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UpperWestside

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  1. I sent out my first email tonight for a university I hope to eventually work for or with in the South Pacific. No time like the present to take care of decisions that can pay off for you down the road.
  2. I have spent a week out here in Hawaii and while some things are more expensive I have found that what I researched before coming here is accurate. I can live here for less than NYC and it has the added benefit of being more peaceful. I should be back by mid-January at the latest. I already set up a new bank account and did the legwork on apartment hunting and a job transfer. Just gotta get my two sweet dogs brought back with me and all will be well.
  3. This is exactly who we are and who we have been as a country for far too long. We chose being selfish over the greater good. AGAIN. Historically this does not end well for countries that choose this path. The country that simultaneously fought a world war on the continent of Europe and over thousands and thousands of miles in the great expanse of the Pacific Ocean for the greater good just gave the middle finger to all of those brave soldiers who fought for a better future 8 decades ago. This is shameful and embarrassing to see what we are collectively.
  4. You should have enough contacts in your company and goodwill built up with people to exit stage right sooner than most. Just do it and go enjoy the world. Again life is just so incredibly short. Do what you can, while you can before you cannot.
  5. Were I you I would get on the first flight there just as soon as all the paperwork is the official. Change can be difficult, but that is just how life is. Having read you on here for years I know that you will do better in an environment not beset by constant and unnecessary strife. Go out and find a new place in Europe that will bring you more joy and happiness than America.
  6. I enjoyed the beach again today and finished up writing a paper this afternoon I needed to do for class. This election is not wholly surprising, but I would call it disappointing for the people it will affect in a negative manner both inside and outside the United States. We will now see who picks up the mantle of leading the free world. Last time Merkel was there to pick up the slack and she isn’t walking back through that door. Either way Europe should probably just tell us to kick rocks as we are in no way, shape, form or fashion a reliable partner. 80 years ago we were busy stomping out the last embers of the Nazis and Imperial Japan. Now we have more in common with those two failed dictatorships than we ever should. To those people in Michigan who think not voting for Harris is going to save the lives of your family members in Gaza. Hoo boy does the GQP have a surprise for you. I had decided last year that I was exiting America no matter how this went, but I am able to do that and not everyone that is ready to leave America permanently has that same ability. I’ll put in my two years out here in Hawaii away from the day-to-day mess the mainland will devolve into. I said to myself that once I move that I will never set foot in the continental US ever again. I am okay with that and want to make that choice. Life is too painfully short to live around what the US is about to become. Not every American that wants out has that ability though. I am sorry that millions of our fellow citizens have decided to make your life a living hell solely because they can.
  7. Optimism at tomorrow is good and warranted. If it takes someone doing a dab or two of acid to get things rolling who are we to stand in the way of a good time? I will not know a thing until Wednesday unless some idiot cult member loses his stuff out here in Honolulu and goes full moron at their god king losing again.
  8. I predict I will be laying on the beach while all of this is transpiring and will pay zero attention to any of this tomorrow night. Wednesday I will be glad to wake up and see that our decade long national nightmare has come to a close. The cult's leader/grifter will be facing some prison time shortly thereafter.
  9. Harris will win, the cult loses and does some limited amounts of rioting in some of the pisshole towns and hamlets they live in.
  10. Looks like Jaxson Hayes is getting a well deserved ticket right out of the league with the new video. What a piece of garbage this guy is. I never wanted him on the team and it should not have taken an investigation being reopened to hopefully get Pelinka to waive him. He should be suspended for this entire season.
  11. Once Harris wins this election I hope that some of you that have neighbors that are part of the cult will just completely shame them to the point that they’ll want to live elsewhere. Perhaps a move to far eastern Russia or The Gobi Desert. Anyone voting for this piece of trash absolutely deserves to be mocked, laughed at, excluded from society and turned into a pariah for the rest of their life. Treat them like the bottom feeding trash of humanity that they are. We have collectively given these clowns way too long a leash to spread conspiracy theories and general hatred. If you own a business stop hiring the cult members. If you already employ them find something they are doing wrong in their job that can result in termination. Make their lives an absolute living hell. You know just like they have tried to do to minorities for most of the last decade. Let them now reap what they have sown.
  12. Social connections are not really that important to me. I’d like to eventually be in a South Pacific country where my odds of crossing paths with Americans would be near zero.
