jp1
Senior Member

I suppose, Iris, that my view is skewed away from flyover country. Just got back from a work team away day. A couple of team members have bought...

My problem is that I don't often frequent any of the places for which I have gift cards. I have starbucks and Panera bread and costco gift cards and...

I'm curious how many people going to Ramsey and Sethi for advice would ever be able to buy a house with cash. I assume that the number would be...

It’s tough to tell since only hardcore right wing news sites bothered to report on this, and do so in such a way that one actually has no idea what...

What, specifically, is wrong with Biden for you? From my perspective he’s done a competent job of getting a surprising amount of his agenda put into...

My mother worked as a seamstress for the first two years my parents were married so dad could go to school on the GI bill. After that she quit...

And I'm sure the trans hater community in the US will keep focusing on how they perceive that Joe Biden turned easter into a trans event. Because...

Similarly i’ve got a thumb drive with all my financial passwords in a vault with the password to the vault written down on a piece of paper. This is...

Personally I found the weather in Phoenix last August preferable to the weather in Chicago last week. Cold and rainy/snowy just isn't my style. ...

When we still had our orange kitties one of them was an especially prolific shedder. Thankfully he loved to be broshed. One afternoon we were...

We’re in Dallas and got to see it. Drove north to Oklahoma because it was really cloudy here. It ended up clearing in Dallas but oh well. I was...

We have solar lights outside in our backyard. The stay lit all night by this time of year so we could bring them inside if need be to give at least...

If, like LDAHL, you don't want to pay the extra $.10 for sick leave then yeah, you're one of the cynics. And one of the people likely to get covid...

Someone dealing with cancer probably will need FMLA leave, which isn't paid. Ideal? No. The best that they can get? Yeah. Most people needing the...

The one big outage I ever suffered was nyc 20 years ago. When half the east coast was out. I’ve mentioned before making a hack jackery out of concern...

How common is it for everyone to lose power during storms? I realize that I have lived my whole life in big cities and in many places have had...

Yes. But someone dealing with cancer probably needs more than 5 sick days.

And doing the math that’s 1 day every 10 weeks or 1 day in 50. A 2% labor cost increase. Assuming labor is half the cost of fast food a 1% price...

That looks beautiful! Congratulations.

Personally I’d rather not have a fast food worker making my food while sick.

And the most horrible of evil horrors, California also mandates that all workers except rare exceptions such as airline flight crews get 5 paid sick...

They are. And maybe that’s the key difference. Despite being gig workers though, they get minimum wage, a health insurance stipend, workers comp...

Tonight is sloppy joes. Tomorrow morning will be a sloppy Joe breakfast burrito with the leftovers!

I wonder what’s different about the Minneapolis law compared to California’s. California’s was supported by both the drivers and Uber/lyft.

YouTube guy wouldn’t get the clicks, likes and subscribes if he didn’t predict that the sky was falling. So of course he predicts that the sky will...

I've never walked off a job but my predecessor at my first job out of college did. I sat down at my desk my first day and opened the drawers and...

Ugggh. TMS, that sounds horrible. So sorry you're going through all that. My problem seems minor in comparison. I just suggested a...

California passed a ballot initiative a few years ago that kind of created a hybrid gig worker/employee. Basically I believe they are still...

Toys are important! And surely a pet has more important things to focus on than where those toys are. After all, they have people to take care of...

He's always been a bit of a loner type person. His idea of an enjoyable day is to get in his car and do a 14-16 hour roundtrip day trip to Death...

There’s a novel I read that takes voting a blank ballot to the extreme. In Seeing by Jose Seramago 83% of the voters turn in blank ballots. As one...

Previously I was eating a bagel for breakfast 5 days a week and a sandwich for lunch. Now I’m eating plain yogurt with fruit for breakfast and a...

Perhaps that's why they call themselves transgender and not transsex? I'm not curious enough to watch the video but I do wonder if he acknowledges...

And multi trillion dollar tax cuts for rich people from the ‘fiscal responsibility’ party. Don’t forget about that mega maga idiocy.

I agree with iris. The boat is not your problem Catherine. The boat tour thing was never going to be a big money maker so don’t go into debt for it....

Cats are so funny. Our current girls, as shy as they are, of course don’t allow any clothes or collars. Our previous boys were totally social,...

Spicy Moroccan soup. That sounds delicious! We’re just doing turkey burgers tonight. A while back our friend that lives 10 minutes from here...

I realize a lot of office-type jobs don’t have quantifiable goals. Thankfully mine does. So as long as I meet those goals my boss doesn’t give a crap...

I agree it's crazy to see Bernie channeling his inner Richard Nixon.

Apparently due to the timing of the primary for the november election and the special election happening on the same day Boehbert would have to...

Yeah, labor is probably 2/3 of the cost of a renovation, at least in my experience. I'm ok with that since really the last thing I want to do is...

Yeah, if we were going the income property route we'd probably just replace the bathroom vanity and kitchen counter. Maybe $10k including having...

I did not know about the ten year thing either. Dad died in november of 2014. I guess I will soon be facing that. Not that it's a big deal since...

Weird that at best the media were like "not entirely sure what he meant since he was semi-incoherrant as usual..." and somehow you have certainty of...

These are pics of the view of across the street from the for sale unit and secondly of the unit itself.

We were too when we bought since we face that same hill in the back. It's turned out not to be an issue. Six months before we bought our unit it...

The outdoor space IS nice. And I know from experience that's the easiest space to upgrade. The garage is all for that unit. I wish ours was...

And now trump promises a bloodbath if he loses. How every single voter in the nation doesn’t find that disqualifying is beyond me.

Yes, you will have to pay taxes on the RMD as well. The whole point of RMDs is for Uncle Sam to get taxes paid on that income even after the person...

Adaptive cruise control is just like regular cruise control except you can use it when there are other cars on the road without worrying about rear...

I only take magnesium. I started because a friend randomly mentioned that it helps with the twitchy leg thing when going to sleep. Since I'd had...