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  1. We just did Loveland over NYE.  My biggest tip is to rent ski equipment in Denver and bring it with you.  It'll be significantly cheaper and you can start skiing immediately.  We skied 3 days and rented from the onsite shop.  The wait to pick up gear ranged from 90 minutes to 3 hours.  

    We also did one 1/2 day lesson through Loveland. That was not enough.  2 full days would've been great.  I would recommend a private instructor and you can find them easily on Facebook. I would guess it'd be cheaper also.

    Also, leave Denver at 6am if you are driving to Loveland each day.  Traffic is no joke.  We left at 9am on one day and at noon we turned around because we'd only gone 2/3 of the way.

    For clothes, call this lady, she buys up old new stock and worn once ski gear and sells it like 75% off.  Another good spot is Ebay.  I got a brand new Mountain Hardwear bibs with tags still on them for $100 and retail was $300. I also got a new Helly Hansen ski jacket for $150 ($450 retail).  It all came in REI mylar bags so I wonder if it was stolen by REI staff. 

     

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  2. Two years ago, I started using FreeTaxUSA. It can handle my taxes fine…W2s, capital gains, etc. It even handled a situation that TurboTax couldn’t when my daughter sold stock to buy a car but the sale had to be taxed at my tax rate since she was a minor with a custodial brokerage account.

    I don’t qualify for the free tier but it only costs like $12 to file your taxes using it.

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  3. I couldn't finish my list initially because I was giving to much deference to old music.  So, I just went with songs I revisit the most often.

    Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

    Black Sabbath - Paranoid

    Roky Erickson - A Cold Night for Alligators

    Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend

    Pearl Jam - Alive

    Bernard Butler - I'd Do It Again If I Could

    Pavement - The Unseen Power of the Picket Fence

    PJ Harvey - A Place Called Home

    The Cure - From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea

    Refused - New Noise

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  4. Picked up 4 tickets for NIN in Denver at $140 each. 2nd row in the mezzanine. We can go up a few days before moving Junior Brown to college on the next Monday and it’ll be Lil’ Brown’s first NIN experience.

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  5. 1 hour ago, Dnaguy said:


    Shouldn’t the cap be tied to our overall budget? (Maybe it is, IDK to be totally honest)

    But once you’ve got say 1/2 of the states project two year budget (so essentially the amount to cover 1 whole year’s budget), you have to do 2 things:

    1.) 2/3 Use it for education

    2.) 1/3 Put it in the water infrastructure fund

    Any interest earned off of the rainy day fund over that amount must be used for:

    3.) Property tax relief or a refund to every citizen.


     

    Edit- I googled it and the rainy day fund is capped at 10% of the last biannual budget.

    So I still think my plan is workable no?

    The cap forces them to spend money where they don't want to.  They'd rather horde the cash and say fuck all y'all. 

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  6. Just now, stc said:

    it has to be bots buying all these tickets. there's no way a 20,000 capacity arena is selling out this fast. i've never had trouble getting nin tickets before. 

    100% bots ran by Ticketmaster.

    I was able to buy NIN at Red Rocks in '22 later the same day for both dates and that was when they actually did big in-person presales to prevent scalpers.  So, now a venue 2X the size is legitimately selling out in 20 minutes. Riiigggghhhttt.

     

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  7. This sounds fiscally irresponsible. 

    Only if you actually payout.

    The email was a cut and paste from the email Musk sent Twitter staff and he never paid out a cent of that severance.

    I also read that Senator Kaine posted not to accept it because there’s no money allocated for it so there’s no mechanism to make the payments even if they wanted to.
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  8. 9 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

    Once you've seen Gimme Shelter live, it is hard to put anything above it.  there are so many rock songs that are great, and to each his own, but I can't think of one where I'd say that is for sure better than Gimme Shelter.

    I tried to do a top 10 list but gave up.  Gimme Shelter was my number one.

     

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  9. 1 minute ago, Willfully Horn said:

    The quality of hash brown requires skill with heat and pan. 
     

    Never have come close to the crispness of McDonald’s hash browns, but I wonder if cooking them in oil twice has anything to do with their crispness, as it does with French fries.

    Rinse and dry your hash browns to remove excess starch.  Dust with a bit of corn starch and mix well.  Fry in clarified butter.

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  10. 4 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    I also see SCOTUS vectoring off slightly in that decision to employ a unique interpretation of the commerce clause to require menstruation tents. 

    Well, even the current SCOTUS is going to get something right once in a while.

     

  11. 29 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

    Oh no big deal- just Trump and Project 2025 assholes usurping the power of the purse from Congress and creating a constitutional crisis. It’s Day 9

    It'll go to the SC who will rule in favor of the President having spending authority.  Without spending authority, Congress is no longer necessary.  Think of all the money saved by eliminating Congress!

     

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  12. 37 minutes ago, mchookem said:

    jfc that's as bad as my new maga friend, unemployed and just diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, being grateful for Trump bc RFK will open up' the alternative treatments the med world is hiding and also thank god for Medicaid paying for everything so far! 

    Please tell me you led her directly into a socialism is the debil tirade.

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