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Vegas64

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  1. Why Green Book was so schlocky bad. My entry: I've never seen La La Land. I've wanted to just never got aroudn to it.
  2. 99% sure your safe should have a manual key option somewhere (even if hidden) as a failsafe (no pun intended). Just checked my gun safe as the exact same electronic keypad but also a key lock. If you don't have the key, you can get a locksmith.
  3. https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/romeo-rose-sleepless-in-austin-ad/
  4. Need to go to the wayback machine and try to find the sleepless in austin posts.
  5. This has been a huge trend in big tech. Do you remember the "Great Resignation" during the Covid boom? A boom that proved to be fake news due to ZIRP and free money to stop our economy from collapsing? All those hires are being rationalized and organizations have or are right sizing from that bubble. You might not remember, but lots of idiots got great jobs.
  6. Germany's economy has sucked. The people are looking for answers.
  7. Wasn't he your boy? I seem to remember from TOS that yall were super close. It sounds like you are calling him a loser and an idiot here.
  8. I was asking more of, is this a dailytexan (factual updates only) or a cloakroom thread (the intersectionality between the power of religion and politics).
  9. Is this the Pope Francis is dying thread for updates and breaking news?
  10. Which is all extremely reasonable. It’s guys who want to decry capitalism at every. Single. Instance. No matter the facts or context, that actually do those of us trying to rein in the horrors of late stage capitalism and the complete annihilation of the middle class big disservice.
  11. I read somewhere that the current press secretary was born in 1997. Millennials are now considered old.
  12. Preach it. There are no principles and rules in a knife fight in the alley, which is what politics has become. Just win the next election!
  13. When does this take place? I had a great year in 2024 and am delaying doing anything with the IRS until the buzzer hoping something will break in our favor.
  14. But it won’t matter because the dumb people in the middle who decide elections will like the idea of getting a “free” $500 check to buy Jordans or a Coach bag with. like Tupac said in his iconic sampled song “Changes”, “Free stuff army, both black and white, are smoking crack tonight.”
  15. Saw a funny meme that said (after all the delta and AA issues) “yall owe the Nissan altimas of the sky an apology” talking about frontier, spirit, Ryanair, etc.
  16. To the executives that are leaving, I thought I read. I might have misread, if you are saying the execs that are staying will receive a bonus, but regardless I’m still unclear on what the point is you are making. As I understand it, this isn’t as much a cost cutting move and need for the business in working capital or free cash flow (hence why it shouldn’t matter if execs hit the KPI or MBOs in their comp plan and should get their bonuses), but more of a culling of the herd of lower performers (which they plan to rehire with bar raisers or A+ players). Unless what I’ve read about it was a misdirection and head fake, which you never know with corporate communications….
  17. Golden parachutes have been around for at least 50 years for the ELT's. Big whoop, executives are getting paid to leave. Part of the perk of being an executive IMO.
  18. Pretty much played like cheeks since the trade, right? Can both teams have lost the trade? lol
  19. Let’s create a Surly Junior High (5-8th) and target the siblings of the kids in the “Can’t get into UT thread”. Immamac could spin that up in a day and be ready to ingest $10k checks when they get released.
  20. This is why I think the rural folks will vote for it.
  21. I think that’s being too much. I think it’s likely more the sociopathy of, “we want what we want and, oh? It hurts others? Oh well.” Versus your argument of psychopathy where the whole intent is the cruelty versus the self-centered value creation with little care to the blowback.
  22. I had the Keller kerfluffle from a couple of pages in mind as well. That doesn’t seem cruel for cruel sake or greed, but more what I described around retrenching in smaller homogeneous values and class tribes.
  23. These are our concerns, dude.
  24. Great post. The issue is that everything you just said is true and logical and rational. But then when you talk about (and it happened here just a page or two back) shutting down schools due to legitimate demographic and attendance data, people react emotionally in the negative and don't want to accept that as reasonable. I suspect they just want to throw more money at it (raise taxes? not sure where all these free money tree mangroves are) rather than rationalize within reason and good financial sense, to maximize efficiency and results. It's the same issue with DOGE. I think the execution of DOGE has been horrific, but the actual underlying idea of efficiency is smart and sound. IMO I think the issue is a span of authority or span of control issue. The trend in general seems to be one of retrenchment and that is extending to state and local stuff too. I think folks want to decouple from a broader, big tent and regroup around smaller, more homogenous and more regional/cultural/tribal pods because they look out and think the bigger picture isn't working for them individually. That's my opinion as a neutral observer (not having children in public ISDs) but being concerned about it.
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