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@Crime_Penguin TSA is privatized at SFO and it's the best run airport security I've been through in the US. Just went through security there in literally 3 minutes today

We could just privatize all of this and never deal with it again. The security at Universal and Disney parks can process tens of thousands of people per day pretty seamlessly. Neither has had a major security incident post 9/11.

@triguncum @DataDonkeyX @apathyDEFI @rabbitholebot Median includes just graduated lawyers. Most states have way above $200k for lawyers with 20 yeo, and the states that don't also don't have water side views for $3600 a month

@bakuvents @DataDonkeyX @apathyDEFI @rabbitholebot My parents raised a family of 5 on less than $80k income in SF, def does not take $5k a month after rent

@Colaelbeba @DataDonkeyX @apathyDEFI @rabbitholebot Yet you think your opinion on the cost of raising a family is valid, lol

@DataDonkeyX @apathyDEFI @rabbitholebot Not on my parent's insurance (my insurance is 10x better than theirs anyway), not living with my parents, literally not dependent on them in any sort of way at all

@Colaelbeba @apathyDEFI @rabbitholebot A new grad still on his parents' insurance just explained family finances to a 47-year-old father. Wait til you get the bill bro.

@DataDonkeyX @apathyDEFI @rabbitholebot First of all use yoe. For example Michigan, 16-25 yoe nets a median of $250k michbar.org/file/pmrc/pdfs…. Additonally, the fact that you think it takes even $4k month conservatively to maintain a family shows you're wayyy outta touch

Okay let's be generous and say this attorney is making 180k. That's above median for lawyers but sure. After taxes that's about 10,500/mo take home. Subtract 3,600. Now there's 6,900 left to run an entire life. Health insurance, groceries for a family of four that eats more every year, two cars, gas, utilities, internet, phone bills for the whole family now because your 15 year old needs one for school, life insurance, the dog's vet bill, sports fees, cleats that fit for five months, SAT prep, car insurance for a teenager who just got their license. That's conservatively 4,000-5,000/mo just keeping the wheels on. Nothing fancy. No vacations. No fun. So now there's maybe 2,000 left and you're 47 with nowhere near enough in retirement. Out of that comes little Johnny's broken arm, braces, a blown transmission, prom, an aging parent who needs help, your daughter's club volleyball tournament three states away, a laptop for school that just died. Pick two maybe three in any given month and it's gone. One bad month and it's credit card debt. Two bad months and you're pulling from the retirement you already aren't funding enough. That's at 180k. Median lawyer pay is closer to 130k. At that number you're cooked. Divorced? She got the house. You got every other weekend and a court order to keep paying for a life you're no longer allowed to live. And then people wonder why men are struggling. This guy went to law school, passed the bar, showed up every day for 20 years, did everything he was told to do, and at 47 a $3,600 bill STILL keeps him up at night. And instead of asking why that is, people like you mock him on the internet for not being rich enough.

@DataDonkeyX @apathyDEFI @rabbitholebot Bro I can afford $3600 a month as a new grad. A lawyer 20 years into their career should be clearing $200k minimum, more than enough to afford that

@apathyDEFI @rabbitholebot Noy every lawyer is wealthy. Also, $3,600 a month is a lot even if you make good money IMO.

@joshuawells @JakeMarsh18 Are you saying I went to a private school? Cause I've never had anywhere near the money to afford that until after I graduated; k-college all public

Do people sign their names in anything other than cursive?

@Dreesus @ISAAC4O8 @TommyGunnNBA There's no tall nfl players because they all go to the NBA lmao. Giannis would easily run through the NFL

@Colaelbeba @ISAAC4O8 @TommyGunnNBA there are no tall nfl players like that for a reason giannis not lasting a full offensive possesion before his legs are literally ripped in half lmaoo nfl punters bench more reps than nba players

Another L for the “football players could easily play in the NBA” crowd… We see some random average D1 basketball player get an NFL tryout/contract almost every offseason. The inverse never happens for college football -> NBA Any other takes are pure cope.

