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  1. This is a great summary. POS rep. Being worth 8 figures (the inference he wants us to make by saying he’s Drake neighbor) is 100% a flex where I come from. But we are just poor common clay people.
  2. Not to be that guy, but he’s saying he lives next to the guy, not that he rates him in anyways. You live next to the Aubrey Drake and not the Drake University, you are probably in a $10mm house in an exclusive gated community. Which of course is why he’s full of it if he’s saying that.
  3. Well, I am 60. Bare with me, whippersnappers.
  4. Biden needs a moment like this video where he unexpectedly displays some wit mixed with some self-deprecating humor. He needs to lead with it in the first debate, address the elephant in the room head on, and then wipe the floor on facts and quips. How Ronald Reagan handled questions about his age and mental accuity:
  5. He's been out of the public eye for a long time now it seems, but I truly wonder how Bernie Sanders (82 years old) would speak and look on stage, in debates, etc. He always struck me as a lot more "with it" and articulate to begin with, so maybe that helps. And for those who think it's a foregone conclusion that Biden won't survive a 2nd term-- you guys are aware that people degrade and deteroriate but still live in that diminished state for many years. Sometimes many, many years. Haven't you all had grandparents that lived in their 90's? Heck, if ole Jimmy Carter is still kicking, I think Biden can go a minimum of 4 more years of living. Everyone calm down.
  6. This is such an underrated point. I guess this is also why the eat dinner at 3pm and go to bed by 8pm.
  7. To minimize Biden's performance as "old and just stuttered too much" is part of the problem. It's very clear there wasn't just a standard Biden stutter he's had his whole adult life. What America witnessed was a very real and stark decline in the cognitive ability to take thoughts from the mind to communicate with words in a quick and able fashion. As the poster above mentioned, it reminds America of their grandpa right before you take the grandpa's keys away. It's a hard thing to square. And it's not (all of the) American people's fault that is what they saw last night. That was a choice.
  8. Serious question about how? It's easy. You run someone who has vim and vinegar. Someone who makes Trump look like the feeble old 80 year old against your quick wit, smart and sharp points, and cogent abilities. Bonus points for someone who is actually fit and can actually play golf and make Trump look like a fat old man.
  9. But it IS their fault that they don't recognize the reality of it, whether it's rational or not. You play the game that's in front of you, not the one that is ideal or as it should be. You fight your opponent in real time, not in theory. If you know the "middle" are persuaded by stuttering, dog and pony shows, optics, soundbytes, appearances versus actual policy positions and governing wonkiness, then you need to strategize for THAT reality. If you don't know and are caught unawares, then you don't have the right strategists to win in the first place.
  10. I was just going to say, get ready for another 4 years of "It's our fault for running Hillary, literally any functioning person could have beaten Trump he's so despised", but replace Hillary with Biden.
  11. It is 100% NOT the democrat's fault that Trump is the legitimate candidate or that the GQP are functionally insane. You can only control what you can control and you don't get to decide what the other team wants to do, whether it be eat and flop around in slop or not. The problem is that what the democrat's hand to play, was one that was not great. The only one that could beat Trump in 2020 was a 78 year old centrist career politician. He is now the 81 year old (who acts and thinks and speaks in the suboptimal way of 81 year olds) who is the incumbant, and so the DNC felt like given a) he was the only one who could beat Trump in 2020 and b) he's the incumbant and the political playbook says you NEVER go away from the incumbant, you played your hand.
  12. All this consternation goes away if you replace Kamala with Newsome as the VP nod. You get assurance and comfort that if Biden croaks, you get the guy who was talked out of running against an incumbant in 2024 and who is the 2028 odds on favorite anyways. You get assurance and comfort that you have a strong politician as "the hand" of the feeble old Biden, and best case scenario in the later years-- say 2026-2027 at his stage of seemingly rapid slowing down-- you are comfortable that the VP is running things. You get Newsome with "experience" by being a shadow president, potentially, for 2028 and get a gray-area of an incumbancy bump you can use You get to avoid any blowback from the Dem base who would be upset about "yet another white, straight man of priv" getting the nomination It just makes too much political engineering sense. The downside is you do have to deal with the blowback in the short term for sidelining Kamala and puting her out to pasture for Newsome which could come across horribly to some of the base who thinks its race-based, gender-based discrimination, lack of representation, and otherwise. But I think, fair or unfair, Kamala doesn't have the personal brand as super competent and accomplished in her limited time (unlike, say Mayor Pete who did a great job of actually tackling issues and communicating his wins on TV for everyone to know he's actually doing stuff), that you can for sure say she's a better politician than Newsome.
