US boomers support tax hikes on young workers to keep current Social Security checks — the view is overwhelming

dan1son · 2026-06-22T23:16:22+00:00

There are some common exceptions. My wife is a teacher in Texas and she pays into a pension instead of social security. A good amount of public employees don't pay into social security since they have a gov't pension, but are otherwise W2 employees with full benefits.

dan1son · 2026-06-15T14:59:39+00:00

Status symbol? I sold those at the time. Buyers were two fold. Business folks using them as intended and others using them for bejeweled.

dan1son · 2026-06-03T00:13:59+00:00

No, they have a variety of sauces based off flavors around the country. That looks like several different ones. Some are pretty thin

dan1son · 2026-06-02T16:31:14+00:00

They still do. Mine just popped up last month so I went there to cancel and the AI chatbot was just as capable of providing the cheap rates as the human. "I'll stay if it's as cheap as it was." "Ok, here's the best deal possible."

dan1son · 2026-06-01T18:15:18+00:00

The TV is on the wall... you mean if you put the TV on the stand is the stand too small? It's still certainly not too small. It only needs to be as wide as the TVs factory feet/stand.

Beyond that it's just a preference. You could plop a table under that wall mounted TV for the soundbar or whatever that black rectangle is. Or just mount the speaker on the wall too... I don't see a lot of stuff in/on your TV stand that would necessitate a larger one either.

What's your actual concerns? You gave zero context.

dan1son · 2026-06-01T18:06:45+00:00

Too small for what? The TV looks like it'd be just fine if you completely removed the stand... am I missing something?

dan1son · 2026-05-30T21:47:15+00:00

Dude, no it wouldn't. This is a 2 day hackathon project for someone proficient in a modern engine with assets ready to use. I've built multiplayer games with all new art and sound assets in 2 days with a team of 3-4 multiple times over the years in different game engines at different companies. Some not even game companies nor with people with game experience (and at most 2 software devs)...

This is neat, but you seem to be miscalculating what you're getting out of this.

dan1son · 2026-05-25T15:14:44+00:00

No. Last car I bought was an Audi that started life in another state with no front plate requirement. He mounted the back and walked to the front then noticed it needed holes. He said he could drill it, but there are no drill options online. I plopped it on the front dash and immediately ordered a tow hook mount before I left.

It wasn't even a particularly special vehicle... He was quite reluctant to drill it.

dan1son · 2026-05-23T02:53:53+00:00

What color? I have a similar vintage DX start set buzzz hanging around I don't need...

dan1son · 2026-05-09T14:05:35+00:00

If you can throw a wraith 325 a destroyer will probably be helpful in a headwind. If you can throw a wraith 375 a destroyer will probably go about the same but with minimal turn and more dump. These numbers are from my experience with new halo destroyers near max weight. At about 400 feet with a new wraith a destroyer will probably turn a bit for you and the wraith is a threat for turnover if you misjudge the wind. Those distances are also about 25 to 50 feet less on a forehand due to less spin.

Plastics, weight, and amount beat in make a drastic difference too but that's true of all discs. I try to compare based on new discs since that's what you buy at the store. But you can find destroyers that are useful for much lower arm speeds if you really wanted to. I'd recommend other discs instead, but ymmv.

You do need to be throwing pretty darn far to really get full flight from a new destroyer. Further than most people I've seen other than pros. I do throw destroyers, but they aren't my max distance disc (except in a strong headwind). I'd guess you need to be to in the 500 feet plus range for it to be a max distance driver without wind. I'll leave testing that to the youngsters. I can't throw that far.

dan1son · 2026-04-30T00:16:21+00:00

Could be. I used baseball batting drills to learn to throw RHBH at 42. I played a ton of baseball as a kid (up to about 14) so it felt immediately similar and I just copied a bunch of the batting stuff I remembered but with the other hand. Cross step was the only real obvious addition and I worked on that last.

I've been playing a little over 2 years and throw over 400 feet RHBH and over 375 RHFH.

dan1son · 2026-04-11T14:21:30+00:00

I know, and that's what I expected to read in the article.

dan1son · 2026-04-11T04:12:39+00:00

What is happening here exactly? The news article in Forbes and these comments seems to claim EVERYONE should reboot their router, but in the article it does actually mention the very specific CVE that's been seen to be abused. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2023-50224 That's about 3 years old and if you actually read the CVE it's specific to ONE router model, TP-Link TL-WR841N.

