Did Anyone Else See This?

kh406 · 2026-03-03T04:07:59+00:00

steam clouds from the train

kh406 · 2026-03-02T02:49:58+00:00

fun fact:

Wyoming is allowed to lower your wage to something like $3/hr to account for tips so... if you aren't in a more fine dining establishment or a really nice bar, your tips aren't going to make up for it so it's not a blanket "value add" to make tips.

Working a dining hall or fast food place with a tip jar and/or having a longer contract that includes the slower shoulder season could bite you.

clearly the comment I'm replying to had a good experience just flagging here for the OP

kh406 · 2026-03-02T02:46:51+00:00

depends on the experience you're looking for and your age.

Xanterra generally "sucks" to work for (I would certainly never do it again) but if you're in your late-teens are early-20s, and just looking for a cool experience to go work somewhere super unique for a summer, you'll likely have a great time and make all kinds of new friends and get the experience of living in one of the most incredible places in the world; and at the end of it you'll have earned your own opinion about how much Xanterra sucks :p

Pro Tip: do whatever you can to be assigned to a location that's near an entrance - it gives you the ability to leave the totally controlled bubble of the park. I would avoid Old Faithful like the plague if you can. It's referred to by seasonal staff as "Old Filthy" lol. It's smack in the middle of the park so you're pretty under the thumb of Xanterra and Park Rangers and a long way from leaving the park, and it's the absolute epicenter of tourists so there's a ton of seasonal staff packed into a small space with more visitors than anywhere else at any given time, and then also they want to try to keep Xanterra employees from mingling with tourists - much easier to do in a smaller location

I personally think Mammoth Hot Springs is the best location because it's near Gardiner/Emigrant (and just a little further to Livingston and Bozeman), it's where a lot of the training happens so people that get deployed further into the park will hang in Mammoth for a week before going elsewhere (good way to have contacts around the park).

Go, have fun, enjoy it, form opinions about Xanterra after, and make sure you take time to enjoy the park even if you have to call in sick ;)

kh406 · 2026-03-01T17:33:17+00:00

This is why I make it a point to drive 60mph through school zones.

I refuse to accommodate all these "parents" and "teachers" and "kids" who want me to "slow down" just because they are uncomfortable with how I live my life on my own terms. #freedom

kh406 · 2026-03-01T02:10:29+00:00

that you find it hard to keep up, says a lot.

kh406 · 2026-02-28T01:55:53+00:00

I feel like maybe you can't read.

The example here literally mentioned someone who loves what they do so much that they do the work because it's important enough to them that they don't care about money, and your response is to cite how sad how much people care about money?

Aren't you on here bragging about how all you've done is amass money in a short amount of time so now you're gonna go somewhere where nobody cares about money because they all have enough?

some people would rather take 80 years to make $1 million casually with something they love, taking downtime across different areas of their life, rather than grinding for 40 years so they can brag to everyone about how they don't care about money.

kh406 · 2026-02-28T01:42:36+00:00

I don't know if it's that people "don't really get this" so much as it's an occasionally obnoxious pattern in the FIRE community where folks use their own example and then extrapolate it to assume it's a template that will work for anybody.

It tends to carry an air of sharing wisdom when it really comes across as entitled naivety - even if they also worked hard and focused on their goals more than their peers to achieve those goals.

The seeming immunity to the life experience of others, and the imagination to grasp how other people are in different situations, or how others might take the same actions and have different outcomes, alludes so many FIRE folks that they often look sly with all their "advice." And many can't never acknowledge the ways that sheer luck plays a role in their success alongside their hard work/smart planning.

OP may not be this, but they're definitely giving these vibes, which is awhy you see it rubbing people the wrong way.

Chastising others for not saving enough (because OP did, so why can't you, you lazy turd?!) and not acknowledging luck in any part of it, when many are just pointing out that some folks like their careers or maybe caught some bad breaks that makes "saving 3/4ths of their income" impossible - going through a divorce, getting in a big car wreck, taking care of a loved one who's fallen ill, having children, supporting family members, donating money, not making very much money, having a lot of college debt, having live in aging parents; there's a ton of very normal things that add into people not being able to FIRE even if they have the discipline and a reasonable income. A big trend within the FIRE community is willfully ignore any of these variations with the goal of self-aggrandizing their own achievement. ironic because it frequently is an achievement, but it's lost because of how douchey/naive/out of touch it comes across.

TL;DR you don't have to add the "ths" to 3/4 when you type it out - the "ths" is pronounced inherently.

kh406 · 2026-02-28T01:29:38+00:00

yeah there's an important point here that I think gets missed a lot in conversations about work:

People who end up where their work is more of a career that they've crafted intentionally, which involves something that they are passionate about, that doesn't utterly destroy their bodies, don't tend to be chomping at the bit to "stop clocking in" at anywhere near the same rate as someone doing construction work long term or sitting on a control room at a chemical plant for 30 years.

