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  1. geeeeeeeeez. You aren't wrong, but you paint a very dreary picture, Van Gogh.
  2. So Sheryl Sandberg was a grifter and abuser. Didn't see that one coming and what she meant by "lean in".
  3. Cheap branded pens YES! I'm knee deep in my credit union, the local ortho, and oil change pens in every room of the house. I don't think I've ever purchased a pen.
  4. It's so stupid and breaks my brain to think about anyone wanting to use this. But obviously there is a market for it or they wouldn't have rolled it out. Which makes me weep for our future that Gen Z have been so conditioned to order processed foods at 3x the price because they don't want to leave the house.
  5. This. Propaganda has been rotting brains of Americans for a century. What we got today ain't nothing new.
  6. You joke, but yesterday they did announced a Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) with the leader Klarna: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5205786-doordash-klarna-sign-deal-for-deferred-installment-food-delivery-payments/ DoorDash and Klarna, a company that offers “buy now, pay later” programs, have come together on a deal for deferred and installment food delivery payments. “In the coming months, DoorDash customers will be able to enjoy Klarna’s seamless range of payment options when purchasing groceries, retail, and even DashPass Annual Plan – on DoorDash.com or through the DoorDash app,” according to a webpage on the deal on Klarna’s website.
  7. Don't be a stupid idiot and put that on me. It's just funny satire that pokes fun at bankers and the finance world, nothing christofascist or magat about it.
  8. Being in the Utilities & Transmission business I saw this and said "oooh, an announcment on power-- this might be market moving, what is Trump going to screw up now!" But then I realized they are talking about political power. Boring.
  9. Read a funny quote today in a satire blog: https://jabronicapital.com/p/nerd-rage
  10. I read yesterday the SF Giants are selling to PE. The NFL owners voted last year to allow PE money take ownership.
  11. But what did Andy Langer do to cause ire? Seems like a reasonable take that most people agree with.
  12. Setting up for a Kenton Paulino moment!
  13. I was the second or third car that came upon a dead body in the highway, but my the time I registered what happened I was 40 yards passed, so exited and turned around and by the time I had circled back the entire highway was shut down and fire trucks, cops, ambulances galore. There was no wreckage or debris from what I could tell, just a dead body. I had to drive 5 more hours with my anxiety at a 10 after that. My own mortality was all I could think about and was gripped with fear. Not a fun road trip.
  14. I don't know about y'all, but I would love to live in California if I could afford it.
  15. I saw someone (might have been on these threads here actually) describe it: Trump acts like the belligerent and bad cop to our friends and makes his staff be the good guys Trump acts like a friendly and good cop to our enemies and makes his staff be the bad guys. And, of all people, Rubio is seen as the good guy to our allies, EU, etc. Where I disagree with the original poster of that above is that I don't think he does this on purpose or strategically.
  16. That is hilarious and creative. Like Hitchcock's Birds is what I imagine, having never seen that movie.
  17. Well...this is depressing. I WAS having a good day. I've been reading about Ancient Rome lately (written about it a bit in the Movies thread) and have been having a hard time as it is thinking about the decline of our society. Thanks for the cherry on top.
  18. Definitely agree there is some of that. But there are also some very complex and bloated organizations that can be more efficient and optimized, while keeping more or less the special sauce (e.g. quality, experience, etc.) which just means that, like most things in life, it's about the fit and the time and place. PE shouldn't be the blanket answer for everything, but it has a role. I actually think we see a pullback of PE (I read last week that PE deals have actually declined in recent years, contrary to the perception that PE is manifest destiny'ing all the business) and anyone following finance and news has seen the trend is actually in private credit.
  19. To your point, I assume you are an honest lawyer who is good at what you do and you extract some amount of money at 1/6 hour increments for the good of your customer, your firm and yourself. I assume most lawyers attempt to operate in this way. I also understand that the law profession has some less than honest firms who work in the margins or outright do unethical things for a buck. The slash and burn firms, who get the bad press and give the laymen the impression of lawyers are liars and morally suspect. The same impression that gives us the tome of lawyer jokes found next to the book of aggie jokes.
  20. I was living in Austin and consulting with Dell when Francisco or TPG or both did the Dell Boomi deal and everyone freaked out. This thread had me wonder how that was going as I hadn't thought about that in a while and it seems like, from googling, fine I guess? But to your point, PE is coming in to make changes and that usually sucks if you were comfortable and/or had it good. But I have heard great things about Thoma Bravo as a tech software PE buyer.
  21. As others have said, that's not actually what Private Equity is or does. I mean, SOME do. The slash-and-burn firms that give the industry a bad name and maybe that is the problem-- laymen like you come to think of PE as the easy to digest narrative that non-banking American's can readily understand and have probably experienced (e.g. ToysRus, etc.) and so it becomes shorthand for all PE firms. Historically PE firms make money in a turn-around or in implementing whatever the individual PE's good at doing (e.g. Finance- cost takeouts, tightening up DSOs or O2C or whatever, Operations- automation, operational efficiencies, SKU rationalizations, fixing processes). It's supposed to be a win/win, everyone is happy and makes money-- the owners, the bank, the shareholders, the employees, the customers. On paper that's supposed to be how it works. Ultimately the goal is to take the risk, work without the pressure of the Street, and then have a positive exit. It doesn't always work and actually there is a bit of, I won't call it a crisis yet, but some strong headwinds in PE with the horrible M&A and IPO markets of the last few years. Inflation, interest rates and now tariffs are horrible for PE business. Bloomberg had a good article today actually how even PE is trying to get out of the PE business (or at least the equity part): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-19/private-equity-firms-are-getting-rid-of-their-equity
  22. I liked it. Like if ODB and Tyler the Creator had a baby who wanted to grow up and be more sensible and boring version of his parents.
  23. Compare Denzel in Gladiator II (oof) with this:
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