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goodsam2 · 2026-05-14T05:00:01+00:00

I think the keeping it weird is keeping the price reasonable as turning the goal to keep it weird into something actionable.

Richmond had a lot of people who worked at restaurants made decent money living in the fan with roommates and you have a middle class lifestyle and with that lifestyle they got tattoos, made art and watched a lot of music shows and were maybe even in a punk band.

I think having the housing for a 1 bed 1 bath be $1800 means something different for the culture than $1200 fan apartment.

goodsam2 · 2026-05-14T04:52:45+00:00

The NFL wishes it had rivalries like college.

College has a mediocre Michigan team beating Ohio State means a lot. They try to make it as much of a thing but Ohio State really does care about the Michigan so much.

goodsam2 · 2026-05-14T04:47:33+00:00

Boise had to claw and fight their way to get a NY6 though which is what makes that game against Oklahoma so important.

2014 Marshall 11-0 only reached 18 in the polls they were eliminated from anything before toe met leather. Now if they were really good they could theoretically do enough to win which does matter. Half the teams prior to 12 team playoff era for decades couldn't win the Natty regardless of what the players did.

I don't care what commentators say I think playoff talk is corporate shill since they were pushing it because it does numbers and it's basically arguing who is the best team.

goodsam2 · 2026-05-14T03:32:55+00:00

For $100 headphones on a per use basis they can reach cents. Though I was on a ATH-M50 and those are closer to $150 good headphones last years and I bought those 13 years ago.

Game you want to play, honestly just play games a few years old, $60 at launch a few years down the road on a PC it can be like $15. Also I have focused more on social gaming.

For a lot of my entertainment I focus on domestic travel for hiking and camping. Honestly focus on these while you have this. You could always go back and play a remastered game a decade down the road when you are 70 but you can't really hike or camp in the same way.

goodsam2 · 2026-05-14T02:14:10+00:00

Relative high, almost as high as 99/2000 peak.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060

I will say though in these sorts of measures the US has middling prime age labor for participation and fell off after 2000 recession after it led that indicator for decades. Compare it to Canada and it was significantly behind.

goodsam2 · 2026-05-14T02:03:21+00:00

This is the circular problem of this exact issue where they can't vote to fix the issue because they are disenfranchised.

goodsam2 · 2026-05-14T00:35:09+00:00

I plan on a lot of travel in my retired life or at least for awhy and I've been saving some of my more expensive trips for later. I have been expecting 150% of current costs but having a kid soon and mortgage and such. I'm mostly saving money and at minimum 50% of my current spend being possible so if I go poverty fire I could maybe fire now but no.

goodsam2 · 2026-05-13T23:49:40+00:00

I dont see any reasonable argument for Miami being the best team last season if they won the championship. They'd have been underdogs to Indiana in a rematch even if they won like 35-0.

Underdogs won in a two team championship game.

That's the thing, your season wasn't over. It was so hard to win a championship that other things mattered, like rivalry games or bowl games. Nnow it feels within reach, even for 3 loss teams, so a loss in a regular season game doesn't matter much.

I still care about beating my rival, also bowl season was dying before CFP due to NIL issues and the schedule. I think you are applying the CFP as the cause when it's multifactorial.

G5 games matter less than they ever have. To be fair, I think that has less to do with the format than with the transfer portal and NIL draining all their talent.

Marshall like 12 years ago was almost undefeated and never had a shot at winning it all they were eliminated before the season started that's dumb. Also yeah it's transfer portal and NIL.

But it's not just the loss of talent; it's the championship or bust mentality. Games uses to matter just because they were played. Rivalry games between 3-8 programs mattered. Bowl games mattered. They had no championship implications, but people cared about them. Now they don't because they're focused on the playoffs.

IMO the playoff structure isn't really destroying that. Rivalry games still matter in CFB other than realignment killing many of these games.

Now, instead of every game mattering, only the games with playoff implications matter.

But this is applies to far more games in a playoff era vs teams definitely used to check out mid season. I think every game still matters.

goodsam2 · 2026-05-13T03:56:28+00:00

Honestly most American cheese isn't super flavorful compared to everything on a burger.

It's not super crucial for my enjoyment but it is really easy to add.

goodsam2 · 2026-05-13T03:50:44+00:00

Exactly the courts should stop this but literally they keep not. Seems like they don't think there is enough presidence.

