The New Coffee Room

I tried....We live a couple doors over on the opposite side of a one lane tunnel. Most of the time, it just a car or two, but occasionally gets backed up so it's a couple minute wait each way. Plus, I'm a fucking cheapskate fiscally responsible enough to just drive over myself.

Our house is just out of range for delivery from our favorite local pizza place...and I refuse to pay the premium for DoorDash. I can't wait to buy a self driving car, so I deliver pizza to myself. Maybe I'll even get sign up as a dasher, so I can get paid to have pizza delivered to me.

@Axtremus said in Pretty sure I couldn’t do this.:

I tried dead hanging again. This time I lasted around 34 seconds, maybe. Still not sure whether it's the arms or the grip that gave out first. Well, both tries need an asterisk because I had to lift my legs throughout -- the metal frame I hung from is too low from the ground; my feet would be on the ground if I didn't lift my legs while hanging from said metal frame.

I have a pull-up/dip bar/etc stand at my shop...But same issue. Have to lift my feet up a bit when going down/hanging. The good news is Grok says that way is "noticeably harder" so give yourself extra credit!

One thing that's I really like about the pull up stand is it's the perfect height to hang wet moving blankets on. Felt neat to use it for something close to its intended purpose (about 70 seconds) but I've gotten my nickels worth in dry blankets, so the rest is gravy.

I'm still running, though a little less and a little slower this year. @89th Registration for Grandmas marathon opens in October....Race isn't until June. Plenty of time to prep. (except for having no time)

@LuFins-Dad said in Now *that’s* some ground clearance:

Pretty sure the tie rods are going to need replaced.

Probably nothing would make him happier than "having" to work on the Jeep some more. Some people enjoy the work more than what the work enables them to do.

Next door neighbors at my shop are an aerospace machine shop. Their 'hobby' is buying tiny little cars, and dropping big fukkin engines in them. Then they head out to the cul de sac in our industrial park, and do donuts until something breaks. Repeat process.

Seems Karla has been essentially managing the business herself. Therefore, her wages over the last couple years are a reasonable determinant of what constitutes the "fair wages" that she'd have to pay herself, before taking the rest as distributions/or whatever. You can do that math on if the anticipated profit from the business makes it worth the paperwork costs and headaches of filling as an S-Corp make it worthwhile.

Personally, I'm still just a sole proprietor. (not even an LLC) At first, it was because I didn't have any assets to protect...After looking into it further though, LLC protections don't hold up to protect personal assets in the type of protection I feel would be most likely to be beneficial to me. (if I had multiple business though...that could change)

With respect to the service providers... I would very much encourage you to err on the side of making them w2 employees. Go ahead and look up IRS rules on employees vs 1099...I think you'd agree. Forget about how Uber and Door dash can call their people "independent contractors" Compared to other situations I've seen them rule on, that's complete bullshit, they just happen to be big enough to have some influence.

It really is quite easy anyway. I use Squares Payroll app. It's like $50/month, plus $5/per employee. Super easy to use, you can usually get workers comp insurance through it (and pay weekly) it generates all the important year end reports, etc. I run payroll for my employees in less than 2 minutes. I also use it for paying the couple subs I use. (an occasional tuner, and a person or two to help when there's work 'overflow')

It's just very important that you classify people correctly...If there was ever an injury, or if a relationship ends poorly--the company can be found liable, and you may become responsible for paying for an injury out of pocket, and/or having to pay an employees back social security and Medicare witholdings. The later just happened to a friend of mine, costing them thousands.

Maybe use the occasion of new ownership as the impetus for the change.

Yeah, I don't know how they ever got past safety regulations. Pulling up to an intersection, where you may have to make a quick go/no go decision, and the fukkin engine shuts off just as you're about hit the gas. The "feature" is easy enough to turn off, but has to be done each and every time you start the car. meh

@jon-nyc Is it really finances that contribute to low birth rates? (I mean other than at the margins)

On average, people with lower incomes (and can least afford it) tend to have higher birth rates. On average--and despite how people may answer on surveys...people who want kids have kids whether or not they can afford a baby sitter.

@LuFins-Dad Look on the bright side. To have near universal childcare, it'd be more like 4 years early on, and then four years after high school. So an extra 8 total.

Maybe he thought no one would see it since it was posted on Truth Social. It does seem to be slightly more secure than Signal

Do you have a card or two kept exclusively in a digital wallet? Curious if you’ve noticed if either those or Apple Pay, Venmo (or whatever the fuck the hip cool payment methods of today are) seem less susceptible.

Happy birthday George—hope all is well!

If they don’t already have one in the works, I’d be surprised if they could come up with one in that short a timeframe. Unlikely they do, as there’s typically a multi years long hype as design takes it’s sweet ass time to become a product.

Still, if it would actually have the functions of a truck, (not like the silly toy Cyberdork) I’d consider one.

In my truck..almost always. It’s important to see side to side when backing out, and on a larger vehicle, that doesn’t happen until you’re already blocking the aisle. The only exception is angled spots, which only inconsiderate morons back into.

As for our other cars…it depends.

Well good luck in Iowa. Hopefully you don’t get stranded and have to get Musked.

Depending on family size in CT, one could have a full time (lower paying) job and still received medicaid. There are/were different levels, some that the recipients would pay into.

When I was in high school, every once in a while the grandkids would have to get 'gifted' a modest amount of money. This had to do with with how much money was 'in danger' of being carried over in the bank due to the timing of the payouts of their social security and his work pension. Too much of a balance could apparently cause an issue with their Medicaid eligibility.

A couple people in their late 80's, of very limited function, on the verge of getting tossed because they had an extra thousand bucks in the bank. Weird.

@jon-nyc said in RIP Gene Hackman:

Now they’re saying she died first from hantavirus, which you catch from rodent excrement, which causes respiratory failure. She died around A WEEK before he did.

He had Alzheimer’s which might explain why he didn’t report his wife’s condition or perhaps even notice she was dead. He died from heart disease.

Now I read the dead dog was crated. They don’t say explicitly but starvation/thirst would be the logical explanation. Must have sucked to be that dog for its last days.

Well that sounds awful all around.

There have been a number of discussions in Piano Tech Journals/forums over the years warning how not to deal with mouse poop commonly found inside pianos. Particularly in south western states, how important it is not to simply use a shop-vac. The disease itself is fairly uncommon, but the mortality rate is quite high.

I wonder how much is also due to birthrates. Strongly religious Christians tend to have more kids.

So do we think someone read him the right act about his initial "outbreaks happen all the time" response?

In any case, if he's willing to back of on his more...outlier beliefs, and focus on nutrition/fitness, I'm happy.

(fukkin grok)

He understands that no matter what--his policies are going to be presented as disastrous for the country/world. So, get as much done as quickly as possible...let the reporting on it play out..and hopefully by mid-terms there will have been some time for the actual policies to have there effect, and people can vote based on their perception of the results, not just the reporting.

Slight chance I'm being optimistic here, but it's the best I got.