  13. I wish someone would wheel him into the middle of a remote forest and then aggy bonfire him.
  14. Jojo Rabbit is my favorite movie. I have attempted to think of something in the movie that I wished was different, but it was honestly perfect just how it was. It represents exactly what I expect from a movie that Taika Waititi directs and acts in.
  15. So perhaps both guys should punch themselves for being pricks. Not a real big fan of writers who intentionally create drama with adding things to a column that are not necessary. I had no idea who the guy was before reading this, but he sounds like a garbage writer.
  16. So that adds a lot of context for me. I did not really know the specifics of what was said or done. I have never thought he had a burning desire to be great or that he plays the game because he loves it. He’s big, skilled and gets paid a lot to play. Money to me is the main motivation for him, which is fine. Just don’t get upset about the apathy you show each year about actually playing the sport.
  17. Wasn’t this because of something the reporter wrote about two of his family members?
  18. Willingly chose to play for this garbage school and IQ challenged fanbase. Deal with the injury and 200 story drop down the roller coaster when you get back to Dead Dog Station.
  19. The farmer fanbase has to be so angry that they extended the annual roller coaster ride into November this year. Some heads will roll for getting their hopes up much longer than usual.
  20. This is not funny, at all. Some folks in this thread should be embarrassed at some of the horrible attempts at jokes they have made considering who the victim is. Just incredibly sad to be done with life at that age.
  21. So thank you for all of the advice and information you provided. I can best explain the plan by saying that none of it has to do with finding an island paradise. That includes coming to Hawaii. Moving to Hawaii has more to do with having the ability to gain more historical knowledge that I want about the war as well as the people who lived in the countries we fought in as we moved through the Central Pacific. I have read four books by a travel writer that @InkaUtexasput me onto. J. Maarten Troost. His book from the late 90’s about living on Tarawa with his then girlfriend and now wife really helped push me in the direction I have gone. I hope that I can perhaps go down to DC to meet him before I leave to hear from him in person. I will gladly listen to anymore stories and advice you have to share as well. You can DM me and share contact info with me as I like to be as prepared as possible for what is coming. Yesterday when I was opening up a bank account here my banker asked me about my move and I mentioned wanting to live in The Solomons. To her it is a place to go for, in her words, the pristine beaches it is. For me the reality has nothing to do with that. Living there would be difficult and the geopolitical situation, along with competing factions wanting control of the area for their own selfish reasons makes it a fairly unstable place. Yet still I know that’s a place I will live. I could stay in Hawaii and live comfortably for the rest of my life, but that is not how I am wired I suppose. The desire to either help people live a better life and help to educate them is something that keeps pushing me forward each day. We as a country did not do right by the people of The Solomons, or really any of those island nations we moved through and they are still paying the price for that eight decades later. I have attempted to explain to friends and co-workers that while Hawaii may look like paradise to them if they visit it is just home to those who have to live and work there. Will I enjoy living on an island? Absolutely because it fits the lifestyle and personality I have, but coming here for me is part of a journey that will lead me into teaching. Whether that winds up being at a university level or below I do not know, but I am okay with whatever happens. That’s life in a nutshell for me I guess. You take the good and not so good and just keep going each day trying to do better for those you meet and come across each day.
  22. There is a fairly good percentage voting for Harris that couldn’t tell you who Epstein is. We are not a country that is well educated on much of anything. We can tell you as a country who to watch for fantasy football. We can tell you what the big COLLEGE FOOTBAW matchups are, but the things that should have some relevance and importance to an average American are more unknown than known. We have almost completely lost our way.
  23. That’d instantly make them an ex-good friend in my book. You want to support a garbage person that makes you one as well. We’re at that point where these people need to be excluded from civilized society permanently. They need to have issues gaining meaningful employment and should be stuck washing dishes for the rest of their lives.
  24. Boy howdy you are really lucky to not see this circus sideshow on a daily basis. NYC has way too many of these people. It may be a Democratic stronghold, but the stain of Staten Island and Suffolk County is just embarrassing. I won’t return to the mainland once I leave. Once that plane leaves in January I will not set foot in the continental US for the rest of my life if I can help it. We have this very short time to live and enjoy our lives and even wasting a minute of it living with just hateful, bottom of the barrel people is just in no way worth it. My niece and nephew will know which South Pacific country I am living in and they can come visit me there when they are older and can travel. I hope to get my mom out to Honolulu for at least a month once I settle in as well.
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