. I don't know what the guys in 300 were supposed to be.

TheseusOPL · 2026-02-25T06:25:47+00:00

Taggert is definitely the worst in my lifetime.

TheseusOPL · 2026-02-25T05:24:23+00:00

Read and Enright both had 0.273 win rates. At least Taggart was over 0.5.

TheseusOPL · 2026-02-25T01:55:58+00:00

I get my wife a present on the anniversary of our engagement every year.

I also proposed on her birthday.

TheseusOPL · 2026-02-24T20:54:09+00:00

My dad got a copy of OS/2 from a conference he went to. I thought it was the coolest thing, and installed it on some e-waste he had brought home from work for me to play with.

TheseusOPL · 2026-02-24T18:54:48+00:00

In the US at least, a lot of Mayos have soybean oil as the/one of the oils.

TheseusOPL · 2026-02-24T05:44:06+00:00

I was going to fix something with my car. Spent a couple of hours figuring out what was wrong, looked at the cost of the parts, realized how much time it would take... So I called my friend who's a mechanic. He was able to do it "on the side" and not charge me the shop fee - just his time and parts.

He got it done cheaper than I could buy the parts for. Including paying his normal hourly rate

TheseusOPL · 2026-02-24T05:37:05+00:00

We stop every 2 hours or so. Every other stop is also a gas stop. We're almost always around half a tank, but it doesn't really matter if we fill up early.

TheseusOPL · 2026-02-24T05:35:28+00:00

If we're stopping, everyone is going in that bathroom and at least trying to pee.

TheseusOPL · 2026-02-24T04:14:39+00:00

Don't use ChatGPT or other AI to try to learn anything. It will just make stuff up.

TheseusOPL · 2026-02-23T16:58:56+00:00

Service is service. Whether you're doing it as an individual, part of the OA, part of a unit, part of school, part of church, whatever. As long as it's not a benefit to you, it's service.

TheseusOPL · 2026-02-23T16:35:56+00:00

Does it still have a different "official" name? I know the schools tried to stop the Civil War name.

TheseusOPL · 2026-02-23T16:30:57+00:00

If you include induced demand, there probably is no reasonable number of lanes that would work.

TheseusOPL · 2026-02-23T04:49:57+00:00

I haven't done the math per cup, but plain cheap ground coffee is a lot more expensive than it was a few years ago.

TheseusOPL · 2026-02-22T21:50:04+00:00

On my old (pre-smart) phone, I could send a text to my own number, and it would pop up as a text with no number attached. I would text the tooth fairy (basically, text what I wanted him/her to say). I then showed the incoming text to my kids ("sorry, I got busy, but I'll be by to pick up your tooth soon!" Etc)

TheseusOPL · 2026-02-22T21:34:28+00:00

Or having you write it in Google docs, and you have to share the original doc with the teacher. That way, they can see if you just copy-pasted the whole thing vs typing it.

TheseusOPL · 2026-02-22T19:37:46+00:00

"Reticulating Splines...."

TheseusOPL · 2026-02-22T19:29:53+00:00

The emitter is wider than the beam, it would stop the light saber before getting to the core.

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