gurt
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Cash App founder stabbed to death in San Francisco
they'll still be true?
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Cash App founder stabbed to death in San Francisco
I'm sure the SF leadership will be along shortly blaming him for not walking around with his pockets turned out
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Fat People
As someone who was a fat kid, lost a lot of weight in college and slowly gained it all back to being 3 bills, I see both sides here. Can I blame society/government for allowing there to be so many hidden calories and downright poison in our food? Sure. Can I blame my parents for ingraining that I HAVE to eat everything on my plate when I was a kid? Maybe. Can I lament that I used to walk and have time to play sports so much more than I do now with my wfh job? Yes. But ultimately, as a grown man the buck stops with me. If I want to get back down to a good weight (I probably won't ever be sub 200 but I'd be over the moon with 225) I am going to have to stop eating so much and start moving around a lot more. I've already cleaned up my diet considerably with the help of my wife (she is 120 lbs and very health conscious) but I just eat too much. I'm sure my brain has been wired to not feel satiated, but I can just get used to it. I have before. Ultimately my weight is my responsibility. But I also would never belittle anyone for getting surgery or using medications (though the latter seems like way too much of a gray area to do willy nilly), and I don't think anybody has really done that in this thread. I will deride people who don't even give an effort and say they can't do anything about it, which is the majority of fat people in the US.
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How many of you carry ?
Sometimes I feel like there are only about 5-10 topics discussed on this forum
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Demographics of new Texans
if you're noticing a 1.5% increase in black people you might be somebody who 'notices' a lot of things
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Demographics of new Texans
Austin1) San Francisco Bay Area2) Los Angeles3) New York City
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More Students Are Turning Away From College and Toward Apprenticeships
That is true in my experience too. There are emerging roles via tech that Liberal Arts backgrounds have a fair amount of utility in.
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More Students Are Turning Away From College and Toward Apprenticeships
this shows that 8% are social sciences and history, 6% is psychology, visual and performing arts is 5% and communications is 5%. That's nearly a quarter that are varying levels of bullshit. Of course many of those folks go on to have successful careers, like myself, a history and geography major. But I found my way into tech and learned a lot on the job. I can't honestly attribute all that much of my degree to doing this. The ability to communicate clearly and effectively, I suppose. But that is a pretty nebulous ROI for 50k in debt.
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More Students Are Turning Away From College and Toward Apprenticeships
Where does the 5% come from? That seems pretty low… Also I think the point is that much of the anecdotes here about getting a good job with non-STEM/specialized degrees/whatever are becoming increasingly less relevant. A 45 year olds experience is not relevant to a 21 year olds in todays competitive landscape, where every kid their age has a degree. Not to mention taking that bet saddled with 50k+ of debt.
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Austin-based Digital Marketing Agency
Go swing a stick downtown and you'll hit a "head of a digital agency"
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2023 Spring Practice to Fall Camp Thread - Just hook it to my veins!
she almost struck oil
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2021 - Is inflation finally back in the conversation?
add zoom to the tech layoffs (including a good friend of mine) https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/07/zoom-layoffs-impact-15-of-staff/
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2021 - Is inflation finally back in the conversation?
Yeah was about to post layoffs.fyi is a pretty good source for tech layoffs. Tech recruiters were definitely making bank, even though it is a job that almost anybody could do. It is such a boom time job, 2020-2022 everybody was hiring so much that every person "breaking into tech" was either in recruiting or sales, with the former making over 6 figures to DM people on LinkedIn.
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2021 - Is inflation finally back in the conversation?
anecdotally, it seems like 50% of them are recruiters
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It's time we talked about pickup trucks
my first vehicle (2006) was a 1984 Chevy C10, not unlike the below but not nearly as nice I loved that thing, feels about as wide as it is long. We sold it for around $500 when it started having rust in the fuel tank, which my dad and I both regret to this day. These things are selling for 30k plus now.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2023: Strippers, Monkeys, and 5-Stars
pretty good edit, but could use more saturation imo
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2022-2023 Winter Weather Thread
Can those of you who drove into work today name your employers? Would like to avoid ever working for them.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2023: Strippers, Monkeys, and 5-Stars
maybe when he was a rookie: https://nba.nbcsports.com/2021/05/13/shaquille-oneal-says-he-weighed-395-pounds-when-winning-third-lakers-title/
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Markets still falling like whoa
With big tech, they are all still at a higher headcount post layoffs than they were at end of 2021. There was just way too much over hiring happening across the industry, led by the big boys.
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2023 Texas Coaching and Support Staff Thread
Does anyone want to actually mention the name of the fat actor?
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2023 Transfer Thread - Texas Capitalized, ATM Victimized
God damn, get a hobby, take up woodworking or something.
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Markets still falling like whoa
isn't it just due to the percent increase? If we were already at 4% before these hikes a 12.5% increase wouldn't have been felt. But going from .5% to 4.5% is impossible to not have ramifications.
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2023 Transfer Thread - Texas Capitalized, ATM Victimized
Whenever I flash, people do tend to turn their heads
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Shetland Pony legs
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2022 Rain Thread
we had some hail down in Buda