Snake Diggity

If mine get into Stanford or Rice, I’d happily write the check to pay for liberal arts degrees if that’s what they want to study. My opinion is that if they work hard enough to gain admittance to one of those schools, they’ve earned my money even if it doesn’t represent a good market value. But I totally understand the sentiment.

I am 10+ years away from this scene, my kids are 8 and 5. But my older one appears extremely bright so far; 99th percentile in every test she has taken. But even with that I will be utterly shocked if she gets into Texas in 10 years. She doesn’t project to have the dedication to get the class rank or supplemental resume to get into top tier schools. She is looking like she will be more like me: school will be easy and she’ll have great test scores and good but not great grades and mediocre extra curriculars. My younger one is too little to know, she’s still catching up from being a July baby. Regardless, for now i plan to tell my kids that if I'm going to pay for their schooling, the hierarchy is pretty clear: Ivy League Stanford Rice Texas Texas State ACC They're going to have to present me with an extraordinarily compelling case to pay for other private or out of state schools. My guess is they’ll both end up at Texas State where they will coast thru like I did at Texas. And if they want to go to Aggy or OU I will still love them but they’re out of the will.

Given the lower costs, I’m assuming if they got to 30k subscribers they’d probably be making enough to survive. Not looking good.

https://www.businessinsider.com/russias-25th-army-bakhmut-destroyed-ukraine-spy-chief-2023-9?amp I’ve seen links on several other popular sites, this was just the first link when I googled just now. It looks like the term “pinned down” just means they’re not able to advance or maneuver, not necessarily surrounded or cut off from supplies. I’m not sure how accurate that is or how big of a deal losing 15k dudes at once would be. Even for Russia who is throwing meat into the grinder, losing an entire division seems like it would be meaningful.

Nothing on this thread of the report of 15,000 Russians pinned down near Bakhmut?

Deeply offended by his description of Michael Taffe “steadying presence that can impact the game with his football IQ”

I’m Going to this game, it’ll be my first ever experience watching Texas on the road. Any recs on where to pre-game?

Did you ever think that the church you’re defending is just an “idealized version of yourself”? Of course people who hate gays and browns and poors are gonna defend the hateful churches and tell people who stand up to them that they’re “disagreeing with god”.

High of 84 tomorrow, nothing over 93 in the 10 day. I’m ready to call it. Congrats all.

“Tenuous at best” lol GMAFB on multiple points here. First, you don’t change the ticket, especially when you are heading into a rematch. Second, it’s pretty telling that you consider the best characterization of the economy as “tenuous”. Biden is old as fuck but he’s kicked ass all over. Harris lacks “likability” but she’s done nothing to warrant a change. Unless Biden dies in the next 15 months, he’s very likely to be re-elected, with Harris as his VP.

Lineup is going to be amazing. Position player bench will be deep. Both on par with Omaha teams of the past. Starting pitching has a lot of risk. They are gonna be very dependent on Witt and LBJ. I don’t see another surefire weekend starter on that roster. They’ll be fine during the week and they should be able to lean on the bullpen quite a bit. But if Witt or LBJ don’t live up to their ceiling I have a hard time seeing this team winning it all.

I had mono my senior of HS just before my last basketball season. It fucking destroyed me and I can honestly say I have never been the same. I was only sick/bedridden for 3 weeks, but I never recovered the energy levels I had prior to that point. It’s been 25 years now and I can still trace my chronic fatigue back to that ordeal. I really hope (and expect) that your kid has a better experience.

Fuck that dude ALL the way up his ass. (Also, he’s wrong.)

McCarthy clearly has seen enough evidence that he is confident we will see President Kamala Harris take office sometime next year.

This far removed, the most lasting impact of 9/11 was how it marked the loss of security and innocence. Any American born since that day grew up without the feeling they could be confident that our basic way of life would go on uninterrupted.

I gotta admit I thought Sark and Ewers were both bitches who would fold whenever shit got real. Glad to be wrong. Hook em Sark.

Legibly speak? Dude do you legit not know how much you’re embarrassing yourself? I am convinced at this point that you’re not a troll; like, you actually believe the evil/stupid shit you type on this message board. But I am having a really hard time believing you can be this fucking stupid. Fucking brutal.

I cannot answer that question without knowing how much the premium would be. I have never considered it but I am assuming you’re just describing supplemental unemployment insurance. I would be interested in that for the right price.

