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    Recommend me a quality home printer.

    I always had a color inkjet printer and I used it a lot to print in color. Little by little I found I was doing less color printing. A few years ago I inherited a Brother black and white laser printer and made that my primary printer, only connecting the color printer on the rare occasion that I...
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    What new series are you watching? *No Spoilers, Please*

    The Stranger and Fool Me Once were both very good. I also enjoyed Safe. I'm almost done Stay Close now which I've also liked. There are 8 of his shows on Netflix all together.
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    What new series are you watching? *No Spoilers, Please*

    Purely by random selection I watched a Netflix series which turned out to be by Harlan Coben, who I had never heard of. I enjoyed it and discovered there are a number of Harlan Coben series on Netflix. I have now seen 3 of them I think and I’m finishing up my fourth. Eight episodes each so you...
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    Career advice sought for young student about to start college.

    I think this is true of any field. Either the student is interested or they aren't. You can't force them to be interested. Pushing any particular major on a student who hasn't expressed a significant interest in that field makes no sense to me, especially when the motivation behind it is purely...
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    Career advice sought for young student about to start college.

    Keep in mind that many of the top jobs today weren’t the top jobs 5 years ago. Some didn’t even exist 10 years ago. A student entering college this fall can’t choose their major on a job they want to have 4+ years from now based on what’s hot today. That’s especially true in technology but in...
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    Career advice sought for young student about to start college.

    And that’s great for someone interested in computer science. This kid doesn’t have that interest, or at least not yet. It’s way too soon to push her one way or the other.
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    Career advice sought for young student about to start college.

    A study by the New York Fed about 10 years ago found that only 27% of college graduates work in a field directly related to their degree. While there are certainly exceptions, for most, the college major isn't nearly as important as people tend to think it is. Our daughter graduated in 2018...
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    Three more shifts!

    I’ve been per diem since 8/2022. I mostly worked 8 hrs/wk through 2022 and 2023, sometimes less or none. Since the beginning of this year I cut back to 4 hrs/wk or none. I gave notice in February and my 120 days is up June 12. Since June 8 is the end of the pay period, we settled on that as my...
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    Link to ignore threads

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    How to deal with taxable holdings with large gains

    Just to be clear, this is based on taxable income and not adjusted gross income, correct? If the former, that's good news. Our taxable income for 2023 was just under 105K and will definitely be lower for 2024 since I'm retiring in a few weeks. We should be able to stay under $94,050. It would be...
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    Fentanyl Dangers

    So you think everyone with an addiction just needs to die and all will be right in the world? Do you realize that there are an estimated 380 million people in the world with alcoholism? Would you like to start by eliminating them and then move onto the people with other substance use disorders...
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    Fentanyl Dangers

    That’s good to hear. Hopefully more insurers are starting to cover treatment.
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    Fentanyl Dangers

    That's great if there is a cheaper generic now. It's been almost 7 years since I left my practice and haven't really had much contact with the treatment field since then. As for insurance coverage, it's not uncommon for insurance plans to only cover Suboxone when it is being prescribed for pain...
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    Fentanyl Dangers

    As I mentioned earlier, my only sibling, my older brother, died of an overdose in 1987. He was 28. And we dealt with the drug issues for probably 10 years before that. The theft, the wrecked cars, the hospitalizations. The whole deal.
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