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Snake Diggity

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  1. Any advice/recommendations for pool remodel/updates in the Austin area? My pool was built late 80s/early 90s and was pretty basic even for back then. We are looking to add a hot tub, a tanning shelf, and a covered outdoor living/kitchen; we also want to resurface the pool and decking, and replace the pump/equipment and its house. I have no clue how wide to prep my butthole. I am assuming it will be less than an entire new pool which I’ve heard would run $150k, and I’d be shocked if we can get what we want for less than $50k, but that’s still an insane range. I also have no idea how long a project like that would take and when is the best time to get bids and schedule the work.
  2. I’m still calling 0.25% raise in June and that’ll be it.
  3. Ok I’m sold. If we add a Rice clone, that pushes Weaver into replacing Morris and Anamekwe into replacing 2023 Cunningham. We are one player away from being a legit contender and are a Sweet 16 contender as-is.
  4. Returning (7): Disu, Hunter, Cunningham, Anamekwe, Perryman, Bott, Clark Out (7): Carr, Rice, Allen, Bishop, Mitchell, Morris, Brumbaugh In (7): Abmas, Weaver, Lawrence*, Sellers*, Onyemi, Shedrick, Prince G Hunter/Sellers*/Prince G Abmas/Weaver/Perryman G Lawrence*/Anamekwe F Disu/Cunningham/Clark F Shedrick/Onyemi/Bott As it stands this roster looks like a fringe tourney team. If they add 1 good G they will be a good team with an 8 deep roster likely to make the tourney with round 2 a solid bet. 2 good players and this roster is roughly on par with last year’s. Losing all 3 of Holland, Johnson, and Mitchell sure sucked, since keeping any one of those guys would have really completed this roster and made any further additions from here out a bonus.
  5. Abreu isn’t going anywhere. If he continues to be this bad, they’ll add a bat like JD Davis or CJ Cron who can backup 1B/DH/LF during the regular season and replace Abreu in the playoffs; otherwise they may add a C and then Diaz can replace Abreu in the playoffs. Abreu is going to have to totally and completely suck thru at least June of next season before they just cut him loose.
  6. That’s a badass playscape, yours are luckier than mine. Mine are couple years older than the little one in your pic. We have gotten great value out of the simple iron climbing dome and ninja warrior slack line setup; would highly recommend around age 6.
  7. That’s true. But I think whether or not companies can consistently achieve profit growth and stock price appreciation over the medium or long term without American employees remains to be seen. My opinion (based on demographic trends) is that treating employees as disposable is a loser bet over the next 10 years.
  8. I think there’s not so much different skills required but that the same skills are valued differently. The ability to find/vet/hire good employees who you can trust/empower gets a heavy premium in wfh. The ability to effectively micromanage or do your employees’ jobs for them becomes worth less. In my current gig the chain of command (2 levels above me and including me and the level below me) is made up of people who all have extensive experience of working from home and managing people remotely, so that helps. It also helps that they’re all married people with kids who don’t view their job as the end all be all, but treat the company with the respect it warrants. Any manager with the “I got here because I paid my dues and put my time in the office” attitude is unlikely to be an effective wfh manager. I think as time passes and boomers/GenX starts to retire we will see a lot less pushback on wfh and a lot more people who can be effective wfh managers.
  9. Fuckin A this. My previous job had a cafeteria table style setup, just long ass tables, not even cubes. They made me come in at least once a week. I’m in that motherfucker trying to talk to clients on zoom while twenty other people are doing the same thing. Couldn’t hear shit. Ridiculous.
  10. Those charts are from 2019 you idiot.
  11. If you are manager and your team’s productivity went down after initiating wfh, you are a shitty manager. It’s not the policy’s fault. If you are an employee, and you became less productive after starting work from home, you lack discipline and time management skills. I am easily TWICE as productive working from home as I am in the office. No non-stop parade of shit birds popping in my office interrupting me just to shoot the shit or whine about something has nothing to do with my role. No extra time putting on a monkey suit and sitting idle behind a steering wheel for 8% of the day. I would be fine working in an office for 1 or 2 days each week so long as that time was properly utilized for collaboration or tending to customers who require in-person relationship management. Going into the office just to stare at the same (or smaller) screen I have in my home office is stupid as fuck. For me to agree to working full time in an office would easily require a 40% premium on my salary, and that’s if it were on my side of town. Total guess, but I imagine the average age of the “wfh people are lazy fucks” crowd is 50+, while “offices are relics of inefficiency” folks are under 50. WFH is here to stay for most white collar jobs. The people have the leverage and they’re not giving it back.
