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Ag with kids

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  1. If you'd mentioned it, I'm sure someone would have brought you a media guide or Dave Campbell's...
  2. FWIW, in 2020, A&M had 26 commits and 14 were from out of state. In 2021, 9 of 23 were from out of state. This year it was 11 of 26. https://247sports.com/college/texas-am/Season/2022-Football/Commits/ How we got the number one kid in SWEDEN is fucking beyond me, though. SWEDEN? WTF? They play football there? Like, not futbol?
  3. Then! When you have found the shrubbery, you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest wi-i-i-i-ith a herring!!
  4. No. He's Chris Wallace. Just quit his job and probably moving to CNN. We should all wish him well.
  5. My uncle went by Jim. His name was Albert Owen (mylastname). I think I was in my 30s before I found out his real name since NO ONE ever called anything but Jim. Turns out that his father, during WWI, was in the Army and someone in his outfit said he didn't look like an Albert, he looked like a Jim and it stuck. So, when my uncle was born (he was the oldest), he got named after my grandpa and apparently the nickname came with it...
  6. Asian AMERICAN? 😉
  7. That Chinaman is giving you a serious stink eye...
  8. If it bleeds, it leads... Sensational bad news sells papers (or generates clicks). It sucks...
  9. I apologize for allowing myself to be led down that rabbit hole. I didn't intend for my example to do that. Note that my original post was actually about misplaced priorities, not cell phones (those were only an example - there are plenty more). I included the example because I thought giving some real world data would help explain my point. However, in retrospect, giving no examples would probably have been the best course of action in order to ward off chasing those rabbits. BTW, I agree that the US will cease to exist at some time. And just like in every one of those past eras, there were people who were convinced it would never happen and people who were convinced it was right around the corner. There's a reason they say history repeats itself...
  10. I addressed a specific thing earlier in this thread with my comment. I did NOT address poverty in general. I even said that. I only used cell phones as an example. In retrospect, I should have realized everyone would focus specifically on the cell phone and not the point of my comment... My bad.
  11. You're not getting my point. It's not about poor people. It's about how Americans prioritize things. We're kind of bad at that.
  12. At NO time did I say that. Please don't CR this thread.
  13. I'm glad you're not living in the lower class, Congrats? But, are you saying that you can ONLY apply at your company on a cell phone?
  14. We're quite NIST compliant. I won't contest your last point....
  15. Any fast food or low level retail (which is where these poor people can work) definitely do paper apps...
  16. Interesting. I drop by my the McDs right by my work for coffee in in the morning and they have paper applications right next to the kiosks and I've seen the manager interview numerous people with their paper apps on the table. BTW, ONLINE and CELL PHONE are not the same. And..again...convenience and necessity are not the same thing. BTW, I pointed out earlier that cell phones were just ONE example. There're many others...like multiple HDTVs, cable/satellite/streaming services/etc. In rural areas, guns/ammo can add up. The point isn't CELL PHONES. It's misplaced priorities. For the truly poor, I'd 100% support the negative income tax proposed by Milton Friedman.
  17. I am NOT a boomer. I'm Gen X. Fuck those old farts and their printing out of memes...
  18. Or a home phone and using computers at work. However did this happen prior to the emergence of the cell phone?
  19. Standard. And convenient. Not a necessity. Cell phones have basically been EVERYWHERE for over 20 years. Most younger people don't even remember a time that they weren't available. Life existed and was quite successful before them. Hell, seeing how most people are on their phones surfing what the fuck ever all day long, maybe they were more productive before the cell phone.
  20. I worked in the Aerospace and Defense industry for almost 30 years. Now I'm the chief engineer at a university research center. I have never NEEDED my phone. EVER. Not for work. Not for home. It HAS been an ENORMOUS convenience, though. BTW, I'm quite sure that all of those things that the employees at your company do on cell phones can be done without one (remember, not 100% people in the US have cell phones). Is it way more CONVENIENT on the cell phone? Hell yeah. But a NECESSITY? Probably not in most cases.
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