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  1. 10 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    $1 totinos for the win.Ā  I had a stack of them.Ā  Pop 'em in that little toaster oven that sat on the counter with a glass door.Ā  I used to murder those with extreme prejudice.Ā Ā 

    $1?Ā  Fucking Daddy Warbucks over here.Ā  Fox DeLuxe $.79 pizzas for the sad, not very delicious win.

  2. 5 minutes ago, safe sex said:

    I inform you with great sadness and regret that Party Pizzas are now almost $2 a pop, and may have actually gone over that since I last checked.Ā 

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    They have less cheese on them than in the past too

    America's happiness index just dropped from #24 to #25 with this post.

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  3. 1 minute ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Probably unrelated but you can now finance a pizza.

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    To be fair....I recall in our college days, dudes paying for Gumby's with a post-dated check.Ā  So, "I'll pay you tomorrow for a pizza that I unwisely and drunkenly ate today" isn't a new game.

  4. 1 minute ago, Samson's Wig said:

    They do drink and fuck a lot, and I'm probably discounting that more than I should.Ā  Ā Gen Z still has it's youngest members who haven't even entered their teenage years yet, so the book isn't written on them yet.Ā  Those older Gen Z folks that are part of the numbers you posted spent a great deal of their formative years during Covid lockdown.Ā  They're just uniquely fucked.

    Yeah....no doubt in my mind as to the bolded.Ā  Shit, my daughter was squarely in that - she was having her dream year (freshman year of college), and it got cut short.Ā  And even though she went back to school after that, the cascade effects, changes to scheduling and study opportunities etc.....well, she felt like she was robbed of something that could have been great, and she wasn't wrong.Ā  Now, she got out and about and had and has a social life, but I saw plenty of her peers who did not, and who still haven't caught up.

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  5. 11 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Lol.Ā  No, but I've been to Coleman and Runnels county.Ā  San Saba county.Ā  Lots of twats, but also lots of just regular people.Ā  I think the rural vs urban distinction comes down to needing one another.Ā  It's more difficult to be self-sustaining in rural America.Ā  I've had many reciprocal situations over the years having fence problems, vehicle issues, cattle issues where your neighbors matter.Ā  I've helped mend neighbors fences and had them pull me out of the damn mud when I was being a dumb ass.Ā  Or let us know when a cow was stuck.Ā  You can't uber home.Ā  There is no food delivery.Ā  There are not stores on every corner.Ā  Being a good neighbor matters more

    This is true.Ā  It is VERY true.Ā  I have experienced it in spades myself.

    But....it comes with a downside.Ā  These communities can indeed see themselves as a more cohesive "us," and "we" who depend on each other....but the also look outward at anyone not in their "us" as a "them," and often not in a good way.Ā Ā 

    It's the flip side of living in a more diverse, urban community.Ā  You don't have contempt for "the other" as much because you deal with various flavors of "the other" in your daily life.Ā  Shit, the other day I picked up an order at Whataburger.Ā  The person who brough my food out was clearly born male, around 50, and dressed up with fabulous makeup, earrings, and his/her hair all did.Ā  He/she looked fabulous, and happy.Ā  Being a product of living in Austin for 30+ years, I just smiled to myself and thought "get down with your bad self."Ā  I know plenty of more rural types who would have thought and even said (although probably after they pulled away) "what the hell was that?Ā  Who did that queer think he was fooling?" or something along those lines.Ā  And, had he/she shown up in their town....not sure how friendly their greeting would have been.

    We should all treat each other the way that many rural folks tend to treat each other in their small communities - pitch in together, lend a helping hand.

    We should all have the tolerance and decency for "others" and "outsiders" the way that many urban folks feel for folks in their cities - live and let live, avoid hurtful judgmentalism.

    Sure, there are outliers for both (plenty of mean assholes in the city who would have called WB person a queer, plenty of people in rural communities who aren't helpful at all when people need it), but there are general lessons to be learned.Ā  The common thread?Ā  Treat EVERYONE like "we."Ā  And don't just think of the "me."

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  6. 6 minutes ago, Samson's Wig said:

    These happiness polls always measure happiness against expectations, and that's why the numbers turn out the way they do.Ā  Americans are overly optimistic and therefore constantly disappointed.Ā  Ā Scandinavians are extremely pessimistic and therefore constantly pleased.

    The end result is still Americans being less happy than other nations, but applying an American's notion of happiness to other nations does not paint an accurate picture.

    Not entirely wrong....but let's talk about the decline.Ā  We don't have to be as happy as the Finns.Ā  We SHOULD be as happy as we were in 2012.Ā  We are not.Ā  We are selfish.Ā  We are mean.

