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LCHorn

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  1. After spending a month in Madrid where half the highways are buried and there’s subways everywhere I just can’t understand why the economics of doing the same here are so terrible.
  2. Asking a server to split a check six ways is bad manners. One person pays, everyone else Venmo’s. Also, not a single one of you had a date?
  3. She can always pepper her response with “of course Dana, I’m not referring to you. CNN would never engage in such disreputable practices, I’m sure.”
  4. Without the haze of nostalgia ever present you’re not missing much. It’s pretty generic bar food and $8 for a pint of beer is a little extreme.
  5. I think CTJ and others have touched on aspects of this, but team building in an era of NIL is going to be fascinating and one paradigm that might prevail is a stars and scrubs model. If you can find kids that can be sold on development, look to have untapped physical potential, and are willing to commit to riding the pine for a couple of years then you might be keep and retain them at a relatively low cost, at least until they are playing.
  6. Oh good, the review in Variety was so overwhelming with praise that it was hard to take it as legitimate. I have a feeling I know where the story goes but regardless it’s cool that Kravitz has got talent behind the camera.
  7. It’s obviously a stereotype but my BIL is the same. He’s probably one of the few who is more enthusiastic about the Trump ticket because of Kennedy’s endorsement. He also believes in aliens and makes sure to explain his black friend is “one of the good ones.”
  8. That’s funny-my wife and I are both Gen X and probably too old for the survey but we talked about politics early in our relationship and found common cause in opposing Republicans. Somewhat unintentionally, but we don’t even hang around people that are Maga anymore (even family)-it’s just too hard to constantly police yourself and not say something that leads into conflict.
  9. Me too, but we also haven’t done our annual Labor Day trip to Port A yet.
  10. I think what @SydneyCarton is trying to say is he is now in that group. Complaining about unrealized capital gains is the new class indicator.
  11. This is all presumptive because the rates aren’t there (and might not be for awhile), but you should have a goal of the lender paying for all of the closing costs. It’ll reduce your rate improvement (those fees have to get paid from somewhere) but it’ll position you better for subsequent refinance if rates continue to fall.
  12. I think he was joking. The casting was the best part of the trilogy.
  13. I don’t hate Servais, but my feelings for him are polluted by the job share arrangement with Eddie Taubensee and OH MY GOD, HOW DO YOU TRADE LOFTON FOR THIS GUY?!?!?
  14. I’m okay with 25 now and higher expectations for another cut in ‘24.
  15. Regardless of the merits in the grand scheme of life, I just want to give kudos to whoever posts the clips of Buttigieg on Fox because I eat that shit up.
  16. I'm going to let someone better versed in accounting respond on the merits of what you're describing, but one think I do know firsthand is that the county isn't removing the homestead unless you're selling the property OR you notify them it's been conveyed (for example, through inheritance). Your scenario is unclear about who's in line to inherit, too. Is it you or your Dad?
  17. I’m glad they’ve taken the suggestion to go after the youth vote to heart…
  18. That font is worse than Papyrus.
  19. Not to digress too much, but as a mortgage guy I can vouch that pretty much all down-payment assistance programs pair best with government loans (primarily FHA). Usually the total amount of assistance, for example, is less on a conventional loan. Totally disagree there on both points. You don't need to mandate density--density will come organically from lessening the construction and regulatory burden in any place people want to live. Even case steady in urban sprawl Houston is seeing density improvements with townhome and condo construction inside the loop. This--and you cut the cost by giving builders the flexibility to meet market demand. I'm pretty sure I saw this article posted on Surly but it's a good example of how a common sense reform.
  20. Maybe I’m being overly generous, but I put Mace in the category of “non-partisan attention whore”. If the GOP wasn’t dysfunctional she probably finds someone senior and sober as a mentor (alike LBJ and Rayburn). I think you can work with that if you’re on the other side.
  21. I wish they’d take that same money and dangle incentives through HUD for the removal of local barriers to density (building codes and zoning). If it’s anti-regulatory it should get bipartisan support, too.
  22. Did they move it somewhere else on campus? I recall seeing lines their on Election Day so it’s not like it’s poorly used…
  23. So JC Chandor directed this; if you’re not familiar with his resume, it’s a little like Scorcese deciding to make Robocop a year after doing The Color of Money. It might be really interesting or it might be that Chandor owes his bookie a lot of money….
  24. I actually think the problem is that thread topics are too broad. Also, 50% of Surly posters are attorneys and notoriously bad with money.
  25. I disagree (at least by degrees), but I’m also weary of using monetary policy in an attempt to steer the leviathan.
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