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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    I wonder from where they pulled out the November inflation data? Here's the CPI-U that's widely used for inflation adjustments.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    I'm a follower and don't believe much of it. Bad as he might be, Hillary and/or Kamala would have been a lot worse. Too bad we're never allowed to vote for a reasonable candidate. Besides that never being allowed to happen, nobody reasonable would want the job anyway.
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    Has anyone been able to successfully file for Social Security benefits?

    I have a story of incompetence that isn't related to the difficulty of filing. My wife gets a small outside-of-SS monthly retirement payment, which was subject to WEP (Windfall Elimination Provision, repealed early 2025). We dutifully reported this to SS at the local office when it started. I...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    I had read through 90% of this before giving it up as just another cheap lefty hit piece. I'm not saying it is factually incorrect as I wouldn't have a way to know that. It's just that after reading for a while you can tell that it leans heavily to the left.
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    Has anyone been able to successfully file for Social Security benefits?

    I filed too long ago to remember too much other than it was pretty easy. It helped having an SS office close by and just going there to do it. As far as the account sharing goes, it's not just the government. My wife can't get an online account at one of our medical providers because we have...
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    Money & Economics

    An interesting comparison I saw was that right now, an ounce of silver is worth more than a barrel of oil.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    I question it every time I check out at the food store.
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    Healthcare

    I ran across an article that states what I think better than I can state it (I don't agree with every single thing in the article, just most of it). Some snips: The Affordable Care Act passed upon a mountain of lies about "bending the cost curve" and phony cost estimates. Not a single...
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    AI Good and Bad

    I agree that this sounds good. I'm skeptical because it's from California, and I have CDS (california derangement syndrome). I've been clueless about the current manipulations mentioned, like street light and utility pole removal, sky swaps, and all the others. It sometimes feels like almost...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    When they made the hollywood extravaganza type of announcement about the J6 bomber, I thought that they better have the right guy, or all of the glitz and celebrating is going to blow up in their faces.
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    Money & Economics

    I'm probably in the minority here, but I think rooftop solar is just as big a factor, if not bigger, for rates going up. Regulations vary by state, I use Oregon as an example. A "net zero" house pays nothing except a ~$15 monthly administrative fee. Yet the power company has to provide and...
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    Windows 10 EOS (22H2) Oct. 14, 2025

    It's name wasn't by any chance Linux, was it?
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    Dahua SD49225T-HN PTZ repair log

    No criticism of your post intended here. I just have to wonder about humorous ad copy like this: 10 core 10 pin design, the cable uses 10 independent cores and 10 pin connectors, supports high-speed data transmission, and has strong stability. Ethernet cables are suitable for devices that...
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    Progressive Liberal Hypocrisy

    There is a bit more to this story that conveniently wasn't mentioned... Student's zero grade for citing Bible in essay sparks national debate
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    Notes from the Swamp

    Yep, happens about once a week on average.
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    iphone can still be tracked even when off

    Need to have those government tracking devices working 24x7.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Getting to the bottom of this could be a very long debate, a fact finding one, not a fighting one. Yes, the companies set the prices, but the insurance companies pay a contracted rate, often much smaller. I only have details of my own medicare bills. In one example, the MRI provider billed...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Assuming that's correct, the insurance companies' profit skyrockets when the cost of medical care skyrockets, giving the insurance companies an incentive to at least hope that costs go up. Aside from that I wonder how much of claims/care goes to actual care? ACA forced a lot of extra...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    I'm questioning those csgactuarial numbers. Maybe I'm reading them wrong? I can't make a true apple-to-apples comparison because the latest csgactuarial numbers are for 2024, and the medicare.gov numbers are either for 2025 or 2026 (I don't see which on the web site). But the discrepancy...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    These increases are nothing new this year. Our kids' employer rates have gone up similarly every year the past few years. My issue-age medigap rate has gone up 140% since 2019, or with simple math, 23% each year over 6 years. Neither has anything to do with ACA subsidies, and everything to...
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    Unable to move ports on Dahua NVR

    Multicast has to be turned on for ConfigTool to find a camera, so maybe if it's off, the NVR won't find it either. Just speculating because I don't use a built-in-switch NVR.
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    Notes from the Swamp

    Bigred walking one of his pets. Video here: Massive Alligator Captured Outside 7-Eleven, Probably Just Wanted A Slurpee: WATCH
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    Money & Economics

    This might have some "interesting" side effects. One is the interest rate calculation for savings bonds, the next one which uses the CPI data from October to March. If one of the months in the middle were missing that might not have an effect, but with data from the start month missing, what...
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    Money & Economics

    Looks like pretty much all of the online retailers are open storefronts any more. Walmart, Home Depot, and I suspect tens or even hundreds more. Out of fear of hassles I never buy anything that's sold and/or fulfilled by other than whose web site I'm on. If a 3rd party is the only source I...
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    Money & Economics

    It is a dilemma, kind of like in the political world., where in most cases an honest politician can't get elected. Now in the retail world, you can't compete with a dirty outfit without being dirty too. As recently as a few years ago I thought walmart was a pretty reasonable alternative to...
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    The official "WTF" thread

    It's pretty much already a done deal. Top 11 High School Football NIL Earners NIL Goes to High School: Million-Dollar Teen Quarterbacks, Legal Battles, and Fast Cash
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    Money & Economics

    It seems obvious to me that amazon is too big and has too much control over too many things. When you buy from them you're just feeding the beast and making it stronger.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Another agenda driven click bait, false headline, and unsupported conclusion media article. But the data the article isn't based on who is moving out of state, but the percentage of homes that are sold: And stats from what would be a better indicator, from a moving company, say that...
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    Emergency Power/Storms/Prepping etc

    The switchover has worked flawlessly for me. The transfer relay spec is 16 ms., or about 1 AC cycle, but my system is programmed for a 6 cycle power fault before switching, or about 100 ms. None of our computers or the NVR have ever glitched on the switchover. It's an Outback inverter, a...
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    Totally lost in EmpireTech camera setup.

    Don't all of the later windows version have the easy to use snipping tool? It seems dumb to me that the Record event linkage is off by default. Every time I set up an IVS rule I have to turn Snapshot off and Record on.
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