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Reminds me of that band phish doing gin and juice. Limewire assured me that was string cheese!


Napster had me convinced it was Phish.
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As if a CEO doesn't have the authority within their own company to implement whatever safeguards are necessary... When climate change was the boogey-man, they didn't wait on the government....

Its really an absurd conversation when you think about it..


The entire pretext is ridiculous; a CEO doesn't need an act of congress to set policy in their own company. You don't need federal regulations to manage your engineers if you don't want them working on something. They do need congress to help them with their moat, and to manage the open weight threat.

re: Backpacking meal ideas

Posted by Grifola on 9/30/26 at 5:23 pm to
Lots of good suggestions already. We mostly used pre-packaged freeze dried, very convenient but can be a bit pricey.

Some of these are pretty damn good:

Good to Go
Peak Refuel
Pack It Gourmet

Skurka's bean recipe is legit.

Andrew Skurka Recipe

re: How good is Widespread Panic

Posted by Grifola on 8/15/26 at 5:47 pm to
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So I'm hoping maybe there's a similar kind of situation with WSP. So having said all that...is there an intro/starter course you'd recommend for them?


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Today's kids will never know what it's like to unhook the kitchen telephone to plug in a long RJ11 so you can plug it into a 3Com 56.6k PCMCIA card in the side of a gray Toshiba brick of a laptop then wait to see what kind of connection you got. 36.6? Not bad. 44.4? frick yeah.


Until you got booted off of that sweet 44.4 because someone picked up a handset in another room
Not a lawyer. The argument is that the NFA was originally passed as a tax law, all within Congress’ constitutional power to levy taxes, not to restrict firearms. Now that the tax portion of the NFA has been repealed, is the NFA still a tax law? With no meaningful tax, the NFA no longer functions as a taxation arm of congress.

re: Water leak question

Posted by Grifola on 8/3/26 at 6:56 am to
Try searching this board, I recall another poster had a mystery water leak in the slab. It was a few years ago.
Kisatchie National Forest - dispersed camping or designated campgrounds; wild azalea trail, caroline dorman trail, etc for hiking, or just bushwack through the NF. The Ranger District has the most hills (I believe).

re: Jack White at this point in time

Posted by Grifola on 7/21/26 at 8:30 pm to
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How the hell did this get downvoted? The Van Lear Rose album was amazing.


Agreed.
Portland Oregon and sloe gin fizz, if than ain’t love then tell me what is, uh uhh…..
Cruisin’ down the street in my six-fo….

re: Prescription Cycling Glasses

Posted by Grifola on 7/18/26 at 3:53 pm to
Got my prescription Powsters in, seems like a pretty good value at $200. I’ve got other prescription frames 3x that. I prefer an anti-reflective coating which these don’t have, but will only use them for cycling. I’d buy these again. The prescription area takes up most of the large lens and is ground into the main lens without using inserts.
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Love the down votes on this with no reply. Give an example when after-tax makes sense before Roth within a 401k for retirement purposes…


Agreed and also don’t understand why the down votes, maybe they aren’t familiar with after tax 401k vs 401k Roth.

Only reason I can think of for prioritizing after tax contributions is to then mega back door to a separate Roth.
I'm looking at this for a relative and legit question, other than the free $1000 why would a 530A be a better option than a normal brokerage account?

Contributions to a 530A are after tax, and withdrawals will be treated as income, so what's the benefit over a brokerage? I guess a 18-19 year old with little to no income could do roth conversions up to the standard deduction, and basically get a free roth (or is that not how it works)?

Vs a brokerage, where withdrawals would be long term capital gains and potentially have no tax (if under the income limit).

re: In the market for a water heater

Posted by Grifola on 7/1/26 at 2:27 pm to
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Change the plastic drain valve at the bottom to brass before you install and your set.


Great advice. I had a plastic piece of shite valve pop off. Luckily I was home, heard it happen and shut off the water quickly. Had a geyser spraying in my attic, would have been a disaster if I wasn’t home.

re: Prescription Cycling Glasses

Posted by Grifola on 6/28/26 at 2:40 pm to
No first hand experience but I’m looking at these:

Powster

Or Roka, or Rudy Project.
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Layla - Derek and the Dominos, Goodfellas

This. Beat me to it.