Why are Senior Citizens mean to my husband?
This is just Boomers doing Boomer shit. They are angry when anyone else gets benefits they think they rightfully deserve. They have been perfectly content to take everything, but then become irrationally enraged when anyone younger wants the same decent treatment they received socially and economically.
Well that’s a ride. Love it, her physicality and her weird-ass hair. People with that much charisma, where do they come from?
You can get away with this absurd level of improvisation when everyone in your band is insanely talented. Otherwise it just falls apart. Prince had more panache than just about anyone and such a great guitar style; he played his piece kinda like a violin.
I got no ambition to be completely safe; nah, I wanna be completely dangerous.
I found my new calling… I want to destroy every automated support line in existence.
I can no longer remember which support line it was (maybe HP?) but years ago when I had to call it frequently, I figured out that if you used enough profanity at the otherwise-arduously-long prompts and hold queue, the cursing would short-circuit all that and quickly get you to a real person who could assist you.
So when I called I would robotically intone, “Fuck…shit…bitch…fuck…shit…bitch” until it transferred me to a human. One time my boss walked by and heard me doing this and stopped to watch. She was very chill and asked me after, “What was that about?” I said I found out that profanity caused a quick transfer to an actual rep and otherwise I’d be waiting perhaps hours.
So the rest of my team started doing the “Fuck…shit…bitch” litany when they called the support line. (Pretty sure it was HP, as we had tons of HP servers so were calling often. This was in 2002 or so.)
Who here is moving because of being priced out of area?
I remember when Central Florida and nearly all of Florida used to be super cheap; no longer. I guess nearly nowhere is now, but even 5-6 years ago a decent place in Central Florida was half or less the rent of a place in, for instance, Atlanta or Chicago or Boston.
Those days are I guess gone forever.
Why has fast food gotten insanely pricey?
I’ve been wondering the same. The quality of fast food is actually far worse now post-pandemic, but the price delta between fast food and a far higher-quality restaurant meal is much diminished compared to what it was four years ago. Sometimes for lunch (where restaurants have lunch prices and portions), fast food is actually more expensive.
This all makes no sense and I have no insight into it at all. But I do miss in the army where I could get an ok meal (Whopper value meal, to be specific) at Burger King for $2.99 — that’d be $5.54 in today’s money. Now the price is higher and the quality is much, much worse.
Here’s proof; this ad is from 1995 but this price held until the early 2000s — in fact, often just the Whopper itself was only $0.99, which was a frequent sale price. Sometimes I’d buy two Whoppers for that amount and call it good. Anyway, the ad:
The first ten on today’s playlist:
I hate programming so, so much.
I stopped renewing some of my certs because it felt like I was spending my entire life studying for damn certification tests or doing training, but I still have my CISSP and just renewed my CCNP as my two highest-level certs.
A lot of people have the CISSP and a lot of people have the CCNP. Very, very few have both together as each one of them is really frickin’ hard. I’m pretty proud of that.
Both are lovingly dedicated to my father who said I’d never achieve anything.
They’ve been getting away with this for forever. It’s gotta stop!
The problem is buying something so damn nasty as Pop Tarts. Buy crap, get crap. Seems obvious to me. Pop Tarts: a food so fucking nasty only an American could love it.
Natalie performed this live at the concert we went to in Spokane. It’s a good song even in studio form, but in concert it was really excellent. Just great, and much more powerful than this version.
Some people you can just see the intelligence in their eyes, emanating from how they look at the world. Natalie is one of those people. Reminds me of one of the greatest compliments anyone has ever paid to me. A friend of mine was looking at a photo of me and my date that was taken during a military ball I attended in the army. She said, “I can just look at your eyes in this photo and know how crazy smart you are.”
I didn’t know what she meant at first until I thought about Natalie and realized that, yeah, I did know.
If you don’t get what’s happening in the video, she’s receiving electric shocks to her face causing involuntary muscle movements; that’s not CGI.
Great news about American wealth.
Noah Smith is smart but because he is an economist, by nature of his chosen profession there must be worm-eaten parts of his brain. This wealth he is so enthusiastic about is an illusion; it’s meaningless. If the value of a house goes up but you can’t sell because interest rates are too high to buy another one, that’s not a true wealth gain. This is just paper wealth of no practical value. The same for your car, etc.
The reality is that inflation is causing real income to plummet while the job market looks rosy in the stats but in actuality is pretty dismal in most fields.
Most Americans have little savings and so if their real income falls de facto 20%, they are much poorer and rightly feel that way. Noah Smith’s numbers are crap and so is his reasoning.
Exact same house and land, five years apart:
But sure, inflation has been defeated.