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  1. Generally speaking everyone wins here. The mom wins (no chasing an annuity, gets it all upfront and with 0% discount), the man wins (he sees a premium value to offloading her and the kid off his books) and the kid wins (free from a bad or toxic co-parenting situation if the father doesn't want to be there, or if he does, a quality relationship without the sceptre of money constantly hanging over it). If the woman plays her cards right, she can really make a good life for her kid and herself.
  2. wtf are you talking about? Is this AI hallucinating?
  3. Get a life, nerd.
  4. Wait a minute. Why is paying up front all at once a bad thing? That's a huge W in my book. Putting aside basic Time Value of Money, you are ensuring getting paid and taking all the risk off the table. Risk of him losing his money, blowing his money by being stupid, getting hurt and losing income, getting arrested doing something stupid and losing income, etc. How can anyone think this is a negative thing?
  5. The meme kids seem to be having a field day, is what I'm hearing from the teenager class:
  6. Trump's economy is cheeks, dude.
  7. I agree with you 100%. In general we are seeing (in my view) the natural end result of when human civilization and societies come together for a tenuously held and sued-by-the-threat-of-force peace golden era. History is littered with the ebbs and flows of such periods and it's generally great for mankind when we can prolong it, due to all the advancements and qualities we can focus on versus when societal growth grinds to a halt for the tactical-- armament, re-armament, having babies to repopulate the young men slaughtered in wars, replacing slain kings/leaders, fighting against internal infighting that undermines military and political strength, etc. We seem to be plummeting towards the end of a great era. I'm so on the ledge you can call me Heath Ledger
  8. From Semafor (below) that confirms that when unofficial negotiations between Biden’s team and Iran collapsed, U.S. officials cited Iran’s refusal to cooperate on UN nuclear inspections. Specifically, Iran resisted addressing uranium traces found at undeclared sites and blocked International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors. This lack of transparency led Western nations to pass a censure resolution against Iran at the IAEA. https://www.semafor.com/article/06/05/2024/iran-west-tensions-nuclear-transparency-uranium-inspections
  9. He's right in that this election was lost because it was mismanaged by Biden's handlers who refused to acknowledge a decline in accuity and while I wouldn't go so far as "shouted down" people trying to bring it up (though there was a ton of you "YOU JUST DON'T FORFEIT INCUMBANCY ADVANTAGE HIGH GROUND!!"), that is ultimately what sunk the election. No real primary of candidates to determine who the people would vote for, a last minute feel to the switching horses midstream, etc.
  10. So then you guys see the dilemma. Talks, sanctions, plans (e.g. The Obama and to a lesser extent the Biden way) doesn't work because Iran is disingenous. Threats and Sabre-Rattling (e.g. The Trump way) doesn't work, it incentives and speeds up development (which is already sped up over years past due to advancements) Nothing works, so we will fight over them or with them. Is there a seperate ledge for nuclear war / WWIII or is it shared with the Fall of the American Republic ledge?
  11. The fact that this is "news" and headline worthy is just a win for Morgan Wallen's fame and whatever, which is stupid. Maybe more stupid is the guy who went on AGT or X factor or whatever Mass produced, mainstream America TV Reality show in Hollywood, California, to whore himself out and get famous is now too legit 2 quit for NYC. NYC is the best city in the world, or one of. It's all brand curation and narrative, I guess. Pop Star: Country boi edition.
  12. I have never heard or seen any of these things and still haven't because I don't want to click on your link based on your description. I am just posting because I'm wondering how the word Jubilee got used in this context. I understood Jubilee differently, as a word and definition (a sort of reset or forgiving of debts that occurs every 25 years or something like that).
  13. I was in a cheap hotel room last week (think: Courtyard or Holiday Inn type hotel) and eating the runny eggs and greasy bacon with weak coffee when a little dog started running around the eating area. Someone had brought it down with them without a leash and lost control. Everyone was annoyed, but it's our fault for being poor I guess.
