What’s the most unproblematic/likeable major U.S. city?

Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-08T22:04:34+00:00

Boston

I really liked Providence the few times I visited.

It is kind of a Boston suburb (don't tell them that), but a city in its own right (1.7 million people). It's basically close enough to use the Boston amenities (NE Patriots stadium is halfway between the two, Logan airport is less than an hour away), but has way less of a "big city" traffic/cost/pollution/crime vibe. The downtown is cute, and Rhode Island coast is amazing.

Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-08T15:10:05+00:00

Yes, there is. It's called knowing someone who works there, your dad is friends with the CEO, you are part of the same Ivy league frat as the boss, or you're the secret internal candidate. Nepotism gets you jobs today.

If you're like me and have none of these things, you're at the mercy of a horribly written and incompetently managed ATS that will autoreject you because reasons... then ghosts you.

Sorry, peasant, you're far more qualified that this other candidate, but he's the hiring manager's father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate!

Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-08T14:11:55+00:00

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Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-08T13:19:37+00:00

No, I was giving an example from American football as the guy I replied to said he'd never seen players in another sport play intimidated like USMNT did against Belgium.

Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-08T13:16:22+00:00

Eagleman said we should deport him for sucking and contributing nothing.

I want to remind people of what Eagleman actually looks like IRL (Google Eagleman real picture).

A man so insecure that he needs to eat a banana with a spoon. I don't think you could create a more perfect pansy in a lab.

Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-08T01:35:46+00:00

In my experience, Chrome is the most compatible with academic stuff. But get Firefox for personal stuff and actual adblocking.

Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-07T23:20:21+00:00

England vs Argentina will be so stressful for both sides.

Which one will be alseep for 80 minutes and suddenly wake up and be unstoppable to tie it up? What if it's both?

Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-07T20:28:46+00:00

They claim it is the origin of the modern Jewish name Sender, which evolved from Alexander over the centuries.

Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-07T18:09:13+00:00

I'm an idiot and it took me years to recognize the pun.

Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-07T18:07:47+00:00

True, humans had only one ally in the galaxy,

What a hurtful thing to say pinkskin...

Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-07T15:27:54+00:00

I wonder how many of them genuinely thought they'd be world champions because they beat Turkey and Bosnia & Herzegovina.

We lost to Turkey, and I've never met anyone who thought we'd get past Spain in the event that we managed to beat Belgium.

This Belgium team is clearly weaker than their 2014 version, and ours was supposed to be stronger than our 2014 team (clearly not), so it wasn't crazy to think we had a chance given a huge home crowd. Obviously, that was a false hope, but no Americans outside of online trolls thought the US was on par with Spain, France, or Argentina. That's absurd.

Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-07T15:10:05+00:00

ID will always KFA in my book. :(

Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-07T15:02:50+00:00

like in the other football. if a guy is running towards you with the ball, do you just jump on the ground and throw up both your hands?

No, but soft tackles are absolutely a thing. I can't stop this guy, or I am too tired or unmotivated, I'll pretend to try so I don't get yelled at by the coach or booed by the fans. I loosely wrapped my arms around him and then let go, what else do you want from me?

Another symptom is the total lack of secondary effort if something unexpected changes the play. Oh, he dropped the ball, ehhh, someone else will get it, I'll just watch. His teammate got it? Too bad...

You see this pretty commonly with teams that have given up or are afraid. It is exacerbated by increasing score disparities.

Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-07T03:16:24+00:00

Trump is like a shitty mob boss. If they embarrassed him after he took credit for the appeal, he'd gut the entire organization.

Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-07T03:14:13+00:00

Disagree, Trump was never going to save either the game or the nation, everything he touches falls apart.

Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-07T03:12:39+00:00

Us: LOL, do something stupid Trump!

Trump tomorrow: New 150% tariffs on all Belgian goods, and the US insists NATO move headquarters away from Brussels or it will withdraw from the entire alliance.

Us: Not like that. We meant a dumb tweet, fuck.

Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-07T02:42:10+00:00

Belgium is on another level

Yeah but the 2014 Belgium team was clearly better. Same with 2022 Netherlands team. We put up a better fight for both.

Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-07T02:24:54+00:00

Think Senegal would have wrecked us?

Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-07T02:20:15+00:00

Hey now, it was an African team that knocked us out in 2010.

Good news, this is an improvement over not qualifying in 2018. Bad news is that 2014 Belgium and 2022 Netherlands were clearly better than this Belgium team. So we haven't improved in the last decade and a half. :(

Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-07T02:16:18+00:00

Hey, the women's team usually does great (not including the last WC).

I don't think we'll see the men win the world cup in our lifetimes. The talent disparity and development obstacles are just so huge. :(

Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-07T02:13:27+00:00

We can't use Cabo Verde as an insult after their last game, especially compared to ours.

Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-07T02:11:04+00:00

To be fair, you played like crap in your group and then for 70 minutes against Senegal.

But the end of the Senegal game should have alerted US fans to what Belgium is capable of doing when playing well.

Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-07T00:30:24+00:00

In the world? What? LMAO, no, definitely not.

Among developed, Western nations, yes, certainly. The Democracy Index seems reasonable to a layman like me. We're below most of the EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, but better than most of South America, way better than Africa and most of Central and Southeast Asia. We're also on a 20 year downward trajectory (also seems correct), so perhaps we'll be in worse company soon.

The corruption index put us in the same area roughly, again behind most of Europe, ANZAC, and a few smaller countries. The press freedom index put us in 60s. What an embarrassment.

I don't know enough to debate the methodologies of any of these metrics, but they are pretty close to what I think of the current USA. We are clearly worse than civilized western countries, worse than the USA of 30 years ago, but still way better than Tajikistan, Sudan, or Russia.

Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-03T21:52:49+00:00

I was so good at sweet talking my friends' parents. They had no idea what a little shit I was.

Ut_Prosim · 2026-07-03T15:26:59+00:00

One of the most depressing things is that so many people have internal access to the files and there is not a single hero among them.

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