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  1. Sort of my grandma and cousins. And I didn't even know this story until I started doing some ancestry.com stuff and asked my mom, "Wait, what? Gramma was married before Grandpa?"

    So the story goes, when the Soviets took back over in Ukraine after WW2, my great-grandparents, grandmother and her brothers got the fuck out of Dodge and immigrated to southwest Ontario, not too far from Detroit. The boys took up farming while she went to nursing school. Right around graduation, my Grandma got married and, a few weeks into the marriage, her husband had a bit to much to drink and got physical with her. She fought him off with a knife, but her brothers gave him a warning that if he ever did it again, he would "disappear."  The husband did not heed their warning and, a couple weeks later after a few too many vodka/vodkas, did it again. She was unable to defend herself and ended up visibly bruised. my grandma and great uncles resolved to have a "talk" with him and neither he nor his remains were ever seen again.

    [Epilogue: Being a very traditional family, she and everyone in the family wanted her to give marriage a shot again, have kids, etc.,  but she couldn't because she was still technically "married" in Canada, and it could be some time before the authorities would declare a death. Plus, given the circumstances and having a general mistrust of the authorities, they didn't want to report anything. So she hopped over the border and got a job nursing at the only hospital that would hire her with a Canadian nursing degree and a vague backstory -- Trumbull General Hospital (<--link), a black-owned hospital serving primarily black patients in an then-rundown part of town. My grandpa, a cub reporter on the crime beat for the Detroit Times, spent a lot of time in the area, met her at the hospital, and the rest was history. My mom and her siblings were born in that hospital and, many years later in 2012, after gallivanting around in big cities for ~15 years (Chicago, New York, Buenos, etc.), my wife and I bought a house in the then-well-on-the-way-to-gentrified neighborhood in which the hospital sat, Woodbridge (<--link). ]

    [Fun Epilogue 2: Speaking of gentrification, Tony Hawk bought the building that was once Trumbull General Hospital for him and his family: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2016/08/24/tony-hawk-skateboarder-detroit-woodbridge-house-sale/89308050/)] 

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    [Raising this thread from the dead because it's the only one I found in this forum searching "Peru"]

    Hola del DF.

    So I have the green light from my wife to do a Peru trip. I have two friends (separate friend groups) that live in Lima and want to do the Cuzco/Machu Picchu side quest, too. Would appreciate any advice you have. Here's some questions I have for now:

    • Most of the advice on the internet seems to say to do the Cuzco/MP thing first. Coming from an elevation of almost 2k feet where I live, the difference would be less than if I reestablished myself essentially at sea level if I did Lima the first part of the trip. Mexico City at 7300ft hasn't been an issue this past week, but 11000+ feet in Cuzco seems like a different animal, so I'd rather not lose my 2k feet from home. Does this track?
    • Timing: I'm trying to thread the needle and go late enough that it's less cloudy/rainy to the east, but also still nice and "summery" in Lima. Seems like March would be best, but what I can't find is the percentages that I get no visibility at MP. Like, the guidance I've found online is "generally during the rainy season, you have a window from 10am to about 12/1pm where you'll have visibility." Is this "generally" like 51% or 90%. Kind of a big difference because I don't want to have one of those "I went to MP but it was only in the clouds the whole time."
    • My Spanish is solid but not perfect (passed my DELE B2 pretty easily on the October test and have continued with 10+ hours a week of study since), but is Quechua kind of dominant once you get to the east? 
    • How many days should I be looking at? I think 6-7 is NBD -- I'd be leaving my wife with a 6yo and 4yo at home -- but once I start getting to 8+ I'd be pushing it, and I think double digits would be sort of a "c'mon man" point for her. Does something like the following make sense for a 7-day itinerary:
      • Day 1: After overnight flight from US to Lima, transfer and land in Cuzco late morning. Explore Cuzco a bit until check-in and drop my stuff off, take a nap, then explore at night a bit
      • Day 2: Wake up early for one of those one-day trips to MP, get back late and crash
      • Day 3: Sleep in till near check-out time and hop a flight back to Lima OR if MP didn't work the day before, try again
      • Day 4: Either already be in Lima or fly back to Lima
      • Days 5-6: Explore Lima
      • Day 7 - Back to the States
    • Related to the day 3-4 thing, does anyone have experience booking LATAM/LAN same-day between Cusco and Lima? Checking google flights now, looks like I'd be good to book today no problem, and hope/imagine the experience would be the same later.
    • Is 3-4 days enough time to hit the highlights of Lima during the day and hang with my guys in the evening?

    Thanks for anything y'all can offer in response to my questions or as general advice.

  3. 49 minutes ago, Newdoc said:

    It was from 2021 and it was a common industrial robot found in multiple factories. I'm certainly no Tesla fanboy but my pet peeve is shitty reporting and targeted releases of information because the news media has an axe to grind with certain individuals but then again, I went to school when they actually taught journalism.

    Ahh yes, the old maxim of "it's been awhile so we shouldn't report on it."

    Curious: where do you place the statute of limitations for just sweeping stuff under the rug? Looks like it's no more than 2 years.

