A data point re: the govt shutdown: My wife turned 65 last month and I applied for her Medicare A & B coverage. Couldn't do it online due to differences in spousal coverage, primarily the need for a certified marriage certificate. Just found out today that she was approved.

50 vs 30 Year Loans For the half dozen people that will see this on the question of the day, the answer may not be what you think.. Monthly Payments on $100k @ 5%: 50Yr $454.14 30Yr $536.82 Interest Paid Over Life of Loan: 50Yr $172,484.00 30Yr $93,255.20 BUT if you make

Dear Elon, I am very thankful for Grok. The AI has proven extremely helpful in my sailing and other technical endeavors (finance, physics, electronics, acoustics). In the domains of social science, it's routinely woke and much less useful. Thank you!

The atmosphere co-rotates with the Earth. Earth rotation is ≈ 1,040 MPH at the equator and slows as you move toward the poles. Speed = 1,040 x cos(latitude in degrees). If the air did not co-rotate, your idea could work, but we'd have to live underground.

In her bio: "Part time Demon and agent of Satan". I am confident Satan is in complete agreement with her over the Trump administration.

You guys are blinded by a shiny new tool. I would have had no idea if the AI's legal output was good or bad. In a certain branch of physics, it took most of my life to learn how to ask the right questions. To a large extent, you must know the answer beforehand. A caveman

I was looking at water filters - some include TDS meters!

As was famously demonstrated by this (ex) atheist. docs.google.com/file/d/0B4c4Nx…

Answer: approximately zero. Do your homework. My alignment with your ignorance lead me to the foot of the Cross over 40 years ago. But I did the research. Read this if you'd like some motivation: docs.google.com/file/d/0B4c4Nx…

It's unlikely you know what social media is or what day it is and I'm 100% sure you've never posted on X, but.. in case the author of this post sees this—have you no shame at all?

Critics of index funds confuse correlation and causation. Index funds are the best thing that has ever happened to the stock market and its participants. They behave like a weighted flywheel on an internal combustion engine. They add inertia to the intrinsic efforts of companies

HE IS RISEN!

Genesis 16

Before or after Bridge and Power Plant Day?

Demoncrats in lock-step again. Who gives these automatons their marching orders?

A collectively exhaustive summary of the last 3 decades of mainstream media and academia.

The pope understands and respects Islamist doctrine more than Christian doctrine.