  14. Something to think about re: U of A $5k, UCSB $50k If you can swing it and you aren't mortgaging the house to do it there might be a hard-to-quanitfy value in the network and relationships kiddo can make at UCSB that U of A won't offer. Having the network effects of your "betters" and leveling up the caste of folks in terms of education, money, class, etc. can only help in a world where connections are going to be all the more important. I'm not saying being a nepo baby is worth aspiring for or getting a Mr./Mrs. degree, but I know for me, half of my success and opportunities I can draw a direct line from some of the "betters" I met at UT and my fraternity. Assuming UCSB has a bunch of big wigs from VC's and Tech firms and the Entertainment industry and BioTech/Pharma, etc. whose kids probably see UCSB as a safety school. That said, how do you put a dollar value to a hypothetical? Just throwing out another consideration besides "awesome beach and weather".
  15. I think the reasoning is that they are making a bomb regardless, so it's last ditch desperation. I read today that what took a year in Obama's day to enrich the uranimum and make a nuke, they can now do in days and since Trump's election they've gone from enriching 16 lbs of uranium per month to 75 lbs (and apparently for civilian use you only need a fraction of that, so clearly they are building). It's a moot point, they getting nukes if they don't already have them by summer. The questions become, so what? What then? Also, editing to add, it should be noted that Iran being belligerent is bipartisan. Under Biden they gave him a hard time and stonewalled Biden's admin in talks and stiff-armed UN inspectors after being more or less busted when investigators tried to get access to inspect sites Iran never declared and were off-radar using, that had Uranium traces and footprints. Iran gonna Iran.
  16. Weird that they would skip an analysis on Honda (I scanned through the list because that's the only one I personally care about so it stuck out as a glaring omission).
  17. Plus NYC is amazing and God's Country too, in it's own way. Though $900+ orchestra seats to see Denzel as Othello right now doesn't feel very heavenly tbh.
  18. I didn't think about that. Purists hating it because it will be a caricature of what the serious Minecrafter will consider.
  19. Starting this thread because I have a feeling it's going to be a smash hit. It's only the most popular game (behind Tetris?) ever. And most of our kids and grandkids had a spell where they played this game like crack addicts for a few years. And Jack Black is hilarious and looking to bring the same King Koopa energy to this one. My estimate is this does numbers and will have everyone forgetting about the fabricated Snow White controversies: I'll end up seeing this at the theatre I'm sure. Opens 4/4, though I saw some theatres are doing 4/3.
  20. This in a big nutshell. It's hard to see it now, but I think it will be clear when we look back on this time from the future. Not sure what's going to happen but it's very clear we are in a huge paradigm shift that will change the future norms of work.
  21. Dare I ask. Is that real?
  22. Good point but I don't think quite right. I think it's the housing affordability issue (hinted at earlier). Stay with me here. In the past, adults could grow up and leave apartments or condos or tiny rented places with no yard or shared yards and buy their own 3/2/2 to settle down, start a family, whatever. Then they would have babies and/or buy pets. They had the appropriate room and services to accomodate them. With housing being such a crisis (e.g. starter homes almost non-existent, another thread), more "kids" aka young adults are staying in apartments and multi-tenant living a whole lot longer. Maybe until their middle ages and maybe forever for all I know. So there is no more waiting until you buy a house and next phase of your life which includes a pet, but rather, if you want a pet you have to get it in suboptimal living conditions. So then you buy your best friend and now have a pet that lives in 500-1000 sqft area without an easy access yard or even patio sometimes, landlocked between hundreds of other 500-1000 sqft rooms, anywhere from 1-5 stories up. Because of this, pets probably dont' get as much exercise or outdoor time (I mean, the owner tries but it's harder to take the elevator or walk the flight of stairs and meander down to the tired patch of grass all the other pets have trod over, multiple times a day) and so owners rationalize that it's lucky bit of synergy. They need to run errands (HEB, restaurants, etc.) and the dogs need to not be locked in a soulless apartment, so why not take them with them. Seems right to me, at least. Maybe dog owners who live in apartments and can't afford housing (if any post here) can confirm or deny.
  23. For you CSU guys-- aren't the academics there pretty solidly meh? I thought for a while CSU was trying to be an online for-profit type mill which surely is not a great association for the real unversity. Either way, I've never heard CSU in the conversation for a a school for anyone with any academic ambitions. Has that changed the last 15 years a la Northeastern U?
  24. Actually I'm wrong and dumb and @TreatyOak you are the most plugged person I know and read about on here.
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