mdwainwright (parroty)

@emzanotti What happens is these people move to a city, quickly meet 20 other transplants and just assume that’s what it’s like. It like 3 to 5 years later that you realize you’ve never even seen 80% of your neighbors.

I live in the city but this is…my weekends, mostly? It’s not urban versus suburban. It’s just called “middle age.”

@gran1te_mtn Now? So many times I’d be riding a cab or the L in Chicago 20y ago, looking into apartments and thinking, “damn, like 80% of these people just watch TV all night.” If city people were truly that active, you’d never get a table anywhere.

Everyone just looks at screens now it doesn’t matter if you live in Brooklyn or Omaha

@MusingwithADHD @MurrayHillGuy1 The red pill is that cities are full of shut-ins. Most of them are also spending Friday night on the couch. You can literally see all the TVs from the highway, 8pm any given Friday.

@MurrayHillGuy1 How do people in the city genuinely look forward to Friday night at a bar, Saturday morning hung over on the couch, and call that a weekend? Like you really moved to the city just to LARP as a 23 year old at 34? I’ll take wife, kids, community, and schools any day (most).

How do people in the suburbs genuinely look forward to Friday night on the couch, Saturday morning at Costco, and call that a weekend? Like you really moved out of the city just to LARP as your parents at 34?

@pathfinder17m Boomers really need to grow up though. 65 is NOT the new 35. You don’t need 2,800 sq ft and 5 bedrooms anymore. You’re also 2x as feeble as your WW2 dad was and you won’t maintain any of it.

imagine being 65 and working your ass off for decades to make it, you can finally relax, spend time with your grandkids, your house is finally paid off, then some millennial urbanist retard starts complaining that you're occupying a house that should belong to them.

@willedward94 @JeffBiesinger Hey, come out on the patio and have a before-work cocktail.

@JeffBiesinger What is preventing you from using daylight in the morning? You know, when your body actually benefits most from it.

The one that gives me more light in the evening. Anything else is just silly. We don’t need daylight on our drive to work in the morning. We need it when we get home, and can actually use it.

@NoteNeeded Show me the data. The 1972 report was statistically insignificant and undermined by fatalities rising AFTER we reverted. Every other report is on the switch forth AND back. Not DST itself. Exposure to sunlight is objectively healthy. Let’s save it for non working hours.

Standard Time People: Here’s the data and evidence behind permanent standard time. Daylight Saving Time People: bUt i LIkE iT

@memeticsisyphus There’s still time to delete this tweet you absolute coward.

The candidate running against him called me and half of America deplorable.

@ClarkGrifffin @mystsl It’s the perfect record. 20 amazing songs in 35min or whatever. Released the week I was born.

@mystsl Have you listened to Pink Flags by Wire

Who unironically is satisfied with a song that's only 2 minutes long. Like genuinely who. What does anyone gain from a song that barely has time to explore even a single idea thoroughly. God I hate short songs

@Hot_Pepper76 Fuck everyone. This song is still wonderful.

Hate it or love it, R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe called it "fruity, bubblegum," Kate Pierson of the B-52s saw it as a celebration of spreading love, and many listeners simply find it a happy, feel-good song. Have you heard it?

@deathmetalv10 @MeasureTwiceMNY @KurtSupeCPA “It’s crazy how my expensive thing is expensive.“

@MeasureTwiceMNY @KurtSupeCPA It’s funny, even if I paid off my mortgage, I’d still have to pay $3,000 a month for property taxes and insurance.

Client walks in: "I want to pay off my mortgage." Me: "You're at 2.75%. Your long-term returns have been significantly better. Keep the mortgage." Client: "I don't care. I want it gone." This happens constantly with retirees. The math says keep the debt. Their gut says eliminate it. Why? Here is my theory. Many grew up with Depression-era parents who taught them: Debt is dangerous Banks will take everything Own your home free and clear That programming doesn't care about your spreadsheet. And honestly? If being debt-free lets you sleep at night, that's worth something. My job isn't to talk you out of it. My job is to help you do it without wrecking your retirement plan and do it the most efficient way possible.

@MeasureTwiceMNY @KurtSupeCPA We’re also missing the most relevant detail: how long did they have left. And I’m asking both in their life and the mortgage.

Many commentators must be missing that a mortgage at 2.75% likely has 10–25 years remaining (depending on a 15–30 year term). Paying off an outstanding principal balance with taxable brokerage (or retirement) investments can significantly reduce flexibility. For example, paying off a $300,000 mortgage to free up $1,400/mo. doesn't actually help that much. The $300,000 of liquidity has become unavailable.

@amit_code @caraksha103 Married and no baby sitter.

@caraksha103 Single and no Friends

People who eat alone at restaurants… what’s the reason?

@caraksha103 My wife and I do this if we need to get out of the house. Turns out we get the same thing to eat at two different spots.

@birdtankie @kkb_soundsystem You missed out. Soundtrack to the summer after sophomore year. That thing was everywhere in hipster Chicago.

@mdwainwright @kkb_soundsystem I was a child then. I only really learned of it in early 2010s, and the hype was (still) strong then

in the aeroplane over the sea slowly but surely losing its reputation and being considered overrated by so many people is one of the worst and most unfair things to happen in the 21st century

@birdtankie @kkb_soundsystem ? It came out in 1998.

@kkb_soundsystem Perhaps it's over-calibrating in the opposite direction now. But over time, things usually find their steady center (fwiw I think it was overrated relative to its early 2010s hype, but yeah haven't heard much about it the last ~5 years or so and it is a genuinely strong album)

@LarnaDaWn @kwets11 I see. But you could fill the Superdome with pages of people (mostly Europeans) arguing that North and South America are one continent, interestingly called The Americas, plural.

@mdwainwright @kwets11 it was a joke xoxo

Europe is really just a made up continent because on what basis is it not just part of Asia?😭

@LarnaDaWn @kwets11 Continental plates bro

@kwets11 On that logic why is south America not just north America. Why is Oceania not just Asia. Why is the whole right side not just Asia. 🙄

@kwets11 People with cool spices on one side. That’s it.

@eclipsebooty No interest in homeschooling, but is the real skill in teaching conveying knowledge , or is the real skill conveying knowledge to 30 kids.

You are not smart enough to homeschool your children

@compliantvc Because I’m not Dutch.

My friend works in tech in Amsterdam He makes a top 1% income (€58k) Leaves work at 4:15pm sharp (work end time closely enforced by government) Commutes home via bike (only 7 minutes) Kids walk home from free daycare a few minutes later He never has to worry about medical bills or saving for retirement Yet gets to work for one of the most innovative startups in the world (it's a GDPR consulting business) Tell me again why America is the best place for tech workers?