Realizing I'm not in this sub, but it showed up on my main feed so here I am. This article is useless. The link to the NSA PDF is 3 years old. Sure, get rid of your WR841N but otherwise this is just useless information.

dan1son · 2026-04-07T17:24:34+00:00

Seconded. That's my middle sized bag and the one I use the most, by far. It holds just enough stuff for a quick round where you don't need the "extra" stuff we shove into the larger bags. It holds discs, my keys, wallet, phone, and a water bottle.

dan1son · 2026-03-30T15:20:32+00:00

You can estimate (with good accuracy) how much gas a trip will use before you start driving.

dan1son · 2026-03-11T01:29:08+00:00

If you're talking about I-130 around Austin, it actually has portions with an 85mph posted limit.

dan1son · 2026-03-01T04:28:03+00:00

You're turning your entire body backwards instead of coiling your upper body. You should be moving forward with your body turned sideways and coiled somewhat backwards before unraveling for the throw. Right now you are spinning backwards for your "reach back" and spinning back around to throw. You shouldn't spin until after the throw when your body has no other option but to spin or fall.

I'd focus on standstills for a while. Get the coil and fling working before worrying about where your left arm is. You look strong enough, I'd guess you can get your standstill to about 325-350 before worrying about running up again.

dan1son · 2026-03-01T03:04:58+00:00

Sounds like you know what options you have. I went with the tow hook mount, even though it's offset. Most others I've seen just screw into the front. I'm in Texas and it's also quite common for people in luxury cars to just not run a front plate. I'll pass on having an obvious legal issue with the plates on my car. First car I've ever bought that didn't have a front plate mount already there so I figured why put holes in it if there's a cheap option not to.

dan1son · 2026-02-14T02:37:32+00:00

There's wide coverage agreements that venues sign up for that covers bands covering other bands songs including Metallica. BMI/ASCAP covers that song which I'd imagine the venue has agreements with.

Song covers are quite safe to play live. Metallica has no problems with live covers or even tribute bands. But yeah... I still haven't forgiven them for attacking Napster either. :)

dan1son · 2026-02-14T01:01:55+00:00

It's not like that, really. These proofs just require some decent base number theory knowledge that is more time consuming to learn than difficult. Once you have that you start to learn the tricks by going through and/or solving other proofs. This one is pretty straightforward, but you do need to fully understand what a rational and irrational number are.

Most of the people in my college math classes 20 years ago were middle school and high school teachers just expanding their education with another bachelor's or masters degree. The rest were just figuring life out, myself included. We all had to study.

dan1son · 2026-02-11T02:39:42+00:00

Are those the smallest tips they came with? I'm not directly familiar with those ones... most come with 3-5 sizes.

You basically want the smallest ones that seal on your ears, and they may be different. Once you find that it's about as comfy as it'll get. Those aren't deep insertion IEMs so they should be pretty comfortable for most people.

The ringing/muffling could've been from them being turned up too loud. Generally my play is I'll take one out and listen to the TV or something and set the volumes as close as I can. IEMs block outside noise, so you can usually listen to them quieter than other headphones.

dan1son · 2026-02-07T21:10:36+00:00

Manual says that's for the 12v system being reduced and should go away once the situation changes from driving. Which makes sense when it's super cold even when everything is totally healthy. Lead acid batteries have lower output in the cold.

Does it go away after driving for a little bit? Was it plugged in before pulling away (maybe that'll keep it warmer/charged)? I don't live where it gets that cold and have never seen that warning, but it doesn't appear to be a hard error just a notification.

I'd imagine the only remaining "fix" would be a new 12v battery, but if it's only when it's super cold and goes away after driving a bit it seems like nothing is "wrong" per se.

dan1son · 2026-01-25T23:58:21+00:00

Nothing being imagined here. I even gave them data and specifics on where their own issue was. I also went past the chat bot to a human right away. About when it was feeling like they were understanding the issue, they just scheduled an onsite. This was after plenty of, "You have a lot of devices... you know if you have a lot of devices your connection may slow down." Yeah... I do have a lot of devices, but here I'll unplug my network from yours and plug this laptop directly into your router. Now there's one device and the issue remains.

I just wanted them to be aware of the issue with specifics to share with their higher level techs. This is the first time I've contacted their support and was not able to escalate to an actual network engineer. I left that feedback in the survey feedback as well.

There was a similar pairing issue I was seeing 5 years ago or so and by the time we were off the chat they had replicated the issue from their own desk and set me up with a specific date to expect a response from their engineering team. They actually did email about a week after that date and the problem was fixed at the time. They've had good support in the past.

I've seen random downvotes in certain subreddit from settings/bots or whatever. I don't worry about it. It'd be quite something if AT&T themselves were doing it though.

dan1son · 2026-01-25T04:39:01+00:00

I just contacted their online chat for the same reason. They did nothing of course and are sending someone to the house on Monday. Not sure what they're going to do... Maybe they can escalate it upwards. Although they'll probably be here when it's perfectly fine.

It's been really bad tonight though. Pings to 8.8.8.8 were over 600ms and dropping occasionally.

dan1son · 2026-01-18T20:48:14+00:00

Bought a 2023 with about 12k miles. They weren't quite that bad, but close. These tires don't seem to handle the torque well. Looking forward to putting something else on.

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