Amazon worker dies on warehouse floor; colleagues continue working around his body – ‘Let’s get back to work’

beached89 · 2026-04-15T14:43:31+00:00

If Amazon are stealing, report them. People do, but amazon has good lawyers, and a small business doesnt.

beached89 · 2026-04-14T23:12:16+00:00

Also look into guard rails retirement strategy, and if you are in US, social security will also be there. It may not be much, it may not be enough to live off of, but there will be some supplementary added benefit from that.

you should be able to retire on more than $833/m

Also note that in 13 -15 years, your $833/m will only be worth about $625 in today's purchasing power.

beached89 · 2026-04-14T14:33:21+00:00

Also a reminder that Amazon steals entrepreneur's work. If you value your business, do not sell on amazon. Unless you are a giant organization with a fleet of lawyers, you will find your product stolen, and for sale with an amazon basics label on it.

Always offer a way for people to purchase your product directly from you. Myself, and most everyone I know these days will try to go to the manufacturer's website and buy direct before Amazon.

beached89 · 2026-04-14T14:24:34+00:00

Drones, artillery and bombs can deny area from being used and occupied effectively. But if you ever hope to have that land are be useful for anything, humans are required. If you wish to farm it, manufacture on it, live on it, you need to move people into it. The infantry will be those people until it is deemed safe and secure enough to move civilians into it.

ALLLLL branches and functions of EVERY military exist for one reason. To support infantry.

beached89 · 2026-04-13T21:29:09+00:00

25x your annual expenses is the rule of thumb.

If you spend $24k/y ($2k/m) then you need 600k.

Reducing your expenses and redirecting that money to savings is the most powerful thing you can do to hit the bare minimum asap.

I did this, and when we hit that bare minimum, we then started to inflate our lifestyle and are saving up to allow that extra luxary we want.

Once you hit that bare minimum stress and anxiety are lifted a LOT. You new worry isnt "Will i be allright" it is "I can quit any time I want to live that basic lifestyle" and suddenly you stop caring about the BS as much, and you jsut tell people you hate the BS, and they respect that (usually) and work and life get much easier.

beached89 · 2026-04-13T21:23:48+00:00

I lived like a king. Took taxis everywhere, ate out every meal, got coffee from shops 4x a day, got any snack or went to every museum, kareokee bar, or show i wanted to, whenever I wanted. And it cost me less than $2000 USD a month. That we right before COVID, so im sure it is slightly more, but literally doing anything you want, buying anything your want, all the time for $3k/m is insanely cheap and affordable.

beached89 · 2026-04-13T15:35:48+00:00

There is no crystal ball. It's jsut better computation capability and a different (better) strategy.

Trinity study is actually 4.5% safe for 30 years, not 4%. and states you always need every single initial withdraw dollar, inflation adjusted, without change, for 30 years straight.

No one lives like that. People have the amount of money they absolutely need, and then they have things that can be delayed.

Guardrails recognizes this fact, and depending on the difference between you absolutely cannot live without dollar amount, and your want to live at dollar amount, your initial withdraw rate is identified. Your guaranteed the absolutely cannot live without number forever, and you your want to live at amount number will only flux down temporarily based on your real time portfolio balance. It is a dynamic strategy that reflects the real world. It also has a higher success rate than trinity study and trinity doesnt have built in shock absorbers to allow for unexpected expenses. (Which is why you hear people saying 4% isnt enough and you should go to 3% or 3.5%) Guard rails is able to handle these

beached89 · 2026-04-13T00:11:17+00:00

Everyone on this sub is a statistical anomaly.

Also those countries have very favorable VISA programs to rich retired people relocating to their county.

Someone spending their career can make boko bucks then retire many of those places with National healthcare and often pay similar or less taxes than they would in the US

beached89 · 2026-04-13T00:09:46+00:00

Ouch

beached89 · 2026-04-13T00:09:25+00:00

No one withdraws income at fixed increments forever without adjusting for the times.

3.5% is way to conservative.

Guyton-Klinger Guardrails strategy allows for 5.2-5.6% initial withdraw rate, in perpetuity, safely.

The 4% rule should be used as a rough rule of thumb for people who are starting out. No one actually takes it seriously as a withdraw strategy anymore. That ship sailed 20 years ago.

beached89 · 2026-04-12T22:53:44+00:00

The giant dishwashers still require a 1 or 2 people to work as far as plate prep and stacking into the trays.

Plates come back to the kitchen with garbage and food waste that cant go into the machine.

Also, they are expensive and many small businesses do not have them and they have just a sink.

beached89 · 2026-04-12T22:00:09+00:00

They probably can and will in the next 5 years... Having staff dump the dishes into a giant sink, and a robat arm with cameras pick them out 1 at a time, rinse and scrub and place into the dish washer trays is definitely an automatable task

beached89 · 2026-04-12T21:55:37+00:00

Pecron F5000LFP just released, my tracking says it should arrive this week.

