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  1. Dashing this off between meetings, so can't google it for you, but I recall reading in recent days that they indicated they lose something like $25k on each vehicle sold.
  2. I took off / "retired" for about nearly a year and a half. I've been working between 70-90 hours a month for a hair over 2 years now. While I wasn't working, I finished my honey-do list, got bored of playing golf, and had almost no one to hang out with during the day in my age range (late 30s at the time, mostly only students and olds were available during the day). Check that, there were a handful of people to hang with, but you can't do a shitload of day drinking with kids <5yo and a tired wife. I thought I would be happy when I quit, but I am an extrovert and missed the free and easy socialization that work provides. So I went back.
  3. Rumor around these parts is Isaiah Buggs (Solid but not spectacular Lions DT) and a 1st for Chris Jones, but that it would not go thru before the game, for obvious reasons.
  4. Lions are only gonna improve. They're said to be the second youngest team in the league and many of their stars are still on rookie contracts. And how often does a team have its top 4 rookies flash like these did in their first game? On the road? Against the champs?!? Branch will get better. Gibbs will get better. Campbell and LaPorta will get better. They'll get Jamison Williams back. Good win even without Kelce/Jones.
  5. (I admittedly have Chiefs ML and over to help offset the pain of a loss, tho ) And I'm ready. Kids are getting "night gummies" tonight.
  6. Wally, You a hoe. Signed, A guy that's lived around the world for most of his life and would NEVER give up the Lions. (LFG!)
  7. The privilege is the Flipper's. It's his tondo with what he wants. Same way you can have spousal but one spouse can blab. Source: I learned about this shit as a 1L like 2 decades ago and for the bar like 15 years ago. Obvi I know it cold.
  8. My opinion -- based on managing a few hundred people over my career, in in-person, hybrid, and WFH settings, plus a bunch of relevant education -- is that the overwhelming majority of people who will be productive in-person will be productive WFH, and the overwhelming majority of people that would be relatively unproductive WFH would be similarly unproductive in-person (calling useless meetings, long chats in offices, long chats around the breakroom/coffee machine, half-hour long shits, etc.). Of course, some people will behave quite differently, but I think it's more about underlying character, personality, and discipline in the overwhelming majority of cases.
  9. Not a real lawyer, just a transactional guy here, but maybe a real lawyer can chime in... Do people like the manager/boss have a claim for promissory estoppel,depending on facts? If I remember the elements correctly, (I) you have a promise from the company to have permanent WFH in place and, (II) especially if contemporaneously documented, say in emails to the realtor or between spouses, you also have the boss guy relying on the rep from the company to buy a house far away. Or, perhaps you'd need more favorable facts? I'd love to see some enterprising lawyers take companies that are welching to task.
  10. A. An A+ would have required them to work in an "and make sure X gon give it to ya"
  11. While your sarcasm meter is barely functioning -- enough to ask whether it was a bit -- you do deserve points for the indented list, italics, underline, and bold. I wish other longform posters could do the same to break things up. One hook'em from me. Coming right up.
  12. Yeah, I think the failed "gotcha" is hilarious, though.
  13. Also, and I say this as someone that's 3/4 Polish and Ukranian, they're just a snap of a finger from going Badabing to Babushka. Could happen at 16, could happen at 36, ain't happenin' much later. Coulda already happened with her.
  14. This sounds like the dealer fucking the finance co since the dealer isn't getting an origination payment for organizing financing, which is often in the hundreds of dollars (can be flat or percentage based and is a big reason why dealers "shop around" your financing application. Piggybacking off the example above, and supposing a wholesale cost of $28.5k and the dealer gets an origination payment/commission of 1%: $31.5k @ 6% = $3k in profit (the diff between wholesale @28.5k/retail) $30k @ 8% = $1.5k in profit Now suppose you financed through them and got a 1% origination and, say, $200 for every percentage point for marking up the interest rate from a base of 6%. $30k @ 8% = $1.5k in profit on the sale + $300 for origination and another $400 for marking up the rate two percent, for $2.2k in profit As you can see, they have a variety of ways to structure things to maximize their profit. In this case, it seems like they pushed to maximize their front-end gross but take away finance profits from the lender. Kinda surprised the lender allowed it, TBH.