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  7. 4 minutes ago, Samson's Wig said:

    Scandinavians consistently rank high because, culturally, they expect the absolute worst at all times and then appreciate being pleasantly surprised when things are just okay.Ā Ā 

    There is also something to be said for that.Ā  Dear god....the food alone SHOULD make them depressed.Ā  Yet...they are HAPPY to eat....potatoes.Ā  And potatoes.Ā  And sometimes herring.Ā  And more potatoes.Ā  And cream sauce.Ā  And treating 2 flecks of paprika as "spice."Ā  They definitely know how to "be happy with less."Ā  Of course, they also drink a lot and have lots of sex (see the Gen Z problem above).Ā  Aquavit and getting freaky with other hot Scandinavians goes a LONG way in adding to your happiness score.

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  8. 5 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Correlates with the timeline social media went into hyperdrive....newsflash people.Ā  Get the fuck off social media.Ā  You want to talk politics and geopolitical shit, do it face to face.Ā Ā 

    Social media and the rise in depression

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    The timeline certainly matches up with Gen Z's two big problems: they ain't drinking and partying, and they ain't fuckin'.

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    I look back at that age, and yeah....drinking beer and having a good time with my buddies, and getting some, were key elements in my overall happiness.

    Shit, I look back on this past weekend, and....same thing.

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  9. 12 minutes ago, mchookem said:

    plus he's a comedian. nothing more attractive than a man who makes you laugh.Ā 

    Are you my wife?Ā  Because that's what she comes back to, over and over again.

    Which is a pretty harsh way of saying "well, you aren't very good looking, so you had to bring SOMETHING to the table."Ā  True, but harsh.

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  10. 36 minutes ago, Girth Brooks said:

    Finland has a very homogenous society. Of course their values align. Makes them more likely to see the ā€œcommon goodā€.Ā 

    God what a copout.Ā  Way to say "we can't get along because we have minorities."Ā  Also, way to utterly ignore the bigger point here.....

    Nevermind that we -- in recent memory -- did better at having greater alignment of our values society-wide.Ā  Far from perfect, sure....but better than we are doing today.

    Nobody expects us to be Finland.Ā  But we can damn well expect that we could be the US of even 20-30 years ago.Ā  In 2012, we were 11th.Ā  Today, we are 24th.Ā  Saying "we'll never be #1 is a copout."Ā  How about we just say "we can be #11 again?"

    Sorry I give a damn that we seem to be treating each other shittier, shittier, and shittier, and that our social wellness has declined from 11th to 24th in just 13 years.Ā  Sorry I give a shit about how my neighbors are doing instead of just myself.Ā  I understand that you either 1) don't mind cruelty and selfishness that hurts other, or 2) defend those things because it aligns with your beliefs.Ā  It bothers me, sorry, that's the way I was raised, and it's how I'm wired.

    Oh, and my concern about this isn't because I'm a "city boy, not a country fella" (well, okay....I freely confess that Austin traffic and idiot drivers are probably responsible for a good 10% of any bad feelings I have -- cut me some slack, man...our drivers suck).Ā  I know plenty of rural folks who are fucking ANGRY as hell.....at wokeness, at liberals, at minorities, at all that shit.Ā  I've heard it -- the words out of their mouths.Ā  Hell, some dear friends of ours have parents who grew up rural, raised them rural, and have retired to their dream patch of land along a river.Ā  And they....are fucking ANGRY.Ā  All of the rage porn stuff fed to them by their curated media, and reinforced by their neighbors who echo the same things.Ā  The irony is, in their daily lives, they live in such an insular community, they never have to deal with the things that make them so angry.Ā  There are no drag shows in Lower Bumfuck.Ā  There are few minorities -- at least, not in the crowd they run with.Ā  There are no liberals -- it's 100% Trump country, everyone agrees with them.Ā  There's NO reason for them to be angry, at least not with respect to their daily lives....but they are.

    So, "move to the country, and all will be chill" isn't true.

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  11. 1 hour ago, alincoln said:

    Acknowledge that you are powerless to influence broad societal change, abandon the doom loop negativity of social media and this board, focus on assisting people in your local community, spend more time with your family and long time friends, exercise more, spend at least an hour outside every day and make an effort to do things that make you happy that don’t involve materialism.Ā 

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    11 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

    American culture is about greed, greed, and more greed combined with mountains of selfishness and a complete distrust of people around you every day.Ā 

    You mean the people in that culture aren't happy?

