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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • There is a difference between realizing that the money you pay in taxes pays for stuff that benefits the citizens vs the govenrment is taking my money and using it on stupid things or wasting it.

    They also conveniently forget/ignore that because we have relatively low taxes in the US, all the benefits like state funded college, universal healthcare, paid family leave, etc are just externalized onto you in the form of private insurance, tuition, and no family leave. I would happily pay more in taxes if it meant that was nationalized. You could damn near double my witholding and I would still come out ahead when you figure in the cost of private health insurance.

    Our first kid cost $12000 out of pocket on private insuance that cost my wife and I $1400/month after my employer paid half of the monthly premium.

    I fully expect my kids tuition to be over $100k by the time they are in college unless something changes.




  • No one makes a 65+" oled monitor so before anyone suggests “just buy a monitor” you can’t, I have looked.

    Up until last year, I would have said get a good quality projector but even projectors have started getting infiltrated with smart “features” now.

    Digital signage was also an option but oled options are basically non-existent and they often have matte screens that make the colors kind of mushy.

    From what I have read online, the Sony tv offerings seem to be pretty unintrusive and don’t really care if you hook them up to the internet. The smart software is android tv based and can potentially be modded/stripped of google services. I have to do some more research though so don’t quote me on the above.

    Our current TCL/Roku tv is dying and has turned out to be really bad smart/privacy wise and has gotten consistently worse performance wise over time. I’m currently evaluating options for its replacement and the Sony 65" oled is looking like the best one so far.