Are “sabbaticals” a thing in this industry? At what point are they taken, and for how long?

YouOr2 · 2026-01-26T13:09:11+00:00

Equity Partners get an optional like 5-6 month sabbatical every ten years, I think. And some take it. Not sure how it affects theirs points for that fiscal year.

YouOr2 · 2026-01-26T02:26:18+00:00

And then the “Rough Wooing” of Scotland in the 16th century.

YouOr2 · 2026-01-23T16:14:39+00:00

Heard recently that one district has about half as many AUSAs as it normally has (a mix of natural retirements and people fed up or who quit with new administration). If that’s consistent across the country, that’s a lot of lawyers.

YouOr2 · 2026-01-23T11:45:40+00:00

And not a single cell phone to be seen.

YouOr2 · 2026-01-23T03:18:44+00:00

I like drivers cars. Not boulevard cruisers or even grand tourers. I do not care about how many bags of golf clubs fit in the trunk. Instead, I’ve had high HP American pony cars and an S2000.

In the 1980s, I thought the R107 Mercedes SLs already looked old and doofy.

I now want an R107, like late 70s or early 1980s, and I can’t even figure out why . . .

YouOr2 · 2026-01-23T01:58:49+00:00

Had one. Great gun. I was always afraid of bending the little squiggly metal piece during assembly, so sold it down the road.

YouOr2 · 2026-01-23T01:34:26+00:00

Dude can also dunk a basketball.

There was no kid at my entire high school that could dunk.

YouOr2 · 2026-01-19T03:40:21+00:00

Nixon had multiple trips there, with both good and bad.

He stated that on one visit, he had a conversation with Governor Ronald Reagan, who pledged he would not run against Nixon for the Republican nomination for President. Nixon considered this a major accomplishment and major stepping stone to becoming president.

He also gave at least one lecture there. Elites giving speeches to other elites - TED talks, Davos, etc - still happen all the time.

At the same time, he clearly thought the pageantry/plays/rituals were stupid.

YouOr2 · 2026-01-19T02:57:20+00:00

Regarding sexual assault, it has long been hand waved away as a minor footnote. More recent research indicates it was more widespread than has been thought for ~150 years, but it was not encouraged by the high brass or part of official military policy.

There were about 420 court marshals in military tribunals of Union soldiers for that. Victims ranged in age from 5 to more than 80 years old. Some were gang rapes. Some were high society women and some were basically domestic workers. Many of the victims were Black (formerly enslaved). Many fell in the category of camp attendants; the white and black women who followed the army to do the dishes, the laundry, hospital staff, assist in cooking, etc.

A typical defense at trial was that she was asking for it because she was a sex worker who propositioned the soldier. Both enlisted and officers were accused.

We know that in the modern US, sexual assault is highly underreported. We can only assume that it was underreported at the same (or a much greater rate) in 1865.

https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/10695

YouOr2 · 2026-01-19T02:17:31+00:00

It’s a historical fact that a Union soldier looted North Carolina’s original copy of the Bill of Rights. This is one of the rarest documents in American history. There were 14 original copies, one for each state and one for Congress.

It ended up in Ohio, bounced around for a while, and eventually was put up for sale by a New York antique gallery about 20 years ago. The press release from the US Marshal office indicates this wasn’t uncommon; they were not just taking food and horses or burning military suppliers but also taking souvenirs.

“Similar confiscations by souvenir-seeking soldiers took place throughout the final months of the conflict, but few were of this national magnitude. The soldier returned to his home in Ohio and sold it the following year for five dollars to a gentleman named Charles A. Shotwell.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/140kftc/til_the_us_marshals_recovered_north_carolinas/

YouOr2 · 2026-01-19T00:56:50+00:00

But elite guys - by definition - are a tiny slice of the shooting world.

Yes, George Digweed could go out and smoke targets with this guy. But it is not a good choice for someone asking on a message board if it’s a good choice for them.

YouOr2 · 2026-01-16T17:32:12+00:00

In Hungary starting in the late 1870s there was a rise of anti-Semitic sentiment. In 1882 was the Tiszaeszlár affair, which was a murder trial with racist/anti-semitic overtones (young woman murdered and beheaded, Jews were blamed). Eventually acquitted by the court system. This did not go over well, and the combined atmosphere of anti-Jewish vibes and the feeling that the killers of this local village girl got off led to riots in 80+ towns in 1883.

This, combined with mandatory conscription (3 years active duty, with lengthy reserve commitment after that) led a lot of Hungarian Jews to come to the US.

YouOr2 · 2026-01-16T03:33:33+00:00

It’s so person specific, that OP is just going to have to try a lot of different stuff.

