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  1. 15 hours ago, Aha Shake said:

    Middle aged and not single but I have to say it’s smartphones. Young people don’t have to seek each other out physically to be “interacting” continuously.
     

    Small town Texas we used to go to the movies every weekend before we could drive because that’s where we could hang out. Sit in the dark with girls. See what’s up. Now they lay around on phones.
     

    Not only that they’re also just distracting in general. If you and your wife have a habit of having phones near while watching TV at night see what happens when you put them away for a week or so. More hanging out, relaxing. Even old fogies are more likely to get laid then. They’re just in the way of life sadly. 

    This is part of it for teenagers. A big thing for the older under 30s is that we're living in unprecedented times in terms of educational and professional opportunity for women. To be frank, women can have standards now and that hasn't been the case for most of human history. An able bodied young man who isn't an enormous prick and has a steady income will do fine. There not actuallythat many young men who clear all three of those bars.

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  2. 12 hours ago, aggie08 said:

    That's fair. I'm certainly no Howard Stern historian, but I thought it was pretty widely known that he's gone off the deep end a little since COVID and his political leanings aren't exactly subtle. If the remaining audience is broader than I'm giving them credit for, all good. Nothing wrong with a relatively "safe" interview.

    I mean if you want to talk about broad appeal, is there a better broad description for this country than the bolded?

  3. 9 hours ago, Anastasis said:

    Is that right? Cause it doesn't sound right. Us GenX think all this shit is fucked and wish that you would leave us alone and to our own devices as society did when we were growing up. 

    From pew. 

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    Electorally elder Gen Xers have pretty consistently delivered the biggest margins for Republicans in recent years. Similar to how Millennials are overwhelmingly Democratic but you wouldn't know from in this chart, that independent bloc is full of consistent Republican voters.

  4. Just now, Anastasis said:

    Don't put this fucking evil on us. 

    You are right, I crossed early and late in my mind. Should have said early Gen X'er (i.e. came of age under Reagan as opposed to Bush I or Clinton). Though as a whole Gen X is still the most conservative generation out there, for all the shit boomers get.

  5. 3 hours ago, huge said:

    I havent been paying close attention, but is the president of the University of Texas at Austin not a progressive type?  He's in cahoots with the Abbott/Patrick/Paxton/MAGA cabal?

    That seems incongruous?  Or at least very unexpected...

    He is career business/finance academic and a late Gen X'er (the most conservative generational cohort in the country) who came of age during the Reagan revolution. There was the whole working with Dan Patrick on the Liberty Institute bit - though given it didn't go anywhere it seems like he was just humoring the politicians who wanted to get involved in a flavor of the month crusade.

    I doubt he is some mouth breathing, election denying, texags dipshit and prior to this week has always seemed to handle himself professionally - not injecting politics into his job - at least from what I can tell as an unconnected observer. But simple demographic probability and his track record at UT suggest it's unlikely he is any kind of progressive.

  6. 1 hour ago, troph said:

    Hartzell was in an impossible spot. Without Abbott a difficult spot.
     

    The difficult spot - I think his letter was in hindsight hot garbage, but with large crowds, national frenzy, the hot button issue of Israel / Gaza, the current landscape of mass shootings and more the campus was not exactly safe even if the demonstrators were 100% within their rights which I believe they were until overwhelming evidence suggests they were not. 
     

    The impossible spot -  I think Abbott is a piece of pig shit, I think he’s a thug and a duplicitous power addicted MAGA slurping cumstain. And Abbott was keenly interested in a political stunt. Assuming Hartzell is not an Abbott yes man by choice, I really don’t see how he could stand up to Abbott without risking a whole lot more.

    Who is at fault - well besides the obvious blame on Abbott himself, we the people are to blame. We have what we elected, we deserve what we get. 

    if everyone of those protestors voted in elections, donated time and money (even if very little) to elections, we would be well on our way to being a better Texas.  Basically, protesting is a distraction unless you donate, volunteer and vote. 
     

    The protesters are a bunch of 18-22 year olds and many of them were not even eligible to vote when Abbott was on the ballot for his third term in 2022. None of them wer eligible to vote for Trump in 2016 or 2020 or Abbott in 2014 or 2018. Putting this on their & their cohort's voting record is a very weak argument.

