Jump to content

Vegas64

Full Members
  • Posts

    3014
  • Joined

Everything posted by Vegas64

  1. So in that sense, they are the first generation to have to deal with the social and political reset. It's going to be messy and it sucks for them. I think your point is that we should acknowledge this and try to address their situation (and perceived situation) and find a way to embrace them for political means? Okay sure. I don't think you'll get an argument there except or until the point where the embracing conflicts with the demographics and issues of those who are being benefited by their loss. At which point it's just a math equation, which group is bigger and/or more helpful to the greater cause?
  2. Do you know who else used to ask this question? Nazi Germany though they referred to the morons as "useless eaters". Let that sink in as it should be sufficiently scary.
  3. I read the article just now. For those skewering the guy for a poorly written essay that is emblamatic of why he couldn't make it as a screenwriter, reading the last 7 pages was infinitely worse. A more damning repudiation of millennial and Gen-X white man's ability to write, indeed. Anyways, a few quick points: 1) I take umbrage with the title. The Lost Generation will ALWAYS refer to Papa Hemingway and his expat peers in Paris post-WWI. 2) I thought the essay was fine and appreciated the plight. I mentioned this before, but I was consulting at a FAANG post George Floyd and was around some staffing of projects both contract and w2 and we were unabahsed in dashboards that tracked the HR KPI's around hiring and were very vocal about prioritizing underrepresented minorities (e.g. not white OR asian/indian) and underreprsented minority (e.g. not male, but else). I've heard from friends that era has been over for a while, for good or bad. 3) The fundamental issue is that in order to disrupt the old mode of white privilege and help the minorities (who are, in fact a majority), it doesn't happen without change and for the in power group taking a step back or accepting less award. There has to be a cohort of white males who lose percentage of the pie as other groups gain it, in order to more evenly disperse resources in a world of scarcity. The seeming injustice is that these white males were born and raised in a group with outsized power and representation and were coming of age in a time of political and social "reset". 4) An analogy for me is the conversation I see playing out in bad schools/neighborhoods and white flight. Sounds far removed but bear with me; the main thrust of this analogy is that a group of people are going to have to be "sacrificed" in order to right the sins of your grandfathers past. You and your children are going to have to live through the growing pains of re-integration and the trough of disillusionment (e.g. schools getting worse, crime getting worse, property values temporarily depressing, higher risks of bad outcomes, etc.) before the tide lifts and society is better through a better area. At some point we are able to, on the surface, double ledger account for the puts and takes of this sort of social correction. The conflict I believe is a tale as old as time. When we peel the onion down we see we STILL live in a world of scarcity and we STILL only have a finite amount of resources to go around and we STILL are all competing and will either cling to the structure that exists or will push for a new structure to exist that will optimally serves us to get the biggest slice of pie. This seems to be both the human condition and the base rules for capitalism.
  4. This is a harsh one too, on Kamala's book"
  5. Read this review and it's pretty scathing re: Karine Jean-Pierr'es book:
  6. It's happening! Breaking news: Justice Department releases trove of Epstein files
  7. What's the word for a glow down?
  8. well this thread got fun.
  9. I believe you and defer to you, I just mean that to continue the level of mainstream, broad critical AND commercial success (and numbers) a la the Thanos arc, they've fumbled pretty badly and it seems that reverting back to RDJ and Chris Evans is an acknowledgment of that. The future is obviously to introduce the "new class" of actors who can take MCU back to the top on another 10 year arc, but it doesn't feel like they've quite found their footing there yet. It's like a football team who drafte dthe QB of the future in the first round but it was a bust and now they are bringing back Joe Flaco or something until they can reset.
  10. Fair enough. But you have to admit it was a funny quip.
  11. BTW...US-Russia talks are due to resume in Miami this weekend. So much for shutting down for the holidays, eh.
  12. I think it's deeper than just "The US is pressuring Belguim" @Schulz2.0. Here is a global finance analysis I saw:
  13. Agreed. It's Benelux with the capital seat in Amsterdam. No need for provincial areas trying to claim sovereignty.
  14. So today is the big day? Billy and April style?
  15. That's coming. I think Walmart is partnering with OpenAI. https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2025/10/14/walmart-partners-with-openai-to-create-ai-first-shopping-experiences
  16. If you would have told me in 2019 right after End Game shattered records and put a satisfying ending to the saga, with MCU flush with cash and even more good will and audience equity for how they stewarded the last 10 years of Marvel movies....that we would look back in 2025 at the last Phase starting with the Multiverse Saga and the Disney+ garbage and the story is how bad they've fumbled the bag, I wouldn't have believed it. But hey, maybe this hard reset will help. They gotta find a way to appeal to the mainstream again and not just geeks and nerds.
  17. October and Halloween called, they want their click farm engagement strategies back!
  18. He spoke about this and how the media has taken his position WAY out of context. He is betting a short position sure, but over a TWO YEAR period. The call is in like late 2027.
  19. The offensive rebounds stat was attrocious. They doubled us up with 26 to our 11 and the lionshare of that was proably 3rd quarter.
  20. Before this was solved I was thinking it could have been a D.B. Cooper of our generation though.
  21. Found the guy still wearing an N95 everywhere hahaha
  22. Here is the thing. When you become known as a poop destination, you attract all the filthy poopers. And in my experience in those craphole places (e.g. Madisonville, Ennis, Denton, Terrell, etc.) either Buccees has been like everything else and been (no pun intended) encrapified OR the demand for the toilets and flow of poop filled commuters is such a constant and steady and overflowing stream that the bathroom staff can't stay ahead of it and so you get a drop in bathroom quality from the Buccees heyday of 10 years ago. It's basically at QuikTrip & Sheetz quality now but with stadium and arena square footage.
  23. Truth. He's smooth as butter and doesn't force anything. He's a lot better than I thought he'd be at this stage and part of the season, because I'm kind of a hater and act like I'm from Missouri-- you gotta show me when it comes to hype.
  24. Also Cunningham having an off night shooting and still nearly getting a triple double. To the eyeball test he was easily the best basketball player on the floor last night and is fun to watch. One of the guys in the NBA it's hard to not like and to not like his game.
×
×
  • Create New...