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None of our Ring cameras are pointed at anything the rest of the world can't see anyway. They all face outward, outside the house. But we don't have Alexa in the bedrooms or bathroom, that's for damn sure.

I've read that there are at least three different "net worth" numbers... Net worth, all in, the big number Net worth, excluding your primary residence (but can include other property, rentals, vacation homes, etc.) Liquid net worth -- which means, as I understand/use it, how much actual cash...

... to get the thieves to break into your house when you're gone, because they think you have guns they can steal. I don't want them knowing I have any guns in the house until they hear the slide rack. I used Wyze cams for a while. They got better, then lousier over time as the software was...

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I don't know how the ones I was aware of were doing at their other jobs, but I know it impacted their performance at OUR place enough that we figured they had other jobs they were working. Or maybe they were just spending a lot of time video gaming or drinking or smoking weed or whatever, I...

Never could prove it, but I'm pretty sure one guy who worked for me for a few months back in '21 - '22 had another job. I just hope his performance there sucked as bad as it did for us. At my next-to-last place (huge bank with over 250K employees) there was more than one who we figure must have...

Last place I worked hired a developer who turned out to be a fake. We learned about when the FBI contacted me; they’d found his company laptop in a warehouse in Atlanta, being remotely operated from either China or N. Korea. Apparently it’s not uncommon. The hiring manager and the COO had done...

Obviously the guardian angle was just in the wrong place…

It does to the Feds, as well as the power utility that runs the plant, so yeah, it kind of does matter. What doesn't matter what you, or I, or anyone else thinks about whether or not it should. Plenty of jobs require drug testing, so complaining that it's not fair or whatever is pointless...

During my brief stay at college, we were required to have our firearms locked in the dorm's secured storage. We could check them out for cleaning and such. One afternoon we'd been out plinking with a couple of rifles -- one was my M1 carbine. So we're up in the room cleaning them, and a cop...

Repairing printers inside a nuclear power facility. I'm certainly not going to reject that notion, and I'm every bit as freedom loving as most.

Apparently the locals in London have gotten tired of not being able to beat out tourists at the really good places, so they've been posting rave reviews online for Angus Steakhouse, which is apparently every bit as good a place as... uuuhhhh... Sizzler or Applebee's. It's working, I guess.

Yep. I was on the rifle team; we'd carry the rifles through the school to get on the bus and ride through town with them to go to matches at other schools. We'd be down on the range practicing almost every day. That range had been there since the school was built, and the Sgt Major had a story...

I'm not going to dispute that statement. The fed portion (in the form of. tax credit, so it really just reduces your tax bill) is dependent on your income. A couple years ago a friend went on ACA - from what he told me at the time, he had to keep their annual income down to a little under $75K...

I was working at a large regional bank before the 2008-09 crash when one of the giant banks swallowed them up. I normally worked remote, but that week was at our big office facility on Charlotte. Mid-afternoon I see a couple of our uniformed security guys and an HR rep walk through the area...

My wife had a pretty severe stroke at (barely) 63, a month after I retired. It was one that would have left her an invalid for the rest of her life. I was pretty happy that we had good enough insurance that her neurosurgeon was able to get her back to normal without costing us somewhere north...

To be clear… the full prices of the exchange plans are close to the cost of COBRA, though for much crappier coverage. It’s about half that for us after the tax credits are applied. If you retire before you can go on Medicare, one of the options is to manage your income to ease the insurance...

Yeah… I retired a little early this year. Was surprised that I was still able to get coverage through healthcare.gov at about half the cost of COBRA. Good thing o did that, too… I quit working 7/1 and my darling bride decided a little over a month later was a good time to have a stroke. Hit her...

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