  15. Glad to provide a happy update. He ended up with just a warning because of some mitigating circumstances. The assignment was the same -- essentially, describe how assigned reading [x] makes you feel -- and he felt essentially the same way, as might be expected. Somewhere between "very little" and "around half" of the assignment was copied over, depending on if you count using the same quotes from the assigned reading. Because of the similarities, the prof wanted to ask follow-up questions about his new response, so the prof emailed BIL (online class; can't talk after class). Problem is, the prof emailed his UT email address when both the UT student directory and the prof's "fill out this contact/background info" sheet at the beginning of the semester had BIL's gmail address. So the professor emailed the wrong address in follow-up, got frustrated after feeling he was being ignored and turned him in. When the hearing came, BIL pointed out his GPA, pointed out that he never had any history of academic misconduct back through high school, and that he had other profs lined up to serve as a reference for him. He also offered to re-do the assignment with the caveat that he would change the form, but the substance would be similar because he truly feels the same way about the assigned reading. The prof tried to flex by asking BIL why he ignored emails from his prof, including as recently as just a few weeks prior. BIL said he received no such emails and that he would happily show his gmail inbox, spam, and deleted items folders to the committee. Prof tried to shazam him by showing printouts of the emails from prof to BIL's UT address. BIL went into [Chalkboard/blackboard/whatever learning management program UT uses] and pulled up the "assignment" that was the prof's own contact info sheet, as well as the UT student directory, both of which showed that the gmail address was how to get ahold of him. There was a collective "ooh, so that's what happened..." from the hearing people and they gave him the absolute minimum allowed under the applicable rules, once something has reached the hearing phase. Not sure if the "warning" was verbal or written and didn't follow up with my BIL or my wife. At least that's the story as was related to me. So he ended up with a warning with no adverse effect on his grade for the semester and no requirement to re-do the assignment or otherwise do anything else. THanks again to everyone for your thoughts and help.
  16. TLDR: Midwest lack of diversity ain't quite the same as southern white towns. **** To the fella up there that asked about diversity in the small-town Midwest, I submit this exchange between my very white (actual, not play) farmer cousin and my (black, Houstonian) wife, after passing a bottle of lemon-honeyed Spirytus around for a couple hours: Cousin: He'd never be here if it wasn't for visiting us, any chance you'd ever see yourself visiting or living in a place like this? Her: Well, no offense, but I like a little more diversity. After he asked her what she meant by that, she asked him if she was probably the only black person in the town right then And he hit her with "well, ya know, back in the day, we never imported you guys up here the same way they did down there." She said "well alright" in her cute little accent and took a glug. Her trepidation up til that point was fair, imo, but since then she's been way more at ease in small Midwest towns and I've noticed her stealing that line at least a dozen times. That's not to say that there aren't some bad apple elements in some towns, but if you're a brown or a black family you'll be just fine if you're not not dicks, especially as religion is now less important and you wouldn't have to pretend to be a Catholic or Lutheran or Episcopalian in order to fit in. 😄 <-- side note, it autocorrected "C" then ":" to this fuggin smiley face and, after like 2 mins of trying to delete it on my phone, it's just gotta stY.
  17. Having lived in both Austin and various spots in the Midwest, I've really come around on this post recent weather changes. I used to be a "you don't need to shovel heat" guy and lived in apartments with pools and had no kids and all that jazz. Summers in TX weren't as bad and I could always just cool off pretty easily. Now, not so much. On the flip side, here in the Midwest you used to have 3+ inches of snow, where you *actually* have to shovel for real, about once a week. Now its just 2-4 times a year with one, maybe two, bad snowstorm(s) of like 6+ inches. Most of the time its <2" and you just do a little path on your sidewalk and approach to your house, so you're not a dick to the neighbors or mailman, but you don't bother with your driveway because it'll melt in a day or two and your car can go over it in the meantime, anyway. Note, though, that this is only in the Chicago and Detroit metros. No clue for places like Minny or Buffalo or wherever. I imagine Buffalo constantly getting bombed with lake effect.
  18. Serious question, given the blast furnace thread: is the weather a net negative or positive now?
  19. This. It used to be part of my ensemble and had to work well with my cuffs on my suit and all that. Now I mostly wear tank tops and gym shorts and throw a dress shirt and a jacket on when I have a meeting. Would be too much effort to go get my watch from my closet upstairs (Singular "watch." With nowhere to wear them, I've since sold them all but my first one -- which has sentimental value -- including the pie pan constellation that I wanted for so long)
  20. As a once-teenager and current observer of teenagers, I can assure you that no teenager would allow itself to be stuck in a concrete tub at Sea World like an Orca. Also, the shitty MSPaint okra/orca is the content I'm here for.
  21. Barcelona for the summer. Dipped out to Paris for a few days last month to avoid Sant Joan, since we have two young kids and my son hadn't yet seen the Eiffel Tower. Kids love their school (casal) since it's in Castellano and not Catalan, and there's a shitload of activities. Babysitters are like 10 euro an hour. Days are free and nights are fun. Sounds braggy, but this is the thread for it, right?
  22. This. My BIL is a 30yo about-to-be UT grad and he'd laugh his ass off at me if I suggested he check this place out.
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