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fattyflattie

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  1. That’s really cool. Don’t know about 5m cool, but very cool.
  2. Dealers choice here with dozens of locales and more guides (no wrong answer). But I would suggest make it happen in May or first 2 weeks of June. After that it just gets tougher until the fall.
  3. We had a guy drop, and I’m taking his pasture. And just 6 months after I went from 4’ legs to 12’. Because of course. I might just break down and rent a zoom boom for the weekend. Erecting it about killed me the first time. Don’t know about down and back up again.
  4. Your analogy is weak, counselor. The people you are wanting to support wouldn’t be considered either in any successful corp. 3 generations of never accomplished shit isn’t Capex, it would have long been on a divestment schedule. Also known as throwing good money at bad. Successful corps flood their lotto tickets with support and capital. You obviously can’t divest human beings (we dump loads and loads of good money on bad), so best to work on another analogy.
  5. Bruh, we are actively and continually dumping 10’s of billions of dollars into a country that just got thru dumping millions into POTUS’ crack addicted sons bank account. For fucks sake.
  6. This describes about 80% of my inner circle. Many Americans don’t have it figured out, but there is plenty that get it.
  7. There are loads of govt jobs that will provide an annual COLA and are next to impossible to be fired or RIF’d. Investment wants a return on its capital. Normal everyday people need companies to excel or their biggest savings (401k/B, pensions, insurance) are fucked. You understand how big a swath of America doesn’t have but a few grand liquid but 10x that in a retirement account?
  8. Define arbitrary. How would you prefer companies provide sustained and metered growth for their capital stakeholders?
  9. I'd mostly agree. I matriculated at one of UT's city satellites. Got "in" first job thru contacts from guys with state degrees (aggy specifically) in better disciplines (ME's), and worked alongside UT, ATM, West point, and LSU engineers. Then I worked my dick off for most of a decade and climbed the ladder ahead of most of them. Then we all dispersed, and several advanced rapidly at large companies. I've eventually caught up and am in a great spot now, but at the point where my peer group is considerably better educated. My board is familiar with UT; they haven't the slightest idea what a UTSA is. The few times I have changed jobs, it was always thru someone I had known prior or built a working relationship with. Not uncommon, but this is where having a big name on your diploma helps the most, imo. You don't need the personal in to get your foot in the door. Your career history still does the speaking, but that backstop of a big name school drives it home.
  10. Correct. And it’s laughable for me to hear a guy ((Ted speaker) who attended a good school, performed at average (or below) but benefitted from the classes after him, boosting his prestige in the process. If anything, students like his assistant did more heavily lifting for his educational bonafides than he did. This has naturally happened to many older UT grads as the selection process became more stringent. Other than money, what are the incentives for universities to grow attendance at the mercy of the quality of incoming students (ideally the goal is to be elite tier).
  11. Raiseshand.gif But, it does get more difficult as you progress. I reckon by then most of the time people are looking at your grad school, but still.
  12. This is right. What I’d love for him to solve is how to fit another 25-40k high quality kids in Austin. Oh, no space? Well, no shit Ted talk guy. And they leave to other high quality state schools because 100 years from now UTSA will still not have the clout as any random big state school.
  13. That is all correct. And we have posters on this board paying to send their kids to Austin that had rides at UTD. Because UTD will never be the campus is Austin. At least when it comes time to get an actual job. Right, wrong, indifferent - big name state school > city spin offs everywhere but Cali (and still some there, too)
  14. I don’t have any issue with that, I’d love to throw less into the 529’s each month. What I want, is for him to explain how UCLA and Berkeley should be available to everyone, as he stated. Spewing bullshit is the easy part. You could spend 150m a year on UH or Tech, and it will never in 10 generations be on that level. He didn’t bring up a single point that @Captainant doesn’t regularly discuss on these boards. Regurgitated stats with a few hyperbolic and anecdotal statements sprinkled in
  15. Yeah the socialist bullshit doesn’t make me cum as hard as most of y’all. I WaS AbLe 2 BuY AmAzOn At LoW PrIcEs!!1! ThAtS NoT FaIR!!1!
  16. Correct. His suggestion was to quit bailing out deadbeats who’ve already attended college with their loans, and help kids who are are fighting today’s problems. One of his better suggestions tbh.
  17. Don’t worry, about to have a couple of back to back, absolutely tremendous quarters.
  18. Damn what a great plate.
  19. Great post.
  20. Correct. There are many schools in that position. And let’s pretend UTSA or UTD could be just as good as UT tomorrow, and people would still value the Austin campus more. And that translates to more competition to get there, making it more elite, completing the circle.
  21. We’re discussing Twitter journalists, not Surly posters. Please try and keep up.
  22. Of course. I’m just not pretending that their mortal opposites don’t exist.
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