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  4. 37 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    I 1000% believe the stat on Tesla drivers being among the shittiest.  For fuck's sake, just last night, I was leaving HEB.  Tesla in front of me as I'm driving down the parking lot aisle towards the exit.  Tesla is putzing along at around 1-2 mph.  Then stops, blocking the whole aisle.  So I can't fucking go home.  I honk.  It takes a few seconds, but it begins moving....again, at around 1-2 mph.  Gets to the exit drive, stops diagonally across it, blocking both entrance and exit lanes.  Finally goes out into the street (unfortunately, heading the same direction I am).  AGAIN, he's driving now around 3-5 mph . . . . and now, he's straddling the lane marker, so I can't even go around him.  Driving obliviously slow, taking up the entire road.  Yep, it completely checks out.

    The number of things about Elon and his brands that AREN'T shitty is pretty close to absolute zero.

    First problem is driving their car in the HEB.

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  5. Funny this thread came up.  I've never said the following out loud because it's not a particularly interesting story out of this context.

    I grew up in and around Detroit and my dad's friend group was about 50/50 slav and black. Growing up, I always heard the phrase "no skin off my back" to describe something that was no big deal.

    I grew up saying it and still did until a couple years ago, when I was doing some shower thinking and had that holy shit moment, like "oh my god, I can't believe I've been saying this all this time."

  6. FWIW, I played college football on the defensive side at a major D1 program (walk-on with some PT, not a real guy, though!).

    There seems to be a thread here where the media, who has an obvious interest in keeping a story going, and internet people are making a big deal of this.

    And with rare exception, most former players, former coaches, and current coaches without a vested interest are like "sign stealing, yeah, we've done it, they've done it. It's part of the game." For my part, I can say that against pretty much every team we played in the early 2000s, we had their signs and we also practiced until we got their favorite base 5-10 plays down cold.

    So I don't see the big deal. Good on Meatchicken for being good at what everyone does. The only way I think Michigan meaningfully gets hurt on this is if the NCAA trumps up some sort of technicality.

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  7. 53 minutes ago, BeardIP said:

    If you or anyone else know the EV market well, can you explain the absolute drop of Rivian yesterday?

    Saw this on my trading dashboard that Rivian was down almost 23% in one day. (↓ 22.88% ↓)

    When I googled it, the news didn't seem so dire that it warranted a freaking 23% drop. Sales guidance for the coming quarter was adjusted to $1.34bn, below the $1.38bn expected. So, not a huge miss...

    Dashing this off between meetings, so can't google it for you, but I recall reading in recent days that they indicated they lose something like $25k on each vehicle sold.

  8. On 9/15/2023 at 7:50 PM, CleverNickname said:

    Anyone else notice a lot of "actually FIRE people are miserable" articles recently? I'm not particularly conspiracy minded... but its almost like there is a concerted effort in business press to discourage that kind of thing. 

    I took off / "retired" for about nearly a year and a half. I've been working between 70-90 hours a month for a hair over 2 years now.

    While I wasn't working, I finished my honey-do list, got bored of playing golf, and had almost no one to hang out with during the day in my age range (late 30s at the time, mostly only students and olds were available during the day). Check that, there were a handful of people to hang with, but you can't do a shitload of day drinking with kids <5yo and a tired wife.

    I thought I would be happy when I quit, but I am an extrovert and missed the free and easy socialization that work provides. So I went back.

     

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  9. Lions are only gonna improve. They're said to be the second youngest team in the league and many of their stars are still on rookie contracts.

    And how often does a team have its top 4 rookies flash like these did in their first game? On the road? Against the champs?!? Branch will get better. Gibbs will get better. Campbell and LaPorta will get better. They'll get Jamison Williams back.

    Good win even without Kelce/Jones.

     

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  10. My opinion -- based on managing a few hundred people over my career, in in-person, hybrid, and WFH settings, plus a bunch of relevant education -- is that the overwhelming majority of people who will be productive in-person will be productive WFH, and the overwhelming majority of people that would be relatively unproductive WFH would be similarly unproductive in-person (calling useless meetings, long chats in offices, long chats around the breakroom/coffee machine, half-hour long shits, etc.).

    Of course, some people will behave quite differently, but I think it's more about underlying character, personality, and discipline in the overwhelming majority of cases.

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  11. On 7/5/2023 at 7:39 PM, rage-a-holic said:

    Here's a decent explanation for the idiots that think this is all about lazy employees fucking around at home.

    My company just announced a RTO program that has literally pissed off 99% of their employees. Only 20% of the drones will be allowed FT remote. We've already lost one guy from my team who found a better FT remote job in a week. My boss may have to quit, since he bought a house 6 hours away from the nearest office during COVID, after he was assured remote work was here to stay and there were no plans for mandatory RTO.

     

     

    Not a real lawyer, just a transactional guy here, but maybe a real lawyer can chime in...

    Do people like the manager/boss have a claim for promissory estoppel,depending on facts?  If I remember the elements correctly, (I) you have a promise from the company to have permanent WFH in place and, (II) especially if contemporaneously documented, say in emails to the realtor or between spouses, you also have the boss guy relying on the rep from the company to buy a house far away.

    Or, perhaps you'd need more favorable facts? I'd love to see some enterprising lawyers take companies that are welching to task.

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