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  1. Okay. I hope so. But if not, then what? Weren't you the one who was saying shut up about gas prices and just drive less or move closer to your job, as if that was possible for everyone?
  2. Just saw this stat: The hottest new trend sweeping the country? Registering as a Republican. More than 1 million voters across 43 states have switched to the GOP in the last year, compared to just 630,000 who switched over to the Democrats’ side, according to an AP analysis. Extra worrying for Dems is that many defectors to the GOP hail from suburban counties that had shifted blue in recent elections. This was before the Roe vs. Wade fiasco which the AP states could help reverse things, but my goodness, is there more of a referendum against the tone-deaf "just drive less" and "just pack a lunch" in the face of real problems for everyone not in the top 1% stratosphere of net wealth? We are dying out here and need some help, on all fronts. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-covid-health-presidential-e50db07385831e67f866ec45402be8b9?
  3. The heat and medical marijuana is definitely two primary factors for us continuing to keep our head on a swivel for a good idea. Unfortunately nothing really financially makes sense right now, so we suffer.
  4. Yep. I love taking that stretch of road because it's always so empty, it's so new and smooth and fresh, and you do 80-90 mph effortlessly. CSB/ I once got in security line at DFW and realized I'm the world's biggest idiot and left my wallet with DL in it, at home. I didn't have a ton of time, but I jumped on that stretch of tollway to the house and back, and did 100-110mp the entire way to where the Honda Pilot I was driving was rattling. I was pushing the limits of that baby, may she rest in peace, but because hardly anyone takes that stretch I got there just in time and made my flight. Also 110 mph on that road feels like 75 or 80 on a normal highway.
  5. Mavs wouldn't have gotten out of the first round if not for JB. Put a little bit of respek on his name, even if he's on his way out of town. He was a great 2nd round draft pick steal and did good work in his time here.
  6. I think with the rise of distributed work and virtual work-from-home being the standard, you'll have a "have your cake and eat it too" dynamic where companies continue to migrate to Texas and Florida where it's tax friendly and back of house employees can live in Manhattan or California as they see fit for a myriad of reasons, politics being a big one.
  7. I was born in the 60's so obviously too young to experience them first hand in any meaningful way, but will echo it seems like we are an inflection point. My opinion is that America is never going to be a unified front again, that shipped sailed with facebook and cable news, and that the future will be less federalists and more states-rights driven and you will see populations self-sort and self select and even more political and social regional lines of demarcation will form to bolster the geographical lines.
  8. Just read through this thread, so glad there is a happy path potentially Bruin and I hope you get to stay on that course! The GERD and esophagus stuff is timely for me, because I've had horrible indigestion and reflux and nausea anytime I eat anything. Oh and diarrhea for 2 straight weeks. Been eating Tums and Rolaids like candy but the label says if you are taking the max amount of Tums and Rolaids for more than 2 weeks go see a doc. I am seeing my doctor tomorrow so hopefully I see what's going on but I think it might be a side effect to a pill they have me on for something completely unrelated-- but I've been on that pill for 2.5 months and these side effects would have just begun 2 weeks ago.
  9. is that...is that...casey anthony? y'all are going to hell.
  10. What’s the problem with being given notes/agenda? Geez people.
  11. As I mentioned I just spent the last week tooling around LA-> Bev Hills -> Malibu-> Calabasas with a range of people across a range of wealth, and was with a bunch of locals and LA lifers (USC people, CAA, Hollywood people) as well as folks from Texas, and there did seem to be appreciation for 1) Real Estate prices in Texas 2) Taxes (had a guy tell me he grossed 2.5mm and netted like $900k in Cali, which seems “not great, Bob!”) and 3) BBQ & Breakfast Tacos in that order. One thing everyone in Texas and Hollywood it seems agrees on is Matthew McC should be our next governor.
  12. What’s wrong with Paramus, NJ?!?
  13. Was hanging out in what I would guess is the more tony (and conservative?) parts of LA and Calabasas and Malibu this week and noticed something hilarious. On a bus bench you had realtors advertising their services with a “Ready to Move to Dallas?” Tagline.
  14. Have you considered Flagstaff, AZ? Though I wouldn't consider NAU major, it's still something. And that far north its essentially South Utah.
  15. This sounds attractive but the main problem I'd have is access to a large economic center hub and a big airport for work. I get there are some great logistics companies and retail due to Walmart and JB Hunt and Tyson foods, but outside of those industries, pretty sparse pickings for someone who needs the higher income and earning power of a Houston or Dallas. Same problem as Oklahoma in that regard, but it sounds like a great destination for those on the downhill coast part of their career or retired.
  16. We are looking at moving from Texas to a nearby state with medical marijuana as Texas will be the 50th state to pass it, at this point. The problem is as you said; a high powered job in Oklahoma that would meet my quality of life in Texas seems to be non-existent. So alas, we continue to wait and monitor the situations...
  17. If your kid is the really smart but super lazy and directionless one who plays a lot of video games to the short term detriment of his future plans that was mentioned up thread, then yes your kid smokes a ton of pot I would wager. I could be wrong if things have changed so much that this behavior pattern isn’t a good correlation anymore and parents are no longer painfully naive… Aint nothing wrong with smoking pot though.
  18. I once flew American in and out of Toledo, so that hits home.
  19. Job hopping is the tried and true way to get more money, for sure. Can't fault anyone for doing that and I don't see that as a problem at all. If companies don't like it or see it as a problem, they can always pay more. Not to get too off-topic but it's like what others are saying about the Saudi-backed LIV tour money-whipping these golfers with a platform and name brand. if the PGA doesn't like it, pay more. Since the beginning of fiat currency the same has always been held to be true for everyone: Money talks, BS walks. This is why the funniest and most true things the youngest cohort of workers are saying resonates with me when they say "Keep your free beer and ping pong tables and other stupid perks I don't care about and pay me more cash money."
  20. AA to cut flights into 3 smaller regional cities I saw this AM.
  21. @Catdaddyhorn Thank you for posting that. For the last few weeks I've had a reoccurring question I couldn't quite make sense of which is how it came to be that black people in Texas didn't hear they were free until 2 years later after the emancipation proclamation. How could that be? 2 full years, even hand written notes across the the Atlantic and muled to the Far East would take shorter time than that. The explanation of Confederate controlled Galveston in those tweets helped and also I guess the way we are being taught Juneteenth can't be literally accurate, as in surely they heard about the EP and slaves being freed, they just didn't get have it applied to their locale until 2 years later.
  22. I see and I agree with you that it is in everyone's best interest to view your job as transactional and that was because organizations have fundamentally changed how they do business and view employees. Also I'm learning a lot about ghosting here and also it's a good reminder of how lucky and blessed I am and a reminder to be grateful like how I'm posting here on a federal holiday that my company lets us take instead of working.
  23. Gotcha, I think these things should be table stakes for all people too and the days of working up to it and "paying your dues" should be outdated and put to the pasture and I agree with the PTO thing actually, i'd much prefer to have PTO that i can cash-in at some point as well or use versus the unlimited PTO scam some companies, depending on the culture, run.
  24. I'm getting this inputs from the last couple of pages here and that article that was linked. The article makes it seems like it's new but is also vague about who is doing it. This is the quote from the article:
  25. They had to have given Barron some government secret human growth hormone or something. he looks unnaturally big and it probably plays into Trumps ideology of master race to have a big tall son when he had the means versus his first two failed attempts.
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