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Joshjrn
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | Baton Rouge |
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| Registered on: | 12/24/2008 |
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re: Experience with custom suits in New Orleans or Baton Rouge
Posted by Joshjrn on 2/25/26 at 8:40 pm to honeybadger07
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But it one size bigger and then bring it to a tailor and have it custom fit.
This is the second time I’ve seen this said; what do you mean by “one size bigger”? If shoulder width, that’s terrible advice, as shoulder width is probably the most difficult alteration you can do on a suit, if it’s possible at all. The shoulders are the most important thing to get right if buying a suit off the rack to get tailored.
And if we aren’t talking shoulder width, then I have no idea what that means :lol:
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The OT: Lawyers are useless, self important parasites who should be exterminated
Also the OT: "Lawyers I have a wittle question plz help for free plz..."
Also the OT: "Lawyers I have a wittle question plz help for free plz..."
re: Lots of doom and gloom: Name and talk about some games youre excited for this year
Posted by Joshjrn on 2/25/26 at 1:04 pm to Sl0thstronautEsq
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Ok good :lol:
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Hell the first 3 hours is mostly cutscenes. The game doesn't pick up til act 2
Are we talking about 1 or 2 with this?
re: Experience with custom suits in New Orleans or Baton Rouge
Posted by Joshjrn on 2/25/26 at 10:13 am to Salamander_Wilson
If you want the full in person experience, godspeed. With that said, for about a third of the price, you can go through a company like Proper Cloth who will send you things to try on, do a video conference with you regarding measurements and fit, and then pay for any tailoring that needs/do a full remake if necessary. Just something to consider.
re: Anyone been to the Noah's Arc replica...
Posted by Joshjrn on 2/25/26 at 9:57 am to Guzzlingil
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Ark Encounter
Adult (ages 18–59) $64.99
Senior (ages 60+) $54.99
Youth (ages 11–17) $31.99
Children (10 and under) FREE
Ark & Museum Combo
Adult (ages 18–59) $109.99
Senior (ages 60+) $99.99
Youth (ages 11–17) $59.99
Children (10 and under) FREE
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It’s about ~$11–$12 million more wealth if retired at age 67 (40+% higher). That gap widens further if you assume your kid makes annual contributions over the life of the converted Roth IRA.
And what is your kid going to do with $40MM when they retire that they couldn’t have done with $30MM?
And to narrow things further, what do things look like if I save $300k for them in a taxable account, then use that as seed money for tax sheltered retirement accounts in their name once they are an adult?
Or to go an entirely different route being we are talking about their being 67 and my being dead: why don’t I just invest the money in my own tax sheltered accounts/trusts and let them inherit it/obtain control later in life? What benefit does the Trump account provide over that?
Now, if Trump actually follows up on his “401k for all” rhetoric last night, offering an account with an annual $1k match absolutely becomes interesting. But that’s a different animal entirely.
re: 3 million kids registered for Trump accounts
Posted by Joshjrn on 2/25/26 at 7:42 am to LemmyLives
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You're a smart dude, and know that kids that are going to frick up their lives will find any vehicle to do it.
I don’t mean going on a coke bender. I mean an 18 year old all of a sudden needing to resist the temptation to use the money to make big ticket purchases, but as a down payment on bigger ticket purchases they can’t afford. There’s a reason small lottery winners have abnormally high rates of bankruptcy.
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A niece on my wife’s side of the family earned a master’s degree in social work from Tennessee. Got a job in Austin Texas. Lasted less than two years and is now a barista in Idaho
Any job that has you primarily dealing with people on their worst days is incredibly difficult to do. The mental and physical toll of maintaining empathy is only outweighed by the toll taken when you can’t maintain it.
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Well, that's fair.
Again, I'm gonna roll the dice. For me, the $39M swing is worth the risk.
Which on some level, I get. However, let's frame it another way. Let's say, instead of putting it in a Trump account, you put it in a trust that you control. What does that final (probably inflated due to assuming 10% gains, but still) number look like?
No, I’m not looking at it as a $300k loss; I’m looking at it as a potential landmine that my newly adult kid could use to frick up their lives.
Assuming they aren't full of shite, these are extremely reasonable system reqs for a AAA game in 2026:
re: How old are you and how many different toilets do you think you have pooped in
Posted by Joshjrn on 2/24/26 at 2:49 pm to RoosterCogburn585
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40 and I would say I am 100 or less...
I genuinely feel sorry for you, assuming that's true.
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Assuming your kid is not irresponsible
Gambling from birth that an 18 year old kid won't do something catastrophically stupid with $300k that falls into their lap one day just seems like it's asking for trouble. Everyone obviously hopes that their kid can handle it, but I think that's asking a lot. Now, build something in that treats it more like a trust and I'm completely on board.
re: World’s oldest form of writing found in Germany, 30k years older than Sumerian Cuneiform
Posted by Joshjrn on 2/24/26 at 2:31 pm to hawgfaninc
Cool, but I don’t know that I call that writing. That looks more like counting if anything (assuming it’s not just decorative), and I don’t know that we could call tick marks writing.
re: A woman cared for an aging bumble bee for 12 days
Posted by Joshjrn on 2/24/26 at 8:00 am to Odysseus32
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There's a whole range of emotions between stoic and naive, and you seem to be unable to experience them.
He would give stoics a bad name. The core of stoicism is not being affected, good or bad, by things outside of one’s control; it is not a lack of emotion or feeling. She saw a helpless insect and decided it was within her control to improve the final days of its existence, and that doing so would bring her joy and fulfillment. There’s nothing anti-stoic about that behavior. His concerning himself with her behavior in this instance is actually anti-stoic.
re: What’s the longest Uber ride you have done?
Posted by Joshjrn on 2/23/26 at 3:51 pm to doublecutter
Houston to somewhere else in Houston.
I'm planning to open one up for the free $1k, but I don't see myself doing anything with it beyond that. There are already better benefits with START/529 accounts for education, and while having a downpayment fund sounds nice in theory, the fact that it automatically transfers ownership to the kid the day they turn 18 gives me significant pause.
re: Astonishing Graphic - How couples met 1930 to 2024
Posted by Joshjrn on 2/23/26 at 3:15 pm to tiggerthetooth
I'm genuinely surprised that "church" went so low so early. I would have thought it would have stayed in the double digits well into the sixties, if not much later.
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I don't understand why Americans never want to help out Americans. Why wouldn't you want to adopt an American kid? And I don't mean this to be a smartass.. I'm just curious It's like my Church.. all of their money trips are overseas to rebuild things... It annoys me that they never go to low income parts in our own ountry to help rebuild things and it's always a select group of people that go on these long trips overseas. I just find it odd
While I generally agree with your sentiment, I think you’re missing OP’s point. He doesn’t want to adopt anyone, foreign or domestic. He wants reasonably high functioning people to come visit, stay a few months or a year, then leave. There isn’t much of a market for that outside of foreign exchange students.
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