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Vegas64

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  1. No way. Leo's try-hard self.
  2. Ticket prices seem to have rebounded (or stayed steady?). I sold some in the lowers I bought before the weather crashed the prices for about 33% more than I bought them for and then bought some uppers for about 20% of the overall cost. I just want to get in the door so taking a little profit is fine.
  3. I only uber anywhere I go, even NYC. I never fly into JFK so didn't even know of those train options. I'm an Uber from LGA to the City guy. Heck, I'll take a $30 Uber from Chelsea or West Village to Midtown or Hell's Kitchen every day of the week. Add $15, sure, why not. Just not interested in riding public transit. I still even have a Clipper card in my apple wallet in case I thought I wanted to ride from Oakland to San Fran, but never did and just Uber'ed. Good luck to you people who live there and I hope it works out for you in whichever way you want it to!
  4. Which team does your kid play for? Another way of asking that question is, which team did Prestonwood North blow out last night? harharhar
  5. Nerd! I had the prettiest girl wrap mine for me as a flex. Toxic masculinity wasn't yet a thing in the 80's.
  6. Friend of mine sent me this (finance satire email): Meta’s new logo after the update to their content policies Now let’s break down the 5 key updates to Meta’s content moderation. 1. Replace fact checkers with community notes Rather than buying 1 million Nvidia Quadro graphics cards and running LLMs to ban content, Zuckerberg realized they could moderate content for free by having unemployed losers doing nothing at 2pm moderate for them. This saves Meta billions. 2. Simplify content policies For the last 8 years you had to pretend that Caitlyn Jenner looks hot and that 12 million illegal immigrants didn’t cross the border. Now Facebook will allow your crazy uncle with 3 followers to write diatribes on Muslims because Meta realized no one was gonna read his shit anyway. 3. New approach to policy enforcement Instead of banning some guy who says retard on Instagram, they’re gonna focus on addressing the pedophiles and terrorists plaguing their platforms. 4. Bringing back civic content Previously you weren’t allowed to discuss politics on Meta platforms because they didn’t want someone with purple hair to have an anxiety attack. (It definitely wasn’t because the federal government was secretly forcing social media platforms to bend to their will.) 5. Moving their trust and safety content moderation teams Meta is moving all of their moderation teams from California to Texas. If you make $230k but your political ideologies won’t let you relocate to Texas, you were definitely part of the problem.
  7. This reminds me of the DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) light rail issue recently. Cities with low to very low ridership (compared to Dallas proper) who are helping to subsidize the whole program are wanting their taxes rightsized and it's potentially existential (or will cost taxpayers more): https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2024/07/darts-existential-crisis-another-city-wants-to-cut-funding/
  8. Donated. I don't know why but I read this as ROBLOX (the dumb app game my grandkids play) needs prayers and just ignored it until now.
  9. One of my best friends did this. Grew up in Sandy Springs area, always aspired to go to Vandy or even Northwestern, got in....but parents sat him down and showed him the math on going to Vanderbilt vs basically free UGA and did UGA. Worked out well though because Big 4 and finance (banks, pe's, etc.) recruiters will recruit from UGA even as a non-target if you do well there and he's done really well even without having to get a better name MBA.
  10. It's been snowing fat snowflakes in Prosper for like 3 hours now. Looks like a winter wonderland. (Cue the "Prosper isn't Texas it's Southern Oklahoma" jokes now)
  11. Simiarly, I rented a sedan from Avis and they were out so they gave me a luxury upgrade for the same cost and it was a 2022 Lincoln Navigator. I was super impressed and it was a beautiful car, which is why it's even on the list to consider. Had that never happened I can't say that I would ever consider a Lincoln.
  12. 2/20 for me.
  13. Today I learned that a) Greenland is 80% covered with ice and 3x larger than Texas and b) while many Greenlander elites speak Danish, the official and most widely-spoken language is Greenlandic, which is closely related to Inuit languages.
  14. But also, if we start acting basically the less brutal bully in the West that Russia is over there-- we lose some of that credibility for calling Russia out on their crap.
  15. This has not been my experience at all and ever. I guess we are just experiencing different worlds. In my world, I'm riding the wake of one of the McKinsey, Bain or Boston firms who have come in and done a long and expensive review that gives the Board and CEO a huge number and time to value that nobody else in the business believes. These are projects with code names that promise crazy things like, "$1 Billion in operational savings or process efficiency gains" that require a very disruptive next 12-18 months, etc. and are generally not fully baked and still have some faulty assumptions littered about. Further nobody wants to sign up for their piece of the savings and few (usually newer or self-described "change agents" who haven't lived through one of these projects internally before) actually want to be a part of these boondoggles. So you get a ton of passive and creative corporate stalling that makes the federal government look ambitious and efficient. We can probably have a whole 'nother topic about this kind of crap to not further derail the main idea here, but it's interesting to hear other's experiences if nothing else.
  16. Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard.
  17. Off the top of my head I can remember being on the case team for an O&G organization (F500) whose VP layer were dragging their feet and hiding behind thin gruel change management and process change management concerns, despite other stakeholders letting us know that there was real executive sponsorship and appetite. I was able to glean from the transcripts that a) the C-Suite thought they had a good enough data foundation (contact drivers across the omnichannel already) where the VPs were saying wasn't ready b) IT readiness was good enough and c) a FCF target was bandied. Being able to come back and threaten with "your CEO/Board is saying XYZ-- maybe we should ask them if we can get the sponsorship" unlocked the project. Same company, different time (their VP's were stuck in mud)-- there was some recent M&A and integration work and VP's were dragging feet and in the quarterly the CEO is explicitly calling out an exact accretive value number he was going to provide to the street AND a general timeframe. Less examples of tactical detail to get a project unstuck or advance a deal and more leveraging leaderships own words, goals and commitments to the investor community and shareholder base and pointing it back at them. Two examples off the top of my head that I was directly involved in and I know there are many, many more.
  18. I'm in the same boat. I've narrowed it down to three buckets I'm debating the merits of: High water budget: 2022 Cadillac Escalade Luxury Middle budget: 2021 Lincoln Navigator Reserve Floor budget: 2020-2022 Chevrolet Tahoe or Ford Expedition Will report back when I decide.
  19. Texas 34 OSU 17 A true Daily Double.
  20. Not knocking homeboy's wife, but tell me you don't know any sales people without telling me you don't know any sales people. It's pretty apple pie in the enterprise sales business, from what I've seen in various GTM and organizational support roles. That said, it's also pretty smart to tag the corporation you cover in all manner of alerts: google, seeking alpha, owler, etc. so you are catching real-time market moving info as it hits and staying current with the business.
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