@Dreesus @ISAAC4O8 @TommyGunnNBA You know that's a lie, Giannis would be by far the strongest non-linemen in the NFL and he's always in best in the world talks

@ISAAC4O8 @TommyGunnNBA thats because 50% of the athleticism they have is a detriment in soft ass basketball lmao strength a detriment esp nowadays raw speed doesnt help that much either

@timberwind @Duderichy @Nexuist You just have to be acquaintances with people to get good deals but y'all too scared to talk to people. My family has owned plenty of reliable cars in California, none ever being more than $5k. My current car was literally $500 and I've had no issues in a year of ownership

@Duderichy @Nexuist it's worse in California. $5k puts you in the clapped-out Facebook Marketplace jalopy market. I kind of enjoy buying those and fixing them up so I'm familiar with this, but if you don't do your own wrenching these are a bad idea

$5k car is the “you can’t pay rent but you have an iPhone?” of the post Covid generation They don’t exist and if they do they have 3 accidents, 140k miles and 7 owners on their carfax

@cover81 @AliceFromQueens A lot of people don't think modern basketball is good precisely bc of Curry's 3 point revolution

@Colaelbeba @AliceFromQueens Eh. That indicates a Great Man always made a positive contribution

I'm learning today how many men don't know what a "great man of history" is. They think Neil Armstrong qualifies. "Great man," historically, doesn't mean role model or hero. It doesn't mean "man we think is pretty great." Trump is much closer to a great man of history

@AliceFromQueens I think a sports analogy makes this easy to understand. Each year someone is going to win MVP, and that player is going to be great, but that doesn't make him a "great man". Someone like Steph Curry is a "great man" because his MVPs fundamentally changed how basketball is played

Another man ignorant of a basic, common definition, gets vicious in my replies--then blocks me. Historically, "great men" are men whose individual wills or projects (however stupid or evil) change history (for better or worse) in consequential ways that wouldn't likely have happened in their absence. Stalin and Hitler were "great men of history." @JackMal94371989

@mags_mclaugh An 800+ credit score is you paid all your bills for like 2 years in a row and a top 7% ACT score is you paid attention in class, like why are they bragging about that lmfao

I do a lot :) you have your ACT score and your credit score in your bio for some reason

@JeffMor00844793 @SamQuinnCBS I never even brought up LeBron. In fact, I'll give it to you that LeBron was/is using PEDs. That still doesn't change anything about what I said regarding Jokic, Shai, Wemby, or Giannis

@Colaelbeba @SamQuinnCBS Like this LeBron Used PEDs for almost 2 decades; trainer & manager caught by FEDs buying drugs for him; Rich Paul observed by former employee of Bosch Biogenesis Clinic routinely picking up drugs for “L.J. and his wife taking the blame for home deliveries 😂

This is one of the many things that drives me crazy about the whole "MJ would average 50 today" nonsense. Ok. So then Larry would average 45? Dominique would average 40? Would a bench player in 1987 outscore modern All-Stars?

@JeffMor00844793 @SamQuinnCBS FloJo: if you knew anything about her 1988 100m record you'd know even without doping, it's a fake, wind aided record Carl Lewis: theguardian.com/sport/2003/apr… China: amp.dw.com/en/systematic-… East Germany: ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/case-study/eas… USSR: nytimes.com/2016/08/14/spo…

@JeffMor00844793 @SamQuinnCBS 1980s in track were some of the most drugged up times in track. FloJo, Carl Lewis, China, Eastern Germany, and USSR. All either state sponsored or state covered doping, most of them either having admitted themselves or exposed by teammates. Also link the supposed study

@JeffMor00844793 @SamQuinnCBS I'm literally asking for the name of the study since it's well known by academia

@Colaelbeba @SamQuinnCBS I don’t give af if you believe facts but this well known by academia

@JeffMor00844793 @SamQuinnCBS Show me the study that says human performance peaked in the 60s

@Colaelbeba @SamQuinnCBS Jordan and some College dudes smashed those same euros that Dominate the league Today. Rebut without saying evolution which does not occur over a 30 year span in human achievement. Science says human performance peaked around the 60’s!! All else is drugs, nutrition

@Herb0728 @SamQuinnCBS He does fine against the 7'4 demi god that is Wemby and against DPOY Giannis, he'd still be the best big in the league in the 90s

@Colaelbeba @SamQuinnCBS Jokic on the block vs Hakeem, Robinson, Shaq, he fouls out vs these guys. Pat Ewing would give Jokic all the hell he could stand. He'd still be a good in the 90s but he would not be the best big in the league. Nowhere near it.