Homercles

I just love this too much

As always, a lot can be gleaned by seeing who reps a post

Then people need to be saying this when they berate her, not posting to Twitter that she’s anti-American or attributing it to buzzwords like wokeness. The prevailing social constructs of sexuality and identity have changed in a broadly global sense, so if you make a blanket judgement or simply express glee at her/their misfortune without expounding then it’s fair game to assume motivation is a perfunctory reflection of your beliefs.

Bartender there told me that sign was put in place specifically because of a guy known only as Anastasia

Waiting for posts about the USWNT and memes about Megan Rapinoe next

All right…new poster, digging up Covid thread from April, to post an ‘investigation’ on Fauci to support his opinion he’s a scumbag

Wait…so now, instead of being up in arms over folks kneeling for the anthem, when they do stand they’re now required to sing along as well? It’s the World Cup…the apex of these peoples careers. If I were in their shoes I’d be so deep in thought about the upcoming game that it’d be a win if I put my shorts on the right way. I don’t see every motherfucker in a uniform singing at the Super Bowl…oh wait they’re not uppity women. What’s next for women/minorities…they have to a cappella the whole thing wearing the flag and holding sparklers?

Please don’t tell me we have a ‘climate is cyclical, it was this hot back in 2011/1909, the nino (I translated it from Spanish) causes this every decade, etc’ guy in here. It’s absolutely irrefutable that swings are getting more extreme and the rapidity with which it has happened should scare everyone. Come on now

I don’t care what starting salary is, my point has been that the ratio of income:expenses changes much more rapidly, paired with a long-term trend that means people born even five years apart can’t compare their experience. Hell even since Covid, prices have gone up insanely. I totally get that long-lead supply chain issues in a global economy drive effects that take years to work out, and more sensitive to shit like bird flu outbreaks driving egg prices through the roof. Sticking with just the Covid era example…I read about companies making record profits, exec pay/golden parachutes, PPP loan abuse, etc while watching my weekly grocery bill go up 25%. Airlines and hotels are neutering rewards programs to squeeze consumers when demand is hot yet cry for bailout money when times are bad. You won’t pay a living wage so you default tip machines at counter service joints to 25%? All of this shit makes me sour on medium/large businesses…including my employer as some of us organized our life around WFH yet now suddenly we need to come into the office to use tiny hotel cubes with no privacy or food service espousing ‘culture’ when really it’s because your commercial real estate value is crashing? GTFO of here. Point being to this YGIFS rant (again) is I have a little empathy for this ‘people don’t want to work’ shit…every opportunity to squeeze customers/employees/govt is taken with a grin on their face while handing profits to shareholders and execs. Why should I be loyal and give my soul to you when you tell us to suck it up and get roommates in a $1,300/month apartment in Shitsville Houston?

Note this was in reply to spam

Another notch in the belt for The Wire, at least to me, is how well it showed all the factors that played into a character’s ultimate outcome. “All the pieces matter”. Who you rolled with, what (if any) roles the adults played in your life, how lucky you were in a gun fight, etc all influenced where they were at the end of season 5. And not to say choice was irrelevant either. Some had an opportunity to escape and took it (Poot, Cutty, Bubbles), others ignored it (Dukie with Prezbo), some explicitly chose that life and gave exactly that (Snoop, Omar, Prop Joe), and one pawn benefited from fortune and sheer badassery to cross the board to be a queen (Slim Charles).

What I feel like some of y’all fail to appreciate is that shit CHANGES. I bought my first house in ‘05 for $125k on a $40k salary…it’s now worth 3x that. The tech support position I had at the time now pays 1.5x that. I graduated OSU with $10k in student debt and paid it off in five years. My parents paid the first year, I managed the rest through student loans at ~3% APR and a part time job payin $8/hour. Average student federal debt loa is 3x that with rates 2x. Wife and I built our 3500sft house for $350k in 2012 with a 3.5% rate. It’s now worth almost $1M in Cedar Park and rates are almost double that. I couldn’t come out of college and repeat my experience, no matter how hard I worked. I recognize that timing, luck and general fortune often play a huge role in addition to character, perseverance and ethics. Boomers do that shit all the time and it pisses me off…”well yeah grandpa, your employer gave you a pension, houses cost $20k and gas was a quarter…I’m not denying you toiled away in the acid mines with an onion tied to your belt but cost of living has outpaced income the last fifty years”

Forget it he’s rolling.

Well hang on…what are some comparable left wing websites? Legit will check it out to see their message/anger levels. NPR? Daily Beast? Salon?

Please don’t share @Neikea home movies again

Jesus I step away for a few hours to teach my oldest how to power slide in Mario Kart and come back to this thread blowing up…and PAC12 all yoda in this bitch

So…any recommended VPN apps for iOS? Pretty sure my wife isn’t going to buy that this new law is a valid reason to get down every single day.

As usual, your takes often piss me off despite being a fellow Poke. There’s a lot of valid nuance being discussed here. DEFCON: LOBO warning I moved to Austin metro from Stillwater in ‘02. Since then I’ve bought two houses, gotten married and have two kids. If it weren’t for my parents living in GTown, our entrenchment with friends/schools and my employer suddenly backtracking on remote work…we’d have left already. There’s early markers my 9yo son may be gay, based on my wife’s 20 years as an educator. Jury is obviously way out, but if that’s the case and nothing changes in Texas…I want him the hell out of here when he’s old enough. My 6yo daughter has a vagina, if nothing changes in Texas I want her the hell out of here. My property taxes equal my mortgage payment…yet schools are being deprived of funding, we are only building toll roads and public infrastructure is literally falling apart. Local PDs are receiving record funding in some areas, yet they fail to respond a vast majority of the time and actively lie on Props. Schools are getting shot up…yet folks bring rifles to the Capitol to protest and pistols to HEB. It’s getting hotter due to climate change and we live in Frontier Days during winter storms…yet we spend budget surplus on fucking floating balls in a river and lawyers to defend the practice against federal lawmakers. Oh and they’re finding bodies in them. Our AG has a web of fraud accusations I can’t keep track of. Criticizing the Lt Gov gets you suspended. These clowns are generally fucking with nationally-recognized universities down to calling special sessions to further cripple public school systems. Voting rights are being systematically disabled / made harder, disproportionately affecting ‘liberal’ cities and their diverse population. Districts are ass backward as fuck to keep it that way. /Lobo warning TLDR: There’s so much going wrong in this state that waving a ‘quit moving here’ hand is fucking embarrassing…and I’m one of the lucky ones who is a white, straight, upper middle class male who built a house in 2012 back when it was reasonably affordable. I’m allowed to be pissed about things that don’t directly affect me, because I generally care about other people (except The Darrel, fuck that guy)

Not really contributing, sorry can’t help it

fuck…someone beat me to it (caddyshack gif)