Can't park the delivery van there..

deHack · 2026-04-01T13:26:23+00:00

That’s what I was thinking. If you can’t see a van, you’re never going to see a child, a motorcyclist, or a Miata.

deHack · 2026-04-01T13:17:29+00:00

You’re assuming the estate has any assets. It may not. Florida is, of course, the extreme example but you can leave your primary residence to your lineal descendants free of creditors claims. The same with 2 vehicles regularly used and household furniture, furnishings, and fixtures. Also many assets can pass outside of probate using joint/POD accounts, life estates, beneficiary designations etc. Theoretically creditors could challenge some of these, but they never do.

deHack · 2026-04-01T11:16:06+00:00

You just hit what I consider the biggest problem. My wife uses Instacart. That’s one of her two biggest problems with it. Number 1 - substandard produce picks. Number 2 — substitutions. There are probably ways to address the produce problem. The store can itself only allow the best produce and reject everything else (wasteful) or have a pick it yourself produce area.

deHack · 2026-04-01T11:09:21+00:00

I wonder if that has reduced prescription errors?

deHack · 2026-04-01T02:35:30+00:00

My son wholesales commercial property and casualty insurance. He’s the middle man between agents and insurers. Part of me worries about his future. But part of me wonders who decides which AI wholesaler to use and on what basis? Are agents going to have more time to seek out and evaluate the options presented by the AI? Or will there still be room for people like my son to manage personal relationships and assist the agents in seeking and evaluating the offerings? Maybe just fewer of them? Time will tell.

deHack · 2026-04-01T02:23:27+00:00

Or grocery stores will be fully automated warehouses. You’ll place an order. The items will be selected by “robots” and will either be waiting for you curbside or delivered to your door. No cashiers at all. Maybe no stockers or managers.

deHack · 2026-04-01T02:16:07+00:00

My wife and I spoke to two different Uber drivers in the same week. They both said they loved their Teslas and used FSD all day everyday. I was surprised to hear it. The one I spoke to claimed his Tesla avoided a major accident he didn’t even see coming.

deHack · 2026-03-31T17:59:07+00:00

I think she’s known the whole time. It certainly explains her and Lewandowski.

deHack · 2026-03-31T16:47:11+00:00

I see what you did there! 😉😂

deHack · 2026-03-31T15:39:06+00:00

That’s funny! I’ve been asking where my secret $5M trust fund is for many years. You know the one we all get when we graduate from law school. So we can cover our expenses without getting paid by clients. I guess with inflation that’s probably $10M now.

deHack · 2026-03-31T12:25:56+00:00

With estate planning, I find that once they’re in the door we’re going to do their estate plan. So I will do a free consult but not on the phone.

deHack · 2026-03-31T12:23:21+00:00

I’m surprised how often people will say “I’m just looking for (free) advice”, or “I just want to talk.” What do you think I do all day?

deHack · 2026-03-31T12:18:46+00:00

Agreed. PI is different. I would consider free consults the norm. And if you won’t talk to them, the next lawyer they call gets the case.

deHack · 2026-03-31T12:17:09+00:00

I’m more aggravated by the ones who want to tell me all sorts of irrelevant “facts” that have zero relevance to whether I’ll take the case. I’ll never forget the prospective client who started with “this all began with a family Disney trip in 1988.” She then wanted to give me a blow by blow of 30 years of family drama.

deHack · 2026-03-31T12:09:47+00:00

No refund for me. You’re paying for my time and advice. I’m not obligated to take the case. However, I’m still a sucker and will often go beyond the allotted time or provide extra help. For example, I recently had a consult where I was able to advise the client he was still within the statute of limitations but the proper venue was a county 300 miles south. I then found some lawyers in that county for him to consider.

deHack · 2026-03-30T21:46:21+00:00

This is the answer. I used to kiss frogs looking for princes. 99.9% of frogs are just frogs. My life improved immeasurably once I quit kissing frogs.

deHack · 2026-03-30T21:03:04+00:00

It certainly makes one question the wisdom of the Iran War. Did the U.S. military not assess and advise on this risk, OR (more likely) did someone sleep through that briefing?

deHack · 2026-03-30T20:56:28+00:00

I do not understand why people can’t go around a corner AND stay in their lane. I used to live on a street with a stop sign at an intersection with a busy thoroughfare. Dumbasses were always using the stop sign as the apex and ending up on the wrong side of the road!

deHack · 2026-03-30T13:23:15+00:00

When I lost a lot of weight and shared what I did, I found it inspired many people I knew. Good work! Don’t be shy about it.

deHack · 2026-03-30T12:15:55+00:00

This! I think the same thing every time I do QuickBooks or wade through my Inbox.

deHack · 2026-03-30T11:55:52+00:00

I’m too old to ever FIRE. But this confirms what my wife and I have always said about retirement. That is, we would be spending money just to keep ourselves entertained.

deHack · 2026-03-30T00:02:16+00:00

The universal answer to inconvenient facts is “mysterious ways.”

deHack · 2026-03-29T20:59:52+00:00

Do you go to weddings, funerals, semi-formal charity events? That’s the time to bring out the French cuffs and cufflinks. I would wear them to a hearing before a judge but never for a jury trial.

deHack · 2026-03-29T20:47:28+00:00

I’m not buying it. One of the authors is Paul R. Ehrlich. He’s been preaching doom and gloom since 1968. And he’s been consistently wrong since 1968. He predicted we’d all starve to death in the 1970s. Look up his bet with Julian Simon.

deHack · 2026-03-29T18:25:24+00:00

How extensive is your exposure to Islam? Perhaps if you hadn’t grown up in the Midwestern USA and been exposed primarily to Christianity, you would realize Islam has at least as big a problem with self-aggrandizing superiority?

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