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Celery Man

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  1. My incredibly niche comedy script idea is a Friendship style movie where Buzzrock, believing his Sweetwater rep to be a true friend, reaches out to get the NAMM hookup and then heads to Indiana. Then you have an odd couple buddy road comedy planes trains thing and they find the true meaning of friendship and also derail Henry Juskiewicz’ plan to take down the industry he believes wronged him using blood rosewood.

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    My wife, who just got out of the hospital for some kind of crazy complications after having her gallbladder removed last week, is a lot of things, but one of them is an absolute lunatic when it comes to one upping every other mom in the Christmas cookie “thanks for being a preschool teacher/neighbor” game. Game set match

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    Alright, got some takers on pushups, I’m game for trying the body squats thing too, I feel like that achievable but am mostly thinking of what all i can try and fit in every day.

     

    For me, this will be my cycling goal in terms of mileage.

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    I’ve done 192 miles in December so far, probably spending more time per day than might be sustainable over a year but I expect my distance per hour to increase. I need to figure out how to track where I am on that map over time easily, that would be a fun visualization for me. Bonus that I’m facing the right direction as I sit on the bike.

  4. 21 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    The question is whether you'd sell out, for a significant amount of money, a significant amount of your autonomy. The best argument I've read so far in favor of selling out is that the extra money enables you to retire sooner. But think of all the time you lose every day, getting ready for work, wasting downtime at the office, commuting, and how much more productively you could be using that time, including on activities whose revenue could far surpass the additional $120k that would be earned via the paycheck.

    That extra, let's say conservatively, 5 hours per week that you get to spend however you want could be invested towards some smart real estate moves (or in other ways, such as high risk high reward investment opportunities). Of course, you can still do those things while working a normal office job, but you'd have to find the time to do it and usually at the expense of your sleep, hobbies, and family time. That might feel feasible when you're right out of college, but after that first kid? After 35? Now you have to ask: what's the true cost of that added stress? Think of how much harder it would be to get to the gym, or to eat well, or to go to therapy. Not enough hours in the day, so you're dealing with high blood pressure, maybe even diabetes. Eventually something will have to give.

    So, I view that extra 5 hours per week as the only realistic way to devote adequate time toward profitable side hustles. If you're an enterprising person who believes in yourself, you should take the WFH and wisely invest the free time in your own capabilities.

    to me, the idea that I'm "discover 5 more weekly hours" away from moving the needle meaningfully on some smart investment moves is bananas, at least on that salary and in comparison to what I could do with twice as big of a shovel. Similarly, if you can make it on 120k (which, if you're willing to take 120 that's assumed) then surely 240 means your wife could stay home and cook or you can hire a chef/meal service, you can solve any number of time problems with the money. Even the commute, although I think that's realistically the thing that is the big sacrifice in time and soul sucking if you're not just extremely introverted.

    i think you might be able to start to bring me around if you adjusted the numbers a bit and added some sort of draconian stuff to the office part. Generally if you're a white collar worker making $240k in an office you can duck out for therapy. I'm also assuming it's not a bullshit job that you do in 2 hours at home but 8 hours in the office, or there's not some other catch like you have to work 80 hours a week or whatever. Drive in, drive out, you're at work all day. I say this as someone with a 2 year old and a 4 year old who wakes up every day at 5 and eats well and exercises and keeps a clean house and is an engaged dad and all that kind of stuff - the commute time seems easily worth it in exchange for bigger vacations and better college funds and less groceries and bill stress and more flexibility for the family and activities and etc etc etc. I am surprised that there's this much of a debate for 2x income.

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    2 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

    Divorce rate for married couples

    well see now I'm wondering if it's normalized for time married, although I would assume it is, and I bet if you peeled the layers back that there may be some cutural generational stuff but that there is a corresponding "more divorces for people getting married young, and millennials get married older" thing at the bottom of it.

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    I know that there are people for whom not going into the office is worth $120k or halving their income or not doubling their income or whatever way you want to slice this. I suspect that a lot of people answering this question online, particularly gen z kids, are coming from a place of "would you rather take more money than you've ever made to work from home or would you rather take even more money than you've ever made to work in the office" and answering "work from home".  I think mostly for most people there is a correct answer and it is double the income to work in an office.

     

    I suppose there is a flip side to older folks who might have less need to earn more income. And this hypothetical is also weird in how it relates to... income growth if the roles are identical but wfh vs in office. But even if we just assume normal COL increases, if you have any number of years of career in front of you the higher salary has a lot more benefit than simply the delta between the two in year one.

  7. I'm having a hard time remembering some of the plot with the corn vault, I might have to go watch some hopefully not AI recap.

    Love the fan service with the dinosaur mouth sniping position, also in that same fight where he pickpockets and then reverse pickpockets the grenades - classic.

    I do need to replay new vegas. I feel like they're going to drop a remaster of it.

  8. I really thought that this one was going to be more heists and hijinx. I was disappointed when I realized it was going to turn into a romcom. I know it's based on a true story and I think fairly accurate, but man the whole concept of dating while you're an escaped prisoner is stupid. I was also surprised that Tatum is older than Dunst - Dunst appears to be aging naturally and Tatum here looks like he's supposed to be playing early 30s? I think the whole "falling in love" angle caught me off guard (I did not watch trailers) and I spent too much time during this movie just being mad at how stupid everyone is.

  9. I don’t doubt that birth rates are down and etc etc etc but also I can tell you that in Wake Forest at least (I guess think Round Rock for Raleigh) you can spend years on the waitlists for the good daycares. We had our 2 year old on the waitlist for where he is now since my wife was pregnant and he only recently got in, I know that a couple of the other ones nearby are similar. And then there are other places where they consistently have vacancies.

  10. I get the urge to do that, it makes sense, I will say that my experience with buying stuff on amazon is that even if it gets pulled down because of racism or whatever (Always Sunny episodes), if I bought them I continue to have access to them. I'm sure it is technically correct that there's a license involved and obviously if I don't have a copy of the thing local to me on some media that I own I don't own it, but I've never lost access to any movies I've ever purchased on Amazon. it's not like you lose it if it goes to another streaming service - that's a different thing.

     

    Of course my comment about hell or high water was just a joke.

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    In 2023 we did a 10,000 Burpee Challenge. That was a useful accountability tool for me and I enjoyed having a thread and tracking my progress through the year. 2026 I want to do another fitness/exercise type goal. There are about 15 days left in the year, so if anyone would like to suggest a different goal that folks here can share, I am game. As it is for me, the goal I am thinking about is 2500 miles "cycled" (whether its road or peloton or whatever else) and 10,000 pushups. I think that 10k pushups should be fairly easy, 2500 miles might be a bit of a reach but I think I can do it. Both of those together I think are a good challenge.

    That's where I'm at for me right now, but this is fun as a group thing so if there is a different goal that people here would be interested in tracking together, I'm game. Unless it's 10,000 burpees.

  12. On 12/14/2025 at 6:24 PM, Superhero said:

    Need back story. Lots of chatter about Nicole killing people. Feel left out on the open secret.

     

    Also, the Firefly Firebird is down to $199. Tempted, but I don't need another guitar.

    NEW Firefly FFDB Electric Guitar (Sunburst Color) NEW Firefly FFDB Electric Guitar (Sunburst Color)

    https://guitarsgarden.com/collections/fffb/products/new-firefly-ffdb-electric-guitar-sunburst-color-1

    I didn’t read the thread but I think she was active in the…. Austin has a lady bird lake serial killer thread or something like that? I assume she is the killer.

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