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I don’t think I like your tone, little boy.

That sounds like an interesting job. All the big time geopolitical players (like the Saudis and UAE leaders) I hear stay there and shut the whole thing down. I think Obama stayed there too in his one stay in Dallas if memory serves. I bet you get to see a lot of crazy stuff, eh?

I lived in uptown like 15 years ago and it was amazing. Sad to hear it’s wack now. I mean I couldn’t imagine Addison being able to hold a candle to uptown back in the day. Also since after irth is a big metal guy, deep Ellum had a bunch of grimey bars like anvil and July alley— are those still around? I feel like I heard deep ellum gentryfied from dead to busy and ghetto.

The owner of Birkenstock, the sandal maker, is reportedly considering an I.P.O. that it hopes will net a valuation of over $6 billion. (Bloomberg)

I have had two sets but still only use the wired ones. Good addition. Also I don’t own a pair of crocs

I feel your pain, @52-80. It's very difficult to communicate rationally and moderately with people who, at a minimum, need therapy in order to ingest and synthesize the data points of a conversation. I think @Celery Mangets it and communicates well in that respect, and longhornmatt is usually smart, but you are seeing the mental illness unique to messageboards firsthand. Question: Since I'm calling this out, what should my next name be?

Came here to post this. Amazing. And to think this was all crowdsourced on Twitter. Juvie had no idea what a Tiny Desk was LOL

Donald Trump nearly doubled his fundraising during the second quarter of 2023 — an indication that his legal troubles are propelling his campaign financially. https://money.yahoo.com/trump-pulled-35-million-second-185459258.html

Stat: Want to know why there are seemingly no houses for sale in the US these days? These numbers should help explain. The average rate on a 30-year mortgage climbed to 6.81% this week, its highest level of 2023, according to Freddie Mac. At the same time, almost 92% of US homeowners with mortgages have an interest rate of less than 6%, Redfin reported. So, therein lies the rub. Not many current homeowners are willing to ditch their lower mortgage rates for the higher one that would come with a new house.

I saw Carrot Top in Vegas like 20 years ago. He killed it. Super funny and super surprising.

This one wasn't as funny to me because it was so obvious staged. I just read that our boy Druski got an invite to Rubin's All White Party in the Hamptons. Nobody loves that party more than black twitter/black celebs. Maybe more than even the Met Gala.

I was this year old when I learned Nolan Ryan didn't win a Cy Young

You are right. No tattoos and my kids don't have any tattoos is the new flex.

I've been consuming all things Druski. The funniest guy on Twitter right now. And tell me this doesn't remind you of @Pancho:

I'll never understand people who live in apartments that think they are better than anyone else living in the same apartments. y'all are the same! Maybe the most cringe worthy part of that video though was the guy off camera feeling the need to justify his existence at the apartment community pool in which he lives in and said "this is a three thousand dollar watch!" hoo boy.

Thanks. I had to google Fediverse.

Oh man! The Sour Grapes is so strong it might as well be a vintage merlot.

I feel bad for the Mastadon people-- they had the right idea at the right time, just the wrong product. And the truth of it all is, at the end of the day, Twitter needed to be acquired by a Meta/Google/etc. for it to work. The financials and business of Twitter was bad. The earnings per share, the stock price, all suggested an inefficient business model. Elon thought he could come in and see it to it's full potential. Obviously took the L on that almost immediately. Meta can roll out something like Twitter, in Threads, and not have to worry about it being profitable or break-even in the near term. But once they start monetizing it, the devil you know in Facebook will be back, and once the shine wear off we will be back to "Threads is intrusive, and sketchy with my personal data, I don't trust them, making money unethically, etc." It's a testament to how much we all dislike Elon Musk that we are just happy to see the house fire that has been contained to the kitchen since April finally get some legs and get to the foundation and spread to where this baby will be burned to the ground soon and are willing to not care about the Social Dilemma of it all for now.

Pfffftttttt...10 oclock in the mornin'!!

I think it 100% had to be an intern or page or otherwise young staffer-- I can picture them giddily doing lines off random things in the West Wing "Bro, can you believe we are doing rails off the resolute desk? I can't wait to tell my Delta Nu bro's back at JMU about this, let's get it on snap!"

Dumb question amnesty: Why not just use your VPN you are given by your employer? Is that bad and they are tracking you or something?

Even as a pre-teen/child I knew Madonna was not hot enough to be cast as the mole in Dick Tracy. As an aside, I watched that movie again a few years ago as an adult and it was very weird but made more sense than it did as a kid.

Yessir. The big heavy box of it. It's the OG (e.g. Two scoops and a loosey). This article is from 10 years ago but still interesting: https://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/

Question for those who are liquid $4mm or $5mm or $Xmm Do you have that money across a variety of banks at the FDIC insurable limit? Protecting liquid cash from a bank collapse has been in back of my mind since SVB. I read NBA superstar Giannis A. keeps the limit of $250k in cash across like 50 banks or something. Seems ridiculous.

This. The literal only reason people are decrying the process and system is because they don't like the outcome. Had it gone the other way, the very same people would not have any problem with it and would be ridiculing anyone on that side who would take up literally the same arguments. It's politics at it's finest in that the only thing that matters is that your personal desires win the day.