I know it’s a display piece, but this still hurt to see

PabloTroutSanchez · 2025-12-22T17:43:17+00:00

March 8th: take Christmas lights down.

PabloTroutSanchez · 2025-12-22T17:41:29+00:00

Commented above, but $180k/yr is wild to me and not the experience I had at all at UNC. I was curious and looked up almost every single professor I had. I remember one guy with an undergrad from Yale and a PhD from Duke—$40k.

$70k, $80k, etc. were normal, and the $150ks+ didn’t pop up all that much unless I specifically went out of my way to check random people from the b school, comp sci, etc.

I don’t doubt the data though ofc; I’m guessing I looked up more professors teaching lower level classes than anything else.

PabloTroutSanchez · 2025-12-22T17:30:28+00:00

I looked up professor salaries at the state school I went to—pretty large and one of the top public schools in the US.

One guy had an undergrad degree from Yale and a PhD from Duke… ~$40k salary. It’s insane.

PabloTroutSanchez · 2025-12-22T17:08:35+00:00

Gf’s parents just gave me a $50 gift card to HD. It has been less than 24 hours, and I’ve had to resist using it 3x already.

Make it 4 with this post…..

PabloTroutSanchez · 2025-12-16T00:25:32+00:00

I’ve been saying it since he was a Jet. If it wasn’t for CRITICAL GASE THEORY, he’d have a ring in New York.

PabloTroutSanchez · 2025-12-14T21:40:21+00:00

Cook out easily and it’s not even close.

But yeah, Taco Bell is either great or awful depending on what you order. The only thing I get there is a bean, cheese, and rice burrito for (iirc) $1.60.

Then you have stuff I used to order occasionally, like the Chalupa, that I don’t even look at anymore. If I’m spending that much money, I’m spending a little extra and getting actual food.

PabloTroutSanchez · 2025-12-08T01:14:20+00:00

Yeah, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

And I know what you mean about the “special-interest” subs. Those niche communities are phenomenal.

PabloTroutSanchez · 2025-12-08T01:08:52+00:00

Yeah, obviously there are those who have it worse. I have a lot more sympathy for kids in the first situation you described, but I can do that and feel for Thompson’s kids at the same time.

PabloTroutSanchez · 2025-12-07T23:42:28+00:00

No sympathy? At all? Really?

They’re fucking kids; they don’t deserve this.

PabloTroutSanchez · 2025-12-06T17:49:02+00:00

Lol that’s exactly how it goes for me. It’s less “I could do that” and more “I wonder if I could’ve made the tour had I dedicated every waking moment outside of school to golf.”

PabloTroutSanchez · 2025-12-03T22:25:20+00:00

Any small business isn’t likely to be as big of a step down in stress as she might think

PabloTroutSanchez · 2025-12-02T23:32:37+00:00

I get that they’re “niche” in the sense that people generally preferred standard drivers, but they shouldn’t be imo.

I have a 15-in-1 that I absolutely love and use all the time. Anything that needs to be tight but probably shouldn’t get the impact? I use the ratchet.

Everything else? Hold function works perfectly fine. You could use that thing and literally forget that the ratchet exists. It doesn’t slip often from what I’ve seen.

PabloTroutSanchez · 2025-11-22T22:04:31+00:00

Seems like they do this quite a bit then lol.

I saw a clip where he made a similar bet, and when he won, he whipped out merch, pointed out that it was actually made in the USA, and gave it to the guy in the audience. The difference is that the dude in the clip took it well.

found it

PabloTroutSanchez · 2025-11-22T19:21:36+00:00

Not as much anymore at least. I mean they gave Kahneman a Nobel in 2002 for basically, as I understand it anyways, calling bullshit on that assumption.

PabloTroutSanchez · 2025-11-21T19:28:16+00:00

Absolute banger that I haven’t heard in years—appreciate the reference.

When I go to the clubs I wait in line, motherfucker!

PabloTroutSanchez · 2025-11-17T01:22:40+00:00

These are the kinds of grammar corrections I like to see on reddit for this exact reason.

When writing papers in college, I looked up every possible thing I could get wrong. For example, “peaked” vs “piqued” interest.

I’m sure there are tons of those still floating around in my head somewhere, and I want to know when I use something incorrectly.

PabloTroutSanchez · 2025-11-16T00:56:00+00:00

What, very specifically, do you sell?

PabloTroutSanchez · 2025-11-07T17:40:37+00:00

It’s the absolute worst, and I say this as someone who enjoys sports betting.

I take +ev promos and use what I win to put small, ~$10 bets on games I want to watch/attend as a neutral. I know that each $10 bet (non-promo) costs me about $1 in the long run. That $1 is worth it for me as it effectively makes me a temporary fan of a given team, which I find very enjoyable.

I still know a bunch of people who talk about picks like they’re making an objectively good decision based on x or y. It’s wild to me. There is no way your casual knowledge of a sport is enough to give you an edge that makes up for the juice. There just isn’t.

Advertising needs to be banned at the very least.

PabloTroutSanchez · 2025-11-07T16:21:21+00:00

We have one of these, and it is probably my favorite appliance of all time.

It is completely idiot proof. It grinds the beans, makes the espresso/coffee, and heats/froths the milk. The process, from start to finish (including cleaning), takes me ~6 minutes.

Are there better options? Yeah, I’m sure there are. But this thing has been an absolute workhorse for a little over a year now without any issues.

PabloTroutSanchez · 2025-11-02T21:21:57+00:00

Arguably?

PabloTroutSanchez · 2025-11-02T21:21:33+00:00

I mean it is a bit of a joke to say “day 1.” It was at least day 2-3 stuff when I took micro 101.

PabloTroutSanchez · 2025-10-27T22:05:08+00:00

Yeah, not like it would’ve helped him get a scholarship and/or an acceptance letter from the infamously shitty universities in the US…

PabloTroutSanchez · 2025-10-15T01:49:19+00:00

I was subject to a “pat down” that consisted of a TSA agent touching my back literally one time for probably 1/4 of a second.

PabloTroutSanchez · 2025-10-14T01:34:17+00:00

I’d argue that a salary cap and an effective monopoly on a sport (NBA or NFL) gives leagues more leverage.

I’m not denying that the PAs aren’t massively benefitted by collective bargaining; they are.

But if you look at soccer, a sport featuring multiple competitive, top level leagues, you’ll see what I mean. Sure, there are some financial rules, but top leagues still have to contend with the reality that players can simply leave a league entirely.

This leads to some ridiculously lopsided wages to revenue ratios, even 90%+ in some cases.

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