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It's helpful for spam control. Last I checked, one account had received and auto-discarded over 100,000 spams. For a brief email need, yopmail.com is interesting in that no password is required, you simply create an obscure email name. Yes, anyone who happens to enter that name can see the...

Yes, if Bitwarden already knows your identity, Google sharing that won't change anything.

A solar storm is perhaps the most likely major disruptive event Earth will encounter this century. It's great to have a safe withdrawal rate below 4%, but that's worthless if, for example, you can't access funds because a solar storm has erased all record of your brokerage account. Given the...

FIRE people like to be prepared. Is anyone here taking measures in case the current solar storms disrupt electronics?

Before getting a new vehicle, I usually wait until Dave's 1972 Chevy Impalas!!! The World's Most Famous 72 Impalas! Arizona Car Shows!

Pushing cool basement air upward will pull humid outside air into the basement, making for a damper basement.

I've had three attic fans, all died within four years of installation.

Mice can squeeze through surprisingly small gaps. Putting urine-soaked cat litter clumps outside at the house foundation should have a scent that scares away mice for months.

If privacy is any concern, note that captcha is probably operated by Google, which means Bitwarden can find out from Google who you are. That associates the passwords you keep at Bitwarden with your known information, thereby reducing the security of those passwords and the accounts they open...

IMO those looking to leave an inheritance should in advance gift small amounts to their potential beneficiaries and observe what the recipients do with the money. It will supply a small preview of what the recipients are likely to do with a larger sum.

A window AC will be less costly than some other options and permit him to run it only when he deems that room too hot.

If you want a contingency for the next market correction, this time to Roth convert en masse is after the correction, not before it, because the taxable amount will be lower after a correction. I did that during the 2009/10 downturn and haven't looked back, but my conversion amount was much less...

That's the way genetics are believed to operate, but if you have evidence that's wrong, it may be worth your while to publish a paper.

If there is genetic element, these tragic deaths are removing from the gene pool people with a tendency for addiction and risk taking. Continuation of that trend for a long time will result in a change in average human behavior.

I watched a bit of Ancient Aliens and saw too many leaps of illogic. For example, stone carvings were deemed to involve space aliens because they seemed to date from thousands of years ago. Maybe the carvings are that old, but obviously that doesn't mean they were made by non-humans. I've...

No one has mentioned panspermia yet, which could have seeded Earth with simple life forms. Even some animal life, for example tardigrades, can survive space travel. The evolutionary path from there to space-faring civ is a rocky path, pun intended since it was the asteroid that wiped out the...

Since we have only Earth as an example, it's difficult to make reasonable guesses on what forms alien life might take. Could some aliens live much longer than humans, thus making an interstellar trip of a single generation more feasible? Long individual life spans seem likely to reduce the pace...

The lack of verifiable evidence is where the idea of visiting space aliens breaks down for me. Maybe others can handle it, but if I gave credence to all the countless notions that lack evidence, my mind would quickly become too cluttered to think clearly. Microbial life is probably fairly...

Difficult to know which is the cause and which is the effect. Poor health causes many people to slow down, so some people that don't move as much were in worse health to begin with.

The IRS might not catch on immediately, but eventually I suspect they would say your proposed sequence was an intent to avoid paying tax on RMDs. This would be accompanied by a demand for payment of tax.

I don't see a benefit to believing in visits from space aliens. I'm unsure what someone intends to express by telling me that belief. The common element I've heard in such discussions is that humans are stupid. helpless creatures who would not have gotten this far unless some outside...

There's a range of people for whom "I saw it on the internet so it must be true" is a valid approach to life. One has seriously insisted to me that aliens from Venus are tampering with Presidential elections. How do they get through their day without being overcome by fear of being beamed off...

At a party I made the acquaintance of yet another person who professed outlandish ideas about space aliens. As with other such recent acquaintances, these people are empl*yed in science and engineering fields, so one would assume they have enough basic scientific knowledge to rule out...

I figure retirement is time to do whatever it is you like. Many don't even get that chance.

Observing World Naked Gardening Day, uh huh