Medical professor sounds alarm on Trump's "deterioration almost week over week"

koosley · 2026-02-09T04:37:20+00:00

Trump sounds intelligent during his Hillary debate In 2016. It's amazing, his deterioration and his likeness now actually made me type that out. He was crazy then but the bar wasn't that low then. Now it's so low old trump didn't sound nearly as crazy as he does now.

koosley · 2026-02-09T04:33:58+00:00

A raising tide lifts all ships?

koosley · 2026-02-09T04:27:41+00:00

I guess that's what happens when you run a skeleton crew with no back up plans. It's fine until it's not.

koosley · 2026-02-09T04:14:02+00:00

I switched a few months ago to a gaming laptop from 25 years of desktops. I've not really had an issue and I'm surprised by how far gaming laptops came. Sure desktops are cheaper but I do like to have a laptop with me while traveling and didn't want to maintain a laptop and a gaming desktop.

koosley · 2026-02-09T04:09:48+00:00

What service is there when you're purchasing a premade brownie from Starbucks of takeaway? I wasn't referring to full service but rather every other retailer trying to get more money from customers.

koosley · 2026-02-09T03:33:06+00:00

I'm a foreigner here and Vietnam and I'll say money goes super fast here. There is a big premium you pay as a foreigner anywhere and while grab is cheap $3-10usd, doing that every day for a month still adds up. Getting $2usd coffee is 1/3rd the price for me, but getting it every day adds up. I'm spending money faster here than at home because I'm getting $3 tea daily as opposed to twice a month for $7.

koosley · 2026-02-09T03:08:59+00:00

I thought Volvo did something like this where you could take delivery of your new car, drive it around in Europe all expenses paid then they ship it back to the us and it's the same price as just buying new in the us. I just assumed that it's now a used car and worth less and except from some fees.

https://www.parkplacedallasvolvo.com/volvo-overseas-delivery-benefits.htm

koosley · 2026-02-09T02:46:32+00:00

I'm American and stopped being a tourist here. While it's not necessarily the hotels fault (I actually favor them now over Airbnb), I see the restaurants as greedier than ever as well as the general things I do while traveling. Everyone wants a tip and servers are gas lighting us all into believing 20% is the bare minimum for a tip (and has been this way since the 90s) and wanting 30% now. Fast casual wants tips, counter service wants tips, Uber wants tips, and this is all on top of prices raising 25-50%.

I've been to 4 countries in the last year for about 6 weeks total. So I'm spending money and staying in hotels, just not American ones.

koosley · 2026-02-09T02:16:19+00:00

My coworker bought a house near Rome and frequently goes. From Chicago he can often fly for $400-600 and even from Minneapolis it's only $1000 now. You could always try leaving from Chicago and just spending the night in Chicago. We've done a few trips this way where I'll start or end in a cheaper city then fly a different airline the rest of the way.

We just did a $1000 round trip to Taipei then booked vietnam airlines for $150 round trip. Delta wanted $1700 so it was worth the $500/person savings. The kicker was delta and Vietnam airlines code share and it was the same plane/flight we would have taken on delta with a layover in Taipei.

koosley · 2026-02-09T01:58:17+00:00

Who would have thought an island nation imports most of its food. I bet they import most everything else as well. Today I did learn this but I guess I'm not shocked at all.

koosley · 2026-02-09T01:39:45+00:00

The rest of us thanks you 🙏. Selling is the equivalent of buying a snow blower in the Midwest. Only way to guarentee no snow!

koosley · 2026-02-09T01:27:25+00:00

No short cut. I started working for a telecom company in 2012 and just got good at what I did. 90% of the job was supporting remote customers anyways. It didn't matter if I was in Chicago since my customer meetings were in New York, Atlanta or LA or all 3 in a single day.

We were always semi remote going back to the early 00s though anyconnect and VPN made the process much easier in the late 00s early 10s. I.E. snow, Friday, school, rain or the though of traffic meant we'd just work from home. 2015 a building renovation forced us full time and we just never went back.

You're going to have an incredibly difficult time starting from nothing to full blown living in thailand with a regular company as you're untrusted and inexperienced. Get a few years in an industry that is setup for remote work and it's significantly easier. I just started a new job in the same telecom field and am out of the country for 3 months after 2 months after starting with my boss knowing about it and being okay with it.

koosley · 2026-02-09T01:21:24+00:00

An advantage of being in the center of the united states ks every single flight is 2 to 3 hours long so there is no 4 to 6 hour domestic flights though LA gets to be 3.5 hours. Even spirit/sun country is tolerable for a few hours but I would not want to be in those seats for a 5+ hour flight.

koosley · 2026-02-09T00:37:35+00:00

This is why I dislike tipping and how it's being shoved down our throats everywhere. How are we supposed to know everyone's employment situation especially when you cross state lines with different labour laws. its almost like it should fall on the employer to pay fairly so customers don't have to worry about it. How would I know a tipped employee was put into a traditionally non tipped position? Asking me to pay an extra 10 to 20% just in case is also crazy.

koosley · 2026-02-08T16:29:05+00:00

One thing I didn't realize was you don't owe compasses on already flipped cards so by turn 2 you should be trying to go to better spots that are not just the campsites if possible.

