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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. Negotiate a bulk subscription from Udemy, Coursera and Khan Academy. Then you don’t even need teachers. If everyone graduates with the same gpa, doesn’t that make everyone top 5% for UT or other top schools? Or maybe the top gpa costs a bit extra. i would also suggest putting Don, Jr. on your board of directors and create a meme coin. Check all of the boxes and you’re be a billionaire by next year.
  2. I was able to wrap up my 2025 goal of saving for a new car with the paycheck this week. To be clear, I didn’t start the year at zero. The car purchase will be in 26 or 27. I also have seen an attorney and my first will should be completed within a month. Both of these were two financial goals line items for me. i might pause the extra savings/investing for a month or two to have fun with it. Then hit the non-401k investment goals and start pinpointing the numbers I need to retire in 4-5 years.
  3. When the state starts the voucher system, there will be an influx of new private schools. Charge exactly what they voucher is, offer crappy online education but decent sports and other activities. Toss in mandatory Christian (the real kind, not Catholic or Mormon) classes. The founder will make a fortune. There will be zero education but who cares. Look out OK, TX is coming for your education ranking.
  4. I can’t speak for SS systems but my employer (private) has a customer system that includes birthdate. The field is required but for about 10% of the records, we don’t know their birthdate. The standard for the data entry person is to enter 1/1/1900 in that scenario. It stands out on reports showing someone as 125 years old since no one is that old.
  5. When we ultimately change it back, you know the snowflakes will purposefully say Gulf of America. Especially in the bitchy voice to the waitress at a beach restaurant. “I don’t want shrimp fresh from the Gulf of Mexico, I want fresh shrimp from the Gulf of AMERICA!”
  6. I’m reminded of the joke, the beatings will continue until morale improves. I have to guess that any federal worker is performing at the absolute lowest level now. Not so low that you stand out to be fired or that could easily be discovered by Elon’s minions but tap the brakes on work product that isn’t quantifiable in their data systems. obviously I’m not talking about workers who have been ordered to stop working or fired this week.
  7. I recently came across a Cleveland clinic article and then some videos where they praised isometric exercises as dropping BP as much as 10 systolic and diastolic values. For example 4 sets of wall squat/sits with 2 minutes for each set. One recommendation was that each set should get progressively more difficult so maybe not a 90 degree sit for set 1. Save that for the last set. do this 5 times per week. BP is supposed to be improved with a month or two.
  8. Does that phone # only work for patients and those in their facilities, or is it a generic number for anyone in Houston who is in need of immediate assistance? Asking for a friend.
  9. Would love to see a reporter ask Hegseth or Trump why we're such pussies with the Russians.
  10. Most installs are at ground level but makes sense to me to raise it up as long as the entire structure won't rattle when in use.
  11. I recall a documentary about Ted Haggard, disgraced Christian preacher who eventually got caught with meth and male prostitutes. In the documentary, he was talking about sex with his wife to younger male churchgoers. Not from the pulpit but in casual conversation in front of the camera. It was so weird that anyone would do that with acquaintances or strangers especially in front of a camera. The fact that Mace made those comments tells me everything I need to know about her. She's some combination of damaged and has zero social/people skills.
  12. One aspect of this debate/order is how false or stupid arguments can easily resonate with the public. The fact that a penny costs 2 or 3 cents to mint does not mean it's a bad deal. A penny effectively lasts forever unless it's intentionally destroyed or lost. A dollar bill also costs 3 cents to print, but it has a short life if it has an average circulation. If the minting/printing cost vs nominal value is the goal, then we should only print $100 bills if not bring back $1,000 bills. I'm not disagreeing that the penny should be retired but the main argument from Trump is for stupid people.
  13. Not that I have back pain but I just finished watching an hour-long video with a Houston Methodist neurosurgeon on the topic of back pain. He seemed very clear that surgery should always be the last option. It was also interesting that imaging results were only a piece of the diagnosis puzzle. I tried to link the video to start at the doctor interview at the 3 minute mark.
  14. If I recall correctly the first female Citadel student, Shannon Faulkner, was a year or two before Mace. She had to take the battle to court to become a full time student like them men. Faulkner was hazed like the male students, and most likely received it more harshly, but she quit within a week or two. I have to guess that it wasn't easy to go through the Citadel basic training and hazing in August in SC. The heat calmed down when Mace joined. It also GREATLY helped Mace that her father was a US Army general and more importantly he was the Citadel commandant of cadets at the time. I'm sure it was tough but Mace was never not going to graduate. He's described online as the most decorate graduate of the Citadel. EDIT: I agree with the comments that both items in the thread subject could be true.
  15. Trump doesn’t really care about cutting govt spending. He cares about power. Once he’s cut some govt workers in retribution, his attention will go elsewhere. he may have to put up with Elon because Elons money and his willingness to spend it can keep the congress GOP in line. They don’t want Elon supporting a primary opponent.
  16. Mace claims that she saw dozens of nude photos of underage girls on her fiancé's phone, as well as 10,000s of videos depicting assaults of women. If she failed to take this information immediately to the police dept, which there should be records, shouldn't she herself be investigated?
  17. There isn't an expectation of privacy on a city street. A cop could be on every street corner writing down license plate numbers as they drive by. I would like to know how the data is used. It wouldn't take much processing power to analyze this in real time and build a database of where a vehicle is and has been. Courts would be interested in understanding where the cameras are distributed across the city.
  18. Musk made an unsolicited bid to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion. Altman (OpenAI) responded that he's offering $9.74B to buy Twitter. (Remember Elon paid $45B) Of course, Musk only has to convince Trump to declare an AI national emergency, and confiscate control of Open AI.
  19. I recommend what I wrote in an early post: drop caffeine (sucks the first 2 weeks), general exercise and 15-20 minutes of light yoga when I first wake up. I also try taking a break a few times per day to focus on breathing: How to Perform Box Breathing: Sit or lie in a comfortable position: Close your eyes if you wish. Breathe in slowly through your nose for a count of four. Hold your breath for a count of four. Exhale slowly through your mouth for a count of four. Hold your breath again for a count of four. Repeat steps 2-5 for as many rounds as desired. I can't say what exactly has lowered my BP 10 points but I'm hoping to get off lisinopril with my next doc appointment.
  20. I realize that he struggles to tie his shoelaces.
  21. Find it hard to get worked up over this. The decision should have been made 20 years ago but the rumor is the IL politicians didn’t want to get rid of it due to Lincoln being oh the penny. Given that so many payments are electronic, it won’t matter to for many consumers. it also doesn’t ban the penny, we just won’t make more. As they become more scarce, just round the change down.
  22. Off topic but how are insurance companies pricing comprehensive coverage for teslas in FSD mode? Taking your hands off the wheel would seem to me that you’re invalidating your coverage. There should be a reasonable expectation by the insurance companies that you are in fact controlling your vehicle. as a non-Tesla driver, I don’t want my rates to go up covering this crap.
  23. I had forgotten about Kyle. Surprised that he isnt working as one of DOGE’s wunderkinds.
  24. Why is Elon so thin in that cartoon? Hes more like the guy in the couch.
  25. Why should we believe the judge’s orders will be followed? If Elon and to a lesser extent, Treasury secretary, still want Elon to access the data, they will.
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