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Guadaloopy

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  1. Yeah, seems like a no brainer. The only thing I don’t like is the post ‘24 option.
  2. I did not want to leave CA. Ever. But the housing situation is horribad. Younger people really struggle to find affordable housing, which resulted in a huge explosion of multi-generational families in our neighborhood. Noise went up. Street parking blew up. My wife was about to lose her shit with the lack of peace. In early 2021, she told me that we needed to move or she was going to go insane. We are pretty well set financially, but there was absolutely no place in SoCal that had the peace we needed that we could afford without taking out another 30-yr mortgage. Fuck that. I want to retire someday. We took advantage of the crazy real estate rush mid-COVID and bolted. Now instead of never retiring, we brought the retirement horizon in by at least a decade by leaving CA. I imagine a lot of people leaving CA have done that same math.
  3. Tulsa. Oklahoma is still batshit crazy, but it's within a half day's drive of both sets of aging parents and just feels less aggressive. Or maybe it's just that I don't have a love for Oklahoma, so it doesn't break my heart every day like living in Texas would.
  4. Good Stuff, Brisket. Texas is a complicated place, and I have a complicated relationship with it. I haven't lived in the state for nearly three decades, but I've never gone more than 12 months without at least a short visit. Three years after leaving Texas, I found myself drunk in a tattoo shop in Pacific Beach, CA getting the Texas flag embossed over my heart to symbolize how deeply the state was embedded in my heart. The ink has faded over the years in perfect correlation with how strongly I feel connected to the state. When I first left, there was no doubt in my mind that someday I would return to live there again. Around 2012, I started to feel some doubt about ever living in Texas again. In 2021, when my wife and I decided to leave CA, she asked me if I wanted to move to Texas. I answered without hesitation, "Hell no." I can't put my finger on a specific reason other than it feels "mean" and "angry" after I'm back in Texas for a bit. I used to feel proud to be from Texas, but that pride has been tempered greatly, almost to the point it shades towards embarrassment. I hate that feeling. That said, I'm always happy to return for a visit. But sadly, I'm always happy to leave again.
  5. This is another one I gave up on after less than an episode. I’m utterly exhausted by the govt conspiracy genre.
  6. I couldn’t stand it. Quit after half an hour. I agree that it’s a story that needs telling, but she wasn’t the one to do it.
  7. https://www.ign.com/articles/3-body-problem-review-netflix-benioff-weiss I'm stoked for it. Benedict Wong as Da Shi is pretty much perfect casting.
  8. "Bill Roberts?" "No, not that motherscratcher. Bill Parker!"
  9. If you are adept at social engineering and are able to steal a user's login, I guess it's "easy"? The article does highlight some security vulnerabilities that need to be addressed, but it's quite a leap to call it "easy" to steal a Tesla. Teslas are among the least stolen vehicles in the U.S.
  10. Jaws has nothing on Great White, although they had an assist from pyrotechnics.
  11. Was expecting Lenny Kravitz
  12. Perfect time to boot a DP with Montgomery coming up.
  13. Do you want one these? 'Cause that's how you get one of these.
  14. As a fellow old who didn't grasp it at first, allow me to translate... Read the retweet as the statement from President "Gay". Not the former head of Harvard - President Gay, but a gay president... one might say the leader and spokesperson for gay men. It's a variant of the "you know how I know you're gay" joke. And it's dumb.
  15. Loved it, but it had one major disappointment for me.
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