    You want to be happy? Unplug from social media, unplug from non sports TV, and watch sports with your buddies and do stuff with your family. It's pretty easy and that's why Americans don't get it.Ā 

    These both work....in part.Ā  But if you're shooting for the "happiness package," that includes empathy for others.Ā  And that's the unconsumable shit sandwich of American society today.Ā  Sure, you can focus on you and yours, and tune out the shit that everyone else is going through (I do a good bit of this these days, and I very much enjoy those moments, like Saturday mornings sitting on the couch with my wife, drinking our coffee, watching a Premier League match, making a nice light breakfast).Ā  But if you know your neighbors are going through the shit, it's only getting worse, and many of your other neighbors are actively working to make those neighbors suffer more.....it's kinda hard to fully enjoy your backyard beer and hot dogs with the family.Ā Ā 

    No, we can't fix everything/everyone....we never could.Ā  But an approach of just "well, fuck everyone else, I'll just take care of me and mine" kinda misses the point.

    In Finland, they weren't just happy because THEY get a "baby box" when their kid is born.Ā  They are happy, and proud, that EVERYONE gets a baby box when their kid is born.Ā  Happiness springs from doing good and being kind, too.

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  12. 2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    So, post-WWII America, the "golden age," for all its flaws, is much preferable to the gilded age.

    It was the era of "enough for most everyone"* vs. the era of "an enormous amount for a very select few."

    Average per capita wealth is a shitty measure -- a couple of dudes can have eleventy billion dollars, everyone else has tree fiddy.Ā  Compare to "most everyone has enough...some are poor, some are rich, but most folks are in the middle, ranging from "getting by" to "doing well."

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    * Asterisk because, ummm, for a lot of that period, "this offer not available to black people" and whatnot.Ā  Even our golden age had plenty of tarnish....but the systems and patterns were there for broad success, and progress continued to be made.

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  13. 2 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    This shit is crazy. In the comments the OP just says location is Texas.Ā 

    I'm just glad that they were fastidiously mowing.....the dry and dead grass that clearly didn't need any mowing at all.

    But hey, you're scheduled for monthly service at $120, we're gonna make our $120.

    It's like sprinkler systems that run every fucking day, whether it's rained or not.Ā  No waste around here, nosiree.

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  14. How do they search your phone?Ā 

    CBP can absolutely search your devices at a port of entry.
    Which is why my devices are NOT enabled for biometric access. Password only. Want to take my phone? Have at it, I’ll buy a new one. But I’m not going to grant you access to something that can get you to confidential client information. Take my phone and brick it.
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  15. And?

    There is no ā€œand.ā€ Not to him.

    Also…don’t you be so mean as to put the US inflation chart against inflation rates that other nations experienced at the same time. That really ruins the ā€œBiden caused our inflation!ā€ narrative. And it REALLY pisses them off when you show them that the US actually performed BETTER than most every western economy, inflation-wise.
    Nope. Inflation was caused by Biden, and Trump saved us. Don’t you get it, libtard?
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  16. I had a boss who was at least genetically clearly from the Indian subcontinent, but couldn't place his accent at all. It wasn't until a few weeks into the job when he said he was "goin' back home ta Edinburgh" that it made sense.
    THICK Scottish brogue on that guy. Great boss, tho.

    One of the outspoken voices of the Scottish National Party is a Sikh who wears the full turban…and a lightly colored kilt and sounds absurdly Scottish. Always love listening to him.

    I think he got ā€œme too’edā€ because he’s also a perve. So I presume he posts here.
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  17. I’m not trying to be a dick, but how long did it take before you had a giant lump? Ā Did you wake up in morning and go damn! - or did it grow over time?

    In fairness, he was waiting for the lump to get big enough so he could run for city council.
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  18. 3 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

    My point was the strain is really going down into the market like people did not think would happen. I am waiting on the support personnel to get laid off.

    If there are 1/3 cuts in DOD, well that is 1/3 less meals being bought.

    BRACS which were never of this magnitude killed communities. We are going to see it again. Plus industries.

    But yeah, we don't have enough coders, so H-1B visas for all.

    Oh, you ain't wrong.Ā  Shit, closing a single military base with a few thousand personnel has killed entire towns.Ā  The cascade effects of all of the idiocy taking place are going to be devastating - many of those effects felt hardest in some MAGA territory, by the way - and they are going to be long-lasting.

    The odds of a recession are near-certain.Ā  The odds of a depression are shooting up every day.

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  19. 1 minute ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    A conspiracy theory I choose to believe is that most Tesla firebombing is insurance fraud from dealers or owners who can’t sell or want to ditch their cars.
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    I'd actually nod in respect to such people.Ā  That's some strategic thinking and getting out in front of things.

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