@StevenJosephR @TheCinesthetic But totally incompetent in doing the job he is actually paid to do.
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Mike Mejia
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@jvtentertains Leave then! Bay Area is beautiful but lousy in terms of governance and quality and expense of living.
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I live in Dallas
Can confirm it sucks
Warning to all Californians and New Yorkers hiking up the housing prices, please save yourself and don’t move here
molson 🧠⚙️@Molson_Hart
Let me explain Dallas(s) 1. The summers are unbearable and this cannot be understood without moving there. You can't just visit Texas for 3 weeks in peak summer and understand it, because that's not why it's bad. It's bad because it's late October and it's 90+ and you're questioning your sanity as to whether not it will ever end. 2. Dallas' culture, superficially seems good, but once you dig down... 3. Dallas living is about the airport. You save money in Dallas and then fly out all the time because being in Dallas is rough. Airline travel in the US has declined a lot, so this way of life works less well. 4. The driving. It's dangerous. You need a tank and you're going to be sitting in it all the time. Dallas sort of seems like a city but it's not really. It's more like an area. 5. You can trade 3% state income tax for better weather, more trees, and fewer problems. I think Dallas is a solid place to live in a bigger house with A/C and grind for money aggressively for a short period of time and then move out of. Other than that, unless you are tied down there (job, family), I can't recommend it.
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@dansedmonson The original post that started this wasn’t criticizing Dallas. She just noted that a lot of her personal acquaintances seemed to be moving out.
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Amen. I grew up in the City of Dallas. It’s awesome. My hunch is few of these commenters are familiar with Uptown/M streets/Preston Hollow/Highland Park/etc.
It’s like they’re all saying “Dallas”, when they mean “The Colony”, or whatever
Amanda Atwell@AmandaMAtwell
People that think Dallas is just sprawling overpriced suburbs just shows that they have a fundamental misunderstanding of what is actually “Dallas” and what are suburban towns outside of city limits. It’s like me saying Georgetown is Austin or Katy is Houston.
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I mean, one could debate the merits of doing it, but this is not some mystery.
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@eternalscrunge @Zaccone_Mr @LadySpoonLadySp @mfrost11 Those shows that were cancelled during the rural purge attracted an older demographic. Twin Peaks was always going to appeal to younger people, no matter the population on the sign.
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@Zaccone_Mr @LadySpoonLadySp @mfrost11 don’t know enough abt the industry so i’ll take your word for it —
i suppose i don’t think small PNW towns would fit the semiological southern/hick rurality this trend was/is concerned with. you see a very different aesthetic vocabulary in film/tv taking place there
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Funny thing about that: It was originally 5,100 but ABC freaked out that it was too small a town.
So I added a zero.
Christopher Hooks@cd_hooks
Rewatching Twin Peaks and struck that the city has a population of 51k people, which means all this weird stuff is happening in a town with a shopping mall and at least five mcdonald’s
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@CountTwoOne @queerthecloset @mfrost11 There was a systematic removal of rural-themed shows that appealed to a an older demographic. There were still rural themed shows that had broader appeal such as The Waltons and Little House on the Prairie.
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@queerthecloset @mfrost11 There was a systemic removal of rural-themed tv shows at the time; urban stories e.g. Full House, Jeffersons, All in the Family were the only shows that got funded.
Our preference for gelded urbanity was a psy-op, bouyed by endless denigration of small town America.
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@Rankheresyagain I used to love to travel in my 20s and 30. Now all I think of are crowded airports and living out of a suitcase.
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My husband and I do not fly unless it’s necessary. We live in California on a lake, 30 min from the beach, a couple hours from the mountains to ski and snowboard , the weather is beautiful most of the time, our kids and grandkids Iive around the corner from us. We are content, love where we live and have no desire to travel. I get a lot of grief from friends who travel the world asking “don’t you want to experience other countries?” “See what their culture is like?” No, no I don’t. I don’t care to and I think that’s fine.
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@texasrunnerDFW @JillCo Having kids certainly doesn’t prevent one from dying alone.
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@JillCo The person whose tweet you shared said she is married. She is not alone.
While the window for kids closes at 50, women can still marry and have companionship beyond that. She may even marry someone divorced who has adult children himself. I know women who have done so
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There is a cohort of tens of millions of women across the West that have been brainwashed out of having children.
They are now over 35, single and childless.
What will be the ramifications for these women? For men? For society as a whole? Is the plan for them to just work until they die completely alone? Who will take care of them?
They have walked off a cliff and now many of them are lost souls.
We've never seen this before and we are not prepared to deal with the implications from this form of cultural suicide.
Hildegard of Bangin’@medieval_bops
I am 51 and deeply regret not having kids. I was stringently brainwashed into believing that I should never have children. I’ve never even been pregnant as far as I know. I was on birth control from age 16 through age 49.
