Roguelazer

Because everything costs more than you think. Having a child without insurance is often over $100,000. Any visit to the ER for an emergency? $25,000 to get in the door and often millions of dollars if you need lots of interventions. Heck, even with insurance, chronic conditions often cost thousands of dollars per year. Even simple procedures like my daughter’s tympanostomy tubes have self-pay prices in the tens of thousands of dollars.

There are still some of those that I’m familiar with, mostly entry-level white collar professional jobs like “receptionist” or “desktop IT”.

Beyond that, the 9-5 is dead, though. A lot of the rest of American white-collar jobs are 24x7 where you’re expected to respond to slack or email within a few minutes all day, and probably also be in the office 8-10 hours per day. And working-class jobs have all moved to unscheduled part time nonsense where they’ll give you 29.5 hours a week (to avoid having to give you benefits), but won’t tell you which 29.5 hours until the last possible moment.

Licensed childcare runs between $2500 and $4000 per month per child here in the Bay Area; $200k salary is about $150k after tax. Doesn’t take a terribly big family to totally exhaust that amount if both parents need to work to bring it in.

I was skeptical of the rumors that Gabbard was some kind of foreign sleeper agent, but if Roger Stone is standing up for her, then perhaps she is working for the Russians…

Read a lot of portfolios to find one where the work was split between freelance photojournalism and commercial / wedding photography.

I looked for a professional in the area who had a photojournalism background because I was more interested in accurate photos of what was happening all around the party than in glamour shots of my wife and I. The pictures turned out amazing and I treasure them.

Main moral is to figure out what you want first, then look for that rather than trying to explore the whole space.

Webpass used to be great. The instant it became Google Fiber, it seemed to be totally abandoned; no rollout to new buildings/neighborhoods, no speed improvements (most locations still top out at 1Gbps and local favorite Sonic has rolled out 10Gbps fiber throughout the Bay Area), and prices are stubbornly high ($70/mo for 1Gbps versus $40 from competitors). Oh, and there’s still no IPv6.

I’m sure Astound will be even worse but Google has been an awful steward of this service.

(this is the same reason that big solar systems require an oversized busbar on your main panel)

I think the risk is more that someone has a 15A-rated outlet on a 15A circuit breaker, plugs a solar panel into one socket and then a power strip with 30A of space heaters into the other socket. Breaker doesn’t trip because the main panel is only providing 15A, but the outlet lights on fire.

Not sure why that isn’t a problem in places these are more common.