  7. 1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Bothell and woodinville are next to each other.  Woodinville might be 5 minutes further from Seattle. 

    Huh. The more you know. For whatever reason Woodinville was farther east in my mind. Thanks for the correction,

  8. On 4/22/2024 at 4:11 PM, NWBuck said:

    Just going to add this...

    If you can get past the need to live in Seattle proper, being in Edmonds would be pretty sweet- close to Everett and a quick jaunt down to Seattle if you wanted. Bothell or Montlake Terrace (as you mentioned) might also work (Snohomish county for tax purposes).

    If you were open to something more rural/small town, Snohomish is pretty nice, and I have a lot of friends who really like Woodinville (lotta wineries and such in that area).

    Edmonds would be sweet I just haven't seen anything in our sweet spot on the affordability/desirability spectrum. Seems like good quality rentals up there are expensive even by local standards and what's affordable is very old. Don't think we want to be so far out of the city as to be in Snohomish or Woodinville. Bothell and MLT on the radar though; SIL lives in Kirkland so being convenient to them is a plus.

    On 4/22/2024 at 4:24 PM, Pato del Muerto said:

    If you’re cool with million dollar house prices. But I guess if you are comfortable in Seattle proper, you would be. 

    Cool with them in that they're irrelevant to a rental search lol. We're definitely going to rent for 9-12 months and go from there. Categorically cannot afford a SFH in Seattle or Edmonds. If we bought in Seattle it would definitely be the condo or townhouse route.

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  9. Well the position in Tacoma I mentioned before ultimately fell through but my wife has verbally accepted an offer that'll be officially based in Everett, but out in the field in Snohomish County regularly (hybrid so that would be 2-3x a week, at home for the rest). They're going through the whole reference/background check song and dance before producing the full written offer, so not quite official yet but it does look like we'll be moving up there in the next 4-6 weeks. Very excited but there's a lot to get done in the interim.

    Our initial inclination is to look for a place in north Seattle convenient to I-5 and rail. Greenwood, Maple Leaf, Northgate, Green Lake, Roosevelt, something like that. Any thoughts on whether that counter-commute is doable? Evidently there are some staff that live in north Seattle and say it's not bad. I definitely prefer an urban location like that but I work remotely, I'm not the one commuting. Honestly I could compromise on an inner ring suburban location like Shoreline or Mountlake Terrace as long as it's convenient to I-5 + the coming rail extension. I worry that commuting from North Seattle will suck for her despite it being a counter commute but my wife is pretty set on living in Seattle proper as a base to get to know the region better. 

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  10. 12 hours ago, NAVY said:

    Not tomorrow, but PE kicks the everlasting shit out of Crown. 

     

    12 hours ago, immamac said:

    I got too busy to post but we had an OTF viewer meet and greet with the team there on Wednesday from 3-5. Posse East was fun. Walked over to crown and anchor after and it’s shittier than I remembered. 

    The Big Lebowski Dude GIF

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  11. On 4/11/2024 at 1:32 PM, washparkhorn said:

    This is ignoring the amount of people (and money) on the sidelines in the housing market because they don't like the interest rate environment. A decrease in interest rates without an economic slowdown is going to lead to an increase in home prices - and a significant one at that - because we are still structurally undersupplied.

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  12. On 4/11/2024 at 4:00 PM, Gatorubet said:

     

    I think that Trump’s death will see the aggie roller coaster. They will all pledge to go forward against the deep state because Trump died to protect them from woke Libs , and junior will try to be the new face going forward.  Meatball Ron and Marge and Teddy Cancun will all try to step in the void to oppose Don Junior, but the passage of time that core group of Maga idiots will choose sides between the pretenders to the throne.  Once that happens, they will not win elections, and they will be too busy fighting each other or get too frustrated and drop out, snd will not be much of a force going forward.

    Pockets of these maga idiots will continue to give city councils and school boards a problem, but I see their national influence waning. 

    This. Post-Trump MAGA will splinter due to a power vacuum. Whether or not they win elections will depend entirely on whether Trump is put back in the WH in 2024 or 2028 and the US becomes Hungary 2.0.

    3 hours ago, safe sex said:

    It's not quite as red as Texas, because the voters of Ohio have protected abortion rights at the ballot box very recently.

    An up or down vote on enshrining abortion rights in the Texas constitution would pass too.

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