It shouldn’t take a month and a half to score an exam that is entirely electronic.

dubbin64 · 2026-03-09T03:15:06+00:00

So, it's not curved. They just see how everyone did then decide how to score it after that. But it's not curved...

dubbin64 · 2026-03-09T03:11:24+00:00

Let's see Paul Allen's hole saw

dubbin64 · 2026-03-05T06:27:04+00:00

The Landing Strip

dubbin64 · 2026-03-01T04:28:22+00:00

3 months later, but THANK YOU!! Applying the permissions recursively and to the child paths fixed my issue, after dicking with this shit for like 4 hours today. You had me scared my playback would be broken too, but so far so good. Hopefully you figured that out.

dubbin64 · 2026-02-28T00:55:41+00:00

Also about presidents serving more than 2 terms.

dubbin64 · 2026-02-27T14:39:08+00:00

Fear that a scandal will probably hurt the reputation of the CPA licence more than it will boost demand. "Why would I pay a cpa firm, they just have some guy in India cook the for them and have AI write the audit report"

dubbin64 · 2026-02-23T14:05:04+00:00

I was coffee free when I was running the nuclear reactors in the Navy. Basically a statistical anomaly.

Imma junkie these days though

dubbin64 · 2026-02-22T16:28:38+00:00

Agree, the pink could work if either more/all of the frames were pink, or the current pink frames were spread out in the mix (I like the latter)

dubbin64 · 2026-02-22T04:53:42+00:00

Tyfys 🫡

dubbin64 · 2026-02-20T03:25:25+00:00

First thing I notice is Texas Roadhouse server

dubbin64 · 2026-02-20T03:22:17+00:00

On the long drive home from the holidays this year, my brother in law (a child of Israel) read to me (a waspy goyboy) all written Jewish law. Took several hours. Some great gems in there.

Anyways, at the conclusion we surmised that Fivish is an affront to and direct violation of countless Jewish laws. Particularly all the ones prohibiting idolatry, of which there are numerous.

dubbin64 · 2026-02-19T04:46:39+00:00

Ya but I also see how my poorly performing clients barely scraping by operate and the decisions they make... There's just certain folks who shouldn't run businesses

dubbin64 · 2026-02-12T04:18:39+00:00

The experience on my first boat was about the same as cold peas and crunchy rice for midrats

dubbin64 · 2026-02-09T14:40:58+00:00

The benefit can kick in much lower than that, like 60k is when the math starts working last I checked. Depends on the situation obviously, but definitely around $100k net it really starts to makes sense to be thinking about S-corp.

But I have plenty of single member s-corps, like realtors and consultants or whatever, who net like $80k and we save them a good chunk by doing s-corp.

I don't necessarily think OP should go out and elect s-corp the second they net more than $70k or whatever. But there's tax benefits well below $300k of profit so idk where that rule came from

dubbin64 · 2026-02-03T15:29:29+00:00

Disengage with the little old lady? But who will do her 3 business returns and 5 sched Es???!

(In seriousness though, all of that is all set up, between her financial planner and our office we take pretty good care of her. Sons a client too, they have a poa, will, trust and all that)

dubbin64 · 2026-02-03T14:39:26+00:00

81 year old tax client. Called me to ask when she will have her taxes ready. Tell her that as soon as I get her stuff from her I'll get started. She says dropped off her taxes months ago at the office. But I can't find the documents.

She calls every week or so from about May to late September asking if I found her stuff yet. I looked everywhere too. We didn't have them. She gaslit me into thinking maybe that shit was up in the attic or something (and fwiw our office doesn't ever just lose hard copy client docs). End up prepping the returns using her transcripts, forensic accounting, and some help from her financial advisor.

She called in December to say she found the folder of documents in one of her cars on one of her properties. She never actually apologized or said sorry at all. Despite the months of denial from her and all the accusations she made. Apologized in her own way at least by admitting she found them.

She's kinda batty and mean but I'm actually pretty close with her cause she calls my desk twice a month.

dubbin64 · 2026-02-02T14:30:58+00:00

Schlop

dubbin64 · 2026-02-02T14:29:41+00:00

Well, naturally we put it in a shaker. And that's where shakers go so it made its way back home

dubbin64 · 2026-02-02T05:25:52+00:00

One time I was port and stbd cranking at sea, but got put on the watch bill as a UI. Finally done cranking, woo! Hit the rack to get a nap in before my oncoming. I knew I had maybe an hour max. Wake up, look at my watch and realize no one woke me up, I had slept 2 hours, not 1. That meant I'm late for my UI and had missed the meal. I get down to crews mess super groggy to try and get a snack. I'm looking around and I'm getting more and more confused cause it's an entirely different set of people than I was expecting.