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@docMJP I think a lot of it just boils down to the climate. My mother never would have moved to a climate hotter than Chicago if she could avoid it.
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This is right. It’s amusing to see the Dallas hate.
DFW is convenient and a great place to build—largest red state metroplex/most balanced red state city economy—and so it grows and grows while people who aren’t here complain about how much it sucks. Heh. Enjoy!
Christopher Kratovil@chris_kratovil
“Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.” The Dallas metro area is on a trajectory to pass greater Chicago as the nation’s 3rd largest population center, yet recent days have produced dozens of posts ranting about DFW’s purported awfulness. Well, massive growth, major corporate relocations, and broad regional prosperity outweigh your anecdotes and idiosyncratic preferences. Don’t like Dallas? Good, stay home; it’s getting too crowded here.
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@FinanceQuacker @StatisticUrban Well if you are lucky enough to be full time remote, you could in theory live anywhere in the U.S. But then you run the risk of a Return to Office directive.
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@StatisticUrban I mean a lot of people feel similarly about NYC or Boston too
Big city life is not for everyone but jobs dictate where people go
Everyone would love a small town life in Appalachia but it's not realistic
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I would genuinely rather live in a mid-sized town in Pennsylvania or something than ever move to the Dallas suburbs.
Plausibly I'm much more likely to end up in the Dallas suburbs, because jobs, but still. Would be really, really far down my list of ideal places.
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@JamalNeff @VanLathan Marvin was their inside man, he let them in the apartment but whom Vincent suspected of double crossing them and almost getting them killed.
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@VanLathan Yeah, he don’t know what went down with Vince & Butch. Also, did he care that much about Vincent?
Better question: Why did Jules & Vincent take Marvin alive, & where were they taking him before, well, you know?!
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Yall think Marcellus abided his non LA truce with Butch once he got back to the apt and found Vincent dead?
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@lookner LOL - So...it's basically nothing. Explains why oil started rising again. It had dropped to 99.23 and now is back up over 101.
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WSJ: The new initiative Trump announced to guide trapped ships out of the Strait of Hormuz "doesn’t currently involve U.S. Navy warships escorting vessels through the strait", according to a senior US official. Rather, it "is a process through which countries, insurance companies and shipping organizations can coordinate moving traffic through the Strait."
wsj.com/world/middle-e…
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@KenGardner11 You are correctly pointing out the original Nazi ideals, but of course we all know Hitler eventually put an end to that by throwing his lot in with the industrialists.
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I'm not an "own the libs" guy -- in fact, I am the polar opposite of such people and I especially hate that genre of social media -- but very few things make left wingers madder than pointing out, correctly, that Nazism was a virulently anti-capitalist, pro-socialist movement.
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@BradWilcoxIFS Oh yes they will because fewer people can afford to retire and will work until they die….
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Just remember: Your coworkers will NOT be there for you in the last chapter of your life.
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How is it that the LLMs get things wrong constantly, the very simplest things, and make stuff up pretty much nonstop, yet they are said to be hurtling unstoppably toward god-like power -- if they haven't secretly achieved it already?
Is this a con job?
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I’m not trying to hurt any Gen X feelings with this, but we as a society have GOT to chill with the Journey music.
They were on 3 stations at the same time today.
It’s been 40 years. Move on already.
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@jaysbookman @crassus53bc I must confess I do not remember much about her tenure as Mayor, but it struck me as odd, and possibly a red flag, that she chose not to run for re-election.
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@crassus53bc I'm not seeing overwhelming support or enthusiasm for an alternative either, which means she might win the primary by default.
But I don't see her doing well in the general.
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Bottoms' base has always been the Democratic political establishment, not Democratic voters.
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡@PollTracker2024
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@Adespoto3 @TheCinesthetic Hah yeah, and for one moment the viewer thinks, ‘Maybe he’s not such a bad guy after all…’
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@MikeMejia3D @TheCinesthetic You have to admire the baby trick. Quick thinking.
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We never talk enough about Billy Zane in Titanic, every scene he’s unforgettable.
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic
What’s the best example of an actor showing up for one small scene and completely stealing the entire movie?
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@CoachTimOlson1 @fatbaldguyracin I would be very surprised if the NCAA wins this.
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@MikeMejia3D @fatbaldguyracin They have won 70% of their eligibility cases. Since this one is a blanket eligibility rule for all, I would expect them to win. If they can’t set & regulate their own eligibility rules, they pretty much can’t exist going forward.
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All these fourth year seniors have the best case to put in front of a judge than any player in the last 30 years they had to play against fifth year guys their entire careers because of the Covid rule. They were the only class to not get a fifth year now to be told that all future classes will have five years, but not them there isn’t a judge in the country that’s gonna rule against one of these players this is the biggest Slam dunk easy case any Attorney in the country will ever take every fourth year Guy will get an extra year. Don’t listen to what the NCAA is trying to tell you.
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