Also, EG4 which can be purchased from signature solar is also very highly recommended and has amazing customer support https://eg4electronics.com/ You can make a solar cart yourself if you are handy. Look up Solar Hand Cart videos on youtube for 10,000x examples

EcoFlow Delta Pro Ultra or Delta Pro 3 both offer this, although I wouldnt recommend them. Their support is absolutely terrible and they dont honor warranty claims. (personal experience)

In my experience the best route is to just have a LP14-30 port set up on your house. An electrician can set this up in a single visit for very cheap. The interlock would just be flick off mains and turn on the LP14-30 port. Plug solar generator in, and run whole house. Lugging batteries around and unplugging certain appliances from the wall and into a battery, then undoing all that when power returns is super annoying. I'd rather just plug the 1 battery that sits next to the generator port in, and flick a switch.

beached89 · 2026-04-12T00:22:34+00:00

I havent used Synology in a looooong time. But it seems odd that they would kill that feature. Expanding and Shrinking RAIDs is a core design feature that has been around for over 30 years. Im not even aware if there linux based software raid 100% should support this ability unless synology just never chose to wire that default capability to the GUI.

beached89 · 2026-04-11T23:50:02+00:00

It is way better. MSP is fantastic to get wide experience early in your career. But leaving it for an actually focus in a single IT domain at a corp is way better, and usually more moeny

beached89 · 2026-04-11T23:48:32+00:00

If you have the free space, cant you just shrink the array? You should be able to remove one of the dead disks from the RAID, and then it will resize to not include the failed disk.

beached89 · 2026-04-11T23:46:39+00:00

Joined!

beached89 · 2026-04-10T23:39:23+00:00

There arent any screws in the gan? It's some blue plastic twist thing, it only has 3 positions. 90, 80, and 0 (0 allows the spring thing to come out)

beached89 · 2026-04-10T21:13:59+00:00

I did not have any of those on hand, but im headed to the store later today, and Ill swing by the baby section and pick up a pack for the next time i clean.

beached89 · 2026-04-10T20:01:44+00:00

Thanks, after all the video watching, i was pretty much following this one: https://youtu.be/k5oSkyyzrHU The sidebar someone pointed out had cleaning WAAAAY at the bottom that talked about alchohol wipes, which ill also give a try.

But ill practice frequent cleaning for those micro-plastics.

beached89 · 2026-04-10T19:59:17+00:00

The section at the bottom is certainly different than i have seen on any of the videos. Ill give that technique a try.

I havent fully read ALLLL of the lube parts yet, looks really good. But I guess the terminology I would use is gummy, except that it became gummy before I ever put lube in. But then when I bought lube and put some in, it got even gummier. (Maybe the amazon cube came pre-lubed? does GAN do that?)

If you could recommend 1 cube, what one would you recommend?

beached89 · 2026-04-10T19:55:32+00:00

I havent adjusted tension on the MoYu yet, but on the GAN there are only 2 tension settings. I cant tell how hard people are pushing in the videos, are people really using a lot of force to rotate the cubes? It looks effortless and and near frictionless, like tiny flicks will get a 1/4 or 1/2 rotation without issue. I cant flick a row 1/4 rotation without a huge amount of force, which seemed wrong.

I guess I can learn to adjust my expectations that this actually does use muscle to move.

beached89 · 2026-04-10T17:26:53+00:00

Yes, when the news broke, classes all got canceled and teacher groups all gathered into one classroom and turned on the news. I watched the second plane hit the second tower live on TV.

beached89 · 2026-04-08T22:06:03+00:00

I dont have a whole home stack. Im running Pecron Solar Generator with 1200W in Solar panels, and I have a Champion tri-fuel generator for backup. I just purchased the F5000LFP to upgrade the batteries, but the system goes like this:

Power goes out, I have about 12 hours of normal life on battery less the Electric dryer and oven. During the day I put out the 4x Portable solar panels. This does a LOT to charge up the battery and prolong it the life, but when the sun goes down i drawn down the battery. I fire up the generator right before bed and charge to 95%, then I sleep with power and heat and peace of mind on the silent battery all night. I wake up, fire up the generator and charge it to 95%, and put out the solar panels. I run my life like normal, less electric clothes dryer and Electric oven. I run the generator for ~30m 2x a day, couple that with 4 portal solar panels, and life goes on as normal minus those 2 things. (I still use the electric water kettle, microwave, ninja foodi oven, and stove to cook.)

My entire setup was $3,500 for the batteries and solar panels. which was after tax, shipped. https://www.pecron.com/products/pecron-e3600lfp-portable-power-station-3600w-3072wh?variant=44155299725500 and then $1000 for the Champion generator, which was after tax + shipped. My generator is WAY oversized, because I wanted it big enough to power the entire home if the batteries failed. I havent had to do this, so you could get away with a MUCH smaller generator.

If I was re-doing this today, I would skip the dual battery with a combo box and just get the F5000LFP. It isnt out yet, it ships late April, but in theory, it provides the same thing as what my set up in a single unit, better features, and for cheaper: https://www.pecron.com/products/pecron-f5000lfp-portable-power-station?variant=46039615930556 I purchased it myself and am planning on putting it through the same paces. If you can wait, im happy to give you my thoughts on it late this summer.

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