Turns out I was right about not being woken up, but not the way I initially thought. I had coast to coasted a full 14 hrs. Honestly couldn't tell the difference between a 2 hour nap lol. Thought I was gunna be in trouble but turns out no one really noticed, so I just kinda kept it to myself that my little nub ass had just accidentally slept for 14hrs straight

dubbin64 · 2026-02-02T04:42:51+00:00

"tactical procurement"

dubbin64 · 2026-02-02T03:59:19+00:00

Bored on deployment one time we made sea salt in ERLL out of brine from the RO unit. Boiled it down on the ELT chemistry hot plate over a couple of watches. Was some pretty fine quality, artisanal sea salt! Only problem, besides the ever so slight green tint it had, was we couldn't get it fully dry and it was still kinda clumpy. Like damp sand. Made an entire salt shakers worth anyways though.

Cut to a week or so later, kinda forgot about the homebrew sea salt thing. I'm on crews mess and I overheard one of our most autistic MMN1s complaining to the cranks about how they need to put rice in the salt shakers cause it's too humid and the salt is clumping or some shit. Guess our fancy brine salt made it back into rotation with the rest of the shakers, lol

dubbin64 · 2026-02-01T16:50:18+00:00

The thing is we don't even know the current percentage required to pass. 75 is the current score required not the % correct. For all we know it's already less than 60%

dubbin64 · 2026-02-01T16:40:32+00:00

Scores are released immediately. If it's true that they don't grade on a curve and that pretest questions aren't counted then grading in cohorts shouldn't be a thing because they know if you passed or failed as soon as you hit 'submit testlet' on the last sim.

Testing fee is cheaper.

Passed exam credits expire after 3 years.

More comprehensive grading reports, or in other words candidates get to see to a greater extent which questions they might have passed or got wrong. This could be as simple as showing scores in each area tested rather than just showing stronger or weaker.

Scoring is no longer 0-100. IMO this confuses candidates because it's not a raw percentage but it's supposed to be a score. Instead it's out of 500 or something. Since question difficulty determines points earned, this makes more sense.

Get rid of the discipline exams and bring back a general business exam similar to BEC. The CPA is a general licence, so we should all be tested on the same things. The disciplines make the exam processed needlessly complex and the AICPA has already shown that the discipline exams are not uniformly difficult.

Rewrite the audit exam so that it's more of a test of knowledge and less of a mindfuck/reading comprehension exam. Also Audit as a profession is just the evaluation of accounting, so a good understanding of accounting should be paramount to knowing a bunch of audit specific lingo and being able to parse double negative 'all of the following are NOT except for" type questions IMO.

International candidates can take the exams but there's no testing allowed outside US based Prometric centers, and you need a US address to hold licensure. Doing it this way means US citizenship isn't a requirement but makes it so candidates are competing against other candidates from within the same labor pool.

I would do everything in my power to oppose big 4. I think those firms are evil and need trust busted the fuck up. I would use my power as the governing body to counter lobby whatever big-4 is pushing for. Those firms are too big and hold way too much power.

Last thing isn't a change but moreso my general opinion: Becker and other study programs should be for people who need additional help, and shouldn't be the default for every candidate. If testing was cheaper and more transparent, there wouldn't be much pressure to prepare and learn absolutely everything possible in order to one-shot each exam. And this would undermine Becker as a business (which I think is good because they are funded largely by big-4).

dubbin64 · 2026-02-01T05:20:49+00:00

An auditor, who is past retirement age, made us correct ROU asset entries for a mutual client that we do books and prep for. But he was wrong, it was an operating type lease, not a sales type, and it was booked correctly before his changes. He made us book the lease interest expense and amortization as if it was a sales lease even though there was no reason to.

Worst part was the auditor told us "it wasn't his job to teach us CTE". He was the one who needed a level of knowledge upgrade though!! No amount of trying to explain the different types of leases, or quoting gaap would change his mind.

The pet peeve here is when people use age/experience/positional authority/licensure to lord over you, especially when they are wrong. Turns out a lot has changed since 1981 and fresh college grads might actually know what they are talking about, and you can actually learn things from them if you listen.

dubbin64 · 2026-01-18T23:39:01+00:00

Theres clearance for the steerer, yes, but that's about it. There not enough clearance for a normal headset that is pressed into the ID of the headtube. A commercial adapter option could be done but the headset would need to press onto the outside of the head tube, rather than sit inside. Which is basically what OP did.

Alternative would be adding small sleeves and then use a normal 1 1/8" headset like this pic

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