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  1. 5 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

    Where are you living now? Where do you work? What are you interested in?
     

    I’ve worked at the Crescent the last 12 years and McKinney Ave seems to get worse/more boring year after year. State-Thomas seems to have stagnated a lot as well.

    Downtown seems to have a lot more going on than uptown the last couple years. And Dallas is finally trying to connect downtown with Deep Ellum. 

    That sounds like an interesting job. All the big time geopolitical players (like the Saudis and UAE leaders) I hear stay there and shut the whole thing down. I think Obama stayed there too in his one stay in Dallas if memory serves. I bet you get to see a lot of crazy stuff, eh?

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  2. I lived in uptown like 15 years ago and it was amazing. Sad to hear it’s wack now. I mean I couldn’t imagine Addison being able to hold a candle to uptown back in the day.

    Also since after irth is a big metal guy, deep Ellum had a bunch of grimey bars like anvil and July alley— are those still around? I feel like I heard deep ellum gentryfied from dead to busy and ghetto.

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  3. On 7/6/2023 at 3:31 PM, nnm said:

    He’s absolutely correct. Birkenstocks are the bomb. I’d wear them every single day if I could. They make shoes with the same wide toe box and footbed also—in addition to the sandals, I now have 4 pair. 
    Especially if you have hard surface floors at home, having a pair of indoor birks will massively help PF. 

     

    On 7/6/2023 at 9:50 PM, CooterBrown said:


    I limped around for years. My knee and heel pain was so bad, I could hardly walk. Started wearing soft bed Birks and within 2 months, the pain went away completely.

    • The owner of Birkenstock, the sandal maker, is reportedly considering an I.P.O. that it hopes will net a valuation of over $6 billion. (Bloomberg)
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  4. I feel your pain, @52-80. It's very difficult to communicate rationally and moderately with people who, at a minimum, need therapy in order to ingest and synthesize the data points of a conversation. I think @Celery Mangets it and communicates well in that respect, and longhornmatt is usually smart, but you are seeing the mental illness unique to messageboards firsthand.

    Question: Since I'm calling this out, what should my next name be?

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  5. Stat: Want to know why there are seemingly no houses for sale in the US these days? These numbers should help explain. The average rate on a 30-year mortgage climbed to 6.81% this week, its highest level of 2023, according to Freddie Mac. At the same time, almost 92% of US homeowners with mortgages have an interest rate of less than 6%, Redfin reported. So, therein lies the rub. Not many current homeowners are willing to ditch their lower mortgage rates for the higher one that would come with a new house.

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  6. 10 hours ago, Bullneck said:

    1. Carrot Top and I used to live in the same city.  He used to go jogging shirtless in the middle of the day (not a great idea if you're a ginger, JMHO) and he appeared to lift a lot of weights.

    2. I saw a Carrot Top special on TV once (NYE maybe).  It was actually pretty funny. 

    I saw Carrot Top in Vegas like 20 years ago. He killed it. Super funny and super surprising.

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  7. 14 hours ago, Mittens said:

    If you like Druski, then you LOVED Birdman calling him out in front of God and everyone...

     

    This one wasn't as funny to me because it was so obvious staged.

    I just read that our boy Druski got an invite to Rubin's All White Party in the Hamptons. Nobody loves that party more than black twitter/black celebs. Maybe more than even the Met Gala.

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  8. 3 hours ago, Helobious said:

    You “no tattoos” people need to find something else to feel superior about. Generous estimates say only about 35% of the US adult population has tattoos.

    You are right. No tattoos and my kids don't have any tattoos is the new flex.

     

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  9. 6 minutes ago, Pancho said:

     

    I'll never understand people who live in apartments that think they are better than anyone else living in the same apartments.

    y'all are the same!

    Maybe the most cringe worthy part of that video though was the guy off camera feeling the need to justify his existence at the apartment community pool in which he lives in and said "this is a three thousand dollar watch!" hoo boy.

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  10. 5 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Yeah, it's a shame that Bluesky didn't sign on, but a friend is working on a bridge (and there are others) so who knows how that will shake out. I'm assuming that Threads will tie into the Microblogging chunk with mastodon and the others.

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    Thanks. I had to google Fediverse.

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  11. I feel bad for the Mastadon people-- they had the right idea at the right time, just the wrong product.