The way it should logically work is that it should be relatively difficult for people under 30 to find a “dream” job due to lack of experience, and difficult for people over 60 due to salary expectations and narrower fits (and potentially a decline in skill), but ages 30-60 are the prime working years for “white collar” workers and workers in that stage of life should be in very high demand. I am only 43 and I have definitely seen the worm turn in terms of how I am viewed in the job market. I’m no longer the moldable, trainable up and comer, which feels very odd and a little sad. I suspect that workers with a lot of technical expertise or management experience probably find an easier time of it in their 40s, but regrettably that’s not my situation. It’s a shame that individual contributors without technical expertise who are in their 40s and 50s who are not experiencing any real cognitive decline are being treated like they are ready to be put out to pasture and finding it hard to get a good job that matches their skills and experience.

Equal parts: Inflation increases govt spending (Medicare and SSI) Interest rates rising to increase govt debt service Tax breaks lowering revenue Seems like errbody tries to CR the shit but the bulk of it is really just covid chickens coming home to roost via inflation/rates. I do think it’s possible that some of the assumptions in the math end up being wrong and things could be dramatically better (or worse) than it seems. My guess is that if it’s not better (or if it’s worse), we will see rates dropped dramatically in short order to reduce debt service and increase tax revenue (which is a pickle because that would also likely exacerbate inflation, which means higher Medicare/SSI costs, but that would still probably be the play).

I struggle with this. I am looking at my iPhone 5-7 hours every day. I do a lot of keeping in touch with it between text threads and Facebook, but this addictive motherfucker is almost certainly a net negative in my life. I have never struggled with addiction of any kind but I am undeniably addicted to my smartphone and it is almost certainly making me a less productive less happy person.

I can imagine. 50s seems to be the unemployed person’s no-man’s land. Too early to retire but too late to be employable at any reasonable pay rate. That’s one thing kind of freaking me out. I am thinking wherever I work at 45 needs to be a pretty sure thing to carry me thru my 50s. I feel for you man, keep grinding, somebody will realize what you’re bringing to the table and make the smart move to pay you what you’re worth.

My weather app is showing a high of 85 in SW Austin next Wed. I’m sure that’ll hold and we can go ahead and close this thread for the year.

First time reading through this thread and it’s been sobering/depressing. Next to relationships ending, job hunting is my least favorite life experience. The last time I changed jobs 5 years ago, I made a move I thought would set me up for a good decade or more, moving into what I thought was a role that would give me extreme marketability (at least until AI replaces me 10-15 years from now). As someone who has been a pretty good saver, I figured this might be my last job until early retirement. I have a job that most people would kill for. I’m fully remote, I have tons of control over my schedule, I don’t have any direct reports to deal with, my boss trusts me, and I make $150k+/yr with just a bachelor’s degree. For the first 3 years, this current gig was the first real job I’ve ever had that I could legit say I really liked and felt lucky to have. But the last year and especially the last couple of months, I have been feeling burned out. I think some of that is just my own personality, as it seems like I’ve gone thru a stage like this at every stop once I hit the 3-4 year mark. Some of it is that I’ve gotten some really crummy clients in the last year that have been difficult to deal with and made the role more stressful and less fun. But some of it I think is that I don’t have much more room to grow in this company and feel like I’ve maxed out here, and that I would be stupid to not have my resume updated and feelers out. My job seems very secure but I’m in a sector that appears to be facing headwinds and I’m seeing plenty of folks in my role at other companies get laid off. Reading this thread has me terrified that I’d be totally fucked if I got laid off. My calling cards are that I’m very good with clients, I’m usually one of the most well-liked people at every job I’ve worked at, and I’m sharp enough to generally pick up whatever is asked of me pretty quickly; but I’m mid-40s and I am a highly paid individual contributor with limited technical expertise. Reading this thread makes me feel like I’d be looking at a big pay cut if I have to make move. So all that tldr is that I am feeling burned out after 5 years but am worried that my age has already started working against me and my skills aren’t in high demand despite an extremely low unemployment rate. Is it stupid to just accept that without actually going through the motions of seeing what else it out there? When does it make sense to update the old resume and start the absolute grind of looking for a new gig?

That poster is awful and has been crowd sourced several times. He should be completely ignored.