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guwinster@guwinster·
@Bitcoin_Teej The only semi-plausible way for a woman to play in the NBA would be as a 3-and-(no)D shooting guard. That is the only way it conceptually makes sense. Someone like Rhyne Howard or Kelsey Mitchell (but 6 inches taller). That's the model. No PGs or SFs and obviously no Cs or PFs.
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guwinster@guwinster·
@Bitcoin_Teej Aja Wilson makes one 3-pointer every other game, which means she couldn't be an NBA shooting guard, she'd have to be a point guard. ...and that is where the argument completely falls apart. There are 0 WNBA players that are fast enough to be an NBA point guard.
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guwinster@guwinster·
@RealPlantBrah No joke, I'd consider paying $30-40 to take the already felled logs out of your yard. There's almost certainly at least $100 worth of firewood in a tree that big. ...but if you want me to cut it down first, THEN take it off your property, I have 0 interest.
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Plant Brah@RealPlantBrah·
It’s officially “pay me to cut down my tree” season
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guwinster@guwinster·
@FangYi11101 If you aren't spending the summer in that house with family, what's the point of owning it? That house (on the sea, cliffside, Cornwall) would be worth over 1 million. If you want to make money, just sell the house and invest in short term bonds. Less headache + much easier cash
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forward deployed ccp gf@FangYi11101·
Am I an out-of-touch boomer? When did it become normal for grown adults, after being raised, fed, clothed, and educated, to expect their elderly parents to subsidize their summer leisure at the expense of peak-season rental income?
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Gomex@Gomex213·
@malmesburyman My in-laws have two beautiful homes that are steps to (different) beaches. We've never been invited to stay there without them being there. There was even a time we might had to stay there in an emergency while they were out of town. No invitation ever came.
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malmesburyman@malmesburyman·
This sounds like a parody but I have a very similar situation with some close friends. Boomers won’t let their grown kids and grandkids use the vacation house this summer because they “need” the rental income on it (to pay for the extended cruise they’re taking).
John & Margaret@ukboomers

Our lovely little holiday home in Cornwall. Our daughter asked if she could stay there with the kids this summer. Honey, we'd love to but it's booked on Airbnb all through August. £400 a night. We're not a charity. She earns £35,000 a year she can find a Travelodge.

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guwinster@guwinster·
@ukboomers ...and you have a £18,000 quintuple lock pension. You can just find your own Nigerian maid to wipe your butt in 10 years.
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John & Margaret@ukboomers·
Our lovely little holiday home in Cornwall. Our daughter asked if she could stay there with the kids this summer. Honey, we'd love to but it's booked on Airbnb all through August. £400 a night. We're not a charity. She earns £35,000 a year she can find a Travelodge.
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guwinster@guwinster·
@NYDailyNews She should've flown on a US-flagged carrier. It shouldn't make a difference, but she would at least have an interesting argument if she could say "I was on American Airlines in American airspace when I gave birth."
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guwinster@guwinster·
@avidseries The Philippines fits in that last category too. So it isn't that bad. Over half the countries on that list are at least reformable. Now, will Pakistan and Kenya actually be better 75 year from now?...maybe not, but they have a chance.
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guwinster@guwinster·
@avidseries In terms of institutions and governance you have the US, China and Russia. Then you have Indonesia, Mexico and Brazil. Then you have India, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Egypt, Bangladesh and arguably Pakistan which have universal, but crappy institutions.
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i/o@avidseries·
Of the 22 most populous nations in 2100, only three or four are currently relatively high-functioning.
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guwinster@guwinster·
@ddubxdo It actually started out kinda interesting 6 seed over 3 and 2 seeds 10 seed over 7 AND 2 seeds Plus a bunch of 9 over 8, 5 over 4 and 3 over 2 upsets This was the most upset rich women's tournament in roughly 20 years By the regional finals it was back to complete ass though
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guwinster@guwinster·
@chriswithans As an outsider it does seem odd to me that the difference between the "board eligible" and "board certified" wages is only $4. Also, you get a less than 5% boost for working nights?...seriously?
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Chris@chriswithans·
This is why we’ll never get “affordable healthcare” in America. Established, stable non-profit hospital offers $440,000 a year for a doctor and they act like it’s poverty wages. No one’s forcing them to accept but they hate the idea that’s a floor for their earnings.
Doctoring Differently | Naomi Lawrence-Reid, M.D.@DocDifferently

Kaiser LA wants to pay board-certified cardiologists $218.65/hr to work overnights and weekends. Don’t take this job. It’s hurts all of us.

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Wolverine land@Breaking57·
@HuskyTurned @CoachMoney1987 the 2024-25 season, the UConn men's basketball team has added four incoming transfers from the portal: guard Silas Demary Jr. (Georgia), Dwayne Koroma (Le Moyne), Malachi Smith (Dayton), and Alec Millender (IU
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Mr. Big East@HuskyTurned·
I know people don't like Hurley, but UConn is clearly the good guy in this title game. Michigan purchased almost its whole team out of the portal. Only one starter played there last season. If this is the future of CBB, that's pretty sad. I think I'd rather Duke win it.
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guwinster@guwinster·
@TheMindScourge It's way easier to do things with kids and even todlers than it is to do things with a pregnant wife. My theory is people shut down their lives during pregnancy and just never start them back up afterwards.
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The Mind Scourge@TheMindScourge·
I have 4 kids, so a few things to consider: Having one kid is a bit like having none. You can still keep up with old friends and habits. Your wife can go out and you can watch the kid, and vice versa Where things really change is when you get two or more kids, plus when they get older. Infants and up until about 18 months or so is its own world. They don’t really do much and they sleep a lot. So it’s easy to take your baby with you and you can (mostly) focus on other things Once you have two or more it becomes harder. Your first will be older and much more of your attention will be on him or her. Going out with friends is still possible but now you’re leaving your wife with two kids. She’s now outnumbered and the older of the two is much active. The mental load is higher. It’s more of a burden to ask your wife to do this and so you’ll start doing it less often The other thing is that interests diverge. Your kids are this really important new thing in your life. It’s your major topic of conversation outside work. If your friends don’t have kids there’s just this huge area of your life you now can’t discuss. You can try, but it rarely works in practice. You’ll think that you’ll be the exception, but probably you won’t. Your friends no matter how understanding just won’t get it Again, with one kid most of the above doesn’t really apply. Most things will continue unchanged, at least for awhile
M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray

