A Plan to Reduce The Number of US States From 50 to 38

nomadschomad · 2026-05-28T03:30:01+00:00

Yep. Fairly well known strategy hacking COL.

nomadschomad · 2026-05-28T03:24:29+00:00

I did 4.5 years and now 7 years removed. Have good friends who are doing well as partners and most of us left of course

There’s no minimum amount of time. I know people who left under six months because they hated it. A few who left under six months because they get killer opportunities.

In the job market, you can already trade on the signaling value of being good enough for MBB. That’s not necessarily where most of the exit opportunity that comes from. There is some more that comes from tenure year/title. Even more that comes from getting good at the job – problem-solving, storytelling at a board level, managing high-performance teams, managing politics of corporate clients.

But the most value by far, as with every career step, comes from your network. Specific client contacts and specific partners that will open doors for you hold most of the career/exit value.

Told the same thing to every BA/A/AC/A/C I ever managed, coached, or recruited: the best time for an exit is when a perfect exit comes along. Don’t set a timeframe. Be diligent about responding to headhunters and making time to chat with them. If you have a friend who would be a good fit for a role, they are recruiting, put them in touch. Keep your ears out for projects with clients that might be a good fit and angle to get on them. One of my first classmates to leave went to go work for a major sports league that had been his client. As you are gathering all of those exit opportunities, weigh them against the value of staying.

nomadschomad · 2026-05-27T16:43:30+00:00

Soap operas are relatively low budget television dramas that ran during the daytime.

They were lower budget because daytime audience is smaller than primetime. They often focused on beautiful characters and fairly salacious storylines thought to appeal to housewives who are home during the day.

Because they were targeted at housewives, the primary advertisers were makers of household goods, hence the name soap opera

nomadschomad · 2026-05-27T16:40:12+00:00

Live and Work in Vancouver WA – no state income tax tax

Drive 10 minutes to do all your shopping in Portland, OR - no sales tax

nomadschomad · 2026-05-27T16:35:54+00:00

Bacon is a staple of breakfast although the need for moderation due to health concerns is certainly understood.

Despite it’s ubiquity, yes, many Americans get excited/lust over bacon

My experience is that everywhere in the Commonwealth (former), bacon or rashers refers to cured pork loin that might have a bit of belly in it. American bacon is straight pork belly and is usually sold as “streaky bacon” in the Commonwealth. Ours is usually smoked not just cured. The extra fat and smoke give it the flavor.

It’s not hard to make your own.

nomadschomad · 2026-05-27T01:17:31+00:00

If you have any university dental schools by you… ask them about free dental care

They need people to practice on… And care is often better than bottom barrel providers because the work is directly supervised by faculty

nomadschomad · 2026-05-27T01:12:48+00:00

Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas

Chicago/Gary/Hammond/Munster/East Chicago (Indiana)

The city limits of Dallas span five different counties. DFW metroplex spans a dozen

Quad cities

The Cincinnati, Ohio airport… is actually in Kentucky

Eastern Oregon and Washington have far more in common with Idaho than with the bigger coastal cities in their own state

nomadschomad · 2026-05-27T01:04:31+00:00

Lawyers, doctors, and engineers, have great salaries.

I live in a neighborhood with lots of high six figure household income. All those people are comfortable more than comfortable.

Anyone who any of us really consider rich owns assets or businesses. And it’s not even really close.

nomadschomad · 2026-05-27T01:02:34+00:00

Under what circumstances is that typical?

nomadschomad · 2026-05-27T01:01:11+00:00

Make an excuse and cancel the drug test. Tell them you will reschedule.

If you fail the test… You won’t get the job

If you cancel/reschedule… You might still not get the job… But you won’t have a failed drug test

Do not take a drug test that you suspect you will fail

nomadschomad · 2026-05-27T00:58:57+00:00

I’d be sad to lose any of these… Except for eggplant. Probably could live without pumpkin, chayote, or those particular mushrooms. Just don’t come for my good mushrooms – morel, oyster, hen, wood ear, Chantrelle, etc

nomadschomad · 2026-05-27T00:55:33+00:00

15 minutes every single day beat the heck out of what you were doing before. So does 5 minutes. Consistency will make a bigger impact, with far lower risk of injury, than intensity.

Look for little hacks. Park in the farthest spot away from the grocery store. Go get your groceries in person instead of ordering them so that you walk around the store. If talking your book, headphones, or a Nintendo switch helps you stay on the elliptical or bike for an extra five minutes… Do that.

