@dugmartsch @Eric_Erins I mean the nice thing about the strategy is you can always go get a job and make more money if you choose to tho? Especially if you are perfectly healthy in your 50/60s, whats the big deal
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Austin Riediger
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Austin Riediger
@AustinRiediger
the Solow Paradox, personified
Sibley, IA Beigetreten Ekim 2015
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@Eric_Erins That fire guy saving 70% of his salary realizing he’s gonna live a healthy life to 150
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The nightmare scenario is anti aging medicine/tech actually becomes real and we have a petit bourgeois leisure class of penny pinchers living of their 401Ks forever
bumbadum@bumbadum14
FIRE is probably the most soul crushing lifestyle I have ever heard of and it's a terrible indictment on our society. Some of the most competent and intelligent people are structuring themselves to live as minimally as possible so they can check out of society before they're 40. Many of these people are unbelievably hard workers and incredibly intelligent. But they are so disillusioned so all of their potential goes to waste because there's no point to work for more.
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@CoachPapaJohn i think average value of contracts is a dumb way to look at players, but fwiw, some positions you can get in free agency and some you can't. If you need a qb, you need to draft that guy, good ones don't leave town. If you need a running back, great ones are available all the time
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The whole positional value debate being rehashed every year is insane because it really feels like literally no one is arguing in good faith about how the game of football has swung to the other end of the pendulum in terms of valuing spine as much as perimeter
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@CharlesWil45341 @Vidor1 @DastDn i mean the war *wasn't* lost, main land france was lost. The allies were still in the war, and the french could have fought on (and many rightly did!)
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France gets a lot of (unfair but deeply entertaining) shit for its rapid surrender in WW2, when instead it should be mocked for mythologizing the practically non-existent "La Resistance" during the occupation.
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I'm just hoping this dialogue gets people to understand why ERA- is better than ERA+.
Daractenus@Daractenus
"President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction." The United States of America is on the verge of achieving pure idiocracy.
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Hey girl, did you crash into an Iowa cornfield after losing all flight control surfaces due to an uncontained engine failure? Because…
mads campbell@martyrdison
so glad to be a dc 10
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@BenjaminSolak nah that Iowa DE we picked and hoped would lean to rush the passer, is what it is
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Next Ben Stats: Jadarian Price might be the first ever first round pick with zero career college starts
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@hellspatisserie I mean ww2 USA still beats Ukraine pretty easy i'd bet
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“Who would win, [HISTORICAL GREAT POWER] or [LITERALLY ANY MODERN DAY POWER]?”
Modern day power. Literally zero exceptions unless the historical power is like late Cold War. Literally every single time
Jewish pashtuns with attitude 🇦🇫✡️@midnight_b65055
Incredible questions being asked on YouTube
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@Devin_J_Monahan they've fired more 4 stars in the last 2 years than all of post-ww2 history combined. While losing a war for no reason
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In the middle of a war is actually an extremely normal time to fire senior war-leaders. During peace-time, the rot builds up. Once the rubber hits the road, you pretty quickly start to see who doesn't have what it takes. It's finding who does have it that's the trouble.
Sarah Longwell@SarahLongwell25
We’re in the middle of a pretty important naval blockade standoff with a country we’ve threatened to destroy, so it seems like a weird time for the Secretary of the Navy to abruptly depart. And by “weird” I mean, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?
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@ifindmidwits @jmhorp right, but i want to both have a day job and have my children learn, public school let's you do both
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@jmhorp The average IQ of a college student is barely above gen pop. Public school teachers are not any impressive, or more “qualified” to teach children. Children believe just about anything no matter who it comes from.
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Homeschoolers are probably familiar with selection bias
Smirkley@Smirkley
Only teachers are smart enough to educate children. Education majors, training to become certified teachers, score an average of 1029 on the SAT. While homeschooled students (taught by parents with no formal teaching credentials) score 1190.
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@SigmundBloom let's see if the bears actually end up re-signing him
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[sarcasm] Yeah but tight ends don't get paid huge $ in free agency so the Bears still messed up by taking one in the top 10 [/sarcasm]
Around The NFL@AroundTheNFL
Bears TE Colston Loveland embracing larger role: "I wouldn't want it any other way" nfl.com/news/bears-te-…
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@michaelhammond_ @TourSwingsTommy the pros actually have some of the most simple building block swings you can have. Most ams have like four minor things in their swing that are wrong, and then add like 3 more things to compensate for those
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@TourSwingsTommy Amateurs shouldn’t emulate anything from PGA or LPGA players. Shoot your own shot.
