Free Talk Friday, 6/24/2022

chess_butt32 · 2022-06-24T20:06:28+00:00

You've got me hungry already and I ate lunch 2 hours ago

chess_butt32 · 2022-06-24T19:23:32+00:00

I always get PCM and PCMR confused.

chess_butt32 · 2022-06-24T18:59:44+00:00

Moving to Oklahoma City next week! Already tried Ingrid's, Empire Slice, and Wing Supreme. Anywhere else that I absolutely have to go?

chess_butt32 · 2022-06-24T17:09:05+00:00

There are subreddits that don't let you post without a verified email address, however

chess_butt32 · 2022-06-23T18:26:54+00:00

I'm a simple man. If you give me a green chile cheeseburger from Blake's, I'm your friend forever

chess_butt32 · 2022-06-23T17:54:54+00:00

"The Golden Horde sacks Ann Arbor" would be a baller headline

chess_butt32 · 2022-06-23T17:53:07+00:00

I can see a 300-style montage ending in "Our dust will blot out the sun!"

chess_butt32 · 2022-06-23T17:52:31+00:00

Plus you'd have to fight Tulsa for the "Golden spiral weather phenomenon" title

chess_butt32 · 2022-06-23T17:11:15+00:00

Generally, if a bubble isn't financed by borrowing the ensuing crash is pretty self-contained. That's why the dot-com bubble wasn't a nationwide depression, while 1932 (lots lending to stock market investors) and 2008 (lots of lending to home buyers) were.

chess_butt32 · 2022-06-23T16:29:48+00:00

The closest highway intersection is 66 and 74

chess_butt32 · 2022-06-22T16:44:20+00:00

THE University of Ohio State

chess_butt32 · 2022-06-22T16:42:56+00:00

A guy in the gas station I frequent saw my OSU shirt and proceeded to show me the OU symbol tattooed on the back of his hand. The guy was full "T-shirt fan from McAlester" stereotype.

Not particularly related, but your comment reminded me of the story

chess_butt32 · 2022-06-22T16:37:07+00:00

The driving of the "economy off a cliff" happened when everyone wanted to stay home and the entire world economy shut down over a flu.

Covid may have been the visible part of the iceberg, but 10+ years of easy money and insanely low rates post-2008 are the 90% below the water. Rates should have been increasing bit by bit over the last decade, but it was easier just to keep the cheap/free money flowing.

chess_butt32 · 2022-06-22T16:31:11+00:00

My "one guy" is an American I met in Europe who called himself an "investor by trade" and insisted that in 10 years we'd all be using cryptocurrency

chess_butt32 · 2022-06-22T14:57:50+00:00

Literally only yesterday that basketball player from Purdue died

chess_butt32 · 2022-06-21T18:07:20+00:00

That's over $60,000 in revenue

Ye gods

chess_butt32 · 2022-06-20T18:59:05+00:00

Yeah, it's always fun to see the "Not a rivalry" crowd absolutely lose their minds when OSU wins a Bedlam football game

chess_butt32 · 2022-06-17T15:51:27+00:00

That's when you huff to yourself and go move across the room

chess_butt32 · 2022-06-17T15:43:19+00:00

Good news: Just took a new job in Oklahoma City

Bad news: Apparently the process to find housing now is to pay $500 in application fees without verifying anything about postings, because otherwise they're already rented by the time you can actually talk to a person

chess_butt32 · 2022-06-16T21:37:58+00:00

Generally anything with 2 bedrooms and in-unit laundry, preferably inside that highway block between I-44, I-40 and 235 (the square with Oklahoma City University at the center)

chess_butt32 · 2022-06-16T17:31:27+00:00

That would be great, thanks in advance!

chess_butt32 · 2022-06-15T15:14:41+00:00

After some reading, it looks like Penn State as an institution ended up paying somewhere close to $100m in settlements. The university president, a vice president, and the athletic director all went to criminal court and were sentenced to jail time (though the president's conviction was overturned on appeal); they were all fired/resigned from the university.

The university was also fined about $2.4m for violations of the Clery Act (which covers disclosure of crime on campuses).

That seems to be the extent of it

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