  13. First, congrats on the weight loss. I agree that compliments that validate hardwork and an appealing appearance can be a very positive emotional and mental experience. I think the problem is less about offending the 1% with a condition and more about drawing attention to the 99% who used to be fat and sloppy. Especially when our experience tells us more of these people are going to lose the diet war and end up as fat or fatter than they were originally— though I guess with the diabetes weight loss drugs maybe that’s changed now. Whereas you felt great and validated and your ego was tickled by being complimented for the weight loss and didn’t consider that the comparison being made was that you used to not be hot to this person and probably most people who aren’t your wife, others like someone from the last page, feel bad about themselves because they hear insults to how they used to be ugly and fat and unacceptable in attractiveness. I would hypothesize that it is a man/woman thing and gender privilege is at play but we had a guy on this very thread express this very sentiment on the last page, so I think sensitivity to whether commenting on weight is a compliment or a “backhanded” compliment is unique to each individual.
  14. Mortgage pros and bros- does anyone have any recent experience with a Home Equity loan? Assume I am easily qualified (DTI, LTV, etc.) and that I've compared a HELOC and Home Equity Loan and decided on the loan. The questions I have are, Did you go through an e-commerce website or online lender or a traditional bank or mortgage company? Assuming a bunch of these companies are like refinancing and want to hammer you with fees, what is the cheapest way to source one of these loans while minimizing costs and fees?
  15. Especially since he's married to my daughter! On second thought, hang him!
  16. Long story short, my Son in Law works for a company he claims who has a history of doing some gray area things and he's about to go on paternity leave and thinks there is a chance he could get axed while on leave. It happened to someone else he knew but his colleague thought it was gray area enough to not pursue legal. He's wanting to prepare in case this happens as he's thinking of taking the max amount allowed, which is 75% of his full pay for 24 weeks and wants to be ready if there is retaliatory shenanigans with a flimsy excuse. Of course I'm not certain, but he tells me he's in good standing, had good reviews, never been written up or dinged... He's in Denton but any law firm in the metroplex would do if you have a good recommendation and want to vouch.
  17. Yellow was mired by horrible M&A the past few years and took out a yuge government loan during Covid-19 it couldn't pay back. People will point to the union and strike demands driving them to bankruptcy because it's catnip for certain people, but that's not true. It was a bad business.
  18. Can you do monthly or you must do an annual commitment? Asking for a poor friend.
  19. Brother? I'm Anthem Blue Cross too.
  20. I just saw on my newsfeed that Peter Frampton has myositis Peter Frampton is on his final tour after ‘troubling’ diagnosis of incurable disease PETER FRAMPTON, 72, has been on his live performance finale The Farewell Tour years after being diagnosed with a devastating disease that causes muscles to waste away. https://www.hopkinsmyositis.org/gift/peter-frampton-myositis-research-fund/#:~:text=The Peter Frampton Myositis Research,to ultimately find a cure.
  21. I can beat that. I have to take a drug 2x a year that costs $60k a pop, so $120k a year, according to my insurance EOB. Oops you said $40k a month or $480k a year. You win.
  22. Same. Except the usual meds didn't work for me and I had to stair step to the most aggressive and expensive one and the jury is still out (though I'm stair stepping down from prednisone these days, too, slowly but surely).
  23. As someone who has been on Prednisone, at a very high dosage (40-60mg), daily for over a year, I cannot wait to be off it. That said, it is a miracle drug for combatting inflation. I had CK numbers in the 9000's before steroids. Got them down sub-500 (normal range is 0-235). From what I understand, long-term use sucks the life out of your bones and leaves you with brittle, weak bones and a risk for osteoarthritis and bone disease.
  24. Thought I'd update this-- I finally got the insurance company to approve the Rituxan. It was a pain and took a lot of time and appeals, but from what I've read, it's really good to stop and repair the lung involvement (ILD) with my auto-immune.
  25. I searched and didn't see one. Especially for first time founders, do we have one? I'd love to read through people's experiences as a first time going through things like pitch decks, VC-meetings, resources and websites or consultancies that helped, legal, cap tables, incubators, the whole thing. I know being Austin-focused probably half of us have started something, at some point in time, and I realize that times are tough now compared to the heady days of pre-2022 for starting something, but general wisdom is the best time to start a new business is during a downturn in the economy?
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