    And the truth of it all is, at the end of the day, Twitter needed to be acquired by a Meta/Google/etc. for it to work. The financials and business of Twitter was bad. The earnings per share, the stock price, all suggested an inefficient business model. Elon thought he could come in and see it to it's full potential. Obviously took the L on that almost immediately.

    Meta can roll out something like Twitter, in Threads, and not have to worry about it being profitable or break-even in the near term.

    But once they start monetizing it, the devil you know in Facebook will be back, and once the shine wear off we will be back to "Threads is intrusive, and sketchy with my personal data, I don't trust them, making money unethically, etc."

    It's a testament to how much we all dislike Elon Musk that we are just happy to see the house fire that has been contained to the kitchen since April finally get some legs and get to the foundation and spread to where this baby will be burned to the ground soon and are willing to not care about the Social Dilemma of it all for now.

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  12. 16 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    He had a pretty memorable cameo in “the leftovers”

    Hunter’s visits to the White House require a visitor day pass with a time expiration on it.  Everyone who gets one  those is searched upon entry and often upon exit.  I doubt he went through all that trouble to leave behind a half gram.  
     

    95% chance it’s a staffer who accidentally Left it there while fucked up late at night.  Americans would be very surprised if they knew how many government officials are moderate to hard drug users.  Or somebody was up there, “hid” it to retrieve later, got called to something else urgent and meant to get it back but it was found.  There are missing/forgotten half gram baggies all over DC just waiting to be confused for Anthrax.  
     

    also, noCR but it’s not physically possible For an 80yo to do a half gram of blow and live.

    I think it 100% had to be an intern or page or otherwise young staffer-- I can picture them giddily doing lines off random things in the West Wing "Bro, can you believe we are doing rails off the resolute desk? I can't wait to tell my Delta Nu bro's back at JMU about this, let's get it on snap!"

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  13. 16 hours ago, Deej said:

    Prime Madonna was hotter than Taylor Swift. 

    At least she seemed liked she get a lot dirtier with you. 

    Even as a pre-teen/child I knew Madonna was not hot enough to be cast as the mole in Dick Tracy.

    As an aside, I watched that movie again a few years ago as an adult and it was very weird but made more sense than it did as a kid.

  14. 15 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

    They still sell tide powder?  

    The only powder I see these days is the shit in the plastic bag at the mexican markets.   

    Yessir. The big heavy box of it. It's the OG (e.g. Two scoops and a loosey).

    This article is from 10 years ago but still interesting: https://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/

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    Shoppers have surprisingly strong feelings about laundry detergent. In a 2009 survey, Tide ranked in the top three brand names that consumers at all income levels were least likely to give up regardless of the recession, alongside Kraft and Coca-Cola. That loyalty has enabled its manufacturer, Procter & Gamble, to position the product in a way that defies economic trends. At upwards of $20 per 150-ounce bottle, Tide costs about 50 percent more than the average liquid detergent yet outsells Gain, the closest competitor by market share (and another P&G product), by more than two to one. According to research firm SymphonyIRI Group, Tide is now a $1.7 billion business representing more than 30 percent of the liquid-detergent market.

    Before the advent of liquid detergent, the average American by one estimate owned fewer than ten outfits, wearing items multiple times (to keep them from getting threadbare too fast) before scrubbing them by hand using bars of soap or ground-up flakes. To come up with a less laborious way to do the laundry, executives at Procter & Gamble began tinkering with compounds called surfactants that penetrate dirt and unbond it from a garment while keeping a spot on a shirt elbow from resettling on the leg of a pant. When the company released Tide in 1946, it was greeted as revolutionary. “It took something that had been an age-old drudgery job and transformed it into something that was way easier and got better results,” says Davis Dyer, co-author of Rising Tide, which charts the origins of the brand. “It was cool, kind of like the iPod of the day.” Procter & Gamble, naturally, patented its formula, forcing competitors to develop their own surfactants. It took years for other companies to come up with effective alternatives.

     

     

  15. 4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    And that really is an impediment to "the lower courts were engaged in fuckery" theory.  I mean, it's POSSIBLE that they concocted a ruling they don't agree with just to make sure the SCOTUS took it.....but that's getting a bit Q-anon conspiracy theory-ish.

    This.

    The literal only reason people are decrying the process and system is because they don't like the outcome. Had it gone the other way, the very same people would not have any problem with it and would be ridiculing anyone on that side who would take up literally the same arguments.

    It's politics at it's finest in that the only thing that matters is that your personal desires win the day.

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