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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • I quit smoking by switching to vape about 12 years ago. I had smoked a pack and a half of Marlboro reds a day for 30 years prior to that. After 30+ years of being hooked on the coffin nails I found a way out and I (and my family) are so grateful.

    I still have my nicotine fix, obviously, but I am so much less a slave to it. It used to be that I could not imagine being without a box of Marlboros and a lighter if I was leaving the house. Now, I don’t think twice about heading out for a few hours with no vape (nicotine) with me…it’s just not that important.

    I will probably always ingest nicotine in one form or another (vape, gum, patch), as I do caffeine. I no longer feel like I am controlled by it thanks to vaping.

    Give alternatives a try.


  • WTF is actually up with these “civil warriors” who abstained? I live in TX and the general vibe is “if someone needs killin’ I’m down to do the deed.” Most people are generally willing to wade in to conflict if it happens upon them. How, TF, did these diaper-wearing sacks of tears manage to get their law enforcement credentials stamped?

    If I ran away from my duties at work I would be fired immediately. They trained on their roles extensively - “how to neutralize an armed adversary, how to defuse an armed conflict situation, how to…for fuck’s sake keep a child from being shot by an idiot.” Every one of these cowards are still employed - whaat, the actual fuck, is up with that?!!





  • This is the most horrific thing I have seen in a long time and this the second time I have had to read about something like this. I work for a company that caused this to happen to another family in a different place using different fumigants but it brings me back to that time and I am weeping now.

    I wept to my wife when I heard of my company’s malfeasance in their failure to ensure that nobody was harmed in that other place. I have since witnessed a top to bottom realignment of priorities in my workplace to focus on safety…too little, too late - they did crime then that to meet profit margins and they still hold that most dear despite lip service to “safety first”.

    I’m so very sad that this happened again to another family and I hope that the perpetrators (most likely managers pushing production goals) pay a heavy price for their crime. (spoiler alert, at my company the bad guys were not properly punished and I am still salty about that).





  • My understanding of this (just worked through it with my wife) is that you will not take a tax hit on the disbursement when you take it but you will get hit with capitol gains taxes on it’s growth from inception of your contributions.

    When you take it out, it has already been taxed but it will still count as income for your tax planning purposes in the year you receive it - hopefully you’re in a lower tax bracket when this occurs. It is not a taxable income (though it counts as an income and increases your tax bracket accordingly) but it’s growth since contribution will cost you at your current tax bracket as you take it.

    Not a financial wizard here, ask a professional.



  • I wrote it to automate my workflow - I’m in sales. I enter site details at the customer location and my app crunches the numbers to pre-fill all relevant documents (contract, financing, etc) in PDF form. I also use it as a presentation device to explain service and product details/specs using pictures, videos and PDF documents.

    No more paper, no more fiddling around with calculator and rate-cards. I do a little data entry and basically my job is done.