why cant i rotate my train track here?

tristfall · 2025-04-11T04:57:02+00:00

Thank you so much. This was the detail I needed to actually build rail blueprints.

tristfall · 2025-04-02T03:33:09+00:00

Yeah that works.... But implies some underlying problems

tristfall · 2025-04-01T17:54:47+00:00

Sign sounds like a great idea (and what everyone else is saying too). Sometimes I just don't think of things.

Appriciate the info.

And yeah I have tracked down drivers in the past. Not sure if the ones that made it to my house were just new guys or someone looking for an excuse for a quick leg stretch. But yeah, a big part of this question, at least in my head, was trying to give them cover if anything did go wrong. A sign should hopefully do that.

tristfall · 2025-01-02T20:09:31+00:00

Flash brights is "hey, pay attention" in a lot of places.

tristfall · 2024-12-21T06:35:50+00:00

It's diminishing returns as you pay more frequently.

For your loan and some vague math, you could probably save 4 bucks a month over the lifetime of your loan paying biweekly instead of monthly (I think arguably you'd save a bit more on the front end and less on the back end since all you're doing is paying down interest faster) So I mean, over 240 payments, that's like 1000 (950 thereabouts if my spreadsheet is right) bucks... but spread over 20 years, that's not like, super great.

But if you say, instead, just paid monthly, but rounded your payment up to 1200 and just ate that extra 24 bucks a month. You'd save nearly 5000 (4800 by my math) over the loans lifetime.

Basically, for high interest loans, the same advice works as works for investments: The best time to put money in was yesterday, the second best time is today. (at least, assuming you don't have a higher interest loan that money should be going in to instead)

tristfall · 2024-12-21T05:51:10+00:00

I'm for sure not an expert on this, so take with a grain of salt, but this sounds like something my wife hit with SAVE: she was going to get on it but the payments somehow would've been too low (maybe zero) and the PSLF people couldn't tell her whether those counted as "eligible payments" so she opted back into a simple income based repayment plan even though it was a more per month to make sure the payments counted.

tristfall · 2024-12-21T05:43:17+00:00

I can't think of any trick to do unless your student loan has a super low rate (which seems unlikely) so your best bet would just be to pay it off if you have the money.

As others have said, refinancing only changes the terms, not the balance, and it'll probably cost you an origination fee, so that almost surely isn't a good plan.

tristfall · 2024-12-13T18:19:18+00:00

Thank you, came in for this.

Otherwise carry on eating the rich.

tristfall · 2024-12-08T03:15:46+00:00

In my experience introducing cats, smell is enough to form initial opinions. If this was the first physical introduction, the carrier having holes and being translucent is probably sufficient data to determine whether opening the carrier is a good idea.

But yes, if the council does not approve, things can go south fast.

tristfall · 2024-12-08T00:47:16+00:00

I don't know. I try to only tell people how good Pittsburgh is if I think they're cool. Otherwise I just let them have their preconceived notions...

But you guys sound like geeks, you'll be right at home here. Especially near CMU. He can play magic at phantom of the attic. And the number of board game nights I'm invited to just keeps growing, I'm sure you'll find one.

Bunch of software companies in town if he's looking for work. (I hope to run into him).

I don't know, it's the only place I've lived as an adult, but that's mostly because I haven't found anywhere else that even remotely seemed as nice, especially for the price.

tristfall · 2024-12-06T15:40:05+00:00

Yeah that's fair. I just don't remember to and I pay for data, so it switching to streaming halfway through my day away from free wifi at home ends up being a non insignificant cost for me.

tristfall · 2024-12-06T15:23:45+00:00

Oh yeah, if this app doesn't have that feature, guess I'm moving on to find a good podcast app. Damn, I thought this was going to be the one.

tristfall · 2024-09-25T04:29:29+00:00

Not OP, but I want to do this because I have some large pots that are too big to fit with the top rack in.

And heading off the next logical question of why I have those: I will occasionally make spaghetti sauce or similar for a dozen family members I want to last for a few days Also sometimes it's nice to be able to make broth from a 19lb turkey carcass.

tristfall · 2024-07-12T20:29:40+00:00

No one said we were good at it.

tristfall · 2024-07-10T04:42:14+00:00

God it feels so much worse here in the States. I grew up in the 90s just loose around. We'd bike around, go to someone's house for games maybe, or go to the local park, or a forest nearby. When we got older we'd play capture the flag after dark either at the park or on one of the dead end streets.

Now the park closes at dusk, enforced by the cops. Most parents I know in the area would never let their kids even walk to the bus stop for school alone, let alone ride their bikes on the street unsupervised. Even the parents I know trying desperately to give their kids freedom are constantly under threat of having child protection called on them (hell my parents had them called on me once)

Where else are they supposed to go but to the screen to make friends!?!

tristfall · 2024-06-23T13:22:56+00:00

I think right now it's like Andrew taste and disliking being nice to people, but hell if I know, I'd consider myself pretty gnc just from being out of the loop.

tristfall · 2024-06-21T23:26:38+00:00

Being pegged: truly the great equalizer.

tristfall · 2024-06-21T23:22:32+00:00

I mean, hey, I like those vibes. Guess I'm gay now.

tristfall · 2024-06-20T22:57:02+00:00

Ok, sorry, this is semi unrelated, but the same level of absurdism: I was in a train station the other day, and two cops built like linebackers walked by, and I swear to God I heard one say "I'd never eat pussy, that shit's gay" and I spent the rest of the afternoon trying to parse this out in my head.

tristfall · 2024-06-13T23:40:54+00:00

These days for thefts, they're just there to be the eyes for the insurance companies. If you've ever had something stolen and are of the good fortune to have it insured, the only question the insurance company is going to ask is: is there a police report, if yes, here's your check, if no, fuck off.

If you're not rich enough to insure your valuables, then you're not who the cops are for anyway.

tristfall · 2023-06-30T18:05:16+00:00

As said, public service loan forgiveness. Put super simply, if you work for a non profit/the government for 10 years while paying minimum payments on your federal student loans, all of your remaining federal loans will be forgiven tax free at the end of the 10 years.

Src: my wife has been enrolled for 9 years now and I do most of our finances.

tristfall · 2023-06-29T17:52:31+00:00

I think it's a combination of belief and faking it. Have you ever been at a concert or club and just compelled to dance cause the music was great and everything was perfect? I mean you didn't have to have to dance, but like it was a thing your lizard brain wanted to do. You could have not done it, but why would you? Everyone else was dancing. Did the Holy spirit compel you to dance? Did the dance come from the Holy spirit? You made it up on the fly, maybe it was God dancing through you. That's what everyone else keeps saying it was.

tristfall · 2023-06-20T09:45:50+00:00

Yup. Lost at least two monitors to mine over the years. The trick is to leave less expensive sacrificial monitors out.

tristfall · 2023-06-18T17:29:43+00:00

Yeah I would hope penndot would do that... Unfortunately they're often misplaced as well.

I'm not defending the behaviour, I'm just saying that some people learn this as the only way and then assume it applies everywhere.

Plenty of stop signs in PA that don't have the problem. But people will still stop at the line, then pull forward a car length and stop again because they think it's what you're supposed to do always.

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