  12. Laughing my absolute motherfucking ass off at the idea that “there is no difference between Durham, NC and New Delhi”. Holy shit.
  13. That’s actually something I think is an underdiscussed point when people are talking about national debt, especially when making the analogy to managing a household budget; regular people generally feel like they have to pay off all their debt before they die, and even if they don’t, I would imagine 90 year olds have a pretty hard time finding extended credit. Assuming you have the leverage to manipulate maturity dates and interest rates, and you think you’ll live forever, do you really ever have to totally pay off all your debt?
  14. Not saying it doesn’t exist but I’ve been 95% wfh for 8 years and have never seen anyone do that.
  15. My math here is fucked. Delete post, ban user. The total debt to income numbers are right and the overarching point stands, but the monthly expenditure numbers are wrong. I deserve ridicule and shame.
  16. Imagine a household who makes ~$490,000/yr in income. Their recurring bare necessities (mortgage, bills, car payments, health insurance, 401k, etc) are about $3,400/mo. They spend another ~$1,400/mo. on “other stuff”. They also have a CC payment they make interest-only payments on at $400/mo. Their mortgage, car loans, student loans, CC balance, and all other debt add up to $3.2M. The head of household is about 45 years old. How bad is their financial situation? Now factor in: The household has ways of making extra money. In fact, if they demand a raise from their employer, they know will get it, within reason. They also know they play such a key role in their company that there is no way they can be fired unless the company goes out of business. The bank where all their loans and Credit card are held is owned by friends who the head of household handpicked to start the bank. If they ever need to refinance their debt or defer payments, they know the bank will work with them. The society of the entire town, city, state, country, continent, planet, and universe is completely dependent upon this household not going bankrupt. Do they have a debt problem? Certainly. Will there be some uncomfortable belt-tightening at some point? Very likely. Are they fucked? Not at all.
  17. Quoting all of fatty’s comments on “tax structure”.
  18. See what I mean about not ever shutting the fuck up?
  19. -Thread is fine and relatively CR-free for 98+ pages. -Post 4933, Fatty enters the chat. The CR bullshit tornado starts. Fatty’s idiocy accounts for half of the fucking comments on page 99. We’ve seen this before. -Post 4954, I called it out and asked you not to post on this thread. -Post 4958, I explain why simply putting your dumb fucking ass on ignore doesn’t work. -Post 4962, I asked wtf your bullshit has to do with the topic of the thread; you don’t respond to that and keep up the cyclone of stupidity. -Post 4991, I call out the thread for going off topic; you respond as if you are having a good faith discussion about tax policy. -Post 4998, my dumbass gives up and engages in the off topic discussion. Page 101 devolves into a jr high style argument where you further expose what a piece of shit you are. The mod makes his call to try to get the thread back on topic (fwiw I would have been fine if he’d deleted all the back and forth between you and I and called me out along with you). Predictably, fatty whines like the tittybaby bitchass snowflake he is. Why is it that you think you get into so much conflict on this site? You think it’s because you’re some bastion of truth, holding the line against the MSM and the cabal of libtards? I know I’m probably not the first to tell you this, but that ain’t it. It’s because you’re a fucking idiot who doesn’t know when he’s on the moral low ground or out of his depth, and you compound it by not ever shutting the fuck up. That shit is annoying as fuck and makes it hard to enjoy any thread you post on.
  20. You think ability is predetermined at birth? Wow.
  21. That’s funny. If by the unlikely chance your kids break the cycle and end up as halfway decent human beings, they probably will look back on the worldview you espouse and think “man, my dad was a piece of shit”.
  22. Ah, yes, trickle-down economics. The tried and proven way to sustained economic prosperity for all. LoLz. Of course! Please weave me the tale of the child born into poverty who is worse off from receiving healthcare, food, and education.
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