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TexasEd

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  1. Is that the same guy that did the one before the Texas game? Voice sounds familiar
  2. Again, I agree that they believe they were worse off, they believe that they were shafted. But IIRC I think everyone was better off in 2024 than 2022. Now were they conflating 2022 with 2019 and comparing 2024 to pre-covid, maybe. If that was the case then they were not answering the wquestion asked but responding more on feelings. Again, no doubt, Biden lost the messaging war over inflation, the causes and the remedies. Just because people feel a thing does not make it right, but your point is valid in that we have to do a better job of addressing what they feel or believe.
  3. I'll agree that there is a population of white males that believe they have been shafted because they believe the things that Rush, Hannity, Trump and others have told them. They don't like it and they lash out by voting to hurt other people and because having a guy that offers lip service to their perceived grievances who has the same skin tone, if not a little more Ochre, instead of a black man or a bi-racial woman is one of the ways they would predictably lash out. Kamala had no chance of bringing in this disaffected group and probably widened the gap over a generic white guy because in that group's mind every woman and woman of color is a DEI hire. So they may be wrong about the cause but do we need to cater to their misguided fears? Maybe some of us are just too tired of the bullshit whoa is me mindset of the perpetual grievance machine and just want those complainers to pull themselves up. They wont because complaining and blaming is easier.
  4. worse than I expected, and I expected something pretty bad. The only thing that would have saved these lives was evacuating ahead of time. I've been on camping trips in low lying areas before where we feared heavy rain (McKinney Falls, Garner, etc.) and just packed up and left a day early. People in the Mobile Home, RV parks, etc could have done that if warned. The campers would have been harder but they had buildings on higher ground that would have been a start.
  5. To be more clear on my post above, I'll have kids in school another 10 years. I will probably be in position to retire then or maybe a little earlier. I would consider working from home for half my salary as an alternative to retirement for a few years as a way to delay expenses like health insurance and allowing for more growth in retirement before I start withdrawing.
  6. And to continue my previous post if I dug deeper I would probably find that even though the % of Female Communications graduates passed 60% in the 1980s that statistics would show a significant number of them selected out of the labor pool shortly after to start families through the peak in the 1990s. In the 2000-2010s we might see the delayed family starts coming into play where those women stayed in the workforce exacerbating the problem for the outnumbered white men who were previously advancing when the women left the workforce.
  7. It was actually one of the best calls on the program. It also covered some serious questions that the hosts, not anyone else other than Elko could have a good answer to.
  8. #3 the data does not match his argument. I posted the statistical data that shows that during the timeline he documents the hiring of women in that field matched the percentages of those attaining degrees in that field. So Ascribing the outcome to DEI without taking into account the pool of candidates available is leaving out a significant factor in that outcome that was inconvenient for the author. If he wanted to continue to see a 57:43 M:F ratio in hiring when the new graduate pool was 34:66 what he was really arguing for was more male bias not an even playing field.
  9. Pretty sure the running game won it for Miami.
  10. Might be tempted to go on the cheap
  11. I said it earlier. His fingerprints were all over this.
  12. https://radio.securenetsystems.net/cwa/index.cfm?stationCallSign=ZONE1150
  13. Was Ted Cruz at the game? This has his name all over it.
  14. Aggy showing growth doing upside down U
  15. Holy shit been working around the house go turn on the TV and see it’s three to nothing in the fourth quarter. What a shit show.
  16. Yes, they’ll find some fraud but not anywhere near theirs explosive headline and then Trump will pardon his supporter that committed the fraud after they make a purchase of one of the family crypto coins.
  17. The first half of this post is what I was getting at with the discussion on mitigating circumstances. The article lightly touched on the transition from traditional to digital media and the relatively shrinking number of jobs but completely ignored the fact that 67% of new college grads with Communications degrees were women which just happened to match the new hire rate that he cited in the article.
  18. @Bozo_Casanova now that I’ve read more of your posts I suspect the things you saw in the tech industry were significantly affected by more than just the diversity efforts. This could be a whole thread on just the tech industry but I’ll say a little here. We can blame diversity across the board but in tech it was a double whammy with H1B making it even harder on white males and it wasn’t for diversity reasons even though it might look like it was. It was economic because it was cheaper to bring in people on visas, pay the legal bills, and then cut the salary by the amount of the immigration fees and hold it over the employee’s head like an indentured servant for stability. It can look like a diversity play where non-white male people start filling more roles but I don’t think it was. I worked in a lot of roles that required security clearances for decades and was insulated from the impacts in the broader tech workforce and when I switched to non-defense work it was eye-opening.
  19. I’m pretty sure the song is older but reminds me of Born in East LA
  20. I read through a lot of these and think the way it is framed is conflating the message. Think about your current situation and then reverse it based on your numbers. Would you do that? If you work in office for 240K a year, would you give up half to work from home or if you work from home for 120K a year would you change and go in the office for double? Right now I am in the office making a good salary and would not take the cut because I have kids in school, but reduce those expenses and I might delay retirement to work from home for half my salary.
  21. Same for me, it’s not the tariffs it’s the uncertainty/instability - taco tariffs and trade wars are are one of the signs
  22. I did not see any mitigating circumstances which was one of my complaints. Put all his energy into the life’s not fair and I’m a victim argument.
  23. I read an article on the birth rate issue a month back. The teen pregnancy rate has dropped significantly which is great, but the fertility rate among women 20-24 also took a major hit and the growth has been in the 35-39 and 40-44 populations. This shift creates a few problems in that the delayed fertility means that instead of family generations being spaced 20-30 years apart they are shifting later. This means that instead of having 3 generations in a 75 year span you only get 2 or less. This compounds the population growth rate issue.
  24. Yes, I have seen it in technology services but that is an even more complicated story. You have to add in that the US does not graduate enough people with tech degrees to meet demand so there is the whole H1B and offshoring issue that could have been addressed if more people had decided to get technical degrees or training. If you made some posts in another thread on this topic about that experience I did not see it so sorry if I'm not addressing the points you found most pertinent.
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