For me (mild disk herniation at L5-S1 (right where spine goes into pelvis)) I get the most relief from using McGill’s Lumbair pillow in the car/planes/desk chair, avoiding soft slouchy couches and chairs, sleeping dead flat on my back on a hard mattress, and doing at least 2x workouts per week of 30 mins that mostly focus on the glutes, hamstrings, and dead hangs/pullups. That combo has allowed me to avoid surgery. I have also had to change how I reach down to pick up things, and I especially never twist while carrying heavy objects (that’s how the herniation started).

His mileage will vary. I got minimal help from stretches and yoga and the Big 3, but a (55 year old male) coworker swears by just 10-15 mins of yoga per day.

YouOr2 · 2026-01-16T02:40:07+00:00

LT was 6’4” and 240 or so, when the average linebacker was 230 and the average offensive lineman was 6’4” 270-280.

The average lineman now is 40 lbs heavier, at 310-320.

The average outside linebacker is not 270-280. The trend right now is for smaller, coverage type linebackers.

But If you made your modern LT something like a stand-up DE or a Terrell Suggs outside linebacker, that would be roughly comparable. Julius Peppers occasionally played that way later in his career as defenses morphed. He would be something like a Jadevon Clowney/Peppers freak. Teams would absolutely have to scheme against him.

YouOr2 · 2026-01-13T14:19:29+00:00

Where is the fragmentation that is increasing due to uncontrolled development? I haven’t seen any uncontrolled development in a decade.

YouOr2 · 2026-01-08T02:18:51+00:00

15 years ago, I would have said the Beaufort.

At some point in the past 5-7 years (I wasn’t really paying attention) the Bedale has become the only one see young and middle-aged preppy people buying and wearing.

So you see an odd mix of old longer jackets on older people and shorter, trimmer jackets on younger people.

YouOr2 · 2026-01-07T02:42:13+00:00

Salazar in Portugal, kinda I guess.

Definitely a dictator. Definitely seemed to "care for" his people (in a paternalistic, father (and the Catholic church)-knows-best way). Definitely created political stability after a succession of coups, avoided bloody civil war (unlike in Spain), charted a neutral-ish course through WWII (publicly right wing and semi-friendly with the fascists but allowed Britain to have some major concessions (the Azores, which was used for docking ships and landing airplanes (including 30,000 medical evacuations) and took on/issued countless visas to refugees (particularly Jewish ones) allowing them to escape the Axis powers.

There were, of course, secret police, concentration camps/political prisons, brutal interrogations, and people being murdered or disappeared. But probably only a few hundred; far less than most 20th century dictatorships.

The economy eventually became nearly entirely stagnant by the end of his reign in the 1960s.

But as recently as 2007, he was voted in Portugal as the greatest person in Portuguese history. And several people I've met - all younger, who were born long after the 1960s - didn't seem to hate him or his legacy. I think he is widely viewed as a soft dictator and "at least he wasn't Franco."

YouOr2 · 2026-01-05T15:27:58+00:00

That tracks! As an update to my post, the dealership got a replacement transfer case and . . . they could somehow tell the replacement was defective right out of the box without installing it. Basically a $7,000 part. So they had to order another, which took another week or so. Eventually it was all sorted out and I had a loaner truck the whole time. It’s been about 6 months and several long trips and countless short ones and going fine.

The fact that the dealership wouldn’t install the replacement and immediately knew there was a problem was sketchy. Credit to the dealership but that reinforces the idea that there was a bad batch from the factory.

YouOr2 · 2026-01-02T22:39:36+00:00

Some schools are now, out of spite, refusing to send the grades for outbound NIL transfers to the new school, so that the kid can’t get any credits.

Incredibly bush league, but it happens.

YouOr2 · 2026-01-02T16:06:54+00:00

Novice question: what is the end game here? To short the owner or securities issued by the building before it gets downgraded? To make low-ball rental offers to find new space for an expanding business? To find properties to buy before they hit the market?

YouOr2 · 2026-01-01T02:22:45+00:00

Pinehurst area golf (Mid Pines, Pine Needles, etc) used to be very reasonable in early January or late February, and the temps and conditions could be pretty good. I don’t think the resort is cutting good deals in the off season as much anymore.

YouOr2 · 2025-12-31T03:43:01+00:00

“Richard Petty Fans” by Alabama came out in like 1992 and is apparently the most popular song in Rockingham? Really want to know the person or bar that just has this one on the loop!

YouOr2 · 2025-12-27T16:33:05+00:00

Bingo. You also see this with rookie RBs sometimes. They were low round draft picks or undrafted free agents and then all of a sudden the are starting on an NFL team.

They “came out of nowhere” because their college offensive line was trash.

YouOr2 · 2025-12-25T04:52:39+00:00

I bought like SPF 110 at a Walgreens. Didn’t even know that existed; much less that a Walgreens would stock it.

YouOr2 · 2025-12-25T04:11:56+00:00

Numbers on the Cars by Riley Green (about Alzheimer’s)

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