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  1. Voluntary and positive acceptance I meant. As in, it's part of the "aura" or "vibes" and is cool to be sober or sober-curious. Versus the nagging, nanny state "knows what's best for you" and makes booze illegal. C'mon.
  2. I was in a trendy tiki bar and got the mocktail. $18 for a glorified apple juice. I think I got a sugar high. Mocktails are the biggest waste of money and should be the highest margin item on a menu based on my experiences with them.
  3. True, but we've never seen as big a cultural acceptance and push for "non-alcoholic" then we have now. Beers, bars and even hard liqours. VC money pouring into the space (starting with Liquid Death you could argue) because there is a growing TAM and demonstrated traction of Gen Z not engaging in the alcohol culture that was the baseline before them. Things can always change and they can easily revert to being just as big a consumer bloc as their predecessor generations (in the same way that as generations age they move from liberals to more conservatives)-- we will see.
  4. username checking out in a very morbid way.
  5. Careful. You are getting awfully close to the line of "secession".
  6. Really? "Locked in"? I mean this isn't like product development roadmap and software coding being pushed into production. This is an update to a powerpoint.
  7. To be fair, it was a play first (then movie) so yea, probably so.
  8. I got my shingles vax last year. This is a good reminder for you olds (even 50+), get the shingles vax. Shingles HURTS and SUCKS. God bless you Sandman, let us know when you are 100%.
  9. So....potentially weird and off topic question. How would one go get trained and/or apply to be a flight air traffic controller? Do have to have a flying or military background? Is there a for profit/private school you can attend to get the training and the hours like they have with pilots? Asking for a nephew who could use a decent white collar job and some middle class stability...
  10. ew dude, your family "white-flighted" to..checks notes on Shelley Luther...SHERMAN?
  11. It's hard for me to understand what's going on in that article, but uh, the guy who won't leash his dog is clearly the villian and if he asks AITA, it's a resounding yes.
  12. Yea it’s a dangerous place to be in. I think partly to blame is the lack of honesty about the “Heater” economy that was pumped by folks who were looking to spin the economy/inflation for Biden, when talking about jobs and labor market and job growth (not saying that was you). When the majority of the growth (80%) is in garbage jobs like low pay service jobs at holiday inns and McDonald’s of the world and (20%) a handful of speculative and bubble companies, you get situations like yesterday where depending on how nvidia’s Q4 went, either the market will completely tank or will be okay. Thats a dangerous position to be in! The lack of the white and blue collar jobs that the middle class historically depended upon is dangerous. They are endangered. And so the billionaires have outsized influence (and the digital labor revolution, if it comes, will be the death knell).
  13. I mean, Melania Trump is same. Aesthetics in a vaccuum and she's top 1% of women her age. I'll say it. I don't have to like it, but it's my truth as a red-blooded, cisgendered (older) man.
  14. It's a hard methodology to be strict about I guess, because her personality and just general personhood is such an ick.
  15. I think she is a normal looking person and just fine. I'm just pontficating (and agreeing with you it was a thinly veiled washing her out) on what the general consensus probably is!
  16. the /s signifies sarcasm, my Brother in Christ.
  17. Honestly her show is no different than 90% of the other also-ran, nobody-cares about shows. She wouldn't draw the ire she does if she wasn't all three of a) black b) unnatractive woman c) overly/everything is race/race-baiting. So I agree she was the victim of the times (but her ratings drop gave a very convenient storyline and narrative to fire her and did her no favors): You can be any 2 of those 3 and succeed. You are all 3 and that's what sunk her. Try the exercise for yourself: Unnatractive Woman & Black - Whoopi Goldberg, current talk show career Unnattractive Woman & White- Most female talk shows that exist in all formats currently (that one thread we have notwithstanding) Black & Overly Race/Race-baiting- Our very own Emmanual Acho seems to do okay. Don Lemmon found a platform and success after leaving CNN. White & Overly Race/Race-baiting- See: FoxNews Business Model since Obama Unnatractive Woman & Race-baiting- Laura Ingraham, Candace Owens Show She had the fatal flaw of being all three and America can't hold that in for too long. Eventually America will cough.
  18. Makes a lot of sense. Almost too much sense. Wait a minute, are you one of those intelligent, college-educated commies?
  19. The tollway scams are hot and heavy right now.
  20. Vegas64

    Getting old sucks

    That's crazy. Anyone got any hip stories now? Was talking to my old boss who got a hip done. We are getting really old, man.
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