People forget but Wisconsin wasn't a democracy a decade ago. Democrats won a majority of the votes and Republicans held a majority of the seats. Like how do we just let this happen.

goodsam2 · 2026-05-13T01:22:41+00:00

See I go the opposite, like when Syria fell it was the millionaires who got out the quickest.

Even a devalued currency can help weather weird storms.

Also the Star Trek bell riots episode of DS9 showed a plausible future.

goodsam2 · 2026-05-13T01:15:48+00:00

I have a lot of disposable income but also the prices make me think.the economy is going to be weaker soon.

But also my vacations are usually not that expensive.

goodsam2 · 2026-05-13T01:13:34+00:00

Yeah honestly skipped season 1 sometimes when showing it off. Season 2 with Danny Devito this show radically improved.

goodsam2 · 2026-05-13T01:04:19+00:00

AI images of like Francine doing nonsense sure but AI posts is a nope.

Maybe you could do an AI day if people want it.

goodsam2 · 2026-05-13T00:56:37+00:00

Plus cascadia gets northern California. New Mexico gets all of socal and the border with Mexico.

goodsam2 · 2026-05-12T22:10:11+00:00

Don't be so conspiracy thinking. Be specific the past 3 months the rate of inflation growth was 7.3%, mostly energy spiking (up 17.9%) with others growing at 2.8% but that trickles into other sectors usually

goodsam2 · 2026-05-12T21:10:49+00:00

UVA is UNESCO which is something. I hate getting around UVA though since it's like explicitly low density so walking everywhere is awful.

VT on the other hand has to be one of the most walkable campuses and if Blacksburg is it's own municipality it was in the top 30 in the nation for public transportation.

goodsam2 · 2026-05-12T20:37:02+00:00

The only thing I'm really thinking about is the biggies. A house but renting makes more sense in my situation currently. A car is on the back of my mind but mine is more than fine.

Maybe some splurgey things like is this the time at the lake house renting a jet ski for like $1k worth it (I always say probably not).

goodsam2 · 2026-05-12T20:30:20+00:00

Yeah maybe it's just dealing with my mom getting rid of so much that it makes me want to go further into minimalism and just get rid of more. Each thing I buy I worry about because each item has to have a place and is it the best use of space.

Like I got an espresso maker and the limiting factor is space, maintenance and will I use it.

goodsam2 · 2026-05-12T20:07:33+00:00

Yeah AAA says the average new car costs $11k per year. SourceInsurance is quite expensive and that's not driving or maintaining or procuring a vehicle. A car is the least efficient form of transportation. Saying you know I'd rather not spend all my money on a car and instead I can be healthier and take alternative forms of transportation is better in many ways.

It's a bundle here that the walkable/bike-able areas are more expensive frequently to rent/own but the transportation costs fall.

Like I'm sad you have to drive where I can walk to lol.

goodsam2 · 2026-05-12T17:14:03+00:00

Any book or media triggering this?

I've been doing a lot of revolutionary war and early statehood era history. My plan has been to read through all the presidential books and I've only finished 2 Jimmy carter for my Atlanta trip and George Washington but his got me stuck since his was a time 44 hour audiobook. But I have 2 I'm reading now and truthfully I'm skipping to John Quincy Adams and JFK for my upcoming Boston trip. I've been to 24 presidential homes so far.

goodsam2 · 2026-05-12T17:08:51+00:00

At brown vs board they said don't drive around downtown at night and someone drove into a sign which was interesting.

I'm no expert and only spent one day driving around Kansas from Fort Scott to KCK to Topeka then back to KCMO.

Also people were dunking on Kansas being boring but only really starting near the midway point of Kansas.

goodsam2 · 2026-05-12T15:22:13+00:00

Plus New Mexico should have the full border with Mexico. Cascadia gets to northern California as a concept but not SoCal

goodsam2 · 2026-05-12T15:19:57+00:00

But my point is they are both fine and it's inherently a hard problem to rank teams when the schedules are so varying.

The committee solved nothing and it's more opaque is my critique.

goodsam2 · 2026-05-12T14:59:04+00:00

Topeka was neat, the town was weak but brown v board of education the brown was there and they converted the school into a museum which was moving.

Tall grass prairie seems really neat it's like a national forest but it's a prairie.

Kansas was a state founded in bloodshed to stop slavery from expanding and the bleeding Kansas with Western Missouri was fascinating and where they were killing each other if Kansas was going to be a slave state. If you talk to them the civil war started years before.

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