@llbuythat @Troutski__ He (like many Canadians) was a big saver. We had $300 cars, went camping for vacations, and I had thrift store clothes. Still probably took him a decade to save $9000
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Gabriel Desjardins
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@behindthenet @Troutski__ That’s pretty crazy! I wonder if there was a lot of defaulting on loans.
It still would have taken us forever to save up 9K with wages in ‘86. We were frugal, too.
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I have a degree from Cal and couldn't afford my own 100yr old studio apt in Oakland until I was 32. My parents didn't graduate college and bought their first home at 25 off my dad's retail assistant manager salary. Was it because I have a cell phone and they didn't?
60 Minutes@60Minutes
“We've stopped making babies. We've decided that being distracted by a dopamine hit around Candy Crush might be a good way to spend your time. Not if you're a full human," former Sen. Ben Sasse says in an extended interview. cbsn.ws/4cA1Jrp
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@behindthenet @Troutski__ 1983 so long ago...
U could do alot of things in 1983 you can't in 2026.
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@llbuythat @Troutski__ It's Canada. All loans were 5/1 ARMs. $9000 down at the time, no job needed
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@behindthenet @Troutski__ There is more to the story here than you are saying, if this is true. My husband and I bought a 40K house in ‘86, both working, and we had to beg the bank to loan us the money. And it wasn’t about our credit score.
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@mixedknuts but you have to remember that having one functioning computer put you in the top 10% of NHL execs at the time this happened
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Reminds me of a notable DoF from Spain who was somehow lauded as a data savant in the media but did not know how to sort a spreadsheet.
Dr. Grizzo (PhD, MD, BA, MBA, 7'4 240 IQ)@mrgrozz
💀💀💀
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@Troutski__ I think the house was $36,000, which was roughly a year's income once he got back to work. He would buy a used car for $300 every few years. He paid the house off in < 15 years.
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@neo_antiquarian There's a certain type of bro who nominally claims to be a Democrat but will support Peter Thiel because he once said something about eliminating zoning
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Life hack: don’t vote for billionaires or candidates supported by billionaires.
Tyler Laferriere-Holloway 🌐 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱@TylerLaferriere
It shouldn't be that difficult to see that @MattMahanSJ should be the next governor of CA. I'm rather embarrassed that many friends are flocking to a slopulist billionaire who thinks he needs public office to absolve himself for making money on coal. economist.com/united-states/…
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@SFParents This article gives a lot of air to these conservative groups’ perspective but it clearly shows there are political pressure groups involved.
kqed.org/news/12081794/…
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Once again, stay away from our kids @garrytan
Of course Garry doesn’t GAF about SF public schools but it’s great politics.
Gets the suckers fired up about arcane issues that don’t get a a lot of coverage so they’re easy to lie about.
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@Gregster56 @carlatcole @GrowSF @DanielLurie @DannySauter @CivicJoyFund Glen Park had no water for two days and Rafi was nowhere to be found
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@behindthenet @carlatcole @GrowSF @DanielLurie @DannySauter @CivicJoyFund Representation is the only ask.
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Carpetbagger endorses zionist carpetbagger
Most despised supervisor in the city for SFTMA board quitter
Teeny lil @GrowSF /@DanielLurie puppets
@DannySauter @CivicJoyFund
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@Gregster56 @carlatcole @GrowSF @DanielLurie @DannySauter @CivicJoyFund Yep. D8 representation has been dismal since Wiener got elected in 2010. My district expects precisely zero from its supervisor
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@behindthenet @carlatcole @GrowSF @DanielLurie @DannySauter @CivicJoyFund In any case, he isn’t fit for public office.
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@Gregster56 @carlatcole @GrowSF @DanielLurie @DannySauter @CivicJoyFund He quit after sabotaging the Chenery Slow St because maybe three people complained their Amazon deliveries were delayed. He realized that having to make actual decisions would make people mad at him
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@carlatcole @GrowSF @DanielLurie @DannySauter @CivicJoyFund Oh, that’s right. I remember Manny from his weepy short stint on the SFMTA board until he quit because it was too much for him. He will likely quit the board of supervisors, where the job is a bit more rigorous. Those two, though, are among the worst people in San Francisco.
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@Gregster56 @sathaxe He's one of the three Hurabiell-Chan voters out there, like Josephine Zhao
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I’m hosting a private event with Marie next week.
DM me to join, we’d love to have you.
kartik@sathaxe
The average sf mom will happily tell you that she doesn’t want her daughter to compete with trans women in sports over a glass of wine Marie will fight to make that a reality because she is one of those moms VOTE FOR MARIE
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Just a reminder that this is how Andy Beshear reached Eastern Kentucky
Monica Marks@MonicaLMarks
Growing up w/ limited means in Eastern KY allowed me to see—unlike too many caviar socialists—that this is absolutely *not* how we reach poor white folks who voted Trump. Voters there mostly despise stealing. They’d see Piker not as a Robinhood, but as amoral & un-Christian.
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@JeffVeillette Utah won three Avco Cups. Rich history that local fans are aware of and proud of
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Apples to oranges. These are two new teams that haven’t established generational roots, and North America is very spread apart compared to Europe.
Vegas is Utah/Salt Lake City’s closest opponent and is 700km away. The entirety of France is about 1000km North to South.
Killian Bertrand@KillianB22
La « culture » du supportérisme à l’américaine. Une franchise de hockey naît dans l’Utah, et des fans de Vegas changent naturellement d’équipe. Juste parce qu’il y a enfin plus proche. En Europe, ce serait une trahison à vie. Concept fascinant.
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Seems crazy to just heat one up at the chest of five guys and hope the Red Sea parts but obviously not that crazy!
Empty Netters@EmptyNettersPod
This went top left. WUT
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@RedGreenBC My mom got a full-time job on Wall St w/o a degree summer 1970, quit for senior year of college, travelled after graduation, then came back to NY and found job market had collapsed. It took her ~9 years to get re-established in her career (having a kid obviously delayed things)
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The more I talk to my boomer parents about their teen years the more it feels like the 1973 energy crisis was The defining socioeconomic moment of the 20th century on this continent possibly including the second world war lol
Midwest Antiquarian@Eric_Erins
It is interesting how little staying power the real “car culture” of the mid century stuck around. Drive-in theatres, drive-in restaurants, etc.
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There’s this particular strain of parochialist nativism in American cities that’s like
“It’s actually BAD for our city to be rich and important. Nobody should want to come here from anywhere else.”
A quintessential “luxury belief” - any dying Rust Belt town would KILL to be SF
Y Disassembler@loomdoop
This is funny, because Scott Wiener is the quintessential San Francisco political carpetbagger. He’s from New Jersey, and moved here after Harvard at around age 30, because SF city elections are an easy entry point for careerism leading to national office.
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@noahsloss And most people here deny that this is even happening
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What it’s like to live in SF:
A dark money group where Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan was a board member is spending $300K on the local public school board election in support of a former KIPP charter executive.
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@decadimitry @becauseberkeley @Trevor4SF You can put "campaign advisor to Trevor Chandler" on your resume, just like he put "public school teacher" after subbing May 4, 2023 for the first and only time
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My statement on the District Attorney’s decision to not press charges in the Banko Brown shooting:
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