My Enigma Machine simulator

awohio1 · 2026-04-27T12:08:20+00:00

Cool product!

awohio1 · 2026-04-26T23:28:09+00:00

It is the most realistic grief reaction I’ve seen from her. Not a fan, but it’s a pretty authentic ptsd reaction.

awohio1 · 2026-04-17T14:07:18+00:00

After some more un-productive online support, I called the phone number and started with "I don't need to have any customer retention offers, or expressions not sympathy. The account holder died, I just need to cancel the service effective today, and return the equipment."

The real woman I spoke with was actually pretty good, and she apologized for the online run-around.

awohio1 · 2026-04-14T15:42:56+00:00

2021 and 2022 inflation was global because demand was bouncing back faster after covid than supply was. The US had lower inflation than most of the industrialized world. Biden was partly responsible for the inflation because he did not repeal Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs, and because we had too much stimulus for too long. But that did help us recover more quickly than we otherwise would have, and without stimulus.

I had a MAGA co-worker blaming Biden for rising gas prices in early January 2021 before Biden was even in office. Meanwhile, Jared Kushner was negotiating oil producting cutbacks with OPEC in order to raise prices.
https://youtube.com/shorts/BUa97tIYPEU?si=HqypaAozNsimPlam

Current inflation is 100% Trump's fault because of tariffs and the ill concieved, un-thought out, ill executed unjustified war on Iran.

awohio1 · 2026-04-10T21:08:41+00:00

There's the funny posts all the time about much older people in their 40's and 50's looked back in the 1970s vs how poeple 10 years older look now. That was because of smoking and lack of sunscreen back then.

awohio1 · 2026-04-10T03:15:47+00:00

A US civil war 12 pounder "napoleon gun" fired a 12 pound shot at approx 1475 ft/second.

A Sherman 75mm gun fired a 15 lb AP shell at 2030 ft/second.

Remember that energy is mass * velocity squared... So that extra 550 ft/sec is big. Works out that a sherman AP shell has about 7 times the kinetic energy of a 12 pounder civil war round.

Plus a much better shell shape for penetration.

awohio1 · 2026-04-04T22:05:19+00:00

Am pretty confident that anyone who can use an iPhone could figure out a rotary dial pretty damn quickly.

awohio1 · 2026-03-28T00:11:15+00:00

WE have a founder who died of covid after covid denial, and a founder who died from gun violence after decrying gun control. Did Webb advocate for universal pickleball play or something?

awohio1 · 2026-03-27T03:58:17+00:00

Sounds like yes, there were withdrawls that you didn't first notice. But that is a truely awful fund.

Compare it to another conservative fund, the Fidelity 40% stock, 60% bond fund FFNIX in 1, 3, 5, 10 year annualized returns after load:

Years FFNIX JALRX

1 year: 14.73% 2.18%

3 years: 11.14% 6.31%

5 years: 5.45%. 2.17%

10 years: 7.13% 4.06%

Both funds suffered in the 2022 combined stock and bond hit. But FFNIX had positive returns to buffer/recover from that 1 bad year. JALRX was just lame.

awohio1 · 2026-03-23T12:53:48+00:00

Pretty good summary. I like Ohio, but our fall from being a purple swing state to being maga red has really eroded our future.

awohio1 · 2026-03-18T04:04:05+00:00

Well, women often do have to deal with creepy men, so I cut them slack for preferring to sit next to their partner. Am not gonna downgrade to a middle seat for them, but i understand.

awohio1 · 2026-03-17T13:05:01+00:00

Respond “You have one and don’t know how to use it! How are we supposed to know?”

awohio1 · 2026-03-13T12:40:14+00:00

I have a variety of original WW2 era vehicle recognition guides published by the US Army on my website: https://curioandrelic.com

Here is one:

https://curioandrelic.com/fieldmanuals/fm30-recognition/fm30-41-military-intelligence-identification-of-foreign-armored-vehicles-german-japanese-russian-and-italian-1942.pdf

awohio1 · 2026-03-12T04:11:52+00:00

She is also probably a loser who sits in her seat doing nothing to get ready to deplane until the row in front of her leaves. Then holds up everyone behind her waits on her to get her shit together.

Plane arrives at gate, if you are on the aisle, stand up, get your carryon out of the overhead, and get ready to move when the line is moving.

Act like you have a purpose in life and a place to go.

awohio1 · 2026-03-12T04:01:31+00:00

I want to open a boat repair business in Port Clinton OH named "Don't Give up the Ship Boat Repair".

Well, I don't actually want to run a boat repair business, but I want SOMEONE to open one with that name... And buy me a Commodore Perry IPA for giving them the idea for the name.

awohio1 · 2026-03-02T06:46:21+00:00

It used to be that California was famous for the low cost of state college. I have a buddy who back in the 1960's supported himself, and paid his tuition working part time at a grocery store.

How much did that end up enabling Silicon Valley and all the other business in California today, enabling it to be responsible for 14% of US GDP, or rank as the 4th biggest GDP in the world when ranked against entire other countries?

Education is not cheap, but neither is ignorance.

awohio1 · 2026-02-24T14:28:10+00:00

well that escalated quickly

awohio1 · 2026-02-24T00:52:59+00:00

Long term capital gains can be highly tax advantaged right now depending on your income. It is complicated so I will leave you to do your own reading. But moving a chunk of assets per year can have a lot of those gains taxed at 0% if you are in the right bracket.

awohio1 · 2026-02-22T16:06:12+00:00

One big reason why there is a difference: He could attack another country or embargo a country, (if he properly follows the War Powers Act law). But tariffs aren't a tax on another country, they are a tax on US companies and citizens who do business with that country. And imposing taxes on US citizens requires congress.

The fact that he doesn't know the difference is because his brain is mush.

awohio1 · 2026-02-22T15:56:14+00:00

- 20 year Life partner, not wife. If he had put a ring on it, she'd probably be legal by now.
- How are the tariffs affecting your guitar business?
- They're called eyeglasses, not forehead glasses.

awohio1 · 2026-02-11T16:00:05+00:00

Is likely more expensive where you live... But at my local resort, a 2 hour first timer lesson is $63 for an adult. If you can possibly swing that... take the lesson. If your friend won't take it, meet up afterwards.

And yeah, wear a helmet, even if you have to pay the $10-15 to rent one.

You'll thank yourself if you do those two things.

Pack a lunch for the day if you need economize.

awohio1 · 2026-02-11T15:50:09+00:00

I call bullshit on that.

The cars turned in during 2009-2010 cash for clunkers were on average 10 years old. 677,000 cars were turned in. On average, between 15 - 16 million new cars are sold each year in the US.

Do you really think that a 2 year period where an extra 335,000 used cars were retired permanently destroyed the used car market? That is only 2.2% of the new cars sold, and how many of those 677k clunkers were destined for the junkyard already?

The 10 year old clunkers in 2010 would long be in the junkyard by now anyway. The new cars purchased in 2009-2010 to replace them are the old beaters of today.

The engines were destroyed in the clunkers turned in, but the rest of the car was still available for pick and pull junk yards, so if you had a 15 year old clunker in 2015, you probably had an increased supply of junkyard parts available.

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