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Posts posted by Washpark
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A few experiences
A man shoot up assuming herorin on the BART.
A man smashed a women’s face and shattered the plexiglass on the DC metro
Human feces on the BART
I passed out and was kicked off the LIRR for the last stop.
Someone getting their phone stolen on the nyc subway
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18 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:
In deciding whether I (a) feel like a creep or (b) can fap to this, I looked up images of Paul Manafort's wife.
I definitely feel like a creep.
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2 minutes ago, tx ind said:
Just pick up a nice day drinking habit for the next few months
my boss does have a small booze stash in the work kitchen
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I started running and going to try to be healthier. Don't need to lose weight but want to get back to running 5k-10ks. I was shocked at the number of people running around central Austin 6am today
My boredom has led to really bad eating habits.
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I did order a red stapler.
I learned this morning from my exec team that I will have 2 more direct reports starting in the next few months.
I am thinking side hustle.
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7 hours ago, midtown said:
wow. please expand. I've never met anyone that didn't enjoy Vietnam that wasn't in a war kind of way
The surfing sucked
i should have expected to be a backpacker type trip but for value and experience it was less interesting than Thailand. For dollar and uniqueness, I think there are better countries in SE Asia.
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Westin is nice.
Fairmont is a shit hole.
The W will have mirror tables so easier to do coke lines
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On 7/19/2018 at 9:11 PM, dcbc said:
Anybody remember Dozier's Market in Fulshear? We had a ranch a bit west of there and my dad always would swing by there and pick up bacon and whatever else looked good. I remember it's being really good back in the day. Probably not on par with some of the Top50 joints today, but it was an old fashioned market, meat processor with BBQ as a way to keep things moving.
Was great early 90s but place has been sold a few times I think.
Parents live close to there but haven’t been in for years
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i hated vietnam
loved cambodia.
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Doggo doesn’t care about Australian markets
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a reporter at a major US publication and my outside counsel have the same first name. an email exchange with a person currently being investigated and me discussing a dinner was obtained by said reporter. i thought i was emailing outside counsel.
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4 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:
First, why the fuck didn’t you post this on company time?
Because I flew 5 hours round trip for a lunch meeting that I slept in the bathroom for half of it.
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For reasons outside of the company's control, I was hired into a role that now can't have me do my job for the next 6 to 12 months. I was told informally just look busy.
I need to find ways to kill time and look busy. I have my own office but only requirement is that I need to be in the office most days 8 - 5.
What are the best ways to kill time / not go crazy while doing nothing? I have already taken up 2 hour lunches. I fly to nyc at least once a month for 1 hour investor meetings so probably will add int'l bs travel to my schedule.
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1 minute ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
From the Russian perspective, it’s the ultimate sacrifice.
Isn’t that the same as living in Russia
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this presser is a really bad snl skit
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President Donald Trump said Russia was no longer interfering in US elections — the second time in three days that he has contradicted the conclusions of America intelligence agencies.
https://www.ft.com/content/c6a3dbca-8ab1-11e8-b18d-0181731a0340
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Who lost China? This cry went up in the US after Mao Zedong’s victory in China’s civil war in 1949. It was a strange question. When did the US own China? Strange or not, this cry helped Republicans win power in 1952. It promoted the rise of Joseph McCarthy, whose politics had similarities to those of Donald Trump — above all, in the charge that traitors infest the US government. In the senator’s case, the target was the state department; for Mr Trump, it is the FBI. The question today is: who lost America? And is it lost for good?Nobody of course owns the US, apart from Americans. Yet, for westerners and many others, the US stood for something so attractive that it seemed to be “ours” — the guarantor not just of its own freedom and prosperity, but that of hundreds of millions of others. My father, a refugee to the UK from pre-second-world-war Austria, had no doubt. The US was the bastion of democracy. It had saved Europe from falling to Nazi or communist dictatorships. As a journalist and documentary film-maker, he knew about its mistakes. But the US was not just any great power. It embodied the causes of democracy, freedom and the rule of law. This made him fiercely pro-American. I inherited this attitude.
