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  1. Which makes sense actually (and credit to you, you are the first I've heard suss this out and say this) because my first gut response to the question of "how can I manage my life and navigate this crap in an optimal way" was to land on the answer of tightening up my consumption and making my family tighten up on consumption in the short term as things go to hell. When you don't have an income tax what you have is a de facto consumption tax. I've got some of that bad "I don't wanna pay taxes" blood in me that goes generations deep so I like the idea in some ways, but also it's unrealistic and too simplified in a very complex reality for this to work.
  2. Yesterday a kid was stabbed in the heart for confronting someone about moving/being in the wrong place at a track meet in Frisco, Texas. I think Derka has a point and it's the similiar point I made with my kids as they were sowing their wild oats-- you never know what kind of pscyho or loser with nothing else to lose the other person is you might confront or who is having road rage or wants to fight. Be the bigger man and walk away (or look away).
  3. Spot on.
  4. Crap, not Fitzgerald, but Steinbeck! ā€œJohn Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.ā€
  5. You think so? I've always heard the Fitzgerald quote and thought it was so true.
  6. Chili's is absolutely crushing it. Sales are high, stock is up, everyone is loving life at Brinkers.
  7. Reports from early viewings seem to be a mix of pleasant surprise and good. Which I guess shouldn't be surprising given how many YouTubers consulted on this film. Lots of Easter Eggs and fan service. Speaking of, I hear one is very thoughtful
  8. The last time I went there (West End) the waitress had visible bullet wound scars and was a very large latina and the other was a very clearly skitzing meth waitress.
  9. Dave Chappelle did this bit where he talks about how HRC hit him with the "This rich man doesn't pay taxes!" to which Trump replied, "That makes me smart. If you want me to pay the tax then change the code. But you won't do that, because your friends and your donors take advantage of the same tax laws that I do." When the power brokers and rich, from all walks and politics, are aligned on the green idol, it hurts the middle class from real change. The only thing the rich will understand is disruption and/or blood.
  10. I think at some point they went from being proud of their skimpiness and higher standards and as society changed it was a mix of beautiful blond young girls didn't want or have to get ogled by middle aged middle class creeps in real life (they could get paid online or go to higher end places) and there was pressure to not be discriminatory to BIPOCs and different body shapes. So then it went from being hot young girls to a grab bag of all kinds which slowly changed to where it was a bunch of BIPOCs who are "thicc" (aka fat) and only minority men would go to these places for the shrimp and MMA PPV fights. At least that was my observation over decades of going to the Dallas West End Hooter's (which was once an anchor for that area).
  11. Did you call her a pig parker?
  12. From Forbes today: https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2025/04/01/forbes-worlds-billionaires-list-2025-the-top-200/
  13. Be careful out there, GoLL. You are the hero we need.
  14. As someone who used to travel to St. Joe for work (don't ask), this is a WILD take to me. Then I had a friend who bought a second home there, the amount of days in a year it's great is not worth it and there are more MAGA Trump flags and people than the Redneck Riveria.
  15. As a wholly average person firmly situated in the middle class, I just did my taxes (a few hours ago) and it was painful. Paying 24% is brutal. Tax the billionaires more, relieve the choking of the middle class, and exempt the poor (poverty or below) entirely. That's a plan 99% of American's can get behind. Unfortunately the 1% will never let it happen.
  16. I think what you are describing is what we used to call "social conditioning". The small, incremental nudges over time to shape behavior, usually in conformance to what we would call a social standard (social mores). A few problems to this in modern times: 1) Most socialization is not in person anymore so it takes the teeth out of the confrontation. All you've done is put a person on the defensive and then they will go to the place of actual socialization in modern times (the internet) and get validation and re-confirmation via their echo chamber and network. They will re-entrench that THEY were the victim, and some big male patriarchal bully was abusive to them and toxic to them in public! 2) Society isn't a tiny fishbowl anymore with more-or-less a shared moral fabric, so trying to regress someone with outlying (antisocial) behavior to the mean isn't a thing anymore. We are very fragmented now so you can argue that the neighborhoods or demographics share a social norm, which unfortunately, seem to be trending towards the yuppie selfish person with the dog being more the norm than us crotchety old white men. Doesn't matter that we are right in this matter.
  17. I didn't. I just read this thought which I didn't know either (and maybe it was covered in the documentary, but I doubt a ton of people have seen it);
  18. Ah that's right. I remember the jokes about getting throat cancer and oral sex from years gone by that I think were Val related. 65 is still too young.
  19. Whoa. Didn't even know he was sick. 65 is young, but I recall he looked very bloated and unhealthy in his later years which made his Doc Holliday rendition, ironically, look downright fit.
  20. I'm with you on the sentiment, but I think if you are serious about "good luck getting a conviction" you haven't been south of Midtown, like ever. Chelsea, West Village, Greenwich, SoHo, Tribeca, Wall St., FiDi... Plenty of Insurance bootlickers to kiss the ring and the guy was clearly guilty, circumstantially of course.
  21. Generally speaking everyone wins here. The mom wins (no chasing an annuity, gets it all upfront and with 0% discount), the man wins (he sees a premium value to offloading her and the kid off his books) and the kid wins (free from a bad or toxic co-parenting situation if the father doesn't want to be there, or if he does, a quality relationship without the sceptre of money constantly hanging over it). If the woman plays her cards right, she can really make a good life for her kid and herself.
  22. wtf are you talking about? Is this AI hallucinating?
  23. Get a life, nerd.
  24. Wait a minute. Why is paying up front all at once a bad thing? That's a huge W in my book. Putting aside basic Time Value of Money, you are ensuring getting paid and taking all the risk off the table. Risk of him losing his money, blowing his money by being stupid, getting hurt and losing income, getting arrested doing something stupid and losing income, etc. How can anyone think this is a negative thing?
  25. The meme kids seem to be having a field day, is what I'm hearing from the teenager class:
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