Everything posted by fattyflattie
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Fishing Megathread: Looking For Big Girls Who swallow
I don’t but I do know that a lot of people use them for accessing remote hunting spots, so they must be pretty competent off-road.
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Florida man holds Uber driver at gunpoint for dropping off his daughter
Think they just started up a thing for Uber kids. They’ve been advertising for, but that is very recent. Not sure how it falls in respect to this incident’s timeline.
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The Kids (Aren't) Alright - World Happiness Report
Yeah. This is our surprised face. I wouldn’t gaf about $$$ if it wasn’t based on what I’m providing for my kids. Doing everything I can now to help them navigate the shit show that is tomorrow. Others’ parents should consider doing the same. If not, “bad luck” I guess.
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Fishing Megathread: Looking For Big Girls Who swallow
My recommendation would be Rockport or Baffin but those are my personal favorite spots on earth. I don’t have any recs for guides but the most important thing would be to be very clear about your abilities or lack thereof when speaking with your guide/outfitter. I haven’t fished with many, but I’ve had a salty mean sob all the way to a guy who should have been a stand up. If you go with an outfitter, give them an idea what your looking for in the trip. They can make/break the trip if you aren’t on the same page.
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The Watch Fanatic Thread
That’s really cool. Don’t know about 5m cool, but very cool.
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Fishing Megathread: Looking For Big Girls Who swallow
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.
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Hunting ‘23/‘24: Bag ‘em and Tag ‘em
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.
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The Kids (Aren't) Alright - World Happiness Report
Not serious post.
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The Kids (Aren't) Alright - World Happiness Report
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.
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The Kids (Aren't) Alright - World Happiness Report
Hard to digest but…
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The Kids (Aren't) Alright - World Happiness Report
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.
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The Kids (Aren't) Alright - World Happiness Report
This describes about 80% of my inner circle. Many Americans don’t have it figured out, but there is plenty that get it.
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The Kids (Aren't) Alright - World Happiness Report
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?
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The Kids (Aren't) Alright - World Happiness Report
Define arbitrary. How would you prefer companies provide sustained and metered growth for their capital stakeholders?
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The Kids (Aren't) Alright - World Happiness Report
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.
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The Kids (Aren't) Alright - World Happiness Report
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).
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The Kids (Aren't) Alright - World Happiness Report
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.
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The Kids (Aren't) Alright - World Happiness Report
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.
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The Kids (Aren't) Alright - World Happiness Report
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)
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The Kids (Aren't) Alright - World Happiness Report
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
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The Kids (Aren't) Alright - World Happiness Report
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!
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The Kids (Aren't) Alright - World Happiness Report
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.
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2021 - Is inflation finally back in the conversation?
Don’t worry, about to have a couple of back to back, absolutely tremendous quarters.
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The Kids (Aren't) Alright - World Happiness Report
Not sure I buy this.
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The New Car Fanatic Thread
Damn what a great plate.