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MonkeyDoughnut

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  1. And how much wind turbine curtailment is done each year? Or how much more would it be done without the miners. Miners would love access to more wasted energy if they could get it. As far as grid stability goes, miners are the next best thing to battery storage in being able to shed load or absorb generation instantaneously.
  2. Google Bard launched new image creation ability. It has a long way to go....
  3. Many were critical, but was just a single shareholder, holding less than $200 in stock. 🤣 (9 shares)
  4. Hat tip on the new Autograph.io Surly sponsor being none other than Tom Brady's NFT startup (co-founder).
  5. You tube and/or invite an 8yr old over. Your kid will figure it out, that's the fun of Minecraft. (he might be a couple years early though)
  6. My fourth is finishing college now so I'm on the other side of this and my advice that I would give myself if I had a do over was. Tell you kids - Pick a state school you want to go to that we can all agree we can afford - that's what mom,dad,grandma, etc can contribute and you taking out full financial aid (~21k total for four years). If you want to go out of state you need to find a situation where you will be paying that much or less on room and board and tuition. (travel and other will be above and beyond) If you cannot than it is off the table. Some schools offer tuition breaks, scholarships, whatever. Bottom line - out of state isn't worth it unless your kid is in a situation that enabled them to make it affordable (merit scholar, big scholarships, etc). Out of state is beyond ridiculous. Being in 8th grade, you have plenty of time starting now to let her know what you can/cannot do. You aren't saying "no" to out of state, but she herself is going to have to find a way to make it possible. Without "help" out of state isn't how much more it's how many times more. Being in Texas there are many great schools to choose from.
  7. Right? He's not even Tree Fiddy member, he's just mooching off the rest of us, principles be damned.
  8. If everyone is equal, why do we need any of those programs?
  9. The number would be $20k per person. Family of 4 that would be $80k for last year. Keep in mind that is just your federal amount. Keep paying you state and local too please.
  10. Yeah, just a couple years ago that could have been done in minutes, but now the government is protecting you from yourself. It'll get better again, but realistically I'm expecting that to be a decade or more. Other countries you can do all that from your phone as easy as ordering food.
  11. Anyone have HBO Max ad version? I'm on a trial and for the entire time I've watched it all month the ONLY commercial we get is a Land Rover Defender commercial. Like the same one over and over... never anything else. Easily seen it a hundred times already.
  12. Before you pay off any of the CC debt, call the companies and ask for relief, specifically lowering you interest rate. Let them know your situation and that you plan on paying off X number of cards completely, whichever have the highest rates so if they lower their rate you will keep it open and keep paying on it (and they will keep making their interest).
  13. Work at Cinnabon. Buy a car wash. Buy a commercial laundry service. Buy a chicken restaurant franchise. Something mundane.
  14. This is where all the talk of a "good" economy needs as asterisk. Pretty direct line to where the "growth" is coming from.
  15. That new development they cancelled Odyssey internally I read was almost 7 years in production with 100 people let go, with an estimated 2026 at earliest release, more likely 2027-2028 and they somehow still hadn't settled on a game engine given what they wanted to do.
  16. My thoughts exactly. So much of it now you can do anywhere, anytime, for as long or as little you want. Unless you are just tired or burned out on IT, I'd find an area I always wanted to know more about and just learn/do it.
  17. I've known people who do/did this solely for the health insurance.
  18. How is this not a movie already? Let's pool together and buy the movie rights
  19. I think for most it's just what they are seeing most: car prices way up, home prices up, property insurance through the roof, medical insurance up, food prices higher, eating out way higher, etc. Its tough to reconcile with "things are improving" when getting hit on a micro level.
  20. Saw this quote on his hiring with Eagles today: "This is a man who's overseen 10 different top-10 defensive finishes at five different stops as a DC or head coach, including with Miami this year. His personnel has varied. His staffs have varied. But his results as head of a defense have been remarkably consistent."
  21. Boutte allegedly created the name of a fictitious female, Kayla Fortenberry, to create the online gaming account and used his own mother’s credit card to fund the account, the warrant says. Seventeen wagers were made on NCAA football, which including wagers on LSU Football between the dates of August 28, 2022 and October 9, 2023, the warrant states. Six of the wagers were on LSU football, including one game where he bet on himself, investigators allege. That particular game was LSU versus Florida State on September 4, 2022 where Boutte allegedly placed one bet that he would personally score at least one touchdown in the game and another bet that he would have over 82.5 receiving yards.
  22. I can't tell you how pissed off I would be if I had ordered that sitting in a sports book and it was brought out immediately. Waiting an hour... and then that shows up. Hell no.
  23. Pulling a respected guy from the NFL and this place gets out the pitchforks. Guess expectations have changed in one year with old seven win Steve...
  24. Just a matter of time .... well done though
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