For most of our relationship, my wife was skeptical of having kids. In retrospect, I realize that this was partly because most of our friends/colleagues who had kids in their early-to-mid 20s basically turned off their lives and always offered up the kids as an excuse for saying "no" to everything—a sort of anti-natalist advertisement. But by our late 20s, we started having friends/colleagues who were having kids but continuing to live their lives—taking trips, hanging out with friends, getting out into cities/nature, but now with a small, cute, and curious version of themselves in tow. This is when it clicked. And now we have a kid on the way!

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guwinster@guwinster·
@cremieuxrecueil This is probably driven by work patterns. Low wage earning men tend to do physical labor, whereas poor women just sit around all day regardless of whether they work or not. It would be interesting to see a gendered obesity breakdown between the working and non-working poor.
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Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil·
The phenomenon where poor people tend to be fatter is female-specific. Among White males, there's no relationship, and among Black and Hispanic males, the relationship is reversed. In every female group, we get the 'expected' result: a negative income-obesity correlation!
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guwinster@guwinster·
@rdqBlueRidge @MysticStock @gearoidmurphy_ A) they were 12% just a couple years earlier and a couple years after. B) "Mystic" says they had an 11.5% rate C) even if you had a 16% rate you could refinance to 10% by '86, less than 5 years later. D) at 21k income "Mystic" would have had a 42k house.
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Blue Ridge@rdqBlueRidge·
@guwinster @MysticStock @gearoidmurphy_ Hahahaha…….in 1981 mortgage rates were 16-18% for 30 years! And at $21k income with double digit inflation no one was paying their house off early……
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Gearóid Murphy@gearoidmurphy_·
A better comparison is whether the boomer could buy the house they live in with the current wage for the job and experience level they had when they originally bought it. So if you were a 30yo bus driver when you bought your house, what house would you get now as a 30yo bus driver.
Shiv Malik@shivmalik

Dear boomers, can you afford to buy the house you live in currently with the wage you used to earn before you retired? If you can’t, then that’s the whole housing problem in a nutshell. It really is that simple to understand.

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guwinster@guwinster·
@WatchfulWaiter1 What's crazy is she was probably only caught because she admitted to going back to Iran. We still have no real system to actually catch the fraud.
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Simon Hankinson@WatchfulWaiter1·
These cases illustrate how utterly shot the US asylum process is. These were children of regime leaders claiming to be oppressed by that same regime - and going back for visits. Yet they got asylum, LPR, and damn near citizenship.
Homeland Security@DHSgov

On April 3, 2026, @ICEgov officers in Los Angeles arrested Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and Sarinasadat Hosseiny, the niece and grandniece of Qasem Soleimani, the late head of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who was killed by a drone strike ordered by President Trump in 2020.    Soleimani Afshar entered the United States in June 2015 on a tourist visa. In 2019, a judge granted her asylum. In 2021, she became a green card holder under the Biden Administration. In July 2025, she filed a naturalization application where she disclosed, she traveled to Iran at least four times since being issued a green card. Her trips to Iran illustrate her asylum claims were fraudulent.   Her daughter, Sarinasadat Hosseiny, entered the United States in July 2015 on a student visa. In 2019, a judge granted her asylum. In 2023, she became a green card holder under the Biden administration. It is a privilege to be granted green card to live in the United States of America. If we have reason to believe a green card holder poses a threat to the U.S., the green card will be revoked.

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guwinster@guwinster·
@rdqBlueRidge @MysticStock @gearoidmurphy_ I did the math. It should take 5-5.5 years to pay off, so I guess I stand corrected. If the house was 100k, then the total interest (at 11.5%) would be ~32k after 5 years. Just put half your 50k salary into the loan and it would be paid of in a little over 5 years.
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guwinster@guwinster·
@MysticStock @gearoidmurphy_ Fair point, but you could also just pay off that first home in 4-5 years. You didn't need to eat 30 years of interest payments.
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Mystic Stock Photography@MysticStock·
@gearoidmurphy_ I ran the numbers. Today, my first home (a 1 bedroom maisonette) would cost me the equivalent of 5 times salary compared to 2 times then. But, my mortgage rate was 11.5% while today it would be 6.25%. So, my monthly payment was 65% higher then than it would be today.
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TheGreatAwakening@awakenedfornow·
@guwinster @DBGyt_ A regular season game vs a final 4 matchup of number 1 seeds. This is the best you could come up with?
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Mick@DBGyt_·
This might be the worst half of basketball I have ever watched...
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guwinster@guwinster·
@_Breezy_Briii I'd love to see Audi Crooks just step forward on the jump ball, sending her opponent sprawling as the ball falls down into Crooks's arms. I'm not joking, I'd really love to see that.
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Breezy@_Breezy_Briii·
It’s time for college basketball to adopt pro rules for a “jump ball” scenario. No more switching possessions everytime 😬
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