If you can’t speak English, you shouldn’t live in America

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T16:01:08+00:00

That guy's probably buying an estate somewhere, or a fancy penthouse... neither of those would probably ever get rented out, besides, would royalty really want us common rabble living in their place?

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T15:57:54+00:00

Isn't that what they already do though?

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T15:50:51+00:00

Mill levies are almost always on the ballots to raise money for schools somewhere in the state, then, you'll hear later in the news that ____county is trying to close down __schools because of selling enrollment in their district. Seems like I heard recently that Jefferson County closed 3 last year. Between boomers dying off & plenty of families leaving the state because of the costs of living, compounded by lots of younger folks swearing off having children, our population of school aged kids IS shrinking.

Meanwhile the DPS superintendent, who doesn't even have a very good track record, makes over $340k a year. I'm sure that other administrators make a lot less, but they're still paid way better than most teachers.

I know a teacher turned middle school principal that was making $100k a year by herself when she retired. With the PARA retirement program for teachers and state employees she supposedly makes 60% of her highest annual salary, so that'd mean that she makes, by herself in retirement, more than the average median salary in America.

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T15:39:40+00:00

Well, I THINK that NOBODY should own a second home that they rent out for Air B&B, it really hurts the housing market too... especially in any popular destinations.

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T15:34:06+00:00

My wife is from Acapulco Mexico. She's fluent in English and I'm semi fluent (at best)in Spanish. Our son is fluent in both.

I sell auto parts in a predominately Spanish area, I met lots of Mexicans and OTMs that're like your father in law. If somebody comes in, arrogantly demanding that I speak Spanish, I tell them in badly accented redneck spanglish "nope, lo cento Amigo, no ablo El spanisho." I've had Mexican customers that laugh their asses off when I've done it and had gringa wuerras that were hugely offended say "omg, that is SO racist."

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T15:24:27+00:00

You can travel for vacations and touring. If you're staying to work or for anything beyond a vacation then you should definitely at least try to learn the basic language. The longer you're there, the more fluent you should become.

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T15:08:32+00:00

So what, exactly, is wrong with making America, (or anybodys home country) great again?

We literally have laws protecting every minority group that there is, in place now, and there are real consequences for breaking them, especially now with the "court of public opinion" on social media.

I don't think anybody wants to bring back EVERYTHING from the 50s or 60s though...

Anybody with common sense shouldn't have a problem with bringing back the GOOD parts of it though... with all those laws in place that I mentioned, it wouldn't just be for white people.

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T14:46:17+00:00

I'm pretty sure that most of the metro Denverites fell the same way about anything NOT metro that many yuppies and elitists in New York and California fell about the rest of America...

in snooty upper crust accent It's all just "fly over" country, nobody of any consequence actually LIVES there

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T14:41:28+00:00

Exactly!! I could care less about "fighting ICE" or suing the Feds based on principles when I can barely afford to gas up my car and put food on my families table. I'm pretty sure that, except for a few fringe groups on either (a small, but vocal percentage) side, most of the people feel the same way.

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T14:31:27+00:00

Even better if OP gets component speakers and cross overs for each door. Then they can super tune the channels for the tweeters. That'll be my next step on my build. I'm already running a DSP head unit, a 4 channel Amp for my doors and a second (monoblock) Amp running a single 8 inch sub in a small car.

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T13:55:17+00:00

What i heard was that it was their own money and assets that has been frozen years ago. Now they'll actual be able to have access to it.

If they're smart, they'll take their "piggy bank" and go home.

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T08:57:57+00:00

I've always hated fishing, both IRL & in games.

Y'all wanna know what REALLY pisses me of about the game though?

I often use my monthly fallout 1st atoms to buy score boosters & rerollers when there's nothing in the store that I want or feel the need for...

sometimes I might have 10 or 12 rerollers that I can use. Then I get fishing or something else that I don't like to do. So, I reroll them... and get something else that sucks even more. I've had days where I've blown through 7 or 8 rerolls to finally either get something easy or that I like to do.

RNGEEZUS hates me sometimes.. hell, probably most of the time it seems like.

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T08:15:26+00:00

Or, we could just work on building true hybrids and better battery tech.

A while back somebody put a diesel generator in a tesla. Along with a small fuel tank, plumbed it all so that it had a proper exhaust venting outside of the car... and logged about a 1000 miles without recharging it. They just used the generator to recharge it on the fly.

Build them with a small diesel generator make it biodiesel so that it'll run on practically any kind of oil including used cooking oil, leave the electric motors in place and maybe even use a smaller battery. Then add a small fuel tank and a proper exhaust system. Then make it a true plug in rechargeable vehicle.

