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Gravy Train

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  1. The Big Quitkowskis
  2. I don't buy it, but that's convenient for the propoganda. Putin's reach is sunsetting; more will be revealed by how the transition/succession of power plays out.
  3. BRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTT https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukrainian-fighter-pilots-are-training-on-diy-a-10-warthog-simulators
  4. MA! A Ukraine short film that should be shared around
  5. Pivot: The new builds aren't grey-washed shiplapped vinyl-floored cheap enough for the rentlords to over-lever themselves into anymore.
  6. I suppose anyone spending time in western Europe over the last decade could have seen this coming, with their central banks leading the charge in monetary policy and velocity of money parked in real estate. I just never thought it would catch up here over such a short period of time, while consumers are blinded by the fallacy that the unnatural hike in all-things-residential real estate was due to an inevitable supply shortage, but no mention of the demand side from speculation and asset class to park liquidity. Of course, at the same time, the Fed also injected $5.8T in Treasury Securities and $2.7T in Mortgage-backed Securities. For those shafted Millenials, Policy makers' have said the quiet part out loud, by only addressing inflationary pressures from culling demand, while at the same time, discouraged wage appreciation over the myth of the "wage-price spiral" theory.
  7. All of this. Millennials who were renting pre-pandemic (and couldn't get ahead to afford the downpayment) sure as shit aren't finding a single-family 'starter home' in any metro outside of Hillfuck, Missouri. Access to dirt-cheap capital and loose-enough underwriting regulations allowed Mom & Pop as well as the Institutional Investor load into housing as a new investment asset. These 'investors' are also leveraging rent price escalations (and at one point, AirBnB bookings) to pay said mortgage with legislators keeping thumbs up their collective asses over the potential to tax them more aggressively. The 2018-era 'starter home' of $400K (in metro suburbia) became $600K in most markets. That Gen-Z family needed to cough up another $10K to cover their downpayment, but wait.. they just got beat out by some faceless cash buyer who's hidden behind an iBuyer agent or has an Internet-based management company renting this one out, among four other SFHs in the same development. It is the new norm, at least until those holding multiple properties get rekt by other means and the glut of their inventory is unloaded on the market at once, taking home values with them. The rate hikes have barely made a dent so far, everyone is clutching to their listing price with slimy realtors convincing sellers to just pay down the buyer's rate.
  8. We still incentivicing fuck trophies, or nah? I'm W2, single, and paying for a shitload of 'free' lunches.
  9. He's an Alabama kid, I certainly don't mind that Bama gets their top in-state talent, but stay the fuck out of Texas.
  10. Every recruiting cycle, I get so tired of his shit. A completely new generation of "fans" have replaced those older/wiser to the shens he's able to get away with, so that nearly all of social media raves over Saban as some wizard of recruiting. Yeahokay.gif, BoB is your OC/QB coach.
  11. They're also "Democrats" when they adopt the NIMBY and, "I got mine, go fuck yourself," mannerisms.
  12. I call shens.. it's not new demand from Millennials-- they could have started buying a decade ago. We don't truly have a supply shortage, it's that anything close to a 'starter home' price category has been bought up by rentlord speculators, intending for millennials to pay their mortgage. There truly isn't a means for them to buy anything close to a normal level of affordability because the bagholders have bought into the AirBnB / BRRRR-model of holding second and third mortgages.
  13. It's not difficult to follow if you understand the timeline of Mark Emmert's eventual castration, coordinated with Saban's perennial top recruiting classes, Kirby buying his own classes, and the two shitheels finally figuring out how not to start John Parker Wilson at QB.
  14. Dumb question amnesty about the SECSEC: How is there an 'in-Saban-circle' with his recruting shens, but any competitor (not within the Saban coaching tree) gets fuckstarted for sending a fax? e.g. Hugh Freeze @ Oxford for dumb-shit-bag-dropping (and misdialing an escort service) at the same time the Kirby Smart parted ways to Athens, where he redialed Saban's same connections to start buying his own classes. So Saban and Smart are overlooked, but Pruitt gets ratted out for dropping literal McDonald's bags, then aggy blows their load on one class that Jimbo will certainly mismanage, only to end in a bitchfest.
  15. Where are we on PPP "loans" grants? https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/fed-report-finds-75-800-billion-paycheck-protection-program-didnt-reach
  16. DIRTY WORK IN THE HARD DONE DARK. DIRTY WORK HARD DONE IN THE DARK. OKLA... Done Dirt Cheap
  17. Having blasted through that section of 635 a few times myself (~90 cruise), I have to believe that shot was taken during early hours on a Sunday morning or something. That run illustrates the entire section from around DNT/Midway up to I35 with no vehicles being passed over that clip. That section of road is three lanes wide with a barrier wall and structural works between east bound and west bound lanes.
  18. Where are we with today's gem that most overlooked? All cool to chip away at Fifth Amendment protections, remove one of the few remedies a criminal defendant might have (at both the Federal and State level), and set some slippery slopes on future Miranda challenges with fewer mechanisms to keep Law Enforcement in check. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/us/politics/supreme-court-miranda-lawsuits.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/06/miranda-warnings-supreme-court-alito-kagan.html
  19. It's super easy-- get the car clean, take a bunch of photos, post all the details to AutoTrader, CarGurus and/or Cars.com. Be prepared for a shitstorm of tire kickers and lowball offers to fuck off, but a legit one will come by quickly in this market. Collect the buyer's personal details if offering a test drive, prepare a private 'Bill of Sale' template for the buyer to sign when you reach an agreement. Seems you should make out with an additional $5K easy over what your dealership is offering... You can also negotiate the trade value with your dealer and tell them 'no thanks,' with your intent to sell private party until they get real on your trade offer.
  20. Offering your vehicle for trade is only beneficial out of convenience (easy to let go) or to offset the sales tax on your new purchase. If neither are of significant value, just put it up for a private party sale. Private inventory is coveted these days, with all the dealerships scraping the bottom of the barrels for preowned inventory to upsell.
  21. Don't think this has been posted yet, captured 26 y/o Russian contract describes how he entered the RU army, how brief his training was and that he had zero live-fire exercises with an AK-74 before he was trucked in over Belarus, past Chernobyl, and inserted into battle where his comrades FAFO. During a civilian/resident raid north of Kyiv, his commanding officer pushed a UKR man off an 8th story window where he "learnt to fly," Shit gets real at 19:25 when he calls his mom with a few baited questions about the war and she spouts off straight RU propoganda. Ukraine journalist is aside himself over the sheer mess of bullshit and generation gap. Two, maybe three full generations of Russia are completely fucked.
  22. Shark-fin soup and finely-ground tiger penis "medications" > mRNA research. Superior.
  23. Kinda curious how/where the U.S. manages to source and scrape up $165M in non-NATO (i.e. Russian) ammo rounds to supply Ukraine. ...overnight parts from India?
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