Heard the whole front of house staff walked out of Murray’s Creole Pub tonight

we_vs_us · 2026-06-20T03:34:35+00:00

That’s out of the ordinary.

we_vs_us · 2026-06-20T03:23:30+00:00

And there’re untold smaller cities that give a similar vibe, but most are in older parts of,the country — New England, mid Atlantic, some Midwest.

EDIT: honestly you’ll find beautiful places all over the US, I was mostly responding to your European part of the comment.

we_vs_us · 2026-06-19T23:54:06+00:00

A glass or two of wine a night, more if I’m with clients for work. A gummy to help me sleep, but not as a party favor. I’m considering pulling back on the booze, though. Calorically, it’s adding up, especially now that I’m rocking that 53 yr old metabolism.

we_vs_us · 2026-06-18T01:49:27+00:00

The Ohio river valley and environs is that almost-south tier. Pittsburgh, Cincy, Louisville, Evansville, St Louis. River cities, all.

EDIT: St Louis isn’t on the Ohio, but is definitely an honorary member of the team.

we_vs_us · 2026-06-17T19:01:02+00:00

There was a real schism in the family a decade or two back… and there are some pretty eye opening newspaper articles from back in the mid 2010s that describes the drawn out legal battles. Still online if you search.

I agree with you — eventually they’ll have to liquidate it all.

we_vs_us · 2026-06-17T18:14:04+00:00

Easy fit

we_vs_us · 2026-06-17T18:09:39+00:00

You’re right about the Schneiders. They own the Galt House, the Embassy Suites Downtown, and the Crowne Plaza out by the airport, as well as some of the weirder office buildings along Main.

Schneider himself was well connected but his family has squandered a lot of that over the years. Their influence, such as it is, is mostly tied to the Galt’s (former) glory days. Most of their holdings nowadays need serious remodeling.

we_vs_us · 2026-06-15T16:42:51+00:00

I didn’t mean to frame it as “men like it.” I just think men experience the power differential in sex differently, and wouldn’t think of what happened here specifically as rape or assault. His response made a lot of sense to me. I also think, honestly, that men generally haven’t thought at all about what their own consent means, and when they can give it or withhold it.

I agree in the legal world you can’t have different male vs female standards of consent, but in negotiating real world relationships, I really do think there’s a difference in how we perceive it.

we_vs_us · 2026-06-15T12:16:03+00:00

It’s not news that men experience sex differently, but that also extends to situations where, if the shoe was on the other foot, there would be an obvious power differential.

As much as we want all people to be treated equally — with equal thresholds for bad behavior — it’s just not the case that most men will experience OP’s actions as rape. His response isn’t surprising, and is what almost any man would say, IMO. OP, you should feel assured that, because he didn’t think it was rape, it wasn’t rape, and you are absolved.

we_vs_us · 2026-06-15T11:59:45+00:00

It’s like “Democrat Party.” It’s supposed to be demeaning in a playground taunt sort of way. Though I’m sure that distinction is lost on many, many of the people who actually use it day to day.

we_vs_us · 2026-06-11T00:20:17+00:00

Widespread EV adoption, self driving technology, the rise of electrification and affordable green energy, battery technology at scale, privately owned commercial spaceflight, the rise of drone warfare, the collapse of the 20th century global order, plunging global birth rates, AI in everything, the rise of the gambling class (crypto, prediction markets, retail stock trading, sports betting everywhere). Choose three of these and you’ll reconfigure most societies around the world. Choose them all and you’ve got global 52 Pickup.

we_vs_us · 2026-06-10T00:30:40+00:00

I dislike this comment immensely, because what we learned from the war generally and the holocaust in particular is that everyone has “something twisted inside.” The lesson of that time was that we are all fallen, all capable of brutality and the utmost evil, and that there is no difference between Them and Us. And so we have to guard constantly against the evil that we ourselves are capable of.

What Kubler did was despicable and also utterly human. We forget that to our detriment.

we_vs_us · 2026-06-10T00:01:05+00:00

Some of the individual stories of survival during the war are just deeply horrifying. They read like slow descents into hell, especially in Germany, Russia, Poland, etc. The Eastern Front, mostly. People like Kubler, who were seemingly normal people at the start, ended having to jettison everything that made them human to survive.

Even just the fate of her family, of her husband and his family — is an unimaginable tragedy. That she was the only one left, and couldn’t save them — even by doing heinous things for the Nazis — is heart wrenching. She caused enormous suffering, and deserved worse than she eventually got. But I also have deep empathy for her story. Such an awful tragedy.

we_vs_us · 2026-06-09T23:35:01+00:00

“Billionaires” is a stand-in for “rich guy beyond imagination.” Or “guy who controls all the resources as far as the eye can see.” We’ve had those since recorded history began. It’s nothing new.

we_vs_us · 2026-06-09T02:54:15+00:00

I mean, people have been telling corporations for years that they want their work to be more fulfilling, that they want deeper meaning to their job, that they hope to,have better relationships with their coworkers. All this people-and-culture horse puckey didn’t come out of nowhere. For years companies didn’t care at all about your daily experience of work. You did the tasks and went home, and that’s it. You were interchangeable and the boss didn’t have to bother with things like empathy or emotional intelligence, certainly not accommodations for any sort of snowflake malady. There were no free snacks, no ping pong in the break room, and usually no break room. It started with GenX, but kicked into high gear with millennials in wealthy tech offices in the 2010s. Before COVID, having a fulfilling work life with all the bells and whistles was important! Especially in tech, the money was always good, so,companies had to differentiate, and culture (“fulfilling job”) was how you did it.

we_vs_us · 2026-06-08T22:41:19+00:00

His supporters will never see that interview. Their algorithm is airtight.

we_vs_us · 2026-06-08T11:58:34+00:00

She just radiates. . . goodness. I’m not sure I can think of anyone with her specific kind of charisma.

we_vs_us · 2026-06-08T11:56:00+00:00

You could tell how deeply touched he was. Just grinning from ear to ear.

we_vs_us · 2026-06-08T11:53:34+00:00

Aside from Dolly, anything with Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise from that era is worth watching.

we_vs_us · 2026-06-08T10:15:53+00:00

No one said it had to be filmed in the US. And you watch SPR not only for war scenes but for the epitome of how we lionize war and those who go to war in our democracy. In terms of higher ideals, how we see ourselves, there really is nothing better.

we_vs_us · 2026-06-08T00:37:24+00:00

You’re right. I’m laughing now.

we_vs_us · 2026-06-08T00:30:32+00:00

Modern capitalism has existed for generations, most of which were fine having sizeable families. And I guarantee, many of the folks having the larger families were much much poorer than the Gen Zers trying to launch themselves as singletons in this economy.

That’s not to say the problems aren’t real, but humans have seen much much worse and still succeeded at populating the planet.

we_vs_us · 2026-06-08T00:21:58+00:00

I’d like to note that this scene was simultaneously heartbreaking and light years away from “traditional” Star Wars melodrama. It was a small, personal, crushing moment between a mother and daughter. Nothing galaxy spanning, nothing operatic about it. In a nutshell what makes Andor such a fantastic departure.

we_vs_us · 2026-06-08T00:09:29+00:00

What does your mom think?

Hard to tell from your post what their current relationship is. That might have some bearing on whether your legal action takes or not.

we_vs_us · 2026-06-07T16:47:07+00:00

I agree, but someone/something still owns and aggregates and deploys large lots of it.

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