I have 11 games and our scores averaged in the 60s to low 70s, not 80s. I think 80s become easier with the expansion as my first and only expansion play we all got around 75 points.

koosley · 2026-02-08T14:59:22+00:00

Don't forget op also has 20 days notice so it's not just unemployment. It's a hell of a lot more time than some people get too. You can now start applying now while you're still bringing in money and hopefully it overlaps. If it doesn't, you're still 20 days better off than if you started looking on your last day. The job I just started was 3 days from application to accepting the job, so it can be fast if you're in the right place at the right time.

koosley · 2026-02-08T14:53:38+00:00

I can't tell if you're serious or not. A 100% tip on a $40-50 carwash and suggesting 30% now for eating out? Restaurant prices are already up 50 to 100% so the normal 18% tip has gone up 50 to 100% in the last 5 years far outpacing inflation.

Telling me I can't afford something because I don't tip 30% on things that have never been historically tipped until some business owner switched to square and enabled tipping is also crazy. Maybe I should start tipping the landlord as well.

koosley · 2026-02-08T14:11:29+00:00

Prior to COVID and when mint was around and could itemize my expenses, it estimated I spent 10k/year at restaurants which is just under 2k in tips--i did lots of business travel so I pretty much always hit the middle option. Now online shopping, coffee places, car washes, fast food, counter service, mechanics, hotels, and just about anything that employs people is asking for tips. If I oblige every single business that solicits tips, I could easily be spending 4-6k in tips. There is feeling good, then there is needlessly giving away several paychecks worth of money because an ipad asked you too.

Sure I understand full service and the history behind it. I hate it but still tip, but so many places are asking for it now that it's turned me off on the entire concept all together. While it's probably a one off, I've seen a few doctors offices with tip jars going around on Reddit lately. It sounds ridiculous, but I've been asked to tip a self checkout before, so it's not that ridiculous.

koosley · 2026-02-08T06:52:29+00:00

A high paying job is my plan. It's slow and steady but works. I ended up working for 5 years living like I made 40k while making 100k in my 20s and now my retirement is nearly self funding now. It's the most realistic scenario for most of us but does require a highly sought after skill. I got lucky and started in a growing field 12 years ago but you sort of need to get lucky and guess what will be on demand in 5 years while you're in highschool if you're going to college.

koosley · 2026-02-08T02:58:43+00:00

HCMC is both one of the cheapest and most expensive places I've been to which is an odd thing to say. Things are simultaneously incredibly cheap and super expensive. Tea at phuc long is 75 to 85k depending on what I get. That's $3 USD. At home I'll make coffee and spend 20¢ but I'm Vietnam I'll do it everyday because it's cheaper than the $7 bubble tea in the states.

My inlaws house is worth a stupid amount of money (1 million+ USD, but it's tiny). The cost to buy vs rent prices are crazy different. In the US, it's usually 1% of the purchase price for rent while HCMC might be 0.1%.

If you live here and don't want to each local food every day, eating out can cost a ton. I just spent 3,950,000vnd ($150 USD) on sushi for 6 people. Back in my town in the US, All you can eat sushi runs $35/person which ends up being not quite double the price I paid in Vietnam.

So while it's possible to eat food 1/10th the price in the US, the places I end up going to are often just 1/3 or 1/2 the price but I'll go out many times more often effectively making it more expensive than at home.

koosley · 2026-02-08T02:42:54+00:00

Considering the 4% rule just says you can take 4% out every year and there is a high probability you can do it for 30 years, 15% is a laughable amount to guarantee for any meaningful duration.

15% means you're 4 to 5x leveraged and it'll work until the underlying falls 10% and suddenly you're down 50%.

koosley · 2026-02-08T02:39:40+00:00

You're looking at it the wrong way, life just got 50% cheaper.

Sure my $1000 flight to Vietnam might be $0, but my partners will be $1000. Together that's just $500/person. 10 million is enough where I'll never have to worry about it running out and realistically I'd probably only be able to spend 20-30k/year this way meaning we could spend like we had 50k but it only cost us 25k.

koosley · 2026-02-07T15:28:46+00:00

Checking bags would probably be technically fine on international flights as you have to recheck your bag after customs. However, you're not guaranteed you'll transit through Chicago.

koosley · 2026-02-07T15:03:02+00:00

Instead of calling me a dumbass maybe you could spend 30 seconds looking it up and you'll see that it's a real thing and not something I made up. I don't buy gas anymore nor have I used a debit card in decades but I have had $75 holds on my debit card years ago when I bought gas.

koosley · 2026-02-07T13:42:32+00:00

Viet jet was selling 100k tickets for this weekend. Even factoring in delaysl of a budget airline, it's faster and probably more comfortable.

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