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CleverNickname

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  1. I'm in love with the idea of a conversion van when I early-ish retire. I'm just worried about the cost and depreciation. Buy it for $X, use the hell out of it. Sell for $Y. But would $X-Y have paid for the same amount of perfectly fine hotels, with maybe occasional tent camping out of a standard SUV or pickup with topper? I guess you can't really substitute hotels for true off grid BLM boondock camping. Seems like $50k gets you 200 to 250 nights of hotel.
  2. It just occurred to me that "Peruvian darkness powder" may be a riff on "Columbian marching powder." Carry on.
  3. I'm curious (if you could get the GORs to line up) if 12-16 of most valuable non P2 could break away from PAC/Big12/ACC to make a clear #3 conference in like 2030.
  4. Do it! Might be too much a project for me. I might have been the poster mentioned below who was converting a go kart (Manco dingo maybe? Scorpion?) to electric. Never did get it working. Sold it to an engineer who fiddled with it and got it going. My son complains about that. The one that got away... We have a 36v golf cart. It's fun - the kids drive it about 50x more than do - but it's not really for hooning. So anyone know about brands?
  5. Anyone handy and knowledgeable about such things? My son (10) is interested in cars and engineering and also tearing around the ranch. But I'm cheap. I want something that will last until he gets interested in girls and doesn't have time for his old man anymore. Then I can drove it. What's the way to go? Buy a used yerf dog spiderbox? (But spare parts a probem?) Are modern coleman or gy6 the way to go? I don't have any dreams about putting a 400cc engine or whatever. Keeping it 150, max maybe a harbor freight predator 212. I'm not super handy, but fixing flats and adjusting cables and cleaning carbs might be a fun experience to share.
  6. First set in. Shored up all sides. I need to get my jig saw and embiggen the hole a tad. My hole saw didn't want to cut all the way through. I thought I might need to come back and back fill, but it's tight. I may run a bead of expanding foam. Or not a little air exchange is probably good. After completed the sides I dug another 8 or 10 buckets full. 36" crowbar for scale. And here is my dirt pile. Spoils.
  7. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/know-your-amphetamines
  8. Bad mental decline runs in my family. Any way I could get like 40 Mexican Oxys for when I'm like half vegetable? I'm so square I don’t think I'll know a guy.
  9. What's the best charity for Turkey/Syria? (Or: a good enough one)
  10. Peterson did experimental rapid benzodiazepine detox in some Russian hospital, where apparently a penis pump was strapped to his junk. Idk exactly. My only knowledge of klonopin is from Jason Isbell lyrics.
  11. Welp: F22: Balloon, UFO x2
  12. From 2011: https://www.city-journal.org/html/1-million-dead-30-seconds-13396.html
  13. This is a reminder then neither SI nor Newsweek truly exist anymore.
  14. I helped an old lady down the street clear her driveway and make it so the postman can deliver mail. I figure I'm good on karma for the next 10 to 15 years.
  15. No "emerged, it's a dry run for an EMP attack!" Surly, I'm disappointed.
  16. And yo Austinz get your airtraffic controllers straight https://www.aviacionline.com/2023/02/two-plane-near-collision-averted-at-austin-bergstrom-airport-what-we-know/
  17. Fwiw I love my corded reciprocating saw with a pruning blade. I use it all the time at the ranch (home of the hole) and it works great for fallen branches. I noticed Cedar Park Home Depot was "out" of blades up in the saw blade section, but in the front of the store they had a ton of 2-packs (9" and 12").maybe for spring?
  18. He can't be in Austin, because he needs working elevators. That's not a slam or a joke, just a practical observation.
  19. It's not clear to me if the $6500/yr rollover has to be limited to the kiddos earnings or what. More clarity should emerge soon. If it is limited to earnings, it's not a huge help (rich people have been putting up to annual limit in a roth under their kids name since their first job at the country club since roths began).
  20. This was my chinquapin oak. I loved it.
  21. I do Ohio's 529. It's just vanguard. And fwiw, the new tax changes allow for 529 to $35k rollover into your kiddos Roth. Needs to be a 15 year old account. Just think of what $35k could be worth after 45 years. 6x is very reasonable.
  22. Trees out here (Spicewood & 183) are peeled like bananas. Can't imagine the apocalypse it would have been if '21 hadn't already decimated the ash and thinned out the rest.
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