If you start collecting at 62 and invest all of it, you have to beat what the feds are giving as a return. My recollection is that that is something higher than 8%. If you can beat 8% for 8 years do it. And that is on the pre-tax amount, you'll need more to cover the tax.

Me too, I cannot lie.

"When President Trump is the adult in the room.............."

https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/29849/thousand-year-old-tradition-ending?_=1715608146079

@89th said in Separate but Equal: For example, the first generation commencement... why not provide a better honor and ask during the general commencement for any first generation student to stand up so folks can applaud. That is a very good point.

I think the border issue is the one that actually rises to an impeachable offense.

It is interesting how nature can "reclaim" things. A bit more difficult to do now days with everything more documented, but places like Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Pompeii in Italy, etc. - amazing that for hundreds/thousands of years, people did not even realize they existed.

@LuFins-Dad said in Genealogy - That was easy…: Oh, I get it. But man, it is expensive. If I was to use it, I would want to limit it to a 2 month type of membership and just binge for 2 months then cut it. Yes, it's over-priced. I did a lot of work on it for a few weeks, then it got less interesting, so I've stopped the paid membership. I'm going to pay for another month soon and will do some more. One thing I found very useful (and interesting) was the ability to look at other people's family trees that include your ancestors. They also show how easy it is to make a mistake - references to some of my grandparents and great parents were sometimes incorrect in terms of Christian names which I knew for a fact.

@George-K said in Tats...: I have (had) no idea who she is The TV series The Good Place is definitely worth a look if you haven't seen it.

Seen on Twitter: Before becoming a full-time actor, Steve Buscemi was a fireman in the Fire Department of New York. On 9/11, he went to the WTC site and worked for a week trying to dig up, living or dead, his 343 ex-colleagues in the FDNY who were still missing. 343

His ability to evade an answer to a question is really to be envied.

The programmed road signs on I-10 around my exit today read "do as mom says, buckle up".

cute

"Florida is fighting back against the global elite's plan … When did he stop being an “elite”? After his Yale undergrad? After leaving Harvard Law? Or maybe when he was an Assistant US Attorney? Or when he was elected to Congress? Or was it when he became Governor of the State of Florida?

@jon-nyc said in Waffle House: Is a horror show. I ate at one in Gainesville last week. I thought it would be like a Denny’s, Perkins, or IHop. Nope. It’s like McDonalds with plates. Small menu, nothing remotely healthy on it. Literally nothing enters the building that isn’t ultra processed. Yoghurt? Nope. Bagel with cream cheese? Nope. Berries and granola? Nope. How about just a banana? NOPE!! Not a single piece of fruit in the restaurant. (Even McDonald’s has apple slices). Maple syrup? Nope, not even for a fee. They don’t even have butter. I asked for hard boiled eggs. “We don’t have those”. Yet they have eggs and water and a stove. Come to think of it, maybe they don’t even have actual eggs. Just buckets of egg goo. Anyway, hard nope on ever entering one again. You’re bitching about no yoghurt or hard boiled eggs? FFS, did you even look at the floors? You obviously didn’t look too closely at the cleanliness of the utensils and glasses. I am honestly astounded that these places haven’t been shut down by health inspectors.

If I live to be a thousand, I will never understand why an average man would want to trade for being a seriously ugly woman.

@Renauda said in The kid equation: @Horace Is there anything else about yourself you haven’t already told us about? I like to maintain an air of mystery.

They crushed a piano and a guitar! Fuck Apple forever.