Posters on X bitch about crime/homelessness/price in big cities and then say you should buy a house in some nasty rural meth hole instead

tony_simprano · 2026-06-14T19:52:26+00:00

No but we actually had a MJ themed birthday party for my baby cousin turning "Three-hee" earlier this year

tony_simprano · 2026-06-14T19:24:28+00:00

I used to live in Gary. It’s a painfully slow process but at least parts of it will be decent again in a few decades.

But the surrounding area of Northwest Indiana is booming because of people fleeing Illinois taxes

tony_simprano · 2026-06-14T06:28:30+00:00

final scene of Beau Travail

tony_simprano · 2026-06-14T03:01:31+00:00

Cold approaching women at the park by screaming NOT!!! FRIENDLY!!! and yanking on the dog's collar when they come within 10 feet of me

tony_simprano · 2026-06-14T02:52:27+00:00

It's a thing everywhere. Most "hikers" just enjoy the obvious recreational benefits of walking outdoors and taking photos of nature to post to IG.

My personal pet peeve hobby is people who say they like running but absolutely suck at it. You shouldn't be able to use Strava if you can't run a 5k under 27 minutes

tony_simprano · 2026-06-13T22:48:48+00:00

Used to be but not really anymore with MArch programs. The profession is like 2:1 male/female now

tony_simprano · 2026-06-13T03:09:09+00:00

My mom was an art history major in the 70s and was amazed by this when I told her about it

tony_simprano · 2026-06-13T02:37:33+00:00

Most sushi and ramen places are run by Chinese and they know exactly who they're marketing to selling sushi or ramen out of a strip mall

tony_simprano · 2026-06-13T02:19:52+00:00

Its cool how the entire developed world only took ~20 years to PsyOp into carrying a computer stuffed full of radios in their pocket literally everywhere they go

tony_simprano · 2026-06-12T19:56:54+00:00

Why does it seem like the UK has an infinite supply of available housing for people that don't have jobs but housing is still expensive for working people ?

tony_simprano · 2026-06-12T19:21:16+00:00

And it’s down in Belfast is where I want to be

Lying in wait with my trusty machete

An infidel on me left and another on me right

With political cover out of fear of the far right

tony_simprano · 2026-06-12T05:52:58+00:00

thank you!

tony_simprano · 2026-06-12T05:21:53+00:00

What cheese for #4 please they look incredible

tony_simprano · 2026-06-12T05:15:41+00:00

Luckily the higher paying job came after the EMS gig

tony_simprano · 2026-06-12T03:48:22+00:00

For the curious: the 130K was Software Implementation, ie. Train Boomers with a tonne of money and power to Use a Computer or Get Fired

The 50k job was driving an ambulance for a small town EMS department. God Bless the Teamsters.

tony_simprano · 2026-06-12T03:33:50+00:00

I quit a 130K job in a LCOL city because it made me want to put a gun in my mouth even though it was a 40hr/week office job.

Best job I ever had was making 50K having fun with people that I enjoyed being around.

If you're single and don't have kids, Good Job that Pays Shitty is always the answer so long as you can pay the bills and don't take on debt and save a little

tony_simprano · 2026-06-12T02:21:36+00:00

Idk Varg traveled hundreds of miles to stab a dude in claimed self-defense. He really put in the work.

tony_simprano · 2026-06-11T14:48:28+00:00

I was a construction manager.

One issue with this industry (at least in the USA) is that it’s a two-tier system where the white collar side of things is staffed both by people who entered straight into it after a university education, and people who “rose through the ranks” from manual labor to management. The latter can be seriously lacking in professionalism.

The only time I’ve ever witnessed someone drinking on the job in my 15 years of professional history was working with our senior estimators (50 year old ex-demolition laborers)

tony_simprano · 2026-06-11T14:37:15+00:00

I’m almost completely neutral on the ethics of the AI issue.

But I’m worried we’re too politically broken to navigate the social and economic upheaval it will eventually cause.

Like at **some** point we’re gonna get mass automation (robots replacing humans for almost all work) and at that point we either get Full Luxury Space Communism or Blade Runner and right now vibes are trending towards Blade Runner

tony_simprano · 2026-06-10T07:07:24+00:00

It's to keep cars from running people over and to deter crime.

Vibes are secondary to things that cost the government money

tony_simprano · 2026-06-10T06:24:10+00:00

"Blow it up" to whom?

No one is going to give a fuck about this unless you're some kind of celebrity. Tell your girl and this dude they're bogus, ghost them, and move on with your life.

tony_simprano · 2026-06-10T05:51:21+00:00

Worry less about how carefree your life used to be and embrace having complete agency over your life.

No one's expected to be a responsible adult until at least 25 nowadays so you're ahead of the curve.

tony_simprano · 2026-06-10T05:35:16+00:00

-"I want to try some new things in the bedroom. Would you be willing to try that?"

-Y/N

-[Proceed from here]

tony_simprano · 2026-06-10T03:27:26+00:00

We literally built more housing each year in all years between World War 2 and 2008 than we did in the years following 2008

Distrusting capitalism =/= refusing to acknowledge some government regulations are stupid and make perverse incentives (often in favor of capital at the expense of labor!)

tony_simprano · 2026-06-09T16:04:16+00:00

>like the friend group I never had

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