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My pastor believes this as well. Thanks for the response.

The only quibble is that I don’t see “Sub 75k” as middle class. Middle class 75k-1m, is getting a cut. I will caveat that with that the tweet is from 2017 when 60-70k might have been or felt middle class in a way that’s impossible to imagine today.

Well good luck man and let us know. In a “Check in safe from layoffs on Facebook” sort of way when you survive.

In 2011 Obama negotiated with the Tea Party at the brink of debt limit default, which is why we are getting this again today.

She's married to a BMX or motocross guy I think and was in Lady Marmalade.

Most of the bigger firms, at least the ones we are talking about here (MSFT, GOOG, CRM, AMZN, META, etc.) cull from a stack ranking, based on a rolling 6-8 quarters, from what I understand. That means that if you are 80%+ to plan you are likely safe based on performance, right?

As always, I'm 100% serious so thanks for the link. The key takeaways in the first 10 mins, which was educational for me and maybe others here: Congress has already authorized budget and spending and money is spent. By lifting the debt ceiling we aren't authorizing more money being spent, but just allowing us to service that debt that has already incurred, and by doing so it maintains the US Bond power and prestige which may or may not cause a global financial meltdown if the US were to ever default on that debt. Got that much so far and it's interesting that the government is set up this way to need this permission (the podcast mentions it's a founding fathers old implementation), and it is very clearly then an example of politics at work. This is 100% political maneuvering and playing the game and being political animals to find or take leverage and then use it in negotiation or as a cudgel to wrest what it is you want, at the optimal gain. My opinion at least. I'll shut up and listen to the next 30 minutes now but thanks for the link.

I don't disagree with you. The quality of behaviors in children in public schools and encounters with "neuordivergent" children, let's call them, is one of the reasons we bailed on public schools in general. That said, my expectation for an adult dealing with clearly failed-at-home children (whether it be through neglect, abuse or ignorance begat by ignorance, etc.) is to be a mature and healthy adult and not start fist fighting with a high-pitched voice, 115 lb, 15 year old boy. The teacher was thin-skinned and emotionally weak and that's a liability for any teacher, but especially when dealing with this caliber of human being.

China is like Wal-Mart. A bully when they are in the cat-bird seat to all it's "partners" and vendors and suppliers treating people like a mob boss-- we maybe will pay you and pay you what we think instead of what is agreed to. But then when e-commerce blew up, they had to find a little bit of religion on how to be "charming" as this article implies and rebuild relationships... up until they were again dominant and could wield immense leverage, like they do again today. The analogy I'm trying to draw here is that China can't be trusted and will be evil again as soon as they can get away with it.

Why do I picture you like this scene "I ain't gonna say nothin' though" I love Coach Prime and wish him success.

Which thread is the conversation about the debt ceiling and the extraordinary measures to prevent the government from defaulting on debts taking place? I haven't seen it anywhere and thought maybe here as a catchall. Would like to learn by listening you smart government people on what is going on.

Just by going to a fast food restaurant you are already assuming the L. Anything positive that happens in the experience is just house money.

Same. Just logged in to check. This is not a ton of money for an organization like TSRH, but it's not completely insignificant either.

@RDCanecutter, et al. I don't know what the universe and God is trying to tell me as an artist, but I've been drawn to the investigation and introspection of the pretentious question "What is Art?" and "How do I serve the artist within me?" and I somehow ended up with some weird reading-- the aforementioned Kandinsky "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" and now Rick Rubin's book The Creative Act. I'm halfway through the book, which I mentioned on another thread is equal parts, half imbecilic and half genius, but a few excerpts that stuck out that reminded me of our conversation the last page or so: This quote I think embodies the reason I even started asking you about your process and your intentions and your why: I liked these as well. It's rooted in something I've always known and anchored my art in, which is, create for your own soul first and an audience last. Create what you want to consume. And in a lot of ways, the reason we set out to create is because what we are longing for and what to consume doesn't yet exist (or we know of). These speak to the transcendental nature of art and being a human. We are woefully lacking in spirituality as a feature of our existence:

The alliterative thread was very unfunny to me, so I don't agree with you there, but I do agree a new, funny theme to replace "what is wrong with..." is needed.

I get it, the kid is clearly a garbage human being with garbage human being community and family that informed who he is...but you are still the adult and the teacher with responsibility to NOT beat the crap out of an assumed minor. I don't think it's a good thing the teacher fought the kid and he should have been mentally stronger and let the administration handle the squeaky child.

David Crosby, the iconoclastic singer-songwriter who died Thursday at 81, once said his infamous arrest in Dallas “pretty much saved my life.” Rolling Stone and other media outlets reported Crosby’s death in the late afternoon without disclosing the cause. Crosby suffered from decades of addiction, which in 1982 compelled Dallas police to raid his dressing room at Cardi’s, a now-defunct nightclub at Medallion Center. Cardi’s, which Texas Monthly once pegged as “a down and dirty rock ‘n’ roller’s paradise,” drew a swarm of Dallas police, who described Crosby “free-basing in plain view,” holding in one hand a propane fuel tank and heating a brown bottle in the other. In 2014, Dallas Morning News writer Michael Granberry caught up with Crosby when he was 73 and described himself as a radically different man. He was headed to the Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie, where he and longtime band mates Stephen Stills and Graham Nash had come to play a Crosby, Stills and Nash reunion show. And what a show it was. So, was it weird to return to a place where his life took such a sudden, dramatic turn? “No,” Crosby said by phone, during a tour stop in Memphis. “No, no, no, no, no. You have to look at it from my point of view.” He paused. “Dallas pretty much saved my life.”

It was almost assuredly the overhiring that happened during the pandemic. Some tech companies literally doubled. I read Salesforce went from 50k employees to 80k (and they are shedding 8k jobs). It seems like a right-sizing when money isn't free and growth isn't guaranteed to be exponential way more than a "hey look at Elon burning down Twitter and it still is up and running at least", especially when you see that ad spend is down 40-50% YoY in revenue oof.

My wife had this scare recently-- God be with you during this time NRR! I also made an effort to get in shape like dcbc said after all this.

I don't think it was ever explicitly stated, but what do you Christ followers think the thorn in Paul's side was that he talks a lot about?

Google-- announced 10k layoffs today. Amazon 18k, Meta 12k, Salesforce 8k and Microsoft 10k. All you sales bros alright out there?

It's been a long time, can someone who has it top of mind give a cliffs notes or TLDR about this thing? Essentially what we want to know is, did Alec FAFO or is it wrong he's being charged?

Christmas in July was what made season 2 the personification of an audible groan. That said, I'm hoping that S3 is a bounce back to the greatness that was S1, though I think there was a strategic misstep to not hurry up production and release 4-6 weeks ago when FIFA mania was at a peak.

I like to think he's just an awe and never seen the Holy Spirit flood an atmosphere like that. In my experience, there is nobody as spiritual as the American black woman.

https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/30nkWnfRzX3NaRVAwKc0s3YPQI4JLI0w/