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Watching and emulating LPGA swings instead of PGA swings would do most amateurs a lot of good.
LPGA@LPGA
Rainy day shot tracers at the @Chevron_Golf ☔️
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@Grey_Athena also, we did learn from it! Notice how the carriers are *not* in the Persian gulf where they might get sunk. Riper could have used all the cheats he wanted and still lose if you just use tankers and send the carrier planes in from further away!
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@stopdropnskank @MostCrucified i mean you don't have to. But then again Robb doesn't make a lot of very good political decisions lol, he's like if Hannibal had no sense of the divisions of Italian society at all
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@AustinRiediger @MostCrucified Robb would've had to kill him if he'd come back
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@romlib_ losing elections is good for podcasters and streamers, so i think their incentives aren't the same as ours
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The obvious outcome of people stealing more from stores is a lower trust society that elects more fascists, but I guess Hasan is generally ok with that.
yeet@Awk20000
Hasan on if he supports stealing from Whole Foods in his discussion with The New York Times "I'm pro stealing from big corporations bc they steal quite a bit more from their own workers..one thing that might even help ur ethical dilemma..the automated process that they design, these companies know will increase shrink..so it's actually factored in..they still end up having increased profit margins bc they no longer have to pay the cashiers..as opposed to this automated system" "What about the argument..if everyone just starts stealing..Whole Foods will eventually raise the prices?" - Reporter "Full chaos, let's go..I'm in favor of fast and free busses and also gov owned storefronts" "Would u encourage stealing in the same way from a Mamdani run city owned grocery store?" - Reporter "No..that's taxpayer funded and union labor..and the prices are also adjusted regardless" (Via NYT-Opinions)
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@rodger @LemieuxLGM Family is important for sure, but not like top 100 picks important.
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this incident, which is totally above board and not what it looks like, has caused me to recognize that I need to step back from work and focus on my family, but only after Rounds 2-3 of the NFL Draft
got it 👍
Adam Schefter@AdamSchefter
New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel won't be with the team for the third day of the NFL draft Saturday, per ESPN’s @MikeReiss. More: espn.com/nfl/story/_/id…
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@headwaysmatter @aarmlovi @captgouda24 @CartoonsHateHer yes you are? Like if i hedge my corn at 5 dollar futures, and corn runs to 7 bucks, yes i have the ability to exit my futures position and sell the cash market, but i have occurred very real costs to do so! Compared to a scenario where i had not hedged that corn
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@aarmlovi @captgouda24 @CartoonsHateHer You're not sacrificing that freedom thanks to the magic of central counterparty clearing, cash settled contracts, and mark to market
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Latest @CartoonsHateHer continuing to support my impression that the world of the monogamites is greedy, grasping, and cruel.
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@Kung_Fu_Tommy @hunterhhedge @ContraPoints even winning 90%of R is still horrendous tho. Thats how you lose the senate
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@hunterhhedge @ContraPoints It's in the low 80s now, actually, but yes, most of them are still retarded.
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I take it this enthusiasm has declined somewhat
Cryptid Politics@CryptidPolitics
Did your family do the Trump dance this Thanksgiving?
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@vers_laLune wife wears lipstick once in a while if we get fancy to go somewhere and then is all like dont kiss me it will smudge. Then what is the point? They wear it cause they like, not cause we do
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men are pragmatic. We dont like fillers as they look and feel stupid, but Im not going to say no to hot huzz, Im not gay. The fillers are for your insecurities, not because we like them
gigi 𓂃⋆.˚@p0lar_fawn
Men are liars or they simply don’t know what they like when it comes to plastic surgery because if they saw that girl in the wild, WITH the fillers, they’d find her hot as hell.
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@CoachPapaJohn i disagree personally but it is a very reasonable take
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Wow, awesome sample size considering about 40% of super bowls since 2007 have been won by the two best quarterbacks ever.
Guess they should just draft tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes, it’s that easy (ignore that those teams drafted first round running backs)
Volume Bets@VolumeBets
Yes it is lol it’s why RB salaries on good teams is normally on the low end and normally drafted later. It’s why high paid RBs don’t win superbowls lol Barkley a genuine exception to the rule for a decade now and won it on a diff team. Teams who draft RB in the first 20 picks have a whopping 0 superbowls with that player still on the roster since 2007. It’s a very very easy call ur correct
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One interpretation of this is that voters don't actually want wage compression 😬
Tony Annett@tonyannett
Here’s a great chart from @arindube. Wage inequality increased throughout the post-1980 neoliberal era (especially bad under Reagan). But there was a big decline under Biden, whose presidency was vastly underrated and will one day be vindicated.
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