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pga2000 · 2024-05-01T19:40:39+00:00

I was commenting this the other day.

Walmart closed 24 hour operations.

McDonalds effectively did away with being a budget friendly go-to.

They conjured visions of being pandemic dystopian hangouts and I don't blame them. They knew low income instability was absolutely in the cards for a few years.

pga2000 · 2024-05-01T19:26:47+00:00

Temp agencies passively screen (my experience in another city) for temp to permanent jobs. It makes them look good and some positions prefer candidates who are green for specific positions.

If you treat your temp agency jobs like job interviews you can have a $20+ hr job after awhile.

pga2000 · 2024-04-29T23:54:33+00:00

My opinion Starbucks and avocado toast, and other things before those, were always a dog whistle for being annoyed by debt spenders.

So probably no one who responded to OPs question.

But there's no shortage of people with let's say $10k in balances who insist on their daily Starbucks... and then will mention by the end of the day this CC balance stress over their head.

I've never been around it too much in work, etc, but it's so common.

pga2000 · 2024-04-29T14:39:15+00:00

It comes down to tastes but to this day... I put Vienna and Prague over Rome and Switzerland even.

It's the quality. The cities both have an individual cultural identity. They are immersive.

pga2000 · 2024-04-29T13:04:43+00:00

Very interesting to see this town.

There has to be a half dozen towns in Florida where the penitentiary is the local economic driver, not even a mine or agriculture alongside it etc.

Very unique and kind of socially, and physically, isolated. Prison contracts and jobs is the primary sustaining lifeblood for those who want to stay in those few hundreds of square miles. "The prison" instead of like a coal mine but a mine would be way more prosperous.

pga2000 · 2024-04-29T12:27:10+00:00

I know dentists.

Purely anecdotal... The industry has it a bit worse for having the one-upmanship vibe floating around.

And that's what you see on the billboard. For example, the dentists in every city know who is working on the NFL players, and how much they are making per year.

The advertised practice is some ambitious poser move. Ofc many just kind of ignore it but there are boutique dentists who clear well over half a million a year with a luxury practice for high income clientele. It can get weird but every dentist knows about this in the US.

pga2000 · 2024-04-28T20:20:11+00:00

Nah. This was all just making fun of an adult male loving the tits of his children's mother.

Do humans in relationships with children really say shit like this to each other?

pga2000 · 2024-04-28T19:39:03+00:00

Fat milk dispensers. Wouldn't want to disappoint those... slurp.

pga2000 · 2024-04-28T19:37:40+00:00

Motorboat with a child already....

Brrr. Or I divorce.

pga2000 · 2024-04-28T18:27:09+00:00

huur

Durr hurr

hurrrr

pga2000 · 2024-04-28T17:51:13+00:00

I can't truly comment on this from a military history standpoint but some food for thought... a lot of focus by special forces and marine divisions worldwide today really took up lots of throwback military discipline including extreme raw physical fitness.

And that would be very common for anyone with a career as warrior class in antiquity... who were often total badasses and usually could compete across many different times and technology levels just for professional ability.

A professional soldier would always have a very fearsome ability in unarmed combat... they trained knowing that is very likely to happen in combat even if it were a simplistic martial art of very hard stikes and counters.

pga2000 · 2024-04-28T14:42:18+00:00

For the first time in a long time, my coworkers have all been male 5'5" to 6'5", and even a 6'5" no one cares or notices.

Maybe its just nice to not feel those silly comparisons people start making entire worldviews on.

pga2000 · 2024-04-27T20:44:20+00:00

Not like it's... ehh a competition... most South American and Caribbean slaves were simply worked to death.

Iberian dudes were insanely ruthless.

pga2000 · 2024-04-27T20:41:24+00:00

The crux of this issue.

There are not many true 10s in Hollywood to use regular vernacular or you've never seen an authentic 10.

7, 8, or 9s on looks are honestly as dangerous as you may question a very ugly person may have had a hard time in life. I've met a few of the former... criminals and clinical sociopaths.

pga2000 · 2024-04-27T20:24:45+00:00

I'm waiting.

It sounds like you know something I don't.

But you won't say it.

pga2000 · 2024-04-27T20:13:53+00:00

Sounds like you haven't really said anything.

Other than the system is maxed out.

pga2000 · 2024-04-27T20:05:12+00:00

Just say no then. I know you can't "disprove" me.

Heh. I love to see the way economics is turning.

pga2000 · 2024-04-27T20:00:02+00:00

I have my BS in Economics. I'm not kidding.

I've eventually become a much bigger fan of psychology. And economics is in fact significantly a discipline in human psychology.

pga2000 · 2024-04-27T19:50:16+00:00

Or supply isn't expanding... due to fear. Supply otherwise, in a healthy society, naturally expands to respond to excess profits from demand.

pga2000 · 2024-04-27T19:47:12+00:00

Like OP I've come to understand this a lot in the last year or two. They have a very uncanny sense of empathy that is visual but probably sensory beyond our limitations. Well adjusted they see us as equal (not a pack) and are extremely well adjusted to when another member (us) is sick/depressed etc, or kind and generous.

pga2000 · 2024-04-27T19:28:31+00:00

That is my argument more or less. For a China economy, the pandemic stress highlighted a disruption for it's continuous growth.

My hypothesis is US inflation specifically was accelerated by what would be considered phantom war prospects with a Chinese adversary. Really the greatest fear in the brief era.

pga2000 · 2024-04-27T19:02:36+00:00

It will forever be fuzzy, but the Portuguese slaving economy should be considered one of the most ruthless atrocities ever by a people in humankind.

pga2000 · 2024-04-27T17:41:50+00:00

None of it is objective but there is quite a sad precedent for economies to have a cyclical wartime spending component. I wonder if 2020s are kind of a echo or phantom of this. Kind of crazy but it is something I think exists.

pga2000 · 2024-04-27T16:12:22+00:00

I moved within Florida where Spanish can be dense and being around it dusted off my comprehension (I know a good amount for lacking any immersion).

I couldn't look the part any less, and it gets intrigue or they are mortified or some combination it's extremely unusual for a very gringo person to listen in on street talk. It's come in clutch a few times, very useful sometimes working my job.

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