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Struggling with the decision right now. 52 and wanted to work 3 more years. But we have been perpetually shorthanded at work for 3yrs now and I don't think I can take it anymore. Wife is younger and does well enough that we could live off one salary, but psychologically it pains me to give up and ask her to carry the load. We have paid off the house and hit our number so that isn't much of a concern. The wife seems fine with me retiring or taking some time off before maybe looking for something less stressful.


I'm in the exact same scenario. Currently 50 and we have hit our number. My wife is 41, owns her own business and will realistically be working for at least another 10 years if not a little more.

I only really need to hang on another 3.5 years to get to the rule of 55. Luckily I have a birthday very late in the year, so just a few days after I turn 54 I'll be eligible for the rule of 55 if I decide to call it a day. I really don't need to access my 401k and 72t is always an option, but having the flexibility would be good. That said, every day I go to work is an exercise in misery and with cutbacks happening, I'm not sure another 3 years is even a guarantee.

To be honest, it's more than a little frightening walking away from security, especially since I always anticipated working until I was 65 if not longer because that's what everyone around me did when I was growing up. Seeing these threads makes me want to go ahead and just pull the cord or just go find something part time to keep me occupied.
This one is inconclusive. Need to see her on a better day.

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must have been placed there during an “intimate encounter” with an unnamed partner.


She definitely sounds fun though.

re: USA 1976 vs 2026

Posted by RolltidePA on 7/1/26 at 9:42 am to
Fun fact about that image. It was taken in Pittsburgh on the 6th street bridge (now the Roberto Clemente bridge) and the upper left portion of that photo is where PNC Park sits today.
1. The Worst Drivers- Slow/Incompetent

- Georgia, or at least whatever the hell is going on around Atlanta. Not slow, but just awful driving. Lots of Altimas and Chargers there.


2. The Most outdated/poorly designed Infrastructure (like having MULTIPLE "Expressways" being fully accessible with stoplights, excessive two-lane roads with no turn lanes/passing lanes)

- Pennsylvania, easily.


3. The most outdated Traffic Engineering (Stoplight Synchronization is from the 1980's - It's routine to hit 3+ consecutive red lights on the "Primary Road"; many stoplights are based on a timer)

- Pennsylvania, again easily


4. All Construction Projects taking at least four times as long as any other state

- Pennsylvania again for the win. It's legislated in. Look at the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission. It was formed to build the turnpike in the 1950's and is chartered to expire the commission once it becomes solvent. every time they've come close they take a multi-billion dollar loan and start new projects, meaning that now the PA turnpike has been under constant construction since the late 1950's.


5. A major city with almost no winter preparation (Main Roads not cleared off for five days after a snow storm)

- Pennsylvania again. Pittsburgh went three weeks without clearing roads during the last major snowstorm. My neighborhood used to get together an shovel the streets because the city and state wouldn't do it when I lived there. Just one of the many reasons I moved away.
Unfortunately, pretty much everything. Especially when it comes to women.
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I used to love what I do, now with changes and a new manager I hate, I no longer enjoy it and hate that the final years of my career will end this way.


Don't worry, about two weeks after you retire you won't even think about your workplace and it's issues. It's a quickly forgotten memory once you move on.

My dad worked up until he was about 70, because he was and I guess in ways still is a workaholic. Once he finally did retire I asked him about his old company about a month later. He just said "I gave up caring about that place three weeks ago."
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All they had to do was some minor interior updates, add a modern infotainment system like everyone else and upgrade the fuel economy a bit.


It wasn’t all a fuel economy issue. The old V8 couldn’t pass the new emissions regulations. Turbos during testing look great because they do emissions testing under light loads where they can stay off boost. Naturally a smaller engine in light load looks great for emissions.

In the real world, the turbo engine don’t last as long, when they are making power while in boost, aren’t very efficient and ultimately don’t deliver on their promise. They just look good for regulations.

re: You all owe Michigan.

