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The real tragedy is that not one other student told that child to sit the fuck down and shut up. But also, that teacher should have sent someone to get help to remove the disruptive student. Not hard to avoid the potential assault charge there.

My guess is Haley has been positioning herself to try to be Trump’s endorsed candidate if he doesn’t run and his VP if he does run.

I consider any current layoffs at big tech that account for <10% of their total headcount to just be cleanup that had been postponed due to the last 3 years of insanity, and not really all that pertinent to current economic outlook. A 6% layoff at Google is mostly just firing people who aren’t doing any work and don’t have any real skills necessary for future growth.

LoL no. Red bean is a kind of bean used as a sweetener in Asian food. I don’t even really know how to describe it. When it’s in paste form I would say it’s kind of like the consistency and sweetness of fig newton filling? I don’t know maybe any Asian Surl can chime in here. Anyway, this isn’t the exact product but very similar: https://chaoji.ca/en/product/6666/yimei-matcha-red-bean-popsicle

I have learned over the years that some shit I have written off as Korean culture is actually just weird shit my wife’s family is into. They think red bean is equivalent/superior to all other sweeteners. They describe a green tea red bean popsicle as like a creamy sweet treat, but instead the motherfucker is a bland, milky-green popsicle with grainy ass beans mixed in it. Shit is nasty.

Our freezer is just a temporary holding bin for trash. 2 months ago, our freezer was FULL. To the fucking brim. I demanded to go thru it together. The only things that weren’t freezer burnt or expired were a box of Korean green tea and red bean popsicles that even my kids won’t eat, and a package of chopped pecans. Shockingly, no lessons were learned.

I think OH, PA, VA will be safe it nothing unexpected happens. I also think Dems can fund far right nutjobs in AZ, NV, WI, MT, and WV to win the GOP nom to make their candidate more appealing to the middle 70%; if they can hold 3 of those seats I would consider that a good outcome for them. That Cruz shit is a mirage; he's going to win again.

I started eating Torchys when it was a food truck outside of little Woodrow’s on west 6th. I knew a couple of the owners and many of the original staff from my time waiting tables at Hul Hut; really good people who knew wtf they were doing and worked incredibly hard and cared deeply about their product. For the next decade, a Mr Pink on corn and a half queso with a Maine Root Cola soda was a staple of my diet. For most of that time, the total for that order was $10. Like most things it touches, private equity fucking killed Torchy’s. Within a year of that $400M injection, literally zero of the things on my recurring order were still on the menu; the Mr Pink kept shrinking until it disappeared entirely. The half queso, which was basically just a half priced full queso because it was served in the same sized bowl, got downsized and upcharged. Coke replaced Maine Root. My go-to order went from a $10 dream to a $20 bag of trash. I haven’t eaten at Torchys in years. Fuck private equity.

It’s so fucking stupid. MLB should want as many eyes on their product as possible, even if it might cost them a minimal amount in tv rights fees (which if they sold their product properly, it wouldn’t). The fact that you can get billions of dollars in content for $20/month with Nexflix, but watching one live baseball game a week costs a minimum of $70/month is just ridiculous and short sighted by MLB.

I remember being excited about that. What a bust.

More recently the Chris Archer trade really fucked the Pirates.

Nah. I’m fine trading prospects for the right value. I was only going against the idea that trading away prospects is “almost always” worth it. It certainly can be worth it. But as often as not teams get burned. Like most other things in baseball it comes down to front office acumen and luck.

The following players were traded away by their original teams as prospects: Yordan Alvarez Dansby Swanson Trea Turner Willy Adames Sandy Alcantara Dylan Cease Joe Musgrove Thats 4 of the top 30 position players in 2022 fwar and 3 of the top 30 pitchers that were traded away as prospects. The Astros discussed Kyle Tucker in Chris Sale trades a few years back but luckily didn’t pull the trigger. Those trades go both ways. Wrt to the Greinke trade specifically, the Diamondbacks have already gotten more out of Rojas than the Astros got out of Greinke in terms of surplus production value and they have him for 4 more years, not to mention Beer and Martin are still in their system.

