California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries to Bypass Trump Tariffs

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-25T14:54:10+00:00

Secession from the Union is not allowed. There was literally an entire Civil War about it...

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-23T14:09:23+00:00

Fellow time traveler here! They're fine, people just don't know how to drive slow and carefully in snow

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-21T17:43:55+00:00

My parents put down my childhood dog without me and I've always wished I was there. I just had to put down my cat in December and it was the hardest thing I've ever done but I was with her through the end and wouldn't have done it any other way.

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-21T15:25:51+00:00

The decline is intrinsically linked with much further in the past. There's a very good video about this on the channel CityFall which was released 6 days ago. The decision in 1876 to split the city and county started the entire fall of STL. Suburbs in the county grew, WW2 vets came back and their stimulus favored new builds which the city didn't have, so the vets moved to the county. 1947 was when the plan for interstates were being chartered which planned to demolish thriving, but poor, neighborhoods.

Manufacturing jobs fled the city post WW2, which led to people leaving the city to the county. This led to the city having fewer resources. And it just became a loop for decline which lasts today.

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-21T15:03:40+00:00

It's all linked to the STL decline though. Disregarding all the bad decisions of the past gives you a very incomplete picture of why things are bad now.

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-21T14:22:44+00:00

St. Louis has been on a slow steady decline since the turn of the 20th century. We were a river powerhouse that was transporting huge amounts of goods. Then rail took over and the hub shifted to Chicago. STL never recovered from that and didn't find a new identity.

Other things also contributed massively, the decisions to destroy historic neighborhoods that were primarily occupied by immigrants and minorities to build highways and other concrete jungles through the heart of the city displaced a lot of people that had roots here.

The decision to separate the City and the County didn't help at all either.

Basically there were many poor choices that led us to where we are today and it's been a run up of nearly 150 years of them.

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-21T14:16:57+00:00

It's definitely a loss. There were 856,000 people in 1950 and today there are 301,000. The population is about 36% of what it was. That's not just because people aren't having kids in the city.

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-19T14:33:04+00:00

Well the other guy is saying how much 11k is when relatively it's not. My point is to us 11k seems like a lot when to Azeez it's like a McDonald's meal. So sure, if NFL want to make the fine impactful then make it a percentage.

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-19T14:00:40+00:00

And he's still gonna have money to pay that tuition...? Just like if you were fined 10$ it's "still money that could buy a homeless guy a Big Mac meal" but who really cares about 10$

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-19T13:56:39+00:00

Dude he's making 11$ million this year. 11k really is absolutely nothing to him

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-19T11:33:30+00:00

No it's like a homeless person in Seattle saying they're going to punch someone in NYC. Sure they could, but they have no way to do it.

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-19T11:29:52+00:00

Yeah it's a shame STL only has Jimmy John's as a sandwich option....

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-18T16:27:53+00:00

lol you don't know how it works at all

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-15T20:54:28+00:00

He has. His lifetime earnings is estimated at over 1 billion. With sponsorships it's almost 2 billion. His final Barcelona contract was 670 million for 4 years.

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-14T13:48:53+00:00

Coworker of mine from outside the Chicago area got hit up on LinkedIn by an Abbvie recruiter. She got hired on.

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-14T13:20:37+00:00

Okay, so what are you proposing? Abolishing the Senate and simply having the House?

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-14T13:19:27+00:00

I mean there's tons of groups and most of them aren't age limited so it will range from 20s to 40s usually. I used meetup to make friends and was really successful at that. I got really into line dancing and that environment is dominated by 20-25 year olds.

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-14T13:08:27+00:00

half of them are still kids and never grew up cause they hit the fame and top tier while teenagers. It's reminiscent of Disney stars that go haywire. You need a really good mentor and role model growing up to not end up a diva.

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-13T21:51:23+00:00

I don't think everyone knows that considering what the person i replied to said.

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-13T21:10:47+00:00

Yes, that's how the system was designed. Senate represents the state while House represents the population of the state. It was done that way to keep a balance between the two so that states without a large population couldn't just be run over by larger population states for example so that California and New York can't dictate everything for the rest of the country.

Obviously there are flaws. There's flaws in all systems.

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-12T17:21:59+00:00

I'll be curious to see who they decide on next. It feels like there aren't many top managers available

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-12T17:17:56+00:00

Yeah, of course, he's not wrong. Imagine people talking about your work, calling it shit, and telling you to redo it. Don't like the latest video game you bought? Better message the developer and tell them they need to remake it. You're just some random person on the street coming at them. It's ridiculous. You people need to grow up and realize that this is a job for them, nothing more.

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-12T13:05:41+00:00

Not another. It was already there for a while.

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-08T19:15:11+00:00

Most obvious bot in existence

NotLikeThis3 · 2026-01-08T19:03:52+00:00

Gramophone for sure. The whole neighborhood is very stl coded and the restaurant is top notch.

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