Posted by RolltidePA on 6/17/26 at 8:01 am to
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Just noticed Alabama currently ranked 68th in recruiting hahahahahaha



The 2026 class is either ranked 2nd by 247 or 6th by On3. Well ahead of Michigan by either service.

If you're talking 2027, it's a tad bit early for a circle jerk about that ranking.
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in Mooresville, North Carolina...June 5


They let him live in Dale Earnhardt’s home town?
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The rift widens. Obama was supposed to help heal it, but he too did the opposite exactly like the leftist POS he was as President.



Remember when people talk about getting the boot off oppression off their throat, they don't want the boot to go away, they want their turn wearing it.
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I find it odd that nobody is talking about what is holding things up.

Was it a wording in the policy? Foul play?

I would imagine their loan provider would require them to have a pretty robust policy.


Liberty Mutual average payout time is well over 6 months and usually over a year if they are attempting to dispute liability claims. There probably isn't much information out there because this is being handled by lawyers on each side.
Somewhat believable based on what some rap artists have talked about, but this is fictional.

Ice Cube, specifically has talked about this and his managers alleged association with the government and his theory CIA was involved with funding labels to push labels to promote gangster rap in the 90's. I'm sure it's not the only instance since the CIA was involved with pushing musical artists that represented sub-culture in the 1960's as released documents have proven.

This seems to be a story based on the interviews with Ice Cube and nothing more.

Sometimes I wonder how people can disappear and get off the radar these days. I worked with a guy who simply disappeared without a trace. I actually talked to him the day before he went missing. Crazy how there hasn't been one trace of him anywhere with all the data and surveillance out there.

Disappeared - Sam Gilbert
Well, at least half of them are going to indeed "take it".
Body cams have been the most amazingly curious devices. They were insisted upon because of one specific narrative. Meanwhile what they've done is take that narrative and tossed it into a meat grinder.

Now everyone gets to see how truly awful most of the people are that the police have to deal with on a daily basis.
Had a hygienist when I was a kid put the fear of god into me about germs and the price of not changing out your tooth brush. Have swapped it out every 60 days or so since.
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Freshly baked yeast rolls with butter. Leftover yeast rolls for breakfast, toasted with butter.


I think you may just like butter. Which brings me to my point.

Butter… it’s just churned milk sometimes salted. Yet it’s amazing and makes almost everything better.
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It is. He should be more concerned with jail time. But a Lubbock judge ruled in his favor. This is going to be the straw that breaks the camels back. If you can’t control people calling the legitimacy of the sport into question then there’s no point having games.



What's wild is all the betting platforms should be joining forces to get this ruling reversed. If they can't prove that the games aren't compromised, then they stand to lose legitimacy and a lot of revenue. No one is going to bet on rigged games.
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Guess we differ on that. I would rather a career thief with 8 priors get life over a 17 year old with no prior that made a horrible mistake.



I wonder if you'd feel like having the same leniency if someone "had a bad day" and murdered one of your kids, wife or family member? Taking a weapon to school, provoking someone unarmed and then killing them isn't a mistake, it's intentional.
Yep. One of my wives coworkers. A woman that lives as a man that goes by Alex. Transitioned sometime in their late 20's. Perfectly cool person and we got along well. Even discussed it with him at one point and he said no one should ever transition until their 20's when they are fully developed.

People can live their life however they want. That said, if anyone ever told me that I must call Alex a man, then we have a problem. Live your life however you want, but no one gets to tell you what you have to think or say.
Was in Orlando visiting a friend. Went out to some bars and met up with some friend of his. Met one woman there that was from Massachusetts and I tell her that I only know one person from Mass, a guy I went to Bama with who ended up transferring because of gambling issues. She laughs and says his name before I had a chance to. Turns out that he was her husbands best friend. She calls her husband over and we get him on the phone, his mind was kind of blown.

To that point in my life I had only met three people from Mass, both in very different places, nowhere near Mass and they all turn out to be close friends.