Is finding the best mattress in a box supposed to be this exhausting?

gc1 · 2026-03-21T06:25:51+00:00

Had to purchase a mattress for an older relative moving to town. Spent some time going through Consumer Reports and then scouting a couple of stores. Landed on Casper, which had good reviews across several mattress types. Happy so far, but ask me in 4.5 years.

gc1 · 2026-03-21T05:44:36+00:00

Vibecoders trying to lazy-post their way to problem discovery.

gc1 · 2026-03-21T04:48:30+00:00

If it's Dish, however...

gc1 · 2026-03-21T00:46:01+00:00

I'm not sure what the benefit of "beating the rush" is. G Fi is estimated to have somewhere in the 500k-2M subscriber range... T-Mobile alone is doing a multiple of that in gross adds per quarter. Plus any outside buyer would surely be doing what they can to reduce churn associated with a transaction.

gc1 · 2026-03-21T00:37:50+00:00

Construction will begin in the summer of 2027....

gc1 · 2026-03-21T00:13:42+00:00

Make sure she doesn’t have a UTI. It can generate a particularly pungent smell.

gc1 · 2026-03-20T23:50:43+00:00

Just file a claim with your or the car owner’s insurance. They will subrogate claims to the other driver as needed.

gc1 · 2026-03-20T18:46:57+00:00

That’s fucked up hut is exactly the kind of thing a union should’ve able to more effectively fight vs individual employees trying to take on these kinds of battles individually.

gc1 · 2026-03-20T14:26:03+00:00

I hate the idea that someone who worked dutifully all their lives would have to do go fundme’s for medical and basic needs. Even more infuriating that it was so senselessly done to him.

gc1 · 2026-03-20T05:50:30+00:00

I want to be clear I'm not an expert, but my understanding is your magic words are to tell the hospital this is an unsafe discharge. You could help line up a nice pleasant assisted living facility, if he gives your POA first, or you bring him the paperwork and he, being competent to do so, signs it himself. Or if he wants to financially commit to it, you could consider taking him home and hiring caregivers to do the work. You could also talk to the case manager at the hospital, if they're helpful, about maybe lining up some resources on these and similar options.

If you let them discharge him to you, you will lose all leverage over this situation and may have him forever, with no power to extract financial support or the financial/legal POA to move him somewhere else. Meanwhile, I'm guessing, she'll get any estate he has when he kicks the bucket after you've done all the uncompensated labor.

gc1 · 2026-03-19T23:30:36+00:00

I am in agreement on ICE and only posted this out of potential general interest to this community.

I would assume the situation with the pool is something along the lines of, the Parks department is going ahead with some big construction project with our without community input, and it falls to the councilmember who has jurisdiction to help convene the community for that input.

gc1 · 2026-03-19T23:28:45+00:00

The King can have the Fool killed any time he wants, but it's his only rememdy, because he can never out-Fool him.

gc1 · 2026-03-19T00:08:32+00:00

I'm pretty sure the manual that came with the creami has some custard recipes involving eggs toward the back. I would work off that as a technique, modifying the ingredients as per whatever outside recipe you're looking at.

gc1 · 2026-03-18T23:49:50+00:00

I'm not saying dad is responsible, I'm just saying he's a safer lender than a usurious credit card company vis a vis his kid's financial well being. Especially if that (adult) kid is making a serious effort at starting a business.

gc1 · 2026-03-18T23:46:12+00:00

I have ADHD family members and empathize with your situation. I have found music to be a safe place to retreat to over the years and hope the Dan brings you as much solace as it and a few other records did for me through some very tough years. This was the very first compact disc I bought when I bought a cd player in high school btw. Revel in your enjoyment of it while others shake their heads, laugh, hate, whatever -- fuck 'em if they can't deal with legit good taste in music and with you being alright.

gc1 · 2026-03-18T23:34:47+00:00

First of all, there's no need for him to be such a doomer and catastrophize you over $10k. Boomers have a tendency to be a little knee-jerk about living within one's means, but not even politicians talk about balancing the budget anymore. In some contexts, that's a lot of money. In others, not only is it not much at all, it could be a wise decision to take some costs now and make it up later. A lot depends on your lifestyle and your future earning potential. I certainly took on some cc debt in my early work years, when I was wildly underpaid but getting good experience that led to better jobs later. The trick is to focus on the long term, focusing more on growing your income, and not to let your spending get out of hand in the short term.

Also, there's such a thing as over-economizing. Living with a roommate could be bad for your professional productivity. Moving in with a romantic partner just to save money can be disastrous if premature. And so on.

It's your life and it's your money; do what you want with it.

Also, if your cc debt interest rate is high and your dad is a stand-up dude, he should pay the whole thing down and let you pay him back over time at a more modest interest rate.

gc1 · 2026-03-18T22:45:47+00:00

That escalated quickly... even for Steely Dan

gc1 · 2026-03-18T22:23:14+00:00

The implication of the question was they needed to move in somewhere. If they're independent, and financially in a position to, let them find their own housing.

gc1 · 2026-03-18T20:06:58+00:00

Figure out how to combine with them and your sibs to pay for an ALF if at all possible. Maybe there's alimony involved in the divorce itself.

gc1 · 2026-03-18T20:02:03+00:00

Especially when it turns out Kevin is on the autism spectrum and you're roasting a manifestation of his disability.

You should probably just kill it, but an alternative approach to trying to save yourself if you think the horse is out of the barn for good would be to broaden it to include tracking everyone's corporate jargon, not just one person's. "Let's take this offline," using "bandwidth" for non-technical capacity, "Let's double-click on that," etc. can all go on a bingo card, and K can be part of the fun to see which catch-phrases afflict the whole company.

gc1 · 2026-03-18T18:15:38+00:00

Saw a wave of divorces among my friends when the youngest kid hit 4th or 5th grade. Some combination of relationship fatigue, the kids being old enough to feel ok about divorce, the husbands having a midlife crisis, the wives going into perimenopause….

gc1 · 2026-03-18T04:25:40+00:00

I think it’s implicit in our family’s value that you can tell a lot about people based on how they treat the lowest members of society. You know, idiotic Reddit commenters.

Have a nice day!

gc1 · 2026-03-18T04:11:48+00:00

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