In the postwar world, US policy had four attractive features: it had appealing core values; it was loyal to allies who shared those values; it believed in open and competitive markets; and it underpinned those markets with institutionalised rules. This system was always incomplete and imperfect. But it was a highly original and attractive approach to the business of running the world. For those who believe humanity must transcend its petty differences, these principles were a start.
Yet today the US president appears hostile to core American values of democracy, freedom and the rule of law; he feels no loyalty to allies; he rejects open markets; and he despises international institutions. He believes that might makes right. The Chinese president Xi Jinping and Russian president Vladimir Putin have might. He admires them. German chancellor Angela Merkel and UK prime minister Theresa May are decent women trying to lead democracies. He abuses them.
So why is Mr Trump in power? The answer lies with a political failure that the US might be unable to overcome. Mr Trump’s accession to power is partly an accident, but not only an accident.
The rise of China and the unanticipated impact of globalisation have profoundly affected the US view of itself and its global role. An anxiety that spreads from left to right has replaced the hubristic euphoria of the post-cold-war “unipolar moment”. The US no longer sees itself as so dominant and the world as so friendly. Mr Trump may be an outspoken protectionist. But Hillary Clinton was no defender of liberal trade. Mr Trump’s view that the rest of the world has taken the US for a ride is widely shared. In a country that has succumbed to protectionist ideas, it is not so surprising that the protectionist won. Again, once anxiety over China arrived, a nationalist was a natural choice
Yet something still more important is happening. The striking feature of the US economy is that, despite its unique virtues, it has recently served the majority of its people so ill. The distribution of income is exceptionally unequal. Labour force participation rates of prime-aged adults are exceptionally low. Real median household disposable incomes are the same as they were two decades ago, while mean incomes are much higher. Uniquely, mortality rates of middle-aged white (non-Hispanic) adults have risen since 2000 in the US.
Mr Trump loves to tweet his shock over every high-profile terrorist outrage in Europe. But, in 2016, there were just 5,000 murders in the EU, a rate of one per 100,000 people (including terrorist attacks). There were 17,250 murders in the US, a rate five times greater. Mr Trump might start to worry about that.
The poor state of so many Americans is in part the product of plutocratic politics: a relentless and systematic devotion to the interests of the very rich. As I have argued before, a politics of low taxes, low social spending and high inequality is sustainable in a universal suffrage democracy only with a mixture of propaganda in favour of “trickle down” economics, splitting the less well off on cultural and racial lines, ruthless gerrymandering and outright voter suppression. All this has indeed happened.
These are the politics of “pluto-populism” or of “greed and grievance”. They have been stunningly successful in making Republicans attractive to many in the white working class. The structural biases in voting are also remarkable. In the past three elections for the House of Representatives, it took 20 per cent more voters for the Democrats to win a seat than for the Republicans, on average. Republicans have also won the presidency twice in the last two decades despite losing the popular vote.
Mr Trump is the logical outcome of a politics that serves the interests of the plutocracy. He gives the rich what they desire, while offering the nationalism and protectionism wanted by the Republican base. It is a brilliant (albeit unplanned) combination, embodied in a charismatic personality that offers validation to his most passionate supporters. Will Trump’s protectionism do many in his base any good? No. But, in their eyes, he is a real leader, at last.Who lost “our” America? The American elite, especially the Republican elite. Mr Trump is the price of tax cuts for billionaires. They sowed the wind; the world is reaping the whirlwind. Should we expect the old America back? Not until someone finds a more politically successful way of meeting the needs and anxieties of ordinary people.
https://www.ft.com/content/3aea8668-88e2-11e8-bf9e-8771d5404543
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How do I get rid of my neighbor?
in Can You Help Me With This?
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Sounds like a surly tailgate party