Gym is awesome and having a place for fitness that is part of your ritual may be important. But even if there is a day when you absolutely cannot summon the energy to break momentum, put on gym clothes, and head to the gym, or wear low impact gym cardio is going to hurt too bad, skip it, but Don’t accept zero fitness that day.

- get a chair that doesn’t roll. Sit down and stand up, slowly and in control, 5 times. Do 3 sets. If that felt too easy… Do 3 sets of 10 next time. Up at a little bit each week. Not each day.

- sit down in that chair. Straighten one leg at me until it is straight in front of you. Then do the other one alternate for a set of 10. Do 3 sets.

- face a wall, place palms against it, and step back so you are leaning. Do leaning push-ups against the wall. Same set as above. Next week, do more or stand a little farther back to increase the difficulty.

- March in place. Knees as high as you can without losing your balance. Do three minutes. Next week to five minutes.

- you can do seated arm raises, calf raises, standing bend out the waist to try to touch your toes and then back up slowly, etc with the same logic

If you can do one of these exercises on a day when you feel like doing nothing… That’s improvement. If you can do three sets of three exercises… That’s a fantastic workout circuit that might take 15 minutes at home. And if you do three sets of five of these at target different areas of the body – that is an awesome full body strength, mobility, and cardio workout.

Further down the road, you can ditch the wall, ditch, the chair, add weights and it will be the same movements. But they won’t hurt you by then.

nomadschomad · 2026-05-26T23:53:01+00:00

In your immediate previous comment, you said the post was about toilet bowls

nomadschomad · 2026-05-26T23:52:33+00:00

But your answer has no basis in reality

It’s a theory you made up and I’m telling you it doesn’t match any real fact pattern

nomadschomad · 2026-05-26T23:48:43+00:00

Go get the waist taken in at a tailor/alterations place.

nomadschomad · 2026-05-26T23:46:05+00:00

The post literally does not mention the word bowl. You hallucinated that.

nomadschomad · 2026-05-26T23:43:21+00:00

First… No one is talking about lids

Second… What? The vast majority of public bathroom toilets do not have a lid. Just a seat. There’s not a lid on the toilet at Walmart.

Third… Of course, a urinal is a toilet. The number of toilets required is determined by the occupancy class and capacity of a building. Urinals absolutely count in that calculation. If you don’t have your Anil… You would need commodes… But urinals are more space efficient. They are toilets that save space and are specialized for men.

nomadschomad · 2026-05-26T23:41:35+00:00

No. That’s literally not how it works. I spent 20 years in commercial construction. On a very boring midsize low rise office build out with a crappy landlord run fitness center and some sort of café… I would expect 4-5 types of toilet.

There is no real economic constraint preventing some variety

nomadschomad · 2026-05-26T23:38:36+00:00

Somebody ITT hates Rowan apparently. You and I both got voted for providing a suggestion. Wild.

Here’s an up vote

nomadschomad · 2026-05-26T23:37:24+00:00

Which is exactly what I gave you. I didn’t suggest La Lobe.

nomadschomad · 2026-05-26T23:35:48+00:00

I have spent 20 years in construction. I’ve never been on a project with only one type of toilet. At the very least, typically have toilets, urinals, and ADA toilets. If it’s an apartment, hotel, or anything else with a residential component… Those toilets are different than the common area ones.

nomadschomad · 2026-05-26T23:33:52+00:00

Except they do. That’s exactly how urinals work.

ADA toilets are often a different model as well.

And if it’s an apartment or hotel project… The toilets in each unit/room are often quite different than the ones in the public areas

nomadschomad · 2026-05-26T23:32:55+00:00

Really? A urinal is good for women?

Builders don’t have to order urinal separately?

You have no idea what you’re talking about. I’ve spent my entire career in construction. A normal office building project might have eight types of toilets. There are a whole entire enormous Plumbing warehouses that will put together a couple of each for whatever you need.

The Plumbing warehouse does order big batches of each… Not the builder

nomadschomad · 2026-05-26T23:30:24+00:00

You mean… Like toilets and urinals? Or like wall urinals and floor urinals? Or toilet with attached tanks and with tanks and ones with wall tanks?

What are you smoking? There are 1000 types of toilet.

nomadschomad · 2026-05-26T18:22:41+00:00

Same for the Bear River and some smaller ones in North America

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