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Vegas64

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  1. Salesforce stock is at an all-time high (up $50 a share this year alone, if memory serves). Is that a coincidence?
  2. This is true but it's also privilege, we shouldn't lose sight of that. The working class and the middle class who have two working parents and limited child-care SOMETIMES can't help but to leave kids at home unattended and use YouTube as a babysitter. And YouTube is algorithmically built to be addictive and the greatest attention sucking babysitter ever. I have a running rule that my grandkids are NOT allowed any ipads or technology when in public. I know it makes it harder for those around us at an airport or a restaurant, but that is how children learn how to behave. You go through those growing pains. Just giving kids a digital pacifier is how you end up with 20-somethings with the massive blindspots and using technology as an emotional support animal. So, sorry for the outbursts and noise and public discipline but long-term it's better for society. Which is also why I'm way more gracious to parents doing the same thing in public and it tugs at my heart to see kids given their well-worn, rubber-coated tablets.
  3. I think it depends. What's that line Chris Rock says? It's wrong, but I understand it. I didn't vote for Trump, but financially I understand it from those worried about taxes and wealth (and capital gains). People my age are worried about their money, not enshrining rights for great-grandchildren, unfortunately. And 100% yes to everything said about porn. I would be surprised if that's not a near consensus in thought. But for some reason we hold the right of free porn as a bill of right, but I remember the old days referenced above. Mags, photos, dear penthouse imagination sexting, with the most graphic thing being Skinemax and then later the playboy channel.
  4. This city is legitimately amazing, second to NYC in scope. I did have an utterly underwhelming meal (but good experience) at Untitled Supper Club is my only critique.
  5. Great game. Rooting for Klay to hit the game winner.
  6. Chicago, like NY, gives me hope for our economy that we ain't even close to a recession. Monday and Tuesday nights there are thousands of people randomly drinking and eating and generally carousing all over River North and West. I couldn't get a bar seat at either bar tops (upstairs and down) at Bavette's. I couldn't get into Three Dots. Everything is popping. Make it make sense.
  7. What an ovation for Klay coming back to SF. Loudest and most emotional homecoming I've seen in the NBA. Probably the prettiest Eurostep I've ever seen just now with Luka too. Too pretty.
  8. I thought it was a good and necessary ending, the full birth and origin of The Penguin with the hat tip to the tails and hat (and umbrella?). The end was giving Alfred Hithcock with the mom in psychco vibes. The end really shows his pyschosis and Oedipean illness in the role playing with Eve.
  9. Blame Joseph Campbell for commodotizing story telling and the hero's arc journey and pattern matching, young man.
  10. The Writer's Strike? Using AI to churn out bad plots?
  11. I get the catharsis and emotional release this must have for you right now. I think in days/weeks/months you will come to cringe at yourself and these words once you've cooled down.
  12. You are giving up. You are "if you can't beat them; join them" if your post is serious. I think you are just needing time to process and it's an emotion you are expressing, but if you really are resigned, this is a sad indictment and reflects poorly on you IMO.
  13. You seem to be very thoughtful in the posts I've seen the last couple of days. I think you are on to something. I think what many are dismissing or ignorant of, is the massive shift that our lifestyles and world writ large, will have once AGI, Agentic AI, etc. is fully realized. Yang was ahead of his time with the idea of the Freedom Divident / UBI. There won't be enough pro-social (value-giving, identity-giving, self-actualizing, etc.) work for Americans in a post-labor economics society that we are barreling towards.
  14. I think this is why we see "guardrail to guardrail" elections. E.g. one election the D wins in a referendum of Trump and the next one Trump wins in a rout and sweeps the Blue Wall, etc. Because essentially we (Americans, maybe not you/this board) are doing the football equivalent of "man our starting QB sucks, let's start the 2nd string!".
  15. I think we can all see what's coming; Sofia/Rush help the mom via therapy realize Oz killed her other little boys and lied about it for 40 years and upon realization, right before she dies, she calls him a monster and has deep, moral and existential regret for her entire life (and his) and that emotional torture is delicious to Sofia, and it hardens Oz and makes him look even more horrible and villianous as his origin story nears completions. Bonus points if, with Vic who she disdained upon first meeting, she has built some sort of redemption relationship with and grown on him and she warns him to run away or have nothing to do with her son Oz, blah blah. Lazy and contrived plotting if this is what we get. The acting better be off the charts to make it work.
  16. Not the nerds!
  17. What was that Bill Burr quote? White women swung their Gucci booted feet over the fence to piggyback on the MeToo movement when it was convenient.
  18. Agreed. And the guy who made the point about hardcore porn at fingertips for kids and the normalization isn't wrong just because he's wrong about most things.
  19. Dang,went to bed after PA. Woke up to see WI, MI, AZ, NV & popular vote. This was a rout. Gonna be a lot Wednesday Morning QB'ing.
  20. And if that is the case, there goes the argument of doing away with electoral college for popular vote. The biggest problem with this election is not necessarily Trump winning President. It's the R's getting a majority in congress along with Trump winning presidency. You want a gridlock, at the very least.
  21. I think this is right. The D party is very diverse though, so a straight, white man with good political instincts wouldn't make it through a primary, though.
  22. "Collin Allred wants drag shows on US Military bases". Can we all agree that the end of political ads will be welcomed by 100% of the voting population?
  23. The guy on MSNBC with the Harris sign in the back just said whomever wins NC, wins the Presidency.
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