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Like others have said, my wife and I regularly split the large portions/meals as well. Portions are very big. That said we don't come from a culture where you eat 12 courses and spend 5 hours eating dinner as a social or familial cornerstone of every interaction. I could see how that might be difficult, culturally, but we are talking about American culture of huge portions at mostly mediocre restaurants on a Wednesday night. You have a special occasion or a birthday or at a Michelin starred restaurant, live a little. You at Mi Cocina's for the second time this week on a Thursday night, maybe don't eat a whole basket of chips along with frozen margaritas and a bunch of tacos.

This is an insane line of reasoning; I don't think I've ever cared to address or communicate with you or any of the other 3 or 4 "gals" that purport to be female and post on here. But somehow I'm playing coy to deceive you and hatefully be aggressive to you? Get real, please.

I go to Portland often for work; downtown does indeed suck. Salt & Screw is overrated, but the area around Mt. Hood is a fun get away if you like nature (~1 hour out). The Under Armor office is cool; never been to the Nike campus, but if you are in anything bigger than a Ford Ranger, driving around downtown is going to suck. I was in a basic F-150 and it was tight and the infrastructure looked like the worst parts of Baltimore (speaking of UA).

Fair enough then, and I hope you are self-aware enough to never call anyone else a snowflake ever again.

First, I don’t believe as you do that with we live in a country who only egregiously serves corporations and corporate men. I’d rather err on the side of lower government and more individualism and control of my labor and income, then being coerced into an even more inefficient system that funds things that run the spectrum from foolish-but-harmless all the way to what I would characterize as morally repugnant and evil. Besides, we have no better business case of socialism never working than the Surfside incident. People aren’t inherently altruistic.

I agree, but I think one of the reasons it’s valued (on the whole) by one party versus the other is that historically one party has folks with a lot to lose if something were to happen.

I’ve been answering questions. For some reason everyone wants answers but never want to answer themselves.

Okay, fair enough, I’m pretty dim-witted. So, what do you think?

Disregarding everything you said prior to the bold because I disagree with your basic logic and premise: Are you asking someone to “rid you of meddlesome priests”, as it were, or just wishing everyone thought and believed as you do?

I was anchoring back to the thread title, but sure, okay— you have a problem with the technocracy we live in today and that large monied corporations have large, monied influence on the government. I don’t disagree but I also don’t think it’s as egregious as I think you do. I don’t believe the influence to be outsized and/or worse than the alternative which is a nanny state that taxes everyone to the gills for a modicum of improvement that will continue to need to be fed, as it will never be self-supporting. Reasonable people can jdisagree on the devil we know versus the devil we don’t, I guess. So answer the question; do you disagree and is it something you can comfortably or happily live with?

The fact is, Joe Biden is closer to RR than FDR, if we are to judge men not by what they say, but do. I can live with that for the next few years; can you?

You’ve finally lost your marbles. I’m hardly being unreasonable here; you are throwing out accusations (racist, troll) at me while in the same breath displaying yourself to be a troll who cohorts with racists on your day off and on holiday— something I would never intentionally do. I guess you are just being a glaring reminder of our favorite CR preamble: every accusation is always a confession. And you are obviously feeling chatty.

You brought in some non sequitur about hanging out with racists in Montgomery Alabama or something and declaring “Nobody but nobody thinks____”, but I’m the one trolling. Lol yea okay JLaw gif

Your boy DD said it was racist to people though. And not sure what your personal inclination and proclivity to spend leisure time with avowed racists using the n word is, but it sounds like a personal problem and one you shouldn’t be projecting on to others who don’t spend their time with racists and at racists gatherings like you apparently do.

And I’m sincerely sorry for the derail, but when you ask direct questions I try and be as forthcoming and direct as possible because at the end of the day if I’m discussing something I either have an intellectual curiosity and am asking questions or learning something or I have a position and point or view that I standby and will discuss or both. Which brings me back to the humor of David Dennison implying celebrating the 4th of July is racist and then soft shoeing when realizing his people don’t agree and think it ridiculous and that, outside of the most woke Twitter, that position is still a bridge too far in 2021.

Nice soft shoe.

Setting in motion the reversal of the nanny state that FDR ushered in, crippling the population's ability to be self-serving and independent, as well as enabling a more meritocratic philosophy of lower taxes and and a push for more individualism in the creation, growing/stewardship and management of wealth.

It's not a personality trait, I just have come around on SAS. I used to be like you guys too and think he was a blowhard moron, but over time he's grown on me and I think he knows a heck of a lot of what he's talking about and appreciate his insight and commentary.

Is it racist to celebrate the 4th of July? Your questioning of the word "away" in my sentence seems to suggest you think that day is already here, in the present. A situation where others, like Beau Vine and Walden, think it's so absurd and irrational as to be laughed at, you are saying is actually a reality?

What exactly are you implying, sir?

Good stuff.

From the spreadsheets I've seen (Big 4, organizational planning and design): COL for Austin is still in the lowest graded bucket for Geographic pay zones. So if you are moving from a top tier pay band (e.g. Bay Area or NYC) or the middle tiers (D.C., Boston, Seattle) you will get right sized, the wrong way. YMMV, but this is what I'm seeing today.

We are only a few years away from celebrating 4th of July as being racist, aren't we?

His overarching point was that the ultimate bedrock here is personal responsibility. And your point Celery Man seems to be, "well why are you wishing for something that is long gone, if it ever even existed, because the root cause is obviously external and not an internal issue" (because if it were internal, that would be admitting to a decay in society/culture, at some level, over time). And I get that "personal responsibility" is a punchline in 2021 because the party of it doesn't have it and the other party never pretended to, but at the individual and micro level, it used to be something we took pride in and would strive for. I don't know the answer now that personal responsibility seems like something we aren't capable of internalizing, but I think we are all on the same page of identifying obesity/fat people as a growing trend over time and a problem. It's obviously not a crisis because we don't have a shared incentive for it to be, but I guarantee if we were all on a nationalized healthcare system, there would be a lot more hell to pay both socially and emotionally and financially for being fat and a drag on the community. Maybe that's the answer to get some accountability back into the equation instead of pretending Lizzo The Stallion and plus-sized modeling in Target fliers are positive and healthy and helpful.