Thought this interview with Owens was interesting. “Why would you commit to Texas with Ewers and Manning in front of you?” ”First of all FUCK that. I’m fuckin gangster and I will beat out anybody anywhere. I’m a BAD motherfucker. Second of all, ask me that while I’m LITERALLY blasting wads all over fat titties on skinny girls for 5 fucking years. 1500+ days of me just going absolutely fucking HAM on these UT hoes. Then..THEN I graduate with degree from THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT MOTHERFUCKING AUSTIN. All I need is a fuckin wheelbarrow to carry these nuts on move in day, and they said they’d provide that. Where the fuck else would I go?”

If you drive a Kia Sorento, 2 things are certainly true: Jesus has indeed failed you People definitely tread on you

Montana National Park? That actually sounds pretty dope.

The most unbelievable part of that poll is that 1/11 people polled were like “Mike Pence, fuck yeah, that’s my guy!”

Doing some VERY brief digging just now, I learned: the Fed's focus is always on inflation; they have defined price stability as 2% inflation or less, while target unemployment is purposefully undefined (or rather defined as a function of inflation) to allow it to be secondary to the inflation goal. The median inflation rate since 1929 has been 2.7%. The median unemployment rate since then has been 5.6%. There are only 3 years since 1929 that inflation has been >4% while unemployment is over 8% (1941, 1975, 1981). I guess it is incredibly likely that we get rate cuts before unemployment gets over 7% and that the Fed won't stop raising rates until inflation is below 3% YoY. whynotboth.gif

If inflation comes down because 500k people are added to the labor supply because their retirement evaporated because the Fed raised rates, is that the Fed "working"? My assumption is that the Fed's ultimate goal in this scenario is to have inflation come down (<4%???) without having unemployment get too high (<7%???), since the Fed's mandate only involves those 2 factors and no others. Having a bunch of olds go back to work is one thing that could help that happen. I'm not saying it's necessarily a likely outcome, just that it is an interesting idea that I hadn't thought of before. ETA: for now I do not think it is a likely outcome because I think the labor supply is short far more than 500k workers, so my current guess is that there will still be further pain.

It has sure seemed backward as fuck to me that the market falls every time there is good economic news (I.e positive job reports) simply because people assume that means rates will rise or stay higher longer. But one thing I hadn’t thought of that I saw in the news this morning is that falling asset prices are causing quite a few older Americans (55+) to re-enter the workforce. Something like half a million people are expected to come back to work. That’s one way the supply side labor issues might be somewhat relieved without a lot of economic pain (except of course to the middle class olds who are having to go back to work).

That other dad is a bitch ass pussy.

"Bitch, if you feelin froggy, jump. That's how night shift works." LMFAO. That shit is fascinating.

The difference between the “Austin sucks now compared to 10/20/30/40/50/60 years ago” is that there’s now actual evidence that it’s more true. Austin is no longer topping any of the “best places to live” lists. There are plenty of good arguments that Houston or San Antonio or Corpus are better places to live. That said, there’s still plenty to love about Austin. We now have MLS to add to UT sports and F1 to add to SXSW. There are a shitload of great restaurants and breweries that have opened in the last 10 years. But instead of being defined by the University, state govt, and hippy/music culture, Austin is now clearly defined by economic/career opportunity. That’s where it stands out relative to other cities. That trait will always bring huge problems like traffic, crowds, a loss of culture, and expense. I will likely never leave because we are committed to living close to extended family, and I don’t think I could ever go back to living in a small town, which limits me to SA, Houston, or Austin. If that weren’t the case, I’d probably move to San Diego or Charlotte.

LoL nothing surprising happened after the Tech loss. Really sucks to kick the shit out of OU and it doesn’t really matter.

Sorry for your loss.