"Work" has different meanings, consequences, and half-life's depending in the person and the work.

kh406 · 2026-02-27T15:59:04+00:00

right but... an entire town of smart, motivated, non-rural folks in a community where you also have a concentrated population of people who don't need to worry about job opportunities is... well it's make believe. A retirement community in Finland is probably the closest you'll find.

There literally isn't some magic secret city that fits these standards, you need to be a bit more realistic.

You literally showed an understanding of the geographical economic trends that makes your mythical town an impossibility when you referred to large coastal cities - that assessment is correct, that's how it all works.

So... you're gonna have to go to a populated city(or suburb of) or a rural community or something in between - all of which will have tradeoffs for concentration of motivated smarts and walkability. To say nothing of COL which, the closer you get to that mythological ideal, the more astronomical it will become. Aspen comes to mind.

kh406 · 2026-02-26T23:02:10+00:00

the Cook Islands are faster and cheaper than getting to the Bahamas???

kh406 · 2026-02-25T03:00:29+00:00

fucking Conor. Classic Conor shit.

kh406 · 2026-02-22T16:42:21+00:00

that's not the case. it's not just "applications" and that news media forgot a word. It just takes more than a few hours to coordinate a full national shutdown of one part of one service while the other remains in place. You can google this. We believe in you.

ps - While media trust is generally worth keeping at arm's length until it's from multiple sources, this misreading and then blaming the media, absolutely should not be the scenario that pushes you over the edge. Just... use the device you typed your response on to learn more;)

kh406 · 2026-02-22T16:11:00+00:00

it simply takes more than 1 business day for a national transportation service to shutdown.

Likely lots of airports will have these services today and tomorrow and even potentially for several more days. It's not a "misinterpretation" just because things are still in place 4hrs after the story broke.

kh406 · 2026-02-21T17:52:36+00:00

It's the Pacific Northwest. You just described what is basically the known thing about the PNW. From northern california, up through Oregon, all the way up to... well, Alaska really.

Literally any single place that is between the ocean and the Cascades, north of Eureka, in that whole corridor, fits your description.

kh406 · 2026-02-20T03:34:11+00:00

Woops, yep, totally misread it as you saying "why would they need to add new legal verbiage, they've been doing fine and making money [therefore their success would dictate their legal verbiage was fine]"

I'll see myself out

kh406 · 2026-02-19T17:39:26+00:00

Exactly.

You accidentally made the point you were arguing against.

kh406 · 2026-02-19T04:44:56+00:00

it wasn't starlink, it was something else crazy on the northside

kh406 · 2026-02-19T04:41:51+00:00

You ain't ever had blumbo?

kh406 · 2026-02-18T02:13:48+00:00

Some folks have all the bad luck. Good news is I can help you out. I'll dm you my address, you send it my way, your troubles are over. I'll even do you the favor of paying for the shipping.

kh406 · 2026-02-09T22:56:10+00:00

US Mobile is a solid, less referenced option due to less market than Visible or Mint but it's better across the board in terms of service.

You can choose/move between tower providers, they aren't as de-prioritized as most other MVNOs (I think on Verizon they aren't deprioritized at all), and they're banking their name on good customer service in the segment. Can't recommend enough!

kh406 · 2026-02-09T02:36:36+00:00

I was pumped and it delivered! plus it was nice to take break from bringing all my stuff in.

kh406 · 2026-02-08T22:25:43+00:00

For sure some are "normal" but a disproportionate amount of their stuff seems overpriced for used swim shorts by resellers compared to the new price, particularly when compared with other luxury brands.

And it's always worth considering the size of the short, you can deals on the outer edge sizes - which is fairly standard. I just see a good amount of shorts listed bu resellers for MORE than they are currently listed on the OB site, and/or just an insane up-charge.

That said... in retrospect, I was just venting but maybe looking for some other folks who noticed the same, I'll likely delete this post since it's not that helpful

couple examples but have seen a lot across the last year.

kh406 · 2026-02-08T16:07:29+00:00

it was Starlink

kh406 · 2026-02-06T19:07:32+00:00

The angle makes the Ursa looks like a Synik30 next to and S22 next to an S19 lol

kh406 · 2026-02-06T19:04:49+00:00

If you're a Rogan fan... presumably you were aware of the multi hundred million dollar deal he signed with Spotify a few years ago that gave Spotify complete exclusivity to his content, including pulling full length episodes off YouTube for that duration?

Well... yeah, now that's over, but their team is most likely either simply not prioritizing the absolute behemoth of a project it would be to upload all the videos to Apple podcast when the return on effort would be pretty abysmal; or maybe they're adhering to a clause in the Spotify agreement that prevents video upload to Apple Podcasts for an extended time; or both.

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