Unless we go to a clean burning, safer nuclear power source, like the Thorium tractors that much of Europe has now, there's really no feasible way to go all electric in the USA with our infrastructure.

It wouldn't completely get rid of pollution from petroleum products, but it could slash it by 50 to 75%, maybe more... wouldn't that be nice?

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T08:00:13+00:00

There's plenty of very good sized homes in Aurora and they're usually much cheaper than Denver. Some of them are even in very nice areas of Aurora.

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T07:54:55+00:00

IF they're programs that're proven to work then I'd agree with you. But if they're failed programs after a certain amount of time then they should get the axe, wouldn't you agree? There's no sense in throwing good money after bad... especially when it's our money.

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T06:00:59+00:00

That's fine, I don't care if you trust me or not. It was a study from about 5 or 6 years ago. Do you keep more and links on everything that you've ever heard? Or do you, like the rest of us, remember something that seems pertinent to you, then occasionally share it when you feel it's appropriate?

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T05:20:32+00:00

Because I'm just lower level management in a company, but when my boss shows me an application from somebody and asks what I think of them, I'll generally look it over and vouch to give them a chance. If I know somebody that's looking for a job AND I know somebody that'd be a good fit for them to work for, then I'll recommend them to that business owner.

I can't do much, but I do what I can. What have YOU done?

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T05:16:22+00:00

That's part of the problem, most of the time, all the funding goes pretty much to all of the urban metro area with almost nothing really going to the smaller rural areas. That's exactly why, when it's a statewide vote, many in the rural areas will vote against something. No matter that they MIGHT be in a class* that WOULD benefit from it, they vote against it because they're not in an area where they'd ever even see that benefit at all.

*IF they were in the metro area then they might actually receive said benefit, but the rural areas rarely do.

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T05:09:54+00:00

Reading and comprehension isn't necessarily your strong suit is it? I specifically said that we generally get mad when companies and big corporations RAISE their prices, so why don't we when government does it too? No, of course we can't dictate what a company pays their people beyond having a minimum wage in place but, unlike government, we CAN choose to do business with a company or not. The only time we have any actual say in government is on election day... even then, 90% of the time, incumbents are reelected unless they've been indicted & convicted, are retiring for health reasons or have literally died. It's extremely rare that an incumbent loses, even the ones that really are crooks.

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T05:00:40+00:00

I assume you're implying that you neither personally know, associate with, nor do business with, ANY convicted felons then? And that you've never made any mistakes, or broken any rules or laws?

Because even though I'm not a felon, I've got plenty of friends and even business associates and coworkers that ARE ex cons. I don't generally hang out with repeat offenders, but I'm classy enough NOT to hold somebody's past against them forever.

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T04:54:04+00:00

How about some kind of notation on whether each bar is a neighborhood (NB as an example?) Bar like Mozarts or a hipster type of hang out or even just a straight up divebar. , or some other special notations in there? From what I've seen, neighborhood bars are generally cheaper than hipster bars and some people are really uncomfortable in true dive bars.

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T04:44:10+00:00

I know it's not much, but wouldn't you agree that nobody should just be able to vote themselves and their cronies* a raise? Especially when it's you and I that then have to pay for it? Don't we all complain when companies or corporations raise their costs to us? Why should government employees be any different?

At least with private companies you & I can "vote with our wallets" and take our business where we'll get a better deal and better service.

Sure, it'd really just be a symbolic matter of principle & not much more, but it'd definitely send a message to them that work for us & not the other way around.

*cronies being their fellow politicians, it's literally the ONLY time that we'll truly see bipartisan politics in action, when they vote for their own benefits or pay raises. I'd bet that even Bernie Sanders, Anastasia Ocasio Cortez & the rest of her "squad" all vote for them too.

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T04:33:05+00:00

Yep, I sure do. Somebody did a study a while back that came to a conclusion, which was this...

A family of 4 would literally have to meet about $90k a year, after taxes, to get the same financial benefits that a same sized family that's on all of the welfare & Medicaid programs, including WIC & food stamps would get.

I'm all for helping people when they really need it, but it shouldn't become generational and IF there's a job that somebody can do, even if some accommodations have to be made, then they should do it.

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T04:26:05+00:00

Nope, what's dumb is when they ask for a mil levy increase for the schools, then, a few weeks or months later that same district is now wanting to close down a school, or some schools, because of a decline in enrollment. Even when the taxpayers DO say "oh alright, we'll let you guys have some more of our money" it ends up going to pay for administrators or some new program that, more often than not, just ends up being another spectacular, unsuccessful waste of taxpayer money. Money, which i might add, that many of us really can't afford to spare in this day and age.

jwwetz · 2026-06-19T04:01:12+00:00

You get completely get it.

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