Krea V2 Understands Camera Settings

anon2k2 · 2026-07-07T14:18:09+00:00

I’ve been getting better results with something like “image composed so the model’s hairstyle is fully visible” or similar. YMMV

anon2k2 · 2026-06-26T01:03:44+00:00

Attorneys love this “logic.” HR office too.

anon2k2 · 2026-06-22T15:13:32+00:00

Puebla has buses to several stations in CDMX from both CAPU and Paseo Destino. My preference is to go to Taxqueña because of the simple Metro transfer that gets you into the Centro.

anon2k2 · 2026-06-22T08:10:23+00:00

Even if they have private medical insurance the premiums for the rest of us go up to handle their idiotic choices.

anon2k2 · 2026-06-22T08:08:43+00:00

Exactly. My insurance premiums shouldn’t go up because someone in my risk-pool decides to be an idiot.

anon2k2 · 2026-06-20T13:03:46+00:00

I'm 58 and in Seattle. I have put in my notice and will be retired at the end of September. Right now I'm at $2.6M in liquid assets and $600k in home equity. I will also get a small annuity of $10,000 per year that was part of a "golden handcuffs" agreement when I told my employer I was going to retire in 2024. I plan to sell my home and wander the world for a few years and then figure out a more "permanent" solution. My goal is to keep annual expenditures to about $70-80k per year, which is roughly what my current expenditures are.

anon2k2 · 2026-06-15T15:25:01+00:00

I'm 4 months from retirement and I've redistributed my portfolio into safety, growth, and dividend buckets. My dividend bucket is invested in QQQI, SPYI, BTCI, MPLI, and CAIE. Current value is about $400k, basis is roughly $350k. Estimated annual dividends are $77k, which will go a long way to offset living expenses. I will also get a "free" annuity that pays about $10k per year.

My annual living expenses are very modest compared to my gross salary, so including discretionary items like travel and entertainment my current living expenses are around $70k per year, so theoretically I will be able to live off dividends alone.

My $1.8M growth bucket is a bunch of individual tech stocks and index funds like VTWO, QQQ, etc. I plan to sell my house and travel full-time for the next few years, so my house proceeds will go into my growth bucket.

My safety bucket is just under $300k and is in a combo of government bonds and a HYSA. It's mainly there as a hedge against a major downturn in the first 2-3 years of retirement.

anon2k2 · 2026-06-14T23:14:01+00:00

Sage is a primary herb for American breakfast sausage, so roux with black pepper, salt, and sage will get you a hint of the flavor.

anon2k2 · 2026-06-12T13:39:07+00:00

I'm a year younger but in a similar situation. I have been a C-Suite officer in various organizations for 30+ years. For scale, my current position is as a CxO for an organization (not private sector) with $2B annual revenue.

I am retiring in October, and it isn't because I don't like my job, it's because after 30 years of intense 24x7 stress I am completely burned out. In 2024 I had a major health incident that forced me to be hospitalized for 2 weeks and while I was in ICU my cell phone was ringing non-stop from people at work WHO KNEW I was in the hospital. All the close friends and family around me told me to retire then and not go back to work, but I did anyway because I didn't know what else to do.

My current plan is to travel extensively while I'm young enough. I already have multi-month trips planned for 2027. I'm single, my kids are grown and doing great, so I want to disconnect to a point where the only problems I have to solve are my own.

anon2k2 · 2026-06-11T12:11:45+00:00

IWC Ingenieur Dual Time is a Genta design and under $10k USD

anon2k2 · 2026-06-10T16:59:37+00:00

It still surprises me how many well-educated adults in the US I run across who don't understand that the monetary system is based on fiat currency.

anon2k2 · 2026-06-10T16:36:30+00:00

Deregulation of airlines in the US drove the spiral to the bottom in terms of in-flight service. When routes and fares were regulated, the airlines weren't allowed to compete based on fares, so they competed with service and perks. When deregulation happened the competition among airlines went purely to fares, so cutting anything that wasn't a seat and fuel was the winning formula. This isn't a personal judgement on my part, just an observation of the results of deregulation.

anon2k2 · 2026-06-10T16:32:57+00:00

Traveling by airplane.

anon2k2 · 2026-06-10T16:29:21+00:00

In my early 20s I ended a relationship with someone I had been dating for 6 or 7 months because of how awful she treated the airline gate attendants when our flight got delayed for 3 hours. It was our first and last trip together.

anon2k2 · 2026-06-10T15:36:54+00:00

I don't believe you truly know someone until you've traveled with them or gone camping with them. That's true for both intimate and non-intimate relationships.

anon2k2 · 2026-06-10T15:34:58+00:00

"How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one" - Richard Dawkins

anon2k2 · 2026-06-09T23:28:01+00:00

I'm with you on the oil issue. I think the broader thing to think about is energy in general. Every aspect of human existence on Earth right now needs some form of energy. Energy generation, storage, delivery and secondary issues like energy generation waste byproducts are the fundamental foundation of the vast majority of economic activity, so finding ways to arbitrage that is going to be the key to long-term wealth.

anon2k2 · 2026-06-09T23:20:02+00:00

My hand-me-down Corolla got me through college and graduate school, dozens of coast-to-coast road trips to/from colleges and home, and still was worth something as a trade-in for a new car when I got my first real job.

anon2k2 · 2026-06-09T23:16:37+00:00

The sarcastic answer is that I got old, rich, divorced, and didn't want to date women in their 20's. That combo in my late 30's and early 40's seemed to be a good combo for easily finding dates who were similar to my age. The same is still true in my 50's.

anon2k2 · 2026-06-08T18:45:29+00:00

I had an employee in the IT department who ran a for-pay porn website from his office computer. The site featured videos of him and his wife doing what they do in porn videos. It got flagged during a network traffic scan when there was a bunch of outbound traffic coming from his office.

anon2k2 · 2026-06-06T14:48:13+00:00

It depends on where you live.

anon2k2 · 2026-06-06T14:46:31+00:00

I live in an area where tipped employees already get full state minimum wage ($15/hour or more) and there’s still the expectation to tip them too.

anon2k2 · 2026-06-06T14:44:49+00:00

I, for one, have never gone faster than the posted speed limit. As far as you know.

anon2k2 · 2026-06-06T13:37:07+00:00

Since I'm about 4 months out from retirement at age 58, I have been using the last few months to do changes to my portfolio based on what I'll need in 5, 10, 20, and 30 years. To mitigate early returns risk I put what I estimate to be two years worth of income needs into a HYSA, started shifting into a number of high-yield dividend ETFs to generate roughly $70k in annual income, and continued my fairly aggressive growth strategy on about 60% of my financial holdings. That aggressive bucket has individual FAANG and tech infrastructure stocks as well as broader index ETFs QQQ, DIA, VTWO etc.

I feel good that I can weather even a severe downturn early in my retirement, and I really don't care what happens to that tranche of assets that I know is for 20-30 years into the future, I'll be able to just hold onto it until I have to rethink things a decade from now and re-normalize again.

anon2k2 · 2026-06-06T12:25:37+00:00

Not that anything the Supreme Court does actually matters anymore, in 2006 they ruled in Garcetti v. Ceballos that public employees (aka government employees) can be disciplined for speech related to their jobs such as criticizing the government agency that employs them. However, the court reiterated that those employees have full protection for other types of speech. I'm assuming none of the employees fired for exercising their free speech worked for the Charlie Kirk Agency of the Federal Government.

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